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The lumber movement during the week ended Mray 28 continued at about half the volume of the equivalent period a year ago and orders exceeded production by but 4 per cent, according to reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association from regional associations covering the operations of 624leading hardwood and softwood mills. Production at these milh amounted to 114,5871000 feet and new business called f.or l19r029,O00 feet. Their shipments, L2TrOOSrOOO feet, exceeded the cut by 11 per cent. A week earlier 668 mills produced 1281165,000 feet and received orders for about the saine quantity, while shipments were about 2 per cent above this figure.
Douglas Fir*tzl mills reporting to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended J$Iay 28 operated at2O.8 per cent of capacity, as cornparedto 23.5 per cent for the previous week and 4.43 per cent for the 'same week last year. During the week 196 of these plants were reported as down nd 125 as operating.
New business received by 216 identical mills reporting to the Association for the week ended May 28 was 5.9 per cent over production..- This group reported production approximately six million feet less than the previous week, while shipments were 15.7 per cent over production. New expotr business was 3r018r754 feet less than the volume reported the week before. New domestic cargo orders were 449r8ll feet over, new rail business decreased 214891474 feet, while the local rade declined 3661743 feet as compared with the previous week's business.
Production, orders and shipments of these 226 mills for the week were as follows: Production 5113831328 feet; Shipments 5g,488rD41feet, and Orders 54r45lr773 feet.
Details of orders and shipments at these mills for the woek follow: Orders-Rail 2O,9461956 feet; Domestic Cargo 2112061523 feet; Expot't 61738,604 feeti Local 5,558169O feet. Shipment-Ratl 231739,310 feet; Domestic Cargo 2116501184 feet; Export 8,5391857 feet; Local 5,558169O feet.
fnventories as reported by 144 mills decreased 9,0O0,OO0 feet from the week ended i&lay 2l and are 18.4 per cent less than at this time last year.
The California market shows no changes., When the new tariff on lumber of S3.OO per M feet goes into effecf it should have an important bearing on'the market. Un sold stocks on the public docks at San Pedrq for the week ended June 8 totaled 5r323rOOO feet, as compared to 5s 5121000 feet for the previoris weeli. Cargo arrivals at thii port for the week ended June 4 amounted to 41861rOO0 feet which included 7 cargoes of Fii carryrng 4,O19,OOO feet, and 3 cargoes of Redwood with 842rOO0 feet. 48 vessels were operating in the California lumber senrice on June 4, with the Missoula operating ofi shore; 63 veseels wet6 Iaid up.
The Southern Pine Association for the week ended May 28 reported new business from.11.1 mills 2t)625rAOO fie;t, shipments 2118401000 fegt, and prcduction 2lr472rOOO feet. Orders were lO per cent above production and E per cent above shipments. Shipments wer.e 2 per cent above production.
The Westetn Pine Association for the week repo-rted new business from 113 mills as 28,8921000 feet, shipmgnts r2rLST.OOO feet, and production 3O1677rOOO feet. Orders were 6 per cent below production and 10 per cent below shipments. Shipments were 5 per cent above produdtion; L77 hadwood mills reported for the same week new business as 919401000 feet, or 3 per cent above production and shipments 1110401000 feet or 15 per cent above pro. duction. Production was 9,605,000 feet. * * {< * * *,
The Califotnia Redwood Association reported for the month of May orders received from 11 mills as l2r952rOOO feet, ordets on hand l9r273rOOO feet, shipments l4r204r0OO feet, and production 91311,000 feet.
Details of orders and shipments for the month follow: Orders-Norther'n California 4r883r0OO feet; Southem California 2,642.000 feet; Western 139,OOO feet; Eastern 4,468,000 feet; Foreign 820,000 feet: Shipments-Northern California 6,500,000 feet; Southern California 2r577r0OO feet; Westetn l3TrOOO feet; Eastern 4rO54rO0O:feet; Foreign 936,000 feet.
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I before which the man is standing was 2,000 years old at the time it fell. The overgrowing tree was 2,500 years old when cut. This makes the log 4,500 years old. It is still firm and sound.
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We, too, are in a position to offer quality merchandise-backed by dependable Service. Our products are available at your neareit reiail lumber yard. Should you feel the urge to reciprocate in the p-lacing of business. may we suggest thatyou specify California Redzlood when ordering from your lumber dealer' Reciprocity is truly the life of trade.
A sawrnill friend of mine from New Orleans writes me that things are so bad over there the Mississippi River is only running three days a week. +*:F
Here is the prize optimist story of the day. Abe-"How is business?" Ik+"Fing! I'm twenty per cent ahead df next year."
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Jumping from windows continues to be a very popular sport among leading business men. I've about decided to give it a try myself. The only trouble is, I haven't been able to find a window close enough to the ground. Saw one in a low type bungalow the other day that rnight do, the sill was not over tw'o feet from the earth. But even then, one might sprain one's anklg mightn't one?
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In Spokang Washingto4, the other night, they read over the radio the first page of the May First Vagabond Editorials, on the subject, "The Law of Cornpensation fs a Good Law." Gave us credit, too. That's more than lots of folks do.
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It is just some possible that sorne day the Scripture will be fulfilled, and "the noeek will inherit the earth f' but I'm afraid it won't do them much good. The un-meek will take it away from them-pronto.
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Ifere's the way the hard.-hittingest, go-g€ttingest sales folks now on top of this over-sold earth of ours-the electric refrigerator people-define their own particular prospect file:
Ten years ago there were ten million electrically wired homes in the United States. Today there are fi,venty million. Ten years ago there were NO electric refrigerators. Today there are three million. Potential prospect list today, seventeen million wired hornes. And, f suppose, they figure the future THIS way: thirty millioq wired homes in 1940, or turenty-seven million prospects from this date. And now, folks, let's US get busy and sell those ten million new homes between now and 1940, and rebuild and repair and remadel the majority of thoee already built.
Now, folks, we hear a lot abgut the necessig fm "balancing the budget" in, all directions. There's one particular budget that balances too well-the budget of wheat and whiskers. The farmer brings a bushel of wheat into town and sells it for two'bits; then he pays the twebits to a barber for a shave. And so long as a farmer has to sell a bushel of wheat to buy a shave he'll want to quit raijing wheat and go to raising whiskers. Why not? ***
When this depression is over there is oni particular phrase that I'm going to personally petition Congress to put on a special index expurgatorious ("black list," to you). That's this never ending bromid+"Everything's going to be dl right." f'm getting so I look around for a rock every time I hear it. ***
Capt. Robert Dollar of San Francisco, one of the greatest men the lumber industry has known, died the other day. Peter B. Kyne tells of the time about a year ago when Capt. Dollar was stricken with the illness that finally killed him" He called in his three boys, and in the bedroom of his home where he lay, there were two flags unfurled; the Stars and Stripes, and the Dollar flag. He read to them from the Bible, then pointed to the two fags, and said: "Ydll keep them both fyin', lads."
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"A very old-tfashioned, simple old man," says Kyne, "true to God and country. Quite satisfied that he had done the best he could, but sad because it wasn't enough. Grand old Scot !" You will probably remember that Peter B. Kyne's name first came to fame and fortune through his famous "Cappy Ricks" stories. And the "Cappy Riclrs" he wrote about, was his friend, Captain Robert Dollar. Once, before Kyne became famous as a writer, Captain Dollar hired him to be Shanghai manager for the Dollar interests; then changed his mind. When Peter became famous, Capt. Dollar recalled this to him, saying: "Peter, I'm thinkin' f was very Hnd to you. You do better writin' about ships than managin' them."
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For nearly 25 years I have kept my book of stories.
Every worth-while story I have told in that time is in that book. Until recently these stories were simply in the forrn of notes. Urged by many friends to preserve them by at least putting them into typewritten form, I have finished typing about half of them-the "Nigger" stories.
