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"Producers of White Pine for Over Half a Century"
Douglas Fir. Production, orders and shipments- were rePort. ed, by 2Zt identical mills to the West Coast Lumbermen's Associaiion for the week ended May 16 as follows: Production, 1161900,018 feet; Shipments, 128,76516O1 feet; Orders, 108,' 8791917 feet. Orders were 6.86 Per cent under ptoduction and shipments 10.15 per cent over the output.
Details of ordlrs and shipments as reported by these 221 mills follows: Ordere-Rail, 4o$66,49E feet; Domestic Cargo, 5ilr4ttr586 feet; Export, gr4lt,r26 feet; Local, 81466,5O7 feet. Shipments-Rail, 42,666,287 f.eeti Domestic Cargo, 46,881184, feei; Export, 70,750,964 feet; Local, 8,4665o7 feet.
Inveniories are now lower than at this time last year, and unfilled orders are holding at about the eqpivalent of four weekst production at cutrent levels.
A total ot 341 mills reporting to the Association for the week ended May 16 operated at 45.57 Per cent of capacity, as com' pared to 45.75 pet cerrt of capacity for the preceding week and 68.2f per cent of capacity during the same week last year. For the first 19 weeks of 1931 these mills have operated at 40.83 per cent of capacity, as compared to 65.24 Per cent for the same period in 1930.
- The Californi.a fir cargo market shows very little change and the retail demand is reported light. Lath in the Los An' geles territory is scarce and the market on th-is item is stJgng:r, Itherwise there is practically no change in fir prices. Unsold stocks on the public docks at San Pedro on May 27 totaled 6,4651000 feet. 47 lumber vessels in the California service are laid up.
The California White and Sugar Pine Manufacturers Association reported production ftom 24 mills fot the week end-
ed May t6 as 15,7O2,000 feet; shipments 15r749,O@ feet and orders 13,430,O00 feet.
The California Redwood Association reported production from 12 mills for the month of Apdl as 16$22,OOO fect, orders on hand lgrtgzr000 feet, shipmenis 1910511000 feet and ordets received 19,558,000 feet.
The Pine and Redwood markets show very little change and prices remain about the same.
Orders for lumber received at the mills during the wcek ended May 16 were a{rproximately 9 per cent under produc' tion, it is indicated in reports from 775 leading hardwood and softwood mills to the National Lumber Manufacturen Asso' ciation. Production for the week repotted by these millr amounted to 23412571000 feet. Shipments were 4 Per ccnt above ptoduction.
The current relationship of shipments and orders to Production for t{re first 19 weeks of 1931, as reported by the re' gional associations to the National Lumber Manufacturers As' sociation, follows:
West Coast Lumberments Association-Production, 2r0/l,4t' 399 M feet; Shipments, 211011340 M feet; Ordets, 2rl94r4r4 M feet.
Western Pine Manufacturers Association-Production, 4E4e' 71S M feet; Shipments, 5J9r885 M feet; Ordets, 52L290 M f.eet.
Southern Pine Association-Production, 7111609 M fect; Shipments, 7731829 M feet; Orders, 7721422 M feet.
fotal Hardwoods-Production' 4211597 M feet; Shipmcntr, 450,328 M feet; Orders, 457r0r4 M feet.
Restricted leasing of the national forests for lumber production because of the present overproduction of wood products has been recommended by President l{oover to the Secretary of Agriculture. The recommendation is contained in the following letter, which was released at the White House on May 15:
'In view of the manifest overproduction of wood products it' seems to rne ii would be of assistance both to the commercial situation and to the real conservation of our forests if the department of agriculture r,vould still further tempo-
rarily restrict the leasing of the national forests for lvood production. I believe it would be desirable now to more positively define the limitation of all leases_by the Bureatt of Forests except for pulp purposes in Alaska to occasions when a sum of not more than five hundred dollars is involved and to cases where some cutting privileges must be given to actually maintain sawmills that_ are in operation and this only 'ivhere the rnills cannot obtain raw material elsewhere. The only reason I am moved to make these exceptions is that we should not deprive farmers and small industries of wood supply and should not create local unemployment by inconsiderate action."
Incoraorated Feb. 14, 1908
A. J. t'Grg' Russellts Outfit
E:clurivc Rail Rcprcrcntativer in Glifonrir rnd Arizoan for Central Coal & C-oke-Co.
Oregon-American Lumber Co., Vernonia, Ore.
E:clurivc Rail Rcprcrcntativc in Northcrn Crlifornie for Creo-Dipt C.ompany, Inc. North Tonawanda, N. Y.
So. Celif. Oftcc
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Bruce L. Brulingamc
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ALSO LONG LYFE SHAKES
By Jack Dionne
Ilere's the latest and best "gag" that is going the rounds about hard times: "In New York City times are so hard that the bootleggers have had to lay off two hundred Revenue officers"'
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Throughout the Iength and breadth of the land the call is going forth through eyery publicity agency available that business in this country can never get well until the retail prices of commodities come down to a level justified by the wholesale prices. News agencies of all sorts have been drafted to spread the news. The gist of the thing is that the public has a right to know how low commodities really are, and if the retailer won't tell the story, someone else MUST; that business can never start UP, until prices to the consumer Set DOWN, ***
Great is the. growth and development of the demind for Grade-marked lumber in California. The man who doesn't sell it, whether wholesale or retail, is out of luck. The West Coast Lumbermen's Association has gone at the thing in a very.forceful and,intelligent way., that is hugely facilitating the spread of the Grade-marked gospel.
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First, they have authorized a large number of retailers to apply the Grade-mark themselves. This has been dqne in exactly the sasre manner as the association authorizes its member mills to do their own grading. A yard that applies for the Grade-marking privilege appoints some employee as its official grader. The W.C.L.A. grading officer in California instructs this man in the art of grading according to the Association rules.IIe turns the Grade-marking stamps of the Association over to this yard only when such official grader qualifies as competent. ***
A check-up o'f this man's work takes place frequently and at unknown intervals. The Association inspector drops it1 any time he feels like it, and looks over the Grade-marked lumber. Any deviation from the Association ,rules found in the Grade-marked lumber brings a quick check-up. Sometimes the grader is corrected in his work, if the errors found are explainable. Otherwise the Association man picks up the grading stamps, and leaves theyard flat. Sometimes the Association man checks over lumbet' that has been delivered on a job, to see that the grading is correctly done. A very large number of California lumber yards have been given the Grade-marking privilege and are using it actively.
Or, another scheme is that anyone who applies for same and will pay the reasonable fee charged by the Association, can have lumber graded and the Association Grade-mark applied by an.Association inspector. This permits anyone who so desires, whether they stock Grade-marked lumber or not, to sell and deliver Association stamped Gfademarkedlumber'
You've got totip your hat to the broad mindedness of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association in this matter. So dire does this Association consider the need- for bringing chaos out of the lumber grading situation that has always prevailed in California, that it has taken up the burden at its own expense of developing the Grade-marking of lumber in this state, drawing noline of demarkation whatsoever between its member mills, who are paying the bills for the campaign, and the non-member mills. The Association Grade-marking stamp, as stated above, is being applied in California to lumber that is on grade, regardless of whether or not it comes from Association member mills. *,i
We extend our greetings to that Association for so broad a perspective. Of course we all know that since the lumber business began there have always been a certain number who assumed all the necessary obligations attendant upon the orderly procedure of making and marketing lumber, holding an umbrella over the always-existing number who never do their share. ,F{.*
Without the work of the organized Associations we would have no uniform methods of grading, no uniform sizes or dimensions-just chaos. There would be no one to fight for fair deals in matters of transportation, of legislation, and the various other matters of serious importance, without which effort there could be no organized lumber industry. Without the AsSociations everyone would make his own grades, his own sizes, pay his own freight rates, do things his own way, and there would be chaos and nothing more. :k**
So it is not a matter of great surprise to see these mills of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, loyal to their product and itsvital needs, going out and financing this Grade-marking campaign, and unselfishly putting their own stamp of approval on the products of non-member mills.
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Yet we must honor them for it. And in honoring them we expiess the sincere wish that they won't always have to hold the old umbrella over the fellow who won't help, but will some day derive the returns they deserve from their efforts to help the industry.
we heartily .g3.u -itti ori, nlr"nu, Carl Crow, that the admission of that "test cargo" of Russian lumber into the United States recently, was just another proof that when it comes to really doing something, this is a nation of pitiful jelly-fish. All we have been able to get our wishywashy ofhcials to do so far is to pass a rule against convict-made lumber. Up in Canada they simply passed a rule and said that Russian lumber CANNOT COME IN: neither can Russian pulp, pulpwood, and other products whose reception would hurt Canadian producers. ***
We never knelt very humbly at the shrine of Theodore Roosevelt, but there are plenty of times when we wish that he might be alive and President always. There was the only man who has been in authority in Washington in gen-
L. J. Wentworth, well known Portland lumberman, manager of the Portland office of the Douglas Fir Exploitation & Export Co., was a recent visitor to San Francisco. He made his headquarters at the company's San Francisco office, and attended his daughter's graduation at the University oI California.
Floyd Dernier, Lumbermen's Service Association, Los Angeles, spent several days calling ontheretail lumber trade in the San Francisco Bay district, Sacramento a.nd San Joaquin Valleys during the month of May.
erations who had abdominal fortitude to judge a thing on its merits and do it because it was right. All we've had in Washington since we can remember is a conglomeraton of spineless buck-passers, duty dodgers, and technicality lovers, who couldn't do a brave and definite thing any more than they could jump over the moon. To expect the suffering lumber industfy-or any other needy group of Americans-toget a helping hand from such mollycoddles is simply hoping for a return of the day of miracles.
The Millwork Institute or*a.lrrorrria holds its semi-annual convention in Los Angeles on June 12th. There should be a genuine gathering of the clans. Good work is being done by the Millwork Institute. It justifies more faith and more following. And there is no industry in California today that needs organization more for both defense and offense, than does the millwork business. With its back to the wall, this business is fighting for life. And a concerted fight is the only kind that can hope to win. Individually, men and firms are powerless in the face of such conditions as prevail.
