These pfospects that afe sent to retail yalds stocking Redwood afe wortfi mohey to those who are wide awake and follow them up.
A careful'survey of tt,000 pfosPects recently received brings to light the following facts : Out of every 12 prospects :
3 build within 6 months, and 2 use fudwood.
I build z.uithin 18 months, and 4 use fuduood, Approxjmately half of the Redwood dealers who have written commenung on the PfosPects received, say that they definitely produce new business.
These prospects afe received through national advertising. They are people who are seriously considering their new homes. They havb not y.t secured a. contfactof, in most instances, and arc rcady to listen to youf stofy. Be first on the ground, and get the business.
If you stock Redwood, but have not been receiving the list of pfoqpects in your neighborhood, nodfy us to Put you on the list.
If you have been discarding the list, gla nce ^garn at the figures above.
Be sure to ask us for your coPy of "California Redwood." It gives Lccvtate information on dozens of woods as well as Redwood. It costs you nothing.
Separate a plywood panel at the glue-line. I f it has been glued with Lauxein, brilliant, I gleaming spangles (or particles) will show plainly. This Spangled Glue Line is a mark of 7 identification-it is expressive of the confidence of the manufacturer in his product. This confidence is founded on experience. Millions of feet of Lauxein Glued panels have stood the test of time. In doors, in auto bodies, in furniture-in countless uses-Lauxein Glued panels have withstood heat and cold, wind and weather. Lauxein is the backbone of Pacific Plywoods.
All glue manufactured since June, 1928, bears this identification mark-
Subrcription Pricc, $2.|X| pcr Ycar Single Copier, 25 centr cach.
In a formal review of the porition of the lumber industry, Wilson Compton, Secretary and Manager of the National Lumber Manufacturera Aarociation, in the association weekly report of June 7, xayez t'The lumber industry has rarely been in a more favorable stati*ical position. Fundamentally, the supply and demand relation in the lumber indurtry as a whole is more favorable than at any time during the part five years. Reported new businesa booked go far this year har exceeded production by 1O per cent. Nor for many years, have tfrere been ro widely diverrified outlets for lumber, including export, coartwbe end rail trade, for both conrtruction and ind'ustrial conrumption."
According to tte report the total roftwood lumber rlov€ment for the frrrt 22 w*kc of 1928, ghows: Production, 5433,355,363 feet; Shipmentr, 517411267,895 feet; Orders, 6,012,567,088 feet.
For the millr of the Wert Coart Lumberments Asrociation, the report shows for this same period: Production, 2r543r-' 306,813 feet; Shipmentr, 2,6O11181,067 feet; Orderr, 2r822,337,769 feet.
For California White and Sugar Pine, the report shows for this period: Production, 433,878100O feet; Shipments, 546,295'00O feet; Orders, 551r414,OO0 feet.
Here are the figures for Southern Pine for thia period: Production, 114761089195o feet ; Shipments, 1 156310841218 feet; Orders, 1,574,(XX),319 feet.
The report rhows the total hardwood movement for the first 22 weeks of the year, aa follows: Production, lr027r-
The Holmes Eureka Lumber Co. have adooted the trade mark'1HE" which is the intitials of the firm name. In a letter sent to the retail trade of California introducing their symbol, Fred Holmes, sales manager says:
"Let us introduce you to a real HE man. We want him to typify Holmes Eureka products. We want him to represent the best grades, of uniform high quality, properly manufactured-giving an over-measure of satisfaction.
"IIe works for us and he will work for you. He can ship you identified products. IIowever, whether or not his HE initials are on each piece, he will be on the job to help you make friends, to help you put your sales on a quality and character basis that will discount price considerations.
"He is a fine, strong fellow, ruggedly honest; he knows his business and is a help to any lumberman. Whenever you receive some HE Quality products he is at your service. Put him to work. He will be as beneficial to you as he is to us."
232rOOO feet; Shipments, 1,M1,163,O00 feet; Orders, l'' O63,294,00O feet.aaSt<a
The California Dougl,as fir cargo market showed further drenglhening during the part two weeks. Clears are rtronger and pricer are also a little stiffer in the common grader. The market is very finn. The volume of businesr is very ratirfactory and tfiere is no trouble to sell lumber.
The 6r rail market is following along with the cargo rnar' ket and prices have advanced. Pricer are very firm. There ie practically no low grade stooh to be had,anywhere. No. 1 comroon har advanced frorn 5Oc to $1.OO in the past two weeks and kiln dried clears advanced $2.0O in the rame period.
Lath are scarce and the market is firm" Shingles remain about tfie rame.
Redwood. California sales chow an increare in volume. Most mills are running only five days a week. The South Amqican market continues active. For the week ending Jrme 2, the barometer for the California Redwood ^A,sao. ciation, shows: Ord'ers Received, TrMi M feet; Production, 7,017 M feet; Shipments, 7,319 M feet.
California White and Sugar Pine. Com,mons and rhop lumber have strengttrened in both white and sugar pine. Pine and white fir dimension are in good demand with a atronger price tendency. Box lumber and No. 3 clear are also in good demand. Most of the larger milli are running only five and one-half days a wee&.
L. V. Graham, vice-president and general manager of the Chicago L,]umber Company of Washington, Oakland, is truly optimistic about the outlook for business this year.
"We have all the business we can handle. and our mill is running overtime," said Mr. Graham recently to a representative of this paper. "We are employing more men now than ever before since we started operating this plant. Our mixed car service is becoming more and more popular with retail dealers, and having added Philippine Mahogany to the wide variety of woods we carry in stock, we can now ship six different kinds of wood in one car."
"There is a noticeable increase in the number of dealers who are handling built-in fixtures, and we are making it easy for them to handle these by shipping anything in this line, such as breakfast nooks, ironing boards, kitchen cupboards, medicine cabinets, flour bins, etc., in mixed cars with doors, windows, mguldingq q4d any kind of lumber."
"We oldtimers like to brag about 'Old Fashioned White Pine'and the doors and millwork made by the old masters of colonial days. "Here is a door made of pine that would cheer the heart of the crankiest old craftsman and
to hold its shape in spite of Time and the elements."
Paul Bunyon Story Booh Mailed Free.Look at the way thig slab door is made. All small blochs laid together with broken joints and locked with a tongue and groove "B." "A" shows the edge strips for. lnishing and htting; "C" the pair of 5-inch dowels evety l2 inchee and "D"-the spline that locks every member. At eve,ry joint "E' the ilue covers 100 -percent of the area. "F' rhornrc the ven"ir and "G" the direction of the heavy pressure that unites the whole assembly into one unit.
are generally first sold on PAUL BUI{YAN'S | 00 PER CENT CORES because their light weight saves freight. 'With use their superior strength and freedom from distortion is apparent.
There are few "comebacks" where PAUL BUNYAN'S | 00 PERCENT DOORS and DOOR CORES are used. This is of vital importance to the Manufacturer, Builder and Dealer. We rnake and sell cornplete d,oors and interlocked, core stocks.
They say that "I told you so" is bad manners, but perhaps we may be forgiven for reminding you that since the first issue of this journal in 1928 we have been telling you in every issue that this is going to be a big lumber year, that lumb'er is going up, that there is dynamite waiting to be touched off, etc. And'now it's here. So you'Il pardon us if we chortle just a bit. And rvhen we remember the many kinds of fools we have been called by very good friends for our "foolish optimism", we chortle the louder.
It's about time now for some of our competitor lumber journals to begin predicting this situation.
And now we'll tell you something else. This thing hasn't started good yet. The market will be stronger and higher the first of August than it is now. And it's going to be good all through the year. That's as far as our guess goes right now.
The Philippine Mahogany interests will appeal their.case to the Supreme Court of the United States. Splendid ! "We have not yet begun to fight", will be their slogan. The big men in the Philippine business have the courage of their convictions, and they are honest in their cliims in this matter. They do NOT believe that there is or ever has been any public interest at stake. They do NOT believe that the public is being injured in any way. They DO believe that this is strictly a commercial fight, and they propose to go all the way through with it. They believe that interference with honorable trade practices is unjust. They agree with Judge Swan of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals that "interference with such commercial usage does not seem justift?t"j'
And "California Pine" is going to be stoutly defended, from all evidence. The California White and Sugar Pine Association passed punchful reselutions against dropping the name "California White Pine" from the rostef of American woods, and asks that opinion be reserved until the matter is settled in the courts. * *
"Kaleidoscopic" is the only known word that fully describes the changes that pass over the face of this lumber industry of ours. It reminds rne of the way a chameleon changes color, so almost instantaneous is the operation. A few weeks ago the mills of the Northwest were crying for orders at any price. Today they are hiding out from the multitude of anxious would-be buyers. When the buyer corners a mill man, he (the mill man) tells him how little he can have, and how much it is going to cost. Truly, this is a marvelous industry.
Retail lumber prices will never again go back to the low level that has prevailed in Southern California for the past year, in Los Angeles particularly. Lumber has been delivered on the job for a long time for less money than it is actually worth at the mills up north. It will never go back there again. "Them days are gone forever." Tell your trade that, because it's true, and they should know it.
In the May issue of "The United States Banker," \l[/. M. Ritter, of Chicago, well known hardwood manufacturer and merchant, presents a well written article on "Lumber and the Bankers." He emphasizes the point that lumber is an industry here to stay, warranting continued banker interest. Not much need to worry about that. "Interest" is certainly mutual between these two parties.
And you, Mr. Lumber Dealer ! Are you making it your business to see that every home owner and building user in YOUR sales district enjoys the benefit of your IDEAS and your SUGGESTIONS and yotrr MATERIALS for modernizing and improving those buildings this summer? Are you bringing to their attention all the lovely things that YOU can do for THEM. Or are you still sitting tight and waiting for business "to develop," for your contractor friends to bring in something? If you are, don't kid yourself ! Youle not a merchant! You're still a wood yard man!
You willtead in the news columns that Robert H. Downman is dead. And when you do, place the notation in your consciousness that there has passed away one of the most powerful, one of the most useful, one of the most forceful, and one of the most successful individuals that ever manufactured lumber, in this or any other country. He died one of the wealthiest lumbermen in America. But it was not his wealth that made Bob Downman an outstanding man in the industry he loved. It was his vision, his decision, the crushing force with which he drowned opposition to what he thought was right-his unusual organization mindedness. He chose Cypress as his pet lumber species. And he was the pivotal figure that created the Cypress Association, organized the Cypress advertising campaign, and carried it forrvard to a wonderful termination. And the ridriter will never forget the dominating figure of that splendid man, when opposition arose in Cypress ranks to the Cypress program. With sledgehammer blows, and ponderous fist thrust out, he drove home his points, always to win. Pray God that more men of the Bob Downman type come to this lumber industry of ours.
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Com.paratioely lree lrom suelling and, shrinking uith atmospheric changes.
Is not resinous-d.oeE not burn easily,
Imrnune trom d,ecay and, raoages ol uhite ant.
Red,uood, forms an id,eal base lor applieation of paint.
The rich colorings ol Redwood make it the id,eal wood, lor interior finish.
With its remarkable d.urability, Red.wood, has no superior for exterior use.
REDWOOD offers many sales features for the retail lumber dealer. Its adaptability for interior and exterior use, its durability and immunity frdm decay, makes this wood preferable for so many forms of construction. Your eustomerso if Redwood customerso will always be satisfied.
Hammondts, through direct source-of supply from Hammond mills, maintainlarge reserye stocks of Redwood in all grades and sizes. Your orders for this class of lumber will be filled quiekly and you can always depend on the guality of grade and manufacture.
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If there was not a single new home built in YOUR district this season, Mr. Lumber Dealer, your business would still ride a wave of prosperity if you were living and working and think{ng up to the possible level of your business. That's as true as Gospel, and it doesn't make any difference who you are or where you a?e located.' But 5/ou've got to go-get-em. It will never happen to the wait-for-em.