Now I am contemplating publishing these colored stories in book form. Haven't quite decided yet just ho,rp to go about it. But I hope soon to have thenr, available to lovers of good stories. I shall call the book, "CULLED FUN."
What a marvelous collection this 25 years of "Nigger" stories comprise I had no idea until I began putting them into type form. It took ninety days just to typewrite them. Thete never has been such a collection of darkey stories. That really isnt bragging because there is not now and never has been available any redly fine collection of colored stories-or any other kind for that matter. The average book of funny stories-and there are scores of thern on the market-is about the saddest thing imaginable.
To keep them from being lost and forgotten I have included in this list a couple of dozen of the very best "Nigger" stories of the World War, that are entirely too late to be lost to the world.
Don't yotr think it would be fun to have every first class negro story that the people of the South have laughed at in a generation available under one cover, told in such a manner as to lose none of their "punch" and life?
W. R. Chamberlin, president of W. R. Chamberlin & Co., San Francisco, returned May 27 lrcm a two weeks' business trip to the Northwest. Mr. Chamberlin visited Portland, Tacoma, Grays Harbor, Seattle and other points, and made the return trip by air, leaving Portland at 1O a. m. and arriving at his home in Oakland just five and a half hours later.
lsouthern Pacific Milling Co. recently pur'chased the yard of the Gilroy Central Lumber Co., Gilroy.
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Chas. F. Kettering, Vice Priesident of General Motors, has been saying and writing some fine truths of late. He says, 'for one thing, that a lot of executives have become separated frorn their jobs by too much glittering furniture and office equipment, too many secretaries and yes-men, and he predicts that from now on they'll get closer to their jobs, like executives used to be. I guess Mr. Kettering means that they've been like the colored brother who said he thought_he COULD catch up with his work but he hated to get that close to it.
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In an article in The Saturday Evening Post Mr. Kettering says that the hope of business is in progress, change, new developme'nts, new processes, and that a business thit closes its mind to these things is like a tree that says to itself, "there is no use of my putting on new leaves this year; I am strong enough as it is; there is no use of rny going through all this again." We all know what would happen to that tree. If Mr. Kettering had been thinking of and shooting right AT the lumber industry, he couldn't have hit a surer mark. For, when vy'e start climbing the hill again, this industry more than any other great industry, must seek the road that Mr. Kettering po,ints o'ut"or else," as the slang phrase goes.
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General Moto,rs, with which Mr. Kettering is importantly associated, is making the greatest sales effort, the greatest advertising efrort, the greatest research effort in its history. If it had, for the past three years, followed the exanoples of many other industries, it would have been down, out, and almost forgotten right now. A fine lesson it teaches the rest of us.
While most busin"r, ,J ":"J the ax in alt its departments, operations, and activities, General Motors is using CONSTRUCTIVE tools instead. An ax is a fine thing for tearing down, but who ever heard of BUILDING with one?
I must have a single **O *r*, and a mighty weak one at that. For to me a general sales tax is the only sensible and equitable tax; and I have never heard or read a single argument against it that seemed to me to savor of the faintest intelligence. So that's how I stand on this taxation thing.
"How do you stand on a lumber tariff?" asks a friend of mine. I guess he thinks I won't answer. Foolish friend ! The tariff is to every man what it means to his own pocketbook. Some of the rnost brilliant men I know say we will never know prosperity until we kill the high tariff, and make it possible for other nations to buy our goods and pay for same with THEIR goods. And then other brilliant men reply "Piffle" and other insulting things, and can prove to me that the exact opposite is the truttr. ***
My sawmill friends in Washington and Oregon want a lumber tariff to cut down their Canadian competition from British Columbia. My sawmill friends in the NorthMiddle-West don't want any lumber tariff on White Pine. If I lived in Washington or Oregon I would probably favor a tariff, and if I lived with my White Pine friends I would oppose one, I suppose. The only tariff I seem to be deeply interested in is one against everything that comes from Russia, and I want it a million miles high, with electrified barb-wire and tons cif broken glass scattered along the top. So that's how I stand on the tariff. Ask me another. +:F*
There is one bill before the U. S. Senate that I heartily approve of ; the Oddie amendment to the Senate Revenue Bill. It proposes a 50 per cent ad valoregn tax based on American prices, on all Russian goods imported into this country. I think it our sacred duty as patriotic Americans who love our country and hope to see it endure, to keep Russia and Russian goods out of the United States, and I'rn in favor of a4y method of securing such protection. I'm in favor of it for the same reason that f would prohibit mad dogs, hydrophobia polecats, venomous reptiles, poisonous beverages, and death-dealing genns, from being shipped over our border lines. If we have to pull the whole dad-blamed lynch-pin out of our diplomatic cosmos to accomplish our purpose-I still favor it.
The manufacturers of a certain typewriter ribbon increased their sales fifty per cent since the depression started. How? By putting up their ribbo,ns in a wonderfully attractive little container that looks for all the world like a lady's vanity case. And, since most of those who purchase and select typewriter ribbons are women, the thing was easy. Wonder how we could wrap up some lumber to have that effect?
Vibrating machines are having a big slump. A few years ago they sold like wildfire. The depression? Sure! But not just like that. Hundreds of thousands of folks were using vibrating machines to reduce their fat who today are getting the same results by mowing the lawn, trimming the hedges, washing the car, doing odd jobs of painting, sweeping, washing, cooking, walking, eating plain food in decent quantities-and in various other old-fashioned and honorable ways. With all due respect to the folks who made money making vibrators, and are now losing their business, the great sale of their machine testified in unmistakable terms that this country needed a panic-had to have ong, in fact.
These are strange times, my countrymen ! And we see strange sights ! Perhaps none stranger than the sight of the world's crookedest political organization-a veritable Lazarus covered with sores-sending its own dapper mouthpiec+himself 'facing trial for bankrupted integrity -to pl6ad for the liberty of a man. And that plea was made to another man who once rode at the head of a patriotic parade, heard a tremendous explosion, and rode back to find forty or rnore of his friends in a shambles of death and destruction. Justice had immediately sought and found the most dangerous anarchist in that common-
wealth-a ma4 who lived only to teach, preach, and practice violence-found him guilty, and locked him up where his venom could do no further harm. To distract attention from its own deeds, that political leper of the East' carried a hippodrome to the West. What a gesture ! What a startling reflection against the intelligence of a state' and of a nation!
"From now on the young men will take charge of the affairs of the world," said a writer recently, and thought he was announcing something new and novel. Why, bless your soul, this has always been a young man's world; it always will be. Shakespeare wrote "flamlet" at 36. Lord Byron had established fame and fortune and was dead at 36. At 30 Lord Clive had conquered India. At 27 Napoleon took command of the Army of Italy. Alexander the Great had conquered the world,'sighed for more worlds to conquer, and was dead at 33. At 32 Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. At 3l Webster was holding his own with the intellectual Titans of his time, Clay, Calhoun, et al. Whether in art or literature, war or statecraft, comrnerce or industry, the great bulk of the world's best work has been done by men for whom life's shadows were still falling toward the West. Youth boldly faces the unsolved enigma of the future; age turns its face regretfully to the past.
Let's quit. Business has gone to hell. We are simply business men, and therefore can't do anything about it.
Congress tvon't pasi the right kind of a tax bill. It won't reduce federal government expenditures. Our state and local governments won't reduce expenditures and taxation, either. 'We are not citizens of the United States or of any state, county or municipality. Therefore, there is nothing vye can do about it.
Let's quit. Business is rotten. Nobody will buy anything. \Me can't sell anything. \Me were wonderful salesmen when selling was simply order-taking, but we can't sell to anybody that doesn't want to buy. Therefore, let's quit trying to sell. The most useful thing we can do now is to sit in our offices, wear out the seats of our pants. and talk about how bad conditions are.
