The California Lumber Merchant - June 1934

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In Honor of their 75th annioersarg, M cCormick congr atulates the tones Lumber Co., Portland, Ore.

The McCormick Lumber Company is proud of the busi' ness contacts it has with the Jones Lumber Companyh.ppy to have such an amiable relationship with a com' pany now completing 71 years of service and continuous progress.

Many retail yards preferring certain stocks from the Jones Lumber Company are finding it convenient to buy through McCormick a McCormick service which costs you nothing.

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TUMBER CQO

'HE PICX OF TI{E TALL ?R,EE FORESTS

461 Market Street San Francisco Phone DOuglae 2561

117 Welt 9th Street Lor Angeler, Calif. Phone TRinity 5241

Uftreated and Creoroted Piling-PoleeTier and PoctF Lumber-Lath and Shingler

*Advertiaements appear in alternate ireue.

Arrocieted Lumbet Mutuals

Boolrtaver-Burnr Lumber Co. ----------------------21

Booth-Ketlv Lumber Co. -----------------------I. B. C.

Bricc & lloward TrucLing Co. --------------------*

C,rlifornie Builders Supply Co. ---------------------- 9

Cdifornia Panel & Veneer Co. -------------------'21

Celifornia Redwood Association -------------------- t

California Wholesale Lumber Asr'n. ----------13

California Saw Workc

C*lote: Conpany, The ------------------.----------------- 9

Chrmberlin & Co., V. R. ------------------------------19

Coopct Lumber Co, W. E. --------------------------2L

Deller Mrchine & Locomotive Worle

Dolbcc EC Cerron Lunber Co. --------------------21

Ellioa Bay Sales Co. --------------- , Flammond Lumber Co. ---------------- - I. B. C. Hill 6| Morton, Inc. --------------- -------------------------21 Hogan Co., T. P. ------------ ---------2t Holmes Eureka Lumber Co. --------------------------21 Ffoover, A. L. ------------ ---------------21

J. E. MARTIN Managing Editor

M. ADAMS Cirolation Manager

LUMBERMERCHANT

How Lumber Looks

The deadlock in the Pacific Coast longshoremen's strike which started on May l0 still exists as we go to press. Conferences between Federal meditators, employers and workers' representatives are still being held at San Francisco. Rqrorts indicate that a settlement will be reached soon.

The strike has practically tied up the lumber cargo movement on the Pacific Coast. No lumber arrived at Loc Angeles harbor during the week ended, May 26. However, 78 ships arrived at this port for the week as compared to ll7 vessels the previoue week-these ship arrivals were divided as follows: passenger ships 25, general catgo 4O, and tankers 13. Other Pacific Coast ports are practicdly closed to shipping.

Many Fir tidewater mills are repomed down due to the etrike which has reduced productiono and the Fir output will be further curtailed when- the new cutting schedule if ZO1/z hours per week for the month of June goes into efiect on June 1.

The Vest Coast Lumberments Association reports that lumber production, otders and shipments all decreased setiously in the week ending May 19, when compared with the week of I&.|.ay 12. As the most severe losses in both orders and shipments were in the domestic cargo and export trades, the loss in order placement and shipments is attributed by lumbermen mocdy to the longshorements strike. Mills closed by the strike are among the largest in the area and some of those are known to be refusing to book orders which call for shipment at any arLy date, due to the uncertainties of the waterfront situation. Operating mills are also understood to be hesitant about accepting forrvard commitmenfs whear water shipment is part of the contract. As the bulk of the lumber sold in the Douglas fir region leaves the arca by water, the effect of the strike on production, orders and'shipments, if the present tie-up is continued, is expected to be progressively setious.

Since the above date information has come to the Association of many more mills closing down because of the strike. On May 24 but two mills were olrerating in Grays Harbor and three in Tacoma. If the mill shutdowns continue for a short period, loggirg camps wilt of necessity be closed also. The Association has no means by which to determine exacdy the number of men thrown orit of employment by the efrects of the longshorecrents strike but to date the number is probably in excess of 5(X)O.

New business reported to the Association for the week ended May 19 was 74r7E5rO25 f.eet as against a production of 84r840r742 feet, and shipmeno "t*UO,3tOin8O feet.

The Vestem Pine Assqciation reported new business by 142 mills for tlre week ended lll'ay 17 as 79,489,0O0 f.et, shipments 52r0l2rffiO feet, and production 62rO63,O00 f.eet. Orders wete

28 per cent above production and,52.8 per cent above ship. ments. Shipments were 16.1

below production.

The California Redwood Association reported production for the week ended lfilay 12 from 17 mills-as 7r11-9,fl)0 feet, shipments 612301000 feet, and new business 5r1O7r(XX) feet. Orders on hand at the end* of the week were 32r7O4rOOO Leet.

526 hardwood mills for the week ended May 12 gave new business as 23rl58r000 feet, or 11 per cent below productlotr, and shipments as 25,9171000 feet, or 1 per cent belorv produc- tion. Production was 26rlo91000 feet.

L. M. Simpson Appointed VicePresident and General Manager of Pioneer-Flintkote Co.

Pioneer-Flintkote Company announces the appointment of Mr. L. M. Simpson as vice-president and general manager. Mr. Simpson has been engaged for many years in national marketing and sales problems and brings to Pioneer-Flintkote the experience gained by intimate study and knowledge, not only of marketing but also of manufacturing, research and development.

No other changes have been made in the Pioneer-Flintkote organization and under Mr. Simpson's guidance it is planned to continue the long established progressive programs that have kept Pioneer-Flintkote so solidly before the trade in the Western states.

T. B. LAWRENCE RETURNS FROM NORTHWEST TRIP

T. B. Larvrence, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has returned from a three weeks' trip in the Northwest calling on the mills. He visited Bandon, Marshfield, Reedsport, Portland, Olympia and the Grays Harbor district.

BACK FROM SO. CALIFORNIA TRIP

Henry M. Hink, sales manager of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., was back at his desk May 2I from a week's business trip to Los Angeles and San Diego.

SOHEI|IILD aaBee

Proposed Amendment No. 68

Timber Products Code

\Wholesale Trade

Section 3-Wholesale Trade.

(a) In the case of softwoods "wholesale trade" is defined to include sales of lumber and timber products, in carload quantities or more: (l) to wholesalers and retail lumber dealers; (2) to departments of the United States Government, and to or for (Jnited States Government river and harbor work; (3) to and for railroads; (4) for shipyards, underground work in mines, docks, dams and bridges; and (5) to industrials for remanufacturing or shipping purposesl and sales in less than carload quantities to retail lumber dealers, wholesalers, or manufacturers of woodwork for resale.

(b) In the case of hardwoods "wholesale trade" is defned to include sales of hardwood lumber (l) to wholesalers and retail lumber dealers; (2) to departments of the United States Government and to or for (Jnited States Government river and harbor work; (3) to and for railroads; (4) for shipyards, underground work in mines, docks, dams and bridges; and (5) to industrials for remanufacturing or shipping purposes.

(c) Nothing in the foregoing definitions of "wholesale trade" shall apply to logs, poles, piling or railroad ties.

WE HEARTILY ENDORSE SCHEDULE t(B'' AND PROCEED FURTHER BY ..DISTRIBUTING EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH LUMBER YARDS''

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ELLIOTT BAY SALES CO.

LLOYD HARRIS

1924 Broadway Oakland

Telephone : Highgate 2447

CALIFORNIA RED\TOOD FOR BRIDGES

Hishway engineers testify to the strength, durability and economy of California Redwood for brids€ construction. Mlllions of board feet of this wonderful timber, protected bv ndture with rot-resisting dnd insect-repelling, ds w€ll ds tire-retarding qudlities/ are used in Statu and County highwdy systems.

V.gabond Editorials

By Jack Dionne

Not a bank failure in the United States since the first of the year. Fine! But then-how could they?

we've got deposit".. ;";;e now. That is, we've got one kind. But we've overlooked an important one. Bank depositors today are seriously in need of insurance against having their hoarded money bust through the overtaxed sides of the banks of its own weight, and splash all over the near-by streets.

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A lot of our banks are going to have to further reinforce their vaults and side-walls to guard against such a catastrophe.

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I wish something would happen to break that financial ja*. Why won't intelligent people understand that money intelligently loaned on a home intelligently financed and built, is the out-and-out best storage for cash in this country ?

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Lots of friends from lots of places tell me that they can sense evidences of awakening of cash owners to that very fact. It's the safest investment possible. It confers benefits on the builder, and on the town. It puts people to work in honorable and useful employment. It puts money in circulation.

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A few thousand dollars loaned to a good man on a good home really circulates. It goes frona one bank account to another; from one pocket to many others. It goes to work. And, working money to hire working men is the thing that must eventually GENUINELY get rid of depression. ***

When the Government-or the individual investorgoes to buying home mortgages, I hope they will use the intelligence to make both the principal and the interest on same PAYABLE MONTHLY; not annually, or semiannually, or even quarter-annually. Men of small means should meet their outstanding obligations divided into pmaller units EVERY MONTH. Any smart man can ,tell you the wisdom of that.

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I believe that Governm,ental assistance to home builders and remodelers is going to do a lot of good. I believe it will be the means of interesting more individual investors in that sort of paper.

I read the other day in a financial publication the opinion that "commodity prices are going to advance stoutly by the coming fall." But what we want is DEMAND. Shucks, we've got prices plenty high enough on most commodities now, but we're shy the necessary DEMAND to make the prices safe and sound. We don't need sharp advances in commodity prices; we need buyers. The price will ndver worry us when we get the business.

Clarence Darrow and his committee gave NRA unshirted Hell. Surely no one who knows Darrow expected anything else. I can't help wondering why President Roosevelt gave him the appointment. He MUST have known what Darrow reas going to say. Everyone else did.