The new porch, the newer and better windows, the late model doors, the mirrored door for the bed or bath, the cedar closet that keeps the bugs away, the new clothes closet with hangers and shoe tack and shelves and drawers, and Oh ! those wonderful built-ins that you can use to improve every room in the house, the wall-boarded attic, and the scores upon scores of things inside and out that people NEED, that YOU can furnish, but for which the demand must be CREATED. Most of these needs are PASSM. The owner doesn't even realize he is in the market. You must do that BUILDING THINKINGand the THINKING must precede the BUILDING-if you know what I mean.
"When we're gleen, we grow; when we think we're ripe, we're getting rotten," said the sage. In the last year or so I have found a disposition among lumber dealers to feel that they have made much progress, have kept up with the times, are fulfilling their destiny very well indeed. And yet the fact is that the average dealer, even the one who proclaims himself a merchant in most decisive terms, is not even scratching the surface of his possibilities. He isn't equipped, he isn't thinking, and he isn't working half enough. There isn't a dealer anywhere who isn't completely surrounded by PASSIVE prospects for business that he doesn't even seem to susp€ct the presence of. Develop them, and the Genii of success obeys your command. t*rf
Don't worry so much about the "building permits," and their present volume as contrasted to some time in the past. Let the past alone. And rernember that there has always been plenty of volume in California to make everyone in the industry prosperous had they got a decent price and profit. It isn't volume we need. It's cooperation and common sense and a little good merchandising.
Thru good times and tough going our mills and steamers
are running-our sales force is at your service-our lumber products keep coming to California. 'We can give you the items you want for prompt delivery. Manufacturers and Wholesalers 633 Petroleum Securitice BIdg. Loa Angelee WEstmore 0229
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Union Oil Company has perfected a super heavy-duty grease that more efficiently lubricates crank pins on donkey engines, locomotive journal boxes, line shaft, and other bearings that have a tendency to run hot.
This grease is called EBONCUP. It maintains its body and forms a perfect lubricating cushion no matter what the bearing temperature. It does not waste away. It reduces metallic wear and tear to a point that has never been considered possible heretofore.
tIEngineers using EBONCUP say that it lubricates more efficiently than any similar product that they have ever used.
Try it yourself ! Secure a supply at the nearest Union Oil distributing station. Put it to work on the most difficult jobs you have at the mill or in the woods. Compare it with the lubricant you are now using. Then base your future orders for heavy-duty grease on thatcomparison.
Ruseell Gheen, the yormg man with ttre infectious smile and the pleasing baritone vocal equipment, splendidly represents the C. D. Johnson Lumber Company in the free city of San F'rancisco.
Mr. Gheen served his country during the World War as First Lieutenant in the l28th Field Artillery, and was promoted to a Captaincy on the battle field; but he admits that he never really knew what war was until he got into the lumber business on the illgcific Coast. It is probably proper to remark that a man doesn't really know what war ig until he. gets into the \restern lumber game, no mattel what his previous experiences may have been.
Thls Mr. Gheen has had a variety of experience in his still youthful career that is most interesting and unusual, having been forestei, lumber advertising and trade promotion man, wholesdeq and mill representative, within a very short space of years.
lle was born on a farrno thus qudifying for the office of President at some futur! time. He came of Quaker stock and first saw the light of day in Chester County, Penn He got through High School and Junior .College, and then studied Forestry at Pennsylvania State College, taking the degree of. Bachetror of Forestry. Then he took gradqate \rork at Syracuse University, where he graduated in 1914 with degree of Master of Forestry, after which for five years he was a member of the faculty of New York State College of Forestry, teaching forestry.
In l9l7 he became mnnager of the Trade Extension Department of the Southern Pine Association, at Ner Orleans. Then the war came on and he did his duty, was promoted, as stated, on the battle field, and saw much active duty at the fro{rt in the Verdun Sector. Ho came back from war, and went back to teaching forestry at Syracuse, then joined the trade extension department of the American Wholesale Lumber Association, in Chicago. ln 1922 he camq west as buyer for the Mcleod Lumber Company, and was promoted to Manager of their ofices in Portland. He was married on Jung 2t,,1922,-to Lguige C_ou4tiss. fn 1924 he came to California as Manager of the Los Angeles office of the'C. D. Johnson Lumber Company. Later he was transferred to San Francisco as manager of iheir o6ce in that city, and there he is.
With such an education; such a foundation, so delightful a personality, plent5r of pep and bunch and fellowship and lots of ambition, a young man ought to get along, and this vouric man apprlars to be doing it. Ho haa bcen a wclcome addition to the San Franciaco iumbJr frater-nity, is highly thought of in thc Bay District, his acquaintances are all friendr, and he ia very much worth while.
The Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco, announces that R. Frederickson, an expert on shingles, from Seattle, is now in charge of their shingle department. Mr' Frederickson, who has had a lot of experience in the shingle game, both in the manufacture and marketing ends of the Eusiness, will devote all his time to the sale of shingles, specializing on the sale of Fitite Colonial Shakes, Fitite Cedar Tile, and Starks Twice Stained Shingles.
The Santa Fe Lumber Company began an intensive campaign a few months ago to educate the State of California t-o the use of the betier grade shingles, and according to Harry Officer, sales managlr, they are very well satisfied with results up to now, and anticipate a steady monthly increase for the remainder of this year.
"'We find that Califon,ia is getting away from cheap shingles," said Mr. Officer to a representative of this paper. "The results of a recent survey made by us clearly show that a great majority of the lumber dealers in this state report an increasing demand on the part of the consumer foi. better grade shingles. Many of the dealers say that it takes very little talk to convince a prospective home owner or re-roofing prospect that a few dollars extra spent on his roof is well spent money."
"Our survey also reveals that approximately 6O per cent of the homes in the older towns in the valleys are prospects for re-roofing, and with assistance of the literature on reroo'fing with wooden shingles issued by the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, many dealers are going after this business and cashing in on it."
-"All of our shingle sales are made through retail yards, of course. We are exclusive ag'ents for Califbrnia for-Fitite Colonial Shakes. These are 24 inches long, and r/z in., 9/16 in. and 1 in. in thickness. Fitite CEdar Tile are 9/16 in. an.d 1 in. thick, and are manufactured in one width only, 6 inches."
"Just a word about color. People are demanding color now in practically everything they buy, and we predict a great increase in the sale of stained shingles in California, now that we are getting away from the ,cheap shingtes. We recommend shingles twice stained by. the Starks staining process. Stains manufactured by the Starks Manufacturing Co. of Seattle have stood the test of time in all climates."
The bi-anniral convention of the General Federation of Women's Club was held in the muncipal auditorium, San Antonio, in the week beginning May 28. The convention was attended by 6000 women from all over United States and from 14 foreign countries.
One of the features of the convention was a five-room bungalow which was built in the basement of the auditorium. Peerless Built-In Fixtures were selected for the kitchen of this bungalow without solicitation.
This valuable publicity for built-in fixtures will undoubtedly have far reaching effects.
Petrich-Saur Lumber Co. are agents for this line of builtin fixtures in the San Antonio territory. They devote 200 Square feet of space in their display room to their exhibit of these.
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We told you May 15th to get busy and bny lumber.
The third annual picnic of the combin'ed lumber and steamship departments of the Chas. R. McCormick organization, San Fra.ncisco, got away to an auspicious start at 9:0O o'clock, Wednesday morning, May 30th. As the launch pulled away from the dock at the foot of Howard Street there were approximately 200 light-hearted souls aboard.
The weather was ideal, and after a pleasant and all-tooshort ride, the party was landed at Paradise Cove at about 1O:3O.
Immediately upon arrival, the long sought for event began, the baseball game between two picked teams of men. Although the game was hotly contested for the five or six innings that were played, it ended in a disputb, both sides claiming the victory and at the time of writing the umpire has not yet given his decision.
The excitement of the game, the boat ride and the abundance of fresh air, made the call for lunch only too welcome. and the party sat down to a "feed" of delicious barbecued steak and all the trimmings.
Immediately after eating, the girls' baseball game was
C. G. "1.!f" Corkran, Sacramento, California representative of the Owen-Oregon Lumber Company, Medford, Ore., was a recent visitor to San Francisco.
J. Schmittsoon in progress. This ended in a rvay which was entirely satisfactory to all concerned.
The other events of the day followed in quick succession, the men's foot race, won by F. Prydz I a sack race won by 'D. Winter; a three-legged race, won by E. Erickson and M. Morgan; a wheelbarrow race, won bv R. Davis and K. Fazacherly; a girls' race, won by Miss Elizabeth Conlon; and the feature race of the day, the race for children in which little Miss Elliott, the daughter of a prominent member of the sales department, by a magnificent finish just nosed out her brother for the first prize.
The relay race for men, made more exciting by numerous falls, was won by a team composed of R. Cronin, L. O'Gara, F. Martin and D. Winter.
Next the married men showed their faculty of "fighting back" by walking off with the tug of war, pulling the weak, untrained single men over the line quite easily.
The rest of the afternoon was devoted to dancing and the drawing for gate prizes. The Conlon family showed its strength and versatility by walking off with first prize.
The party "shoved off" at 6:00 P. M. fcjr home, tired and dirty, but none the less happy, after a successful time and wonderful day.
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Today (as in 1914-15-16-17: those war years) it is a word to conjure with.
The Anzac fliers had a couple of Californians to help them, used California gas, and an American ship. But their nerve, their fearlessness, and their fying artistry were the elements which made success possible. And what success! their names are written with those of the other immortals of the air.
Kingsford-Smith and Ulm have added new lustre to the name of ANZAC. We feel exceptionally fortunate in having selected it as we did to identify the best house siding ever manufactured. It is a product of which we are very proud. It also affords gratification to the owner of a home on which it is used, and to the dealer who fumishes it - -the Acme of building materials.
E ACH piece of 4.Square Lumber is ready to use just as taken l-r fp61f,e 4.Square package. The ends are perfectly squre and smooth" The faces of each piece are clean and protected. It saves money for the contractor and ownen It saves tedious work for the carpenterthe work of squaring each piece before it can be used.
4,Square tendeto eliminate shoddy construction. And everyone knows they are getting exactly what they specified and bougha
4,Square means complete eatisfaction for your custome$. And that means a bigger volume and quicker turnover for you.
pOR the first time in the history of the lumber bucineac the ^ honest lumber dealer can compete with, and make legttl mate profite ln splte of the ehort,sighted deder who has alnaye rhade it hard for you becauge of his price,elashing mcthode.
Now you can rise above this unrcrupulous competidon by ofiering \l/eyerhaeuset's new 4,Square Lumben
To the regular line of unpackaged lumber Weyerhaeurer now adds thic entirely new line of merchandise created and designed to sell on quality and merit instead of on price.
First, it is better lumber-refincil in manufactgre, thor, oughly eeaeoned, milled exactlyto accepted standard sizes, full length, uniform in grade, and with both ends of each piece trimmed cquare and smooth, ready for use.
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Nextr 4,Square Lumber ie ehipped in packagec with ends rnd facee thoroughly protected and with the cpecies and grade plainly printed on the label and guorcnteed by Weyerhaouler. Thia positive identification of quality and value enablee 'ou to hold the "price,cutter'in his place.
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Nexg the advantager of buying 4,Square Lumber from 4,Square Dealers will be broadcaet to architectr, @ntractorE, carpenters andto the public at largerthrough a powerful and dramatic campaigr of advertieing. The "price,cuttet''wifl find it difficult to sell on price ae 4,fuuarevalueo become known
Nexc, 4,Square Dealers will be grven a moEt complete and efiective program of local sales and advertieing helpc and will bebacked by Weyerhaeuset aa ptefetre,il dealere.
The 4.Square line ie being brought to every section of the United Statee as rapidly ac poscible. Requeste for the llne are pouing in. We suggest that you register your interest at once by addressing our nearest branch ofice or by inquiring about it from our district repreeentative. Requesta will be taken care of in turn"
The now famous Philippine Mahogany Case has been appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States and will go to that highest tribunal for final adjudication.
The defendants filed notice of appeal, which was immediately granted by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, in New York City, the Court which recently affirmed the decision of The Federal Trade Commission forbidding the use of the name "Mahogany" for the hardwood products of the Philippine Islands.
