The California Lumber Merchant - June 1934

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ON TRIP TO WASHINGTON

Kenneth Smith, Lumber & Allied Products Institute, and Henry S. Patten, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles, left Sunday evening, June 10, for Washington to attend a rneeting of the Lumber Code Authority. They made the trip east by airplane.

NEW YARD IN SALINAS

Square Deal Lumber Company recently started operation in Salinas. Joe Rogers, formerly manager of the Salinas yard of the Sterling Lumber Company, is manager.

BECOMES AIR COMMUTER

C. M. "Friday" Freeland, district sales manager for Southern California and Arizona for Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., who has been in the company's home office since the departure of Guy E. Smith, general sales manager, on an Eastern business trip, has made a number of round trips by air between San Francisco and Los Angeles in the past several weeks.

Mr. Freeland is thoroughly sold on air travel, and says he enjoys the fast journey between the two cities, which talces just a little over two hours by United Air Lines planes for the 330 air miles. On his latest trip he few to Los Angeles June 7 and returned by air to San Francisco June 11.

WILL SPEND FEW MONTHS AT COMPANY'S LOS ANGELES OFFICE

John H. Klass, The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, is spending a few months at the company's Los Angeles office where he is assisting O. G. Grimes in their Palco Bark Installation sales. Mr. Klass has been connected with the company's San Francisco office for the past several years, and is a son of Herb Klass, general sales manager of the company.

FLIES TO CHICAGO

S. M. Hauptman, general manager, California Wholesale Lumber Association, San Francisco, left by plane June 9 for Chicago to attend the annual meeting of the Lumber Code Authority, June 11. Mr. Hauptman may also attend the Code Authority meeting which reconvenes in Washington, June 15.

PAINT OFFICE BUILDING

The Barr Lumber Co. at Santa Ana have given their attractive office building a new coat of paint.

D. S. WATROUS LOS ANGELES VISITOR

D. S. Watrous, Shreveport, La., sales manager of the Perfection Oak Flooring Co., Inc., is spending a few weeks in Los Angeles on company business,

'Advertircurentt appe.r in alternate irrue.

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J. E. MARTIN Managing Edltor

M. ADAMS Circulation ltiu"g",

A: C. MERRYMAN

Matraler

THE CALIFOR}IIA LUMBERMERCHANT J*kDionne, fultbttu

How Lumber Looks

The lumber'movement during the week ended June 2 as teported to t{re National Lumber Manufacturers Asiociation was the lorvest of any week since January. Production, shipments and orders w€f,e reported at mid.winter levels. The decline was due partly to the Memorial Day holiday, and also tq the longsho,rements strike on the Pacific Coast which is tying up all water shipments.

Production for the week by 1,425 mills was 153,262100O feet; lhipg'etrts 149,751,000 fee;, aia ;td;* l5t,264,Ooo feet.

Production for ihe lumber industry of V'estern Oregon and Vestern Vashington reported to the Vest Coast Lumbermen's Association dudng current weeks has ,beetr as followsl week ppded N-Iay !2,96,771,282 feet; week ended 1[.[ay 19, 84,916,457 feet-; week ended May 26, 61,175,026 f.eeti wee& ended June 2, 4811721942 f.eet. Productio.n has been decreased by fif.ty pe cent during the period'of four weeks.' The chief *"rorr f"r ihe sudden collapse in lumber production, the Association states, is the longshore tie.up.

., New business reported to the Association by 594 mills for the weekended Jutt" 2 was 571560,879 f.eet against a production of 48r04Q01 4 f.eet and, shipments of. 44,230,933 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended June 2 feported that new business f.or 152 mills amounted to 2rr374r0(X) feet, shipments 2714961000 feet, and producction 2Or443rOOO feet.

ATTENDS CODE AUTHORITY MEETING

George B. McT-eod,. I{ammond Lumber San Francisco June 7 to attend the annual Lumber Code Authority at Chi.cago, June 11 ington, D. C., June 15.

Company, left meeting of the and at Wash-

Named Manufacturer Member of

Retail Lumber Code Authority

:-Washington, D. C., May 25.-Ralph Hines, of the Edward Hines Lumber Co., Chicago, Ill., has been appointed b.y John D... Tennant, .cha|r4ran of the Lumber Code Authority, as the representative of the manufacturers on the Retail Lumber Code Authority. Mr. Hines announced his a.tceptance of the appoin'trneni tvtay 15. Retail lumbermen recently invited. the appointmeirt of a manufacturer to r4embership in their.Authority, and Mr. Tennant was authorized by the Lurnber Code Authority, which includes 4 retailer memb,eq, to make the.selectio4.

The Virestern Pine Association for the same week tepotted new bnsiness -from 120 mills as 361325rOO0 feeg shipments 42q. 758rO00 feet, and production 5016551000 feet. Orders wqe 2E per cent below productiotr and 15 per cent below shipmentr. Shipments wete 16 per cent below ptoduction.

The California Redwood Association for the week tepottd production from 15 mills as 615391000 feet, shipme4ts 5r0i8r000 feet, and new business 8,788,000 feet. Ordets on hand at the end of the week wete 74,5931000 feet.

491 hardwood mills for the same week gave new business es 1E,9O2r000 feet, or 13 per cent below production, and shipmente ztrl4TrOOO feet, or 6 per cent above production. Production was 21r850r0fl) feet,

The cargo movement of lumbet on the Pacific Coast is still tied up by the longshorements strike. The statement issued last week by the NRA and canied in the press diepatches frorn Washington regarding the abandoning of the price clauses in the codes caused widespread alarm in the lumber business here, and according to reports had e very bad effect on business. On Iune 9. Administrator Huqh S. Iohnson sisned an order On June 9, S. Johnson signed otder

specifically ing the Lumber Code Authority's established sPedncauy aPPfovrng mrnrmum Prrces.

Unsold stocks on the public docks at Loe Angeles Flarbor for the week ended May 29 totald 1,1660O0 feet. O*irg to the strike situation no reports are available on vessels operating in the coastwise lumber service.

VISITS CALIFORNIA OFFICES

Albert Schafer, vice president Schafer Bros. Lurnber & Shingle Co., Montesdno, 'Wash., left San Francisco June 6 after a week's visit to California, during which he visited thecompany'sSanFranciscoandLosAngele5ofi6ces.

Lumber Code Prices Remain

in Effect

The announcemert by the NRA carried in the nei dispatches from Washington Jane 7 that price fixing would be prohibited in codes except in clear cut emergencies, was clarified by Administrator Hugh S. Johnson on June 9 and present Lumber Code Authority prices remain in effect. Administrator Johnson signed an Order on June 9 which specifically approves the existing minimum prices established'by the Lumber Code Authority for the remainder of the period during which current prices are e{fective,

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5. Winding down to $cotia

"I will look unto the hills whence cometh my strength," sang David, son of Solomon. So from the hills of mighty Humboldt comes the strength that ls Pacific;

Among our "taxable property" *" list extensive trackage, locomotives and rolling stock. It is an essential link in the Palco chain. It nullifies distance. From the hills logging trains bear raw material to a focal point. In this center the four Ms are co-ordinated; Men, Material, Machinery and Mean s createlumber products just as truly as Nature created the trees.

The Pacific Lumb er Company

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V.gabond Editorials

By Jack Dionne

"All that friendliness needs," said Paul P. Harris, the daddy of Rotary, "is a sporting chance, and it will take care of itself in any company."

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Latest definition of pedestrian: a man with two autornobiles and two grown children living at home.

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"'When some men discharge an obligation," Mark Twain once rernarked, "y.ou can hear the report for miles around." Lots of folks do their charities that same way.

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Many a man loses that living that the world owes-and is willing to pay-him, by being a poor collector.

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Signs of irnprovement: auto and truck registrations everywhere showing huge increase over last year at this time; gasoline consumption per vehicle showing general increase.

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And now-the latest ! NRA has served notice that when the manager wants to give the employees a .,pep" talk, it must, hereafter, be on company time. Fair enough ! Most so-called "pep" talks are so silly the listeners should get double tinre for listening; and then have gro,unds for a pretty fair damage suit on account of their wounded feelings.

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'Tis truly a mad world, My Masters ! Take Business ! Not long since it was in the depths. Sunounding it were prohibitions that said-"This you shall not do." And Business said-"If these high fences were removed, I could do something for myself." Now those fences are removed -and he goes to "chiseling;" crawling under them, climbing over them, sliding through them, going around them.

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Take Labor ! Recently it was in great distress. Labor cried "Jobs, give us jobs," and there were no jobs. And the hungry wolf crept closer. And Labor cried-,,If only I could get work, HO\l[l I would work !" And now there are jobs. And Labor goes on strike.

And the "chiseling" of the one, and the violent unrest of the other threatens visibly to put us back again where we were so recently, where there was neither business for the one, nor jobs for the other. tt!t

Yes, 'tis a mad world ! But we may take some comfort in the knowledge that it is running true to form. And it

is a matter of history that following the depressions of the past people acted in foolish fashion, then, just as they are doing now. So, as a sign of improved condition and provable recovery, perhaps we should hail the things we see about us today, which, from any other point of reasoning are decidedly depressing.

O. O. Mcfntyre, columnist to the entire nation through a great group of newspapers all over. the country and himself a man who gads about and does much listening while others talk, makes a statement in a recent column that touches the spot. He says, "everywhere there is a depressing feeling that industry, thrift, and genius are being taxed beyond all conscience." That is the feeling that most oppresses me during recent times, and in the face of economic developments. The busy man, the helpful man, the employing rnan, is the guy who is getting all the burden of recovery. I keep on hoping that before this is over we will find some practical way to make lazy men and lazy mone' do their share'

Mr. Mclntyre tells of various men of large means he knows, who have entirely or partially retired for the present because they are unwilling to risk their money and wear out their brains just to feed the tax collector. :l tt :t

Things are a little slow in the lumber industry. This is still due exclusively to the fact that practically all building must stil,l be done on a cash basis-and the cash is scarce. There is lots of dissention, lots of criticism, plenty of complaint. Most of this is based on code matters, and will continue to be just so long as there is a code.