I'm not saying there isn't a lot of truth in Darrow's report. I'm simply saying that it was an absolute cinch that was the sort of report the old giant-killer was going to rnake. I've been watching that old boy too long not to realize that he was going to attack anything any guy of the General Hugh Johnson type was doing. The supreme arrogance of Johnson is to a man of Darrow's type, what the proverbial red rag is to the snorting he-bovine.

The autocracy of the doughty General, and the decided leanings to the left of the Brain Trust, are the two great hurdles that NRA must take on its highway toward accomplishment. The first arouses our normal American com,bativeness; the qecond sends a slight chill up our backs.

I've always believed that in the beginning it was the intent and purpose of President Roosevelt to apply codes to the several great national industries that employ the rnost people, and that the thing broke loose and got away; running into all the little lanes and by-ways throughout the country. Then they imposed a severe sentence on a poor little foreigner in New Eirgland for cutting the price of pants pressing a nickle; and a roar went up that is still echoing throughout the country. Somehow or other the people of this country just don't believe that such actions are the true functions of this great and glorious Government'

The o'ther day they had a meeting in Washington to fix a code for the operators of toll-bridges. Believe it or not, it's a fact. Just where the fool-killer can be when such

things are being done, is difficult to understand. The angleworm diggers have not yet been codefied, but it probably won't be long.

Recovery that lasts *rU O" ,J"o.r"r, that aims to work WIT,H the comrnonly accepted laws of nature, and not AGAINST them.

I shrink from reading the very words "government ownership." Government ownership, naturally, means government operation. And, government operation means political operation. And, political operation nreans looseness, crookedness, graft, chicanery, unintelligence, inefficiencylack of most things worth while. Wise men will oppose government ownership and political rnanagement of everything in this country that means anything. ***

Henry Ford showed up in Chicago the other day, and when interviewed he uttered some opinions much like those that have frequently appeared in this column of late. He said that "conapetition is a basic necessity. There must be competition in price, quality, and production." Right ! Remove competition and efficiency dies, initiative disappears, and virility becomes only a name.

He said also, "there will be greater scientific progress in the next fifty years than there has been in the last one thousand; there will be almost alarming discoveries in all lines of industrial and scientific urork." You said it, Henry ! Only the whangdoodle mourneth because of the crimes of progress ! This thinking nation has only gotten well started on the highway to a greater tofixorrow. Only the first rung of the ladder to the heights above, have our footsteps touched. Let the persistently pestiferous pessimists scrap their machines and go back to the bear-skin and the cave. The wise ones are pressing forward, and upward, courage in their hearts and a litany on t[eir lips, ready to wring from the future the greatness they know it possesses.

Had a kidding note the other day from a friend who used to sell California White Pine, but now, under recent court decisions, doesn't know what to call what he sells. He asks what I would think of their calling their lumber "Pale Pine for Particular People" ? O.K. "Pinus Ponderosa for Ponderous Purposes" would probably suit the botanists better; but we don't sell lumber to botanists.

Our modern civilization turns naturally to extravagance and overdoing. We long since changed Christmas from a day of peaceful happiness, well-do,ing, and well-wishing, into a pagan holiday, substituting in place of sweet sentiments a system of gorging, sousing, and foolish spendittg. The founder of Mother's Day, just past, undoubtedly held in her heart a beautiful sentiment. But we've changed that also, into a spending racket, under the exploitive urging of merchants with unessentials to sell.

Last issue I jumped on the growing tendency toward indecency in the movies. Since then I saw one of the most advertised pictures of the hour, a musical revue of the most extravagant sort. flere's a sample of humor of the thing: a bedroon:r scene in the old days in the country, comes on the screen. The man jumps out of bed, grabs a lantern, starts for the door in a hurry, shouting to his wife"'Where's that catalogue?" Thus do our modern movies cast their sweet humor upon a waiting world.

Northern Directors Meet in S. F.

The board of directors of the Northern District, California Retail Lumbermen's Association, met in the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, May 18.

President Harry Lake presided. The directors devoted part of their time to the discussion of the proposed bond issue sponsored by the American Legion.

It was decided to hold the Association's annual convention in November. Details are to be worked out in August.

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Notice is hereby given that the Lumber Code Authority will convene in open session at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, on June I I for the purpose

. Of hearing any interelted penon who har complaintr, criticirmr, ruggestions, cornnrentr or Gornmendation in rerpect of the Lurnber and Timber Products Code and the rnanner in which it ir being adminirtered.

In calling this open session it is the desire of the Authority to secure- as nearly as may be, a reffection of the views of interested parties concerning the Code and its operation. If required, the Authority will be divided into several comrnittees so that every person may have an opportunity to present his views to the meeting.

Following the meeting a committee will be appointed to analyze and digest the testimony and present the subject matter thereof to the Authority with recommendations for appropriate action.

The members of the [.trmber C,ode Authority representing the National Recovery Administration and their advisors have been invited to attend this meeting'

President Outlines Program to Stimulate Home Building and Mod ernization in Message to Congress

President Roosevelt in a message to Congress on May l4 proposed Government insurance of private financing for home construction and repair. The President urged action at this session of Congress. The purpose of the program is two-fold: first, to return many of the unemployed to useful and gainful occupation; second, to produce tangible, useful wealth in a form for which there is great social and economic need. The program consists of four major, inter-related divisions: (1) modernization, repair and new construction; (2) mortgage insurance; (3) mortgage associations, and (4) building and loan insurance.

The text of the President's message fo'llows:

To the Congress:

May I draw your attention to some important suggestions for legislation which should tend to improve conditions for those who live in houses, those who repair and construct houses, and those who invest in houses?

Many of our homes are in decadent condition and not fit for human habitation. They need repairing and modernizing to bring them up to the standard of the times. Many new homes now are needed to replace those not worth repairing.

The protection of the health and safety of the people demands that this renovizing and building be done speedily. The federal g'overnment should take the initiative immediately to cooperate with private capital and industry in this real-property conservation. We must l.y the groundwork for this effort before congress adjourns its present session.

The purpose of the pro,gram is two-fold: First, to return many of the unemployed to useful and gainful occupation; second, to produce tangible, useful wealth in a form for which there is great social and economic need.

The program consists of four major inter-related divisions:

1. Modernization, repair and new construction.

2. Mortgage insurance.

3. Mortgage associations.

4. Building and loan insurance.

The modernization phase of the program will furnish national guidance and support for locally-managed renovizing campaigns throughout the country and protection for home owners against unwarranted cost advances. For thise purposes and to assure adequate financing at low cost and on moderate terms of repayment a new g'overnmental agency is required.

Modernization of commercial, and industrial structures is envisioned, as well as residential, but the new features providing governmental assistance are confined largely to home improvements.

Loans to individuals will be made by private agencles which will be insured by a governmental agency against

loss up to a certain percentage of their advances. This insurance against loss on the rehabilitation loans will be met by the government and will be confined to advances of credit that meet standards and conditions designed to protect both the home owners and the cooperating agencies.

To make funds available for new home construction and to improve the mortgage market, the second phase of the program is long-term mortgage financing. It provides mutual mortgage insurance under governmental direction to enable private agencies to make first mortgage loans on newly constructed houses up to 80 per cent of the appraised value of the propertl, and to make new mortgages on existing homes up to 6O per cent of the appraised value of the property.

The loans will usually carry not more than 5 per cent interest and will be amortized by periodic payments over 20 years. Similar insurance arrangements are provided to help finance low-cost residential projects of the slum-replacement type.

The third phase provides for the incorporation of mortgage associations under strict federal supervision to increase the amount of mortgage funds available in regions where interest rates are unduly high because sufficient local funds are lacking. The activities of these associations will be limited almost entirely to insured residential mortgages.

Insurance for share and certificate holders in building and loan associations, similar to the insurance provided for bank depositors, is the fourth phase of the program' These institutions are custodians of the funds of small savers, and it is esential that they should be given every reasonable protection. Insurance of this type is necessary in order to arrest any further drain on these institutions and to put them in a position to resume their normal useful functions.

I betieve that the initiation of this broad and sound program will do much to alleviate distress and to raise perceptibly the standards of good living for many of our families throughout the land.

Appoint So, Calif. Representative

J. C. McCloskey has been appointed Southern California sales representative of Harbor Plywood Co., Hoquiam, Wash., with office at 168 La Brea, Los Angeles. He will work under the supervision of Charles W. Buckner, San Francisco, who will make frequent trips to Los Angeles. Mr. McCloskey is a building engineer, and was formerly with the National Thrift Co. for some years, and recently with the Pacific Ready Cut House Corporation'

Port's Progress Told bv Speaker

There was an excellent attendance at the May meeting of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club held Monday evening, May 21, at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland.

President C. I. Gilbert, who has a 100 per cent personal attendance record, presided, and made a report on the success of the second annual Reveille, held April 2O. This meeting broke all attendance figures for lumbermen's gatherings in recent years.

Entertainment chairman Sewall Morton introduced the speaker of the evening, Ralph T. Fisher, chairman o{ the Oakland Port Commission. All the members of the Commission were guests of the club.

Mr. Fisher in his talk gave the latest news of Port of Oakland developments, and at the conclusion answered many questions about the progress of the San FranciscoOakland Bay Bridge. His talk was illustrated by motion pictures shown by Hal Wiltermood, advertising representative for the Port of Oakland.

Music was again provided by a trio of young ladies.

It seemed to be the consensus that this was one of the most interesting meetings of the year.

Earle E. Johnson, of Livermore, past president of the club, invited all the members and their friends to attend the Livermore Rodeo, to be held Tune 9 and 10.

Dee Essley is Toastmaster

Dee Essley, secretary of Retail Lumber & Building Material Code Authority (Northern California), San Francisco, presided at the semi-monthly dinner meeting of the Northern California Council of Trade Association Executives, held in San Francisco, May 7.