C. B. Leigh, technical field man for the Harbor Plywood Corporation, Hoquiam, Wash., is spending a month in the San Francisco Bay district looking into the possibilities for increasing the use of Douglas fir plywood for concrete forms and wall board. Heis making his headquarters at the office of C. W. Buckner, 557 Market St., San Francisco, Northern California representative of Harbor Plywood Corporation.
W. L. Hook, field engineer of ttre California Redwood A\sociation, returned recently from a trip to Arizona where he conferred with engineers of the State highway department,
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Seattle, Wash., May 16.-Suggestions for helping farmers to increase their profits through making a proper and more extensive use of lumber is being carried to more than l5 groups of lumber dealers in the Western states by Otto Hartwig, a field representative of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. Mr. Hartwig's talks are being given at meetings conducted under the auspices of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association.
Mr. Hartwig will feature the experience of a lumber firm in Eugene, Oregon, which sent salesmen to the surrounding farms to talk over building problems and needs with the farmers. The salesmen, after studying a farm, were able to give the owner many practical suggestions and to help him work out particular building problems. The result was a more extensive use of lumber and improved and more efficiently equipped farms.
The importance of providing adequate shelter for poultry, livestock and farm machinery is being stressed. Wise use of lumber, Mr. Hartwig is pointing out, will cut down the loss of farm stock and poultry from disease, will result in stronger and sturdier animals, will increase milk and egg production and will protect farm machinery from the attack of rust.
_ Practical plans covering almost every farm use of lumber are available to farmers and lumbir dealers from the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. Mr. Hartwig is urgi_ng _a greater use of this material in increasing farm profits -by making an effective use of lumber for the proper kind of buildings and equipment.
Mr. Hartwig will speak to dealer groups in the following to_wns: Phoenix, Arizona; La Junta, Limon, Sterling and Greeley, Colorado; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Pocatello and Boise, Idaho ; Billings and Great Falls, Montana; Pullman, Walla Walla, Yakima, Wenatchee and Mount Vernon. Washington.
_ LeRoy ltanton, E. J. Stanton & Son; "Friday" Freeland, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.; Frank Curran, E. K. Wood Lumber Co.; L. A. Beckstrom, L. W. Blinn Lumber 9o.; L. S. Turnbull,The McCloud River Lumber Co.; Harvey Bowles, Long-Bell Lumber Sales Corporat_ion; Tom Dant, Fir-Tex Co.; Dewey Reeder, W. E. Cooper Lumber Co.; E. U. Wheelock, E. U. Wheelock, Inc.; and F. A. Goodrich, Union Lumber Co., were among the Los Angeles lumbermen who attended the annual c-onvention of the Lumbermen's Club of Arizona, held at Phoenix on May 15, 16 and 17.
A prominent place in the motion picture industry is oecupied by the architectural profession. This is shown in the. special .exhibition q{ jh. ry9t1. H3ro.l{ Miles, Ltli"t, lng Fi
tne speclal exnrDltron ot the work ot Harold lvlrles, artlst, whicli is being h'eld until June l5 in the Architects Building Material Exhibit, Fifth and Figueroa streets, Los Angeles. Mr. Miles has been connected with motion oictures for pictures
some time and has designed sets for many famous pictures. Sketches of these will be included in the display and will show the amount of detail necessary in this type of work.
The development of this form of entertainment calls for a great variety of skill and talent in many fields, and each studio now has its own drafting room and corps of men whose business it is to design, draw, and supervise construction of the sets used in the pictures produced there. These sets not only include architectural material from all ages and countries, but they cover also a much wider field which includes everything conceivable to human imaginatl0n.
Waterborne lumber exports from Vancouver Island, New Westminster and Vancouver, during March amounted to 42,319,W board feet compared with 6,077,W the same month last year, a decline of 36 per cent, state reports from Consuls Harold S. Tewell at Vancouver and Robert M. Newcomb at Victoria and made public by the Lumber Division of the Department of Commerce. '
Waterborne shipments to the United States decreased from 21,657,00O board feet in March, 1930, to 13,120,000 in
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March this year, a decline of 39 per cent, while shipments to the Orient declined fiom 24,464,000 feet to 17,103.00O. a
17,103,000, a l0 p.t -c91! d1op, and exports to the United Kingdom fell 9v pel -cgll glop, ano ro the Untted Ktngdc from 10,160,000 feet to 6,886,000, a 32 per cent dr-op.
-Sa-w_ f9g-s scaled in British Columbia during March totaled 145,769,000 board feet compared with Z1Z.6Z.W in March, 1930, a decline of. 27 peicent.Total logs.scaled 9ltil_S-the first three months of this year amounted to 381,338,000 board feet compared with 485,710,000 for the same period of last year, a decline of 22 per cent.
OREGON LUMBERMAN VISITS S. F. _- George T. Gerlinger, of Portland, Ore., president of the Willamette Valley Lumber Co. was a recetlt visitor to San Francisco.
'FROSTBRAND" ek floring beare, in addition to its om name, the emblem-SOFl-the brand of Southen Oak Floring Induatries, il assciation to promote fine floring, and meets its most exacting specifications.
Two reasons why "FROSTBRAND" is considered
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Below are representative dealers in their various communities who stock "FROSTBRAND".
Haley Brothen Santa Monica
Fox-Woodrum Lumber Co.
Glendale
Ganahl Lumber Company Santa Barbara
Acme Hardwood Company
Hollywood
San Diego Hardwood Co.
San Diego
John Johnson Flg. Co., Ltd.
Hollywood
Flayward Lbr. & Inv. Co.
Lor Angeles
At the fourteenth annual convention of the Lumbermen's Club of Arizona held at the Hotel Adams, Phoenix, Ariz., on May 15, 16 and.L7, John C. Light, Norman-Light Lumber Co., Miami, was elebted president. W. E. Edens, Cottonwood Lumter Co., Cottonwood, was re-elected vicepresident, and E.H. Wheat, Phoenix, was re-elected secretary-manager.
W. A. Lamprey, Pima Lumber Co., Tucson; Frank Tutt, Jerome Lumber Co., Jerome; L. M. Hamman, I{ammanMcFarland Lumber Co., Phoenix; R. E. Webster, Douglas Lumber Co., Douglas; and A. F. Radamacher, Yuma, were elected directors.
President J. W. Tardy, Douglas Lumber Co., Phoenix, opened the Friday morning session. The guests and delegates were welcomed to Phoenix by George Todd, city manager.
A. C. Horner, San Francisco, Western manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. addressed the convention on lumber conditions throughout the country and the activities of the National association. Frank Curran, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and E. U. Wheelock, E. U. Wheelock, Inc.,Los Angeles, also addressed the convention.
The Friday afternoon meeting was a closed session for members. Following the reports of the president and the secretary-manag'er, the annual election of officers was held. The session was concluded with a general business discussion.
John C. Light, who rvas elected president at the Friday afternoon session, presided over the Saturday meetings.
'J. T. Kingdon, Denver, Colo., field representative of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, spent a few days in Los Angeles and San Francisco the latter part of May on Association business.
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Included in the morning's session lvere informal reports of the delegates from several Arizona cities on lumber business conditions in their localities.
Otto Hartwig, Trade Extension Department of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Seattle, Wash., was the first speaker at the afternoon session. His talk featured the experience of a lumber firm in Eugene, Ore., which- sent salesmen into the surrounding country to discuss with the farmers their building problems and needs. The salesmen were able to give the owner many practical suggestions in his particular building problems which resulted in a more extensive use of lumber and better equipped farms.
A. C. Horner discussed the Phoenix building code and he urged the lumbermen there to take an active interest and offer aid for the revision of the code to the extent that it will benefit the public through increased service and aid the dealer through proper building regulations.
The lumbermen adopted a resolution favoring an "ample tariff" on copper.
The entertainment program included a Hoo Hoo concatenation and stag dinner followed by a dance on Friday evening, a luncheon and entertainment for the ladies at the Phoenix Country Club on Saturday noon, and the annual dinner dance held in the main dining room of the Hotel Adams on Saturday evening. The annual golf tournament was held at the Phoenix Country Club on Sunday.
The program and entertainment committee for the convention included Avery Corpstein, J. J. Halloran, J. G. O'Malley, J. R. Halstead and M. H. McCalla. The ladies' entertainment committee included the wives of the Phoenix retail lumber dealers.
L. E. Force, general manager of the Douglas Fir Exploitation & Export Co., Seattle, recently spent a week in San Francisco, where he conferred with G. C. Thompson, manager of the company's San Francisco office.
tTtHE Natlonrl Lumber Msnufacturers Ascl.tloo la rt tttesenlce I ol overy lumbermrn. Whatever you msy requlrHaslstrn@ h the prelnratloo or revlslo! ol a loc.l bulldlag @dHdvl@ o! hree porcts{ttnctlve r.16 prcmotloo booklets et half ostwortlng phns ud @ostructlotr detdls oo snythloll made ol w@d -m8ta tor l@rl lewslnFr .dvertl8ltrrl ot helD l! oiductlnd s bullders' sch@!. wdte to the Aasclatloa.
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REDVOOD crib wall is constructed by laying one 2x6 fat on top of anodret (face to face) until the wall reaches the desired height.
This provides a solid, tight Redwood wall, six inches thick, and of great fire tesistance.
For small structures 2x4ts are used. Sometimes the lumber is run vemically instead of being laid hotizontally.
The material should be surfaced four sideg and spiked together, to be entirely tight jointed. In the horizontal construction the weight of the wall keeps the courses pressed tighdy togethet and prevents cracks.
Redwood crib construction has been used extensively for walls, partitions and fire stops in warehouses and industrid buildings.
It is practical and economical for garege partitions or walls, bunker.s, grain elevators, storrge bins, piets and even houses. It forms an ideal fire resisting wall to enclose passerrger or freight elevator shefts.
