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They Were Really Sort of Related

One of the best stories in years is one Ale:rander Woollcott tells of the sea captain.

There is a small town on the New England coast from which for generations men have gonq.down to the sea in ships. Many years ago a ship sailed from that port, and never returned. Stories of her foundering came back, and of the hardships suffered by her crew before they were final-

Red River Production

Red River lumber production through the past rvinter was largely Ponder.osa pine but with the opening of the spring logging season on March 15 an area of sugar pine was entered. The output during 1936 is estimated at l4O million feet at Westwood, to run 4O per cent sugar pine, 45 per ,cent Ponder.osa and 15 per cent in,cense cedar and Douglas fir. This production will be facilitated by the new dry kiln installation whi,ch is being rapidly pushed to completion.

The Westwood sawmill is running two 4O-hour shifts pef week operating four head rigs and two horizontal resaws. The plywood factory continues with three 40-hour shifts and a capacity of 200,000 square feet daily on a three-ply basis.

During the past year a new sawmill with a capacity of 100,000 feet daily has been built at Susanville, 25 miles east of Westwood and the Red River railroad extended to that point. Production is scheduled to start June first, the mill being operated under lease by C. H. Hess of Union, Oregon, cutting Red River logs and the output going into Red River stock in addition to that of the Westwood mill.

ly destroyed by the mad waters, only the captain surviving. And finally the captain came back home, an unsmiling, morose old man. One day he was seen staring fixedly at a young man of the town, and someone said to him:

"Captain, you remember that boy, don't you?,'

"Remember him !" said the old captain. .,I ATE HIS UNCLE!"

New Firm in San Francisco

Fraser Lumber & Supply Co. with headquarters in the Whitcomb Hotel Building, San Fran,cis.co, recently started business, spe,cializing mainly in box shook.

The principals of the new concern are Garnet W. Fraser and Z. C. Cather. Mr. Fraser was formerly ,conne,cted with the Chicago & Alton Railroad, and was later in the paint business for some years. He was active in Hoo Hoo for many years, and has a large acquaintan,ce amollg lumbermen. Mr. Cather has spent all of his business life in the box shook business.

NELSON SUBSIDIARIES TO REORGANIZE

Sunset Lumber Company, Oakland, and Northern Redwood Lumber Company, subsidiaries of the Charles Nelson Company, have filed for reorganization under section 77b of. the Bankruptcy Act.

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United States Plywood Co. Moves to New San Francisco \(/arehouse

United States Plywood Co., Inc., has moved into a new and larger warehouse at ll9 Kansas Street, San Francisco.

The new warehouse is between Alameda and 15th Streets, and just one block from Townsend Street. Langford W. Smith, branch managdr, states that it has 10,000 feet of floor space, is on spur track and gives the company splendid facilities and an excellent location for giving better and speedier service.

United States Plywood Co., In,c., carries a very large stock of Douglas Fir and California Pine plywood and wallboard, and a well rounded stock of all standard hardwood plywood, also AMORPLY metal-faced plywood.

The ,company's new telephone number is MArket 1882' Chas. J. Schmitt covers the Coast Counties, San Francisco Bay district and Peninsula territory, and the company is represented in the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys by Jas. E. (Jimmy) Atkinson.

Carl Bahr In Washington

Carl Bahr, president of the California Redwood Association, San Fran,cis'co, left May 26 f.or Washington, D. C.

WITH WEST COAST SCREEN CO.

Fred Johnsen, formerly with the California Bank, is now associated with the West Coast S'creen Co., Los Angeles, manufacturers of the well known Hollvwood Door.

Back On Job

Ben W. Klug, manager of the Los Angeles bran'ch of the Perfe,ction Oak Flooring Co., manufacturers and distributors of "Frostbrand" Oak Flooring, who has been confined to his home for the past two months as the result of an accident in which he fractured his hip, expects to be back in his office about Tune 15.

New Split Products Concern

Redwood Products, Inc., was recently incorporated, with offices in Fortuna, Humboldt County. The company will produce ties, posts, shakes and grape stakes.

Albert L. Nelson, formerly paymaster for The Pacific Lumber Company, Scotia, is president.

Angle \fl'orms are Playful

In order to prove the truth of the above assertion, I submit the following tale, which is veraciously true -or otherwise. Every morning as the clock strikes ten, a robin flies into my favorite peach tree, settles upon a low hanging limb and remarkS, "cheerio-cheerio," twice, just like that.

At the sound a fat, juicy earth worm pokes his head out of the family worm hole and wig wags a challenge, which the bird hastens to accept.

Flitting to the ground, he approaches the worm on tip toe, seizes it by the scruff of the neck and starts walking backward.

This back stepping continues until the robin is sitting on his haunches and the worm has been so elongated and attenuated that it resembles nothing so much as a fine and delicate violin string.

