Ten Years Ago Today

From the Files of The California Lumber Merchant, June 1 , 1925

The lumber, sash, door and millwork salesmen of the San Diego territory met at San Diego on the evening of May 11 and organized the Building Material Salesmen's Club, The officers elected were : Arthur E. Scott, president; Wallace Walters, vice president, and S. A. Paddock, secretary-treasurer.

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J, W. Sommerville of Gulfport, Miss., prominent lumber and shipping man in the Gulf States, was a San Francisco visitor. He was the guest of J. O. Elmer, well known San Fran'cisco lumberman.

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The Millwork Institute of California announced the postponement of their quarterly meeting from May 22 and 23 to June 12 and 13. The meeting will be held at Fresno.

The two day joint meeting of the San Joaquin Valley Lumbermen's Club, Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club and the Central Valley Lumbermen's Club, s,cheduled for May 22 and 23 at Fresno, was postponed at the last minute on aocount of the heavy rain that fell in the mountains making the automobile trip into the Sugar Pine woods impossible. Se'cretary Frank Minard announced that another date would soon be set.

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Max Cook was the principal speaker at a meeting of the Pacific Coast Section of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, at the Clark Hotel, Los Angeles, on May D. He talked on "Farm Structures-Maximum Results at Minimum Costs."

East Bay Hoo-Hoo cr,i, il".-g9 will hold a concatenation on Saturday evening, June 24. A large class of Kittens will be initiated

Knute Rinde and Joseph F. Restine of San Diego have been San Francisco visitors lvhere they spent a few days ,calling on the lumber trade. They were guests of Henry Hink of the Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co. at the Hoo-Hoo Club No.9 meeting on May 14.

R. G. Ifis,cox, San Francisco wholesaler, has returned from a two months' trip in the East. His trip included stops at Denver, Chicago, New Y,ork, Kansas City, Boston, St. Louis and Fort Worth.

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Ed. Culnan was'chairman at the meeting of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club on May 21. With the assistance of several of the members who took part in the cast, Ed put on a one-act play which he originated, titled "selling Jury Service."

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LeRoy H. Stanton left May 15 on a three months' Euro- pean trip where he Continent. visit the various countries on the

Charles M. Conant, Los Angeles realtv man, addressed the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club on May 14. Jim Chase was chairman of the meeting.

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Sixteen Kittens were initiated at the Bay District HooIfoo Concatenation held at Marquard's San Fran,cisco, on the evening of May 19. 125 sat down to dinner, and during the dinner hour "Marquard's Revue" put on several fine entertainment numbers.

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George C. Pardee of Oakland, ex-g'overnor of California, was the speaker of the day at the East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club meeting on May 15. Mr. Pardee, who is also a former mayor of Oakland, talked on the $39,000,000 water bond issue that was passed at the recent Oakland municipal election.

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The Arizona Lumbermen's Club held their annual meeting at Nogales on I\Iay 15 and 16. J. B. Campbell of Nogales was ele,cted president, E. L. O'Malley of Phoenix was elected vice-president and John H. Wood of Bisbee was named secretary. Flagstaff was chosen as the convention city for the 1926 annual meeting.

Susanville was the scene of a great gathering of HooHoo members on Saturday evening, May 9, when the members of the Westwood Club were the guests of the Susanville Club at a dinner. Nineteen Kittens from Westwood and thirty Kittens from Susanville were initiated at a concatenation following dinner.

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R. A. Hiscox was chairman of the meeting at the regular luncheon of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9 at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, on May 14. Professor F. E. Barr, Polytechnic High School, San Francisco, was the speaker of the day.

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The Ar,cadia yard of the W. J. Bettingen Lumber Co. was sold on May 8 to the Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Co. of Los Angeles.

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W. C. Ruegnitz was elected president of the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen at the thirteenth semiannual meeting of the board of directors at Portland, Ore., on May 18. Mr. Ruegnitz has served as executive se,cretary of the 4L since 1921. He succeeds Norman F. Coleman who resigned to accept the presidency of Reed College at Portland.

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The monthly meeting of the Central Valley Lumbermen's Club was held at Stockton on May 9. President W.

H. Falconbury presided. The business session was devoted to a continuation of the dis,cussion on the "Code of Ethics." ***

George H. Brown of Oakland, well known East Bay lumberman, is in the East on a combined business and pleasure trip. He plans to spend a ferv weeks in Chicago and New York. *

Junius Brown of New York has been visiting in Los and San Francisco. While in San Fran,cisco, he attended the Bay District Hoo-Hoo Concatenation that was held at Marquard's on May 19 where he met many of his old San Francisco lumbermen friends. *

The L. W. Blinn Lumber Company, Los Angeles, will erect a new lumber dock at Berths 2N and 20GB, Los Angeles Harbor. The dock will be 730 feet long and 78 feet wide. It adjoins two other berthing spaces the company has had in operation at .*"TO;r of years.

The Ewauna Box Company, Klamath Falls, Ore., is adding five more kilns to its drying plant, which together with the ten kilns now operating, will bring the 'capacity of the drying plant to between seventy-five and ninety thousand feet depending upon the thickness of lumber cut and shifts run. The additional capacity of the kilns will more than care for the drying of the shop and better grades and all rush orders of common to be put through without slowing up operations.

30,0001000 Feet ol Lumber Required For Ninth Corps Area CCC €amps

Invitations to bid on 75 CCC,camps to be installed in the Ninth Corps Area, consisting of the States of Montana, Idahq Washington, Oregon, California, Utah and Nevada, were sent May 18 to about 1@ lumber manufacturers, fabricators, retailers and others.

Each camp consists of 13 demountable buildings, and requires about 200,000 feet of lumber.

Previous bids per ,camp of 13 buildings in the South averaged between $10,000 and $11,000 per camp.

Bids are returnable on June 3, 1935, and delivery of the fabricated building sections to railhead is set for July I'

It is understood that enrollment of new men for the CCC will begin on June 15. A total of 300,000 additional men will be enrolled in the entire country.

Bids for materials including lumber for so-called winter camps, of whi,ch there will also be 75, ate to be sent out from District Quartermasters' offices in the near future.

Total lumber to be used in these new CCC camps is expected to approximate 30,000,000 feet, or more than 1,000 carloads.

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