This organization representing 175 associations is made up of trade association and Code Authority executives. It was formed last November for the purpose of self education and discussion of problems common to all Code Authorities and associations. It is sponsored by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. The membership holds a dinner meeting on the first and third Monday of each month, and their live executive committee, a body of nine outstanding men, meets at noon on the second and fourth Monday of the month.

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Lumber Stocks Show Small Calilornia Builders Supply Co.

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Washington, D. C., May 18.-The Department of Commerce today released a report of the Special Lumber Survey Committee, of the Timber Conservation Board, on lumber stocks and anticipated consumption for the second quarter of the current year, which asserts that in the first six months of the Lumber Code there was no net "national progress toward balancing production with consumption."

While, the report says, consumption has increased, especially as compared with the low point of early 1933, production has moved forward at a still faster pace. Present stocks, of almost 8 billion feet are 38O million feet larger than on July 1, 1933.

Production during the first quarter of 1934 is placed at approximately 8 per cent above shipments, but orders booked during the same period were 3 per cent greater than production.

Since the Committee issued its immediately preceding quarterly report the lumber price index has declined slightly. In December the Bureau of Labor Statistics' lumber index stood at 88. In March it was 86.4-lower than any other major building material; and on a level with the allmaterial average. In considering present lumber prices, the public is reminded of the devastating depths to which prices fell in 1931, 1932 and the first part of 1933. The onus for the unbalanced relation of production and sales is placed on low consumption rather than on excessive production. Wider markets are needed.

Lumber market prospects are stated by the Committee to depend largely on the outcome of home building and modernization plans. The plan proposed by President Roosevelt to Congress on May 14 is described as promising of stimulation of both modernization and new building. Total lumber consumption for the second quarter of 1934 is estimated at 4,693,00O,000 feet as compared with 3,979,000,000 in the first quarter of 1934, with 6,479,0ffi,000 feet in the first half of 1933 and a total estimated output for 1933 of 14,672,ffi4,000 f.eet.

Scores Success as Actor

J. Leslie Steffensen is gaining considerable prominence as an actor and scored another hit when he played the part of Uncle Tom in Uncle Tom's Cabin which was presented by the Santa Ana Community Players at the Temple Theater, Santa Ana, Calif., May 8, 9 and 10. He has taken part in several other of the Players' productions. The opening performance was the occasion of a gala premiere. Many of the women and men attending were attired in costumes representative of that era and arrived at the theater in surries and other conveyances drawn by horses. As they stepped from their carriages and entered the theater they were presented over the loud speakers to the large crowd congregated before the entrance.

Mr. Steffensen is the son of E. Steffensen, secretary of the Orange County Lumbermen's Club, and assists his father at the Association's office.

Adds Plywood Line

California Builders Supply Co., well known Oakland wholesale distributors of sash, doors and millwork, recently became jobbers for -BIG TIMBER- plywood and wallboard, and are carrying a complete stock of all sizes of this line of panels and wallboard.

This firm was established in 1925, and conducts an exclusively wholesale business. Their warehouse is located at 501 29th Avenue, Oakland. Kenneth J. Shipp is president, and Arthur D. Williamson is vice president.

Annual Dinncr June 5

The evening of June 5 a dinner and reception in honor of the architects of Southern California will be held in the Architects Building Material Exhibit, Fifth and Figueroa streets, Los Angeles.

Invitations have been mailed to a list of six hundred architects, and the building material .manufacturers will act as hosts for the occasion. Among the guests of honor will be Mr. George McDougall, State Architect from Sacramento.

John P. Hemphill

John P. Hemphill, general manager, Madera Sugar Pine Lumber Co., Madera, was found dead at his home in Fresno,May|2.Hesufferedanervousbreakdown.

Mr. Hemphill was born in San Francisco 5O years ago. IIe was formerly general manager of the Sugar Pine Lumber Co., Pinedale, and was one of the best known men in the California Pine industry. He is survived by his widow, two daughters, Jean and Barbara, and a son, John.

VAN NUYS YARD ADDS DISPLAY ROOM

The Cronin Lumber Co., Van Nuys, Calif., are adding a building display room to their plant. Construction is now well under way and will be ready for occupancy soon. Jim Cronin, well known Southern California retailer, is owner and manager of the Cronin Lumber Co.

W. W. McCOOMB RETURNS FROM EASTERN TRIP

W. W. McCoomb, Pacific Door & Sash Co., Los Angeles, is back at his desk following a two weeks' birsiness trip to Chicago and New York.

LARUE WOODSON VISITS L. A.

Larue Woodson, in charge of sales for Wheeler Osgood Sales Corporation, Tacoma, Wash., in California, Arizona ind Nevada, recently spent a few days in Los Angeles.

JIM PRENTTCE Vrsrrs SAN FRANCTSCO

J. H. (lim) Prentice of Los Angeles, Southern California manager for the Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Mills of Bellingham, Wash., was a recent San Francisco visitor q'here he spent a few days on company business.

Lumbermen to Play Non-Splitting Mcans Just That Golf June

8

Don Philips, chairman of the committee arranging for the Los Angeles Lumbermen's Golf Tournament which will be held at the Brentwood Country Club, Brentwood Heights, Los Angeles, Friday afternoon, June 8, reports that a big crowd is expected to attend. This will be the last tournament until the fall months. Those attending should plan to stay for the evening program; dinner will be served at the Club House at 6:30 P.M.

The tournament is open to all lumbermen and their friends. Any lumbermen visiting in the Southland are especially invited to attend. Delegations are expected from Long Beach, Orange county, San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Bernardino and other points. Prizes will be awarded to the winners of the various events.

The committee arranging for the tournament includes Don Philips, chairman; Ross Blanchard, Kenneth Smith, E. L. Reitz, Ilarry Hanson, Ed. Seward, Walter Harris, C. M. Freeland, Frank Burnaby, Bill Chantland, Jack Thomas, Harry A. Graham, Roy Stanton and Ed. Martin. The announcement cards have already gone into the mail-send in your reservations at'once. Reservations can also be made through the members of the committee, or phone Ed. Martin-VAndyke 4565.

GEORGE GORMAN VISITS L. A.

George W. Gorman, sales manager, Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco, was a visitor last week to the company's Los Angeles office.

ON SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TRIP

Harold P. Plummer, general sales manager, IJnion Lumber Company, San Francisco, has been on a business trip through the Southern California territory.

The claim that-BIG TIMBER-plywood is non-splitting is well substantiated by an object that quickly catches the eye of the visitor to the office of Lloyd Harris, Elliott Bay Sales Co., 1924 Broadway, Oakland.

This is a small piece of one quarter inch plywood wallboard, through which a 'rusty railroad spike has been driven, one half inch from the end of the piece, without any sign of splitting.

Asked about it, Mr. Harris said he drove the rusty spike into the plywood as the result of a challenge by a well known San Joaquin Valley retail lumberman, and has been using the combination for a paper weight ever since.

Gteen-Stanton

I uther O. Green was married to Mrs. Emily Lewis Stanton on May 13, in the Joaquin Miller Chapel, Oakland. The honeymoon was spent in Southern California and Mexico. Mr. Green is a member of the firm of Gamerston and Green. wholesale lumber dealers, San Francisco.

Tahoe Sugar Pine Mill Starts

The sawmill of Tahoe Sugar Pine Lumber Company at Graniteville, Calif., started operation May 1O after its winter shutdown.

E. L. Marsh is president of the company, and C. C. Stibich is sales manager. Offices are in the Monadnock Building, San Francisco.

BOB OSGOOD RETURNS FROM BUSINESS TRIP

R. S. (Bob) Osgood, sales manager of Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Inc., Los Angeles, has returned from a four months' business trip which covered thirty states and Canada. He reports that business conditions in the Middle 'West, South and East show a general improvement, and that the lumber trade is feeling optimistic.

MY FAVORITE

Bv Jack Dionne

not guaranteed---Some I have told

STORIES bt 20 years---Some less

The Weather Was Right for Batde

My good friend, Jas. A. Kirby, of New Orleans-Southern gentleman of the oldest school-unreconstructed rebel -and a teller of tales of the South compared with whom Irving Cobb is a stuttering 3mstsus-toves to review stories his father used to tell him as a boy concerning an old Tennessee negro servitor. This darkey served the Kirby family all his life, in and after slavery days, and was one of those colored characters whose attributes made them beloved of their white people, and picturesque in their family history. One of the best of those stories is this:

Mr. Robert Kirby, the elder, sat on the front porch of his Tennessee home one day in the eventful year of 1870, reading the latest newspaper, and particularly interested in reports of the imminence of the Franco-Prussian War.

The negro Isaac was mowing the lawn just a few steps away. So Mr. Kirby turned to Isaac and said:

"Isaac, did you know that the French and Prussians are going to war?"

The mowing operation stopped. fsaac scratched his head, and registered deep interest.

"Goin' t'fight, is dey, Mistuh Robert?" he said.

"Yes, looks like they're ready to start right now, and nothing can stop them," said Mr. Kirby.

The darkey looked about him. The sun shone clearly and bright, there wasn't a cloud in the sky of blue, and all nature was showing to best advantage just what she could do on a fine spring day in Tennessee.

"Well, Suh, Mistuh Robert," he declared, "dey suttinly gwine t'have a rnonst'ous fine day fo' it,"

Appeal for Century o[ Progress L. L. Chipman to Manage LongExhibit House

An appeal for continued support of the Lumber Industries' Exhibit House at A Century of Progress Exposition, entering its second season in June, is being made by Wilson Compton, general manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. in a letter to the directors of. organized groups in the lumber and allied industries. With approximately $10,000 required for operating the bxhibit this year, about half the amount is yet to be obtained.