Suddenly the bird lets go and the fish bait snaps back to position with all the energy and velocity of an elastic band under similar conditions.

After a moment's respite the game begins again and may continue for an hour or more.

I've been an amused spectator of this performance every day for a month, but this morning something has gone wrong.

The game began upon schedule time and proceeded as usual up to the point where, the worm having been stretched to the breaking point, was ready for the rebound.

The robin let go-I saw him open his beak; but that ornery worm had secured a strangle hold on a tuft of feathers, and when the snap back came the robin was catapulted over intervening space, and jerked down the worm hole and out of sight !

I've been watching that hole for three hours now, and haven't seen hide nor feather of either bird or worm-something has certainly gone wrong.

Merriam Conner.

Brings In Log Raft

A giant log raft from the Columbia River arrived at the Benson Lumber Co., San Diego, on June 1.

STEAMERS

Americen Mill Co.

Hoguian Lumber & Shingile Co.

Hulbert MiU Co.

Villapr lferbor Lurnbe Millr

LOS ANGELES

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Jane Christenson

Annie Christenson

Edwin Christenson

Catherine G. Sudden

Eleanor Christenron

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Lumbermen Vindicated in Texag Case Loggers' Strike Settlement Delayed

A verdict of not guilty on all counts was returned June 8 in the trial in the federal district 'court of the District of Columbia of three Redwood lumbermen and four Texas men accused of conspiring to defraud the Government by allegedly changing the specifications of a PWA irrigation project in Willacy County, Texas.

After the original indictment by the Federal Grand Jury a demurrer was filed in the district court of the District of Columbia and this was sustained, but the Goverhment reopened the case and the seven men had to stand trial. The case was in the courts from April 15 to June 8.

The acquittal is a complete vindication of all the men charged. The lumbermen were I-eonard C. Hammond, president of the lfammond Lumber Company, San Francisco; Harry W. Cole, former president of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco, and James P. Barry, technical engineer of Hammond & Little River Redwood Company, San Francisco.

S. F. Club Elects Oflicers

There was an excellent attendance at the weekly luncheon of the San Francisco Lumhermen's Club, held at the Engineers' Club,206 Sansome Street, ,corner, of Pine Street, on Wednesday, June 2.

The only business transacted was the ele'ction of officers.

C. C. Stibich, Tahoe Sugar Pine Co., San Franciscb, was elected president, and Edward J. Tietjen, Sudden & Christenson, San Francisco, was elected secretary.

The president named the following attendance committee: Frank W. Trower, Trower Lumber Co.; G. N. Whiteside, Gamerston & Green; John C. McCabe; Al Kelley, Santa Fe Lumber Co.; Howard M. Gunton, MacDonald & Harrington, Floyd Elliott, Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., Chas. R. Wilson and himself.

Qut of town visitors at the luncheon included Parker Mclntyre, W. P. Mclntyre & Son, Fortuna, Calif., and Henry Meyer, Oakland Lumber Co., Oakland.

Remodeling Office

The Shattuck Lumber Co. at Ontario are remodeling their office and the interior is being finished in insulation board. Howard Shattu'ck is the owner and manager.

Settlement of the labor troubles that have tied up '26 logging camps, responsible lor 70 per cent of the Columbia Basin output, was delayed when irregularities discovered in the balloting on the i4-point working agreement, devised by representatives of the Columbia Basin Loggers' Association and the Columbia River district ,coun,cil of lumber and sawmill workers' unions, halted the ,counting of the votes, at Portland, lune 7.'

The council stated that a new referendum would be held immediately under the same rules.

The agreement provides a working agreement running until March, 1937, 7tl per cent higher wages, uniform hours, no Saturday or Sunday work, and a joint hiring hall supervised by State Labor Commissioner C. H. Gram. The agreement also provides for no strikes or lockouts during the period.

Forty-two local unions, with a membership of between 10,000 and 12.000 are involved.

JOHN W. THOMAS

John W. Thomas, father of J. A. Thomas, Southern California manag'er for the Donovan Lumber Co., died at Vallejo, Calif., on May 17. He had been in poor health for several years and was 84 years of age. Funeral services were held on May 19.

Mr. Thomas was ,connected with the Pacifi,c Gas & Electric Co. for thirty-three years, being placed on their retired list about ten years ago. In addition to his son, J. A. Thomas of Los Angeles, he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Ella David of Vallejo.

Lumbermen Make Bridge Tower Ascent

Al Nolan, Western sales manager of The Pacific Lumber Company, San Fran,cisco; Eddie Peggs, San Francisco wholesale lumbermen, and Edd Middleton of Anderson & Middleton Lumber nCompany, Aberdeen, Wash., recently had the interesting experience of being taken to the top of the San Francisco tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, which is 747 f.eet above the water. They enjoyed the privilege and came away with a new idea of the magnitude of the structure.