HAT can you use to advantage of Pacific Nolthwest lumber, or le-manufactured lumber products ?
Whatever it is, Tacoma-"T'he Lumber Capital of America"-carr supply it, quickly, completely and econom'ically.
Ask Tacoma for dimension or special orders in Douglas l,'ir, \4restern Red Cedar or \Arest Coast llemlock; fot remanufaetured products such as doors, veneel panels, columns, wood pipe, broom and mop handles, cross-arms and conduit, shingles, box shooks, sash, moulding, ply wood, boxes, crates, cases, tank and silo stock, tubs, pails, kits, etc.
Tacoma is the pulse and center of a tremendous lumber-producing area. The daily cut of the Tacoma District would provide modern, firreroom houses for more than 400 families.
Tacoma manufactures more forest products than any other city in America. Four great railroads serve Tacoma's needs. fler water shipping facilities are unexcelled. Situated on one of the five great harbors of thc world she is equipped with modern lumber docks and handling equipment of the first order.
Send vour orders to Tacoma. Tacoma manufacturers can, and u'ill, give you immediate attention and accurate service-?s'ith speed!
To hazte gour inquiries reach the entire lumber manufactnrino interests of Tacoma and, Taco'rna l)istrict, zarite or zsire at on,ce. Sia\1-page, board-bound book, liberallg illustrated,, d,escribino'I'acoma'$ lumber industry and, glioing directory of manufacturers, tlrcir prod,ucts and specialties, sent free on request.
T.ACOMA LUMBERMEN'S CLUB, Ta.o-a, Warhington
You will 6nd in this newest Richard, son roof an exclusive new coloringopal-to add still greater beauty to your nome.
The opal roof is formed by a skillful blending on each shingle of the two most beautiful Richardson colors in elate,weathered brown and iadeqreen. Applied just as they coml froh the bundle, these new_ opal shingles give to your roof a colorine like-thai of suniight fi lt€rine throuefi' dancingleaves freih 6
popular when applied in combination withother Richardson shingles of iade green,tile red, or blor|.pearl. In fact, there is a Multicrome Roof to har, monize with every color scheme, and to please every customer's taste.
The new colors, opal and weath, ered brown, are used only on the Richardson Super, Giant Shinglefamous for its beauty and endurance.
the,old,roof jobs. And rememberfor every roofng need there is a Richardson product.
Acthte selling help
With its inner foundation of Rich, dancing leaves on a f sPring lawn.
The Richaroson
Muhicrome Roof
In addition to opal, the Multicrome Roof is laid in other pleasins color effects. rte rare"weatheredhown,for example, has proved especiilly
SuPer.
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Smndnd Shinglc
ardson felt, for fifty years recognized as the best; coated and satu, rated with Viskalt, the vaCUUm , prOCessed water proofng, 9.87o pure bitumen, the Super, Giant assures you lost' ingbeauty for your roof Richardson Multi.
\ly, Suoa-$iant Shingh - 5ofi crome Roofs are equally *i:::Li#;'ln#,"ffi ij,?"practicalfornewof over.
Advertisements like this appearing eteadily in the Literary Digeet, House and Gardcn, Houcc Beautiful and also in the national magaaines of contractors, architecte and builders, are ct?at, ing an active demand for Richardson Rmfng in yorr locality. And the Richardson Recale Planis making profts forthousandsof Richild, eon dealers by giving them the dircct benefte of this advertising. Writc for detailg of thir plan for your territory.
Write fvr wr new booflet
Wc wall sc'nd yut out tuw booftla, Roofo of Distinction, rcgaha with scmplcs of Rbhard. san SupctGidnt Shinglcs in opal, weathacd brutm ond otlw cobts.J ust use thc couponhlout.
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THE RICHARDSON COMPANY
Dept.,ltF, Lockland, Ohio
Gentlemen: Please send me eamplee of Richatdson Supcr,Giant Shingles, your new bootlet, and fur, ther facts about Richardson Roofng.
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Addrcss
From Maine to Califomia, door users, contractors and architects are getting the facts about Laminex doors.
Durinc 1924, nearlv 2l million advertisements will be printed on Laminex doors in such magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, American Architect & Architectural-Review, American Builder, National Builder, Building Age and Building Journal, Architectural Record.
This camoaisn announces a perfected, built-up door-the result of 3l vears' researih 5v the largest d6or mdnufacturer in the world. Laminex &,rrro^cs the coimon laulk of. door construction which resuL in shrinking, swelling and warPing.
Every kirid of test has been made to prove the success of this door. Thousands have seen actual use, in all climates. &ientific tests were madc bv the Forest Products Laboratory, University of Washington' And in a qieat sash and door warehouse fire bt Nashville on October lJ, 1923 ' Laminex doors with others of every typ€, were subjected to a deluge of water and terrific heat. Not a Laminei door slowed the slightest signs of giaing way, blistering or buchling, while many others failed.
We have a retail selline-help plan which will enable you to get the benefit of our great nationaliamfaign' Ask your jobber about it or write us.
Every Laminex door is trade-marked and bears our gold label replaccment guarantee.
If courtailrnent in production and lecsened shipmente into tbc California market ic the remedy or remedies for the precent dturtion, tten the reportr for thir month to date will cery rn encouragement.
Reportr from the North give newr of more millr that havc cut down on production, of a number that have alrcedy rhut-downr_and'predictionr that the July shut down thir year will not be a'temporery rtoppage, but that a large nunber of good rized mills have announced their intention of rtaying clored for aq indefinite period. Thir period to cnd, it _ir pregurncd, when the ritrntion h"s "l""rJ i" -" point where the mills can manufacture and market at a profit
. Lunrbcr receiptr-in San Pedro Harbor, for the first ten 9"ry ir, J"ner totdled jur! a little over thirty-three million feet, jurt about three and.onethird million per day, indi_ cating a mont[ romewhere eround ninety millioi f;;ii -Th; May receiptr totalled l2O'OOO,(X)O feet -the "r""ff."it"rti
for monthr, and prior to that each month saw around one h"qdt-94 and forty million coming in at thir port.
Building in the Southern part of the state doer not rhow much let-upi The permits in Los Angeler to the night of tlre llth, were $3,6341131.00 worth of buildlngr, covering 1433 permitr. Lert month this city authorized around $9,OOO,OOO.
One commodity that is overstocked' ir rhingler. Tbc yardr throughout the gtate seem to be loaded, or at leart stocked up, and as a rerult of a very poor dernand, the price har weakened. A o3antity of unsold rhingler h"" "o-c into the ltate, some of them of a low grade.
The general demand ir a little better, with no higbcr priger, but a more optomistic feeling right down the line, and a better outlook for both wholesaler and retail man
A large percentage of the orders being placed are for cutting; flooring and all uppers reem to be firm, and leth hawe not changed in the lagt two weekr.
The 6r mills in their last report show a week'r cut of 9O,OOO,OOO feet, and sales totalling 8O million.
wect coast Lumbennens' Association weekly reports on production, the firct twentv-two weeks of the past d;;;;.,-"r; as follows:
and shipments, for
Retail lumbermen of the Sah Fernando.valley Erve join- / It -". decided that the newly formed club.would meet ed in an organization to be known as The San Fernando v"ll.t L;;it;;;;;r club, with members from the retail monthlv' at a point designated by the Secreta'ry. lgmber _yagds in Sa" Fernando, V"r, No1ir, 'O;.;r;;;Tli'
The purpose of the club is to give an opportunity to the Burbank, Glendal-e. and other points located in the te.ritory retailers of this district to get together and discuss the compnsin-g this district - varjous. problems of their busine$s, and to bring them to-M'C. C. Campbe!-of Van Nuys was elected President gether into a closer bond of .t"a"t.t""aing.--' of the club, M. A. Young of zel2ah, vi". ptitla;;;;;e th: fi'rst regular meeting rvill be held at.San Fernando, W. W. Speer of Owensmouth, SecrBtary Treasurer. on Iulv 9th.
According to Mr. J. W. Tardy, manager of the f)ouglas Lumber Company, at Douglas Arizona, the function of the retail lumberman of today, is to supply his trade, 'not only boards and shingles, but to have on hand and to intelligently merchandise as near 100 per cent as possible of the materials that go to make a home, or any other kind of a building.
This progressive company, located in a large modern, office and warehouse building, in the heart of Douglas, handles an unsually complete assortment of materials, and enjoys a good business among'the contractors and owners in the city.
The building pictured here'lr'ith was erected after the fire lsuffered by the Douglas Lttmber Company, in March 1920, '.ivhen their entire stock and all of their buildings were consumed. The present site rn'as pu'rchased and within a few days construction rvas startecl on the new plant.
The entire stock of lumber is under cover, in the long sheds that extend back from the main of6ce building. They carry Douglas fir, Redlr.'ood, some hardwoods, a stock of native pine, and also various kinds of wall boards, a complete stock of sash and doors, glass, roofing, and a full line of paints and varnishes.
Mr. Tardy is enthusiastic over the lumberman handling paints. He states that it is a profitable line, that it is a logical one for the N{odern Building Material lVlerchant, and that it helps in many cases, in selling a complete bill of materials for a new building.
The interior of their main office is arranged to display their paint stock to the best advantage, and on the ceiling they have prepared ten or twelve panels, in different colors, showing the effects of different paints and kalsomines.
M.. J. B. Herndon is president of the Douglas Lumber Company, and Mr. Tardy is the manager.
Dbtributing Agentr for Clark-Nickerron LunbcrCo. Everettr{Wash.
Domprcy Lumbcr Coo Tacoma, \l/arh.
Dcdancc Lumbcr Co, Tscona, llfaeh.
Fcrry BaLcr Lumbcr Co., Evcrct! Warh. Littlc Rivc Rcdwood Co., Hurnboldt Bay.
By JACK DIONNE
Ilere's a dandy ! ft's an excerpt from a circular letter sent to his trade by a re tail lumber friend of mine, that is mighty pertinent right now. r.t reads:
"A man was in our office the other day all gloomed up over business conditions -he ivas wondering rivhether hard times or politics or prohibition was to blame. We did not have time to argue with trrim, and pretty soon hJ faded out, carrying his pessi- mism with him- Hard times, nothingt We had the blggest May business-in our his- tory-the biggest volume for any one month since we rtarted our retail lumber business, and neither politics, prohibition, nor pessimism had anything to do with it. We do business-good business-right along becausethis is a good town to do business in -our materials are always high grrad+our service is prompt, courteous, complete_ our customers stick to us and send thdir friends to us-and WE KEEP EVERLASTINGLY AT TT.''
There you are ! There's the sovereign remedy for hard times, the unfailing antidote for pessimism, the "Open Sesame" to the doors of good business in ANy kinJ of times.
That's the Gospel that I believe in.
It's the Gospel of Hard Work; the Gospel of the Square Deal; the Gospel of Good Faith; the Gospel of Service; the Gospel of the Golden Rule; in fact-it's tHn cos- PEL OF SUNSHINE.
The other day I picked up a bulletin to its members issued by a retail lumber Association. It was full of pessimisrn- It talked bad times, and hinted of worse to come. It suggested that bef'ore the gale was over the survival of the fittest rule would prob- ably wipe out lots of lumber dealers.
I don't like that Gospel. I don't believe in scattering pessimism. I am convinced that the best way to CREATE prosperity is to TALK prosperity, and ACT prosperity, and WORK prosperity.
The world hears too much from the fellow who always fears the worst, instead of hoping for the better; who always sees the darkness of the cloud, rather than the silver of the lining.
I love the sunshine that helps to bring into bloom every flower of hope, and of faith, and of enthusiasm, and of optimism that blesses the heart of mankind.
Pessimism and failure run hand in hand. Failures are always pessimists. pessimists are always failures.
These are times when we need to keep our optimism working. Magnifying the good never hurt anyone. Magnifying the bad never helped anybody.
Let's all follow the excellent example of the lumber dealer quoted above. Let's think straight, and work hard, and look at the best side all the t1me, and keep ever- lastingly at it. No one ever went to the poorhouse following that system.
