Coast Counties Lumbermen to Hold Social Meeting at San Luis Obispo

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.

La Fiesta Parades to Feature Lumber Industry

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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