Dr. Compton remarks that lvhile it has been proposed that the Lumber Code Authority shall be empowered to raise a million dollars for general national trade promotion "the industry has so far failed to respond even rvith the additional $500O necessary to cairy the most promising and least costly specific small lumber house promotion project before the Industry."

The Lumber House, constituting the lumber industry's visualization at the Exposition of the inherent appeal in a modernistic small home of all-wood construction, will be refurnished and redecorated under the auspices of the National Furniture Association, and the interior paneling will be refinished.

Subscriptions may be mailed to Geo. W. Dulany, Jr., chairman of the 1934 Lumber House Committee. 111 West Monroe St., Chicago, or to Ralph Flines, the committee treasurer, Edward Hines Lumber Company, 105 W. Adams St., Chicago, or to American Forest Products Industries, Tnc., 1337 Connecticut Ave., Washington, D. C.

Bell Southern Operations

L. L. Chipman, manager of the Export Department of the Long-Bell Lumber Sales Corporation, has been transferred from Longview, 'Wash., to Kansas City, Mo., to take over the duties of Mr. W. L. Prickett, who died in Kansas City, April 25.

Mr. Chipman, who will have the management and general supervision of the company's southern operations, joined the Long-Bell family in 1901 as city salesman for the Coal Department. He remained with that department five years during which time he became its manager. When the company decided to close out its coal operations, Mr. Chipman was transferred to the South where he spent a number of years with the lumber manufacturing department. Later he took over the management of Export Sales rvith headquarters at Beaumont, Tex. In 1924 he went to Longview, \Mash., when the headquarters of the Export Department were moved there.

Jones Lumber Co. Celebrates

75th Anniversary

Jones Lumber Company, Portland, Ore., recently celebrated the 75th anniversary of the founding of the business in 1859 by Justus Jones and his son, John Halsey Jones. Morris H. Jones is the present head of the firm. Harry E, Jenkins is general manager, and Howard Jenkins is superintendent.

California Dcalers Praise Lumber Code

Washington, D. C., May 20.-Ninety-nine per cent of the lumber dealers in Southern California are wholeheartedly back of the lumber codes, according to letters from dealers in that section addressed to NRA and the Lumber Code Authority.

In an expression of approval sent to the Authority by Hull Bros. Lumber Co., retail lumbermen of Reseda, Calif., thanks are extended "for the assistance rendered by the Lumber Code Authority in stabilizing our industry. Undoubtedly this plan is benefiting 99 per cent of the dealers of our district, and we feel that the business is going where it rightfully belongs."

The codes have proved "a life saver" for the. "little fellows" in the industry, declares W. C. Jones, secretary and treasurer, Valley Lumber Company, Calexico, Calif., in a letter of approval to the National Recovery Administration.

"We wish to express to you in the strongest possible terms," Mr. Jones writes, "our total disagreement with the various criticisms and objections to the codes as being detrimental to the small business of our country

"As a small lumber dealer (sales for 1933, $49,000) we have found the Code of Fair Competition for the Lumber and Timber Products Industries a life saver, and feel sure we voice the sentiment of 99 per cent of the dealers in Southern California. The minimum price provision has made it possible for the small dealer to be the distributor of these products in his trade area and to conduct his business in an orderly manner.

"The minimum prices here are not high enough to discourage construction as our volume has increased about 25 per cent over the same period of 1933. Even on the increased volume we can not operate at a profit, but it has helped to stop losses and permit us to stay in business.

"If the present proposed amendment defining wholesale trade be not adopted and one be adopted which will insure the orderly marketing from mill to wholesaler to retailer, we believe the small dealers will be able to render the best service to their trade areas and at prices that will be favorable to the resumption of the fullest use of lumber and timber products."

FRANK H; BURNABY RETURNS FROM HONOLULU

Frank H. Burnaby, president of the Sun Lumber Company, Beverly Hills, Calif., arrived home May 19 on the S.S. Monterey from Honolulu where he was vacationing. Mrs. Burnaby accompanied him on the trip.

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"Red" Wood Scys.'

Reduooil Mahes Beautiful Interiors

The Executive Chairman of the California Acrociation of A.rchitects sayr:

rtThere ie nothing more beautiful in thia world than 6ne woodworkbeautiful wainscotingr, panelled walls and panelled ceilings ahowing the natural g3ain of the wood, matched and put together; in other words, architectural woodwork.tt

For interior decoration, California Redwood is unparalleled. Its natural color, soft and warm, itg subdued but distinctive grain and satin.Iike texture, lend an air of diotinction unobtainable in any other wood.

For the Dea,ler!

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Three Santa Cru, Land Lubbers Cruising tVith "\(/est lvis" on the Pacific

By George \il. Wood '\ilood Brothers Co. Santa Cruz, Calif.

George V. Vood

I saw a ship a sailing 'A sailing on the sea And it was full of pretty things For baby and for me!

There were comfits in the cabin And apples in the hold; The sails were all of velvet, And masts of beaten gold.

-Nursery Rhyme.

These lines kept running through my head for days-three of them-before we went on board. It all happened this way! The Wood family, seven of us, were guests of Captain Maland on the "Lake Francis," that big boat that brings lumber from Seattle to Santa Cruz. We were invited for a "sea journey" across Monterey bay. The captain had our automobile swung on board. We seven walked on to the ship over an improvised gang plank and were oft on our first voyage. We liked it so well that next day when three of us-mother, daddy and five-year-old baby Katherine-were given the opportunity to go aboard the big South American freighter, "West Ivis," for an ocean voyage up the coast, we were not slow in accepting. So here we are steaming out through the Golden Gate on our first tr{p to sea. Thrilling! Imagine our delight!

We have just had supper with Captain Westerberg, his wife, their five-year-old son Bobby, together with the pilot, Captain Peterson, and Mr. Thompson, the first mate.

Our ship is big. She carries four and a half million feet of lumber when loaded (that's 300 carloads, ladies!). She is 425 feet long and right now, unladen, rises about 40 feet above the water line.

Come sail with me! It's evening and we're steaming by the wharfs along the water front. See those city lights! Yonder lies Oakland. Out there towards Goat Island are the barges where the East Bay bridge is being built. Ahead on both sides rise the great towers for the Golden Gate bridge. Now w€.rdre heading out to sea. Captain Westerberg has invit{d us to his cahin, so up we go to the captain's deck, just below.dhe bridge. We'talk with him and the pilot, as well as Mrs. Westq'rberg arrd Bobbyr Out there where the lights are showing is the bar across which Captain Peterson will pilot our boat.

Another thrill! We are invited up to the bridge. The pilot shows us where the Farallones lie and tells us so many interesting things nautical. There's the dredger that works day and night, years on end, keeping the passage clear through the bar.

The pilot blinks his flash light signaling the pitot boat. It's a little two masted yawl with motor and sails. She comes alongside about ten rods (or should I say fathoms) away. They launch the dory which is to take our pilot from the West lvis. Meanwhile our third mate and two seamen have rigged the sea ladder and put it over the ship's side. The wind blows and the horns on nearby buoys sound their weird notes. The dory comes alongside. Over goes the pilot. We watch him board the pilot boat and wave us good-bye. The yawl sounds three siren blasts. which to seamen mean "good-bye." In deep throated notes the "West Ivis'l answers. We're headed out to sea. really out to sea.

Ship ahoy! We're off on the briny deep.

CHAPTER II

Just outside the Golden Gate was where we left you, as I renrember, with something like "out on the briny deep." Naturally you want to know a little about this ship. It's a big freighter,. as I have already told you. She carries a crew of 40 besides 20 passengers-that is she has accommodations for 20. Right now there are only three besides the Woods. Our cabin is forward just under the captain's deck and on the starboard side. It's plenty large enough, about 10x10, and has all the conveniences one could wish for. It's right alongside the dining room and near the pantry. If you aren't seasick already let me take you through. It's late at night and the two Filipino boys who serve the food, have gone off to their bunks but the steward is kind enough to show us the ropes. Passengers are welcome in the pantry any time. We help our-

selves. There's a big coffee urn at our service. Hot water also for tea if we wish. An electric refrigerator holds platters of sliced ham, roast beef, cheese and tongue. There's always jam, cake and sauce there, too. This food and all are for the officers and for us, so any time, day or night, we can help ourselves to sandwiches, tea or cofiee. Maybe I had better tell you here about our feed at 2 o'clock in the morning. We had all (the three of us) been feeling a little off on Wednesday, the second day out. To tell the truth, we had missed three meals unless you call crackers and tea regular food. Katherine woke up at 2 a.m. She was in the tower

with mother. "Muthaa (she can't pronounce her r's), I'm hungry !"

"Shh, you'll wake your daddy,"

Well, daddy was awake arld hungry, too, anxious pantry. So I made tea for two and poured the coffee With ham, cheese and tongue sandwiches, together jam, I'11 say the "eats" were good.

Tuesday morning I was out on deck early, before 6 o'clock. Weather fine, sun just breaking through the fog I went all over the boat. Away aft on the poop deck I found the big tiller and the emergency steering wheel. Forward I looked over those enormous anchors and the machinery for lowering them.

Arnold Baldwin had loaned me his marine glasses through which I gaze for hours. There's an oil tanker, there's a lumber schooner! Here comes a big Luckenbach boat. We are right in the steamer lane and hardly ever out of sight of some sea going vessel. The captain shows an interest in my marine glasses. "How do you like them, Captain?" He looks them over and through fhem, examines the regulating apparatus arrd ends up by offering to trade 4rq his best, powerful, heavy glasses for them. (Am I proud?) I explain that they belong to a big navy officer of Santa Cruz and the captain is disappointed.

We are steaming up along the coast. The mate says the land to the starboard is Mendocino county.