But I would hold two thoughts before the consciousness of my lumber friends. The first is that things are tremendously better than they have been, enormously better than they might be, and we have worlds to be thankful for. Let us not be ingrates. We may not have gone about this thing of getting better in the wisest manner in the wodd, but we HAVE improved, and we ARE getting better, and we can see our way well out of the woods. THAT'S the first thought.

Here's the second. f can remember various times in my earlier life (before they discovered how to extract teeth without the patient even realizing he is present at the operation) when f had to have a tooth pulled. And I used

to sit down in that chair, and instead of thinking about the needle, and the wicked looking pair of plyers the Doc. used to use, I would just shut my eyes and'say to myself"In two minutes this will be all over, and any d-n fool can stand two minutes o' anything." And when the two minutes were over the thing was through. And how grand it felt to know the ordeal was passed. I've been doing that for four years now with this depression thing. And every day the day I've been shutting my eyes and waiting for, gets nearer. There's no doubt about it ! But the beauty of this is that every day the prize I've been hoping for, gets bigger and better! Get the idea?

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Some of these days this depression will be mentioned only in the past tense. And when that day comes the building industry is going to have the all-firedest doggone boom that any of uHven we grey heads-have ever seen. No man, not even the most generous estimator, fully appreciates how terrific a gap of non-building and non-repairing this long term of years has created. None of us can ful,ly estimate what has happened to the homes, the barns, the various buildings of various characters in this nation ol 125 million people in more than six years of lumber famine. For the lumber famine started at least two years before the general depression did. As a matter of fact lumber consumption, and home building, and home repairing, dropped off like falling off a precipice as far back as 1926.

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Millions of new homes are needed. Millions upon millions of old homes have become obsolete, run-down, outof-repair, really unfit for modern human habitations. Barns, sheds, fences and o'ut-buildings of every character throughout the length and breadth of this land, must be built, rebuilt and repaired. And the people of this entire country

are ready and anxious to get started. All they need is normal CREDIT.

The Brain Trust -", Ju"l"", the Alphabetical Bureaus may proclairn, Congress may legislate, conventions may resolute, diplomats may plead, and theologians may pray; but one thing is certain and provable and that is that we are still waiting for a definite return of CONFIDENCE in this great land of ours. And when that CONFIDENCE cornes, the fog of depression will melt as does the mist of early morn before the rays of the noon-day sun. For depression is not a definite THING-a tangible SUBSTANCE any more than DARKNESS is a tangible thing. DARKNESS is simply the absence of LIGHT ! And DEPRESSION is simply the absence of CONFIDENCE. And just as letting the sunlight into a closed room destroys the darkness, so letting CONFIDENCE into the consciousness of men, destroys DEPRESSION.

The other day r tead.t:;; of a very wise and kindly business man, who looks deep into things, and he said: "ff we industrialists had confidence today many industries would be taking advantage of the opportunity to borrow cheap money and replace some of their obsolete plants, and enter the capital goods market in a big way; the country is all set for such a movement, but we must first have confidence returned." +'r*

The recent report of the Durable Goods Industries Committee (lumber etc.,) to President Roosevelt, declared that "there is a tremendous and increasing need for durable goods of every kind." It suggested that the most important thing now needed is "reestablishment of confidence." Among the things suggested to restore confidence and thus (Continued on Page 8)

Vagabond Editorials

(Continued from Page 7) solve the unemployment problem (most of the unemployment is in the durable goods industries department) this committee suggested: "Assurance to private enterprise that the profit incentive will continue to receive public approval as an energizing motive for economic activity; public recognition that the only legitimate purpose of taxation is to provide necessary revenue for government and not to affect a punitive redistribution of wealth which paralyzes business initiative."

And, oh ! My friend", ;;". " time we're going to have in this old lumber industry when the good time comes ! There isn't any way to stop it. A hundred and twenty-five million people have got to have buildings. We are going to have a high tide of prosperity that will last anywhere frorn six to ten years the next time. So, when the clouds look dark, and Old Man Depression seems camping on your doorstep, taki heart by saying to yourself-"Some of these days we're going to have the doggondest biggest lumber market you ever saw, and it's going to last a long, long time." For it IS !

California Lumber Cut

Shows lncrease

Th,e pine and redwood lumber cut in California for 1933 showed a slight upturn according to a preliminary statement prepared by the U. S. Forest Service for the Bureau of the Census. Th'e cut for the pine region of the State for large mills rvas 590,361,000 board feet and for the redwood region 200,043,00O feet. Small mills brought the total to 790,838,000 feet as compared with 680,520,000 feet in 1932. The average annual lumber cut for California during the peak years of production from L925 to 1929 inclusive was 2,063,529,ffiO board feet.

This year there will be a 100 per cent increase over 1933 in timber sales business on national forest land in California, according to estimates made by U. S. Regional Forester S. B. Show. which is considered to be an indication of general conditions in the lumber industry.

The return of 25 per cent of the receipts from the sale of Forest Service timber in 1930 netted California counties in which national forests are located a revenue of. $D7,000 for road and school purposes. This revenue dropped to $30,00O in the fiscal year 1933 but will show an increase this year, according to the Forest Service.

New Manager Appointed

Maurice M. Daubin, formerly manager of the Sterling Lumber Company's yard at Roseville, and who has been out of the lumber business for some time, has been appointed manager of the company's Salinas yard.

Lumber Mill Employment Gains Sharply Over Last Year

Washington, D. C., May 26.-April employment and payrolls at sawmills included in computations by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed wide gains over both Nlarch, 1934, and April, 1933, with the gains considerably exceeding the average of gains of all manufacturing industries reported by the U. S. Department of Labor, it was announced today by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

Sawmill employment in April, 1934, gained 5.3d/o,. over March, 1934, and 53.8% over April, 1933, while the average gain in rnanufacturing industries was L.9/o over March, 1934, and 37.4% over April, 1933. Sawmill payrolls rose 9/o above March, 1934, and 120.6% above April, 1933. The average gain for manufacturing industry payrolls was 3.9/o above March, 1934, and 73.5% above April, 1933.

Employment and payrolls in millwork plants also registered gains in excess of the average, except for April, 1934, over April, 1933. Millwork employment increased 4.9/o in April, 1934, over March, 1934, and 34/o over April, 1933. Millwork payrolls for April, 1934, were 6.1/o above those for March, 1934, and 608% above April, 1933.

Housing Act Hearing

Washington, D. C., June S.-Wilson Compton, general manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association and member of the Lumber Code Authority, testifying before the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency in support of the Administration sponsored National Housing Act, which bill has since been placed on the President's "must" list for passage before adjournment of Congress.

Compton said that the lumber industry, whose business a year ago had shrunk in volume to the lowest point in 60 vears and the price level to the lor,vest since 1905, has seen its volume of business increased 3O/o during the first year of the Lumber Code. He placed the increase in employment under the Code at over 55/o, the minimum wage increase at nearly IOO%, and the total payroll increase at about I2O%. Employment in sawmills alone, that is sawmills in the woods in the primary operation, in 1929 was about 450,000, then fell to below 200,000, but in March of this year was up to about 260,000.

Replying to questions by Senator Barkley he said that on the average labor accounts for 65/o of. the cost of mill production, although probably running as low as 4O/o in some areas where the industry is more highly mechanized. Questioned regarding lumber prices he said the index figure for March, 1934, showed lumber prices at 86.4/o of the 1926 avenge, rvith the high point 8/o at the first of this year.

Recommending passage of the Housing Bill, Compton termed it "a very ingenious embodiment of the insurance principle in probably the largest single area in which it can be helpfully introduced, and promising in a national sense large results in terms of economy and in stability, in security of home orvnership, and in restoring what is perhaps vastly more important, the confidence of the people that do have money to place in this particular type of investment'"

The \(/est Coast is Not Qufttins

(Reprinted, trom the Vest Coast Lumbermen's Association Neus Letter)

The air seems to be thick with rumors that the West Coast mill will shortly abandon the price features of the Lumber Code. Let it therefore be said, once for all, that the meeting of all principal Division Agencies of the West Coast on May 25 adopted two resolutions, either unanimously or by overwhelming vote:

First, that the minimum price provisions Code must be maintained; and

Second, that the present average level of for West Coast lumber must be continued.

The West Coast is not quitting the Lumber Code. Nor is it quitting the minimum price provisions of the Code, We know that if we struck out cost protection prices, the entire Code would collapse.

I heartily commend to every reader of this News Letter Doctor Compton's address before the Wholesale Associat;on on "Oppression or Depression-Which?" It goes to the heart of the Lumber Code. It shows why the West Coast Division, or any other Division for that matter. will not abandon its cost protection prices.

Ten or twelve thousand sawmills, with a capacity to make three or four times as much lumber as the country is using, can not maintain a fixed wage level without a minimum price level that protects their cost of production.

Should cost protection prices be abandoned on the West Coast, they will be abandoned everywhere. The industry will slip right back into the destructive competition and sacrifice of capital assets that almost wrecked us in the earlier years of the depression. Once that condition returns, the fixed wage scales of the Lumber Code are doomed.

Whatever our disappointments and problems, let the critics of the Lumber Code-right here on the West Coast -ponder these facts. During April and May, the Code has kept 5@ Douglas fir sawmills running. It has kept over 45,000 men employed in sawmills and logging camps. It has paid these men under Code wage protection an average in excess of fifty-seven cents per hour. The inills have sold an averag'e volume of 96 million feet per week, notwithstanding the dock strikes; and have received an average price (for Douglas fir) of 918.26 per M feet. That is, the industry has made a gross realization of one and three-quarter millions of dollars per week.