As "laminated fooring" it is well known in highway bridges, wharves, and floors for industrial use.
"Recentlg fire occurred in a warehouse used for the stocki,ng gl paint, oil, turpentine, alcoh.ol and other ,inflammable materials. The fire uns not discoaered until it had been burning for about three hours and had gained considerable headzuay. It zsas rated by the Fire Chief as the hotlest fire he hod encountered, and reqa"ired four hours of hard fighting before it uns brought under control.
The building ritas ol Douglas Fir, zahile the adjoining building was protected by a Redwood Crib WaIl of 2x4's. Being of the older tfie of construction it lached some of the ltese# do! fire zuall requisites because the joists Proiected through and beyond the uoll and because the z.s,all was built to the roof line only, insteail of ertending above and preztenting the flames lrom jamtting over. Yet, even with these adrnitted defects this wall zaithstood. the terrific heat zuhich tlas accentuated by drums stored ogainst the zuall, erploding and saturating it zaith inflammable materials. Had it not been for this woll stopping the fire, not only the builtting adjacent zuould haae been lost, but also the entire block. As it was, the adioining building saffered, practically no d,amage." '
From "Redwood Crib Constructiof' (C alil ornia Re dano o d A sso ciation)
Ioseoh Harry Foresman, vice-president and general man"r".t oi retail interests of the Long-Bell Lumber Sales CoroBirtio", died unexpectedly on Monday evening, May 18' it his home in Kansas CitY, Mo' 'Mr. Foresman l\'as born July 21, 1863, at Decatur, Ill', the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jimes B. Foresman' He sp-ent most of his boyhood on a iarm. The family moved t-g-.L"i"y"tt", Ind., when Mr. Foresman was ten.y.ears g]d' W\::] he was seventeen years old he went to Wichita, I(as', wtth his Iamilv. and worked on a farm near there until he was ;;;;;;;rs old. He then went with the S. A. Brown LumU.. Cirtitpuny of Paola, Kas., as a yard man' When Mr' For".-utt was with the S. A. Brown Lumber Company, Mr. E. C. Robinson, part owner of the comPany' le.cage inierested in him and ifter three y-ears of service with the .o*o""u. Mr. Robinson sent Mr. Foresman to Baker Unilr"r.itv io complete his commercial education' Returning from fiaker University he entered the S. A. Brown Lumber ComDanv's general office at Ottawa, Kas'. where he re*"i"'.a ior itetal years' During this same perl-o-d he also had charge of a lumber yard at-Williamsbyrg' Kra;'-
In 1887, Miss Addie Lenora Mason, da-ughter of Mr' and Mrs. F. M. M"so.t, McCune, Kas., and Mr' Foresman were mairied. They had met while atte-nding Baker lJniversity'
Two vears after his r44rriage, Mr. Foresman entered the service bi ttt. Long-Bef Lumber Company as-.yard-manager at Erie, Kas. -He was transferred to. Joplin, .I!!9" i" i893, attd became auditor o! the Joplil.division in 1901' In Tanuarv. lX)Z, he went to Oklahoma City. where he estabi;.tt.d ihe Minnetonka Lumber Company. a Long-Bell subsidiarv. which later became a company division' He was treasrirer and general manager of the Minnetonka comDANY. '
N'ovember 15, 1903, Mr' Foresman went to Kansas City, Mo., to take charge of all retail interests.-of- the Long-Brcll .o*p"tty as geneial manager of the retail department. He was'elected i director of ihe company the same year and vice-president and a member of the executive committee in r9t4.
Mr. Foresman was associated with the Southwestern Retail Lumbermen's Association for more than twenty-five years, holding the office of treasurer for -seventeen years' if e became itJ second vice-president in 1923, first vice-president in 1924, and president in 1925.
Mr. Foresman undertook no task without putting into it all of his energy and thought. He knew the p-roblems of the retail lumb-er dealer and yard manager. He knew and was personally interested in his men',and rejoiced with them as -they climbed to greater responsibilities.
Tn 1923 at a meeting of Long-Bell yard managers he made a talk in which he strissed the point that selling conditions were changing and that thought and study must be put on this point -in -order to make progress. "I am still going to school," he said. "'We must go ahead learning new things, finding new ways, developing new methods' I learned in
one school, but I can't stop with that or I'll be left behind. I'm going to learn these new things and see for myself if they mean progress-and all of you must do the same thing or be left behind."
In 1928 he said, "All about you is an invisible market for lumber. Every person of pride and means in your community represents an undeveloped asset. Notwithstanding this market is invisible, it is nevertheless real, providing the lumberman makes the necessary effort to cash in on it. The invisible market is an elastic market, its size depending only on the wealth of the community and upon salesmanship."
He had six rules for success which he endeavored to follow.
l. Choose your vocation carefully.
2. Work at it at the top of your ability.
3. Always keep yourself 10O per cent fit physically.
4. Try to associate with men of as strong character as possible.
5. Don't talk Luck is a greatly or worry about good luck or bad luck. over-rated factor in the world today.
6. Be prepared constantly for the acid test that comes
in evervbodv's life.
He worked diligently, he applied himself thoroughly and made every effort to demonstrate his worth. His conduct in the various positions to which he was promoted earned for him the highest respect of all who knew him, his makeup and his personality. He loved his organization and in turn held the esteem and love of the Long-Bell Family. His service record with Long-Bell covers a period ol 42 years. He was in the lumber business 49 years.
His favorite motto, and one that he called his "guiding star", was this-
"Application and hard work spell success."
Mr. Foresman always took an active interest in civic and church affairs in Kansas City. lle was chairman of the building committee of the Linwood Boulevard Methodist Church, had headed the finance committee, and had been president of the men's Bible class. He was treasurer of the Good Will Industries and recently had been appointed treasurer of the City Church Extension Society.
An enthusiastic golfer, he was a member of the Mission Hills Golf Club. He was also a member of Ararat Shrine and Temple lodge.
Heis survived by his widow, two daughters, Mrs. Charles W. Goodrum, Kansas City, and Mrs. John Alden Towers, Philadelphia; three sisters, Mrs. Daniel Hinthorn, Independence, Mo.; Mrs. Herbert Hays and Miss Mary D. Foresman of Kansas City, and two brothers, J. A. Foresman and Frank Foresman. both of Neosho, Mo.
Funeral services were held on Thursday afternoon, May 21. from the familv residence with Dr. Georse A. McDon, from family yith George i. Linwood Blvd. M. E. Chfirch. Bishop E. L. Waldorf, ald, Chfirch, Bishop and Dr. Grant A. Robbins of Carthage, Mo., officiating. Burial was at Forest Hill Abbey.
One out of every four persons in the United States used the recreational resources of the 151 national forests of this country in 193O according to complete records announced today by R. Y. Stuart, chief of the U. S. Forest Service. A total of 31,904,515 visitors were estimated by the forest rang'ers, a gain of 146,284 over l9D. California leads all states in the number of national forest visitors with 16,000,000, or over half the total, of which 14,000,000 were transients.
Many of the national forests participated in last year's gain. Campers and picnickers showed increases in number while guests of hotels and resorts located in national forests showed a slight decrease. Campers last year numbered 1,98Q736 against L,9O2,96L for 1929. The gain was largely in the national forests of the west. Estimates for pic^nickers showed 3,272,82 for 1930, against 3O56,456 for l9D, with increases both in the east an? in the west.
With forest- highway and road extension making more areas accessible, the great majority of recreationiJts last year entered the national forests by automobile. The total number of visitors traveling by motor increased from 2g,- 786,516 in l9D to D,S4ldi last year. Hikers enterine ihe forests also increased-from DZ,2ZZ to ZN,gS3.
Besides adding several hundred miles to its system of national forest roads and trails,the Forest Service last year. improvgd many camps and picnic grounds for free puDhc use. ln these camps drinking water systems have been developed, sanitary facilities piovided, aira nre rist s decreased. Improvement of public cimps is iontinuing dur- ing the current-year and there are nb*-ore than-1,j00 recognized public camping grounds in the national forests. The Forest Service also ha1 allotted suitable sites under special u;e permits for Boy Scout, club, summer school, and municipal camps.
"Although ess-entially utilitarian in purpose, the national forests play an importlnt part in the iife of many ,;ti";; as recreational grounds," says the Forest Service. ..{apid growth.of population and trivel facilities have brougtrt itre national forests into greater prominence for their i?spira_ tional, educational, and recreitional values. Social n'eeds have- become as urgent in many of the forests as economic use."
, Camping in. Michigan nat_ional forests gained 6O per cent last year._ There were gains for campdrs also iri North Carolina, Pennsylvania, West Virginia,^Oreg.on, California, and Arrzona. Arrzona was the banner state for gains in all types of national forest recreation, with a ,nitTio"-""a-u quarter more visitors than in l9D, a gain of about gO per cent.
Vicegerent Bert Bryan rep_orts_that all signs point to a big atten_dance at the joint i{oo Hoo Concalenaiion to be held at L_ivermore, June 8. Theafiair will be h.id ;t Croce's, Main Street, and dinner will be served at 7:30 p.i'. Ivlr. uryan points out that membership in Hoo Hob is not necessary to qualify for attendance at this meetinq. Lumbermen trom every branch of the industry are invite'd to._take part. It is hoied th"t "".ry -e*ber of Hoo Hoo will do his best to bring along a kitten for the b;;-.;;;; of..!h.e evening. .Tickets-are gf.5O for this meetingl*niif, will be the last before the vacation season.
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Rooling is being sold, not just bought, there dlys. Acturlly we know rcorer of dealen who ue proliting fiom this condition. Thcy rlc not waiting for an invitation to bid. They ue out getting prospects lined up,. selling Wccver-Henry roofing, and then turning the jobs ovcr to their customer fiiends, the ccrpenten, rcolenrand contractois. There's more profat for dealen who handle Weaver-Henry Producb and work closely with their cu3tomers. $lesploveit. r r r r r r
The semi-annual meeting of the MillworkInstitute of California will be held at the Hotel Alexandria, Los Angeles, Friday, lune 12. The meeting will be a one-day session starting at 1O a.m' In the evening there will be a banquet and. entertainment program. Jack Dionne, Publisher of "The California Lumber Merchant", will act as toastmaster at the banquet.