Let's quit. The country has no leaders. We complain about lack of leadership, but it does no good. We would become great leaders ourselves, but there is a law against it. There is no law against other people being leaders, but there is a law against us being leaders, and therefore all we can do is to tell others who try to become leaders that they should go away back and sit down because they don't know how to lead.
It's too bad, isn't it? But there isn't anything we ,can do about it. We are so wise that we know what ought to be done, and as we wear out the seats of our pants in our offices we tell each other what ought to be done and criticize everybody who is trying to do anything. But there isn't anything we ,can do because there is a law against us doing anything. In this country there are available means of production and distribution sufficient to provide all of our people and a large part of the entire world with every necessity, comfort and luxury. It is just too bad that we can't so use these means as to get rich by providing those necessities, comforts and luxuries. But we can't do anything about it.
Let's quit. We sit daily in our offi,ces wearing out the seats of our pants telling each other what ought to be done. But there aren't enough people listening at our keyholes to be influenced by what we say, and, anyway, there are a lot of fellows outside making su,ch a hell of a ballyhoo about what ought to be done that anybody listening at our keyholes,could not hear the wisdom'regarding politics. economics and business that we are distilling. Why not quit?
There isn't anything we can do. We can't produce because we can't sell. We can't sell because nobody will buy.
Nobody will buy because we can't sell. The country is going to hell. Business is dead. Let's quit.
On September 9, 1914, at the height of the first battle of the Marne, upon the outcome of which depended the fate of France, General Foch sent the follolving telegram to French general headquarters :
"My center gives way, my right recedes; the situation is excellent. I shall attack."
Busine'ss is rotten. There are able ancl brave men who are striving with all their might to lead us out of this morass. The ,continuance of the depression is not their fault. It is the fault of that large majority of us who are too selfish to be patriotic, too corvarclly to fight and too fat to run.
A real man and patriot appeared before a Congressional committee in Washington a few weeks ago and .told the committee and the world what he thought. His name is Charles G. Dawes, and he is president of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. His message was longer, but as good and to the point as that sent by General Foch on September 9, 1914. Te told the fools and demagogues in Congress how they are ,contributing torvard the ruin of the country by soaking the rich to help the poor-to lose their jobs. Having rendered distinguished service to the American people during the late war, he told those veterans who are seeking legislation to flood the country rvith a flat money bonus, that they are trying to do to their country what they were fighting to prevent the Germans from doing fourteen years ago. Then he went back to his job of helping save America.
General Dawes set an example for every American citizen. There is a big fight going on in Washington between the taxeaters and the taxpayers. The taxpayers are being beaten because while most taxpayers are wearing out the seats of their pants,complaining about conditions, most taxeaters are wearing out the soles of their shoes prote,cting their pay and their jobs.
Why not get into the fight ? The trouble is not lack of leaders but lack of followers. Most men who have accepted the titles, responsibilities and salaries of leadership will not lead themselves and will not follow those who are trying to lead. That is why almost every effort made to reformla* laws, reduce government expenditures, revive national credit, in,crease sales and production is being defeated.
Let's quit rotting. If we won't or .can,t lead, let's follow those who can and will. This ,country is not going to be saved by snake-dancing or medicine-making in Washing_ ton, but by millions of Americans ceasing to sit on their backsides and scrutinize their navels like to many Indian fakirs, and beginning to do their stuff as citizens, as busi_ rless men and as rvorkers.
Business is not dead and the country is not going to hell. C)ur .center gives way, our right recedes, but our situation is excellent. Let's attack.
Many lumber dealers all over the country have been cashing in on the shingle stain campaign put on by the Creo-Dipt Company to assist dealers to sell shingle stain, particularly for restaining shingled homes in their territory that need restaining. Many dealers have expressed surprise when they found out just how large the stain market really is, and the profit possibilities of this market.
The plan of this company, which has the best known name in the stained shingle industry, and rvhich has had 25 years' experience in making Creo-Dipt Stains is as follows: '
The dealer is asked to furnish a list of the shingle houses in his town that need restaining, and then without cost to him a big attractive broadside, imprinted with his name, is mailed to each prospect. This broadside tells the prospect all about Creo-Dipt Stains and where to get them. This is followed by two letters at three day intervals, and dealers are advised when the mailings are completed so that they can follow up with a call on the prospects.
Experien,ce has shown that the mere fact of drawing the homeowner's attention to his roof has been a big factor in helping to develop sales of shingle stain.
Dealers are given a new nine'color display for their store or window, and are also furnished with merchandise helps such as folders, blotters and color pads imprinted with their name, also wall cards, sample cans, color pad display rack, etc.
Dealers who plan to take advantage of this plan can get quick action by sending their lists of prospects to be cir,cularized over their imprint to the Santa Fe Lumber Company, 16 California Street, San Francisco, Northern California distributors'of Creo-Dipt products; or to the Los Angeles distributors, Fisk & Mason, 855 El Centro Blvd., South Pasadena.
San Francisco, May 30.-A full delegation of eight members-the largest it has ever had at such meetings-represented the lumber industry and the National Lumber Manufacturers Association at the annual session here, May 1720, of. the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. These delegates, selected from nearby California points, planned to review session discussions with as much detail as possible to representatives of the industry scheduled to arrive a few days later to attend the meeting of the Western Pine Association.
Heading the lumber delegation was C. R. Johnson, Union Lumber Co., San Francisco, serving as alternate for Wilson Compton, the industry's National Councillor to the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. Others in the delegation included David Painter, Fruit Growe.rs Supply Co., H. W. Cole, Hammond and Little River Redwood Company, Henry Hink, of Dolbeer and Carson Co., Fred Holmes, Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., Howard Dessert, Humboldt Redwood Co., Stanwood Murphy, Pacific Lumber Co., and Homer S, Bunker. Coos Bay Lumber Company.
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The Red Seal Opener, Pioneer Paper Company's nerv innoVation for removing the wrappers of their roll roofing, was an instantaneous hit with Frank Shellenback. famous speed and "spit" ball pitcher, of the Hollywood baseball team of the Pacific Coast league. A few weeks ago. Frank on his way to Wrigley Field, home of .the Hollyrvood ball
to General Manager Jack Plunkett, and Art Carlsonr purchasing agent, and J. E. Martin of The California Lumber Mer,chant, retired to the warehouse for the exhibition. In the Pioneer advertisement of this issue of The California Lumber Merchant, Frank Shellenback is seen in action n'ith Harry Graham operating the Red Seal Opener.
team, dropped into the Pioneer general offices at 5500 South Alameda Street, Los Angeles, for a visit with his old friend, Harry Graham, the company's sales manager. He found Harry discussing the advantages of the Red Seal Opener with Jim Owens, Owens Roofing Company, Los .Angeles, W. J. Kelly, Kelly Roofing Company, Santa Ana, and John Ross, representative of the Owens Roofing Com.pany, at Santa Ana.
Recent tests by the company showecl that the roll roof'ing wrapper can be opened in five se,conds with the Red :Seal Opener. To make a further test on the speed of the new opener Frank, who had his baseball togs in his grip, was receptive to testing the speed of his ,,spit', ball rvith the Red Seal Opener. So he donned his baseball uniform and the above with other Pioneer officials, including W. D. Craig of the engineering department, Walter Cady, assistant
Credit for the development of the Red Seal Opener goes to Jack Plunkett, the general manager of the company, who conceived the idea of creating a newer and better package for their roll roofing. The Red Seal Opener has 'taught on" with the building trade, and the fact that the wrapper can be opened instantly and eliminates damage to the roofing paper has made a big hit. Company officials say that the new opener is a selling point that the dealers have been quick to take advantage of.
The Red Seal Opener, whi,ch is just another Pioneer service for which there is no extra charge, are markers at either end of the roll in the shape of.red seals, each red seal securing the end of a cord running lengthwise through the wrappers that covers the roll. By pulling the cord at either end of the roll, the r.vrapper is neatly removed from the roll, and the roofing paper is ready for use. .Just a simple operation; "ZIP-and, it's open."