Some folks will ship you SOME good lumber ALL of the time-
They'll ship you ^A,LL good lumber SOME of the time-
But if you want ALL good lumber ALL the time-
Here's a good busi'ness-getting letter. It was sent to his e'ntire mailing list just a few days ago by Meirs Johnson, Manager for The Burton-Lingo Company at El Paso, Texas,. Mr. Johnson is an enthusiastic believer that the business a dealer can CREATE is the CREAM of the business,, because it is always non-competitive, and is always business that brings a reasonable profit for that reason.
The letter is typed in two columns, on the left side the question, and on the right side the ans\'!'er: 3.
HAVE You -frr" so
A cracked, hope-blasted poor You need WALL BOARD. old wall or ceiling?
HAVE YOU
An otherwise perfectly good porch, from which the flies and mosquitoes bariish you during the summer?
HAVE YOU
An excellent storag€ closet, but send your clothirrg to the garage or basement each season. there to miss-smell it with camphor or worse? 'trou" You
'A worn-out carpet in one of your rooms? Are you thinking of buying a new floorcovering?
THERE ARE
IJ",T"\,?r,"to",.li1tt'fi "iftrl Samples on request. .\
IF SO
Call our office and let us send a man to estimate the ,total cost of making that porch really liveable.
IF SO
You need a CEDAR CLOSET. Use our ARO- MATIC Cedar Ceiling right over the old ceiling. Economical and everlasting. SOLOMON used it.
IF SO
Why not have a new OAK FLOOR put right over that old floor? It will never wear out. CHEAPER, too, than good floor coverings.
Many little items about a well-kept home that your LUMBERMAN can help you to save on. Buy your lumber and building materials yourself, intelligently, and get what you wanr.
The Fort Valley Forest Experime'nt Station, the forest experiment station in the Forest Service, located at Flagstaff, Arizona, has ,recently been renamed the Southwestern Experiment Station, according to announcement of the United States Department of Agriculture. The original Fort Valley station lvas established in 1909, primarily to serve the needs of the national forestsion the Coconino Plateau. Since that time the station has increased its usefulness to the extent of covering the: entire southwestern forest region of Arizona and New Mexico. The growth in activity has rendered the original name no longer descriptive of the station's work, and it was therefore felt that the substitution of( the regional name would be an advantage to the station.
That's the end of the letter, and there are some good ideas in it. Any dealer can use the general plan to good advantage. He can substitute for Mr. Johnson's particular items any items that seem more pertinent to HIS business, situation, etc., but a letter of that sort, if properly handled, will ALWAYS dig up some business. The SERVICE idea appeals to the fellow, and to the housewife who gets it. If you can put in some particularly timely appeals to the housewife's needs, the letter will be all the better.
The South'ern Pacific Company is replacing an old wooden drawbridge at Albany, Oregon, which has carried freight and passenger traffic on the Yaquina Branch for thirty years. The old bridge had two 150 foot trusses and one 260 foot draw span.
This was said to have been .the lorigest wooden draw span in the world and illustrates the strength of Douglas Fir.
For 18 Yeen
"CHICKASAW BRAf',lIy' OAK FLOORING har been r rtandard of
Lynwood,
Arncr.
Hary
*hi"ir, in six "dlors and over,h",r.*" "nd address of individual Retail Lumbermen, capitalizes to each-of them our owrlentire 29 bjrd unsigned state-wide "Outdoor Disthv" campaign.
Dealerr whore locationc are already approved illsluds;-
Santa Barbara Lumber Lounsberry & Harris Home Lumber Co. Co. Lumber Co. Fuller Lumber Co.
Ambrose Lumber Co. Geo. M. Hufi Lumber Co.[6d; Lumber Co.
Sun Lumber Co.
Auey Brothers
Fi:ld & rerry Lumber
.r r tAclamE-E owefs Lumr,er \.o.
A"v*"ta Lumber C Co' Knox Lumber Co'
Dentrey Lumoer \-o. F
Smith-Linds.y L,rrrrbl, Hammond Lumber Co' Shasta Lumber Co. Co.
Western Lumber Co. Cutter Mill & Lumber Co.
Litchfield Lumber Co. Maisler Bros. Stevens Lumber Co.
In addition to these, we have on our "Waiting List" many other dealers, and we hope to be able to approve at least one "Outdoor Dis' play" for each of them.
This is but one of the many ways by which our "Redwood Service" helps to merchandise DEALER STOCKS.
We are always glad to tell you of other ways by which you may ans\ rer, with pro6t to yourself, the guestion-
24 CALIFORNIA STREET, SAN FRANCISCO
MEMBER MILLS
Alblon Lumber Company
Dolbeer & Careon Lumber Co.
Glen Blalr Redwood Co.
Hammond Lumber Company
J. R. Hanlfy Company
Hobbs, Wall & Company
Holmes Eureka Lumber Co.
Llttle River Redwood Co.
Mendoclno Lumber Co.
Northwestern Redwood Co.
The Pactfic Lumber Co.
Unlon Lumber Compa.ny
The quality of any product depends not only on the ability and facilities of the manufacturer to produce superior guality, but on his willingneu to do sot
'Weaver Roof Co. prefers to mak,e a smaller pro6t margin and deliver a quality of Roofing that will rtflect credit on the name "Weaver."
You can capitalize this reputation for quality by featuring and puahing "Weavcr" Roofing.
We have an attractivc Dealer Propositi6n we would like to diacusr with you.
Sylveeter L. Weaver
Tclcphonc Bdwy. 07&l - Lor An3clce, Cdif.
2+16-tl6 E.!t tth Str.ct
We heve faith in e Grcat Crcator who nea.ures out jurtice ternpcrcd rvith mercy equally to ell; and 3iver Hir love freely to all Hir creation.
'lllc belicve in rpeeking the truth, and in the great priuciplc of Truth that underlice the wholc rtructure of the univeree. Truth necds no apology and hurtr no man.
We hate lirrr and abhor direimulation, for in thcir train ir bred a hort of cvils that thwarts even jurtiec, and bringr only troublc to Den.
We believc in openheartedneae, frankner and unrclfirhneer in our dealingr with all mcn; vcrily nothing will need be covered or cxplaincd.
Wc dctcst caotitm, telf coneeit, and rourh rhod rclfirhncrr for they have no part in goid dcccnt burincr, and arc contrary to the ipirit of true dcmocracy.
llfc are four square for our Frcc Govcramcnt end for thc grcat principler for which it-rt!Dd3. Wc-will fight to thc dcath any- thing or anybody who trier to trLe thie frct- lom from ur.
Bclicving thcrc thingr, we rcck to build our pcrsonal and bueinere character .o it will gradc-A- No. I Clear, cdgc arain, S4S and randcd- for oil, rugar pine foi brcadth, red- wood for rtraightner, oak for rtrength, and mahogany for rmoothncr, and es Jnduring ar Portland ccm.nt. Free from eap and rap rtainr, no pitch pocketr, looec knotr or shakcr. Opcn from lcvcn to five, Saturday afternoon off. A rmilc, hand rhaLe and a good word for Gveryonc ,pho lovct the emcll of rawdust, thc zip and zang of the eaw, or the roft rurh of thc pencil ar it writer "two by four" on the crtimatc blank.
P. D. Ranrorn Secretary, Pasadena Sav/tlust Club.
Question: Where there is a conflict between the written and printed part of a contract, does the written part prevail over the printed ? The contract in question was made on West Coast Terms and Conditions of Sale which were printed thereon, but was qualified by certain writteh conditions in conflict with said printed Terms of Sale.
Ansrver: The law is well settled that where there is ,a conflict between the written and prrinted parts of a contract, then the written part prevails over the printed, on the ground that the printed parts are merely a form intended to apply generally, rvhile the rv,ritten part is the exact language of the parties themselves intended to apply to that particular contract. "It is a well recognized rule of construction that where a contract is written in part and printed in part, as rvhere it has been filled in or ra printed form, the parties usually pay more attention to the written parts than to the printed parts," says the supreme court of Wisconsin. "Accordingly, if the written p'rovisions cannot be reconciled with the printed, the written provisions prevail." The same rule has been approved by the United States Supreme Court and by the state courts of many of the states.
REI\IEMBER THIS: Members have attempted to enforce terms printed on their INVOICES where such terms werre not referred to in the original order or contract of sale. Nothing upon the invoice is binding upon the buyer, whether it is printed or written and whether it stands
in the body of the document or in the margin. A contract is made by trvo persons, and is binding olnly in so far as both have agreed to be bound by it. An invoite is m'ade after all the terms of the contract have been irrevocablv fixed, and it is made by only one person. The seller woull have things very much his orVn w,ay if he co,uld, after a contract had been made, alter or amend or limit or explain it by his own act. He has no such power, of course, and he cannot put anything. upon his invoice in writing or. in print, that will bind the buyer.
Question : We appreciate the advisability of startins the system of securing signed Order Acknowledgmenti from our cnstomers as recommended in your WeekIy Letter 123, but dislike 'junking' a large supply of our present acknowledgment forms. Is there some suggestion you could give us that will enable us to use up our present sttpply ahd at the same time put this system into piactice?
Answer: Get a supply of fhe yellow form printtd. Use your_ present form for the Original; the yellow form for the Second Copy to be signed and returned by your customer. Be sure to have printer make the spacing on your yellow copies conform to the spacing on your present forms so the carbon impressions will rigister accurately on the vellow copy. IJse a rnbber stamp on the original reading "Please sign and return the Yellow copy to complete our record."
Roy A. Dailey, N{anager North Coast District.
Lumber shipments in the intercoastal trade have been unusually heavy this year and the shipments from Columbia river ports for the first months of this year surpassed that of the entire year of 1923, according to figures just made public by the traffic department of the Port of Portland. Shipments of lumber to New York have been particularly hiavy, but smaller shipments have been made to most of the Atlantic and Gulf ports. During the month of May this year shipments outside of those to New York were made to Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia, Norfolk, New Orleans, Mobile, llouston and Galveston. This lumber was carried by twelve vessels with fifteen vessels handling the shipments made to California ports.
According to the reports issued by the deputy collector of customs at Astoria, the total shipments from the Columbia river in May amounted to a little more than 62,000,000 feet. During this month seventy-two vessels cleared from the river with lumber for foreign and domestic ports. Of ports. this 62,000,000 feet, 16,000,000 feet were destined for foreign ports, 31,000,000 feet to California ports and 15,000,000 feet to Atlantic Coast ports. These figures consider vessels clearing from Astoria during the month, but do not include the vessels which cleared from Portland on the last dav of M"y.
Lumber ,exports from the Columbia river for May this year totaled 17,436,205 feet, with a value of $474,117. This is the first time this year that lumber exports have been less than for the same month in 1923. This, according to the report, is accounted for by the small shipments of lumber destined for Japan, which amounted to only 2,781,548 feet for May this year, as compared with 14,000,000 feet for the corresponding month in 1923.
Shipments to South and Central American ports were heavy during May, with 2,089,W feet delivered in Chile, 1,828,000 feet in Peru, 63,050 feet in Salvador, 50,000 feet in Brazil, 26,484 feet in Uruguay and 18,200 feet in Argentine.
China again assumed the position of the Columbia river's largest receiver of lumber, taking 5,229,633 f.eet. China, the report shows. has been a steady buyer during the year, taking between 5,000,000 and 15,000,000 feet each month. This also is the smallest record for d,eliveries to China so far this year.
Australia and New Zealand are taking more Northwest
lumber, and during the month of May 2,089,914 feet, valued at $66,046, were shipped to these countri,es. To the Philippines were shipped 362,949 feet during the month. Ship- ments to the United Kingdom were heavier than usual, with 1,564,168 f.eet, valued at $71,873. Other shipments'to Europe included 50,000 feet to Holland.
Domestic shipments of lumber for the month of May this year amounted to n,2I4,788 feet, of which 9,922,O4O f.eet were for New York.