Of course, the Code pinches the feet of individual manufacturers and wholesalers. Of course, nearly everyone has had to surrender something; and some have surrendered more than others. Of course, we should get better compliance. Of course, we can improve many features of Code administration.

But in the face of these solid facts of actual accomplishment, during a period of continued national depression, the West Coast lumber industry is not going to abandon its Code; nor is it going to destroy the Code by knocking out one of its main pillars-prices that protect the manufacturers' cost of production.

W. B. GREELEY, Secretary-Manager.

H. \,t/. COLE IN EAST

Harry W. Cole, executive officer of the Redwood Division of the l-umber Code Authority, left San Francisco June 6 for Chicago where he will attend the annual meeting of the Code Authority, June 11 to 14. He will also go to Washington to attend the meeting which will be reconvened there June 15.

The Code Advice of Hakeem the Wise

By Jack Dionne

In the City of Bagdad lived Hakeem, the Wise One, and many people went to him for counsel, which he gave freely to all, asking nothing in return.

And there came to hi-*" io*.r*urr, who said to him, "Tell me, Oh Wise One, how shall I beat my competitors under this Code System ?" ***

And Hakeem looked long and deep into his eyes. And the visitor saw that his life was as an open book, and that the Wise One knew his very thoughts. And he was sore afraid.

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And Hakeem said to him: "Methinks- it is thou who should be TELLING-noI ASKING me." And the lumberman said: "But Wise C)ne, from the depths of your lvisdom, can you not point out to me the surer and better methods of accomplishing what I desire?" **>t

So the Wise One was flattered, and replied: "Try special concessions. So many of these are there that it would require until sundown for me to recite them to you. Take this little book I have just written, 'A Hundred Honest Ways of Making Dishonest Concessions,' and read it carefully. Mayhap thou will find ideas there not already in thy plan book. Take it and go thy way." And, he took the book with much profuse expressions of gratitude, and left. ***

But no sooner had the sound of his footsteps died away than there entered the presence of Hakeem, a second lumberman. And, his words in the beginning were the same as the words of the first. He said: "Tell me. Wise One. how shall I beat my competitor under this Code System ?"

And Hakeem looked long and piercingly into the eyes of the second lumberman, until he felt that his very soul was naked as the limbs of the oak in the dead of winter. And, he trembled. And Hakeem said to him: "Methinks, my friend, that thou art already doing very well in that regard.l' ***

Whereat the face of the second lumberman grew livid, and veins in his forehead seemed as though about to break through their bonds of flesh. But Hakeem hastened to his relief. "Be of good cheer, friend. Many others think and act as thou do. I see by thy expression that thou seekest only for thine own protection." On hearing which words of wise consolation, relief came to the troubled face of the visitor.

"True are your words, Oh Wise One," he said. "I would have only that which is mine, and desire in no way to seize upon that which is rightfully my neighbor's. And, can 'you advise me how that good causb may best be achieved ?"

"Friend," said Hakeem, "the methods I could recite that would further thou in thy good purposes are numbered as the dead leaves in the forest in autumn. or as the sands upon the shore of the endless sea. But that thou mayest be speeded on thy way, take thou this little booklet I have written upon such thoughts as these, the title of which is 'Business Detours.' Thou wilt find it to be of inestimable worth." And, he took, and murmuring his deep, deep gratitude, he left.

And, as he went to the right, there came from the left another man, and his footsteps were heavy with the weight of despair, and his face was that of one deeply wearied. "I," he said to llakeem, "am a lumberman, and I come to you hoping against hope that you may be able to succor me." "Did you say 'sucker'?" asked Hakeem, kindly. "Not 'sqst1s1'-'5uccor'," replied the visitor. "Ah !" replied Hakeem.

"And what wouldest thou with me ?" asked the Wise One, with eyes that saw what men would in vain withhold. "Help, Wise One, or I perish," replied the visitor. "Thou speakest Truth, Oh Man," said Hakeem. "Truly thou art as one being ground between the upper and the lower mill-stones. But be of good cheer. 'Tis indeed a strange poison that hath not practical antidote. Here ! I hand thee tu'o small volumes which I have recently written. One is entitled 'A Hundred Clever Ways to Prevent the Making of Dishonest ConceSsions.' The other is 'How to Go Straight Across Where Others Build Business Detours.' Study them well, for within their pages lies the path to.thy business success."

And he thanked him with a voice as of one resurrected. And he went forth, with a book under each arm. And, to the porter at the door he said: "Which way did those two guys go?"

BERT BRYAN ON VACATION TRIP

Bert Bryan, president, Strable Hardwood Company, Oakland, attended the annual meeting of the National Association of Credit Men held in Los Angeles May 11 to 16.

Following the meeting Mr. Bryan, accompanied by his wife and daughter, went on an automobile tour to Boulder Dam, Las Vegas, Nev., and Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon, Utah. lfe expects to be back at the office June 25.

VISIT SCHAFER BROS. MILL

Chas. T. Gartin. Northern California salesman for Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., .recently made a trip by automobile to the company's sawmill at Montesano, Wash., accompanied by his wife and his father, James U. Gartin, president of the Stanislaus Lumber Co., Modesto.They returned to San Francisco on the company's steamer, Anna Schafer.

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N. Thackabery Moves lnto

S. F. Jobbing Yard Can Give Larger Quarters Quick Delivery of Timbers

M. N. Thackaberry, distributor and manufacturer of electric tools, has moved into larger quarters adjacent to the location occupied by him for the last seven years at 308 East Third St. The new location is 30.1-306 East Third St. The telephone number is MUtual 7236.

Mr. Thackaberry in commenting on his removal into larger quarters states, "The electric tool has earned for itself an important place in all industrial and construction activity as a labor and time saver, and the demand for it will continue to expand. It is with this thought that we are increasing our facilities and quarters that we may adequately keep abreast of the development in all phases of electric tool activity, as well as to put ourselves in a position to better serve those interested in any type of electric tool, having the largest assortment of tools on the Pacific Coast."

Mr. Thackaberry is an expert on electric tools and has studied their adaptability to every type of work. He handles for sale or rent every type of electric tool ,and is the distributor for Wappat electric hand saws, Syntron concrete hammers, Strand flexible shafts, Dumore tool post grinders and motors, Van Dorn electri,c tools, Driver woodworking tools, R. B. Rodgers woodworknig tools, Congress pulleys and couplings, sanding machines, belts, etc. Besides handling a complete line of shop woodworking equipment he also handles all kinds of metal shop tools and equipment such as wire brushes, grinding wheels, etc.

The new quarters allow for greater shop facilities for repair of all types of electric tools, and Mr. Thackaberry has repair men familiar with the repair of every type of tool. He would be pleased to have his old friends and customers drop in and see some of the new items.

HAS BUSY FOUR WEEKS

Frank H. White, assistant sales manager, Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco, is back in his office after having made three trips to the company's sawmill at Samoa and a trip to the Los Angeles office in the last month.

HERB KLASS RETURNS

Herb Klass, general sales manager, Th.e Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned .]une 6 from an Eastern business trip.

Shortage of yard stock has been created as a result of coastwise steamers having been tied up by the longshoremen's strike.

The attention of retail yards is drawn to the advertisement of Loop Lumber Company, San Fran.cisco, on another page, soliciting inquiries for timbers for qui,ck delivery by truck or cars.

This company, which has specialized f.or many years in heavy and long timbers, is fortunate in having a well assorted stock of timbers on hand to meet the emergency caused hy the strike.

S. S. Skidmore

Funeral services for Stephen Schuyler Skidmore were held at the funeral parlors of Thomas L. Miller, Downey, at three o'clock, Thursday afternoon, May 31. Ife w-as seriously injured Thursday night, May 24, when the motorcycle he and a boy friend were riding and an automobile collided on Downey Boulevard, Downey, and died Saturday, May 26.

Ife was 2I years of age, the son of Grey M. Skidmore of the Skidmore Lumber Co., fnc. of Downey, and assisted his father in the business. He is survived by his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Grey M. Skidmore; two sisters, Caroline and Charlotte Skidmore, and his grandmother, Mrs. Eliza P. Skidmore.

J. WESLEY SHRIMP RETURNS FROM TRIP TO PANAMA

J. Wesley Shrimp, Cresmer Manufacturing Co., Riverside, returned May 31 from a three weeks' trip to Panama on the S. S. Talamanca. He reports that he had a wonderful trip.

CHANGE OF TELEPHONE NUMBER

The Los Angeles office of the Holmes Eureka Lumber Co. announces a change in their telephone number. The new number is MUtual 9181.

MY FAVORITE STORIES

Bv Jock Dionne Ag" not guarante?d---Some I have told for 20 years---Some less

Di]]erent-Much Di]jerent

The women's bridge club was recessing for refreshments, and while the eating and drinking was going on, the anvil chorus took up some special work, and some of the more recent town scandals were dragged into the open for discussion.

"And have you heard about the blonde stenographer in the Jones Insurance Agency?" asked one. "They tell me," she continued without need for urging, "that she makes

just twenty dollars a week salary, yet she lives in a wonderful apartment, drives a car that cost three thousand dollars, and is one of the best dressed women in this town."

The old maid was listening with live !" she unctiously exclaimed.

"No, Sister," said she who had ..NOT AS YOU LIVE !''

all ears. "Well as I repeated the scandal;

41000 Sawmills Open Up Under A. J. Russell Elected Director

Lumber Code National-American Association

Washington, D. C., June 6.-Estimated figures from a survey made by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association for the Lumber Code Authority show that in the seven largest lumber producing regions, those from which both pre-Code and Code data are available, more than 4,@O sawmills have begun operations since the Code went into effect last August. It is calculated that fewer than forty of these mills produce more than 5,000,000 feet of lumber per year, and are therefore considered as large.

