New San Francisco Wholesale Firm To Promote Greater Use of \(/ooden Boxes

L. J. Carr, well known in the California Pine industry, recently organized L. J. Carr & Co., with offices at 815 Crocker Building, San Francisco, to 'carry on a wholesale lumber business.

The company is handling all sales for the Sacramento Box & Lumber Co., Ponderosa and Sugar Pine Manufacturers, whose mill is at Kyburz, Calif., and is doing a wholesale business in Ponderosa and Sugar Pine, Incense Cedar, Redwood and Port Orford Cedar. In addition the company is doing an export business in Ponderosa and Sugar Pine , through Ziel & Co., importers and exporters, San F'rancisco.

W. D. Dunning, 438 Chamber of Commerce Building, Los Angeles, is Southern California representative.

Mr. Carr started his career in the lumber business with Exchange Sawmill Sales Co., Chi'cago, in 1920, and was sent West by them in 1927 to the Forest Lumber Co., Pine Ridge, Ore., where he spent a year in the mill to gain experience in the manufacturing end of the business. He started selling for Forest Lumber Co. on the Pacific Coast in March, 1928, remaining with them until the mill closed down in May, 1932. In 1932 and 1933 he sold lumber on commission for Winchester Bay Lumber Co. and several other concerns, making his headquarters in Oakland.

In March, 7934, he opened offices in San Francisco for Buzard-Burkhart Pine Co. and remained in charge of their sales until April 30 of this year, having resigned effective May 1 to go into business for himself.

An intensive campaign to promote greater use of wooden boxes is now under way in the pine produ,cing regions of the West. The organization work is under the dire,ction of H. L. Watkins, who assistpd in organizing a successful campaign among employees of the Cascade Lumber Company at Yakima, Wash., last June, and recently has conducted a similar effort in the Klamath Basin of Oregon.

The object of the work is to stimulate interest among employees of the lumber industry and other citizens in western lumber producing centers to demand that commodities shipped into the territory be pa,cked in wooden containers. Mr. Watkins will work in the Inland Empire this spring, after which he will work among employees in lumber mills in California and other parts of the western pine territorv.

Vacation In Southland

D. Normen Cords of San Francisco, representative for the Chas. R. M,cCormick Lumber Co. in the Sacramento Valley and Coast Counties, and Mrs. Cords, were vacationing in Southern California around the first of the month. After a few days' stay at Yosemite, they motored to Los Angeles, where they spent several days visiting points of interest in the Southland. IVIr. Cords also looked over lumber operations at the Los Angeles and San Diego harbors.