Mr. F. L. Morgan, of Los Angeles, has expressed his appreciation of our editorial, "Talking Too Much About 'Presidential Year' Hard Times." in a letter as follows: Mr. Jock Dionne, Los Angeles.
Dear Mr. Dionne:
While I think about it I want to express to you my appreciation of your editorial in the last number of the California Lumber Merchant.
You have struck the nail on the head. You are iust optimistic enough to be right. Ther,e is too darned much pessimism circulating around the country the last few.months.
Wishing you all the good luck in the world, Yours truly, F. L. MORGAN.
Pat Murphy, of th,e Superior Oak Flooring Co., Ifelena, Arkansas, was a recent Cllifornia visitor where he spent about three weeks making a survey of lumber conditlons in the Los Angeles and San Francisco districts. While in San Francisco, he was a caller at the offices of W. M. Beeke the well known hardwood distributor, who is the California _representative of the Superior Oak Flooring Co. Mr. Murphy is one of the best known hardwood flo6rine lumbermen in the country and is the president of the Oa[ Flooring Association.
would you be able to view the twisted, smoldering ruins, consoled in your misfortune by th-e sure knowledg_e tha! you are adequately insured, wlth ".r"ry condition on the policy fulfilled, so that there will bi no question of the amourit you will recover?
The time to think about this question is not aft€f, but before the fire.
The Old Dealer looked up from the rheet he war figurins on, and law a mellow-looking yormg man in the doorway.
"IJnleca you are afficted wit[ rome diaeare that keepr you from puttrng one of your feet in front of tlre other, or have a pair of hobbler on, I ruppole you canr" began the Old Dealer, and then he pulled up ahort becaure he noticed that there was a young lady behind the young man. t'Etr - - yec, certrinly, conre right in, botrh of your" he finirhed rather l'amely. They rat down.
"Do you objectr" begao the young man, blurh'ng faintly, "to my tdking to you on a rnrtter which may be of interert to you?"
ttl donttrtt ancwered the Old Dealer. ttlf eny perEon can gain inrtruction or amusement from a charte converration with me, they are welcome to do so. Herven forbid that I rhould by thoughtlec refusal of an innocent requeet, embitter a young life that would ottrerwice be bright and happy. What direction would you like to have tte convergatiotr take? A,re you intereeted in boardr?"
"It'r thir wryr" said the young man. "lVe're going to get merried thir year, and we cen't decide whether to marry in June or OCbber. We want to build a home before we marry. If we decide to marry in June we would want to start building the home now. lf we dtecide to wait until October wo would wait 6ve or rix monthr before bothering you about tte plaru, etc. Whic'h month would you edvire ur to choore?tt
ttJunett, replied the Old Dealer, rcenting a rtrong houre bill for early delivery. "Thcre ie no doubt about Jrme being the booc month to get manied in, becauee we mort alwayr have regular old hone5rmoon weather then, ro that everything eeemr to jibe right in with the e6s13ie11-1 rort of beautiful rmiron of nature and the thought. Do you follow rne?tt
Both the yourrg folkr agreed.
"Yo,u lee in Juner" rerumed the Old Dealer, bent on relling tlre houre NOW, "everything lookr cweet. The firrt blouomr of the early rumnrer-beautiful harbingerr of the wedth of bud that ie to come -are trembling on their rtalkr; the birdr are ringing ar if in glee from errery branch end bough; tAe perfect light of the turquobe rky fu ref,ected from an air ttat ir pure and balmy ar the breath of a perfumcd hour from Circareia, while the newly plowed fieldr, frerh-kised by the dewr of heaven and wumed by the kindly rayr of the um, are holding within the botom of the earth the many teedr that ere another month frall have corne and gone, will spring up into life and light, growing etronger an{ more perfect with every ghdsome day, until in auturnn, when the leaver, touched by the blighting breatt of the 6rrt froet, are being traneformed into dl the vivid huec trhat tell eo eloquently the etory of nature'c handiwork; the very errth rhall laugh in the glory of an abrmdant harved. What time t[an thir could be more fit for yo15rg hearts to plight a wilinj troth-heartr rtrong in love that rhall never know rurceare or change, that rhall be more eteadfart rnd trusting with evcry hour, rmtil when tte autrnnn of life ir reached, the rtror1g, willful pauion of youth becomee a ripened, tender, holy affection that is beautiful beyond compare. It L wbcn tte trecser ttat once were brown are fecked with grey; when the chee&r once peaohy rnd dimpled (and he gazbd directly at the blurhing young lady) are merked by the furrowr ttat time har made; when thc cyec that in the dayr agone rparkled with euch bewitching merriment, ere dull and lurtrelerr-it L then^ that the love of a truly happy married life rhould be crowned with tLe halo of a tranquil exirtence that knowr no sorrow or care. Yee, my bo'nnie la.r, you ehould be married in June, month of roaec and eleeping porchec. Seek with your chosen one tome ivy-crowned chapel end there plight your troth, and retrnring oter that beautiful little home that in the meantime I will take plearrre building for yoq, with myrcU and love fo,r architectr. Bv all rnreant, my young friendr, marry in June."
"Thank you ro muchrtt reid the young lady. "I arn now convinced that we rhould be married in June, and I think your talk war perfectly dear. Good-by."
"Good-by," replied the Old Dealer. "Come in and look over my planr and let'r g;et that home rtarted.tt
"\ile will," trhey both replied, and hruried away' hand in hand.
Just then a friend entered the Old Dealer'c office.
"S.yr', he aaid, "I've got the fuhing fener. In what month do the rucken bite the belt?"
"ruNF-r" replied the Old Dealer.
The Hayward Lumb,er Co. has purchased the Cross I-umber C6. which is located at Corcoran,'King's County. The Hayward Lumber Co. are one of the large retail lumber dealers of the state and operate yards in California and Arizona. They have their general headquarters at Los Angeles.
H. W. .Sinnock, secretary and manager of the Redwood Sales Co., is on a two months' business trip in the east where he will make a survey of conditions in the redwood market,. He will stop at Chicago, Columbus, Cincinnati, Detroit, Buffalo, New York, Boston, and other middlewest points. During his absence, M. V. Johns will be in charge of their San Francisco office.
lotrn Olson of Los Angeles, manager of the fos Angeles _ p. _G. Mugan, of the Dolbeer-Carson Lumber Co., S-an gp"erations of Chas,. R. -McCorm;ct<" & Co., was a rJcent Fy'.ancisco, 1. on an extended vacation trip in thejast. He visitor at the company's San Francisco office where he yfitt go as far east as New York and Boston. On his retp""i
days
to business matters. 1f"urn west, he will travil over the scenic Canadian Pacific
route.
The William Smith Co. of San Francisce have purchased the McDonald Lumber Co. of San Francisco. The i\{cDonald Lumber Co. adjoins the Wiltiam Smith Co. yard and will be used by the new owner for storing his common lumber. The McDonald Lurnber Co. has been operated by the Bessemer Lumber Co. of Detroit for the past year.
H. M. Munger, r,vho has been managing.this yard for the Bessemer Lumber Co. will remain rvith the William Smith Company for the next sixty days rvhen he will return to Detroit.
E. L. Fifield. the well known San Francisco wholesale lumberman, is now acting as the California agents of the Fischer Brothers Lumber Company of Eugene, Oregon. The Fischer Brothers Lumber Company operate the following mills located in Oregon; Fischer Lumber Co., Ma:cola; lamestown Oregon Lumber Co', Alpin_e; Carl E. Fischer Lumber Co., Eugene; and the Panther Butte Lumber Co., Glendale. The Fischer Brothers Lumber Company maintain general offices at Eugene, Oregon.
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trOR the w.rodwork of canoes, racing I' vachts and other craft in which a combinition of lightness, toughness and strength is requiredspruce is indicated. These same qualities make spruce admirably suited.for the interior trim and finish of homes and all kinds of construction work.
Over 3,500,000,00 feet of virgin timber at Graham Island, B. C.,-a fleet of stedl Jteam lumber schooners<omplete saw mills, planing mills and dry kilns at Ils Angelcs Harbor-these and other extensive holdings euable us to assure to local lumber users a constant, steady supply of high grade spruce lumber.
Prices and details furnished on request.
Hoo Hoo Club Number One, met at San Diego on June 5th, for their regular weekly luncheon. Thirty members and five g'uests responded to th'e gavel.
Mr'. Oscar Kaneckt, Chief Building Inspector of San Diego, spoke to the meeting on building conditions in the southern city, and on the prospects for the balance of this year.
An honor'ed guest of the meeting was Lieut. Kelly, world famous aviator, who, with Lieut. McCready, made the nonstop flight from New York to San Diego.
Mr. Harry V. I{anson, of the California Panel & Veneer Company, Los Angeles, was chairman at the Hoo Hoo lucheon on Thursday, June 5th.
Harry had s,ent out notices saying that this would be a good meeting providing a bunch of laughs, and he made good. Mr. LeRoy Dawson, a disabled veteran of the World War, and now a law student at IJ. S. C., gave the boys an address on his experiences during the conflict, and put so much humor into the telling that he had them laughing most of the time, even when he was telling of the drive that participated in, and which resulted in his losing an eye and his left leg. Mr. Dawson was a Corporal, saw considerable s,ervice until he was struck by a shell at Chateau Thierry, and is a splendid example of -what a man can do with pluck and determination in doing a "come back." In spite of his terrible handicaps, this man has about finished his law course at the lJniversity, has regained his health, and is on his way to independence.
Parson Simpkin was present at this meeting, and made a short talk to the members, on the Concat, held on June 7th.
It was a splendid meeting, and unfortunate that the attendance was so small.
Southern California representa- for "Superior Brand," America's finest oak fooring.
Also Southern band-sawn hardwood lumber. Teinporary
Herbert J. Savidge, vicegerent snark of the Kalamath Falls District announces that they are holding a monster concat on July 5 at Kalamath Falls. Mr. Savidge, who was vicegerent snark back in 1912 states that during that year they initiated 51 kittens at their July Concat, and that they are planning to exceed that number at their initiation next month. A large number of Hoo-Hoo members from San Francisco and the Bay District are expected to make the trip. Snark of the lJniverse, C. D. LeMaster of Fresno, has announced that he will attend the meeting. On July 4 and 5, the annual Rodeo and Frontier's Day Program will be held this year as usual, and the committe-e announce that the new highway betwe.en Ashland and Kalamath Falls is now open and in good condition. Hoo-Hoo members are also expected to attend from Bend and Portland. The Kalamath Falls Hoo-Hoo District is now attached to the San Francisco District. Herbert J. Savidge, the vicegerent snark of the Kalamath Falls District *has been an active member of Hoo-Hoo for many years, and at present is acting as the representative of the Western States Lumber Co. at Kalamath Falls.
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There is no better way to give your dollars a square deal than to invest them in our Dollar Lumber.
We sell the product(rail delivery) of that splendid milling plant in the City of Portland, and the Santa Fe Sudden Service is back of the DollarQuality in every shipment.
How the boy has grown! Last year on the first of July $re $rere justly proud of the toddling infant that had reached his first anniversary with colors flying, and who $ras r€ceived with open arms by the lumber trade of this great state. The First Birthd"y Number, issued July first last year, was a wonderful issue. BIGGER and BETTER; watch for the Second Birthd"yNumber, which will be a tribute to the lumber industry of the West,and a sampleof whatthe most successful two year old tradej ournal in history can, do.
Thirteen weary and weak eyed wanderers were led over the onion beds at Los Angeles, on the night of June 7th. Two old Cats who had wandered from the fold were taken back.
A large number of the Los Angel,es Hoo-Hoo members, together with quite a few visitors from San Diego and Santa Ana helped in the festivities at the Jonathan Club, when the supposed to be unlucky number of Initiates were given a chance to do their stuff.
The party assembled at seven thirty in the evening, and the Concat was gotten under way at eight.