In the seven regions 17,243 mills are currently operating (not all continuously), as compared to 13,011 in July, 1933. In the same regions 3,200 mills have been continuously idle since Sept. 1, 1933.

The divisions covered are: Southern pine, Southern and Appalachian hardwoods, Northern hemlock and hardwoods, Northeastern lvoods. West Coast woods. redwood. and Western pine.

A. J. "Gus" Russell, Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco, was elected a director of the National American Wholesale Lumber Association at the annual meeting of the Association held May 24. The other directors are: D. D. Baldwin, Seattle; E. L. Cheason, Jacksonville, Fla.; George !V. Duffy, Spokane, Wash.; R. D. Huntting, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; C. F. Kreamer, Philadelphia; John L Shafer, South Bend, Ind. ; Otis N. Shepard, New York; C. F. Leatherbee. Boston.

Max Myers was re-elected president. Otis N. Shepard was elected first vice president, and John I. Colburn, Philadelphia, second vice president. Wm. Schuette, Jr., New York, n'as re-elected treasurer, and W. W. Schupner, New York, was re-elected secretary. North Coast manager, R. A. Dailey, Seattle. Department manager, S. L. Darling, New York.

S. L. Weaver Receives Good Showing in Home Financing Honorary Degree

Sylvester L. Weaver, former president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and for the past trventy years a leader of civic affairs in that city, was arvarded an honorary degree of doctor of lar.vs at the commencement exercises of the college of law, California Associated Colleges, in the Central Junior High School auditorium, Los Angeles, Thursday evening. May 31. He was presented for the degree by Hon. William C. Doran, judge of the Superior Court.

Mr. 'Weaver is well known to the lumber trade on the Pacific Coast where he has been connected with the roofing business for many years. He is president of the Pacific Coast Asphalt Shingle and Roofing Institute.

The Santa Cruz County Building & Loan Association, Santa Cruz, Calif.. has been commended by Mr. W. F. Duffy, President of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Los Angeles, for the good work they are doing in home financirg. In a letter to the Association, Mr. Duffy savs:

"It is rvith pleasure that I note the increasing amount of lending activity by your company in the Santa Cruz area. It is just this lending of money, both for new home construction and for the refinancing of present loans, that is going to materially assist in the National Recovery program."

According to Roy W. Bagby, secretary of the Association, 55 loans have been made on homes during the first four months of this year totaling $64,191.57, representing loans for new construction and for refinancing.

Appoints So. Cal. Representative \(/ood Sash Approyed lor

Larue Woodson, San Francisco, in charge of sales in California, Arizona and Nevada for Wheeler Osgood Sales Corporation, announces the appointment of Harry E. Hart as sales representative for Southern California and Arizona, with headquarters in Los Angeles.

Mr. Hart has been in the door and plylvood business for many years, and is well acquainted with the trade in Southern California and Arizona. The Los Angeles office is at 1031 Broadway, and telephone number is PRospect 56r6.

Henry F.y lsherwood

Henry Fay Isherwood, oldest son of Hgnry R. Isherwood, former secretary-treasurer of the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, and Mrs. Isherwood, passed away at the Deaconess Hospital in St. Louis, May 22. He rvas injured in an automobile accident the Sunday before while a passenger in a friend's car, which collided with another car, and he suffered a severe brain injury, never regaining consciousness. He lvas 25 years of age.

lfe was employed by the Community Power and Light Company of St. Louis for six years, and was recently transferred to the Cape Girardeau, NIo., offices of the Missouri Utilities Company, from which place he returned home for the week-end. Besides his parents, he is survived by a brother, Robert J. Isherwood, a noted golf player.

illn. tltcG(llillclt sAtEsilAll

saysMr.T,rr..

We constantly hear expressions like that from Califotnia retail lumbermen, who have discovered that it pays to work close with their McCormick salesman. FIe has the backing of McCormick's 25 years experience serving the retail lumber industry. Get better acquainted with the McCormick salesman. You'll find

him a likeable chap whose only con-

is to serve you well.

Schools

A. C. Horner, consulting engineer for the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, through rvhich organization ihe California school building program is being conducted, recently returned to San Francisco from Southern California, where he witnessed tests of wood sash made at Long Beach. "The purpose of these tests was to refute the objection raised by those interested in promoting steel sash that wood sash are not strong enough to lte satisfactory for school buildings," Mr. Horner said.

"Both torsional and racking tests were made on typical standard rvood sash, and also on an awning type of sash manufactured locally in Long Beach. Representatives of the Board of Education and also architects and engineers were present to see the tests.

"A 300-1b. load was put on the corner of each sash testetl before breakage of the glass occurred, and the sash stood a deflection of over 2f inches before failing.

"As a result of the showing made on behalf of wood sash, and the confirmation of satisfactory strength obtained in the tests, the Board of Education is now permitting alternate bids for both steel and wood sash in all school buildings to be erected hereafter."

Mr. Horner states that architects and engineers for six specific school buildings had been in touch with him or Mr. Coombs in the previous ten days requesting specific infor,mation on the design of wood frame school buildings. He also said that considerable progress has been made on the preparation of a popular pamphlet which is to be distributed through retailers to taxpayers and to the public in general. This pamphlet will set forth the record of woocl schools in recent earthquakes, and will explain in non-technical language the advantages of using wood for schools. It is expected that it will be ready for distribution within 30 days.

ELMORE KING IN WASHINGTON

Elmore King, King Lumber Co., Bakersfield, Code Authority member representing the Pacific Coast states, left June 8 to attend a meeting of the' executive committee of the National Retail Code Authority to be held in Washington, D. C., June 12.

ON EASTERN TRIP

A. S. Murphy, president. The Pacific Lumber Coompany, San Francisco, left Jtrne 7 for an Eastern business trip in the course of rvhich he will visit the company's Chicago and New York offices. Mr: Murphy attended the annual meeting of the Lumber Code Authority in Chicago, June 11, and in Washington, June 15.

"H"', my right hand manr"

means COMPLETE PROTECTION!

Full coverage is what your customers get. when you sell Standard Hex Setab roofs. . . and you know that they are satisfied customers, because they have complete protection for their homes.

Full coverage for the homes, because Standard Hex Setab Shingles make a completely sealed-in roof from ridge to drip edge. All exposed edges and surfaces are completely covered with an extra coating of asphalt, armored with an extra coat of beautiful rock granules. This extra coating of two basic protective coverings gives full protection to any roof.

Full Coverage for you too, Mr. Dealer, because The Pioneer-Flintkote Company protects its dealers against competition with products for their exclusive sale.

"Oppression" or Depression-\Yhich?

Ad.ilress by Vilson Cotnpton, Presid.ent ol Atnerican Forest prod,ucts Inilustries and Member of the Lumber Coile Authoritv', betore the Annuat Meetins

If the country wants to see the demoralization of employment opportunities for a million men, in its largest industry group, the needless destruction of great natural resources and the break-down of a conservation program affecting the use of a larger area ol land than is used in annual agriculture, it can readily do so by weakening or destroying the NRA and the system of industrial codes,which it is administering. If NRA fails the forest products industries fail. So will many other industries.

We well understand the complexities of administration which are perplexing the NRA as well as the industries under codes. But they will be made no less complex by ignoring them or by weakening the means of gradually simplifying and controlling them. The NRA Codes represent a nerv system. A new system can be established not by writing a code but by faithfully administering it.

To talk about suddenly withdrawing the supports put under the various industries by the NRA Codes without expectation of destroying employment and opportunities for employment is nonsense. If this will be true a year hence when the present Recovery Act expires it is true now.

"Oppressive" Features Necessary

The Lumber and Timber Products Industries Code represents the largest industry aggregate of any Code. Under its Forest Conservation rules it affects the management of 400 million acres of land, over a fifth of the land area of the United States. The Lumber Code includes some of the most difficult, most controversial and most important features of the Recovery Codes. Before the Darrow Review Board so announces, we assert that it is an "oppres5ivs 66ds"-oppressive to small enterprises-and large enterprises, too. We so described it last year to the Administrator and a few week ago to the President. In fact, last summer we deliberately set out to establish an oppressive code.

How else, I ask you. can an industrv which wants to lift itself and its employees out of the mire of sweatshop wage and sweatshop price competition, meet the issue of 50 cents a day wages paid last year by hundreds of small mills, and a few larger ones, except by a code which is "oppressive"? If under such circumstances the lumber code were not oppressive it would be worthless; and I challenge the Revierv Board to suggest any way in rvhich the timber products industries could have established a respectable minimum wage without oppression o{ a numerically great class of enterprises usually operating small mills, using inferior timber, with mechanically inefficient plants and labor inept at mechanical employments. That it has at least not oppressed small entirpiises merely because they are small is evident in the fact that since the code became effective last fall over 3000 more small mills have been started; many hundreds of new small mills have been built and only one large mill.

Difficult for All

The lumber code also fixes minimum prices to prevent sales below cost; and the allotment of production to prevent excessive output which in the last decade has become a chronic affliction of the lumber industry. These provisions are difficult for the NRA. They are much moie difficult for the industry. Protections against sales belorv cost are almost incapable of enforcement because of the wide range of ingenious and almost undetectable methods

of evasion open to unscrupulous competitors.

But again, I ask you, how else can a highly competitive industry, stripped of working capital and reduced to onethird of normal operations, with inventories already excessive, find the means-as the lumber industry has been compelled to find the means-of paying immediate wage increases, ranging in minimum rates from 50 per cent to 500 per cent and averaging almost 100 per cent ? The lumber industry would gladly rid itself of the detestable problem of administering a system of minimum cost protection prices; it accounts for nine-tenths of the important difficulties of administering the lumber code and of the sources of irritation in the NRA. But if it did you would again see 50 cents a day wages, a lG or ll-hour day and a resumption of the old cycle of destructive competition; or else bankruptcy.