The Philippine Government has joined in the appeal, and is going through with the case with the regularly named defendants.
F. P. Baugh, well known Los Angeles hardwood wholesaler for a good many years, has forsaken the lumber business and gone i4to a California mountain resort proposition that has great promise. Mr. Baugh recently sold the E. P. Baugh Hardwood Company to the Pacific Southwest Hardwood Company. He is now connected with Rock Creek Lodge, 25 miles from Bishop, California., where a wonderful High Sierra summer resort is being established, a hotel being built, etc. Mr. L. P. Black, who was associated with Mr. Baugh in the'hardwood business is also in this new effort, being manager of the company. Mr. Baugh is in the Chapman Building, Los Angeles, and Mr. Black is at Bishop.
Talk about "Cobbler, stick to your last," there is a man named J. H. Williams in the employ of the 'Western Hardwood Lumber Company, at Los Angeles, who has been sawing veneers for morl than fifty yJatr, and considers it second to no profession on earth. He is seventy odd years of age. He has a son helping him saw veneers for the same concern.
The Supreme Court will not pass on the matter until they reconvene in the coming fall, and there is much likelihood that no decision will be reached for perhaps a year.
In the meantime the Philippine Mahogany Association urges all Philippine Mahogany people to continue the use of the term, and continue to exploit it until such time as it may be finally forbidden by larv, the understanding being that until the United States Supreme Court settles the matter, there is no legal reason for not using the name.
With the Philippine Government joining in the appeal the defendants feel doubly certain that the Supreme Court will grant them a full re-hearing and review of the case.
There is a new face in the field in California, calling on the lumber and building trade. And a very youthful face. R. B. Davenport is a young man who has been in the California Redwood Association o,ffice for the past two years, learning about Redwood, and Redwood trade extension work. He is now doing field work in California, calling on the lumber, building, contractor, architect, and financing trades, selling the idea of more Redwood advertising, more Redwood exploitation, and more Redwood use. He carries the trade promotion campaign of the Redwood Association with him, and is making a particular point of showing, explaining, and distributing the Redwood dealers h'elps, to dealers who want to increase their business. The young man has been working both Northern and Southern California, and will spend most of his time in the field hereafter.
Henry W. Swafford, of E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, is making his annual early summer trip through the consuming districts of the North, East, and South. He handles the eastern business for the big Los Angeles concern, and specializes in the distribution of Sugar Pine, which market he is now looking over.
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Sdes Oftces:
New York City
Ffavana, Cuba
Amsterdam, Holland
M:TIEI3
Mills at:
Crannell, Calif.
Fairhaven, Calif.
Cargo and rail shipments
Longview, Wn., June 2.-The Pacific Northwest Millwork Association will be consolidated with the West Coast Lumbermen's Association as the result of a unanimous vote in favor of the move given at a meting of the millwork body in Portland yesterday. According to plans for the consolidation, which have been under consideration for several months, the members of the millwork association will become a special group within the new West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Seattle, with which the West Coast Lumber Trade Extension Bureau, Longview, recently was consolidated. Between forty and fifty maufacturers of millwork are involved in the Association merger.
The unification of the millwork association and the West Coast Association, it was announced, is part of a plan being worked out under the direction of Col. W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the lumber association, to bring security and profit to the Northwest lumber industry by co-ordination of the various manufacturing and marketing organizations.
The millwork group will be represented on the board of trustees of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association by a trustee, who also will be chairman of the millwork committee. The committee will be composed of a member from each of the association districts.
The services of the various departments of the association, including trade extension, traffic, grading and inspection, statistics, and information will be available to the members of the millwork group, which is com.posed oI
Fred Holmes, of the Holmes-Eureka Lumber Company, San Francisco, is in the east and middle west for a month. He is calling on the trade and doing trade extension and trade promotion work for the Redwood Sales Company, of which his firm is a member. Mr. Holmes is an enthusiastic Redwood trade extension man and this is his first effort at converting eastern lumber users.
plants throughout Washington and Oregon. They will be aided by the association in working out special problems of their industry. The consensus of opinion among the millwork manufacturers was that the activities carried on by the millwork group as an independent organization will be developed to greater advantage by the body in its new entity as a grorlp in the enlarged association, offcials of the lumber association announced.
Membership in the larger association, it was explained, will afford millwork manufacturers an opportunity to increase their sales in present local markets and to develop new ones. Association fieldmen, in their calls upon industrial concerns in various parts of the country, leain of needs for cut stock in sizes and specifications usually not manufactured by sawrpills. Millwork manufacturers will be acquainted with the lumber requirements of these industrial firms and aided in taking advantage of the sales opportunities they offer. With the millw,ork group as part of the association and interests in national trade promotion for Douglas fir, West Coast hemlock, Western red cedar and Sitka spruce, greater refinement of the local forest prodtrct is expected to result. This it was pointed out, means greater payrolls and more regular employment in the Pacific Northwest.
The plan for consolidation was presented by a committee headed by E. E. Vogue, of Seattle. The meeting also was addressed by Col. Greeley, and by C. J. Hogue, manag'er of the West Coast Lumber Bureau's field department.
Paul Overend. field man for the California Retail Lumbermen's Association in the Northern California District, is taking two weeks' vacation, starting first week in June.
Mr. L. C. Hammond. of the Hammond Lumber Company, San Francisco, is making a business trip around the lumber markets of the east at the present time, gathering information for the great Hammond manufacturing and distributing organization.
Tbe letters Wffi on Dorglas Fir doon, made b1 member mills of t6is Atsociatioi, utin piotide arcbiteas, dealers, btilders and ttsers uitb an ahoays aaail.able gttarantee of qtaality, L ne;N rlr4, t b e fficia I instat6ri of tile Vatent Door Mansfactaier' Asiociarion baoe inslecte/ thc manlfacture and sradins ofibe brodut bcari;s thh tradimarklaizd t6at stacb dooi conform to tbe $ardard grada atablbhed b tbe .*sociation.
f naon Mamno to give you confidence in your \J door buying-confidence in the value of the doors when you stock them-confidence in recommending them to your customers.
Grade marking by our membets means a definite grade according to the standard grading rules adopted by the rVestern Door Manufacnrrers'Association, and insured by competent inspection.
You and yoru customers can always identi$r these grade marked doors by the trade-mark ..\vome." plainly stamped on every door.
Particulars arc all contained in our published l ffi Grading Rules for Douglas Fir House and Gaage Doors mailed upon request.
WESTERN DOOR MANUTACTURERS'ASSOCIATION 1' TACOMA,'WASHINGTON
Robinson Mfg. Co. - Everett, !7'ash.
Tregoning Mfg. Co. - Seattle,'!7ash.
Buffelin Lumber & Mfg. Co. Tacoma, Wash.
Vheeler, Osgood Co.
Clea.t Fir Lunber Co.
Tacoma,'S7ash.
Tacoma, 'Wash.
Albany Door Company
I7ashington Door Co. Tacoma, 'S7ash.
Henry McCleary Timber Co. McCleary, Wash.
Nicolai Door Mfg. Co.
Ponland, Ore.
M. & M. I7'ood ITorking Co. Ponland, Ore.
Central Door & Lumber Co. - Ponland, Ore.
Albany, Oregon
We plan to make this Sixth Birthday Issue the livest thing in a journalistic line Gver attempted in California.
It will be so hot it witl fairly sizzle. It will tell the world about California, her lumber industry, lumber men, lumber women, lumber thoughts, Iumber things-lumber greatneEE.
Iile will review the past year, and delve into the year to come.
We want the help of every lumber thinker in California" Your suggestions will be thoughtfully considered, your assistance greatIy appreciated
Headquarters of the newly reorganized and enlarged West Coast Lumbermen's Association 'vi'ill be maintained at Seattle, and the West Coast Lumber Trade Extension Bureau, now located at Longview Wash., will be moved to the Seattle offices of the parent organ'ization, as the result of action taken by the board of trustees of the association at Taboma yesterday. This announcement was made here today by J. D. Tennant, president. Fifteen trustees, representing all districts of the Douglas fir region, were present at the meeting.
A preliminary plan prepared by Col. W. B. Greeley for broadening the scope of the association, containing a complete proglam of industrial service for lumber mills,.woo.dworkiirg plants and allied industries, was approved by the trustees-. - Accepted as the most comprehensive and ambitious undertaking ever launched by lumbermen of this region, the plan- includes departments .devoted to- trade pr6motion, glading, inspection' and re-inspection' freight iates and claims, nati'onal advertising, fact collection, market surveys, mill and logging camp studies for better utilization of forest products and greater efficiency in operation. This plan will be taken during the coming month to the lumb-er industry of the Pacific Northwest by the trustees in a series of regional meetings.
A tentative annual budget of $700,000 for all expenditures of the association was offered by Col. Greeley and approved by the trustees as a general basis, subject to ratificltion by supporting lumber, logging and allied woodworking companies. Over one-half of this amount will be expended for developing and extending the markets for West Coast lumber products.
The following officers and trustees of the association were present: J. D. Tennant, president, the Long-Bell Lumber Company, Longview; George S. L,ong, vice-president, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Tacoma; R. W. Vinnedge, treasurer, North Bend Timber Company, North Bend; E. K. Bishop, E. K. Bishop Lumber Company, Aberdeen; Ralph H. Burnside, Willapa Lumber Company, Portland; W. W. Clark, Clark-Wilson Company, Linnton; A. C. Dixon, Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, Eugene; Everett G. Griggs, St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company, Tacoma; C. D. Johnson, C. D. Johnson Lumber Company, Portland; Perry Knight, Mutual Lumber Company, Brrcoda; H. A.
The Gaynor Masters Lumber Terminals, Inc. has been organized and incorporated by a group of Tacoma mills to operate dock facilities which have been sub-leased from the McCormick Steamship Company in Tacoma.
The companies represented in the Terminal Company comprise practically all the barging mills in the Tacoma district. The object of concentration of water business at one terminal is one of efficiency, convenience, etc.
The Terminal Company will be headed and managed by L. R. Gaynor, Jr., president of the Gaynor Masters Lumber Company, many of the above named mills being also interested in the Gaynor Masters Lumber Company.
The offices are being completed in the South end of the dock building which will house the Gaynor Masters Lumber Terminals, Inc., and also the Gaynor Masters Lumber Company. The entire personnel and equipment of the Gaynor Masters Lumber Company were removed from the White-Henry-Stuart Building in Seattle to these offices the first of June.
The terminal will be used by the following steamers operating in the coastrvise trade: SS. VIKING, SS. GEORGE L. OLSON, SS. JOHN C. KIRKPATRICK and the SS. JANE NETTLETON, and by the California and Eastern Steamship Line in the intercoastal business.
The Ostlind Furniture, Inc., a subsidiary of the Coos Veneer & Box Co., Marshfield, Ore. will have a formal opening June 23. Proceedin,gs will conclude with a dinner at the Chandler Hotel, Marshfield, to which invitations have been issued by Benj. Ostlind, president of the company, to 50 friends, who will attend the opening ceremony from all over the Coast.
LaPlant, Skagit Mill Company, Lyman; Charles Lewis, Lewis Mills & Timber Company, South tsend; Myron C. Woodward, Silver Falls Timber Company, Silverton.
Dirtributing Agcntr in Sonthorn California for Littlc Rivcr Rcdrood Conpeny
OPERATING STEAMERIi W. R. Chanberlin, Jr. Barbara C. Staawood Phyllir
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Make certain that every person in your organization who comes into contact with the public, is interestd, courteous and honest.
ftts certainly smooth to workrtt said the plasterer. t(I can get any trowel effect you want.tt
ft's sure-enough waterproofr" said the builder, ttand you can depend on it for pefmanence.tt
So Mr. George Klicka, of San Diego, Calif.' specified Victor Hydro-Plastic Vaterproofed Portland Cement for his new home, built by the Soutfiern California Ffome Building Company, and plastered by Mr. E. V/. McClelland. The Klicka Lumber Co. furnished the cement, which bears out Mr. Klickats confidence in Victor quality.