Clifford S. Estes was the master of ceremonies, and the man who had made the arrangements for the affairs, with the assistance of a group of a half dozen other fellows who put in considerable work on the arrangements. The meeting assembled in the ball room of the club, and the following team handled the Ritual in the usual excellent Los Angeles manner.
Snark, H. L. Rosenberg,3IDS; Senior Hoo-lfoo, Clifford S. Estes, 317701. Junior Hoo-Hoo, F. M. Connelly, 31463; Bojum, Sam T. Hayward, 32604; Scrivenoter, C. J. Laugh- lin, 30257; Jabberwock, Curtis Williams, 11503; Custocation, E,. D. Tennant, 13070; Arcanoper, T. B. Lawrence, 29741; Gurdon, P. A. Simpkin, H-106.
Parson Simpkin was on hand to assist the Junior Work Committee, L. M. Meyer, and they were able to introduce a bunch of new laugh producers that had not been used before by this club.
After the initiation a big feed was served, r,vith a barrel of beer (near), lots of sandwitches, pickles and coffee. The meeting broke up about midnight,
The Kittens were: Robert Erskin, Cane Bldg. Supply Co., Los Angeles; Warren Pangborn, W. S. Pangborn Co., I.ong Beach ; Wilbur Barr, Barr Lumber Co., Sinta Ana; John W. Eggleston, C. D. Johnson Lumber Co., Los Angeles; William A. Harrison, E. K. Woocl Lumber Co., I.os {rngeles; Larvrence E. King, Hammond Lumber Co.,
The regular weekly meeting of Hoo Hoo Club Number l, was held at the Maryland Hotel, San Diego, on May 30th.
Billy Glasson of the Glasson Planing Mill was the chairm?n. The meeting was a general get together proposition, with much round table discussion.
Orange; Elmer B. Williams, Woodhead Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Herbert G. Drews, Western Sash & Door Co., Los Angel,es; John A. Maier, Skidmore & Bowers Lbr. Co., Downey; Thomas E. Wiggins, Albion Lumber Co., I.os Angeles; Roger W. Comstock, Kerckhoff Cuzner Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Lambert J. Acree, W. S. Pangborn Co., Long Beach; Lloyd A. Quinn, Mullin Lumber Co., Los Angeles.
There were two Reinstatements: Andrew J. Rinner, Patten & Davies, Los Angeles; George E. Mount, Smith l-umber Co., Orange.
The cathedral had been gayly decorated for the Christmas services and trvo Irishmen were visiting it. One was from the country. and had been taken there by his friend, who wished him to be duly impressed by its grandeur. As they came out, the resident of the city said:
"Well, Mike, and phwat do you think of it ? Isn't it grand ?"
"Pat," said the one from th.e countrv. "it bates the devil."
"That," said his friend, "was the intintion."
"How do you like that cigar I gave you, old man? For two hundred bands off that brand they give you a gramophone."
"You don't say ! cigars I wouldn't harp."-Hoo-Hoo
If I smoked two hundred of those want a gramophone; I'd want a Bulletin.
Bill Talbot, popular San Francisco representative of the William Smith Company, has returned from a two weeks' vacation spent at Los Angeles and other Southern California points. Bill reports that he made a survey of lumber conditions in Southern California and says that the lumber demand in Los Angeles is good while the country l-rusiness has shown a slight decrease from the 1923 demanri. FIe states that the summer rates are bringing many eastern tourists into the state for the summer months and during his sojourn in T,es Angeles, he said that they were arriving at the rate of three to four thousand a day.
One of the best stories of recent date that is making a big hit, is about Woodrow Wilson.
It reports that Woodrow went to }Ieaven, and there he met the notables of all ages. Finatly he was introduced to a tall, bearded, patriarchial man whom he discovered to be Moses, the Law-giver. They exchanged salutations, and Moses said:
"Oh, yes ! You're Woodrow Wilson, from tire United
- A._C. Dixon, General Manager, The Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, was in Los Angeles several days thii month from Eugene, Oregon, looking over the lumber situation rvith his local representative, H. C. Clark. R. W. Martin, Assistant Sales Manager, came down later and accompanied Mr. Clark over Arizon,a and New Mexico.
'States, aren't you. We've heard a great deal of you up here in Heaven. You have been considerably discussed. As a matter of fact, Mr. Wilson, your FOURTEEN POINTS have been pretty generally criticized up here.,' "Well," replied Vl/oodrow, with all his earthly wit, ,.f don't mind telling you that your TEN COMMANDMENTS have been catching Hell down where f come from."
REDWOOD MAN IS WED
Mr. E. L. Cooper, of the sales department of the Union Lumber Company, Los Angeles, was married, on June 3rd, tq Miss Arlene Benton.
The happy pair are enjoying a honeymoon trip to San Diego.
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Mr. D. R. Philips and family are spending a few .weeks in Humboldt County. They will visit friends and relatives in the Bay District upoi their return. They are making the trip in- their new Jewett car. and Don will be able to"inform his many friends regarding the various speed traps in the state. Mr. Philips is the Los Angeles Managei of the J. R. Hanify Co.
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W. C. Ball, Sales Manager of the J. R. Hanify Co. of San Francisco, accompaniel by Mrs. Ball were recent visitors to Southern Califqrnia.
Mr. Fred Golding of the Fred Golding Lumber Company, Los Angeles, was the speaker at the last meeting of the Portland Lumbermens Club, at Portland.
l\[r. Golding made a two weeks trip through the northwest, on a combined business and pleasure trip, the pleasure consisting of a series of golf contests, and fishing expeditions.
He drove his Big Six Studebaker, and hung up what he claims to be a record in driving from Portland to Los Angeles, making the trip in 48 hours flat, and driving the entire distance himself.
X[r. B. W. Bookstaver, Los Angeles manag'er for the McCullough Fagan Lumber Company, l,eft Los Angeles on June l0th, for Seattle.
He will be in that city for two weeks, looking after the company's office there, during the absence of Mr. Roger .|ayne, who has gone East, to attend the funeral of his brother.
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"And have you music at the church?"
I asked the rural squire.
"Wall, nor" said he, "can1t say we haveJest singin' by the quoir."
' Dealer's Son: "Pa, what is an optimist?"
Dealer: "A decided optimist, son, is a man who waits for old time lumber prices to return before buiiding."
Thomas Dreier, the Boston advertiser and philosopher, tells of a woman who lost two sons, and being brokenhearted, went to the pastor of the church she belonged to, for aid.
"I{e turned his cold blue eyes upon me," said the woman' '1and asked me if I did not know what my church told me about death. His talk was of books, and rules, and teachings. I stumbled out of his presence with tears running down by cheeks."
She went to the pastor of another denomination whom she knew- He listened to her story and then said: "Let us kneel down and pray." He had to play the game according to his rules.
"For the next three years," says Dreier, ttshe tried to find something about a future life among the books of the libraries. She wanted to see her sons again. She wanted some assurance that some day they would be reunited. There were many books on immortality, but in none of them did she find that which would fill her heart with comforL Then suddenly, one day, when she wasn't looking for comfort at all, she got what she needed.
"I was in the woods," she said," and there I found God under a tree. It came to me that the God that took care of the tree would take care of me. Faith fooded my heart. Nothing can take from me the belief in God that came to me under that tree. All these church quarrels aired in the newspapers, seem silly to me. I wonder why grown men will waste their time with such nonsense. Those who really have God in their hearts waste none of their time arguing over non-essentials."
Just grin-when you come in, And make it wide-not tight and thin. Say "Hello Bill" and Howdy Jack," And slap the other fellow on the back Stick out your mitt and crack a joke, If no one laughs, there's no bones broke, And by and by you'll make our club
A sort of happy sunshine hub
That radiates good cheer and vim, Because you grin, when you come in.
We heard a story the other day that reminded us of some lumber dealers.that still exist in this. country, strange as it may seem.
There was a little old man running a little old store in a town in Virginia. One day he was dozing behind the counter when a little boy came in and in a shrill voice demanded a pound of butter. The storekeeper yawned, stretched himself, rubbed his eyes, and then in the most injured tone exclaimed:
"Gee whiz ! Ain't there nobody sells butter in this town 'cept me?"
There are ever so many kinds of boysRollos and tommys and fauntleroys; Boys who are crude and blunt and rough And boys that are made of sterner stuff. Boys who try, in their blundering way, A friendly, chivalrous thing to say, And only succeed in stammering out Some words whose meaning is left to doubt. Boys who are awkward, boys who are bold, Boys who will never do as they are told; Boys who are bashful and painfully shy; Who can't be at ease, however they try. Boys who are dull, and boys who are bright; Boys who are always ready to fight; Boys with ambition, and boys without; Boys who bristle and boys who shout, Boys who wheedle, and boys who tease, Boys who wear holes in their trouser knees. And of them all, which is the best? Away ahead of all the rest?
'Tis not a matter we need discussHe's just the boy who belongs to us !
-Carolyn Wells, in Life."Excuse me" said she, as she stepped into the Editor's ofEce, "you newspaper men know everything; can you tell me how to treat sick bees?"
"Yes, madam," replied the wise editor, "with respect."
It was his eleventh cocktail, and he proposed to her. "Dearest," he said, "the bubbling wine in my glass re' flects the sparkle in your eyes; the graceful curve of the bottle counterfeits your slender form; your touch soothes me as a cool fog brushing against my hot cheeks. The mysterious fragrance of the early morn is in your breath. Beloved, I adore you. Will you marry me?"
"Come Freddie," she said gently, "let's go home. \[fe'vo been married for ten years. You're drunk"
Mr. C. M. Freeland, assistant to L. A. Beckstrom, of Chas. R. McCormick & Company, Los Angeles, left Los Angeles on June 5th for the Northwest, where he will spend several rveeks visiting the various mills from which this company is buying lumber.
Mr. Freeland will spend most of his time at the St. Helens Lumber Company, St. Helens, Oergon, getting acquainted with the mill methods.
Mr. Leo Germain, of the Germain Lumber Company, Los Angeles wholesalers of western woods, and hardwoods, is moving their offices from the Citizens National Bank tsuilding to the new Transportation Building, at 7th and Los Angeles Streets.
They will occupy Suite 604 in this building, after July lst.
Cadwallader Gibson & Company, hardwood importers and distributors, of San Francisco, have mailed notices to the trade, of a change in the address of their Los Angeles offices.
Their new location in that city is at 819 East 59th Street.
Mr. R. T. Conyers, former owner of the Chula Vista I-umber.Company,, has retired from the management of the institution and has been succeeded by Mr. H. A. Graves, who has been bookkeeper for the'company fbr some time.
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Mr. F. K. Conn, of the Bayou Land & Water Companv. large hardwood manufacturers of Memphis. is having'a holiday at Los Angeles. He will be in ^Caliiornia for "the next several weeks.
Final figures from the give the following totals Harbor authoriti,es at San Pedro. of receipts at that port, during April,1924.
wE CARRY A LARGE wHoriseLe srocK AT ot R oATGAND DETRTBuTING YARDS wHIcH ENABLES Us ro cIvE You PRoMPT LoADING oF YARD AND SHED TTEIUS IN BOTH REDWOOD AND FIR.
Mr. Ralph Duncan, formerly manager of the Halstead yard at Frresno, and since January 1st of this year manager of tfre Merced Lumber Company, Merced, has acquired an interest in this business, by the purchase of part of the holdings of Mr. W. tr..I-andra1n, formerly Vice President of the company.
Mr. Landram has, since the first of the year, been giving
A meeting of the Executive Committee of the NationalAmerican Wholesale Lumber Association rvill be held at the New York office on Friday, June 20th. This being the first meeting o{ the Executive Committee since the annual convention at Cincinnati, a number of matters of interest to the organization rvill be co'nsidered and plans adopted for the year's work,
The standing committees have been appointed and several important reports will be considered, including recommendations in the matter of the Cost of Doing a Wholesale Lumber Business.
his entire attention to the affairs of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank, at Merced, in which institution he has had an interest for some time. Mr. Ralph Evans, form,erly of Tucsoq, Arizona, has joined the Merced l-umber Company, taking a part of Mr. Landram's interest, and rvill be actively interested.