Authorities to fix minimum prices, even though they fail fully even to recover costs, are dangerous powers to lodge in any industry group. They furnish the severest test of the spirit and purpose of industry and public trusteeship under the code system. Public supervision is a valuable and I think an indispensable safeguard.

Control Preferable to Chaos

But with its faults and its perils and the readiness with which without public supervision, it may be turned to arbitrary use, I challenge any critics of the NRA to justify a finding that such a system of enforceable cost protections and production controls is not preferable now in the forest industries at least, to the alternatives, either the resumption of the destructive wage and destructive price competition from which they are trying to escape, or the destruction of the industry -and of iis iorest resbu.ces, or both.

One week from today becomes effective the first and so far the only Conservation Code under the National Industrial Recovery Act. A year ago the President asked the forest products industries, in any codes of fair competition which they might submit, that they include some effective protection against what he termed "destructive forest exploitation." We have done so. In consultation with the interested public agencies we have developed a conservation plan which we and they believe to be practicable and which the President himself has generously described as one of the greatest accomplishments of the past year.

Continued Control Essential

But a forest conservation program undertaken merely as an "Emergency" action and limited to the present statutory period of the Recovery Act is an economic absurdity. Forest conservation and the development of sustained yield forest industry operations and of permanent in place of transitory, forest communities are dependent upon the continuance in its essential substance of the Dresent svstem of industry control uncler public sanctions and supervision. No debate between critics of NRA will change that fact.

The Lumber Code has obviously been diffrcult and perplexing to the NRA. It has been complained of by reluctant competitors, asserting that its wages are too high; by labor spokesmen, that they are too low; by producers, that they continue to lose money; and by consumers, that prices are too high. The Code has been variously described as courageous, daring. a "Model" for other industries; or as piratical or even "lousy."

Many Benefits Apparent

But at least this may be said: An industry which a year

ago had seen its business shrink in volume to the lowest point in over sixty years and to a price level the lowest in more than a quarter century, its employments shrivel and its capital assets .crumble, with recorded losses in 1932 equal to half of its gross sales, has now seen an increase in its volume of 30 per cent; in its employments over 55 per cent ; in its prices over 6O per cent; in its minimum wages over 90 per cent; and in its total payrolls nearly 120 per cent. It has seen the establishment for the first time, in an industry of over 30,000 establishments, of the spirit of collective thinking and the means of collective action, and the substitution of a hopeful for a hopeless industry attitude. It finds a great industry heretofore transitory in viewpoint and in fact now deliberately setting itself under an NRA Forest Conservation Code toward permanent operations.

I am an economist. From some of the very men who are now seeking in official capacities to administer them, I have been taught both conventional and unconventional economic theories. To others I have taught them. I know we are dealing with a new brand of National economics, and I am much less concerned about finding where it is mentioned in the text books than how it can be made to work, in terms of revived industry and of enlarged and more secure employment,

Industry Trying to Do Its Part

The experience of an idustry which represents in ordinary times nearly 8 per cent of the total employment in all manufacturing industries, which has undertaken in increased minimum wages proportionately the greatest added cost burden of any great industry under code, and upon which largely depends the future use of an area greater than that used in agriculture may have added significance because of the current debates over National Recovery policies. I know the facts and the spirit of the forest industries. I know that within less than 24 hours after the

President last May 17 sent to Congfess the bill which later became the National Industrial Recovery Act, they took the first active steps toward a Code of Fair Competition, and that diligently and unceasingly since then they have tried-amateurishly perhaps and blundbringly, and at times perhaps exasperatingly, but nevertheless, tried-to "do their part."

Of the thousands of producers in these industries large and small alike, who in fact as well as in theory, want to pay decent wages, observe respectable hours, and play fair with their competitors, 98 per-cent are for the Code and for the NRA; and they speak for the pay envelopes, or the pay envelope hopes, of over a million men and the sources of livelihood of millions more. I believe the same fundamental situation to exist in the majority of the great basic industries. Any man, or group of men, in high places or low, assumes great moral and human responsibility who undertakes, cavalierly and without advancing a better alternative, to destroy public and industry faith in, and support for, the most effective plan yet devised lor combating industrial disintegration and establishing a base for industrial recovery.

Lookout Towers o[ New Design

Washington, D. C., May 28.-A possible market for about 1,000,000 board feet of lumber is indicated in the Department of Agriculture's request for bids on 162 forest lookout towers of various heights, which may be constructed of either wood or steel. Bids, which are to be opened June 5, are solicited for both f.o.b. mill and destination bases.

The approval of the use of wood in the construction of these towers is a comparatively recent development. Forest Service sanction was secured by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association last summer. Successful price competition with steel is made possible through the use of the revolutionary modern timber connectors, which, by adding rigidity and strength through distribution of the load, permit the use of smaller members and consequently reduce the total board footage required.

STRIKE CONDITIONS have tied up coastwise steamers, thereby creating a shortage of yard stocks.

I[e have on hand a wel]. assorted stock of TIMBERS, and solicit inquiries for quick delivery, either by truck or cars. Foot of 16th St. San Francisco MA*et 1811

East Bay Yard Broadway & Blanding Ste. Alameda Al',amella 3544

Through American Forest Products Industries, acting for the combined forest industry group, acceptable designs have been developed for the construction of these towers. These designs, with shop drawings and other detailed information, are offered to prospective bidders without charge.

INS URANCE

WITH THAT MUTUAL INTEREST

Expet counsel to prevent firesSpecialized policies to protect against losssubstantial dividends to protect against cost. '\ilfrite any of our companies.

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DEATH IS NO GRE'ATER MYSTERY THAN LIFE

Yo,u say he's dead. You say so very surely That "he will live rtg 1ne;s"-fuow can you know? How can you be.so sure of that called death, When you know nothing of the thing called life? Death is no greater mystery than lifeVeils shroud the living as they shroud the dead.

A little while ago you said, "He lives."

You held his hand, you knew his face and form, But never once did you behold his self. His body was a shell-as much a shell While living as when dead. The shell you loved But hid within that form and spoke to you Through binding walls of fesh.

And yet you said, "He lives," although you never Perceived the man himself, nor knew from whence He came, nor how he lived and thought, nor of What secret essence he was made. All this Was veiled in darkness-still you felt he lived, And walked, without a question, by his side.

Although between you there were silences, And constant strangeness-deep as any graveYou still had faith that he was always there, Though hidden from you by blank walls of flesh. Then have faith now !

If spirits can surmount the walls of fesh, Why should they perish in the halls of death?

A man may leave a house, and walk once more Along a trail-and yet we do not say, "The man is dead."

So do not cry, "My loved one lives no more." Say rather, "I{e has gone along the trail To wider ventures and a freer air."

Then put aside your bitterness, your tears. You dared to love-dare now to pay the price ! Look down upon his face and say: "I'm glad We found each other in life's mysteryGlad that we knew the miracle of love."

"Then go, my darling; go, as I shall go, With head held high in grateful mernory, And heart set on great chances yet to come ! God bless Jrou, dear ! Go free ! I'll carry on !"

-ELSIE ROBINSON.

NEW BANKING SERVICE CHARGES

In view of the many new charges placed upon customers of banks, it has been suggested by a committee of regular bank patrons, that the foll,owing rules might well be added to those previously imposed:

DIFFERENT NOW

A Sunday school teacher asked a small girl why Ananias was so severely punished. The little one thought a minute and then answered, "Please teacher, they weren't so used to lying in those days."

WILLIE'S EXCUSE

Willie's little sister came to the schoolroom door and handed the following note in to the teacher: "Teacher, please excuse Willi+he caught a skunk."

D. T. Mason New Executive Officer of L. C. A.

D. T. Mason, Portland, Ore., manager of the Western Pine Association, has been given a leave of absence by the Association to accept the position of Executive Offi'cer of the Lumber Code Authority. S. V. Fullaway, Jr., secretary of the Association, will take Mr. Mason's position during this period.

Good Turnout at Los Angeles Golf Tournament

The Los Angeles Lumbermen's Golf Tournament held at the Brentwood Country Club, Friday afternoon, June 8, brought out a good turnout. 55 golfers took part in the tournament. C. R. Boyer, Southwestern Portland Cement Co., with a score of. 77 was the low gross winner. Earl Jameson, Sun Lumber Company; Charles Lyons, Hammond Lumber Company; and Clifi Bergstrom, MacDonaldHarrington, were the low net winners, each having a lorv net of 71. Dinner was served at the Club House at 6:30 P.M., a large crowd staying over for the evening program.

The committee in charge of the tournament included Don Philips, ,chairman; Ross Blanchard, Kenneth Smith, E. L. Reitz, Harry Hanson, Ed. Seward, Walter Harris, C. M. Freeland, Frank Burnaby, Bill Chantland, Jack Thomas, lfarry A. Graham. Roy Stanton and Ed. Martin.

"Red" Wood Scys.'

Reiluoo4 M ahes Beautiful Inteiors

The Executive Chairman of the California Association of Atchitects sayr:

t'There is nothing more beautiful in thic world than 6ne woodworlbeautiful wainscotingo, panelled walls and panelled ceilings chowing the natural grain of the wood, natched and put together; in other words, architectural woodwork.tt

For interior decoration, California Redwood is unparalleled. fts natural color, soft and warm, itc subdued but distinctive grain and satinJike texture, lend an air of distinction unobtainable in any other wood.

Union Lumber Company

d" Fun

Talks to Structural Engineers

A. C. IIorner, consulting engineer, National Lumber Manufacturers Asso,ciation, San Fran.cisco. addressed a meeting of the structural engineers of Southern California in Los Angeles, June 6, on the general subject of the manufacture and use of lumber as it pertains to the work of the structural engineer.

Recent developments in timber framing, with particular reference to the use of metal ,conne,ctors, were discussed, as well as modern methods of grading lumber whi,ch make it more readily adaptable to the use of the structural engineer.