The standard methods of figuring the selling price of millwork which are based on the Standard Millwork Schedules recently published by the Institute will be one of the important subjects that will come before the convention.
The program of the convention is well under way and will be sent out to the Institute membership at an early date.
The Arrangements Committee for the convention includes: H. Coor-Pender, Frank Graves Sash, Door & Mill Co., Los Angeles; A. W. Koehl, l-no. W. Koehl & Son, Los Angeles; Wesley Shrimp, Cresmer Mfg. Co., Riverside; W. L. Leishman, Crown City Mfg. Co., Pasadena; A. J. Todhunter, llammond Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Frank Peel, Patten & Davies Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Kenneth Lynch, L. W. Blinn Lumber Co.; and Lester Sterett, Secretary, Millwork Institute of California.
/ C. W. Buckner, who has had m4ny ye?r9 of- experience in the marketing of plywood and doors both in the domestic and export field1, his opened an office as a manufacturers' agent it 557 Market Street, San Francisco.
Mr. Buckner represents Harbor Plywood Corporation, of Hoquiam, Wash., in Northern California. The Grays Harboi units of this corporation are Harbor Plywood Co', Knox & Tombs, American Door & Mfg. Co., and Durable Door Co.
He is also California representative for the East Tacoma Mfg. Co., Tacoma, Wash., manufacturers of Douglas fir finiih, casing and base, knock-down frames' mouldings, balusters, columns, gutter. plywood, commons and uppers' This concern specializes in sanded finish and trim, using only the higheJt grade old growth yellow Douglas fir.
Mr. Buckner is building an office on the second floor of the $uilding Material & Machinery Exhibit Building, where he is located, which will give a practical demonstraton of the use of plywood in house construction, as well as the use of othei products made by the concerns which he represents. A complete description of this demonstration office rvill be given in a later issue of this paper.
The regular monthly meeting of the Central California Lumbermlen's Club was held at the Hotel Clark, Stockton, May 16.
Chas. G. Bird, president.of the club, presided. There was a representative attendance of 37 members, and visitors included the following: Elmore King, King Lumber Co., Bakersfield; Floyd Dernier, Lumbermen's Service Association, Los Angelis; Henry M. Hink, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco; Jerry Pearce, Sunset Lumber Co., Oakland; Ralph Duncan, Merced Lumber Co., Merced.; Sam Dalton, l{elrose Lumber Co., Oakland; A.J. "Gus" Russell, Santa Fe Lumber Co', San Francisco, and D. C. Essley, manag'er, California Retail Lumbermen's Association, Burlingame.
The principal feature of the meeting was a discussion of general retail marketing conditions.
B. R. Julian, E.K.Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was a recent visitor to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he spent a few days calling on the lumber trade and inspecting the site of the new lloover dam.
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Joint selling agencies in the Atlantic Coast trade, the possibility of eastbound lumber freightrate reductions, lumber merchandising opportunities in California and federal control or the lack of it in intercoastal freight rates, were the principal topics discussed at the monthly meeting of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association held in the Hotel Portland, Portland, Ore., May 15. The meeting concluded with a "good of the order" discussion which concentrated on cooperation in extending the local use of lumber. Approximately 70 were present, practically every operation in the Columbia river territory being represented.
J. D. Tennant presided.
Roy Sharp, secretary of the Puget Sound Associated Mills, discussed the problems confronted in selling to the East Coast, outlined the organization of the Puget Sound sales agency and told what it hopes to accomplish.
H. W. Bunker made recommendations on how West Coast mills could develop their California cargo trade constructively. Mr. Bunker's talk appears infullin this issue.
J. D. Tennant made a report on the conference held earlier in the year in Chicago between the presidents of transcontinental railroads and a group of West Coast lumbermen in regard to the request of lumbermen for lower rates on lumber shipped fromthe Northwest to Middle West and Eastern markets.
The question of what the attitude of the West Coast
lumber industry should be toward the proposed gov.rnment regulation of water freight rates was discussed at length by Col. W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the Association, who outlined various interests and points of view involved. The matter was then thrown open for general discussion.
One of the lumber industry's needs in Oregon is a greater use of lumber in public works, particularly in trestles, it was said. A principal reason for the comparatively scant use of lumber in highway bridges, trestles and other public projects, has been the lack of aggressive promotion work on the part of lumbermen, it was pointed out. As a result of the discussion it was decided that a group of lumbermen will call on the highway department soon and present a plea and arguments in behalf of a greater use of lumber. The lumber interests will offer to cooperate with thg Oregon highway department engineers in developing plans for timber structures that will reflect credit on the highway department and on lumber. J. E. Mackie, field engineer of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, told of work now being done to promote lumber use in Oregon.
C. H. Grinnel, representing a group of 21 British Columbia mills which formed a sales organization three years ago, told of the progress the agency has made in marketing lumber on the East Coast.
Robert W.Hunt, district manager for California of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., San Francisco, announces the addition of three new salesmen to the company's sales force in this territory, making a total of six. These with their headquarters are: W. E. Barwick and L. A. Keswick, San Francisco; Jas. A. Stapleton, Oakland; L. E. Stallings, Sacramento; W. H. Morrison and Chas. L. Cheeseman, Los Angeles.
The San Diego Hoo Hoo Club are holding a golf tournament and dinner dance at the La Mesa Country Club on Saturday, June 6. The tournament will start at 12 o'clock noon. Following the tournament there will be a dinner dance at the Club House at 6:30 p.m. All Los Angeles lumbermen are invited to attend. Reservations shorrld be sent to Bob Reid, San Diego Lumber Co., San Diego.
The Lumber Committee of the Cali{ornia Retail Lumbermen's Association held a meeting with the Redwood Relationship Committee at the Hotel Senator, Sacramento, May 15.
Ralph P. Duncan, Merced Lumber Co., Merced, chairman of the Lumber Committee, presided.
Retailers taking part in the discussions included Elmore King, King Lumber Co., Bakersfield; Sam Dalton, Melrose Lumber Co., Oakland; Ralph Duncan, Merced Lumber Co., Merced; Chester Minard, Cutter Mill & Lumber Co., Sacramento; J. H. Shepard, Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento; C. H. Griffin, Jr., Homer T. Hayward Lumber Co., Salinas, and E.. T. Robie, Auburn Lumber Co., Auburn.
A most interesting feature of the meeting was a talk on the merchandising of wood by C. H. "Chuck" Griffin, Jr., who had been asked for a report on this subject.
Manufacturers taking part in the discussions included J. A. Harris, Jr., Monterey Bay Redwood Co., Monterey; Fred V. Holmes, Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., San Francisco; Henry M. Hink, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco; Henry Faull, Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco; C. E. DeCamp, Caspar Lumber Co., San Francisco, and R. W. Smith, California Redwood Association, San Francisco.
The next meeting of the committee will be held in Eureka, August 2I and,22.
The San Bernardino Lumber Co.. Ltd.. San Bernardino. Calif., has been sold to C. B. Gibson, who will operate the yard under the same name. Mr. Gibson was formerly connected with the retail lumber business in Colorado.
Robert S. Osgood, formerly manager of The Wheeler, Osgood Co., Los Angeles, left Los Angeles May 9 for Olympia, Wash., to take over the position of sales manager for the Washington Veneer Co:
Roger T. O'Hara, salesman for Redwood Manufacturers Co., with headquarters at Fresno, won the prize of $25 cash offered by the California Redwood Association for the most constructive suggestion or most constructive selling work during the month of April. The award w'as made on May 15. Mr. OlHara sent in two valuable suggestions, one of which lvas an outline for a proposed series of talks before luncheon clubs, featuring the various uses of Redwood, the talks to be illustrated by motion pictures of Redwood operations.
Prizes of $25 will be given in May and June. Salesmen are invited to send in their entries on the rpport forms provided for the purpose by the lOth of the month.
Calvert Graham "Chip" Chipchase, planing mill superintendent, Friend &Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento, died suddenly in the company's office on May 19.
Mr. Chipchase was a director of the Millwork Institute. of California, and took an active part in working out the new standards adopted by that organization- I{e was born 46 years ago in England, and is survived by his widow, Mrs. Anna E. Chipchase; a son, Calvert Graham, Jr., and a daughter, Dorothy Ann.
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sequoia Memoriar Fund have come in very well for a start, according to Charles G. Bird, chairman and treasurer of the committee handling this fund. He points out, however, that it is: evident that a great many lumbermen and Hoo Hoo who intend to subscribe are waiting to be called on personally as is the usual custom in "drives" ofall sorts. It is true. that the committees appointed will arrange for as many personal calls as they can, but it will not be possible to get in touch with everybody who might like to subscribe, so the committee requests that subscriptions be sent by mbil to the treasurer, Charles G. Bird, Stockton Lumber Co., Stockton, as early as possible in order to get the matter out of the way before the vacation season begins. It is. hoped to have the dedicatory services early in the fall.
When the recent group meeting at Aberdeen was being organized Colonel Greeley asked me to join in a discussion rei-ative to California market conditions. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the Aberdeen meeting, and two weeks ago today when this meeting was being programed the Colonel again asked me if I would undertake a discussion of the subject.
To avoid the possibility of misinterpretation of what I have to say I have prepared my remarks inwritten form and request your indulgence while I, from time to time, rerer to the text thereof.
If I were called upon to reduce to the fewest possible -rords my conclusions as to what could best be done to rmprove 'California marketing conditions, those words would be "identified quality.'
The California market is by far the largest and best softwood lumber market that we have, but it is very vulnerable because it is so accessible. In the old days when lumber was carried in sailing vessels the California market was apparently under the command of vessel owners. Large stocks had to be carried at California ports due to the uncertainties of delivery. Nowadays, with rapid steamer transportation and the modern mechanical equipment at the mills, even special cutting orders are possible of delivery at San Francisco and Los Angeles within from one to two weeks of the dates of receipts of orders.