Romance at Sea

The captain's five-year-old son and our five-year-old Katherine have met and are playmates now. (Oh, say, I missed telling you about breakfast. Grapefruit, cereal, choice of steak, ham and eggs or bacon, hot cakes, hot biscuits, jam and what have you?) After a few hours Katherine comes into the cabin and says: "Mutha, he kissed me," speaking kind of shyly. A little later Bobby brags about this experience to us and adds, "I kissed her, so we're sweethearts now." That evening it all co_mes out at the dinner table and the captain exclaims, "Aha! Romance at sea!"

Bobby is gallant. Anything Katherine

Later, after she's been a little seasick, I hungry. He leads her to the galley where

to try that for mother. with cherry wants, she can have. hear her tell him she's I 6nd her with a huge,

S. S. "West luis" Entering Coos Bay berth

greasy doughnut that Bobby wheedled from the cook, Poor lass, daddy had to come along and change the menu to crackers.

And now it's noon on the second dav. Am I seasick?

What Ho? I wish it were Coos Baj, Ho. More anon.

CHAPTER III

We should have told you at the beginning of this yarn that our good ship, the West Ivis, is one of the McCormick Steamship Company boats. The same company owns and operates twenty-eight steamers, of which two, i.e., the Dorothy Wintermote and the Silverado, make more or less frequent calls at Santa Cruz.

Our destination is Vancouver, British Columbia. The proposed itinerary called for the first stop at Portland. This was changed, however, before we put to sea and we learned on Monday evening that we would load lumber for Buenos Aires, South America, at Coos Bay, Oregon. So here we are Wednesday afternoon, steaming for Coos Bay harbor. That's the place where we get that famous white cedar, the same wood that lines hundreds of clothes closets in Santa Cruz homes. We're on our feet even if we are a little bit wopsy, bothering officers and crew with questions about where we are and how soon we will land.

Foggy Weather

The fog rolls in thick and close. The deep toned whistle booms out every few minutes and we slow down to less than six knots.

(Now there's a nautical touch for you Yacht Club boysl) Soon we hear the whistling buoys and now we are looking for the pilot. After what seems a long time we hear a shrill toot, toot off on our starboard bow (get thatl) In a few moments the pilot boat comes alongside, Over goes the Jacob's ladder and the pilot comes aboard together with a coast guard .officer. That's all for tonight until Katherine wakes us up at 2 a.m. for that feed you have already read about.

Daylight reveals a long broad beach about a quarter mile away. It is backed by heavy pine woods, with a few homes in among the trees. About 7 o'clock we weigh anchor and steam over to the dock where we are to load 100,000 feet of fir planks for South America. Meanwhile I've figured out that it will save time and enable me to transact my business at Portland, if my car is put on shore here. Captain Westerberg arranges everything for me, so up comes the old Buick out of the hold and overside on to the dock. We have invited Mrs. Westerberg, Bobby and Mrs. Thomfison, the first mate's wife, to take a ride with us on shore. Meanwhile, I spotted a crab fisherman netting his catch on shore. We ask him the price of crabs. "They're a little high now," he says. "How much?" "A dollar and a quarter a dozen," he replies. Now tell that to Malio, and do we have crab meat?

We are in the land of the rhododendron. Our drive is to Sunset beach, through the woods, along the seashore. We gather great armfuls of the scarlet flowered shrub for the ship's dining Salon and cabins. Returning we take a picture of our steamer coming into the dock at North Bend. I hope that picture is at the head of this chapter. Ilere we leave our boat and drive north for Portland and Hpod River. We choose the new coast highway for our route north. This winds along the seashore and is one of the most attractive highways we have ever traveled. Beautiful flowers, flaming red wild currants, rhododendron, carpets of pink bleeding heart, white Solomon's seal, wild ferns, trailing manzanita and Oregon grapes, line the highway on either s-ide. There are five state highway ferries to cross-no charge-Oregon invites us. Late that evening vre stop at Lincoln Beach for the night. We are fortunate in finding a very clean auto camp cabin where everything is new. We are away early next morning, arriving in Portland at 9 o'clock. Lumber business for Wood Brothers and brooder business for Art occupies my day. We arrange for a trip through the McCormick creosoting plant at St. Helens and the veneering plant at St. Johns, both down a ways on the Columbia river.

Portland is especially beautiful at this season of the year. Trees, shrubs and flowers, wonderful stretches of rivers, green covered hills and valleys.

Friday evening we drive up the Columbia River highway to my sister's apple ranch in Hood River valley. Many of you who lived in Santa Cruz back in 1908 will remember her and her husband. Mr. O. B. Nye. Mr. Nye came to Santa Cruz that year where he worked in the old East Side Mill and Lumber Co.

At Hood River I was pleased to find a satisfied customer to whom I sold a Wood Radiant Electric Brooder.

Monday was the day scheduted for the visits to the creosoting and veneering plants, also for our reembarking on the West lvis, so back to Portland we go to find our boat. If you are still interested we will tell in our next chapter about veneering-the lumber of the future.

(Ne.rt installrnent of Mr. Wood's article will appear in the lune 15 issue)

Mrs. Hugh Herbert Hughes

Mrs. Hugh Herbert Hughes, daughter of George Lounsberry, Los Angeles retail lumberman and secretary-manager of Lounsberry-Harris, died at the Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, Friday, May 11, following an appendectomy performed a week previously. Mrs. Hughes was 25 years of age.

Mrs. Hughes is survived by her husband, a young daughter, Gweneth Hughes, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Lounsberry. Funeral services were held at the family residence, 415 South Rossmore Avenue, Los Angeles, Tuesday afternoon, May 15, with the Rev. George Davidson of St. John's Episcopal Church officiating.

FLOYD DERNIER CALLS ON YARDS

Floyd Dernier has returned from a two weeks' trip calling on the retail lumber trade. He called on the Coast yards on his trip north to San Francisco, and on the Valley yards on his return trip south.

A LIE.AWAKE SONG

The apples falling from the tree, Make such a heavy bump at night I always am surprised to see They are so little when it's light.

And all the dark just sings and sings, So loud I cannot see at all How frogs and crickets and such things That rnake the noise, can be so small.

Then my ovyn room looks larger, tooCorners so dark and far awayf wonder if things really do Grow up at night and shrink by day?

For I dream sometimes, just as clear I'm bigger than the biggest manThen mother says, "Wake up, mV dear"; And I'm a little boy, again.

-Amelia Josephine Burr.

. CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

Whenever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there; And'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.

DEBTS

Now the time is coming, if not here, when adventurers will go into debt, sure of making profits on investments. May we say to them in all earnestness, "Don't do it !" None of us know what the future holds. While the skies seern to be brightening, it is wise to avoid indebtedness. Had we pad it to face, we would be fat as a cold pancake right now, with nothing to hitch a rope on. As it is, thanks to a wise friend, while we have had losses, they have not left us stranded. And all because we had no indebtedness to utterly ruin us ! Avoid debt ! If you have not the money to pay for an investment that looks good, don't make it ! ft is better to be safe than sorry.-W. G. Sibley.

FRIGHTENING

"Lady," said Mike, "wo,uld you lend me a cake of soap?"

"Do you mean to tell me that you are really wanting to use some soap?"

"Sure, lady. Me pardner's got de hiccups an' I want to scare him."

JUST NICE FRIENDLY REMARKS

Pearl: "ft must be three years since I saw you last. My, how you've changed! I hardly know you, you've aged so much."

Ruby: "Well, I wouldn't have recognized you in a thousand years, either. It was that dress that identified you."

TROUBLES AND JOYS

Put a magnifying glass over your joys, so that all who see you will be able to bear witness to them. But your troubles, pack them' tight, and hide them aw?/, so that none who see or hear you will realize that you possess such things.

T\,yO SCOTS FISHING

Two Scotchmen went fishing. They made a deal that the first one to catch a fish should buy the drinks. One of them got a bite that nearly broke his pole in two, but he wouldn't try to pull it up. The other had no such trouble. He had never baited his book.

THRIFT

To save something each month develops self-control. This power frees one from fear and gives abiding courage. Such moral strength is of far greater value than the mere possession of the money that has been saved.

Mrs. Griswold Seriously Injured NRA Approvc Stumpage Values

A regrettable accident occurred in San Francisco on the evening of May 5 when the automobile of Arthur B. Griswold, manager of the San Francisco office of C. D. Johnson Lumber Company, was struck by another car at the intersection of Buchanan Street and Golden Gate Avenue and overturned, pinning underneath Mr. and Mrs. Griswold and three friends who were riding with them.

Mrs. Griswold sustained a serious back injury, and was removed to the Children's Hospital after treatment at the Emergency Hospital. Mr. Griswold and the others were treated for cuts and bruises but were not detained. Fortunately for all, the overturned car was immediately righted by men who were at the scene of the accident, thus forestalling the certainty of fire. Mrs. Griswold was able to be taken home May N, and is making good progress.

MOVE MILL TO BIG BEAR

The El Monte Building Material Co. has moved its mill equipment from the plant at El Monte, Calif., to the Big Bear district where they have a track of timber.

H. S. MURPHY VISITS CALIFORNIA

H. S. Murphy, general manag'er, Pacific Mutual Door Co., Tacoma, left San Francisco for his home city May 2l after a business trip to Los Angeles and San Francisco.

VISITS MAIN OFFICE

R. J. "Joe" Blitch, traffic manag'er, The Pacific Lumber Co., Scotia, was a recent visitor to the company's main office in San Francisco.

WHOLE SA LE LUMEER-3l}$P

W. R. CHAMBIRLIN & C(}.

California Sates Agentr for

Polson Lumber & Shingle Co.

Hoquiam, Varh.

Anderron a Middl*on Lumber Co. Aberdeen, Verh.