The patented waterproofing compound added to Victor Portland Cement to form Victor HydroPlastic consists of processed minerals, the same as those already existing in the cement itself, ground intimately into the finished product. Consequent- ly the utmost plasticity is securrid, without sacrifice of setting quality, hardness or durability. Victor Flydro-Plastic is permanently watetproof and costs less in the long run.
"I live a block from the Sunret Canyon Country Club, where a dicaltrour fire swept over the Verdugo Hills lact December, and burned ninety.eight homes. I watched huge, flaming rparkr set fire to aome of my shrubs, but fall hannlessly on rny Pioneer Yose-ite RocL Surfaced Shingle rirof."
DR. PHILIP E. ZEISS, Clinic Bldg., Burbank, California.
"Two yearu ago the roof of my home was water proofed with PIONEER YOSEMITE ROCK SURFACED SHINGLES. f am.very much pleased in all respects with the roofing. ft hys pefiectly flat, is free from wrinkles, does not fade and looks exaitly lile a job that cost me $100 more with no guarantee of protection."
J. E. GARDNER, 329 "F" Street, Baketsfield, California.
"In May of last year I was approached by Mr. Lohman, one of your agenr in Sea$le, with a proposition to te-roof my houge with 'Pioneer Shingles', After reeing roofs with your rhingles and talking to owners and getting figures on wood shingles painted or stained, f felt that your shingle was the one I wanted."
HARRY LEACH, 3647 BagJey Ave., Seattle, \DTashington.
"The easy monthly payments made possible by contracting for a fi:ed price io hate the work done by a Licensed Pioneer Shingle Application Co', enabler us to own it without cutting into our reserve funds. rtrfe took months to decide upon our roof; r!7e will have years.of enjoyment."
J. GORDON SMTTH, 390 N. 24th St., Portland, Ore.
"My shingled roof was cadly in need of painting or replacing. Your Licensed Pioneer Shingle Application Conpany suggested re-roofing with Pioneer Yose' mite Rock Surfaced Shingles. There war no error in my saying "yes" and signing a contract for a new roof over the old one on the Pioneer Plan of easy Pay. ment3. ft wa3 one of the rmartest thing3 I ever did."
EPH. F. RESEK, 510 Elizabeth St., Fort Collinr, Colo,
No shingle ever ofiered to the public has had so great a dc! HEXAGONAT SHINGLE!
BECAUSE . . . it's bigger, better, more beautiful . . . mor€ the Super l{ex . laid right over the old shingle a Perrnanc duces double thickness over the entire roof surface' gives that r nounced shadow-line.
YOU know about the Super Hex . . and so do thousands Pioneer Plan for Re-roofing . . . about the Licensed Application
These are all factors that are behind the Pioneer Dealer . cr$tomers. These excerpts from letters by Pioneer Roof owner!
If you :re not already a Pioneer Dealer write to the ne:rrest
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"The fire-retarding elemenr of the Pioneer Yoremite Rock Surfaced Shingle are of such IMPORTANCE that homeowners, in the market for roofing, can not possibly go amiss in CHOOSING them.
"At any time and at any place, whenever it is posrible for me to do so, f. ghall be pleased to recommend this very SATISFACTORY shingle."
Battalion Fire Chief, OSCAR. H, EBBINGHOUSE, Seattle Fire Department, Seattle, rf?'ashington'
"On Thutsday, Aptil 26, I closed the contract with your representative; Fri&y, the 27th, material was on the ground; Monday, 30th, before noon, the job war 6nished. No old shingles or trash was laying around in rny yard; or, in other worda, everything in my yard war, just as clean as if the new roof had not been applied. No, they did not work Saturday afternoon or Sunday, Can you beat that for gewice?"
JOHN H. KIGH, 2417 Ogden St., Denver, Colo.
,nomical! Fvery old wood shingle roof in the west is a market for beautiful protective covering that lasts longer, looks beffer, pro' r desired semi-thatched effect with its rugged texture and pro'
prospects in your community. And they also know about the tnts who put them on right and GUARANTEE the job. .creasing hi" s"les and increasing his circle of completely satisfied rw that the Pioneer Plan PAYS ALL CONCERNED. ,neer Branch . . . full details will be given you without obligation.
"When considering re-roofing, I had three comDanier furnish bidr. Two com. paniea figirred twenty-four squares, while ihe. representative from the Licensed Pioneer Company, estimated more accur' ately, corriputing only nineteen squarer necessary, in which event I saved the cost of five squares."
MR. HERBERT CLARKE, 833 East l3th South St., Salt Lake City, utah.
"The local reptecentative of the com' pany who took the order and rupervired ihe'work, wal a real gentleman and showed courtery and interect in the work from the start to finirh, which I con' sider ir complimentary to the Company"'
MRS. LUCY HOTTELL, l2!2 No. Ffayer' Pocatello, Idaho.
"The eary peyment plan appealed to me. A first payment' then a small pay' ment each month makes it easy to roon pay for your roof. A self addrersed and itamped envelope comet at your only re' minder, from a Company that is both courteous and considerate.tt
MRS. FRANCES E. LYNCH, 14540 Kittridge St., Van Nuys, California,
Larue Woodson left on the 10th of the month on a combined business and pleasure trip that will take him to points in the Northwest, including Seattle, Tacoma and Portland. He will confer with the Pacific Coast Plywood Manufacturers, Inc. when in Seattle and with the Wheeler Osgood Company in Tacoma, being the Northern California representative of these two concerns,
Mr. Woodson is accompanied on his trip by his wife and two daughters.
Henry Wilson, wealthy San Francisco lumber and shipping man, died June 5, at his home in Piedmont, at the age of. 79.
Mr. Wilson was a native of Sweden. He came to Cali. fornia in 1890 and for many years has been president of the firm of Wilson Brothers & Co.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Wilson, and two sons, Winfred and Francis, who are both members of the firm.
Fred A. Hart, Hart-Wood Lumber Co., Portland, Oregon, has returned to the Northwest mu'ch improved in health following a several weeks' sojourn at La Jolla. On his way north, he spent a few days in Los Angeles where he conferred with "Ted" Lawrence, manager of their Southern California operations. Mrs. Hart accompanied him on his visit to La Jolla. Their daughter, Miss Ina Claire Hart, who attends the Bishop School for Girls at La Jolla, returned to Portland with Mr. and Mrs. Hart.
H. T. Didesch, managing director of the Millwork Institute of California, returned to Los Angeles recently from a two weeks' trip, in the course of which he visited members of the Institute in the Bay District, Stockton, Sacramento and Fresno.
When in San Francisco he conferred with Harry Gaetjen, Empire Planing Mill, president of the Institute.
R. F. Hammatt, of San Francisco, Secretary of the California Redwood A,ssociation, has been spending a couple of weeks calling on the lumber trade and looking over conditions in Southern California. He believes that the last six months of. L92B will bring greatly increased sales to the Redwood industry, and that things look particularly promising in Southern California.
Built-In Fixture Co., Berkeley, held a series of meetings during the week ending June 2, which was attended by the company's representatives from all territories. The conference concluded with a dinner at the Athens Club, Oakland.
Representatives attending included: Lee Walker, Oregon and Washington territory, Portland, Ore.; G. H. "J.rry" Jermark, Northern California, Berkeley; Nick Thielen, Los Angeles; H. Hughes, Southeastern and Texas territory, Dallas; George Miller, San Francisco; Lyal Richmond, East Bay territory, Oakland, Cal.; Frank E. Cox, assistant sales manager; Herb Stanton, manager of plan service department, and Ray B. Cox, general manager.
Jack Dionne, publisher of The California Lumber Merchant was the speaker at the regular meeting of S6n Francisco Douglas Fir Club, held May 29, at the Commercial Club. He talked mainly on lumber market conditions, and concluded with a'few new stories by special requests.
J. Walter Kelly, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., presided.
Forrest W. Wilson, Little River Redwood Company, San Francisco, returned to headquarters recently from a business trip to the company's mills at Fairhaven and Crannell.
We suggest you use the Advertising Columru of
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Its prestige, popularity and circulation in the territoty named fat sutpcsses snv other
Golf is a form of work made expensive enough for a rich man to enjoy it. It is physical and mental exertion made attractive by the fact that you have to dress for it in a $200,000 Clubhouse.
Golf is what letter-carrying, ditch digging and carpet beating would be if these three tasks had to be performed on the same hot afternoon in short pants and colored socks by gouty-looking gentlemen who -required a different implement for every mood.
Golf is the simplest looking game in the world when you decide to take it up and the toughest looking after you have been at it for ten or twelve years.
It is probably the only game a man can play as long as a quarter of a century and then discoter that it was too deep for him in the first place.
The game is played on carefully selected grass with little white balls and as many clubs as the player can afford. These balls cost from seventy-five cents to $25.00 and it is possible to support a family of ten people (all adults) for five months on the money represented by the balls lost by some golfers in a single afternoon.
A golf course has eighteen holes, seventeen of which are
Upon his return from the convention of the Pacific Coast Hardwood Association held at Victoria recently, C. H. White, general manager of White Brothers, stopped ofi at the plant of the Wheeler Osgood Company in Tacoma where he took in all the sights in connection with their Philippine hardwood production. Mr. White finds this department thoroughly up to date in every way and turning out the finest plywood that it has ever been his pleasure to see in both the Light Red and the Dark Red varieties of Philippine.
The Wheeler Osgood Company import special veneer logs, what are known as "peelers," which is a much higher grade of log than is ordinarily used for lgmber manufacture. These logs are first cut into cants or flitches and after lying in the steam bath for forty-eight hours are taken out and sliced into thin face veneers. This slicing is done in a most ingenious manner on a machine made and patented by the Wheeler Osgood Company. The plywood is made up with the famous "Laminex" glue, a secret formula.
White Brothers are the distributors of Laminex Philippine plywood in the Northern California district.
Mr. White reports a stead)' increase in the sale of Philippine panels in his territory.
unnec€ssary and put in to make the game harder. A "hole" is a tin cup in the center of the "green". A "green" is a small parcel of grass costing about $1.99 a blade and usually located between a brook and a couple of apple trees or a lot of unfinished excavations.
The idea is to get the golf fall from a given point into each of the eighteen cups in the fewest strokes and the greatest number of words.
The ball must not be thrown, pushed or carried. It must be propelled by about $200.00 worth of curious looking implements, especially designed to provoke the owner.
Each implement has a specific purpose and ultimately some golfers get to know what that purpose is. They are the exceptions.
After each hole has been completed the golfer counts hisstrokes. Then he subtracts gix and says, "Made that in five. That's one above par. Shall we play for fifty cents on the next hole, too, Ed?"
After the final or eighteenth hole, the golfer adds up his score and stops when he has reached eighty-seven. He then has a swim, a pint of gin, sings "Sweet Adeline" with six or eight other liars, and calls it the end of a perfect day.
M. L. "Duke" Enphrat, Wendling-Nathan Co., returned to San Francisco recently from a two weeks' business trip to the Northwest, during which he visited the company's office at Portland, and a number of sawmills.
Asked by a representative of this journal how he found conditions in the Northwest, Mr. Euphrat said he found it hard to place specific orders for quick delivery. Mills that usually accept orders for loading in two to three weeks will not promise shipment at present under 30 to 45 days. He stated that curtailment is very general, and the attitude of the sawmill owners is a determined one. They seem to have come to the conclusion that their salvation iies in not cutting any mor€ lumber from now on than can be sold.
There is no disposition among the mills to drive the buyer lyay by asking high prices for lumber they haven't got, Mr. Euphrat stated, as they jtrst say they are oversold, and out of the market for a time.
Atlantic Coast business is very good, and Middle West business is showing a very decided improvement, and an early improvement in the off-shore business is looked for by cargo mills.
Fire is like an evil spider. He spins his web of carelessness about a plant-laxity in dis' cipline in regard to matches and smoking; indifference or delays in repairing electric wiring, defective fues, etc.; neglect in cleaning up oily waste, rubbish, etc. Then, when you have fallen into his trap and have be' come an easy victim, he rushes upon you to consume and destroy.