Seattle, 'Wash., June 2.-Stockholders of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association in session at the Winthrop Hotel, Tacoma, May 31, after thoroughly canvassing the situation within the industry unanimously decided to continue the association and to carry right along all of its principal activities, which include the following: I\Iill inspections of lumber; supervision of members' grades ; issuance o{ mill ,certificates ; re-inspection certificates ; grade-marking ; traf'' fic work; essential statistics.
The action of the stockholders also included a reduction of dues from 1O cents a thousand board feet on shipments, for the combined mill and logging unit to 3 cents; and from 5 cents for the individual lumber manufacturer or independent logger, to ll'cents. This decrease lowers payments by members to the point rvhere the stockholders believe support will be gained from many companies not now members.
A membership drive, led by members of the Board of Trustees and selected members in the various areas of the Douglas fir region, will be undertaken at on'ce, the Association announced, with the objective of securing 80 per cent of the capacity as members within the coming sixty days.
iolonel W. B. Greelev announced his conyiction that the Association could get the required membership at the lower dues basis and that the income would be sufficient to carry along the more essential activities-grading, inspection, certificates, grade-marking, traffic and statistics-during the period of depressed trade through which the industry is now passing.
The meeting was 'called by instruction of the Trustees for the purpose of deciding whether or not the Association should be continued and on what basis of activities' lJnusually low shipments and greatly depreciated values of lumber have had the efiect of reducing income to the Association and in the accumulation of unpaid dues, and the Trustees wanted a clear expression from the stockholders as to what course should be chosen while the Association was in sound financial condition' The feeling at the meeting was, as expressed in the vote, unanimous that the essential activities of the Association should be continued in the interests of the industry, its customers and the public.
A new home service department and display room was opened by the Patterson Lumber Co., Patterson, June 3 and 4, when the public was invited to attend a formal opening. Souvenirs were distributed to all visitors and prizes were distributed to the holders of the lucky prize coupons' Prominent in the display of building material ideas and modern conveniences for the home was a complete Peerless Built-In Kitchen. Other lines prominently displayed were Creo-Dipt Stains, Masonite products, paints, roofing, "Sagi.naw" Shingles, fruit trays, ladders and a complete line of builders' hardware. A. J' Porter is manager of the Patterson Lumber Co.
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And a little colored girl came running to answer the mother's urgent call.
"What did I hear you call your little girl, Mandy?" the white lady asked.
A new re.creation map showing the,18 national forests of the California Region, together with'important cities and towns, and the main highways, has just been issued by the U. S. Forest Service, according to report from the office of the Regional Forester in San Francisco.
The unique feature of this map is that the base is a photographic reproduction of a relief of the physical geography of the State. In addition to the national forests, state and national parks and monuments are also shown. Printed text on the back of the map gives full information on camping, list of free public camp grounds, rules for fire prevention and other recreational data con.cerning the national forests.
Copies of the map may be obtained from forest rangers or by addressing the forest supervisors of the individual national forests.
The West Coast Lumbermen's Association Los Angeles' offices are now located in the Ar,chitects, Building Material Fxhibit, Fifth & Figueroa Streets, where it will bl possible for them to come in direct contact with the lumber buying public. A. A. Kayser, grade supervisor for California, feeli that the new location will prove very beneficial to the organization.
"Ah done called huh Larseeney,', replied the motrher.
'Ts that really her name?,' asked the white lady.
"Yessurn, dass huh name, all right,,' said the colored woman, "but hit ain't huh entiah name."
"No?" said the white lady. .,Then pray tell, what is her entire name?"
"Ifuh entiah name is Petty Larse€rgy," said the mother proudly.
Washington, June S.-The Building Code Department of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association will hereafter be centralized at the Chicago offices. Increased efficiency as well as economy are expected to result.
The dearth of actual construction has afiorded local architects, engineers and general construction technicians more time in which to consider and contemplatg the efiect on their business of their local building codes, rules and regulations under which such work is done and has re= sulted in a greatly increased demand for the technical consultative assistance of the Building Code service. This demand can be better taken care of from Chicago, because of its central location. Richard G. Kimbell, Director of the Building Code Bureau, hitherto stationed in Washington, will continue in charge of the department with headquarters at the Chicago office, fr17 Conway Building, and commissioned to cover building codes in a large territory containing many of the largest lumber markets.
C. D. Johnson Lumber Co. has joined the pacific Coastwise Lumber Conference, according to a statement by Arthur Griswold, manager of the firm,s San Francisco office. They have leased the steamer Dan F. Hanlon, which will make two round trips a month between yaquina Bay, Ore., and all California points.
Theodore L. Stearns, of South Pasadena, was elected as the Republican candidate for Congress at the Conference of the Twelfth Congressional District held at El Monte, Calif., on Saturday, June 4. The nomination carries with it the pledged support of the 50O delegates from the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first and Fifty-second assembly districts. Neal Ames, San Gabriel, Myron C' Burr, Monrovia, and Burt Martin, Whittier, were also candidates for the nomination. The final ballot gave Stearns 249 and Martin 226. On motion of Mr. Martin the nomination was made unanimous.
Mr. Stearns is purchasing agent for the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co., of Los Angeles, and is prominently identified with the lumber and building material business in Southern Calfiornia.
The League of Nations recently 'called a meeting 'of European lumber experts to examine the rvorld lumbel situation and to decide upon remedial measures states a late report from H. C. Schuette, assistant trade commissioner at Paris to the Lumber Division of the Department of Commerce.
The experts are to make an extensive study of the general situation in wood production and commer'ce, and to devise means of improving the condition of the industry' The committee, with representatives from Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Finland, the Netherlands, Poland. Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Soviet Russia and Yugoslavia, will center its attention on softwoods.
Some of the questions that will receive the attention of the committee are: the organization of the lumber industry in the various countries, their lumber exPort figures with relation of these to the general exports of the country, the statistical facilities available, and the regulations governing imports and exports-such as quotas, 'customs duties, etc. With such data on hand, the committee expects to proceed to the formation of some feasible plan for international cooperation, rvhich is the solution the League hopes to achieve ls a result of these discussions.
W. E. Rutledge, who has been'connected with the Hammond Lumber Company office at Chicago, has been appointed manager of the company's New York office. Mr. Rutledge has been with the company for a long period, and bejore going to their Chicago office, was at the company's mill at Samoa, Calif.
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Chicago, June 3.-The lumber industry was discussed in the light of present day general economic difficulties by Wilson Compton, secretary and manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, in his report to the annual meeting of the Board of Directors of the Association at the Hotel Congress here today. Attacking the present day problems directly, Mr. Compton took as his theme -"Jhs Lumber Industry is Not Defeated Unless it Quits."
The important business before the present meeting is consideration of the future of "organized national activity in lumber trade extension, industry stabilization, industry representation and industry policy." In his report Mr. Compton named three outstanding affirmative needs for the national industry:
First: That the financial pressure to liquidate timber investments be relieved, either by reduction in annual timber carrying costs, or lightening the burdens and the extent of private timber ownership.
Second: fn,crease in profitable income sources.
Third: Lower cost of getting lumber and forest products from producer to consumer.