Prcuty Lumber & Bor Comprny Varrenton, Orcgon

Opcrating Stecmerc

Washington, D. C., May 4.-The National Recovery Administration has approved for inclusion in cost-protection price computations, the following schedule of prices for standing timber, effective under the Lumber Code unti! July l,1934:

Hardwood Subdivision ....

North Central Hardwood Subdivision (Selected stumpage)

North Central Hardwood Subdivision (Mixed ungraded stumpage)

Northeastern Hardwood Subdivision

Northern Hemlock Division

Northern Pine Division .. Redwood Division

Northeastern Softwood Division

The following schedule for.the West Coast Logging and Lumber Division was approved three weeks ago:

Only minor changes have been made from the schedules issued October 3O. Prices for the North Central Hardwood Subdivision are additions to the old list; the figure for the Northeastern Hardwood Subdivision has been reduced from $5.66 to $5.51; figurbs for Douglas fir and Western red cedar have been slightly lowered and those for West Coast hemlock and Sitka spruce slightly raised.

rnade by RY-LOCK COMPANY LTD. SAN LEANDRO, CALIIORNIA

Great National Gatherings of Three Lumber lnstitutions in Chicago

Lumber Code Authority, Nationol Lumber Manufocturers Associotion and American Forest Products Industries to Hold Annual Meetings June 11-14

Washington, D. C., May 14.-The National Lumber Manufacturers Association, American Forest Products Industries, Inc., and the Lumber Code Authority will hold their annual meetings in Chicago, June 11-14. The Code Authority, however, will adjourn its meeting to reconvene in Washington on June 15.

The National Control Committee of the LCA will meet in Washington on June 4 and continue in session until June 9, when it will recess for the Chicago meetings. It is expected that there will be a full attendance of members of the Authority and of Division and Subdivision agencies at both the meeting of the Authority and of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association" according to an official notice sent out by C. W. Bahr, acting executive ofificer of the Authority.

All of the meetings in Chicago will be held at the Drake Hotel.

The Lumber Code Authority will meet at 1O a.m. on Monday, June ll, and after a short executive session will open the doors to the public for an absolutely free and unrestricted discussiqn of the Lumber Code. the Lumber Code Authority, and the administration and operation of the latter.

It is the purpose of the Authority, Mr. Bahr says, to do everything within its power to have every kind and degree of criticism of the Authority and its management brought into the open at this meeting. No matter what the nature or the severity of a complaint, it will be respectfully received and frankly discussed. The Authority has gone so far as to have notices printed in the style of legal advertisements in the lumber trade press which state that this meeting on June 11 is for the purpose "of hearing any interested person who has complaints, criticisms, suggestions, comments or commendation in respect of the lumber and timber products code and of the manner in which it is being administered." The advertisement continues as follows:

"In calling this open session it is the desire of the Authority to secure, as nearly as may be, a reflection of the views of interested parties concerning the Code and its operation. If required, the Authority will be divided into several committees so that every person may have an opportunity to present his views to the meeting."

Democratic Procedure

After the meeting a special committee will analyze and digest the testimony.,and present the burden of it to the Authority with recommendation for appropriate action. It is of special significance in connection with this un-

heard of candor of procedure by a code authority that the members of the Authority who are appointed by the National Recovery Administration and also their advisors have been particularly invited to attend the open meeting. The members of the Code Authority and its admi4istrative staff are so convinced, according to Mr. Bahr, of the bona fides of the Code and the Authority as well as of its administrative divisions, that they are certain that a free and frank discussion cannot help proving to all concerned that the code is a blessing to the forest industries and that its administration strives for the general good without the least thought of particular favor.

On the llth there will be a meeting of the Committee on Recommendations and Nominations of the N.L.M.A., coincidentally with that of the American Forest Products Industries, Inc.

General public meetings of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association and Arnerican Forest Products Industries, Inc., will be held on the 12th. These meetings will give unrestricted opportunity for discussion of all subjects of interest to the forest industries, including also code matters.

On the 13th the directors of N.L.M.A. will meet in the morning, while those of A.F.P.I. will meet in the afternoon.

Markets Are Needed as Well as Orderly Marketing

In the invitation, which he is issuing to leading lumbermen of the country to attend this group of meetings, Wilson Compton, Secretary and Manager of the N.L.M.A., emphasizes the fact that the National Industrial Recovery Act, the Lumber Code, and N.R.A. present unprecedented opportunities to the forest industries, the utilization of which may shape the future of these industries for good or evil and that it is the obvious duty of every lumber manufacturer to attend. It is expected, according to MrCompton, that the problem of the future of the forest industries organization will be examined at length and that steps will be taken to unite these industries in taking the fullest possible advantage of their present exceptional natutal and artificial opportunities.

Emphasis will be placed on the need of trade promotion -especially as it is feared that the regulatory success of the Code has somewhat diverted attention from the fact that orderly marketing is of little use if there is no market"

"These national industry meetings, says Wilson Compton, promise to be as important in the history of the industry as the huge meeting a year ago at which the industry was committed to a Code of Fair Competition. Since then the industry has made progress. But its problems have multiplied."

BT]YDBS9 GUIIIB

SA1T FBAITOTSCO

LUMBER

Ghamberlin & Co., W. R.' ,th Fltr, Ftfe Bldg. ............DOugI* 970

Dolbcer & Carron Lmber Co., ?t0 Mlrch.nts Erchange Bldg..'....SUtter 7156

Hammond Lumber Co-

ttO Samne 3t.....,.......,.....'DOuglu 33t9

Holmec Eurcka Lmbcr Co., 1505 Firuclal Center Bldg. .GArfield l92l

Loop Luber Cmpany' Ft. of r6th St. ...............,....MArket ltll

Long-Bell Lmber Sder Corpoatlon' 625 Markct Stct,,...."..."..GArficld ttSt

Mulligu & Co., \f,'. J., 520 Montgmery St. ...,,...,....'GArfield 6t90

LUMBER

McComick, Chac. R., Lumber Co., 16l Market Street ............'....DOuglag 2561

More Mill & Lubcr Co.' 525 Market Stret .........'...'...EXbrok 0173

Paci6c Lmber Co., Thc 10o BBh Stret ....,..'.'.......'GArfield lltl

Red River Luber Co., 315 Mm&rck Blds. .............GArfield 0022

Santa Fe Lmber Co., 16 Califomia Stret ...............KEamy 1074

Schafer Bru. Luber & Shingle Co" r20E Fife Bldc. ...............'... "Sutter l?71

Sudden & Chrirteuon, 310 Sugme Stret ...,...,.,..,,.GArficld 2El6

Unlon Lumber Co.. Crckr Building '.SUtter Cl70

LUMBER, Hill & Mctoo' lnc., Dcanirm St. WL.rt ......."...'.ANdwr l0??

T. P. HoSen Cq, 2nd & Alle Stctr.'...........Glcnqrt tt0l

HARDs'OODS

Strablc Hardvood Cc, 537 FiBt StrGGt ...............TErD|Gbrr taaa

LUMBER

Vu Arc&le-Hmic Lumbcr Co., Inc., Fif& & Brarm Streets..,.......GArfield t@

Wendling-Nathan Co., U0 Mukct Stret,,.,.,......,.....SUttor lil63

Weyerhaeucer Salee Co., 140 Califmia Stret .,............GArfic|d t9?r

DOORS AND PLYWOOD Nicolai Dor Salcc Co., 3045 Uth Str.rt ...... .....,.. ....MIsl6 7t20 Wheler-Orgood Salec Ccpontio, 3015 10th St.,..........,,.........Mlsio ?9!l

CREOSOTED LUMBER_POLES-PILING_ TIES

McComlclr, Chu. R., Lmbcr Co., 461 Mskct Stret ..,..............DOug|ar 25Gr

LOS ANGDLDS

LUMAER

Boo&etrnr Bumr Lunbcr Co, Chrnbcr ol Cmre Btdr.'....PRdFGt lzll

Chubcdh & Co., W. R, tlt Wert Nlnth SL ............'.'Tuclrd ull

Dolboor & Cano Lunbcr Co., {!t Shrlt Bulldlnl.....'...'.. ....' .VAndLc llll2

Hohcr Eurdc Lmbcr Cq, ?rr-7r2 Archltlctr Bldr. ...........Mutrd ttn

Hmod Lrubrl CG, 20f0 !h Ahncde St. ........'....PRcpcct ?t?f

Howr, A. L?00 Sc Lr Bnr Aw. ........,.......Y(B rraa

Lrvrme-Phlltpr Lunbcr Co., 33 Pctnolcun llocurftb Blds..,.PRaFct t2, Ld3-B!tl Lunbc Selc Corecatlo, ?2t Pctrolm S.curldc Blds....PRo.D6t taat

McCmlcL, Cher. R- Lunbcr Co. lr? Wot ,th St. ...............,TRjn|ty 5Z{r

MuUisu & Cc, W. Jllt.W-t tth St. ...,,,.,..........VAadrc {{tl

LUMBER

Padfic Lubc Co. ltc ?!C So. I: Bru Arc......,.....'.,...YOrk Uat

Prttan-Bltna LuDbcr Cc, 52f E. 5th SL ....................VAndiLa 2!21

Rcd Rlrcr Lunbc Co, ?02 E. Slm ...AXrldrc lCTl

Sute Fc lubcr Co' $r Ft![d.l Cotr Bldg..,,......TRinlty ttar

Schri* Bn. Lunbcr ll Shlrgh Cq' {8! Pctrolcgn Securtdor Bldg....PRcFGt tl?t

Suddcn & Chrlrtonro, G{t Berd of Tn& Blds. .........TRlntty ttaa

Unim Lubcr Co., Irrc Mctrrrc Bldt. ..............TRh|t7 zun

\ys.rltnt-l{athu Cal 70 Sc Ia Bu An .................York ffat

WcycrLaau 3:16 Co., tO Pctrlcu limltiar Bldr.,..PRoorct 5Et0

CREOSOTED LUMBER_POII,SI-PILINGTIES McCdnfck, Chae. R., r '.-lv Cor uZ W6t ttb St. ...............TRb|t' 5Zr

TIARDWOODS

Coml W. E.. Luber Ca, ini a. rru ss ................'.PRaDct slll

Hemod LuDbGt Co. 20lO Sc Aludr St.............PRo.D.Gt tUl

trurhlh, C. J. czS pttrelcum Scorlticr Bldg.... 'PRo.D.ct lrtl

Stuto. E. J.. & So. *a' E.tt tllh St..t .......'..'.'Axrld3a f2ll

SAIIH-DOORII-MILL}\'ORK

Homd f.unbcr Ca'

2clO Sc Alrn:de St......'.......PRdFGt ?Ul

Kochl Jno. W- & So+ Gi Sc ffyin SL .........,...'...ANrdur ror

Rcd Riv* LuDha Co. ?02 E. Slaw .'AXrldro lOtt

Whecis-Oagood Salc Ccpcetfql l0tl Sq Bredmy .......,..'..'..PRoFct 5Cl0

PANELS AND PLYWOOD

Callfmla PlDl & Vm Co. 95i So. Alasnda SL ...,.,........TR|ntty 06?