It is becoming increasingly clear that the methods and practices long followed in serving the California trade are going to have to be completely renovated and changed if profitability is to be had in that market. I do not believe there is anyone present here today who will contend that there is any profit accruing to him from his present California business. Therefore, is notthis the ideal time to revise methods and practices when, as a matter of fact, a lesser volume of business would simply result in lesser losses ?
To revert to the first topic; How the West Coast mills can constructively develop the California cargo trade. I think four separate but correlated answers can be given to this proposition.
First. More potential California production must be gotten into the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, to the end that more uniformity of practice and better exchange of experiences may be had. In the absence of any other available trade association whatsoever, logically those mills serving or anticipating serving California should join forces with us.
Second. The mills that are members oi the Association, and as many non-member mills as can be prevailed upon to do so, should agree to manufacture lumber only according to the gradinglules of the Association. That is to say,
they should agree to indulge in no deviation from the No. 9 rules. There is certainly a grade for every purpose to be found in that rule book. Furthermore, they should agree to segregate their products according to the rule book and. should not indulge in the mixing of common grades, as has heretofore been the practice.
Third. The manufacturer must identify his products; the manufacturer's name, the grade for which he sold it, and the West Coast insignia to show that the designated grade was that of the only trade association in the field, should all be imprinted in some fashion upon every piece of lumber shipped.
Fourth. Every effort of the mills now cutting or intending to cut California business should be put behind the California campaign of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association and the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association to introduce and have specified wherever possible identified quality lumber. A11 of .us should use our best efforts to further the demand for quality products in the form of trade marked and grade marked lumber, identified lumber, if you please.
To discuss briefly these four specific answers one by one. In the first place, and regardless of the many differences of individual opinion regarding this Association, the need for it is so obvious as to almost preclude the necessity for reference to it. I shall, therefore, take up no more of your time in an endeavor to tell you why more mills should become members of this Association ; that is the jobof the Membership .Committee, and I have the pleasure of serving as Chairman of the Committee for the present year.
The second exposition opens up a very prolific field of discussion. There can be no fair basis of competition between individual mills unless they are each making the same quality of product in the different grades ordinarily quoted. The production of lumber must, like the production of almost every other standard commodity, be brought up to uniform levels of quality. We know that, for instance, gasoline, fueloil, steel, paper, pulp, and hundreds of other standard products have been provided, through cooperation of their respective producers, with standard measuring sticks for quality. Our product has not been, and until it is there will be two competitive bases; one is price, and the other is deviation from alleged standards.
Going on to the third suggestion, why not identify our respective outputs? There is scarcely an article of merchandise which we buv todav that does not have the name of the manufacturer inefiaceibly affixed to it, except lumber. Most of us can remember the davs when many o{ these same standard necessities. such as'the often referred to cracker, came in bulk, withno identification of either manufacturer or quality. Yet none of us would consider
buying any of those things under past conditions today.
My own Company became a member of this Association because we realized the necessity for the use of its prerogatives. Our membership only dates from July l, l9D. yet, since October, l9D, every piece of clear lumber that we have'produced; that is, all of our flooring, ceiling, drop siding, rustic, et cetera, has carried our trade mark and an exposition of the grade for which we sold it. IJnderstand, I mean every piece. We have not been able to put the Association grade rpark on every piece, but have tried to place it upon practically every bundle, .where the kind of lumber shipped was bundled. We are now preparing the necessary mechanical facilities to put our name, the grade, and the Association insignia upon every piece of lumber shipped by us, regardless of grade. I think we can accomplish this purpose completely within the next sixty days. For a long time we have been so marking every piece of lumber which we have shipped to certain areas where the competitive situation on grades was so obnoxious to us that we could not otherwise protect ourselves.
The big advantage that I see in marking every piece of lumber sold in the California market is not for advertising effect or repeat orders. It is to avoid being accused of having made inferior lumber which some unscrupulous vendor alleges to be our product. I am looking forward to the day when, under such accusation, our answer can be, .,If every piece has our trade mark and grade mark on it, then we made it. If it has not, then it is someone else's prod- uct." I think you would be surprised if you knew the number of times ultimate consumers are told that certain deliveries of lumber came from this or that mill, when, as a matter of fact, I believe those making the assertion would have a very difficult time determining to their own satisfaction the exact origin of that which they are delivering. To meet competition on price it is very convenient to pick over grades and mixup various lotsthat happen to be available at the time for the purpose.
In indulging in further discussion of my fourth proposal; the makers of every building material that is used with or in place of lumber are energetically campaigning all of the time to expand the use of their particular product. Not only is lumber being openly legislated out of business, but the urge is constantly upon engineers and architects to specify some other commodity. This urge comes not only from the representatives of manufacturers, but from Associations of manufacturers, of the other products. I call your
attention to the advertising and descriptive literature being sent out by the Copper Research Association, the paini manufacturers trade associations, the glass manufacturers, et cetera. Similar propaganda and constant reiteration of the cheapness and utility of lumber cannot well come from individual manufacturers, especially in the California mar_ ket where so few manufacturers of fir lumber are direct dis_ tributors of their orvn products. It must come from asso_ ciations similar to the two I have mentioned; the West Coast and the National.
To refer again to my own business, one of our most able representatives is now devoting his entire time to calling upon architects, engineers, contractors, municipal organiza-_ tions, et cetera, to sell them upon quality lumber. H" "o_ licits no direct orders but only suggests and urges that in carrying on their respective construction operations they demand identified quality in the lumber they specify. H; offers them quotations on such merchandise tt rougn tne dealer or dealers from whom they customarily puiehase. Only if their usual dealer is not interested inor unwilling to quote trade marked and grade marked lumber do we ar-_ range quotations through others. If only a few of the larger manufacturers would join thisefiort a surprising change would take place in marketing conditions in North"_ ern California within a very short time. Most of you are at least reasonably familiar with the results of a similar campaign in Southern California. ft seems almost tragical that the demand for quality in that territory *r. "r.""t"d by the live distributors instead of by the activities of the manufacturers themselves.
The second interrogation is: .,'What are the selling problems. involved ?" I think it is safe to say that this q"u.stion has already been answered. The selling problems are al_ most entirely analogous to the problems of constructive development of the trade.
To summarize. The quality and persistent selling pressure which is behind the articles that can be used ln ti"u of lumber, plus the fact that so many of them are now being manufactured right in California, will tend, in my opinion, to constantly diminish the per capita consumption of lumber in California. That is exactly what has happened elsewhere in the United States. We lumber m"rrrrfa.iu..r. must. adopt the_ same methods. We must bring. about uni_ formity of quality.and procedure, and tn.n -u3t puiaii."t sales pressure behind our merchandise. If we do'not, then we may.as well look.forward to the inevitability ;i'p;..: ent conditions becoming permanent.
In the chart below, a dotted line runs upward irom the fall of 1929 to the spring of 1931. This forecasts the revival in business ottti"h is now-und-er way. The volume of industrial produc,tion, i.e., thi production of our-mills, factories and mines in 1930 moved ao*i i."- 93 per cent in September to 78 per cent in December.
Since then, it has moved up to { per cert -in February, -the lat^est *""itt ieobrted in the Federal Reserve Bulletin. At this writing (Mav'8)'available data indicates that March will be higher than Februarv, April higher than Mirch and thafin
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four months the volume of industrial production will have moved uP from the Iow of 78 per cent fullY halfway to the base, 100 per cent. This base is the average monthly production for the years 19231925. We hesitate to call it "normal" for no one knows what normal is. With the indicated April increase, the gain will be greater than seasonal. We have confidence in the forecast made by money rates. It has not failed, as the charts show. since 1884 at least.
For some years we have been trying to sell the fact that business in the United States moves in cycles of about three years and that the two maior swings of these short iy- cles. one of revival and one of decline, are forecast months in advance bv swings in money rates. Wi believe that the charts above prove these contentions, but we are pleased to find recognized authori- ties recently endorsing them. Prof. Willford I.
King. of New York University, in the Annalist of May l, closing an illuminating article, declares, "On the whole then, the evidence appears to favor the validity of the theory that during the last half century at least, the business cycle in this country has been periodic in its movements, with a wave length of slightly less than forty months." In the Jour- nal of the American Statistical Association for June, 1931, Bradford B. Smith of the Cleveland Trust Company explains how interest rates forecast business. He has constructed a composite forecasting index from interest rates which he declares "forecasts business a year in advance about as accurately" as the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, or the Standard Statistics Company "measure it currently." Here is worthwhile evidence from experts of the soundness of the foundations of the forecasts published for several years in "Looking Ahead."
As long ago as the close of the Civil War, there were those who believed that business moved in recurring cycles of ten years. To illustrate, they cited the depressions of 1837, 1847, and. 1857. Later we find the claim made that recurring cycles are of about seven years in length. The charts show some interesting facts about these longer cycles. The short cycle of a little more than three years is evidently the cyclical unit from which the recurring cycles of multiples of three plus are built, e.g., the ten-year cycle is made up from three consecutive short cycles and the cycle of a little less tlun. seven years is the sum of two consecutive shart cycles.
When for three consecutive short cyclef money rates progressivcly increase, then we have an unusually sever-e depr-ession at tle cld of ttre apriroximately ten-year period. This is illustrated by-tbe the by_tbe cvcles 1884-1894 and 1897-L907. When for two consecutive short cycles 1EE4-1894 cyclee money rates progressively increase' we also have a severe depression ai the end of approdrnately seven yearo. This^is illustr;ted bv the cvcles 1908-1914. 1915-1921. and 1924-1930. Of coursc, trated by cycles I 4, 1915-1921, and thJ upward mo-vements of moirey rates ire.not in a straig-ht line but ztrrzee- as the charts show. zigzag, as the MONEY RATES It is remarkable that neither the breaking out of the World War nor its continuance seem to have changed to any considerable degree the regular movement of the short cy- cle, Shall we be reluctantlv forced to believe that t-he regular cyclical swing to depression in 1914 was the last straw that broke the back of the camel named Peace, that it determined the time when the expected and threatened World War should begin? Is there any real significance to the fact that the United States cntered the war in the next regular cyclical depression year, l9l7? Could the probability of these events occurring when they did have been forecast?