As a means o.f a.ccomplishing these and other needs, Mr. Compton offered ten recommendations. These recommended (1) maintenance of the essentials of trade promotion activity; (2) continuance of the work of securing basic supply and demand data; (3) maintenance of protective features of industry work; (4) permanent plan for sustaining essential industry activities; (5) responsible public representation for the forest products industries through 'completion of organization of the American Forest Products Industries; (6) that appropriate effort be made to seek the removal of the fundamental causes of over-production; (7) that the Executive Committee at the proper time analyze tariff discriminations with a view to framing a lumber tariff policy that will have united industry support and the acceptance of ttie regional associations; (8) that a special Joint Committee of the Executive, Trade Extension and Transporta-
tion Committees be appointed to consider the practicability of united industry action seeking a substantial and permanent general reduction of the entire national level of lumber freight rates; (9) that action be taken to insure cooperation with the Lumber Survey Committee of the U. S. Timber Conservation Board with respect to its current recommendations of action for lumber industry stabilization; and (10) that in view of the recent decision of the Supreme Court ,confirming the broad powers of the States in the control of production involving natural resources' consideration be now given to the desirability, and the practicability, through a conference of the Governors of the principal timber states, of presenting plainly to the States two specifi,c problems:
1. Regulation of lumber production 2. Substitution, in part or whole, of yield tax for annual property tax on standing timber; and to this end, of securing the cooperation of the Timber Conservation Board and the President of the United States.
Brentwood Lumber Co., Brentwood, held a formal opening of their new home service department May 27 and 28' A large number of people attended in the course of the two days, and mu,ch interest was shown in the exhibits in the new display room. These included a complete Peerless Kitchen and other lines of Peerless Built-In Furniture, Creo-Dipt Stains, Masonite products, "Saginaw" Shingles, Pabco Paints, Pabco Linoleum, Pabco Roofing, Holbrook Electric Refrigerators, Fruit Trays, and a'complete line of builders' hardware. W. H. Anderson is manager of the Brentwood Lumber Co.
The story of Max E. Cook, farmstead engineer, is the story of a man who deliberately halted a successful ,career as a San Fran,cisco ar,chite,ct to carry out a long cherished ideal of rendering service to the farmer, and who in his new career has become nationally knorvn and recognized as an authority on the design and construction of all classes of modern farm buildings, accessories and equipment.
His intense interest in the welfare of the farmer, who, he says, is the mainstay of the country and for whom the best is none too good, is natural. Ife was born on a farm in Iowa in 1888. All of his people were farmers. His grandparents were pioneers, and his mother ,came from Michigan at the age of three to live in a sod house. His father farmed, and later went into the buggy, wagon and implement business in Lake City, Iowa, where young Max went to school. Ife moved with his parents to Oakland, California at the age of l3 and attended the Oakland Polytechnic High School, where he specialized in drawing and manual training. Graduating from high school in 1904 he entered the offi,ce of Houghton Sawyer, rvell known San Francisco architect as an apprentice. In those days it was customary to work the first nine months without pay but this young fellow proved himself a salesman by getting a starting wage of $2.50 a week.
Sawyer, a very fine architect and a graduate of Massachusetts School of Technology, liked the way his new apprentice applied himself to his work and practically tutored him, so that with this help supplemented by correspondence courses, night school and independent study, the budding young architect was within three years made chief draftsman. lle was later made a silent partner, sharing in the profits. In the next ten years Mr. Cook as chiefof-staff had from four to ten men in the drafting room at all times, and in addition to his regular duties wrote all specifications, prepared and let contracts and inspected and supervised all construction. The firm specialized in high class residences from $20,000 to $185,000, with occasional city work such asa $250,000 apartment honse, a$125,000 school, hotels and other important structures.
Having specialized in country estates Mr. Cook soon found that he had more than an ordinary interest in farm structures. He spent all his vacations in the country and worked on a ranch in Mendocino County as a refugee after the San Francisco fire, and when the Sawyer firm took on the work of planning farm layouts and farm homes on an ' estate in Madera County he was right in his element. For a period of six months in 1917 he carried on an extensive
correspondence with agricultural colleges and experiment stations to find out what literature and information were available on the subject of planning ideal farm homes for the average farmer, and found that not more than four pages of reading matter was available from all sources.
About this time Mr. Sawyer decided to retire and instead of following the natural course of things and opening his own office as an architect Mr. Cook decided to become a specialist in the planning of better farm structures.
In 1918 when the California Land Settlement Board de'cided to develop the Stanford Ranch at Durham, Butte County, Mr. Cook applied to Dr. Elwood Mead, chairman, of the board for the job of planning model farms, and in order to get started and put over his ideas accepted a job as .chainman and rodman at $3.0O a day with the engineering crew that was surveying and subdividing the tract. Within a few weeks he was installed as farmstead engineer for the California State Land Settlement Board and was for six years in charge of all building work for the board at the Durham and Delhi land settlement Colonies, in which position he designed and built more than 300O farm buildings. Included were all farm houses, barns, outbuildings, poultry plants on a commercial scale, and all types of farm stru'ctures, designed and built to meet individual requirements. Included also were individual farmstead layouts, all administration buildings, townsite houses, community buildings, etc., totaling in value about $750,000. This work required not only a complete architectural training but a great knowledge and understanding of the prob. lems and requirements of the farmer.
Mr. Cook joined the California Redwood Association in 1924 to organize an Agricultural Department, later ,called the Redwood Farm Structures Bureau, making plans and a consulting service available to farmers through local lumber dealers. The plans are made available free to the farmer. This service is in use in 41 States and eight foreign ,countries. There,are 1726 subscribers to and users of the service, and dealers have ordered 625,000 of the Bulletin plans for distribution. The material enjoys national recognition as a worthwhile contribution toward bettei and more economical farm structures. Mr. Cook recently resigned his position as head of this department after eight years' service, and while he has not yet announced hib future plans it might be a good guess that these will be connected with the designing and planning of better farm structures.
Mr. Cook is an active member of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, and is on the executive committee of the Pacific Coast section of this body. He was appointed some time ago chairman of a committee of the A. S. A. E. on Standardization of Farm Irrigation Structures' In March 1931 Dr. Elwood Mead, Commissioner of U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, in direct charge of 23 U. S. Reclamation projects arid the Hoover Dam and Boulder Canyon development, appointed him to serve as Farmstead Engineer, in a consulting capacity, to assist the Bureau of Reclamation in getting out a booklet to 'contain farm building plans, suggestions, specifications and recommendations for the settlers on the U. S. Reclamation projects. He has always been active in the Farm Structures Division of the A. S. A. E. and among his many committee appointments he is a member of the Building Committee, Pacific Coast Electrical Bureau (Agricultural Electrification).
If there was any doubt of his interest in the pioneer settlers and farmers in Butte County, Mr. Cook dispelled this by marrying in 1919 one of their daughters, Miss Loretta Deveney, whose father, William Deveney, farmed over 2000 acres in the Glenn County grain country. They live in Oakland and have one child, now almost five, Max Mackinnon, called "Mickey" in recognition of the 100 per cent Irish extraction on his mother's side.
Through his association with the Redwood industry this exceptionally able man has made a large number of friends among the retail lumbermen, and these and his many good friends all over the countrv will watch his future career with much interest.
A. Melville Dollar, Pacific Coast shipping man and son of the late Captain Robert Dollar; died at his home in Vancouver, B. C., on the evening of May 31, following a heart attack. He was 52 years of age. lle was the president of the Canadian-American Shipping Company with headquarters in Vancouver, operators of a fleet of ocean vessels and one of the largest shipping firms in the Northwest. He was also prominent in Vancouver business circles.
He is survived by his widow and seven children, his mother, Mrs. Robert Dollar, of San Rafael, Calif., and two brothers, R. Stanley and J. Harold Dollar, of San Francisco, president and vice-president of the Dollar S. S. Lines, Inc., Ltd. His father, Captain Robert Dollar, died at San Rafael, Calif., on May 16.
With the recent payment into the sinking fund, Fischer Lumber Company of Marcola, Ore., has paid off all of its $1m,000 in bonds two years before the final due date, according to Smith, Camp & Riley, Ltd. This is considered an exceptional record in view of business conditions and especially in the lumber industry.
H. A. Durfee is now connected with the Home Insulation Company of Los Angeles, approved agents for the JohnsManville "Home fnsulation". Mr. Durfee was formerly representative for the Creo-Dipt Company in the Southern California territory.