One of the most important features of our service is helping our policy'holders to keep out of the spider's trap. With expert counsel in fire prevention, we show them how to eliminate 6re hazards and to reduce careless' nes!;. But-if the spider wins-our policies, resources and reputation guarantee prompt settlement of losses. Lumber Mutual Insurance offers the best protection a lumberman can buy.
Ask any of onr comfanies f or sfecial information as to the protection our folicies ofter to you, our fire prevention seruice and, thc saaing in insurance cost represented by our diuidends.
Pacific Coast lumbetman, formedy with Pope & Talbot, who has just completed a four-month cruise to South America and Vest Indies Pofts on the McCormick
Pacific Argentine liner Vest Notus.
How often, as we load boat after boat with millions and millions of feet, for off-shore, do we give a thought as to just what sort of place it is to be delivered-how it is discharged-how they take care of it, once they have it-how it is distributed for the purposes intended-and why?
Should we take for granted that ports, docks, yards, mills, equipment and methods are similar to our own, making allowances only for differences in scenery, climate and people characteristic of the "destination mark"; and just forget it, once loaded-our part of the deal ?
I believe we are all a little too willing to let it go at that, "just get it loaded"-excusing ourselves with the alibi that "we haven't time to think about those things, we MUST turn our attention to getting the next steamer loaded."
It's a guilty and poor excuse, as we all know, full well; working from each end makes the job easier for both. And
sort the cargo for the different sizes, which are then piled up for storale in a manner similar to our ways, although an attempt is made to keep most all stock under cover.
And when it comes to "delivery" we don't see any motored lumber truck pull up alongside of the pile, but in its place an awkward, heavy, two-big-wheeled bullock team. We think most of our yards do too much handling and are frightfully slow with deliveries (and we are correct at that) 5ut those troubles of ours :Ire comparatively nothing to what they have.
We also made a delivery at one of the out-ports of the Island of Porto Rico-Humacao by name. Here, again, it was a case of anchoring miles off shore and discharging into an assortment of dilapidated lighters of various sizes and shapes. And if the towing launch didn't break downit was i case of waiting for empty lighters or holidays to pass.
it is really, getting right down to the facts, up to THIS END to help the other, as we have far more advanced methods and WE ARE the producerq, shippers and SELLERS.
Conditions are much different in all those places 'away from home.'We made a stop at a small port on the southern end of the Island of Cuba-Manzanillo. The harbor was very shallow, the piers short, lightly constructed and very scarce, which made it necessary to drop anchor in the stream some few miles away from shore. We had a high deck load of 75O000 feet for this port, which was all transferred, piece by piece, to the barges alongside, by a swarm of small natives, who seemed to make as much use of their calloused, hardened, bare feet as they did their hands.
The barges must all be unloaded again, piece by piece, at the outer end of the small piers, onto small hand cars, which are then pushed into the yards located on shore. It is in these small yards that the first attempt is made to
In the city of San Juan, the beautiful capitol city of the Island, the situation changes entirely. Here we have docks and fair sized lumber yards, which distribute all over the island, mostly by motor trucks. Here, again, we see everything under cover to protect it from the tropical heat and rains.
In the small towns scattered throughout the island lumber is stocked and sold in small handful quantities. Small racks about three feet square, are built in the stores and a small amount of each variety is always kept in stock for immediate "cash and carry sales."
Lumber conditions are considerably different in these out-of-the-wa/ places and woe to the one operating there who is not familiar with them. There are many things to take into consideration and THIS END should give these conditions careful thought and study.
Arriving at the city of Bahh f,lxnc,a, a new, modern, progressive city in the southern part of The Argentine, it looks somewhat better. Here we find modern railroad
docks, adequately equipped w'ith travelling, electric power cranes.
All lumber is transferred by these dock cranes, from the deck of vessel, sling load lots, into freight cars. As a tally must be taken, for custom duties, port charges, railroad charges, etc., all lumber is carefully piled in an orderly manner, aboard these cars; taking considerable time and causing delay in dispatching of vessel. The loaded cars are then shipped to the various yards, located some five miles distant from the docks, where unloading, piece by piecehand labor, and all sorting for sizes is done. These yards store considerable lumber out-doors, in large high piles and carry large stocks of various species from many parts of the world. But like Buenos Aires, their yard operating costs are very high, due to many handlings in receiving, sorting, piling and distribution.
One would expect to find in the city of Buenos Aires, where there is such a tremendous importation of lumber. of all kinds from every place, methods^somewhat up-to-date; but here also the same slow, primitive, expensive methods prevail.
Vessels dock alongside of stone bulkheads and discharge onto the cobble-stone paved, waterfront street, "wharfage space". Two large timbers are placed from the dock to vessel's deck rail, (each hatch) to be used for skids. On the dock a horizontal skidway is arranged about three feet high, which intercepts skids leading to the vessel. The lumber is then placed onto this skidway, in sling loads, by the ship's tackle.
Men stationed at the end of this skidway, sort, straighten and pile lumber in lots small. enough to be carried away on the shoulders of men employed for that purpose, to nearby wagons. These sorting men also call out the number of pieces, sizes and lengths of each "lot" as it is taken away, which are tallied by licensed Government checkers, who are close by.
All lumber is taken away as discharged, as piling on the docks incurs a high rental charge and many other expenses. "Lumber wagons" used for the transportation of .lum-
G. M. Harrington, MacDonald & Harrington, San Francisco, left on June 6, by automobile for a combined business and pleasure tour of the Northwest. Mr. Harrington, who was accompanied by his wife and family, traveled by the Redwood Highway. He expects to be away about 30 days.
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ber, receiving and delivery, are no more than the old fashioned farm wag'ons, with high wheels, high and short bodies with side boards; drawn by a spike team of three horses. The lumber is loaded on to these wagons by being shoved from the rear end, long length pieces reaching far over the driver's seat. Not any of these "lumber wagons" have unloading rollers, which means that each piece must be rehandled again in unloading.
Lumber yards, called "Barracas," are nothing more thin brick, warehouse sheds, located throughout the city, but mostly close to the waterfront. They are filled to capacity, piles reaching as high as the roofs and the gangways being very few and narrow. Lumber piles in stock is not passed from one man on the ground to another on top of pile, but is CARRIED to the top on the shoulders of men, by means of an inclined walk-way. This manner of "pil- ing" is the same whether out-doors or within sheds and is very costly.
This method of handling, storing and delivery of lumber is the same at Montevideo, IJruguay, although the discharging is entirely different. The docks there are equipped with electric power cranes and there is always ample dock storage space, making it possible to remove lumber from ship's side, thereby aiding the vessel to dispatch more readily. But then the small toy-like hand trucki used, per- mits only small-sized slingloads, which in turn causes considerable delay.
These delays to vessels and the many, piece by piece handlings for sorting, piling and distribution, are all very costly.
There are many things that could be done to remedy this excessive cost, but the help of'this'end.is needed." A ttttl'C study to learn and understand the conditions under which the lumber business is conducted in those places, would make a big difference. With both ends worliing together, each understanding the other's problems and troubles, much misunderstanding, doubt, dispute and dissatisfaction could be avoided.
As we load the "ordeC' out, let's think of the Other End. It will mean more and better business.
C. H. White, of White Brothers, San Francisco, is the composer of a song entitled, "San FranciscoiThe Good Old To1vn," which bids fair to become very popular, especially in California. An orchestration of the song has been made, and it will be played by theater, radio and cafe orchestras in the very near future.
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They were Canadian folks, and were making their first trip to the States. Little Johnnie had never seen a colored person, and the first one they encountered, a coal black woman, caused the little'fellow's eyes to open wide with astonishment.
"Papar" said he in wonderment, "why does that woman blach her face that way?"
"She didn't black her face, Johnnie," said the father, "she
W.D. Dunning, sales manager of The Little River Redwood Co., San Francisco was a recent business visitor to Los Angeles, making his headquarters while there at the offices of W. R. Chamberlin & Co., the company's South' ern California representatives.
W. H. Falconbury, Falconbury Lumber Co., Stockton, visited San Francisco on a business trip at the end of May.
was born that way."
"Not really?" said the little boy.
"Yes, son, really'' replied the father.
"And Papa," said Johnnie, "is she black that wdy all over?"
"Sure she is", replied the father, positively.
"Papa"; said Johnnie ruminativelSr, "you know everythlng, dont you?"
L. W. MacDonald. of the well-known wholesale firm of MacDonald & Harrington, San Francisco, recently returned to his desk after an absence of approximately five months.
Mr. MacDonald had suffered greatly from sinus trouble, and having had an operation for the relief of this trouble last year, was advised by his doctor to seek a high, dry climate for a few months. He has spent,most of the time since the first of the year at Riverside, where he acquired a fine coat of tan, and is now feeling much better than when he went away.
E. M. Tilden returned to Oakland recently from a trip to eastern and southeastern points occrrpying about three weeks. While in Florida N{r. Tilden had a 60O mile airplane ride. Starting from Jacksonville he flew to Palm Beach and other Florida cities. The olane was a StimsonDetroiter, and was a private one. Ui. Titden enjoyed.the trip very much, and believes that the quick development of air travel that is coming will surprise many people who do not realize the extent to which the airplane is being used for fast transportation today.
Bert Bryan, manager of the Strable Hardwood Company, Oakland, has just returned from a fishing trip in Sierra County. He reports having had good sport, and says he can recommend a few days trout fishing in this particular region to any business man who is tired of the daily grind.
Mr. Bryan was accompanied on the trip by Mrs. Bryan, who is also a fishing enthusiast.
The entire membership of the Auburn Lions Club enjoyed a trip through The Pacific Lumber Company's op. erations, viewing the whole process of converting the Redwood forest giants into lumber, right from the tree to the car.
Owing,to the fact that this club is composed of busy business men, they did not actually make the long trip to Humboldt County, but they did the next best thing, Wendell T. Robie, assistant manager of the Auburn Lumber Co., having made arrangements for the showing of The Pacific Lumber Company's industrial film at the club's luncheon, June 6.
Jim Farley did double duty in operating the machine, and also telling the story of the manufacture of Redwood.
Twin Harbors Lumber Co. will act as agent for the sale of car material and railroad purchases for fr mills in southwestern Washington, it was announced recently.
The office of the compan;r will be moved from Aberdeen, Wash. to Chehalis, 'Wash.
J. C. Smith, sales manager of the Carlisle Lumber Co., Onalaska, Wash., will be general manager, and C. S. Vanderslice of the Coal Creeli Lumber Co., Chehalis, will be sales manager.
The Pacific Southwest Hardwood Company, of Los Angeles, which recently succeeded the F. P. Baugh.Hardwood Company, is making many changes and improvements to the very excellent yard they bought, one of the main ones being the installation of a planing mill, which work is now in progress. It will be modern in every respect.
Mr. Sterling L. Stofle is Manager of the business. He has been with the Western Hardwood Lumber Company for the past two years, previous to which time he was in the retail lurnber- business on his own hook in Los Angeles. Mr. G. B. Lancaster and Mr. B. N. Cartwright are outside salesmen for the company. Mr. Lancaster has been connected with the Wm. M. Wilson Lurnber Company for the past four years. Mr. Cartwright has been with E. J. Stanton & Son for the past several years. Both are well known to the trade.
The yard is magnificently stocked with hardwoods of every commercial sort, and Mr. Stofle announces that they will particularly specialize in furnishing the supplies of the smatler retail lumber yards.
Santa Clara Mill & Supply Co., Santa Clara, has changed its name to Garden Mill & Supply Co.
And the smaller dealers have found out that our service to them is REAL SERVICE. Our quick shipment of anything and everything for the building trade by car or truck makes it possible for the small dealer to give tip-top service to his trade, and yet keep down his investment, his lnsurance and his overhead.
An Address delivered by Col.
W. B. Greeley, SecretaryrManagerof the West'Coast
Lumbermen'sAssociation Seattle, Washington
Before the Pacific Northwest Advisory Board, in the Olympic flotel, Seattle, on June 8
What corn means to fowa or oil to Oklahoma, lumber means to Oregon and Washington. The value of the yeatly production of lumber in these two western states exceeds $280,000,000 and the value of all their forest products exceeds $355,000,000. At least one dollar out of every three paid for the products of the Pacific Northwest, in their farflung consuming markets, is paid for wood in one form or another.