A greatly increased interest in the use of lumber by structural engineers was evidenced by the number of questions asked at the conclusion of the talk.

Edward F. \flist

Edward F. Wist, manager of the California Sugar & White Pine Company, San Francisco, passed away at his home in .Alameda, June 7. Mr. Wist was at his office as usual the previous day. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Florence S. Wist, and a son, Edward B. Wist. He was a native of Galesburg, Illinois.

BUYS INTEREST IN YARD

The Central Lumber Co. of Compton has bought an interest in the Stangor Lumber Co. at Clearwater. The yard will be operated under the name of the Clearwater Lumber Co.

O. G. GRIMES VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

O. G. Grimes, The Pacific Lumber Company, I os Angeles, left for San Francis,co on June 8 where he will spend several days visiting his mother. He also plans to spend some time at the company's San Francisco office.

When you paok your grip for that s|rmmer trip, take along "Cullu

MR. JACK DIONNE, 318 &ntrol Bldg., 108 Enclosed find of "Cullu.d Fun."

Vest Sirth St., Zos Angelcs, &lit. E2.N) tor rr,hich send ntc a aDW

California Building Permits For M.y

*Included in Los Angeles

BT]YDBS9 GT]IDB SAIT FBANOISOO

LUMBER

Cbamberlln & Co., W. R., tth Flffi, Fifc Blft. ............DOus|* 5{?0

Ddbeer & Carron Lmbcr Co.' 7!0 Mcrchants Exchan3c Bldg...'...SUtter 7156

Hmmond Lumbcr Co,' tlO SLanromc St.........'..........Douglar 33tO

Holmer Eunka Lmbcr Co., 1505 Fiucial Center Bld3. .'.....GArficld l92r

Loop Lumbcr Cmpany' Ft. of r6th St. .....'.'............MArkct ltU

Lon3-Bell Lumber Salar Corporatlo' 125 Markct Stret ......'........GArficld f$0

Alul|iru&Co.,W'J.'

520 Motgomcry St. ..'....'......Gdrficld @ll

LUMBER

McComick, Char. R.' Lmbcr Co.' l0l Markct Str.6t ..............'.'DOugLer 25Cf

More MiIl & Lunber Co.' 525 Muket Strut .,...............EXbrok 0l?3

Pacific Lumber Co. Tbc Itl0 Buch Strut ..................GArficld lltr

Red River Lubcr Co., 315 Momdnock Bldg. ..'..........GArficld Oz

Santa Fe Luber Cq' 16 Callfomh Stret .....,'......'.KEamy XII{

Schafer Bru. L'-bcr & Shinglc Co', tllt Fife Blds. .........'.'...'..'..SUtter l77l

Sudden & Chrirtemn, tfO Suiuc StEt ............'..GArfield ztlt

Union Lmbcr Co.. Crocher Buildin3 ..SUttcr Cl70

OAIILANI)

LUMBER

Hill & Mqton, Ilc{ Dennircn Si. Wf,arf ..'...'.......4Nddr 107?

T. P. HoSrn Co., ta e li* Stretl.............Gl-nq|rt ltal

HARDWOODS

LUMBER

Van Arsdale-Hania Lunbcr Co., lnc., Fif:h & Brm Str.ct!,..,......GArfic|d lfO

Wendling-Nathan Co., ll0 Market Stret ..,...,.........,.Suttrr 5ta3

Weycrhaeueer Sales Co., l{! Califonla Str*t ....,,........GArficld ff7f

DOORS AIYD PLYWOOD

Nicolel Dor Salce Co. llll5 l9th StF6t ..,.................Mlslm 7t2o

Wheler.Oagood Salea Ccpcatio, 3045 l0ih st. ......................VAlencia 22tl

CREOSOTED LUMBER_POLES_PILINGTIES

McCmlclr, Chu. R., Lubar Co, ,ltl Merkct Strat .................DOuglar 25tl

PANEI.S

Elliott Brt Salcr Co, It2l Bradmy ...,Hltata 2,ll?

Celifm'a Buildcn Supply Co.. 501 ath Avenu .........,,..,....ANdovei lltt

Strable Hardwood Cq, 517 Fint Sbcct ...............TEnp|cbu lStl

LOS ANGELNS

LUMBER

LUMBER

Smkgtlvcr Bumr Lmbci Co.' Ch.rbcr ol Commcrca Bldr.. '..PRorpcct Glr

Chrmbcrlln & Co., W. R.' !1! West Nlnth SL ..""""""'Tuc&cr l|ll

Dolbccr & Carum Luber Co., l2l Shcll Buil.ll{,..'..............VAni[Lc fll2

tloLner Eurcke Lunbcr Co., ?ll-?12 Architect! Bldg. ............MUtual gttl

Hmmond Lubcr Co2010 8o. Alameda St .............pRcpect IUl

Hover, A. L., ?Ot Sq,h Bree Avc. '......'......'.YOrk ll6t

Lamne-Phlllpc Lmber Co.' t83 Pctrolm Sccurtticr Bld8...'PRosFct 024

Loag-Ball Luba Sda CorPontion' ?21 Pctrolctrn Sqcurldc Bldg....PRoapect t{0ll

McCcnlc.k, Cbu R.' Lmbcr Co, u? w6t fth sL .............,..TRtnity 524r

Mdfirpn. & Co, W. J., U? W6t tth St. .,...............'VAndlkc l,lE6

Pacific Lunbcr Co., TLc ?00 So. h Bra Ave.,..,.............YOrk llCt

Pattcn-Blinn Lumbcr Co, 521 E. srh sL ....................vAndike Zl2l

Red Rlvcr Lmbcr Co?02 E. Sla|I|m ,..Axridrc eoTl

Suta Fc Lumber Cq, 3lf Fituci.l Ccntcr Blda..,..... ..TRiDtty t62f

Scbafcr Bru. Lmber & Sb'lnglc Co., azt Petrol{n Scurltlce Blds....PR@pcct BlTt

Sudden & Chrlrtenm, Gtll Berd of Tn& Bl&. ....,....TRlDity ttB

Union Lunber Co., Larc Mqtgagc Blds. .,............TRhtty 2a2

Wendling-Natlu Co, ?00 So. La Bne l,vc. ...,.....,.......Y(H fl$

Weye*aaurcr Saler Co., t4l Pctrclcu ltcccrftiar Bt&....PRo.p.Gt 55t0

CREOSOTED LUMBER_POLET'-PILINGF TIES

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Three Santa Cruz Land Lubbers Cruising With "\(/'est on the Pacific

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By Georse W. \0ood \flood Brothers Co. Santo Cruz, Calif.

(Continued from June 1 issue)

CHAPTER IV

On board ship en route Portland, Ore., to Vancouver. B. C.Monday was the day Captain Westerberg had set for loading our car on the steamer. We drove to the pier. Consternationl Our boat has left and "you can't load a car ofi the S. P. dock where she ib"lnow," we are told. Our anxiety doesn',t last long, however, as it develops that arrangements have been made to load our Buick at Rainier down the river a few miles. This change gives us an €xtra day ashore in Portland-a most welcome arrangement.

We are in the lumber capital of America. Log rafts by the hundreds are everywhere. Saw mills line the Willamette and Columbia. Surely there's enough to claim the attention of a retail lumber dealer.

Through Veneering Plant

During the last two years there has been a very marked development in the manufacture and sale of plywood. Plywood is the name given to three-ply veneered fir panels. Until the last few years we sold veneering at 8c to 10c a foot. This made it too high priced for use as walls and ceilings. In 1921, someone in the veneering manufacturing industry, conceived the idea of making a three-ply veneered board with only one good side. They argued that when used as a wall board, one good side was quite O. K. and so it is. So made, the price of plywood was brought down to 4lc a foot retail and more recently we have been able to offer it at 3-6-l0c per foot or $36 per thousand feet right in Santa Cruz. Also there has been developed a second grade plywood board known as "sheathing board" that sells for only 3c per square foot. Let's go through the plywood plant and see how the veneers are made and didcover if we can, why this product is surely the lumber of the future.

Big logs four to ten feet in diameter, known as peelers, are selected and cut-over 90 per cent of them-into 8-foot lengths. The other l0 per cent are six, seven, l0 and, 12 feet long. Great tongs, seven feet in length, similar to ice tongs, pick up each log and transfer it to a steam room. Here the logs are steamed for 24 hours making the wood soft and easily cut. From the steam room, the log is transferred by means of an overhead crane, to a big lathe. The lathe has an enormous cutting knife. kept razor sharp, which peels the log into sheets, while still hot. The veneering sheets are one-ninth of an inch thick, usually eight feet wide and about 16 feet long. Each lathe has a capacity of 300,000 feet per 8-hour day. From the lathe the large veneering sheets are transferred on automatic conveyors to cutters and trimmers where they are reduced to the most desirable sizes, about 90 per cent of them being made into layers four feet wide and eight feet long. Now they go through dry kilns on automatic conveyors where the moisture content is reduied tci 2 per cent. (Dry 6nish lumber contains 12 to 15 per cent moisture.) Then the veneers are patched-knots and defects removed aRd new pieces of veneer put in where knots used to be. This "plugging" process makes it possible to produce veneeis with "solid cores." Now the veneers are cooled and put through the glueing machines. On one side are piled the cores 18 inches wide and four feet long. These are to be covered with hot glue on both sides. On the other side of the machine are the bottom and top veneer sheets, four feet wide and eight feet long. As the cores, all covered with glue, come through off the hot rollers, the operators put one 4x8 sheet underneath and one on top, and there you have your three-ply veneer. Now the three-ply veneers aie transferred to hydraulic presses where they are put under enormous pressure. From here they are sent to. the side and end trimmers. the patchers (who put in "Dutchmen") and the sanding machinCs. The final product is a beautiful thing to one who appreciates fine lumber, big, wide, stash grained sheets, tough and durabte.