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Oh hour of all hours, the most blest upon earth, Blessed hour of our dinners. The land of his birth, The face of his first love, the bills that he owes, The twaddle of friends and the venom of foes, The sermon he heard when to church he last went, The money he borrowed, the money he spent; And these things, I believe, a man may forget And not be the wo,rse for forgetting. But yetNever, never, Oh never, earth's luckiest sinner Hath unpunished forgotten the hour of his dinner. Indigestion, that conscience of every bad stomach Will relentlessly gnaw and pursue him with some ache Or pain, and trouble, remorseless, his best ease, As the furies once troubled the sleep of Orestes.
We may live without poetry, music, and art, We may live without conscience and live without heart, We may live without friends, we may live without books, But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
We may live without books; what is knowledge but grieving?
We may live without hope; what is hope but deceiving? We may live without love; what is passion but pining? But where is the man who can live without dining?
The train pulled up to the station, and the veteran traveling man looked at it in arnazernent, and therr at his watch. The train was on time to a split second. He hastened down the platform until he found the train conductor just alighting, and addressed him.
"Mr. Conductor," he said, "permit me to extend my congratulations. I've been traveling this road for fifteen years, and this is the first time in my experience that f ever saw this train come in on tinie. ft's a miracle. Have this good cigar."
The conductor pushed away the proffered smoke.
"Keep it," he said. "f haven't earned it. This is yesterday's train."
A great part of the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men doy'ot sufficiently understand their own aims. They undertaky'to build a tower and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to build a hut. -Goethe.
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With the drifting folks are crammed. But off yonder where it's rocky, Where you get a better view, You will find the ranks are thinning And the travelers are few. Where the going's smooth and pleasant You will always find the throng, For the m:rny, more's the pity, Seem to like to drift along, But the steps that tall for courage And the task that's hard to do, In the end results in glory
For the never-wavering few.
The auctioneer was trying to sell a box of cigars,,and.!/ was putting plenty of pressure on.
"You can't get better, gents,,' he bellowed; ,,fifty of these beauties in a box, and you can't get better at any price.r' "He's right," called out a voice from the back of the crowd. "f smoked one of them day before yesterday and f'm not better yet."
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A miqimum of government in business may be unavoid_ able in this complex political and economic era, but as we seem on our way toward the maximum, let us at least pause long enough to recognize that government control and ownership where private initiative should operate, is in the last analysis a species of communism, and communism by elimin3ting the spirit of competition and free enterprise does not release but penalizes the natural powers of man_ kind.-Albert C. Ritchie, Governor of Maryland.
The quarter page advertisement of the Bank of America in the daily papers of June 6 announcing that they are making loans for the construction of small homes was the best piece of news that retail lumbermen all over California have had for some time. The loans are to be repaid by installment payments. The wording of the advertisement was as follows:
"As its part in the statewide eftort to help bring back good times, Bank of America is making loans for the construction of small homes. Such loans to be repaid by installment payments Bank of America offers this 'cooperation in support of the program of the United States Government and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, to put dollars to work. Again this institution demonstrates its faith in California . Release of these loanable funds to individuals building small homes, means stimulation of the entire building industry and real estate developmentmore men at work. More men at work means greater buying power; one further step toward a sound prosperity We are desirous of rendering a human, broad, constructive community-building banking service, and favor the making of small loans to the greatest number of worthy borrowers
"Be.cause of the widespread approval already recorded the new standard wood moulding designs and sizes, knorvn as the 7000 series, revised 1931, will be incorporated in the next edition of Simplified Practice Recommendation R16 on Lumber, published by the U. S. Department of Commerce," says a current announcement by the Division of Simplified Practice of the Bureau of Standards.
In comment the division states that in no other of its simplification and standardization projects, whether lumber or other commodity, has any proposed revision of an existing recommendation met with more spontaneous endorsement than has been accorded this revised series of wood moulding patterns and sizes.
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Harry Lake, president of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, addressed the members of the San Fernando Valley Lumbermen's Club at their monthly meeting held at Hutchins Tavern, North Hollywood, Calif., on Wednesday evening, June 8. Mr. Lake talked on the general conditions of the lumber business in the various sections of the state, and on the activities of the State Association and the local groups. J. E. Martin, The California Lumber Merchant, I-os Angeles, was also called on for a few remarks.
The San Fernando Valley Lumbermen's Club is among the older lumber organizations in Southern California and meet every second Wednesday in the month. Chester C. Knight, San Fernando Lumber Co., San Fernando, president of the ,club, presided at the meeting.
Fred Conner, secretary-manager of the Nevada County Lumber Company, Nevada City, Calif., reports that the details necessary in taking over the business of the M. L. & D. Marsh Company have kept him extremely busy, and he wishes to thank his many friends who have so kindly expressed to him, both by letter and telephone, their best wishes for his success in his new undertaking in the Grass Valley territory.
Mr. Conner was prominently identified with the retail lumber business in California for many years as co-ownef and manager of the Sacramento Lumber Company, at Sacramento, Calif. In May, 1924, he sold his interest in the business. After an absence of several years from the lumber business, he recehtly re-entered the business, when to. gether with E. T. and W. T. Robie of the Auburn Lumber Co., Auburn, Calif., they purchased the M. L. & D. Marsh Company at Nevada City.
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C. H. Griffen, Jr., general manager of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco, spent several days in Los Angeles around the first of the month where he conferred with R. R. Leishman and E. W. Hemmings, Association field men in the Southern California territorv.
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Washington, May 29.-In calling attention to a bulletin on "American Lumber in New Zealand", recently published by the Department of Commerce, L. H. Peebles, Chief of the Lumber Division, asked Wilson Compton, Secretary and Manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, to make suggestions as to how bulletins on other markets may be made of more practical value to the lumber industry.
Mr. Compton in replying suggested that the most valuable service the Lumber Division could give to the lumber industry right now would be "a careful appraisal of the probable marketing opportunities for American lumber in the principal foreign markets", as "under the 'changed conditions of tariffs and trade New Zealand, like Australia, is likely to be a market for Ameri,can lumber more in theory than in fact because of the preferential duties."
Mr. Compton outlines the export situation as follows:
"Our principal foreign markets have been (1) the British Empire, (2) the Orient, (3) Europe and (4) South America. As to (1) the British Dominion preference system has practically wiped out American lumber. As to (2) British Columbia, because of depreciated currency and advantages in shipping rates, has a large competitive advantage. As to (3) Russian lumber directly and indirectly is practically taking that market except for specialties. As to (4) the present situation evidently approaches that of the markets in .the Orient."
Dilating on this situation, it was stated that a thoroughgoing study along these lines would be a great help. Export trade at one time took nearly 10 per cent of the American lumber output, and in planning ahead the industry will need to know what it may likely count on in foreign markets.
The Merced Lumber Company yard at Livingston, Calif., has added a builders' hardware department and is now prepared to supply builders, home owners and contractors everything in the building hardware line. The office building has been enlarged and remodeled. R. D. Jones is manager of this progressive lumber yard.
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The next golf tournament of the Orange County Lumbermen's Club will be held at the Santa Ana Country Club, Santa Ana, on Wednesday afternoon, June 15. They will tee off at 1 p.m. Lunch may be had at the Club and dinner will be served for those who wish to remain over for the evening.
These monthly tournaments are very popular with the lumber and building material trade and a large turnout is expected at the next tournament. N. E. Lentz, R. E. Hostetler and Art Kelly are in charge of the arrangements.
The Revenue Bill, which included a tarifi tax of $3 per thousand feet board measure on lumber imports, was signed by President Hoover on June 6. The tariff on rough softwood lumber, now free, will be $3.00; on dressed softwood lumber, now dutiable at $1.00, the new rate will be $4.00 per thousand board feet. The tarifi applies to all imports on "Lumber, rough, or dressed or planed on one or more sides, excepting flooring made of maple (except Japanese maple), birch and beech." The new tariff becomes effective June 2I.