N{r. Frank Minard, the efficient Secretarv-Treasurer of the San Joaquin Valley Lumbermen's Club, has just had prepared and has distributed a new 1924 Roster of the Club, shorving the membership up to date.
The San Joaquin Valley Club now has forty-one active members, tu'enty-six "r'ith associate memberships, and thel' elected five to llonorary Membership, F. D. Prescott, of Fresno; A. L. Porter, Spokane; Peter B. Kyne, I.,os Angeles; Peter MeNevin of the Pacific Lumber Companv ahd Jack Dionne.
237 S. Central Aae. - Los Angeles hae been appointcd cxcluaive agent3 in Southcrn California for the diatribution of "NO-WEIGHT' Window Springe. A highlY satiefactorY weightleae window device.
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Mr.J. F. Wright, of the Brey-Wright T umber Company, Porterville, has been elected to the presidency of the Porten'ille Rotary Club, and tvill attend the International Convention of Rotary Clubs, to be held at Toronto, Canada. The'No-lYeigh'
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Seven large ocean carriers berthed at the big municipal piers of the Port of Tacoma, Washington, and loading lumber cargoes aggregating 8,300,000 feet of lumber for delivery at ports all over the world was photographed recently by airplane as typical of the activity of the water
borne commorce in forest oroducts carried on at the "I-umber Capital of America." -
The gigantic pier shown in the foreground of the illustration is claimed to be the only exclusive lumber pier in the rvorld and is equipped rvith the best and newest facilities for lumber handling. It is 1,200 feet long andr265 feet wide and offers provision for the storage of about 15,000,000 feet of lumber.
Ship-side tracks with a number of convenient crossovers render easy the. handling of cargo by ship's tackle direct from cars to hold, avoiding delays in loading and reducing the cost of handling very materially.
Two of the very latest Colby 9O-foot hammer-head Gantry cranes, electrically operated, having a capacity of five tons each, are used to facilitate the movement of lumber from cars to storage and from storage to ship's tackle. These cranes are so constructed and installed that loaded cars of lumber can pass under them betrveen the supports. The vesels shorvn in the airplane view which were loatling at Pier One are the freighters August, Lock Tay, Artisa-s and Circinus. Those loading at Pier Two are the Baltimore Maru, Dribergen and Gyokah Maru.
Everv Derson who has had any experience in helping create "ooa-witt in a business organization' knows that whatever he E"i. iJ i r""rte of time and- energy if the spirit of the dominatins-executive is not right. Harmony at the bottom cannot be "iE"t.a -*tt"" there iJinharmony at the top. The spirit of i".ii otga"iration is the spirit of its dominating executive.Dreicr.
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Well over one thousand of the employees of the E. K.
Wood Lumber Company, and their families, enjoyed a delightful picnic held at the Perry Whiting Ranch, at Montrose on Sunday May 25th.
This is an annual affair held by the company, and includes all of the 'employees of their Southern -California operatlons.
Mr. Frank Curran, manager at Los Angeles was master of ceremonies. He conducted the games that were held, and carried off all honors in th,e dancing contest that was held in the afternoon.
A barbeque was served at noon, and then a seri,es of base ball games were played, to determin,e a championship. "fron Man" McGinty umpired these hotly contisted aifairs, taking hillife in his hands, and awarding the cup to the San Pedro Team.
The San Pedro yard team went down to defeat at the hands of the 47th Street yard boys first. Then the 4Zth
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A pie eating contest for boys and girls was won by Master Johansen. Then came the dancing contest. All honors went to Frank Curran, and as remarked by one of the Main Office boys, "Evelyn Nesbit.has nothing on. our boss for fancy steps and light kicks."
Al Privett, a valued member of th'e Los Angeles office force was in charge of most of the arrangements of the afraft, and was given credit for having provided a splendid entertainment.
Price List No. 24-1, has just been issued to the Southern Calfiornia retail trade, by Glasby & Company, large wholesalsrs of sash, doors and built-in features, at Los Angeles.
The list is unique in its form, being very easily read, and ironing out most of th,e difficulties that have been heretofore encountered in the deciphering of a sash and door discount sheet.
The book lists the entire line carried by this company, doors of all kinds, sash, windows, casements, medicine cabinet doors, etc., and carries the entir.e list in its 46 pages.
It is attractively bound with heavy green card, and is a size that will enable the salesman or estimator to carrv handily.
Glasby & Company are now distributing these lists to the trade.
Mr. C. M. Speers, who has been with the Sun Lumber Company, at Beverly Hills, has made a change, and is now in the sales department of the California & Oregon Lumber Company, at Los Angeles.
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Two new Weyerhaeuser publications, "Industrial Buildings" and "Structural Timbers of Douglas Fir," have just been issued by the Advertising Department at Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Mr. Harold D. Bates, in commenting on the two booklets said:
"To much emphasis has been placed in recent years upon the use of so-called 'fire proof' materials for industrial building. Attention has been directed away fro,m the real fire hazards to those of minor importance. And as a result many industrial'builders today are buying imaginary fire protection at a price they can ill afford.
"The booklets mentioned above are part of a nation,al advertising campaign aimed at a broader understanding of the principle of 'Mill Construction' and its advantages for certain types of occupancies. This type of building grew out of the needs of the thrifty, frugal era of industry. Its theory of fire protection was founded on facts and not fallacies. We believe that industry today can profit by a more general use of this well established building principle.
"The booklet entitled 'INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS' is addressed primarly to the business executive. In addition to pointing out the advantages of the 'Mill Construction' type of building foi certain uses, it outlines the manner in which this organization has equipped itself to better serve the industrial builde'r. The appendix is devoted to 4 dis-
cussion of insurance rates under the caption 'How a Manufacturer Determines His Orvn Insurance Rate.'
"'STRUCTURAL TIMBERS OF DOUGLAS FIR' is intended primarly for the architect and engineer. It contains a classified table of commercial grades for Douglas Fir dimension, stringers and posts, showirig, in connection with each, allowable rvorking stresses amply supported by the results of numerous tests which are quoted in the appendix.
"The primary purpose of this campaign, is of course, to furrther the sale of Douglas Fir timbers. At the same time we believe it has considerable educational value beneficial to the lumber industry as a whole., On this basis, the story of this campaign should be of interest to the personnel of the industry generally.
"In addition to the two booklets, we art also sending out proofs of the first two advertisements in our small construction campaign rvhich is now run'ning in the national magazines. We will be glad to furnish both proofs and booklets free of charge to all those who request them."
Mr. R. E. Andruss, manager of the Independent Lumber Company, at Alhambra, states that his company is contemplating er'ecting a sash and door factory at that plant.
WE DELIVER BY TRUCK TO MANY POINTS NEAR LOS ANGELES. THIS SERVICE IS MAINTAINED TO THE SAME HIGH POINT OF EFFICIENCY AND PROMPTNESS THAT HAS EARNED OUR REPUTATION FROM THE SLOGAN
WE ALSO CAN AND DO SHIPA GREATQUANTITY OF SASH AND DOORS AND ALLIED MATERIALS TO POINTS OUTSIDE OF OUR TRUCK DELIVERY ZONES.
R. T. Bourns, general field agent for The Union Lumber Company, of San Francisco, has been a business visitor in Texas for the past several weeks, where he has b'een investigating the possibilities of that field as a consumer of Redwood lumber both for the present and future. Texas has always been a big producer and huge consumer of Southern Pine, using a higher quality of lumber on the average than any other state in the union, but during the past two years western woods have been slowly making their entry into The Lone Star State just as a few years farther batk Red Cedar and Redwood shingles worked into that territory as the supply of Cypress shingles was reduced.
During the past six months a great quantity of western woods have been sold in Texas. The buyers of railroad materials, for instance, have been buying more Fir in Texas since January first, than they have Southern Pine. Fir finish, fir-flooring, and fir shiplap, have gone into north and west Texas in large quantities, and California White Pine has been shipping a lot of common lumber into that state.
Texas has long been a small consumer of Redwood, largely used for factory stock. Many of the city yards of Texas carry stocks of Redwood at all times. The visit of Mr. Bourn was to determine along what lines they might act to increase the consumption of Redwood in the Lone Star State.
The dealer who sells a man a jag of lumber for a new btrilding at 25t6 profit,, and then lets the fellow go up the street to buy the paint to cover the building with a 507o profit, isn't fully onto his job.
Yet there are lots o{ dealers who don't stock paint because they consider it too much trouble to handle. No man who stops to think can discount'the great advantage that comes to the dealer who sells both the building and the paint.
There is another interest that the lumber dealer has in selling paint with his lumber. If he DOESN'T, how does he know that the buyer lvon't cover his new building with a snide job of paint that rvill bring disrespect for the lumber itdelf, or that he rvon't leave it entirely unpainted, and exposed to the ill effects of the weather.
A board is much like a man. Dress him up to look like a bum, and the casual glance will convince the passer-by that he IS one.
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The type of building used by the Japanese for residences and shops has been gradually evolved and is now practically standardized, says Assistant Trade Commissioner Paul Steintorf. It is invariably of light wooden construction and in reality resembles cabinet work rather than a house in the western sense. The greater part of the lumber is cut and finished by hand on the spot. Although the general dimensions are standardized they permit of wide adaptation to meet the taste of the owner.
To a western,er the Japanese house seems to be poorly adapted to the climatic conditions obtaining in the country. The Japanese, however, are much attached to this type of construction and extremely un'ivilling to change. There has been much discussion regarding the possibility of modifying it, to better withstnad earthquake shocks and be less liable to destruction by fire. The disaster of September I gave a vivid illustration of the need for a change. N.evertheless these seems to be little doubt that in most cases there will be little variation from present types. It is probable that lighter roofs will replace the present heavy tiles which were responsible for the collapse of many buildings, and there may be certain minor modifications to reduce the fire risk.
The sills of the Japanese house consist of squared timbers ranging in size from 6x6 to l2xl2 inches, depending on the size of the building. These are morticed and fitted, either on a cement base or one of wooden piles. The floor level is us.ually from 18 to 24 inches above the ground. The exterior finish is of weatherboarding or plasterl Sliding panels of peculiarly Japanese construction take the place of American doors and windows.
The usual roofing is of tile. The floors consist of rough, unfinished softwood boards on which thick straw mats, known as "tatami," are laid. The usual height of rooms is approximately 8 feet.
At the Monday luncheon of the Lumber Salesmen's Clulr of San Francisco held at the Palace Hotel on Mav 26. Edrvard P. Ivory of the California White and Sugar-Pine Manufacturers' Association gave an interesting talk on the physical characteristics and uses of California white and sugar pine. The meeting \ ras largely attended and President Charles Moody presided over a short business session.
Approximately 5@ ner,v buildings were constructed in San Francisco during the month of May, making it one of the best construction months of the year according to information given out by Building Inspector John P. Horan.
Permits for May totalled in value $5,478,111.00, the largest of any month since August, 1922. Mr. Horan hopes to see San Francisco top its 1923 record of constructing 34,000 homes. The monthly building totals for the first five months of the vear are as follows:
The ceiling consists of thin unpainted wooden boards, laid edge to edge, lvith narror,v, unpainted cross strips. One of the outstanding features of a typical Japanese house is the fact that no paint is used, with the exception of a small amount of lacquer. The Japanese are great admirers of natural wood and attach considerable importance to its figure or grain. They also admire. gnarled.- twisted or unusual varieties, a pillar or panel of such rvood usually fgrming the "motif" for the room. Another peculiar characteristic of the true Japanese house is the very limited rrse of nails. Nearly all corners and joints are morticed and fitted by hand. Nails are seen onlv in the shinglrrrg :iud tl-r,e flooring.