Prof.King concludes his article in the Annalist with these words: "If it is true, that as indicated by the accompanying graphs, the major business cycle, at least in the United States, has a wave length of between thirty-nine and- forty months-a wave length which has not changed noticeably in half a century-what is the explanation? At present, few economists feel certain as to the answer to this question. Perhaps the cause lies in some peculiar quality of the human brain. Perhaps as Jevons and Moore have contended, the motivating force is sun radiationthis force controlling rainfall, which in turn governs crops. Fame awaits the man who can find the correct solution to the puzzle and then prove that he is right."
Even this brief study of business cycles hnd the relation of depressions to increasing money rates seems to prove that by preventing money rates from prqgressively increasing for two or three short cycles or from going to an extreme high in any one cycle will diminish the severity of the cyclical depressions. Certainly such an increase warns us of coming depression and gives us an idea of how severe it is likely to be. Can we prevent this increase?
Note from the charts that every one of the five severe depressions has been followed by a sharp recovery to a point considerably above 100 per cent. The revival in ever/ case has been forecast by a vigorous swing to easier money rates, similar to the swing in 1929 and lg3Lthe dotted line. In each case, the recovery has begun a year or less later than the upturn in the dotted line, except in 1914 at the outbreak of the war, when the lag for obvious reaaons was longer. Is the forecast, by the dotted line, of the upward swing in the new cycle to prove false? Let each reader decide this for
Swiags fn Money Rates Forecast Bull and Bear Markets. Dota fr the Fer Chuts in the Art;cle are frm the A*nolist.
himself and then act accordingly. This may reqriire courage; but it will pay, if the decision is correct.
In the next issue of "Loo'king Ahead," July 15, in addition to the regutar business forecast, we shall comment more fully upon what these charts show us. We shall also give charts showing the correlation between movements in business activitv and movtments in stock prices. In the meantime, we urge our ieaders to study the charts carefully. We shall gladly welcome any information dCrived from their studies or their experience that they believe may be of value to others.
We chart back only to 1890 simply because we did not find reliable and comparable monthly data for the earlier years. We are convinced, however, from incomplete data at hand that similar se-
Bruce Clark, of the Oregon - Washington Plywood Co., Portland, left San Francisco for the Nbrthwest on May t4'after a two weeks' visit to San Francisco and Los Angeles.He conferred with Frank G. McPherson, district manager for the company in San Francisco, and with W. W. Wilkinson, district manager in Los Angeles.
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Be sure to send the name and the address, legibly written or typed, to which "Looking Ahead" is to be sent.
J. E. "Eddie" Peggs, sales manager of W. R. Chamberlin & Co., San Francisco, returned May 23 from a lGday business trip to the Pacific Northwest. He visited the company's omces in Portland and Seattle, and called on sawmills in these cities and in Hoquiam, Aberdeen and Tacoma.
rtNow comes the outdoor urgFbuild a Redwood Log Cabin Cottageeffective, ecodomical and dependable.tt
washington, May l5.-sixteen thousand clubs of farm-
A. B. Everitt has been elected vice-president of the Long- ers and farm wives have begun a system of club studies of Bell Lumber Sales corporation, and appointed general home remodeling and improvement needs that can be manager of the retail department. He succeeds the late J. profitably undertaken this spring, summer and during the H. FSresrlan, whose seini.e record with Long-Bell coi- coming fall. More than 320,000 individuals in 1,20O counered a period of 42 years. Mr. Foresman was general man- ties are enlisted in this movement which is one of the prinager o! the retail dep-artment fot 8 years and vice-presi- cipal developments of the united efiorts of the American dent of the company f.or 17 years. Farm Bureau Federation, the National Lumber Manufac-
Mr. Everitt began work with Long-Bell in the company's Enid, Okla., retail lumber yard in 1898. He took so much ,interest in his work and company business that in 1903 he was given the management of the yard at Okeene, 9kla. In 19o5 he was made manager of the yard at Stroud, Okla., from which point he was transferred in l%)7 to Enid, Okla., to take the management of that plant. He established the sash and door house there. In 1911 he was made division manager of the western division ofthe retail department with headquarters in Enid, Okla. On June 1,1923, he went to Kansas City and became assistant general manager of the retail department under J. H. Foresman.
He was born at Coal Valley, Ill., May 14, 1877. The family moved to Osceola, Nebr., in 1879 and then to Oklahoma in 1893 at the time of the opening of the strip'
Increasing the dealer representation for Weaver-Henry roofing products in the San Francisco Bay region, announcement was recently made of the entrance of the Crown Roof Company into the field in Oakland. The headquarters of the concern are located at 2ffi9 E. 14th Street and the building contains adequate warehouse storage facilities for the handling of a substantial stock.A display room is also operated in connection withthe warehouse,'Weaver-Henry officials stated.
The entire 'Weaver-Henry line will be carried in stock, and particular emphasis will be placed upon the promotion of sales of Dymond Tab-Lock, Beauty Lock and Gothic Design shingles. These shingles, the company say, are particularly adapted to home building in the Bay area, having a rag felt base and slate surfaced, they resist in every way the weather conditions in this region.
Ralph W. Fiege will act as general manager of the Crown Roof Company. Mr. Fiege is a native of the Bay district and is widely acquainted among the trade.
turers Association and other industrial groups. Its purpose is to bring consideration of building repairs and knowledge of how to realize them to the thirty million people who liv-e on farms where upkeep has been notoriously neglected for many years.
Many of these study groups will work on the topical consideration plan, taking up from meeting to meeting such subjects as new porch planning, attic finishing, room partitioning, convenience installations, vegetable bin building, garden furniture placement and how to most economically undertake such work. Others will work on the completed project plan, discussing the plan, style and relation of one farm building to another and considering incidentally the detailed improvements needed in each structure. Still a third method will be to take up and discuss at meetings the practical problems facing individual club members.
One very encouragiirg result of the club work, from the lumber dealer's point of vierv, has already shown itself. Many of the members of these clubs have begun writing in for assistance and advice; hundreds of letters are being received telling exactly the improvements they would like to make and requesting information as to the best manner of undertaking luch work. When these letters arrive at the Washington office of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association they are distributed as speedily as Possible to the secretaries of the various lumber retailer associations, by whom they are in turn forwarded to dealers in the territoryin which the prospect live3. Thus the local dealer secuies a direct sales lead from a live prospect who is actually planning to have some work done'
Thousands of additional study clubs will be established before summer. Literature on the use of lumber is being furnished to these clubs and to their individual members. While repair work is always going on on the farm, farmers generally realize that such work has not as a rule kept pace with depreciation and are anxious after the long delay to get their places into shape. Lumber retailers report amazement at the results of solicited farm business.
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According to an announcement by the Philippine Hardrvood Export,A_ssocia-tion, the freight rate to Etuope is ap- proximately $22 per M, r.vhich the leading exporte:rs claih makes it almost impossible to sell Philippine lumber in Europe and the Association seeks a freight-ieduction, states a report from Trade Commissioner E. D. Hester at Manila to the Lumber Division of the Department of Commerce.
The lumber rate to the Pacific Coast of the United States has recently been cut $2 per M and to the Atlantic Coast $2.50. The nerv rate to theAtlantic seaboard is $17.50 per M.
The Philippine trade reports a satisfactory local demand and the industry to be in a better condition-than in several months. A freer movement of stocks is expected as a result of the freight reductions and early shi ot-the-tretght shipments of about l,000,000 feet to the United States and Eurooe are exnected. rope are expected. Some of the larger lumber companies have increased prices and another increase is in prospect.
A recent meeting of the Export Association tvas to discuss the establishment of a lumber exchange and certain c-hanges in the methods of grading. Buyers-are basing orders on the standard Association grades.
The Association has an extenlive display of philippine lumber products at the "Expositr-on Intirnitionale Ctloniale de Paris".
Under new management, the Harrison & Fisher mill. located seventeen miles from Heppner, Oregon, has resumed proCuction. This mill, which-was built-about three years_ago, has been taken over by Messrs. R. F. Barker and. Geo. R. Barker and will be operated as the Heppner Log & Lumber Company. Geo. R. Barker will act u.'-"rrager__o,f the new comple, and Frank Doty, formerly with the Wm. Hulbert Mill Company of Everett, Washington, will be superintendent.
A total of 25,0@ feet of lumber per day will be kiln dried. The latest and most rnodern type of Reversible Cross Cir_ qulation dry kiln is being installed by the Moore Drv Kiln 9oTp"l1 of North Portland, Oregon. The fan equipment in this kiln will be driven by stealm, and the exhauit witt be employed for heating. The kiln building will be of the new type_of economical wood constructionl Arrangements are .also- being made for the economical stacking" of the lumber by.down-stacking from an elevated platfo-rm. Unstacking will be conducted by piling the kilr dried lumber in packages which may be r-eaaity -moved onto trucks for hauling to the company's planing mill located on the Un_ ion Pacific Railroad at Heppner.'
Geo. R. Barker, who will handle the sales of the com_ pany, was previously connected with the Duncan Lumber Uompany and later with the Barker-Beach Lumber Com_ pany of Portland, Oregon.
William H. Hollenbeck, president of the Hollenbeck_ F_tt.tt-Planing Mill, Fresno, died at his home in Fresno. May 18, after a period of illness. Mr. Hollenbeck, ,rt o irrl. Q y""r. ,old, was born in Winnebago, Ill., and .u*. io Fresno,43--years _ago- Heis survived by his widow, Mri Annie Hollenbeck; three daughters and two brotheis.