Hans Hansen, retired lumberman, died at his home in Los Angeles on May 28 following a heart attack. He was sixty-nine years of age. Mr. Flansen was engaged in the retail lumber business in Nebraska for many years, and upon his retirement about nine years ago, came to Los Angeles to live. Funeral services were held at the Immanuel Presbyterian Church, Los Angeles, Wednesday morning, June 1.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mathilda Hansen; two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Wright of Riverside, Calif., and Mrs. R. H. Heynen of Columbus, Neb.; and two sons, P. F. Hansen, of Seattle, Wash., and Duff Hansen, of Riverside, Calif., well known Southern California retail lumber dealer.
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John W. Blodgett, Grand Rapids, Mich., was elected president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association at its annual meeting held at the Congress Hotel, Chicago, on June 2, 3 and 4. Among the other officers chosen were W. M. Ritter, Columbus, Ohio and Washington, D. C., re-elected vice president and treasurer; R. B. White, Kansas City, Mo., was re-elected as a vice president; Laird Bell, Chicago, Ill., was elected as a vice president, and Wilson Compton, Washington, D. C., was re-elected as se.cretary and manager.
Following widespread distribution of a special Canec edition of the Honolulu Star Bulletin, this newest structural insulation material is now being actively presented to the trade by representatives of Hawaiian Cane Products, Ltd.
Claimed by its originators to be a "real contribution to the field of insulation materials" Canec has already been specified and installed in several large projects in the Hawaiian Islands, among them a number of Gove,rnment jobs. Among the structures taking considerable quantities of Canec are the new Roosevelt High School in lfonolulu, the new Navy Engine and Aircraft overhaul shop at Pearl Harbor, the Hilo Courthouse and a number of new residences in Honolulu and elsewhere in the Islands.
Hawaiian Cane Products, Ltd., is a proje,ct exclusively owned by Hawaiian Island business interests who control more than 95 per cent of the annual sugar crop of 1,000,000 tons. Alexander & Baldwin, American Factors, C. Brewer & Co., Castle & Cooke, Theo. H. Davies, the Dillingham interests .combine to give the new insulation products company a group of sponsors whose combined business age runs into ,centuries and whose resources extend into every phase of Hawaiian Islancl commercial and agricultural development.
Canec is being introduced to the dealer trade in California by su,ch well known insulation salesmen as Milt C. Cruse and J. G. "Jerry" Brennan. Hawaiian Cane Produ'cts, Ltd., announce in this issue that deliveries of its new product ,can now be made from warehouse stocks maintained at principal seaport points on the Pacific Coast.
James R. Ersby, of the Ersby-Wilson ber exporters, San Fran,cis,co, died in a pital June 7 from injuries received in an dent near Cazadero, June 5, when his plunged over a 7S-f.oot embankment.
Mr. Ersby was 42 years old. He is widow and five daughters.
The Booth-Kelly Lumber Co., of Eugene, Oregon, with mills at Wendling, Ore., and Springfield, Ore., announce that they have concluded an arrangement with Hill & Mor: ton, Inc., of Oakland, whereby they will act as sales agents for them in Northern California from Bakersfield to Redding, including the Coast Counties between these two points.
Charles A. Sands, Berkeley, Calif., died Sunday, May D, at the home of his son, Charles A. Sands, Jr., at Clear Lake. Mr. Sands had driven from Berkeley the day before with his son, Louis B. Sands, for a few days'visit at Clear Lake, and was in his usual good health until stricken suddenly on Sunday. Funeral services were held at Berkeley, Wednesday afternoon, June 1.
Mr. Sands was born in Michigan and was the son of Louis Sands, pioneer Michigan lumberman. He was engaged in the lumber and timber business with his father at Manistee, Mich., for several years. He first came to California in LX)Z where he became interested in the lumber business and in 1905 he was one of the organizers of the Weed Lumber Company, at Weed, Calif., serving as vice president of the compan)r. Later he returned to Michigan where he again engaged in the lumber business. In 1916, he returned to California and made his home at Berkeley.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. .Evelyn Sands, and two sons, Louis B. Sands of Berkeley and Charles A. Sands, Jr., of Clear Lake.
Over 600 people attended the formal opening of the poinsettia Lumber Co. at Ventura, Calif., on Friday and Saturday, May 20 and 21. Many valuable prizes wbre given_ away to those lvho were present on Saturday afternoon. One of the features of the opening was the paint demonstration given by Mark Van Horn, division manager of the Pittsburgh Paint Glass Co. E. D. Tims, Portland, Ore., director of sales on the Pacific Coast for the pittsburgh paint Glass Co., also attended the opening.
The Poinsettia Lumber Co. opened its yard at Ventura a few months ago. Roy Smith is manager of the company.
Export Co., lumSanta Rosa hosautomobile accicar skidded and survived by his
The "Blue Book" has opened a New york ofiice in the Grand Central Terminal Bldg., 15 Vanderbilt Avenue. They now have offi.ces in Chi,cago, Seattle and New york City from which ,credit investigations, collections and reports are handled.
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By Stockton Chamber of Commerce
Dredgers at work on Stockton's western doorstep are fast changing the topography of Central California.
The old winding San Joaquin, at once the despair and pleasure of ,countless boatmen, is having its curvei tamed, and a course cut straight and true across the fertile Delta lands.
Already dredging of Stockton's $6,000,000 cleep water ship channel, whi,ch rvill pemrit 85 per cent of all pacific shipping to penetrate the heart of the ir.rterior of the state, is 75 per cent complete.
Levees, which have served to ,control the myriad water_ ways for many decacles and were constructed in many in_ stances by the sturdy Cantonese farmers rvith ,centuries of training in subduing the flood-rvaters of China's great rivers, are being moved back in the tremenclous construction proje,ct. Dragline dredgers have laid clown lines of restraining levees to control the spoil's area. Clamshell dredgers are erecting permanent retaining levees, and suction dredgers are hard at work removing the 21,000,00C or more cubic yards of earth from the bed of the channel.
The islands of the Delta with their rich, black soil and prolific crops are furnishing the stage-setting for a trans_ portation project that will have far-reaching efiects on the development of the interior valleys of the state.
Water-borne traffic is an old story in the industrial life of Stockton, for the San Joaquin and its hundreds of miles of tributary streams have served the city well. From the days of the Gold Rush, the river provided the main artery of travel between the frontier trading-post and San Fran_ cisco, and the world outside. Transportation by rvater has richly sustained the wealth of the community.
Today a fleet of light draft vessels plies the countless channels of the Delta district. Service akin to express, from the standpoint of speed, is furnished by the -river barges and steamers which thread their way among the islands picking up produce of field and orchard to be de_ lived on San Francisco rvharves in time for market the following morning. Nearly 1,000,000 tons of freight are carried on the San Joaquin annually.
When port facilities at Stockton, and the Z6-foot chan_ nel are completed from the inland city to deep water at Suisun Bay, an additional million of tonnage, at an annual saving of approximately $9@,000 in freight ,charges will be distributed from here. Stockton then will serv! as the shipping point for the great central valleys of California and bring their great agricultural and industiial producing areas 90 miles ,closer to a seaport.
Capitalizing the favored geographical location of the city in the heart of the two great level valleys of the state, railroads and truck lines follow the way of least resistance and flow naturally to Stockton. Thiee transcontinental railroads and many feeder lines tap a wide area. It is an_ ticipated that this city will serve as a concentration point and shipping'center for a greatly increased territory u.
isting transport lines are tied in with o.cean-going stripping at a point 90 miles inland.
The Federal government, the city of Stockton and the State of California are united on the $6,000,000 program to $eeg.en the existing channel and provid" prop., shipping fa-cilities that producers of the interior ma1. take
of Stockton's natural outlet for commerce.