Coeer, W. E., Luber Co.' mi E. rtth St. ..,...'..........PRooGGt Sltl

Whelcr-Olgod SaIc Ccpcatict' lo:tl So. Brodway ........,.......PRcpect 5tl3

PANEI.S

Califmia Builden Supply Cq. 501 2!th .Awnue ANdovcr lltt

At Builders' Servtce for 40 Years

A great oak from a little acorn!

Forty-odd years ago M. William Davis, widely known as "Carload" because of his record as a lumber salesman, established a small hardwood business in San Francisco. Today the Davis Hardwood Company, at Bay and Mason streets, occupies an important place among the city's major industries. Its offices, warehouses, mills and yards cover an entire block. It imports woods from the four corners of the earth and markets them, or products made from them, throughout the coast states, in Nevada and Utah, in Alaska and even in Hawaii and some of the South Sea Islands. Since the death of the founder, a year or so ago, the enterprise has been managed by his two sons, James and William.

The Davis company handles about 100 types of hardwoods ranging from lignum vitae, so heavy that it won't float, to balsa wood, so light that a youngster can tote a good-sized timber. The list includes teak from Siam, mahogany from Central America and the Philippines, iron bark from Australia, rosewood from Africa, zebra wood from Brazil and Africa, and all the domestic varieties. These woods go into the making of thousands of articles from plow beams to fine furniture and objects of art.

Davis Hardwood Company Important in San Francisco's Industrial Life

The firm specializes in all kinds of veneer work for residences, clubs, hotels, apartment houses, banks, office structures, public buildings, liners and yachts. All the teakwood finishing and veneer in Templeton Crocker's yacht, the Zaca, is the product of the company's mills. There is a Davis-made oak door in the palace of the Emperor of Japan-a door for which a Japanese battleship came all the way to San Francisco. And other examples of the concern's handiworlc are,to be found in hundreds of buildings in the Bay area and up and down the coast.

The veneering process requires a week of painstaking effort. First thin strips of hardwood are perfectly matched as to grain and taped together to form sheets of the de-

sired size. These are carefully glued to "cores" of the same dimensions, the grain of which runs crossways to the grain of the hardwood. This is to prevent warping and increase strength. Next the panels are placed in a hydraulic press and kept for 24 hours under 100O pounds pressure. From there they go to a drying chamber to stay three days in a temperature of 95 degrees. Then they are "finished off" between drums covered with sandpaper, and are ready for delivery.

Erhibit building of Davis Ilardwood Company. It's constructed of Philippine mahogany. Below, veneering ex- pert operating motor-drivcn glue-spreading machine.

Electricity simplifies and speeds practically all of these operations in the Davis plant, to say nothing of insuring uniformly perfect results. It operates the taping machine and the device which applies the glue, the hydraulic press .and the sanding machine, the cranes which move the panels from one department to another. Also it heats the drying chamber.

Another demonstration of the versatility of Pacific Service.

(Reprinted from. P. G. and, E. Progress, May, 1934)

Corpton Resigns From NRA East B.y Meeting June 11

Wilson Cornpton, manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, resigned his NRA official post as Chief of Trade Associations and of the Chairman of the Code Authority Organization Committee, on April 17. Mr. Compton will continue his special advisory connection with the Industrial Advisory Board. In his letter to Mr. Compton accepting his resignation, General Johnson said: "I hdve made it a rule not to urge anybody to stay on this sacrificial job one moment longer than their personal affairs would permit. You have done a great job. I regret your going but you best know your own circumstances."

Lloyd E. Graybiel, assistant vice-president, American Trust Co., San Francisco, will be the speaker of the evening at the next dinner meeting of East Bay Club No. 39 to be held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Monday evening, June 11, at 6:09 p.m. His subject will be "National Money Troubles."

N. H. HUEY VISITS SAN DIEGO

N. H. (Hawk) Huey, Phoenix, Ariz., was a recent visitor at San Diego, where he spent a few days fishing. Mrs. Huey made the trip with him.

Ten Years Ago Today

From the Files of The Californio Lumber Merchant, June 1, 1924

The market editorial showed cargo lumber movement into Los Angeles Harbor for five months: January, 1924, 148,595,000 feet ; Febru ary, 142,435,000 ; March, 143,575,000 ; April,' 134,430,000 ; May, 12O,000,000.

It showed building permits for the first five months of 1924 as follows: January, $13,158,000; February, $16,083,412; March, $17,279,M; April, $13,224,W0; May, $9,000,000.

Forty lumber carriers are laid up at San Francisco. Low prices and decreased demands noted throughout California. Cutting orders are quoted at $20, and randoms at $18. l% OP lath are quoted "l $O; ,r

An editorial signed by Jack Dionne warns against too much "hard times" talk during *Presidential election year.

The Millwork Institute of California met at the Arlington Hotel, Pasadena, May 23 and 24, H. W. Gaetjen, of San Francisco, President, in the chair; H. T. Didesch, Secretary. Directors of Institute, H. W. Gaetjen, E. R. Maule, A. W. Bernhauer, W. J. Glasson, D. W. Edwards, Jo. Shepard, W. F. O'Keeffe, and Lester Pierce.

Mr. Didesch talked on cost finding methods. H. P. Dixon urged all millwork manufacturers to join the institute and join in its operations and efforts. E. R. Maule talked on cost finding. A. W. Morrow, of the Hammond Lumber Company, read a paper on a cost system. W. F. O'Keeffe, of Stockton, explained his system of cost finding on piece work. 'Hubert J. Quinn read a paper on Full Mill Bids.

Bay District lumberm; ;r. *plrnnirrg a summer golf tournament, date not yet'set. Bob McCullough, Charlie Wilson and Bruce Lemon*.r; "l the plans committee.

There is a picture and story of the new office of the Stanislaus Lumber ao*O:.t* at Modesto.

West Oregon Lumber Company, Linnton, Oregon, announce that Wendling-Nathan will represent them in

Northern California. and A. L. Hoover and E. U. Wheelock, in Southern California.

Long-Bell plans to ,,uJ, olr,*-ill at Longview, Washington, July 1, and announces preparations. *rt*

Story of monthly meeting of San Joaquin Valley Lumbermen's Club at Fresno, May 24, with President Jack Ferger in the chair. R. C. Parker, W. F. Baird, F. D. Martin, Alberta Ruth Brey, and J. G. Martin were speakers'

Elmore King reports that Gus Russell has taken up golf. Gus Russell reports that Elmore King told a lie. **1.

The Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club met May 17 in Sacramento. President L. H. Chapman was in the chair. Walter Baker, Harold Cloughley, E. L. Gray and W. E. Seavy furnished a program of entertainment. ,F**

Herman L. Rosenberg staged a meeting of the Sales Managers Association of Los Angeles on May 19, and acted as chairman of the program, on which Mr. Rosenberg himself, C. J. Laughlin, E. R. Maule, Fred E. Golding, Phil B. Hart and Parson Peter B. Simpkin were the principal speakers.

H. G. Larrick hu, t.ft*tnJ J"., L.r*ner Company, of Santa Ana, to operate the Solano Beach Lumber Company, at Solano Beach. Walter S. Spicer replaced him with Barr. ***

The seventh annual meeting of The Lumbermen's Club of Arizona was held at Douglas, Arizona, May 16 and 17. J. J. Halloran, President, was in the chair. John A. Johnson talked on "Arizona Pine." E. U. Wheelock spoke on the benefits of association work. Parson Peter A. Simpkin delivered an address. Sylvester Weaver, of Los Angeles, was a principal speaker. The annual banquet took place

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Sales of Lumber Increased bv Use of Metal Connectors

The claim is made that Teco Timber Joint Connectors are the most important development in the past 25 years in the field of timber framed construction. and lumber retailers naturally want to know what they are, how thev are used. and how they will increase the use of wood.

Metal connectors are of trvo kinds, a toothed ring (Alligator), and a split ring.

The purpose of metal connectors is to increase the strength of framed timber construction above that which can be obtained by using nails or bolts. Generally speaking the toothed ring type when used in pairs with a bolt doubles the strength of the bolted timber joint, and the split ring type makes a joint rvhich is four times as strong as the bolted joint.

The use of connectors makes possible very much stronger structures built of wood than have previously been possible, thereby increasing the field for lumber. They also make possible the more economical use of i'r'ood.

Several years ago the National Committee on Wood Utilization brought to this country from Europe various types of metal connectors rvhich had been developed there during and since the r,var. These connectors were tested by the Forest Products Laboratory, rvhich subsequently pultlished the results o{ the tests in a booklet entitled "Modern Connectors for Timber Construction". (Obtainable from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C., at 15 cents per copy).