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And still the Scotch stories keep showing up. They are like the Austin car stories in number, the chief difference being that more of the Scotch stories are printable.
This one concerns the Scotchman who was starting on his first ocean voyage, and was horribly afraid of getting seasick. So he approached the Steward the first day out' and said to him:
"Steward, my gude friend, tell me how I may prevent
The Westwood Lumber Company's mill at Wheeler, Ore., started sawing May 18, after a long period of inactivity. D. H. Miller, formerly manager of Knappton Mills & Lumber Co., Knappton, Wash., is in charge of the operation.
being seasick on this voyage. Can you?
"Sure,l' said the Steward, recognizing the burr in the accent of the Scotchie.
"Then tell me," insisted the Scotchman.
"Have you a dime?" asked the Steward.
"I have that," replied the Scotchman.
"Hold it between your teeth," suggested the Steward.
M. L. "D'uke" Euphrat, of Wendling-Nathan Company, San Francisco, returned April 23 ltom a trip over the Coalt Counties territory, in the course of which he called on the trade from San Jose to San Luis Obispo. He was accompanied on the trip by G. F. "Jerry" Bonnington.
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Invitations have been issued by the Coast Counties Lumbermen's Club to retailers and wholesalers of lumber and other building materials to attend their annual social event to be held at the Anderson Hotel, San Luis Obispo, Saturday, June 6.
The annual banquet will be held at 7 p.^.in the Anderson Hotel, and this will be followed by entertainment.
J. H. Kirk is general chairman of committees. J. A. Greenelsh is chairman of the entertainment committee, Harold Holzinger is chairman of the publicity committee, and J. V. Creath is chairman of the refreshment committee.
For those whb can stay over Sunday, an invitation is extended by J. A. Greenelsh, Exalted Ruler of the San Luis Obispo Elks Club, to attend the annual Elks picnic and barbecue, to be held at the Tonini Ranch. This will start at 11 a.m. on Sunday. Three steers will be barbecued, and there will be games, trap-shooting, boxing, cowboy stunts, baseball, races, etc.
Reservations should be mailed without delav to M. D. Bishop, secretary-manag'er, Coast Counties Lumbermen's Club. P. O. Box 346. Watsonville.
The lumber industry and its effects on the growth and development of I os Angeles as one of the leading ports of the world will be emphasized in parades and pageants of La Fiesta de Los Angeles, 15oth anniversary celebration of the city, September 4 to 13.
Historians, looking back through the city's annals for details to be used in connection with the fiesta, disclose what they believe to be the first lumber yard in the city. It was established by Perry and Woodworth in 1861, a bold commercial venture in view of the fact that the air was' filled withtalk about an imminent civil war.A sawmill and planing plant were set up at the lumber yard, the first in town, and the company manufactured beehives, furniture and upholstery and contracted for building and furnishing.
That was the year the first sea-going vessel entered the harbor at "New San Pedro" with cargo. "Phineas Banning, having constructed a wharf at his town of New San Pedro, an interesting experiment was tried on January 9," says an early account. "The schooner Lewis P-erry, arrivr1S on that .date, was torved across the bar and tiid up at Capt. Banning's wharf." The occasion was hailed with great acclaim, as proving that the port was accessible to vessels drawing as much as eleven feet of water. What would those old-timers have thought could they have seen the same harbor handling, in lumber alone, more than two billion feet in a single year? Due largely to its tremendous lumber trade, the port is now one of the foremost of the world.
So in all the fiesta's many joyous features-the world's congress of rough riders, the musical fiesta at Hollywood Bowl, the water carnival at the beaches, the illuminated "Pageant of Jewels" from the film studios, the transporta- tion review, the grand procession, and the illumination of the United States fleet in the harbor, and many other spectacular events-the lumber industry will furnish much of the inspiration.
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To the Blanchard Lumber Company, North Hollywood, goes the credit of being one of the first concerns in Southern California to refinish their offices in Knotty Pine finish. In October, l9D, R. W. Blanchard engaged George W. Williamson, prominent North Hollywood contractoi, to install this popular finish, and since that time the office has become one of the show places in that vicinity. lxl2 and 1x3 Shevlin Knotty Finish was used, the lxl2's being grooved on both edges and the lx3 being tongued on both edges. The pattern of this panelling and the tapered blocks at the top of the moulded strips, were designed by Mr. Williamson. A mellow brown stain was applied, giving the interior an air of charm and distinction. Hot summer rvinds and weather changes have failed to mar the beauty of these walls.
was Mcextra prlce when seasoned ln Cross Circulation Kilns ! Moore IDry Kiln Gornpany World's Largest Manufacturers of Dry Kilns and Equipment. North Portland, Ore. Jackconville, Flori&
Head Coach W. H. "Navy Bill" Ingram was the principal speaker at the regular monthly dinn'er meeting of the East Bay Hoo Hoo Club held at the Athens Athletic Club, Monday evening, May 11.
Mr. Ingram's talk on the subject of football was heartily applauded.
President Ray B. Cox presided. The entertainment program included two specialty musical numbers, a Japanese harmonica player, who played selections from the operas, and a Russian singer, who piayed his own accompaniment on a guitar.
Vice President Larue Woodson did his bit towards swelling the attendance by bringing along three guests. These were: Bob Osgood, former president of the Los Angeles Hoo Hoo Club; W. L. Rawn, Seattle, and W. I. Wilson. California Door Co., San Francisco.
The president asked those present to keep in mind the date of the second annual Ladies' Night, August 14.
M_arking an epoch in American forestry, the U. S. Forest Service recently made a sale of wood fiom the Nebraska National .Forest, _a region that less than thirty years ago was nothing but barren sand dunes. Planted io jack pinie, this area is now producing a forest crop, the firsi arti'ficiai forest in the histbry oftlie Forest Service to do so. For hundreds of years foresters have sold timber from the mangrown forests of Europe, while the United States has been harvesting the forests grown by nature.
Three counties in Northern California, Humboldt, Sis- kiyou and Trinity, by action of their boards of supervisors, recently endorsed the fire protection work of the U. S. Forest Service and the State Division of Forestry. and have called on their citizens to render every assistince in pre- venting forest fires.
__The friendly relationship of the Forest Service to the National Park Service is d-emonstrated by the recent dedication by the Secretary of Agriculture oi the Mather Memorial Parkway commemoratlng the life and work of the late Stephen T. Mather, formei director of the National Park Service, Department of the fnterior. This memorial parkway, located in the Rainier National Forest. Washinq- parkway, !1 National Forest, Washing- ton, comprises 24,300 acres of forest land extendine one-hatif 2{300 extending one-hi mile on either side of the Natchez pass High#ay for a distance of 50 miles. The outstanding sceniclnd inspira- tional function of this memorial area w'ill be safeguardeh by the Forest Service.
Taking a dose of its own medicine and thereby strensthening'its no-advertising-signs policy, the U. S. Ftrest SErvice has decided to do.away w_ith all-fire warning signs along main traveled roads in the National Forests oI thi Califor"nia Region, according to an order issued by Regional Forester S. B. Show. Fire warning signs will'be p6sted hereafter only at entrances to the nltio--nal forests. This order does not affect special re-strictive fire signs relating to no smoking, camp fire permits, closed areal and the like.
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W. -G. Kahman, The McCloud River Lumber Co., San Franclsco, tvl! a Los Angeles visitor during the iatter pprt of May. Together with- L. S. Turnbull, Soirthern California and Arizona representative, they spent several days calling on the lumber trade.
The average farmer gets up to the alarm of a Connecticut clock, buttons his Chicago susPenders to a Detroit overall, washes his face with Cincinnati soap' sits down to a Grand Rapids table, eats Kansas City meat and Minnesota flour, cooked on a Sears Roebuck stove. He goes out to the barn, puts a New York bridle on a Missouri mule fed with Colorado alfalfa, plows his farm covered with a Vermont mortgage, with an Illinois plow. When bedtime comes he reads a chapter from the Bible printed in Boston' says a prayer written in Jerusalem, crawls undef a blanket made in New Bedford, only to be awakened during the nightby the howling of a home-grown dogthe only home-grown product on. the place, and then the Son-of-agun wonders why the Hell he can't make a living.
"Judge,t' said the contractor to his lawyer, "Doctor says I got a month to live; I want to make my will."
"Fix it so my overdraft in the First National Bank goes to my wif*-she can explain it to them.
"My equity in my automobile I want to go to my son. He will have to go to work then to meet the payments."
"Give my unpaid bills to the bonding company; thcy took some awful chances on me and are entitled to something."
"That new-fangled machine on the job, I want the resident engineer to have. He made me buy it; maybe he can make it work."
"My retained percentage, give to the state; I never expected to get it an5rway."
"My equipment, give to the junk man. He has had his eye on it for several years."
"My keg, I want to go to my bootlegger. I hope it costs him as much to keep it wet as it has me."
"I want you to handle the funeral for me, Judge. Any undertaker will do, but I want these six material men for pallbearers. They have carried me so long, they might as well finish the job."
-Patton's Monthly.
Cars washed-one dollar. Austins dunked-two bi[s.
The curate thinks you have no sou!
I know that he has none. \ut Yf' Dear friend ! Whose solemn s{t-y'ntrot
In our four-square, familiar ! Was pattern to my Youth-whose bark
Called me in surnmer dawns to roveHave you gone down into the dark
Where none is welcome, none maY live?
I will not think those good brown eyes Have spent the light of truth so soon; Your wraith, I know, rebukes the moon, And quarters every Plain and hill' Seeking its master-as for me
This prayer at least the gods fulfill: That when I pass the flood, and see Old Charon by thc Stygian coast Take toll o'f all the shades who land, Your little, faithful, barking ghost May leap to lick my phantom hand.
-St. John Lucas.pa159n-"f,)oes your daughter trust Jones ?"
in God, IF,
psaqen-"$he must, from the company she kceps."
-Ru.th rode in my new cycle-car In the seat back of me; I took a bump at fifty-five, Then rode on Ruth-lessly.