L. J. Woodson, well known San Francisco lumberman, has returned from a two weeks' trip to Portland, Seattle and Tacoma- While in Tacoma, he spent a ferv days at the plant of the Wheeler-Osgood Co., the large Northwest door manufacturers. He states that building operations throughout the Northwest is very active this year. Mr. Woodson is the Pacific Coast representative of the Hardwood Products Corp. of Neenah, Wisconsin and the Northern California representative of the Wheeler-Osgood Co.
SAN JOSE, June 6.-Building operations in San Jose during the month of May showed a considerable gain over the preceding month, according to the report of City Building Inspector M. C. Woodruff, which shows the value of building permits for May as $2D,650, as against $152,450 for the month of April. Permits issued during May included those for thirty-nine new residences, one apartment house, a business block and a nelv parochial school.
The Humboldt Lumber and Building Co. of Eureka will erect a mill and dry kilns on Lawrence Creek in Humboldt County. D. H. McFarlan'is vice-president and general manag'er of th,e company.
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A Discussion of Its Bearing on the Lumber and Other Natural Resource Industrics, by Wilson Compton, Secrctary and Manager of thc National Lumbcr Manufacturers Association
Washington, June 5-In the words of Scnator Smoot, the finished revenue bill of 1924 is tlrc best that could be cxpccted in a presidential year. In other words, it was lncviable that it should be shaped with morc thought of political profit than econo- nic soundness. That being the general setting of the bill, lt should be a matter of congratulation to industry that Congress, when dealing with certain of the less spcctacular phases of the measure, has been governed by a gpirit of fairncss and justice which has even led it to correct some crrors in the designedly non-political proposals of the Treasury Department. It is not too much to say that some of the provisions of the bill that are of special intercst and concern to thc natural resource industries are superior to those of any of its predccessors since the income tax was made a feature of federal taxation.
The revenuc bill, formulated by Treasury Department experts, contained a novel provision covering the taxation of dividends, in conflict with the policy consistently heretofore pursued by Cong3ess of recognizing as propcrly tax cxempt distributions made by corporations and paid out of surplus accumulatcd by or capital invested in the corporation prior to March I, 1913.
This new provision imposed a limit upon such tax exempt distributions. Accordingly, the. amount which might bc received free of tax could not be greater than thc "cost" to the shareholder of the stock itself, or if he owned stock on March l, 1913, its "value" at t4a} time if grcater than the cost. This provision gave no regard to thc net assets. as such, of the corporation as of March l, 1913, as being tax exempt, notwithstanding the fact that the same corporation might at that timc have distributed all of its assets. in cash or in kind, to its shareholders wholly free of tax.
Furthermore, the bill treated "liquidation" as a sale of stock by the shareholder back to the corporation. The definition of liquidation, furthermore, was so broad as to make it permissible for the Treasury Department, in its administration, to hold, for example, that every time a timber owner cut a thousand feet of timber, he was "Iiquidating"- and when the profits therefrom were distributed to the sharcholders the process might bc construed as a purchase by the corpora- tion, back from its stockholders, of its own shares.
Under such circumstances the shareholder would be compelled, under the terms of the law, to 'sell" portions of his stock back to
the corporation every time hc reccivcd dividends thereorl reprcsenting profits from lumbering operations. Conscquently, in the case of stocks in companics opcrating bcfore March l, 1913, if-and when such distributions paid out of surplus earned before that time were equal to the "cost" or "valuc" as of March 1, 1913" of thc stock itself (irrcspective of the net assets of the corporation) all subsequent distributions would then become subject to incomc tax in the handr of individual shareholders. Such were thc provisions of the bill as originally drawn.
Tax-payers interested in the depleting industries such as coal, mining, lumber and paper were, of course, especially intcrested in this provision, inasmuch as the inevitablc exhaustion of raw materials requircs the liquidation of operations and ordinarily the distribution of shareholders of all asets of the corporation. These provisions werc, however of direct interest to shareholdere in all corporations dating before March 1, 1913. Thesc intcrestcd industries contended that the corporation's capital paid in and surplus accumulated before March l, 1913, was pro- perly, under the terms of the law, capiAl and not incomc, and therefore not rightfully subject to taxation as income, irrespective of when, how, or to whom distributed
for bringing to their attention a wood that rcpresents the ideal business,building combination of reasonable price, richness of (mahggan)r) finish, and toughneas under wearour TrailemarlTed
The House passed thc bill carrying thesc provisions, as formulated by Treasury experts, with an amendment providing that liquidating distributions paid but of s-urplus accumulated aftcr March l, 1913, be subject to taxation at surtax rates. and not, aa recommended by the Treasury Department, at the so-called "capital gain" ratt of twelve and one-half (l2l) per ceat. With this amendment thc bill went to the Senate.
4mendments adopted by the Senate gave definite and specific recognition to the principle of exemption from income taxation of "earnings or profits accumulated, or increase of value of property accrued, or capital invested before March 1, 1913." It also limited the meaning of "liquidation" in such manner as to confine its necessary application to disrtibutions, no of surplus, but bf "capital," as represented ordinarily by the par valuo of the capital stock. .It further provided that in the determination of the valul of stock in corporations as of March 1, 1913, "due regard" must be given to the value of the corporation's net assets at that time, the mani- fest purpose of the Senate Coinmittee in recommeading this amendmcnt being to per- mit the tax exempt return to shareholder-s of corporation stocks on March l, 1913, of the full amount of corporation's net assets which
on that date could have becn distributed tax free.
The Senatc further amended thc llouse bill in such manner as to hold liouidatinc distributions representing surplus accumul lated aftcr March 1, 1923, as subject to the capital gain rate of twelve and one-half (l2l) per centum and not to surtax rates.
The confererrce committee of the House and Sepate accepted all of these amendments protecting the shareholders' tax exempt interest in the corporation's net assets as of March I, f913, except the specific inclusion of "capital paid in'-' before-March l, 1913.
The rejection of this Senate amendment is generally held not to afrect adverscly the substantive rights of tax-payers, but probably will involve the necessity of settling by troublesome litigation the question which Congress might have easily and simply settled by legislative declaration, namely, the right of the corporation to distributa taxfree. and the right of the shareholder to receive tax-free, distributions made out of original capital paid by shareholders into the corporation before March 1, 19f3.
Congress has now, by overwhelming vote, passed the bill with these provisions as out- lined. The President is expected to sign the
The Southern California Division of the Hart-Wood Lumber Company, under the.dir,ection of Mr. T. B. Lawlence, has acquired dockage and storage facilities at San Pedro Harbor; and rvill, according to Mi. Lawrence, in the
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bill, and immediately thereafter is expccted to be taken steps looking to the early rencw- al of the cfrort to secure through firrther legislation an "economic" as distinguished from thc prcscnt "political" scttlemcnt of a Federal incomc tax problcm.
The revenue bill of 1924 gives additional protection to taxpayers who owned corpora- tion stocks on March I, 1913, and who hereafter sell thern. It will Ukewise permit, except in extraordinary cases, to shareholders who acquired their stocks on or before March 1, 1913, the return tax excmpt of the full amount of the corDoration's not assets as of that date, With iespect to tax-payers acquiring stocks in such corporations after March l, 1913, and retaining their stocks. un- til final "liquidation," it permits thc tax bxempt return of the full arnount of the corporation surplus accumulated before March I, 1913. Also in the case of liquidation of corporations the tax upon taxable distributions is at the rate of twelve and one:half (L2l) per cent.
Corporations, and shareholders, making or receiving distributions out of surplus accumulated or capital paid in prior to March I, 1913, should examine carefully these provisions.of the law and the regulations which will be applied to them. :
future store a considerable quantity of lath, shingles and car-lots of other fir products for quick shipment.
The dockage is a strip of eight hundred feet of the Outer Harbor Dock & Wharf Company, and includes about one and one-half acres of ground, with three spur tracks.
This new department is under the management of Mr. Joe Silva, San Pedro superintendent.
has long been known for the beautiful finished floors it makes.
Color and texture are exceptionally uniform and when manufactured with proper care it makes the very finest Oak Flooring it is possible to produce.
is most carefully manufactured from this Oak and mar--. a finished floor which cannot be excelled. All flooring lumber is cut to size while green and great care is taken in drying, selecting and grading.
Moisture content is carefully gauged and every precau- tion taken to redice cupping and buckling to a minimum. We will be glad to send-samples to inter6stid dealers.
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'Douglas fir, which is grown only in the-West, a-nd very largely in the Northlvest, has come to be one o,f America's mdst important timber species, advancing from fifth rank among our species cut from lumber in 1899 to seco,nd rank in 192O. The vital problem of its perpetuation has been studied for 10 years by the Wind River Forest Experiment Station maintained by the Forest Service in the -State of Washington, and Departmeht of Agricultu,re Bulletin 1200, "The Natural Regeneration of Douglas Fir in the North-
so well. Hence one slash fire may really be considered an ally of Douglas fir in helping it to maintain itself.
Copies of this publication may be obtained f,ree of charge from the Forest Service, Washington, D. C., as long as the supply lasts.
Mr.J. S. (Murph) Murphy, well k4own wholesale sash and do-or salisman, has joined the sales force of Glasby & Company, Los Angeles wholesalers of these products.. Mi. Murphy wiI cover the Kite territory, succeeding Mr. Fred W. Davies who has been transferred to the Greater Los Angeles field.
Mr. Murphy was formerly connected with F. J. Theriot, Los Angeles. west," embodying the results of those studies has just been published.
The investigations are discussed in detail ancl give ;n-
formation on the distribution, seedi.ng characteristcs, hab-
its of grorvth, and methodS of managment of this interesting and valuable giant of the Northrvestern forests. To maintain this species as the dominant type of the forest some practical rules are gi'r'en for the guidance of logging companies. Some of these are : Cut the area clean; if seed trees are needed for reproduction, leave about two per acre; broadcast burn the slash next spring or fall, but exercise caution in so doing; protect the new growth from fire.
It was found that the seed of Douglas fi'r stored in the forest floor is not seriously damaged by one' slash burning and abundant reproduction from those seeds immediately follows: Under those conditio'ns competing species, particularly lvestern hemlock and western red cedar, which withstand shade better than Douglas fir, do not succeed
Announcement has been made that the Diamond Match Company have purchased the Anderson I,umber Cgmplny yards. The Anderson Lumber Company is located at Anderson, Shasta County.
BOB GEHRING SPENDING VACATION IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY
Bob Gehring, San Francisco representative of the HartWood Lumbei Co. retail yard, is on a week's vacation at Longvale, Humboldt County. Bob expects to do a lot of fishing on the trip but will also spend a few days lookin-g oler the large redwood lumbering operations in Humboldt County.
CAN YOU THINK OF A GREATER ASSET TO BUSINESS?
AFTER T^A,KING ALL THINGS INTO CONSIDERATION; RESPONSTBILITY, EXPERIENCE PROMPTNESS, PRICES, ETC., WE SINCERELY BELIEVE THAT YOU CAN DO NO . BETTER THAN WITH THE
Frank L. Fox, president and general manager of the Fox Woodsum Lumber Compa'ny, Glendale, was host to the Chamber of Commerce of Glendale, one day last month, when he conducted t\\'enty members of the Chamber through the company's plant.
Above is a picture of the aggregation, in front of the yard, located on East California Avenue.
The Fox Wo,odsum Lumber Company, headed by Mr.
F'rank L. Fox, nor,v operates plants at Glendale, Claremont, Upland, Rialto, Colton and Redlands.
Mr. W. R. Vanderwood is Secretary of the company, and C. A. Suiter, is assibtant secretary. Frank L. Fo>r hai been in the lumber business since 1898, starting at the bottom in Lexington, Neb., under S. T. Woodsum, vice-president of the Fox-Woodsum Lumber company. Mr. Fox and Mr. Woodsum formed their business associations back in Neb,raska and in 1910 sold out. Three years later they bought the present Glendale plant.
R. F. A. ANDREE, Manager of the Edward Hines Lumber Company yard at Melrose Park, Illinois, placed an order for a'car of BAL SAM-WOOL on April 7th.