The National Lumber Manufacturers Association, appreciating the possibilities for the increased use of lumber which these connectors presented, has acquired the patent rights for the,United States for several of the most efficient types of connectors. The two types above mentioned, which have proved to be the most popular, are now being manufactured and sold by the Timber Engineering Co., a subsidiary of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

Each field office of the National is also an agency for

the Timber Engineering Co., and accepts orders subject to confirmation by the headquarters office in Washington, D. C. Orders are accepted only when it is known that the connectors will be properly and efficiently used.

A. C. Horner, consulting engineer in the San Francisco office for the National Association and for the Timber Engineering Co., asked by The California Lumber Merchant as to what increase in the use of lumber might be attributed to connectors, quoted a list of 28 structures in California in which connectors have been used since last August. These include roof trusses in commercial buildings, theaters, schools, highway bridges, gravel bunkers, sprinkler tank towers, and various other types of frame construction. Approximately 38,000 connectors have been distributed

through the San Francisco office since last July. A supply of connectors is maintained in Berkeley, Calif., to fill rush orders, but large orders are usually shipped direct from the manufacturing plants in Ohio.

From the amount of interest shown by engineers, architects and contractors, Mr. Horner believes that more and more uses will be found for wood because of the fact that connectors will make its use even more desirable and economical than it has been in the past.

Council Meets in Cotati Brix Logging Co. Starts

California Lumbermen's Council met in Cotati. Sonoma County, Saturday, May 19. President George Ley, Santa Cruz Lumber Co., presided. Harry Lake, president, California Retail Lumbermen's Association. attended the meeting.

Brix Logging Co., Knappton, Wash., started operating their mill May 1. This mill, formerly known as Knappton Mills & Lumber Co., has been represented in California for the past 2O years by Trower Lumber Co., San Francisco. P. H. Fortune is sales manager.

Showing Split Ring Type ol Connectors

Ten Years Ago Today

(Continued from Page 23) in Old Mexico at Agua Prieta, with Jack Halloran as toastmaster. Joe Tardy was one of the most active delegates.

Ezra T.Stimson, ."pitiirJrrl lornb.rman, died in San Francisco, aged 62.

The Sun Lumber co-j"r,], .,lnr.n recenfly bought out the Woods-Beekman Lumber Company, in Beverly Hills, have moved into handsome new offices. Frank Burnaby is president and manager.

The Napa Lumber c"; #. fr. ,n,u,",,, Manager, has bought the H. C. Thompson yard at Calistoga, and placed Jim Clark in charge.

Capt. Robert Dollar "alr.lr.l the San Francisco HooHoo Club May 22 on his early lumber experiences. president R. A. Hiscox presided.

John W. Koehl & Son,*Lol ,irg"t.., announce the purchase of a piece of property 150 by 12A {.eet adjoining their millwork plant, and plans for immediately constructing a two-story brick warehouse thereon.

Fred. H. Conner sold his interest in the Sacramento Lumber Company, at Sacramcnto, to L. H. Chapman.

The Tynan Lumber Company, of Salinas, announce that they will open a yard at once in Oakland.

Will Open Pamudo Warehouse in Los Angeles

Hugh S. Murphy, 'Western manager of the Pacific Mutual Door Company, Tacoma, and vice president of the Olympia Veneer Company, Olympia, spent a few days in Los Angeles last week. While in Los Angeles Mr. Murphy'made an arrangement to establish a Pamudo branch distributing warehouse there similar to the Eastern warehouses of the Pacific Mutual Door Company located in many large Eastern distributing centers.

E. C. Nordness, who has represented the Pacific Mutual Door Company in the Los Angeles market for a number of years, will be in charge of the warehouse. The pacific Mutual Door Company are exclusive distributors of the plywood manufactured by the Olympia Veneer Company, one of the oldest and best known plywood plants in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in Fir, Spruce and Cottonwood plywood. Stock will be shipped to Los Angeles immediately for distribution out of the Pamudo warehouse.

While in San Francisco Mr. Murphy spent a day with White Brothers, who are exclusive distributors of Pamudo plywood for Northern California and the Bay district. White Brothers report a very satisfactory business in pamudo plywood and are very optimistic as to the outlook for the coming year.

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Much of this information is exclusive, being gathered from sources that are not available to others. Chief among these are the Tracer which gives us the ledger experiences of shippers not given as a reference by the customer, and the thousands of Delinquent (Jnpaid Accounts reports received every month from manufacturers and wholesalers throughout the country.

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\Tooden Box Ass'n Meets in San Francisco

The Second t934 Tri-Annual meeting of the National Wooden Box Association, Pacific Division, was held at the Hotel St. Francis, San Francisco' on Thursday and Friday, May 10-11, 1934. Walter G. Hyman, president of the Pacific Division, presided at the meeting.

The industry's code, grading rules and specifications, second hand containers, truck delivery charges, car strips and bracing, substandard material, minimum wages for women in California, cost figures, fruit and vegetable shook, industrial containers and cannery shook were among the subjects discussed.

Robert L. Ferral, Floyd Hart, W. G. Hyman, Walter S. Johnson and G. A. Krause were elected delegates to represent the Pacific Division at the meeting of the National Wooden Box Association to be held at Washington during June. Alternate delegates elected were: Frank N. Blagen, A. W. Pinger, R. P. Rodolph, J. W. Rodgers and Herman Paine.

Floyd Hart and W. G. Hyman were elected delegates to represent the Pacific Division at the meeting of the Federation of Wooden Package Associations to be held in Washington during June. G. A. Krause and J. W. Rodgers were elected alternate delegates.

JEFF CORKRAN

C. G. "J"fr" Corkran, well salesman, was a recent visitor district.

VISITS S. F. known Sacramento lumber to the San Francisco Bay

Yard Changes

Tom Hubbard. of Hubbard & Carmichael Bros., San Jose, has purchased the San Jose yard of Tilden Lumber & Mill Co., and will operate this yard as the Hubbard Lumber Co.

LUMBER YARD FOR SALE

Los Angeles and Southern California lumber yards for sale. Address Box C-480, Care California Lumber lvterchant.

Offers New Typ" o[ Interior Finigh

A new type of finish for interior paneling, furniture and industrial products, making available true facsimile reproductions of rare and costly woods and marbles at reasonable cost, has been placed on the market by The Celotex Company.

Called Celotex Di-Noc Finish, this product offers, in addition to beautifully accurate full-color reproductions, a degree of durability comparable to the fine finishes used on present-day automobiles.

Celotex Di-Noc Finish will be offered in choice reProductions of carefully selected cuts of materials such as butt walnut, Claro burl, crotch mahogany, Prima Vera, hardwood, straight grain walnut and French walnut, Verdi antique marble and black and gold marble.

The finish will be available on Celotex Hard Board and Cemesto Board. It also may be obtained, for special purposes, on asbestos cement board, plywood and metal. Finish and backing, as an integral unit, are furnished ready to apply. No finishing work is required on the job..

Joing Globe Lumber Co.

E. W. Hemmings has joined the sales staff of the Globe Lumber Company, Ltd., of Los Angeles, and is connected with their Ponderosa and sugar pine department. He is calling on the industrial trade. Mr. Hemmings is well known to the Southern California lumber trade and' has been connected with the lumber business in Los Angeles for a long period.

Lumbermenls Round-Up Brings

Out Big Crowd

The Lumbermen's Round-Up sponsored by Lumbermen's Post, No. 4O3, of the American Legion, was held at the Hamilton Club, Los Angeles, on Friday'evening, May 25, and brought out a big crowd, about 200 attending. The dinner was followed by an entertainment which included several musical and dancing numbers.

The Piedmont has been sold to son will manage

The Diamond Match Company bought the yard of Smilie Lumber Co., 'Walnut Creek, May 23. branch of the Tilden Lumber & Mill Co. the Piedmont Lumber Co. Tom Jacobthe vard.

The committee that arranged for the party included Harold W. Brown, chairman; Les Cunningham, Leo Hubbard. Tom Tomlinson, Fred Morehouse, Herman Rosenberg and Ed. Biggs.

\THEN YOU SELL

STRUCTURAT

Booth-Kelly Douglas Fir, the Association grade and trade mark certify to your customers the quality of the stock you handle. Buildere quit guessing about what they're buying, arrd buy where they know what they're getting.

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General Salea Office: Eugene, Ore.

Mills: Wendling, Ore., Springfield, Ore.

CALIFORN IA REPRESENTATIVES

Northcrn California

Hill & Morton, Inc,

Dcnniron St. Wharf

OeLlend ANdover 1077

SUDDIN & CHRISTINS()N

Lumber and Shippins

7th Floor, Alaska.Commercial Bldg.

310 Sansome Street

San Francisco

AGENTS

American MilI Co.

Hoquiam Lumber & Shingle Co.

Hulbert Mill Co. -

Villapa Flarbor Lumber Mills

STEAMERS

- Aberdeen, Vash.

- Floquiam, Vash.

- Aberdeen, Vash.

- Raymond, IVash.

Edna Sanitam

Trinidad

Barbara Cates

Dorothy Cahill

Edna Christenson

Southcrn Glifor:nir

E. J. Stanton & Son

2050 E. 3Eth St., Lor Angclcr AXridge 92ll

Redwood arrd Fir

Jane Christeruon

Annie Christenson

Edwin Christenson

Catherine G. Sudden

Eleanor Christenson

Charles Christenson

Branch Oflices

LOS ANGELES

630 Board of Trade Building

SEATTLE

National Bank of Commerce Bldg.

PORTLAND

20O Henry Bldg.

llarnmond Lumber Compang

And back of it all a personal responsibility for standards of qual- ity that have been identified with Santa Fe for a generation.