Why do we call this the lumber of the future? Well, in manufacturing lumber, 50 per cenf of the log goes into sawdust and firewood, One-half is waste. In making plywood the waste is less than 20 per cent----one operator tells me only l0 per cent. Not for long wilt owners of timber permit this extra 30 to 40 per cent loss. Already sheathing board is used in place of low grade lumber for

concrete forms on big buildings. It has no knot holes, it's light, easily handled, tough and requires less labor.

Veneers hive been used for years in furniture and doors. More cently they have been used for auto bodies for ccincrete forms. recently bodies. forms, for walls and ceilings, and even for industrial floors. There's a

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spegjal _kind of wateiproof veneer that will interest Bill Johnson Malio Stagnaro and Louis Beverino. This is a marine type o of Jrafrnaro Lours .bevertno. Ihls ts veneer, made with water-proof glue and used for boats. - Louis Wessendorf will be pleased to learn that caskets bv the hundreds pleased by the hundreds are made of inexpensive veneers. In fact, there is a veneer for almost every purpose. It's the lumber of the future, Watch this development. It has big "C.ri"*it+Eh

V

We board the West Ivis Tuesday evening at Rainier on the Columbia river and start on the last leg of oui journey northward. At 8 p.m. we turn about in the stream and head down toward Astoria. We wind in and out, now close to shore. now far out in the channel. The changing lights along the banks, the water traffic,, Portland Sound, the big bridges we glide und6r-all are fasciqating to us. -\Me are reminded of Mark Twain's description of floating down the Mississippi with Huckleberry Finn. We- turn in late b-ut are up next morning at 4 a.m. to sei the pilot leave our boat for Astoria.

Out.at sea again steaming northward along the Washington state coast line! Before late afternoon we are opposite the Jnow clad OJvmoi_c mountains, rising a few miles bacli-from the shore line. About 5 o'clock our steqaid points out Tatoosh Island, marking the and are

entrance to Puget Sound. At dinner time we turn inland an entertained by the appearance of five bie sharks on our port bv ig port beam.

Inside the headlandi we steam along thiough the itraii ;i j";a; Fuca past the southern end of Vancouver Island. We retiie earlv as $'e want to be on deck at daylight to see the most of thesi beautiful shore lines. Early next moining we see dozens of salmon fi.shing..boats. One_-pa-ss.es quite close ind I'm sure I see a big silverside salmon pulled in.

The entrance to Vancouver harbor, passing Stanley park on the starboard side and North Vancouver on our left, beggars description by such an amateur author as yours truly. We st6im to Kineslev terminal and at noon my car is ashore. The Canadian customi of- ficials go through my baggage, inquire into my life historv and want to know "what I'm here for anyway." We get by and i hunt up Brackman-Ker Milling Co., the- folks who frave -been selline Charters Incubators since 1920. Never will I forget my firJr silE to these people. -I was.a_young, untried American"sal.si""n,-i"iio_ ducing a new product. "With the courage of ignorance,', as Samuel Leask.would say, I brought an incubator alon-g with ine ""d.;ld it to these rather conservative Canadian busineis men.. Since then they have bought hundreds of our machines and I always have a warm welcome on the rare occasions that I visit British Cotumbia.

At Vancouver we take on flour for Porto Rico. The middle hatch is just_aft of gur cabin. The captain's Bobby and our fatte.ini (each 5 years old) have been using the hatch cover as a olavsround on the way up. Now this hatch cover is roughly torn up'an'd"Kath- erine comes out at the end of_th_e_passage wafoverlookin^g tfre tratitrway down into the empty hold. She rushes back to'her mother with. the .rather indignant.inqu-iry, "Mother, why did they make -a Drg nore rn our tront yard tor/"

I have business in New Westminster, B. C., lZ miles south and ijr .Bellingham, Ev^erett_ and Seattle. Our boat is tg go ""itt io Brittania Beach, 33 miles from Vancouver, where she Is to untoad two thousand tons of steel rails. It will take two davs to discharce these rails, days that I can use very profitably, so I- leave -r, *if. and daughter on the boat and drivi southward. It will be ;icked up next Sunday at Port Gamble, site of one of the McCormic[ tu-_ ber mills, about 20 miles from Seattle.

A Modern Broodins Svetem

A few miles north of Bellingham, Wishington, I called on a good friend and customer of ours. He has a big poultry farm with s"omi 3000 chickens. He uses 12 of the Wood-ridiant etectric brooA.ii made in Santa Cruz. During the last 15 years I have visited ooul- try plants from Vancouver to San Dieg-o and from petaluma -io

Boston. Never have I seen such a.modern, labor-saving brooding system as that used by our friend, Mr. Griffith. All his brooding work-feeding, cleaning, watering, culling-is done at waist level. I.t's a.clever system and should be written up for some poultry magazrne.

At Everett I visited another satisfied customer who uses Art Wood's brooder. He has just sold the last electric he had on hand and wanted more.

The drive along the Sound just south of Bellingham is rather famous in the northwest. It's known as the Chuck-a-nuck. Whet was most interesting to me were the oyster booths along the way. It was 6 o'clock and I was hungry. I stopped at one of these oyster dispensaries and looked over the stock in trade, There were large oysters in the shell and small ones, too. Besides these there were three other sizes, some in the shell, others in cartons ready to eat. I bought a pint of medium size---Z,S cents for the oysters and five cents for the lemon and tomato sauce. I ate a out two dozen right then and there for my supper and still had two-thirds of my pint left.

Tell This One to Andy Balich

These I took to Seattle where I left them with the cook at my hotel. I can't resist telling you here just how I disposed of them, I came in about 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon after a rather long day-tired and hungry. After a refreshing shower bath I called up the kitchen. "Mr. Wood speaking." (You know, just like that.) "Oh, yes. How do you wish your oysters prepared?" "Wetl," I said, "make me a nice oyster stew--ah-use cream and butter, flavor with salt and pepper-about two dozen oysters, please. And the rest of them you may serve raw-ah-with cocktail sauce," "Ye9, Mr. Wood, in about 15 minutes?" "O.K." A few minutes later my 6rst course was ra\r oysters all arranged on a big plate, with sliced lemon, ice cotrd radishes and garnished with parsley. And the cocktail sauce, was it good? Not too strong or peppery. Then my creamed oyster stew! And the bill-2s cents for service.

Now, George, that'll be enough for today.

(Next installment of Mr. Woods' article will appear in the July 1 issue)

H. H. BARG VISITS LOS ANGELES

H. H. Barg, Barg Lumber Company, San Francisco, attended the meeting of the Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers Import Association, Inc., held in Los Angeles, June June 11,

WAPPAT ELECTNTC HAND SAtv8

Grandad's Return

Grandad carne back to "them thar hills," He'd left 'em long afore, To drift around the U.S.A. For fifty years or more. He cast a cursory glance about And every change decried; Then with a sadly jaundiced eye, He toured the countryside.

At length the poor old chap returned With acrimonious words; He couldn't see the bright spring flowers Or hear the singing birds; "I didn't find Dad's Gulch," he snapped, "An' shore as I was bofn, I never recognized the place They're callin' old San Juan !

\Mhere's Whiskey Diggin's ? Tell me that," The irate oldster said, "An' where's the hoof defyin' trail That down Steep Hollow led? There's nary trace of Dead Hoss Flat, Shirtail an' Lousey Level; Sure seems to me them good old camps Has gone plum to the devil !"

"Oh, dad," we cried, "don't feel so blue, We've many a fine town yet; There's Downieville and. French Corral, Town Talk and old You B€t; Of course some camps have petered out, But some are roaring still, There's Goodyear's Bar, and Camptonville, Pike, too, and Depot Hill."

"I guess you're right," grandad replied, "There's life in Lava Cap; But Jackass Gulch has gone to pot An' Mad Mule's ofi the map. Oh, well. I'll stick around a spell An' swaller my regret; Fer though some camps has petered out, There may be good leads yet."

And now grandad is well content, Light hearted, too, and meek; He's panning out four bits per day Down there on Fiddle Creek. A. Merriam Conner.

ATTENDS CODE AUTHORITY MEETING

Frank B. Colin, secretary, Coos Bay Lumber Co., San Francisco, left June 7 to attend the annual meeting of the Lumber Code Authority at the Drake Hotel, Chicago, June 11 to 14.

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Years e California

Aso Today

From the Lumber Merchant, June 15, 1924

Lumber receipts at Los Angeles Harbor for the first ten days of June totaled a little over 33,00O,000 feet, indicating that the cargo lumber movement will total about 90,000,0@ feet for the month. Lumber receipts at this port for the month of May totaled 120,000,000 feet.

' Building in the southern part of the state does not show much let-up. Building permits in Los Angeles for the first eleven days in June were $3,643,131. Los Angeles building permits for the month of MaI* were around $9,000,000.

Retail lumber dealers in the San Fernando Valley organized the San Fernando Vallev Lumbermen's Club. M. C. C. Campbell of Van Nuys was elected president; M. A. Young of. Zelzah, vice president, and W. W. Speer of Owensmouth, secretary-treasurer. The Club will meet monthly, the first regular meeting will be held at San Fernando on July 9.

A picture and story is given of the Douglas Lumber Company at Douglas, Arizona. J. W. Herndon is president of the company, andJ. W. Tardy is manager.

In the leading editorial, "The Gospel of Sunshine and 'Work," by Jack Dionne, he says, "Let's think straight, and work hard, and look at the best side all the time, and keep everlastingly at it. No one ever went to the poorhouse following that system."

F. L. Morgan of Los Angeles expresses his appreciation of Jack Dionne's editorial, "Talking Too Mu,ch About 'Presidential Year' Hard Times" that appeared in the June I issue. In his letter Mr. Morgan says: "You have struck the nail on the head. You are just optimistic enough to be right. There is too darned much pessimism circulating around the country the last few months."