The banks, the railroads and the people of Washington and Oregon are in the lumber business. The growihg and manufacture of forest products is the most basic industry of these two states. Two-thirds of their entire payroll is derived from forest products. Sixty per cent of the railroad traffic originating in them is lumber and other products of the tree. The rail shipments of forest-grown materials aggregate 200,000 carloads annually; and an even larger volume is moved by water. As the prosperity of the South rises and falls with the health of King Cotton, so the prosperity of the Pacific Northwest is largely in the keeping of King Timber
Furthermore, one-half of the land of Washington and Oregon is in the lumber business. As we look into the industrial future of these states, that fact becomes even more important than the enormous volume of stumpage still remaining in their forests. Oregon and Washington contain over 46,m0 acres of forest land; and it seems probable that by far the greater part of it will find its employment only in grorving timber. We cannot afford to leave this vital factor out of our picture of the future economic structure of the Pacific Northwest.
The forest industries of the Pacific Coast ha.ve fascinated the whole through their sheer energ"y, pioneer vigor, and physical power. They have furnished an outstanding example of the conversion of natural resources and con(uest of natural obstacles, backed by tremendous courag'e. From the Maine lumberman who brought the first sawmill around Cape Horn and started logging with bull teams, to the modern logging railroad and high-powered steam or electric machinery, there has been no more inspiring example of our racial energy and resourcefuless in converting natural resources to use and profit.
In the economic history of most of the nations of the world, there has always 'been a time and place for this pioneer stage of industiial development. Its hriving power is-production, and still more production. But often sheer energy and momentum carry this stage of industrial development too far. The urge for new development and increased production has carried American agriculture too far. It has carried our coal industry too far. It threatens
to carryr our oil industry too far. same reasons, it has carried the Pacific Northwest too far.
And for essentially the lumber industry of-Jhe
The law of supply and demand never sleeps. The competition against .whjch products of any character must be marketed never remains the same for long. The law of bvolution governs industrial development just as it does plants and animals. Most industries must, from time to time, re-shape themselves to meet the changed conditions which control their success. The lumber industry of the Pacific Northwest has ottt-grown the pion,eer days. It is dealing with a new competitive and merchandising era. It has need of re-aligning its conceptions and methods to meet the changed conditions of the present, with less Lrowding of production and more emphasis on merchandising.
Washington and Oregon,are toda.v the two leading states of the Union in lumber production. To a surprising degree, within the last ten years, the lumber of the Pacific Northwest has dominated the softwood markets of the United States. It has done this through mass production and price competition. It has attained its dominating position at the cost of returns so low as to seriously threaten the stability of the industry.
During this period, northwestern lumber, like nearly all lumber, has encountered competition from new sources. The aggressive development and marketing of other structural materials of many kinds have changed the rules of the game. The perfection of our transportation system, reacting upon methods of distribution, has made the merchandising of lumber a different process from that of a dozen years ag'o.
Our lumber industry is now in a process of re-alignment to adapt itself to the present day conditions of competitive merchandising, which control its own destinies and, in a large measure, the industrial destinies of the Pacific Northwest. To the vigorous pioneer of its past, the timber cruiser, the railroad builder and the logging superintendent, must be added to the industrial engineer, the merchandising expert, the business economist and the forester.
The chart of the future course of the Northwest lumber industry, as I see it, is not a matter for discouragement. It has the finest resources in softwood timber, adapted to an enormous range of construction and industrial requirements, to be found anywhere in the world. The intrinsic requirements of modern civilization for wood, while changing somewhat in character are still enormous in volumq While lumber may lose ground in some competitive fields, there are others where it is gaining ground; and there
are many fields of competition where its position can be greatly strengthened through the adaptation of manufacture ind merchan-dising to the more exacting and specialized requirements of the present time.
The lumber industry needs a closer and more exact knowledge of its markets. To the extent it is possible to change the conception of capacity production as the key to profit in the lumber business to that of more orderly and restrained manufacture in' relation to the actual requirements of the market, we will be on the road to greater industrial stability.
Another promising development ahead of the West Coast lumber industry is the more painstaking merchandising oi its products, based not primarily on price but on their quality, their place in specific uses, and their service to the consumer. This is part of the trend away from mass production and mass marketing, towards manufacture which takes more complete advantage of the qualities of the raw material and is more closely adapted to specific merchandising opportunities.
Take Douglas fir constrttction timbers as an example. What the consumer is buying is strength for his building. He may buy a general grade, containing wood of a wide range in its actual strength, at a low price largely controlled by the poorest pieces in the grade. Or he may buy a selected grade, meeting exact requirements as to rate of growth, density of wood structure, and straightness of grain, at a much higher price because the actual strength which he is buying is proportionately greater. It is this
very type of structural timber, meeting speci'fic qualifications. that has enabled the West Coast Lumber Trade Extension Bureau to introduce Douglas fir in the most exacting building codes of our eastern cities on a parity with the best of other woods.
There is a tremendous range of wood qualities in the lumber products of our northwestern mills. Some grades and woods are particularly durable; some grades and woods are particularly resistant to sttrface wear; some -woods and grades are particularly strong, some are specially adapted to machining and refabrication, etc. While the production of a considerable proportion of every-day common lumber will necessarily always be an'important factor in the utilization of our timber, there are, I believe, large opportunities for extending the merchandising of special products on their quality for specific purposes, with correspondingly higher returns to the industry. This requires expert market study and trade promotion to fit the various species and grades of West Coast lumber into their most profitable uses in the whole consuming field' The more,the industry can direct its efforts toward this form of merchandising and ease off the pressure on mass production and price competition alone, the greater will be its opportunity to obtain an adequate return for the material which it produces. This is the day of the certified product. Gasoline is not sold simply as so much gas; but on standardized tests of actual fuel value. Cement is not sold simply as so much building material; but as a product of certified
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They say that 'Service" is an overworked word. Perhaps: But it's not an overworked PRACTICE.'
Some one I love comes back to me
With every gentle face I see; Beneath each wave of soft, gray hair I seem to see my mother there, With every kindly grace and word, It seems as if I must have heard IIer speak, and felt her tender gaze
With all the love of olden days, And I arn moved to take her hand And tell her, now I understand How tired she grew beneath the strain Of feeling every loved one's pain. No further burdens could she bear; The promise of that land more fair Alone could tempt her from her child; And now, if I could keep her herc, No sacrifice could be too dear.
No tempCred winds for her too mild.
Then I would smooth and kiss her face, And by her side take my old place, And sob my years and cares away.
The tears I have so long repressed
Would losc their ache upon hef breast; I think if I could feel her touch
Once more, it would not matter much
How sunny or how dark the day.
-Author Unknown.
poverty is uncomfo:3t""::I1 can testiry; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself-James Garfield.
There is but one straight road to success, and that is MERIT. The man who is successful, is the man who is useful. Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.
A drunkard of long standing has been reformed by an operation which removed a bone that pressed against the brain.
The Detroit News says that lots of cures have been affected by removing a brass rail that used to press again the foot.
i The householder carefully surveyed the seedy looking \ individual standing before him.
"You look like a big, healthy fellow," said he, "why don't you go to work?"
"\f,fell, sir," said the hobo, "I'll tell you my troubleI'm an unhappy medium."
"'What on earth is that?"
"Why, I'm too heavy. for light work and too light for hearry work."
"The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me."-Buddha.
Would ye learn the road to Laughter-town, Oh ye who have lost the way?
Would ye have young heart though your hair be grey? Go learn from a little child each day. Go serve his wants, and play his play, And catch the lilt of his laughter gay, And follow his dancing feet as they'stray; For he knows the road to Laughter-town, Oh ye who have lost the way.
-Katherine D. Blake.
His dispatches are fiUed with the wdrds: Success, Riches, Glory, Fame-these were the talismanic words of Napoleon, and yet there is in all the tragic history of man, no sadder failure. Even in the days of his power ho was called "the Great Unloved." Though master of the world, yet of him his friend could only affirm: "Napoleonr grindl gloomy and peculiar, sits upon his throne a sceptered her' mit, wrapped in the solitude of his own ambitiel."William Day Simonds.
i DARKEST HOUR
r./ fte darhest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.-Horace Greeley.
It is great-and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed, less cursed.-Carlyle.
There's one thittg about a business Elogan that is worth rememberittg. If you don't Iive up to it, it may bounce back in your face.
When a sad, disgruntled farmer Tires of mowing down the hay, And looks abotrt to find a job He thinks wiil really pay, Off he rushes to the city
Filled with dreams of wealth and fame, And without a thought or worry ' Jumps into the lumber g'ame.
When a staid, old country doctor Cures ? his patients in a day, And longs to spend declining years
Upon the gay, white way, Quick he hies him from the suburb, And proceeds to park his frame, In a little lumber office.
Where he bucks the lumber game.
So they gather from the far east, And they gather from the west, These experimental ltrmbermen
Who think they k4bw what's best, And the tale of theii adventures
It most generally the same, For it.takes a man-sized human
To buck the lumber game.
You've got to know the business
From the forest to the mill, You've got to use your massive brain
In "Robbins" Flooring you are assurd of the very finest that has e1er been, or ever will be produced. Our geographical location, t h e modern machinery in our mill, and the type of men who make our fooring, all go to make this statement_poqsib_le. "Robbins'l Maple and Birch Flooring is the best.
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Or they'll help slip you a dimension
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Or the builder'll have a fit, You must have personality
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For the rough 1og road you've chosen
Ain't no royal road to fame, And no inexperienced2by 4
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Concluding its third year with assets of $3,825,000, the Pacific Coast Building-Loan Association of Los Angeles has established a nation-wide record for growth among building and loan associations, according to a statement made by A. A. Anderson, secretary.
.In reviewing the prog'ress of the association since organization on May 20, 1925, Anderson's statement points out that when Pacific Coast was two vears old it had assets of more than $2,000,000. This was hailed by building and loan people throughout the country as a record. In- adding nearly two million since May 20, 1926, the association now lays claim to the record of being the first building and loan association in the United States to attain approximate- Iy four million of assets during the first three years of its corporate existence.
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A. J. "Gus" Russell, Santa Fe Lumber Co., returned to San Francisco, May D, f.rom a ten dayp trip to the Northwest, in the course of which he visited the operations of the Central Coal & Coke Co., Vernonia, Ore., and the Western Lumber Co. at Westfir. Ore.
The operating board of Lumber Division of the Fruit Growers Supply Co. recently completed an inspection of the company's mills at Susanville and Hilt. The party arrived in Sdn Francisco from Los Angeles on June 7, leaving that evening for Susanville, going on from there to Hilt, and returning to San Francisco, June 12.
Those composing the party were: C. C. Teague, president; W. K. Beattie, chairman; H. B. McClure; H. A. Lynn; D. C. Crookshank; M. H. Butcher; E. A, Beck; R. L. Willits; W. W. Wilson; R. L.Knox; R. H. Shoemaker; F. B. Hutchens, manager of Lumber Divisior; A. S. Painter, manager of Lands, Tax and Insurance and B. W. Adams, sales manager.
Hirman L. Weitz is now manager of the Richvale yard of The Diamond Match Co.
San .Francisco, June 8.-Union Aviation Gasoline wds used in the greatest all-ocean flight in historyJ4l4 miles, from America to Australia, by Charles Kingsford-Smith and his three valiant comrades in their big monoplane, the Southern Cross, it was announced here today by A. C. Galbraith, an official of the Union Oil Company.
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Mr. Galbraith recently returned from a trip to Honolulu, Suva and Australian points, where he made arrang'ements for refueling the plane.
"Captain Kingsford-Smith, commander of the flight, regarded gasoline as a silent but all-important partner in the flight. Naturally we are proud that a California-made product selected after exhaustive tests, contributed to the success of the flight," said Mr. Galbraith.