There are but 14 miles of actual dredging to be done. In comparison with the tremendous outlay of ,capital and labor necessary to develop other inland ports, the Stockton proj_ ect seems like a gift of the gods. Specifi,cations call ior a channel 26 feet deep at mean lower low tide, l0Gfoot bot_ tom width, a surface width of 450 feet and a minimum ra_ dius on channel curves of 5,00O feet.
Historic Mormon Channel just east of the turning basin for sea-going vessels has been deepened to 9 feet 1y the 'United States government and will be utilized with the upper end of the Stockton channel by boats of lighter draft.
The belt line railroad is now under ,construction by the city and part of it is already being utilized. Materiais for use in the building of do,cks and transit sheds at the turn_ ing basin are being moved over.the publi.c belt line rail_ way. It is to be administered by the Santa Fe, the South_ ern Pacific and the Western pacific and a representative of the city. The three trans,continental lines are to erect a bridge over the San Joaquin river and continue the belt line road across Rough and Ready Island just west of the river to serve the industrial area along the channel there. The city may purchase the line within l0 y.".. for,cost plus l0 per ,cent according to the contract.
_ As the program of harbor improvements gets under way, hundreds of acres of additional industrial sites, adjacent to the deep water channel and served by the belt iine'railway, ar;.b-eing opened up. The property is on good solid ground which eliminates the necessity of using:piling_a -rurrirrg in constru,ction ,costs that the manufaiturer appreciates. Here where there is ample good, pure water for industrial use, and gas and electric power at reasonable rates, there is the additional advantage of ocean-going shipping, ,...ri."
by three transcontinental railroads and a network of paved highways tapping a wide area of great wealth'
. Primarily Stockton is the natural marketing center for 4 r,egion of tremendous' agri'cultural wealth, -and in-dustr.ies *il.t have developed in step with the intensive exploitation ' of the farm lands.
.: In the foothills of the Sierra, east of the city, aie vastr ' areas of timber lands and mineral resources waiting to be .utilized. Raitr and highway tap that distri'ct.
To "rru-erate the long list of agricultural products wotild be tedious. Fresh vegetables and fruits that supply the .tables of the nation's households, grains, milk products -and eggs leave San Joaquin county daily. Cherries from ,oichards of the Linden district are now on their way to market, and soon will go the apricots, the peaches' grapes' almonds and walnuts, and then the vegetables that add zest to the holiday season and the spring-all in regular .seasonal order. -
in Stockton and the surrounding towns conserve the products for future enjoyment and shipping to foreign ports.
A;plant that supplies countless factories throughout the United States with containers that carry many well-known products into everybody's home is located in Stocktqn' Here are mills that make various feeds to supply the farmers of the state and abroad. Iron works fashion machinery, and pumps, utilized on surrounding farms and orchards, are sent to eastern and foreign shores.
Road-building implements made in Stockton were given hard service in the building of highways to serve the great Iloover dam under construction. Cedar slats are shipped from here by the thousands to be finished into pencils in Eastern and German factories'
Some of the finest pleasure craft in the state slip into the water from the ways in Stockton boat-building plants and are gaining wide recognition through their merit, -where boatmen gather on eastern or western shores. S-turdy boats that serve the fertile island farms are made in this city, anfsome of the passenger steamers that ply the rivers and bays of California are constructed here.
On completion of harbor facilities in Stockton at the ,close of the year, an increasing stimulus to industry is foreseen. A survey of river developments is one of the vpry interesting trips for the visitor to make.
The ardent boatmen have hundreds of miles of waterways to explore, and the fishermen may try their skill at the black seabass, or perch or crappie, and in season the gamey striped bass. To those who think there is no sport like fishing for the wily trout, a short motor-trip brings him into the streams of old Calaveras or Tuolumne. There he is transported into another era-when the adventurous Argonauts fluttered over the hills in sear'ch of gold-and yet more gold. Many are returned to the hills 'once more. to make a comfortable living panning gold in foothill streams. Some are merely staving off actual want and others are making real wages.
To the motorist, the romance of that district which the ,clever story-teller, Bret Harte and the beloved Mark Twain chronicled, is as potent today. Roads leading from Stockton to the hills follow the highways worn by the Fortv-niners of old.
Buy'a f1,0O0.00 bond issued by a company with Assets over f588,ooo,ooo. You may pay (if age 231 only $+t.S> annually for 20 yeats.
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At the ehd of 20 yeats you will Receive in Cash, $1,662.13. If death occurs any time after contract is signed bond will mature and be paid in Cash to your heirs. Bonds issued. in any amount desired.
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Well established lumber yard with complete up-todate mill, at lVlountain View, Santa Clara County, covering approximately 2/2 acres, sand and gravel bunkers included. Also stock of lumber, millwork, glass, sheet metal, hardware and plumbing material. This property is for sale in whole or in part. A first class yard at a very reasonable price. Address Assignees of Builders' Service Co.,537 Merchants Exchange Building, San Francisco.
H. Sewall Morton, of Hill & \{orton, Inc., Oakland, returned June 6 from a trip to Eugene, Ore., where he completed arrangements with The Booth-Kelly Lum.ber Co., to represent them in all of Northern California. This arrangement, effective immediately, adds Central California to their territory. Mr. Morton was accompanied by Mrs. Morton, and.made.the trip by automobile.
Tom Dant, Los Angeles, California and Arizona manager of Fir Tex of Southern California, is on a trip to Arizona, where he is calling on the trade.
F. B. Colin, vice president of the Coos Bay Lumber Company, San Francisco, was a recent visitor at the company's Los Angeles office, where he conferred with Jack Thomas, their Southern California representative. Mr. Colin and Mr. Thomas made a trip to Long Beach to see the company's steamer, S. S. Lumberman, which had arrived from Coos Bay, discharge its cargo.
Nine out of fifteen weather bureau stations in the national forests of California reported the precipitation from July 1, 1931, to May l, 1932, as being above normal, according to a survey made by the State Department of Public Works. Of the six below normal, two are only slightly below, but one, at Quincy, is 41.31 inches below. The station showing the highest precipitation above normal, 16.39 inches, is at Giant Forest in Sequoia National park.
Wanted-Man familiar with local conditions and tradc to repr_esent local firm handling diversified stock of hard. yqg$, Spruje, Sugar and White Pine. Address Box C4Z, California Lumber Merchant.
Connected with lumber .business for past fifteen yeari and familiar with all branches of the retail business atd: its many side lines. For the past ten years sirccessful yeodr manager in California, especially managing yards previoud. ly losing money. Particularly interested in that kind,of a' job and of straightening out a yard for creditors. Refefences. Address Box C-443, care California Lumber MerGh,. ant.
Guy E. Smith, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., has returned to his headquarters in the Northwest following a trip to California where he spent several days at the com: pany's San Francisco and Los Angeles dfiices,
Harry Lake, Garden Grove, Calif., president of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, was a recent visitor in the San Francisco Bay Distri,ct where he spent a fcw days on association business.
Arthur Bevan, secretary-manager of the Red Cedar Shilgle Bureau, Seattle, was in San Francisco May 3l on..hic way. back to Seattle from a trip to the Eastern States 0it, the business of the Bureau.
The mountain watershed area of California, where thcl bulk of the rain and snow fall, covers nearly 4O million acres, according to a repo.rt by Governor Rolph's bpecial water conservation committee. Federal and State forectry organizations are charged with the management and protection of foothill and mountain areas aggregating 62 per cent of the total area of the State and einbracing the,futr portant watersheds upon which the valleys, towns and cidcs depend. The heaviest precipitation of the State falls trttween the elevation of 4,000 and 6,000 feet, largely rqithiq the 18 national forests of California. The report statcs that greater protection fr,om fire for the forest, cut-ovei anl chaparralrovered lands, and regulation of grazing on, the public domain are essential if any permanent statdwide program of water developrnent is contemplated.
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