The order was shipped from Cloquet the same day it was received.
Before the car arrived it was sold out. Other orders rygre, placed. \Mithin 25 daye this yard ordered 90,(M) feet.
An unusual instancerperhaps, yet indicating one fact very clearly-BALSAM-WOOL sells. 'What's more, Mr. Andree reports that BALSAM-WOOL helps sell lumber and other materidls and in no small way either.
If you haveb,een under the lmpression that it is too early in the insulation game to sell BALSAM,WOOL in your localitli you will find this case interesting.
Mr. Andree placed his trhl orderof 7500 feet of BALSAM-WOOL in the fall oI 1923. Outsiders told
him that he was experimenting. They pointed out to him that a good share of building in his neighborhood was speculative. And whoever heard of a speculative builder using insulation, they asked.
Mr. Andree took off his coat and started to work. Being of a practical turn of mind the firet thing he did was to take a dose of his own medicine. He conducted a little experiment by lining the roof of his own home.
He displayed BALSAM-WOOL in his ofrce. Mailed out literature and samples. Talked BALSAM-WOOL to every prospect, carpenter, contractor and builder. He used the phone, the mails, and he made personal calls.Inquiries began coming in. Carpenters and contractors began tryin$ out BALSAM-WOOL in a small way.
By the time spring arrived Mr. Andree discov. ered that the BALSAM-WOOL lining in his roof had sa'ved him 5% tons of hard coal in one of the most severe of winters. Then he opened up in a big way" He had proved to himself that it was part of
Justbecatsehouses atebeingbuilt fot sale is no reasonushy they shouliln't be insuloted., says Mr. Andrce. AniI to Fooe th4t it is being done in his locality he sends olong a photngtaph shoredng setser two.family ilwell. ings und,a constraction tor which he supplieil the BALSAM,WOOL
his duty to the people in his community to sell them better homes, greater comfort, lifetime fuel savingin other vyords, BALSAM-WOOL insulation.
And from that day on sales started in earnest. To. day contractors are reporting that 80% of the new building in this locality is being insulated. ***
The Wood Conversion Company is eager to help every live lumber dealer make money in the insulation business. They don't ask you to buy a. carload at first. A trial order of 5000 or 10,000 feet and a little honest effort will start you offright.Today, right now while you are reading this announcement is the time to send in your trial order or request for prices and information.
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ST. PAUL CHICAGO BALTIMORB NEWYORK
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The Veyahaerset Sales Cqnpany h the combined selling oryankatiotr of the follot ing Weyethausa Mills and Dht:tibuting Plants: GloquctlmbcrCo.. Cloquct,Miu Hubirdl.unbc.Co. Sandpoint,I&ho fhcNortbcmluobcrCo.CloqucgMim. Edward Rudcd3cTimbcr Co. Ccud'Alre,Idaho lohmrVcntworth Co. Cloqet, Mim. Bomn Feny Lubcr Co. Boren Ferry, Idrho \Zod Conwnioa Co. Cloguct,Mim. SmeutoicFs[!LmbcrCo.SnoqualrieFllb,W.rh. PodetclrlumbcrCa.. PotLtchrldsho WeyerhrcurTimbcrCl.. . ErcrcttrVirh. EobePercacLubcrCr.. Boirc,Idaho WcyerhrcurTimbcrC-. .' Baltimrc,Md. TbonprcnY.dr'lc . .. St.Pul,Miu.
inxilotion. These houses are campletely insuLatzil itt the sid.e anlls anil toof with BALSAM.WOOL P. E.Wolf is the oumai, John A.Chiarc, the orchitrrct; and Ftank P. Cantore, the con;tl:actarr.
Mr. F. A. Andree
'611 THEN BAISAM.WOOL wae first introduced in this V V market,we placed an order for ?5OO feet. Our 6rst thought w-as to get it before the- public. More eepecially our immediate cuetomers.,We built a rack largeinougir toaccommodate a 32'roll and placed it on -displayin our ofrce. We mailed all the aviilable literature to our cuetome-reradvertieedin I'r local paper, ueed the phone and made persg"al,c-allr. It wasn'ilohg before in{uiriee began coming iri aid ealee made. .**
"One very 6ne thing about BALSAM,WOOL le that each job attractE the attention of three or four rnore ownere ald am happyto state qfiit the mlee resietance is becodring less every day. T'he ccintractors and carpenters DeciolDrng re66 oay. t ne @nttactorr ancl carDenters arevery enthusiastic over BAI-SAM.WOOL,being eaey uE ycry cuqurdus ovcr ItAtltAff^. W u\JL, befng toapplyreaving quitea coneiderable amount of time and '.'labor on each job, over otli-€r materials of this narure. ;. ,,. *,,' I
"Asy_ou- know,Ihawe placgd orden in the laet 25 days r 9O.OOOfeet. I eetinate about a durffcr million fcer for 9O,OOO.feet. a quarter -illion feet of businctc on your product thic year.
ward about taking on new buildine specialties. As a re. sult rrrany epecialty manufactureri liave ofiered their goods to retailers in other linee andthis has created a lot of competition for us. For my part I am goinq to es, tablish ouryard as local insulatioh headquariersll tke those additioiral profits. Another thin-s I like about BALSAM.WOOL is that ids made of wood. Beine a lumberman heart and soul I like to sell wood productlD
Disnibutors of \TEYERHAEUSER FOREST PRODUCT$".
dfr."r, SPOKANE, WASHINGTON,:
To give a little more than the law requires; a smile to every customer; a'helpful suggestion with every purchase; unfailing courtesy toward every complaint. To believe that business means something more than dollars and cents, and that something more than dollars and cents must be gotten out of it if we would be successes.
To believe that the Golden Rule can be applied in business and that its application means a square deal.
To believe that the men and wornen we meet in business have hearts and souls, as well as bodies, and that in our dealings with them we must inject something of ourselvesour charactersour ambitions-our consciences.
To make money to live-not to live to make money.
To try always to share with our coworkers what their brains and hearts have helped to make us.
To insure straight, fat stock, careful sticking on the kiln cars is absolutely nece$ary.
The correct seaeoning of hardwoods to meet the climatic conditions of Southetn California, is but onc of our successful efforts to serve our trade eftciently.
FOR IE,N AI{D TWENTY YEARS
Thcrc GUARAITITEED P IONEER
ROOFS "r" ooriib.iog rpcciGcd by lcadn ' ing rrchitectl. .Dcalcrr who carry Pionccr productt will bcncfit from thir iatcnrivc ralcl crnpeign.
For 13 yean thir ompany has been ma,king trudrq mormtain rtager, city, inter city and street raihuay burscr. Its truckg and burser have made good frqn logging camps to the lighte* delivery wodr.
Built by wertern men who lmow wertern conditionc; they are ruperior for wor* under thece conditionr.
$1,(X!O,(X)O in Rc p ei r Partr Agrrer Sqricc Att Ovcr thc Cout.
afe how cutting from fifteen to eighteen million feet per year, of all gr,ades of gum, and Forked Leaf and Cow Oak, which is said to be of a very fine texture.
George C. Brown & Company rvas formed in Tennessee about thirty-five vears ago. They make a specialty of Tennessee Aromatic Red Cedar, cutting close to one million feet per month of this stock, and shipping a large pdrtion of this amount to the Pacific Coast. Their operations for red cedar are located at Birmingham, Ala., Greensboro, N. C,. and Huntsville, Ala. In addition they have many small mills located in the mountains, cutting cedar from scattered tracts.
This company pays particular attention to the drying of their stocks, and have spent considerable time in the laying out of the drying yards at the Grenada mill. They have installed all gravel alleys, all bottoms are of concrete, and the yard is high and well drained on a piece of ground that has four sides exposure with very litle forest growth rvithin a half mile.
These pictures, of the operations of George C. Brown & Company, Memphis, at their hardwood mill at Grenada, Miss., will be interesting to the rvestern dealer.
The mill, pictured in the swampy region of this great hardwood state, was built by this co'mpany in 1922. after they had dismantled their operations on a tract of land in Arkansas, after ten years cutting in St. Francis and Crittenden Counties.
They moved their entire mill to Grenada, where they
Lumbermen find Hipolito Stock Size Window Screens and Screen Doors a source of considerable profit. Th"y are pre-8old by advertising.
Builders and contractors know their merit-their time and money saving possibilities. Home owners know them too, and frequently demand Hipolitos. Quality made known by advertising does it. 'And dealers pro6t.
One retail lumber merchant reports that the first season he tried the selling of bathroom fixtures and sanitary equipm'ent to the farmers of his territory, he made more profit on that sideline alone than he did on all the rest of his saleq. Of course, that department had never been worked before, he had a virgin field to try his hand on, and the re'sults were accordingly fine.
But it is a worth-while opportunity for the country yard operator. It is only a mighty few years since the farmhouse with a bathroom was an oddity. But farmers, like all others, are l,earning the modern things, and the plan
MY TPYXST
"My tYpust is oi hor vacutoin, My tryist's awau fpr a week, My trupdt us in hwr vacarion, Wgile thse damu kews plsy hudge and s,eek.
Cjoras:
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N. W. Bank Bldg. Portlard, One.
We Spccialize in Graye Harbor OLD GROWTH YELLOW FIR Finish and Vertical Grain Flooring. If you fike extra good quality Red Cedar Shingler we can funrirh thern"
book folks are helping the gogd w-glk. by .showing a bathroom evbn in the cheapbst plan oi-iibme {iiei draw.
Bob I1g9pg!.qaid that it was not necessary tq !i,v,e like a pig ip order to raise one, and the 4godbg Jarmer. today,is receptive to the idea of a modern bathroom. The mod,ern lumber dealer can furnish it, directly and indirectly. -Aia by so doing he will make a profit for himself, and a fliBfd of the farmer and his family. i i
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(Contributed) ' 'le:lV/"
Knot holes-made to craw-l throqgh b";;;ti8: sell.
Shaving-now applicable to,.pricesras well:aS to men's faces.
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Doesn't need much soft-soap to start it, .ith"r. .i,
And the unusual number .6f "cuts'n seem to
FAT'S FILOSOFBES ') rriirr:'i o1 prevail.
Some salesmen can qualify ,fqF ,"underweights,' now.
Grade-norv applies to railroad crossirigs, lumber and the color;of salestnen's hair;.
Atso
Cepacitr lOm Doon Dr&.
Hi;b Gradc Srod3 rDd nird crrl orl rpccirfty. All doorr nadc mrtbc lnd too"
How thoroughly the modern industrial concern ahalyzes its products and their various improvements before releasing them to the commercial world is exemplified. in the case of The Paraffine Companies, Inc., that tested on the roof a surfacing improvement on its roofing for ten years before marketing.
, W. H. Lowe, geheral manag'er of the paint, Roofing and Floor Covering division of the company, and well known to Pacific Coast lumbermen, describes the test thusly:
"When the Paraffine Paint Company was organized forty years ago the second product it put on the market was a roofing paper treated rvith 'P and B, paint, famed for its durable qualities.
"Prior to September 3, 1921, all roofing of this type required repainting about every three years. Officials of the company were certain that better roofing was not being made than its Malthoid, but rvere equally certain that the gamut of improvements on it had not been run.
"So the company's corp of expert chemists was galvanized into action and the result of the men's reseerch toil, extehding over a 'period of several months was a special surfacing or coating for the prepared type of roof.
"Special machinery was installed in the paraffine plants and the special surfacing canot be done on any other type of machinery. The company thus can claim the credii tf
not only having invented the roofing, but improving won; derfully over its own brainchild.
"Pabco roofs were treated with this special surfacing and test runs were instituted. For ten years the tests were kept under constant observation
"For three years it was discovered that specially-treated roofing needed no paint.
"In 1915-five years after the tests begah-the roofing with the special surface gave tangible evidence that it was actually improving with age. Now the tests simmered down to a race with Time. The following year came and passed, and the seventh did likewise.