One of the Re.dwood manufacturers is giving away pieces of Redwood, small it is true, but big enough to show how this wood will work and stay put. The pieces are onesixteenth of an inch thick, 2 in. wide and 3 in. long, S4S. These are being used as'business cards by the salesmen of The Pacific Lumber Company.
Keeps m wcking' sving tine' labr and yad rm Ncw grumbles c corpla&rs. Wtth one-half the ordinary crry wlll plle nore ihan lC,ll0 fcet of lumber u hour, reducing nanpiler requftd mrtdallf. Prerentr dmagc to lrunbcr and facilitater dryloc.
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composition and known strength. Lumber may well take a leaf out of the same book.
Lumber will always be at a disadvantage in meeting itscompetitors in the -field of construction on the basis of price alone. It can meet them with far greater succe.ss irpon its technical merits and intrinsic qualities.- To.the extent that lumber can be marketed on known and certified qualities of strength, or of durability, or of insulation igainst heat and cbld, or of specified degrees of drynessto the extent that lumber can be marketed under grade and trade marks which certify its quality to the consumer -its position in the merchandising field will be made the stronger.
Another important development in the new era of our western timber industrv will be the closer use of raw material and a more complete fabrication of the final pro: duct before it leaves the sawmills or allied woodworking plants of the Northwest. The unavoidable waste of timber ivhich has been carried by its owner and has paid its taxes fo fhe state and communitv for vears. is one of the heaviest to the state and community years, one loads which the forest industries of O'regon O'regon and Washington still carry and one of the greatest handicaps on their prosperity. We have, in this region. an enormous storeitour. of iaw material adapated to-many different commodities. Distance from market and other economic obstacles have sto6d in the way of its complete utilization. The development of the pulp and paper industry in this region ,and its enlargement in recent years. utilizing to a large degree material which the sawmills cannot profitably-use, stands for the sort of industrial progress which lies ahead of us. Most industries are drarvn bv economic forces ,close to the best available supply of raw material.
That movement is now under way in the Northwest, around the, magnet of the great timber supply of this region. As time g'oes on, we will see more wood products of allkinds-pulp, paper and fibre products, millwork and doors, plywood, boxes and crates, automobile bodies, and wood manufactures of all sorts coming to the Northwest. This will mean a closer inter-lacing of the various industries which utilize wood, a closer use of the raw material. and a more varied and more stable all-round industrial
Hrowell Baker, California Panel & Veneer Co., Los Angeles, was a recent San Francisco visitor where he spent a few days attending to bttsiness matters. He made the return trip by airplane and 'w'as a passenger on one of the Maddux Air Line planes.
structure. The Northwest will become less a region of a single forest product and more a region of many forest products. We may, indeed, witness in. time a reduced cgt bf staading timbei but a larger total-in the value of its manufactuied products from the additional labor and ma' chinery employed in their fabrication.
In anut-ihell, the significance of the change lies in greater industrial returns-not obtained so largely as in the past from our sheer possession of a natural resource but primarily from greater industrial efiiciency and more complete manufacture of the finished products.
- The West Coast Lumbermen's Association has been reorganized and cnlarged to serve the whole lumber indu-stry of"the Pacirfic'North-west as efficiently as it can in working out these common problems. Its - service is predicated upon Secretary Hoover's doctrine of self-government in industry, and progress changes within and of an industry to meet the public interests dependent upon it.
In concluiion, let me refer again to thb large stake whic-h the n.orthern Pacific states hive in the progress of their lumber industry. Their stake is not limited simply to the present importance of the industry. in payrolls and .tax.es and the value of its output, but is even greater in its development along lines which promise stability and--permanenie. To thd extent the industry succeeds it will acquire the economic capacity to reproduce its own raw material.
Reforestation is not something apart from the every-day operations and profits of the sawmill. It is simply one link in a chain whiih-in its whole-connects the forest with the market on a stable and prosperous coinmercial basis. Industrial forestry has got to be sound business. Unstable and unprosperoui industries liquidate and pass out. The-y do not-see[ to perpetuate themselves by renewing their supply of raw material. Forestry is the key stone of an .cbttomic arch, built stone by siote, through successful manufacture and merchandising and living profits.
To the extent the Pacific Northwest can aid its forest industries in working out the present problems and attaining greater stability, it will safeguard its own commercial fuiure as a timber-growing and manufacturing region.
Sydney M. Hauptman, vice-president of the Chas. R. Mc-Cormick Lumber Company, and of the McCormick Steamship Company, who was seriously injured in an automobile aicident May 21, is getting along nicely after_-an operation on his leg, and expects to be back at his office about the end of Tune.
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The Annual Hoo Hoo Frolic and Concatentation to be held at Fall River Mills, Shasta County, Cal., on Jane 23 and 24, promises to be a wonderful party. An attendance of more than 500 is expected as indiCa'ted by the responses already received. Westwood Club No. 38 is sponsoring these get-together meetings, with the active assistance of the other California Clubs. Parson Simpkin will preside at the Concatenation. Snark of the lJniverse, James M. Brown and Supreme Bojum, Fred Roth, together with many other state and national officers, will attend.
Jack Shere, Invitation Committee, requests that all Hoo Hoo attend and bring their families, also that all Hoo Hoo Clubs send along some Kittens to have their eyes opened. Reservations should be made through Jack Shere,: Vicegerent Snark and Secretary of Westwood Hoo Hoo Club No. 38, Westw,ood, California.
A new committee to supervise the public playground at McCloud was appointed by President C. B- Daveney for the coming year at a meeting of the Club recently hCld at Pondosa. The committee will consist of R. E. Ferral, chairman, L. R. Heryford and V. N. Feldhausen.
The Peninsula Hoo Hoo Club met at the Gumwood Inn, Falo Alto, on Monday evening, May 28. Following dinner, there was a business session. Prof. Harold Hotelling, Stanford University, was the speaker of the evening, his subject being, "Some Mathematical Problems in Business."
' Lieutenant Cornmander George O. Noville, flight engineer with Commander Byrd on the historic trans-Atlantic !t-ig!t in the "Arnerica" from New York to France-in April, 1927,7hrilled members of the San Francisco Hoo Hoo elub with his story of .the flight, at the regular meeting of the club held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, May 24.
Being Chas. R. McCormick Day, J. Walter. Kelly was chairman of the day. Introducing the speaker, Mr.-Kelly said that it was indeed a privilege to have an address from a man who has had a large part in making history, who fought on both French and I.talian fronts in the wir, and who was third in command of Commander Bvrd's North Pole flight, and who, he was glad to say is now making San Francisco his home, having become associated with thi Standard Oil Company.
,President Bert Johnson announced that there will be no lu_ncheon meetings held between June 14, and September 13.
-Miss_May Powers, Secretary to Jo H. Shepard, Manager of the Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento, will leive !_an {pnc_isco on lune 20 for an extended trip to the Hawaiian Islands. Miss Powers will be one of a-party of f9u1 ygung ladies, among whom will be her visitor, Miss Christine Powers of Stocftton.
The first evening meeting of the East Bay Hoo Hoo Club, No. 39, was held at the Florence Restaurant, Oakland, May 14, and, there wlas such a good attendance that Milt Hendrickson, who presided gave it as his opinion that the innovation was going to prove popular with East Bay lumbermen, and particularly those whose places of business are at some distance from the center of the city.
A special Italian dinner was enjoyed, accompanied by accordion music in the best Italian stvle.
Hank Didesch, managing director of the Millwork Institute was a visitor, and he told a couple of good stories.
Rod Hendrickson also told some stories. and there was a presentation by Milt Hendrickson of birthday presents to all members present whose birthdays came in March, April and May.
Bert Bryan, Strable Hardwood Company, gave a brief talk in which he suggested that a little cooperation by those present would solve all their difficulties.
A short talk by Past Snark of the lJniverse Dick Hiscox concluded the meeting.
Jack Thomas, Chairman of the l-os Angeles Hoo Hoo Club Golf Committee. announces that the next tournament will be held at the Brentwood Golf and Country Club, Friday afternoon, June 22. The tournament is open to all Iumbermen in Southern California. Visiting lumbermen are especially invited to attend and take part in the tournament. Among the prizes to be played for are the Ro11 Stanton and Frank Curran Cups. Sperial 'prizes will dlso be awarded to the winners of the Flight events. The following members of the 'committee are assisting Chairman Thomas: Paul Hill, A. L. If,oover, Roy Stanton, Ed Betts, A. L. Sailor and J. E. Martin. Follo#ing the tournament, there will be a banquet and entertainment program at the Club House
_ Vicegerent Snark, C. I. Speer of the San Francisco Bay District announces that a concatenation will be held on Tuesday evening, .June 19, at the Hotel Oakland, Oakland. All members are urged to bring a Kitten. The program calls for a banquet, entertainment and concatenation. A big crowd are expected to attend.
J. W. Fletcher and W. P. Frambes, Los Angeles,'accom- panied by Mrs. Fletcher and Mrs. Fram,bCs and little "Billy" Frambes, were recent visitors at the mill of the McCloud River Lurnber Co-, McCloud, Cal., where they spent a felv days as guests of the company. They reported an enjoyable trip. Fletcher & Frambes are the r-epreientatives of the McCloud River Lumber Co. in Southein California and Arizona.
Philip Garland, Secretary-Treasurer of the Tacoma Veneer Co., Tacoma, Wash., was a recent Los Angeles visitor where he spent several dar.s on business matters. He also conferred with officials of the California panel & Veneer Co., which concern represent their interests in the Los Angeles territory.
Announcement of an advanced policy of dealer cooperation, to widen the scope of their operation and to enable them to guarantee satisfaction to the consumer of all roofing products manufactured by the company, has been made by the Pioneer Paper Company of Los Angeles.
The statement of J. H. Plunkett, general manager, revealed that while in the past the dealer's function has been practically restricted to the supplying of materials after the home-our'ner or prospective builder had decided what kind of a roof he wanted, in future the official dealer representatiVe of the Pioneer company will act in a supply and advisory capacity for both the buyer and the Pioneer shingle application company.
Dealers in each community throughout the eleven west. ern states will now carry a full line of all the company's products, Plunkett explained, to carry into effect this new policy. In this manner the buyer will have the full assortment to choose from, and the price for the completed roof, instead of for the materials only, will ,be quoted, the dealer then calling in the local shingle company to apply the roof on terms desired by the purchaser.
This is the first time such a comprehensive state-wide sales plah as this has been put into effect by any similar
California industry, the executive declared, and completes the service system launched three years ago with the adoption of the time-payment plan of selling roofs, which Pioneer originated.
Adoption of this advanced dealer plan came as the cli' max to the $5,000,000 concern's spring advertising cam' paign, during which, for a month, advertisements appeared simultaneously in 80 newspapers throughout the Western and Pacific Coast sales territory. The campaign was successful in acquainting the public with one of the cardinat principles of -Pioneer operation, consumer satisfaction all the way down the line from raw material manufacture to applied roof. It also gained the confidence of the dealer thiough building present and future business for him, wfhicti was accomplished in advising the home-owner to consult the reliable lumber, building material or hardware dealer in his community who handles the Pioneer line of products.
Tidewater terminal rates on transcontinental freight shipments will be granted to all points on the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, according to a statement made recently by Edward H. Maggard, president of this railroad. This action, he said would place the cities of the Redwood Empire on an equal footing with San Francisco, Sacramento, San Tose and other coast cities.
Thie eaw will cut quickly and economically on either hard or'coft wood. Whether ripping, cutting-off or nritering, it will ctand fart hand feed without rubbing or overheating. The succecrful performance of Simonds Sawr, Knivee and Files ir due to the fact that they are backed by Simondr manufacturing experience of nearly a century.
When ordering epecify Simonde Planer Saw for smoother cutting. Do uot accept a rubrtitute.
One of the chief fire hazards at this time of the year iE dty gra$ and weeds. If any fire hazards exist eliminate them at once. Get the habit of giving your yard the once over frequently.
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Announcement has been made that the business of the Mitchell-Whiteside Lumber Co. will be conducted under the name of the Whiteside Lumber Co. The Whiteside Lumber Co. have offices in the Petroleum Securities Building, Los Angeles.