There was the fellow who made a companionate marriage deal with a young lady, and then lost his wife's address.
Organization of the Puget Sound Associated Mills, a 'cooperative selling and merchandising company for handling lumber shipments to the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and adjacent backhaul territory, was completed May 12, according to announcement made May 13 by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. It is expected the company will start active operation June 15.
Twenty-four sawmills in Everett, Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, Shelton and Port Angeles, all of whom are regular shippers in the intercoastal lumber trade, are represented in the new company, which will handle normally about 30,000,0m feet of lumber a month.
C. H. Kreienbaum, Reed Mill Co., Shelton, was elected president of the new organization; A. E. Mclntosh, ClarkNickerson Lumber Co., Everett, is vice-president; R. J. Sharp, Mountain Lumber Co., Tacoma, Secretary, and W. B. Nettleton, ;Nettleton Lumber Co., Seattle, treasurer. The board of trustees consists of these officers and the following: Maurice Springer, Springer Mill Co., Olympia; W. L. Raymond, Olympic Forest Products Co., Port Angeles, and John Robinson, Robinson Mfg. Co., Everett.
Robert E. Seeley, who has had considerable experience in merchandising West Coast lumber on theAtlantic seaboard, has been chosen as manager.
Colonel W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, has long been an advocate of the formation of strong merchandising organizations of this kind. His association regards this new organization as one of the most ,constructive developments in the lumber industry of Washington for many years.
At the regular meeting of Hoo Hoo Club No. 9, San Francisco, California, April 30, the following resolution endorsing the Parson Simpkin Sequoia Memorial was unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS a committee of representative Pacific Coast Lumbermen has been formed for the purpose of securing and reserving for dedication, one of the Sequoia Gigantea in the Calaveras Grove of Big Trees in Calaveras County, California, and for the purpose of dedicating this tree to the memory of our late beloved Parson Simpkin, therefore be it
RESOLVED that Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9 unanimously endorse this movement and lend every effort, both moral and financial towards its consummation. and be it further RESOLVEDthat this resolution be spread upon our minutes and copy thereof be sent to all the local papers, all lumber publications and to all Pacific Coast Hoo-Hoo Clubs.
HOO-HOO CI-UB NO.9, B. E. Tietjen, Secretarv-Treasurer.
Ray B. Cox, vice president and general man6ger of the Built-In Fixture Company, Berkeley, left May 8 on a three weeks' business trip to Texas. Mr. Cox will visit Dallas, San Antonio, Houston and other points.
OUR POLICY HAS NEVER VARIED FROM
The Chapman Lumber Company, Portland, Ore', has been appointed by Six Companies, Inc., San Francisco, as purchaiing agenti of Douglas fir lumber and timbers from Washingt6n ind Oregon io be used in the construction of Boulder"Dam. OrderJ will be placed with rail and cargo mills for shipment by water to San Pedro and thence by rail to Boulder City, Nevada. The first order to reach the Chapman Lumber-Co. was for 2,000,000 feet of 7x8-8 fir cross ties and switch ties.
The contract of the Six Companies, Inc., was for $48,000,000. This is the largest contract ever let in the United States. The government will in addition furnish $50,000,000 worth of material.
Otis Angier, Angier Corporation, who has been manager of the territory including the western states with headquarters at the E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has been called back to the factory at Framingham, Mass., where he will assume the general managership. Mr. Angier left for the east on May D. Mark Enfield, who has been associated with the Angier Corporation, will be in charge of territory including the states of California, Arizona and Nevada. The E. K. Wood Lumber Co. are the distributors of Brownskin, an insulation product manufactured by the Angier Corporation, in these three states.
A Mexican decree, published and effective onMay 14, 1931, authorizes for a period of not more than six months the duty-free importation of wooden houses to be used by victims of the Oaxaca earthquake, according to a cable received by the Department of Commerce from Acting Commercial Attache Erwin P. Keeler, Mexico City. Wooden houses regularly are assessed duty at the rate of 2 centavos per gross kilo plus the usual surtax of 3 per cent of duty.
Huntington Taylor, general manager of the Crater Lake Lum'ber Company, Sprague River, Oregon, recently spent a few days in San Francisco on business.
J. R. Shaw, president of the Shaw Bertram Lumber Company, Klamath Falls, Ore., announcgs the purchase of about 24,W acres of timber from the Pickering Lumber Company.
The tract is located fifty miles southwest of Klamath Falls on the Great Northern Railroad and contains approximately 3,000,000,000 feet of pine. In making the announcement Mr, Shaw said this will be held as a future supply for his company.
At the annual session of the Western Cedar Association, M. P. Flannery of Spokane, Wash., was elected president, to succeed L. A. Page of Minneapolis. Other officers and members of the board named were. Wilbur LaFean. Chicago, vice president; W. H. Jones, Spokane, secretary, (reelected) ; J. E. Shaefer, Sandpoint; Fulton Cook, St. Maries, W.T. Kuntz, Spokane; L. A. Page, Minneapolis, and L. F. Chapman, Spokane. J. E. Gerich, Milwaukee, was named chairman of the research committee.
The E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has been appointed the distributors of Thermax, a freproof building insulation, for the state of California. Thermax is manufactured by the Thermax Corporation of Chicago, Il1. A. Van Zant of Los Angeles is factory representative in charge of the territory rvhich includes the western states.
Fred V. Holmes, Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., San Francisco, has returned to his office after being confined to his home for about a week with an attack of flu.
John Olson, manager of the Los Angeles office of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., has returned from spending a few days at the company's home office in San Franc1sco.
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The rounded thatched roof leirds an air of old world quaintness which is carried out further by the rich red brick trim against the neutral rtucco. The carefully planned details by our specialists in regard to such seemingly minor notes as the leaded glass casement windows, brick wall and light fixtures, all make a pleasing and distinctive home.
Plans for this attractive homc carr be furnished by thc
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Tom V. Sawyer, Sales l\{anager of TheInsulite Co., Minneapolis, has announced the appointment of Meredith G. Jensen as assistant sales manager. l\{r. Jansen has been associated with the lumber and building industries for many years, and has had a long and extensive experience in the insulation field. He r'vill assist in putting into practice the company's ner,v merchandising program and its recently inaugurated 100 per cent retail lumlter clealer distribution policy.
Agreements authorizing use of the West Coast l-umbermen's Association grade-marks on lumber graded in Southern California retail luml>er yards under supervision of A. A. Kayser, Association grades inspector, have been recently signed by the following firms:
Fox-Woodsum Lumber Co., Glendale; J. & W. C. Shull, Inc., Bell ; A. E. Fickling, Long Beach; Atlantic Lumber Co., Bell ; Bear State Lumber Co., Long Beach; Geo. M. Huff Lumber Co., Los Angeles.
More than 4O firms, some of them operating several yards, have signed marking agreements.
W. R. Charnberlin, W. R. Chamberlin & Co., San Francisco, rvas a Los Angeles visitor during the month of May 'where he spent a ferv days conferring with Jack Rea, manager of the company's I-os Angeles office.
- GuySni.ith, _Ner1 York City, clistrict manager of the Atlantic-Pacific Lumber Co., rvas a San Francisco and Los Angeles visitor dur11S the past month follorving a several rveeks' trip in the Northr,vest. I{e left for Neri york on May 22.
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Planing Mill Machinery for sale. All modern, new 3 years ago. Loe Angeles Planing Mill Co., 1800 Industrial St., Lc Angeles, Calif. Phone VAndike 8460.
Mill superintendent and foreman open lor position' 9o*bination man in medium shop. Details-Estimating-Sales -Shop Foreman-Shop.Layouts-Architectural Draftsman on small homes or Plan Service. Well recommended from well known lumber compairies. I will put your plant on a paying basis ifit is at all possible. Salary $250.m per month with lO% of the net profits. Box C-391, California Lumber Merchant.
The California Lumber Mer'chant can contact a very responsible man, experienced in wholesale and retail-buying and selling lumber-estimating. accounting, yard managehent. Has managed Insurance Department of building material company. Experienced in all lines of Portland Cement sales. Will go anywhere. Married-age 35. Address Box C-393. The California Lumber Merchant.
Are you a retail lumberman who can prove himself an asset to su,ch a business and with a small amount of capital ? If so investigate this. Writefully, Box C-394, care California Lumber Merchant.
By experienced all around lumber office clerical man. A-1 refeiences regarding integrity and general qualifica' tions. Address Box C-382. California Lumber Merchant.
Open for position with wholesale or retail lumb€r cor: cern selling or manager of yard. Seven years' experience wholesale and retail liardwoods, Sugar and White Pine, O. P. Panels, five years manager, two years accountant. Have excellent references as to ability, character and honesty, and results. Address Box C-392. care California Lumber Merchant.
The current depression ofters a relatively better oPPoEtunity to the yard with a management that is.keen and alert to meet conditions, prune its costs and adapt itself to circumstances. With years of experience to my credit I can cope with present conditions if anybody can, and would appreciate an interview. F. W. Blanchard, 3128 Eton Ave., Berkeley, Calif.
EXPERIENCED LUMBERMAN WANTS POSITION
Lumberman with experience as Yard Manager, Sales, Office, and Association Work lvants position. Prefer Los Angelqs or Southern California. Would appreciate interview. Can furnish best of references. Address Box C-396, care California Lumber Merchant.
The office of the California Lumber Merchant ir constantly receiving applications, fromboth men and women, desiring work with lumberconcerna. Moot of these have had previous lumber e:rperience.
When you are in need of help of any kind, either office or yard, why not get the habit of calling us first and giving ur an opporhrnity to be of serrice to you ar well as to thooe needing employment? There is no charge with thir cerrice, to employer or employee.
Long.Bell oak fooring bears, in addition to its own name, the em. blem-SOFI-thebtandofSouth. ern Oak Flooring Industries, an aosociation to promote fine flooring through ad. vertising, research and co.operation with ietail Iumber dealers, atchi tects. contractors : and individual builders.
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R. A. LONG BUILDING
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
Lumbermen since t875
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