"Still the new type of roofing 'stood up.' Tn 19fr it had reached its tenth ye.ar without appreciable deterioration:-
"The Paraffine Companies, Inc., then realized that its tests had succeeded. Its special surfacing was to be the factor in revolutionizing its established methods of making roofs.
"The thoroughness of the tests the firm made on the roofing is but in line with the policy of the concern to make its products better. It spends thousands of dollars annually for this sole purpose, and its object is not selfish. For the directors of the concet'n have often been quoted as stating that the company takes more pride in the realization that its products are giving unusual satisfaction than the mere monetary return that accrues from sales alone."
From the "Head Saw," monthly organ published by the Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills:
"Did you know that if all the lumber and shingles manufactured by the Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills for the last twenty-five years were placed in one freight car it would be 600 miles long, and the train would reach from Bellingham over into western Montana?"
ASH
BIRCH
BASSWOOD
CEDAR
GUM
HICKORY
MAPLE
MAHOGANY
OAK
POPI.AR
SUGAR PINE
SPRUCE
WALNUT
WHITE PINE
HARDWOOD FI.OORING
OVERSEAS DEMAND FOR SOUTHERN HARDWOODS HEAVTER THAN FOR TWO YEARS. THE AMERICAN OVERSEAS FOR. WARDING COMPANY R.EPORTS BOOKTNGS FOR lgOO CARS. DETROTT REPORTS MARKED IMPROVEMENT IN INDUS. TRIAL BUYING.
BETTER TNQUIRY FROM BUTLDTNG TRADES IS REPOR,TED FROM ALL PRODUCING SECTIONS.
SCARCITY OF STOCKS IN SHTPPING DRY CONDITION.
You can't raire a hill of potatoes without udng a hoe.
BIG BUSINESS COMES FROM DIGGING
ht's all dig in and "Keep the White Spot White"
hererveo Within Orr Products
Nature'e Sturdy and Beautiful Quditiec.
MODERN MACHINERY AND SKILTED HUMAN EFFORT JUSTIFIES OUR SLOGAN
STRAIGHT or MIXED CARS
OAK FI.OORING
GUM FLOORING
AROMATIQUE CEDAR LIMNG
wHITE oI,x t'nru RED oAK TRIM
RED GUM TRIM
CASING BASE
SAP GUM TRIM MOULDINGS
OAK WAGON STOCK GUM R'RNITURE BEECH FLOORING STOCK
Furniture Stock in Setg CUT TO SIZE R*dv to Asscmble
FIat Surfacer Har&rood Tdm Sanded
9: M. Clark, Representative Lor Angelee Chicago Lumber Co. of Wa!h. San Fnncicco
It is said that rorne epecier of wood can be found in the Philippineg to ruit almort any irnaginable purpose that the uter may have in mind.
Pacific Southwest Import Co. har iust published an interegting and instructive booklet on "Philippine Hardrroode and Their [Jses.t'
It giver importent factc conccrning a|| of the principal cpecier of hardrroodr found on the Islan&.
If you are uring hardwoo& for any pur. posefurniture, cabinet work, interior trim, fooring, tool handlee and heavy construction, you will find inforrnation of in. terest to you in the folder.
Write for a copy. No obligatbn attaclrcd.
We are direct importen of dl Philippine hardwoodr, inctuding Fhilippine Mahogany, Tangrile, Guigo, Yacd Apitong and othcr varictier.
Apitong and other varietiea
Pricee, deliveriea and otbcr infonnation gladly furnirhed upon requelt.
TUMBER C(lI
9(n Fifc Btds.
Scn Franeirco '
Phone Dug. 3415
rirHIrp, PINE
SUGAR PINE
DOUGLASI FIR
REDWOOD
FIR PAI'IEI.S and DOORS
Scod your aryinel to ur or to orr Southcrn rqrrcontativcl:
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FORTIAND ORE. SAN FRANCISCO' CAL. 510 N. W; Bantr Bldg. r@2 MtUr Blds'
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Pbonc TRilitt ,CJt
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"Wholaslerc of Pacilic Coast Woods"
At 326-327 L. G. Bartlett BldgLOS ANGEI ES
lfrb 3176
EXCLUSIVE SAI Fs AGEI'ITS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND ARIZONA FOR NORTHWESTERN'REDWOOD COMPAI{Y
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Rril end Cargo Shipneotr FIR-PINE,-SPRUCE
Mlin 3177
The California Retail Lumbermen's Association will hold .t-he.ir annual picnic at San Diego, on Friday and Saturday, June 20th and 21st.
On Friday night there will be a banquet at 7 P.M. at the Hotel San Diego, and reservations for this event can
Redwood and Dotrglas Fir Lumber
be made through Mr. G. F. Huff, Union Oil Building, t"8J#:;day
there will be an all day picnic at Batboa/ Park, under the auspices of the San Diego lumbermen, and the affair promises to be brilliant in every way.
Nortrhern California Agents
Menefee Superior Lumber Products
112 Market Street
San Francisco
Phone Sutter 398
We do the Rest-TRY US REPRESENTATIVES
Sacramento Valley and San Joaquin Valley
Wdter Baker
Sonoma Valley and Coast Territory
Lewis A. Godard
San Francisco and Oakland
Walter Brown
Moore'e netural draft and mechanical recirculating kilnr of practical and modern types.
Complete line of dry kiln eguipment, ruch ar trucka, tranrfer cars, recording and regulating instnrmerrts, lumber lifu and fat and edge lumber stackers.
H. S. Fuller, of the Fuller Lumb,er Co., Lodi, was a San Francisco visitor over Memorial Day where he spent a few'days calling on his'lumbermen frii:nds.
Gilbert D. Foster, general manager of Foster's Planing Mill of Vall'ejo, was i recent San Francisco visitor wheri he spent a few days looking over lurriber conditions in the Bay District. He reports that the lumber business in the Vallejo District is good and that there is considerable building activity going on in that section.
The Hart-Wood Lumber Co., at Fifth and Berry Streets, San Francisco, was menaced by fire on the morning of June 1. A shed of stored lumber was destroyed with d1mbge estimated at several thousand dollars. The source of the fire is undetermined.
l_ W._R. Sayre, of the W. R. Sayre Lumbre Co., Inc., of San Francisco, has returned from a five weeks' business trip throughout the east to look over conditions in the white and sugar pine ryarket. Mr. Sayre visited Chicago, New York, Bgs_!on, Philadelphia, and oiher pine consuming points in the Mississippi Valley.
, The York Bradford Box Factory, located at 663-665 f{oward Street, San Francisco, waj destroyed by fire on the night of June 1 with a loss of approximaiely g20,000.00.
O Paddy dear, and'did you,hear the news that's going 'round ?-
The lumber market is so queer, it hardly can be found. St. Patrick's Day or any day, it doesn't matter much: A price the Irish will not pay, and neither will the Dutch.
I met with Napper Tandy and I took him by the hand And I said, "How's poor old Business, and how does she stand ?"
"It is the most distressful market that ever you hav0
B,ecause you cannot sell the stuff, bone dry or wet and green." r
"Then since the market is so bad, the price so very low,"
Said I to Napper, "Maybe, lad, you helped to make it so.
Instead of standing where you stood when things began to slip,
You thought that any price was good as long as you could ship.
As long as you will take th,e price and let the lurirber go,
As long as you won't take advice, the himber will be low.
But, if you hold it, bye-and-bye a wonder will be seen : The folks who wouldn't take it dry will be glad to get it green !"
-Author Unknown.
Chas. R, McCormick, President, and J. S. Brown, Secretari, of Chas. R. McCormick & Co. of San Francisco, have returned from a ten days business trip to Portland and St. Helens Oregon. I!Ir. McCormick states that the mills in the Northwest have made considerable curtailment in production, also that many of the large logging operators have started to curtail their output. While in the Northwest, they were callers at the offices of E. H. Meyer of Portland, manager of the Chas' R. McCormick & Co' op'erations in the Northwest and they also visited the company's mills and creosoting operations at St' Helens.
Mr. R. E. Tracy, who handles the retail sales of Friend and Terry Lumber Company, at Sacramento, making a journey by automobile down the coast, stopping at most of the cities on the way, and making a study of plan service rooms.
The Monrovia yard of the W. J. Bettingen Luniber Company, has been sold to George T. Blamer, and his son George T. Blamer Jr., who will concluct the business under the name of Blamer & Son.
This yard is one of eleven operated by the Bettingen interests, and it is understood that the sale of this yard does not affect the balance of their operations.
I\4r. Blamer Sr., has been the manager of this pl,ant si'1rce it opened in 7972 and his son has been acting as asslstant rnanager for the past eight months.
Mr]Blanre,r Sr., is an -otd trand at the lumber game. He received his initial training in Iowa, starting in t892.
Mr. Joe Rolando, of the Los Angeles offices of the HartWood -Lumber Company, was recently transferr'ed to the San Francisco headquarters of the company.
He will be working in the northern city permanently.
Mr. C. H. Griffen Jr., Secretary of the Homer T. Hayward Lumber Company has been confined irr the hospital for the past two weeks. He lvas operated upon fo,r appendicitis.
By man with twelve years experience in retail wholesale and manufacturing lumber. Good estimator and salesman. Can furnish references. Know I can make good. Address, Box "L," care California Lumber Merchant.
Young man, 8 years of age, desires connection with retail firm in" Southern California as assistant manager o,r in other responsible capacity. Now connected with one of the largest mills on the coast. Four years experience as traveling salesman. Highest references furnished. Will be in Los Angeles June 20th for interviews. Address Box "P" care California Lumber Merchant.
A new lumber company in palo Alto needs an ambitious yo.ung. salesman. Write and give age, ex_ pertence, and why you belier-e you can make eood ' with us. Merner Lumber Co., palo Alto, Califo-rnia.
Manufacturerr of C,alifornia White and Suglr Pine Lumber Milb at Surenville and Hilt, Cd. I50,OOO,OOO Fea Annud Cepacity
B. W. ADAMS, Mgr. Saler Dcpt. Fint National Bank Bldg. - San Franeirco
Located in prosperous San Francisco B"y Qty. Water and rail facilities. Fully equipped planing mill rvith new modErn machinery. Lumber racks. sheds, warehouse and lumber trucks.
Good established trade and has been a money maker from the start. Reason for selling due to other business interests.
Flxcellent opportunity for an experienced lumberman and mill-man.
Address Box S, Care C,alifornia Lumber IVlerchant.
126-/12A-430 Santa Marina Building ll2 Market Strect San Francieco
REDWOOD and FIR LUMBER
CED^A,R SHINGLES
Specialticr
Humboldt Split- Redwod Grape Stakea, Tiee, Shakc Dd posts Sam Redwod Shakes and Shirigter
SELLING AGENTS
Cazadero Redwood Lluber Co., Cuadcro, Calif. Band Sawn Redwood ud Fir Lumbcr
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REPRESENTATIVES
Wilfred Coopcr Lumber Co. Loa Angel6, Cdif.
WHOLESALE LUMBER
REDWOODDOUGLAS FIR SUGAR PINE-WHITE PINE SPRUCE
wE ltouclT YouR INQUTRIES
32r-322 SHELDON BLDG., SAN FRANCITTCO Tdcpbouc Doqb ?Sfs
BOUGHT, SOLD AND E;KCHANGED
INDUSTRIAL PRoPERndliIsoUTHERN cALIFoRNIA
EDGAR S. HAFER
(lficc: Clerl Hotcl, fth erd Hill Stroetr LOS ANGELES, CAL. Tclcphonc Frbor ltl
Sheathing and lath combined in one piece.
Reduces material cost.
Reduces laboir bost.
Special advantages where quick-drying patent plasters are used.
Cracking and scaling particularly on outside work greatly reduced.
Approved by building codes.
HOME BUILDERS save money and get a better and more serviceable iob.
CONTRACTORS save labor expense and duplication of work.
DEALERS find it a quick and easy seller and a profitable item.
Byrkit Lath is a
Made by the largest producers of California Pines Try