The Hayward Lumber Co. of Los Angeles has purchased the Cross Lumber Co. at lotiort,Kings County.

The William Smith Lumber Co., San Fran'cisco, has purchased the McDonald Lumber Co., which adjoins their yard and will be used by the new owner for storing their common lumber. The McDonald Lumber Co. was operated by the Bessemer Lumber *Co. of Detroit.

E. L. Fifield, San Francisco wholesale lumberman, has been appointed California agent for the Fischer Brothers Lumber Co. of Eugene, OI..* !r

The San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club held a luncheon on June 5. Mr. Os'car Kaneckt, chief building inspector of San Diego, addressed lhe meeting. An honored guest of the meeting was Lieut. Kelly, world famous aviator, who with Lieut. McCready, made a non-stop flight from New York to San Diego.

Harry V. Hanson, California Panel & Veneer Co., was chairman of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo luncheon meeting on June 5. LeRoy Dawson, a disabled veteran of the World War and law student at U.S.C. talked on his war experiences. Parson Simpkins also made a short talk.

' Thirteen Kittens were led over the onion beds at Los Angeles on the night of June7, and two old cats who had wandered from the fold were reinstated. A large number of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo members, together with visit-

ors from San Diego and Santa Ana, were present at the con,cat which was held at the Jonathan Club. C. S. Estes was master of ceremonies. Herman L. Rosenberg, snark of the Los Angeles district, was in charge of the initiation ceremonres.

E. L. Cooper, a member of the sales force of the Union Lumber Company, Los Angeles, was married on June 3 to Miss Arlene Benton. They spent their honeymoon at San Diego.

The first big shipme"J.i ilugt". fir timbers to the Houston Ship Channel docks will be unloaded soon. It is announced that 600,000 feet of Douglas fir timbers corlsigned to several Texas roads will be delivered at that port within the next few weeks. This is a part of the lprge quantity of fir purchased this year by the Texas railroads.

Fred Golding, Fred Golding Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was the speaker at the last meeting of the Portland (Oregon)' Lumbermen's Club. He made the trip in his Big Six Studebaker, and hung up what he claimed to be a record in driving from Portland to Los Angeles, making the trip in 48-hours flat, and driving the entire distance himself.

'R. T.:co'y.rr, fo.,n., ol".rX, i ,n" chula vista Lumber L-o. has retired from the management of the company, and has been succeeded by H. A. Graves, who has been connected with the company for some time.

Ralph Duncan, formerly manager of the Halstead Lum-. ber Co. yard at Fresno, and since January 1 of this year manager of the Merced Lumber Co., Merced, has acquired an interest in the business by the purchase of a part of the holdings of W.'E. Landram, formerly vice president of the 'company. Mr. Landram has since the first of the year been giving his entire attention to the affairs of the Farmers and Mer,chants National Bank at Merced, in which institution he has had an interest for some time.

Ralph Evans of Tucson, Arizona, has joined the Merced Lumber Co., taking a part of Mr. Landram's interest, and will be actively interested in the company.

Frank 'Minard, ...r.,"1y-al""lur", of the San Joaquinr Valley Lumbermen's CIub, has just had prepared and distributed a new 1924 roster*of*the Club.

J. F,.Wright, Brey-Wright Lumber Co., Porterville, has been elected president of the Porterville Rotary Club, and will attend the Rotary International Convention to be held atToronto,Canada.' * * *

Employes of the E. K. Wood Lumber Co. Southern California operations and their families enjoyed a picnic at the Perry Whiting ranch, at Montrose, on Sunday, May 25. Frank Curran was master of ceremonies, and carried off all honors in the dancing contest that was- held in the afternoon. A barbecue was served at noon. Al Privett was in' charge of the arrangemenl. t?t ,1" picnic.

C. M. Speers, who has been with the Sun Lumber Co. a{ Beverly Hills, has joined the sales department of the Cali-i fornia & O,regon Lumber !o.*at *Los Angeles. i

R. E. Andruss, manager of the Independent Lumber Co.,' Alhambra, states that the company is contemplating erect-i ing a sash and door factory at their plant.

E. P. Ivory, California White and Sugar Pine Manufacturers'Associationr gave an interesting talk on the physical characteristics and uses of the California pines at the Monday luncheon of the Lumber Salesmen's Club of San Francisco, held at the Palace Hotel on May 26. Charles Moody presided at the meeting. ,'1.**

Approximately 500 new builclings were constru,cted in San Francisco during the month of May, making it one of the best constructicin months of the year, according to information given out by Building Inspector John P. Horan. Permits for May totaled $5,478,111, the largest of any month since August, 1922.

Building operations in San Jose during the month of May showed a considerable gain over the preceding month, according to City Building Inspector M. C. Woodruff, which shows the value of building permits for May as $229,650 as against $152,450 t:t ,1. month of April.

The Humboldt Lumber and Building Co. of Eureka will erect a mill and dry kilns on Lawren,ce Creek in Humboldt County. D. H. McFarlan is vice president and manager of the ,cornpany.

The Southern California Division of the Hart-Wood Lumber Co., under the management of T. B. Lawrence, has acquired dock and storage ficilities at San Pedro Harbor, and according to Mr. Lawrence, they will store a considerable quantity of lumber, shingles and lath for quick shipment.

_.Th. new departrrent is under the management of Joe Silva, San Pedro superintendent. The dockage is a strip of eight hundred. feet of the Outer Harbor Dock & Wharf Co., and includes about one and one-half acres of ground with three spur tracks.

The Diamond Match a;r;r; has pur,chased the Anderson Lumber Co. yards at Anderson, Shasta County.

Frank L. Fox, president and general manager of the FoxWoodsum Lumber Co., Glendale, was host to the Glendale Chamber of Commerce one dav last month when he condu'cted twenty members of the-Chamber through the company's plant. A photograph shows the delegat-ion in front of the yard.

From the "Head Saw," monthly organ published by the Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills.

"Did you know that if all the lumber and shingles manufactured by the Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills ior the last tw-enty-five years were placed in one freight car it would be 600 miles long, and,the train would reach from Bellingham over into western Montanai"* *

The California Retail Lumbermen's Association will hold their annual picnic at San Diego, on Friday and Saturday, lune2U21. A.banquet will be held at the Hotel San Diego on Friday_evening, and on Saturday there will be an all diy picnic at Balboa Park under the auspices of the San Dieg-o lumbermen'

Tle Monrovia yards of the W. J. Bettinger Lumber Co. has been sold to George T. Blamei and his son, George T. Blamer,'Jr.,. who will ,conduct the business under the iatne oJ. Blamer & Son. Mr. Blamer, Sr., .has been manager of the plant since it opened in 1922, and his son has beJn acting as assistant manager for the past eight months.

Joe Rolando, who has been connected with the Los Angeles office of the Hdrt-Wood Lumber Co., was recentlv transferred to the company's head office at San Francisco,

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

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1933 Lumber Production

Washingtori, June l.-Although identical mill reports of the United States Census Bureau show an increase of 31.3 per cent in lumber production in 1933 over 1932, it is probable that last year's total is somewhat greater than this comparison would indicate due to the starting up of new mills after the Lumber and Timber Prodticts Code went into effect in August. Production in 1932 was reported as 1Q151,232,000 feet. The Census Bureau's estimate would place lumber production in 1933 as 13,328,000,000 feet. This is based upon the reports received from 539 identical mills, each unit having cut at least 2,000,000 feet board measure in either 1932 or 1933. The reporting mills acounted for 59.8 per cent of the total production during the year 1932. The figure does not include the cut of mills which operated in 1932 but were out of businessnot merely idle-in 1933, nor for those which operated in 1933 but were not in existence in 1932.

The estimated increase in 1933 output as compared with 1932 is very close to that indicated by the reports of identical mills to the National Lumber Trade Barometer of 29 per cent, and upon which the National Lumber Manufacturers Association made estimate in January of a 1933 cut of 13,200,000,000 feet. ' This estimate was latef increased to 13,400,000,0@ feet.

In reporting production by regions, an increase is shown by the Bureau for every section of the country except the Northeastern States where production declined 10.1 per cent. The greatest increase was in the Southern Rocky Mountain States where production for the year jumped 49.5 per cent. The Central States show,ed an increase of 42.8 per cent, the Northern Pacific States 37.2 per cent, and the Southern States, 33 per cent. The Lake States followed with an incr,ease of. 16.2 per cent, the Northern Rocky Mountain Stat€s with 14.5 per cent, the North Carolina Pine States 12.8 per cent, and the Southern Pacific States 12.4 per cent.

LUMBER YARD F'OR SALE

Los Angeles and Southern California lumber yards for sale. Address Box C-4E0, Care California Lu.mber Merchant.

EXPERIENCED LUMBERMAN WANTS POSITION

Lumberman of long experience wants position as book' keeper, office or clerical work. San Francisco Bay district preferred. Address E. T. Paulson,1735 Grove Street, Oakland. Telephone AShberry 932.

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Secretaries Meet in San Francisco

Members of the Western Institute of Trade Secretaries held a meeting at the Hotel Leamington, Oakland, May 8. Distribution was the main topic of discussion.

Radio Frcquencies Assigned To Foregt Scrvice

The Interdepartmental Radio Advisory Committee at Washington, D. C., has just assigned the use of five Forest Service frequencies for forest protection purposes with permission to tie into temporary camps, emergency points or toiprovide s'ervice, where it would not be economical to build telephone lines, according to S. B. Show, U. S. Regional Forester. The use of radio for administrative business is forbidden except in cases of unusual emergency conditions.

The'frequencies assigned to the Forest Service for Cali' fornia are the same as those assigned to the national forests of southern Oregon, parts o1 Montana, Oregon and Washington. With 300 radio sets in operation in the national forests of California this form of communication will play an increasingly important part in fighting forest fircs,

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