J. H. McCallnm, San Francisco retailer, is back at his desk again following a four weeks' trip to Kansas City. While in the east. Mr. N{cCallurm visited with several of the large lumber distributors in the Kansas City territory.
W. W. Wilson, R. O. Wilson Lumber Co., left San Francisco by automobile early in June for a two weeks business trip in Southern California, calling on the trade.
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E. L. Reitz, Hart-Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles has returned from a trvo weeks' trip to the Northwest where he visited the mills in the Grays llarbor, Puget Sound and Vancouver, B. C. districts. He also spent a day at Longview, Wash., where he inspected the Long-Bell Lumber Co. plant. Mrs. Reitz accompanied him on the trip.
Friday Afternoon, June 22, 1928
Brentwood GoIf arrd Country Club
J. A. Thomae, Chairman
Peul Hill A. L. Hoover
Roy Stanton Ed Betto
A,. L. Sailor J. E. Martin
Brentwood, California
Tournamcnt ir open to all lumbermen in Southcra California and viriting lumbcrmen. Sponrorcd by the Lor Angelcr Hoo-Hoo Club.
Watch for thc announccrnentr
Robert H. Downman, nationally prominent lumberman, and for many'years a leading figure in the southern cypress industrv, died at his home in New Orleans, La., Saturday, lune 2. He was 68 years old.
Mr. Downman was born in Warrenton, Virgina, but at the age of 20, he moved to Texas, locating at Bryan, where he engaged in the drug business. In 1881, he moved to Waco, Texas, opening a drug store there, and two years later enterbd the employ of the wholesale firm of J. W. Castles Company. This firm was succeeded by Cameron, Castles & Story, one of the owners being William Cameron, widely known lumberman. He managed the wholesale drug department of this ,firm until 1886 when he joined Behrens & Castle, wholesale druggists.
It was in .1889 that he entered the lumber business, becoming manager of the retail lumber department for Wm. Cameron & Co., at Waco. IIe remained as an active working partner in this firm until 1897. He married Miss Anne Cameron, daughter of Wm. Cameron, and upon the latter's death in 1899, the estate was divided, Mr. Downman and his wife taking ,over the cypress holdings. Under his able management and direction, this developed into one of the greatest lumber properties in the South.
In 190O, Mr. Downman moved to New Orleans where he became one of the foremost leaders in exploiting cypress to the world, his work being directly responsible-for raising the market value of cylress timber and lumber to a point that became the envy of competitive woods.
' In 1913, Mr. Downman was elecied president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. He was a leader in the Southern Cypress Manufacturers Association, in which his counsel was always sought and freely given. He was controlling owner of the Bowie Lumber "Cottrpany, Ltd., Bowie,_La, Jeanerette Lumber & Shingle Co., Ltd., Jeanerette, La., .and the Whitecastle Luriber & Shingle Co., Whitecastle, La.: vice-president of the Salkehatchie Cypress Company, Varniville, S. C.; a -di- rector in the Canal National Bank, New Orleans, and several other financial institutions, land and dpvelopment companies.
Mr. Downman was also associated with the lumber industr-v on the Pacific Coast where he was a director in the Clover Valley Lumber Co. and a director in the pacific Spruce Corporation.
Aside from his business interests. Mr. Downman was an active worker in the civic affairs of his city and his country, urging much needed reforms and improvements and lending a han'd in every forward movement.
J. A. Hart, Hart & Burmeister, the well known San Francisco millman was elected to serve for a second term as President of the San,Francisco Branch of Millwork Institute of California at a meeting held on June 1. Will Goddard assumed the management of the San Francisco office on June 1. They rnaintain offices at ll79 Market Street, San Francisco.
J. G. Kennedy, Pacific Manufacturing Co. was elected Vice-presi- dent. Five directors were also elected. These are: Harry Gaetjen, Empire Planing Mill; Charles Monson, Acme Planing Mill; Emory Nutting, Herring & Nutting; Robert Leishman, Redwood Manufacturers Co. and C. E. Reinhart, Reinhart Lumber & Planing Mill.
Distributors of plywoods in the Los Angeles district, together with their sales representatives, held a luncheon meeting at the Jonathan Club, Wednesday, June 6. Over 5O attended the luncheon. Harry V. Hanson, California Panel & Veneer Co., acted as chairman of the meeting. Mr. Hanson gave an interesting talk on the plyw,ood industry, after which Bob Osgood, Wheeler-Osgood Co., showed a two reel moving picture on the manufacturing of Laminex Doors at the Wheeler-Osgood plant at Tacoma, Wash.
The California Redw,ood Association have an interesting display in the llome Furnishing Department at Barker Brothers, Los Angeles, rvhich in,cludes soffre beautiful photographs of attractive Redwood work. The exhibit will be on display at Barker Brothers for about ten days, after which it will be moved to the Los Angeles Public Library. R. F. Hammatt, San Francisco, Secretary-Manager of the Association, was visitor at the exhibit last week.
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Reared. in the arms of Mother Earth, I stand os a silent sentinel King of Nature's garden am I.
'Prolific i.n my offspring, my seed,lings are zuinged to grassy slope and mountai.n sid.e native of all land.s am I.
I am a hanest as the grain of the fi,eld, the fru'it of the aine, so I serzte 'in zuond,rous uays.
I arn decoratizte. Deft chiselling models me to artistic lines I embelli.sh and, ad,orn. And when rny hand-hezued, beaws are there, Man's horne brea.thes of the great out-doors, of ageless forests, of the rnusic of rustling boughs.
Baby feet clinrb my golden stairs, little hands gras| nry bqlustrad,e I am the winding zaay to Slurwberland,.
By night, by day, I atn the protector against the raaages of storm and utind the trernblings of the earth I resist I arn a Nation's roof I ant, th,e foundation, the support unseen my sineu,s yield, not to the zueighted load.
And. though I fall, I still liae on, mry usefulness to fulfill.
I am perpetuated by Mon I atn eternal through the years:
For uhen I go to build Shelter and to protect, my fomily still su.n,iz,e. For at rny feet hard'y sons are born to live and, sente.
Proud, is he zaho builds of me, for I ano Home. I arn Hosfitality at his door-I am silent Comfort from ai.thin.
I gizte walls of ri,chest hues and, craftsmen's hands d.esign rne to harmonious forrns.
I ano the foot-path of the hovne, absorbing the shocks of falling things, resilient to the heovy Ioad., endwring the ceaseless tread' of feet still preseraing nt'^1 beattteous grain.
Three score years and ten the age of Man. My bough,s were sturdy when Egypt first avtoke, a,hen tlrc aoya'ger fi'rst cruised uncharted seas, zuhen Roman power did' hold sway.
And still I stand erect itt dress of var'ieel hues, mellowed. by the centuries, ne'er fadi'ng with the years.
Man, I have serzted hbn well, given bountifully of my yield tlesigned by the Great Architect, I shall go on forezter.
I am a treb'
will be held Tuesday evening, June 19, at the Hotel Oakland, Oakland.
The nine will consist of :
snark . " 'c' I' sPeer
Senior Hoo'Hoo Howard Gunton
Junior Hoo-Hoo .. Milt Hendrickron
Bojum D. N. Edwardr
Scrivenoter Geo. Troth
Curtocation '. 'B- E. BrYan
Arcanoper ...... ' C. F. Ricker
Gurdon " Carl Wattr
Jabberwock J- R. NeYlan
Finance Comrnittee
F. L. Parker, Chairmau
Wave Tildcn H. S. Morton
D. N. Edwardt
Merrill Robincon
H. L. Call Homer Marir
Banquet Committee
Geo. Troth, Chairman
L. J. Woodron Milt Hendrickeon
Entertainment
Homer Marir, Chairman
Henry Meyer Clern Fraaer Rod. Hendrickeon
Memberahip
Carl Moore Orcar Johnron
c. I. SPEER" Vicegerent Snark
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Rote: $2.s0 per colutnn ineh The Fellow Who Wants to Be Hired
Want an experienced working partner in an established lumber yard with an investment of from $500O to $10,000. Excellent opportunity for right party in San Joaquin Valley. Only yard in city. Address Box 203, care California Lumber Merchant.
In Los Angeles Southwest. Sightly lumber yard or mill location. On paved boulevard and railroad facilities. 25,000 square feet. Low rent. Address Box C-204, Care California Lumber Merchant
Lumberman with several years' experience would like to represent a mill, wholesaler or retailer in the Southern Cal.ifornia territory. Knows softlvoods and hardwoods and formerly represented large. manufacturer. Ready to accept position at once. Can furnish references. Address Box C-205 care California Lumber Merchant.
Lumber salesman with experience in California, the Southwest and Middle West wants position as salesman representing rvholesaler or mill. Wiil consider in either of these territories. Knows the manufacturing and selling ends of the industry and formerly represented large manufacturer for several yeafs. Can give good referen-es. Address Box C-206 care California Lumber Merchant.
Wholesale concern handling both cargo and rail wants salesman. One well acquainted with San Francisco, East Bay and Peninsula territory. Prefer salesman to have own car. State experience and salary required. Address Box C-?IO care California Lumber Merchant. 112 Market St.. San Francisco,
For odd mill work. Must be able to list and estimate all types architectural woodwork for churches, etc. Must also be able to detail work for shop and do neat drafting. Address, giving experiences, references and salary wante? Box C-199, care California Lumber Merchant.
You lumbermen who want a vacation ! I can put you on to- one or more young' college m.en who can help in your ofi_ice and yard. C-an handle a truck without abusing it.
Y,ou can buy offi-c-e^ desks, chairs, business phonograph outfit complete, a 1927" F.eo Speed Wagon, six-cyiinder, from me.
You'll like my prices on 13/16 Oak'Flooring. phone Wakefield 1634, 1646 Francisco Street, Pdsadena.
Over 15 years'executive experience, last five years acting Secretary of large retail lumber company in the Los Angeles territory. Experienced in credits and collections, office management, building, financing, accounting, etc. Open for position at once. Box C-208, care California Lumber Merchant.
Position in sales or prrrchase departments by an experienced'lumberman with wholesale and retail experience. Having had charge of purchases and sales to Eastern Markets of California White and Sugar Pine and command a following of open accounts with me. References. Address Box C-2@. care California Lumber Merchant.
Man with several vears' exDerience in local lumber vard desires connection with retiit or wholesale finn. -Can furnish excellent rbfeiences. Address Box C-211, care California Lumber Merchant.
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Factory or warehouse with trackage. Extra space for lease. Address Box C-2O2. Care California Luinber Merchant.
N{arried man, 35 years old, wants position as manager retail yard. 5 years' experience in California. Knows the wholesale. retail and rnillwork branches of the business. Familiar with plans and accustomed to furnishing guaranteed lists. Has had experience as corporation secretary and treasurer, sales promotion and advertising. What have you and what is the salary? Address Box C-207 care California Lumber Merchant.
Kenneth Smith, Secretary of The Lumber Dealers Association of Los Angeles, has been appointed Executive Secretary of the l-os Angeles District Manufacturers Branch of the Millwork Institute of California. The lumbermen and the millmen have created a joint executive committee-each branch retaining its identity-and Mr. Smith will act as Secretary of both branches. Mr. Ben Bemis is the manager of the Central Office of the Los Angeles Branch of the Millwork Institute of California.
The W. E. Cooper Lumber Co. state that they have just received from the Jerome Hardwood Lumber Co. of Jerome Arkansas, the largest carload of flooring that has eyer been shipped into their Los Angeles plant. The car contained 100 N{ feet of /s-inch "Dixie" Brand oak flooring.
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Wants to Hire
It's customer satisfaction that counts in the roof 6.rritr."r-f,oth from your standpoint as a retailer and ours as manufacturers. And the more friends you mai<e as a retailer-the more money we make, for our profits are determined by your sales. This is one of the reasons we make 'Weaver Roofs so good your customers tell others about them.
WEAVER-HENRY MFG. CO. Successors to IVeaver Roof Company 3275 East Slauson Ave. Los Angeles Telephone Mldland 2141
