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REED TO IIA}TDLE IIANITY ESTATE

John I-r. Reed, for many years private secretary for the late John R. Hanify, has been appointed administrator of Mr. Hanify's estate. Mr. Hanify, prominent lumber and shipping man, met a tragic death in San Francisco bay a few weeks ago by drowning. E. A. Christensen of Sudden & Christensen was drowned in the same accid.ent, when a small boat in which they were fishing was caught in a severe storm and upset. The affairs of the John R. Hanify Co. are to be continued with few changes, it is understood.

WONDERFUL DEMONSTRATION OT I'rRE RESISTING QUALTIIES OF REDWOOD

Right in the good city of San Francisco by the sea, a wonderful demonstration-one of the most convincing possible for it made even the Redwood boosters gasp-was recently made of the fire resisting qualities of Redwood.

The prreat lumber vard of the Vanarsdale-Harris l-.,umber Uo., ud;oitr" the planing mill of The California Planing Mill Company. That mill recently cought fire and was totally destroyed, flat to the ground. Piled jamb against the end of the planing mill that burned. was a great lot of Redwood, mostly 6x6 stuff. The mill burned away from the ends of this Redwood pile, with very }ittle damage. The ends of the pile of 6x6's was only charred a bare one-eighth of an inch in thickness.

Direct contact with the flames and intense heat had failed utterly to ignite the pile.

A. TEUA, H. IrT|LLY OPENTNG YARD AT VISALIA

-' Arthur If. Kelly, for many years manager of the yard 9f tne Tulare County Lumber Co., at Visalia, Cal., has tesigned his position with that concern and is opening a new yard of his own at that point.

No suceessor to Mr. Kelly has yet been announced by his former employers.

IIAIVIER,IN BUSINESS FOR, HIMSELF

A. C. I{amer, until recently a member of the firm of Show & Hamer, I-ros Angeles wholesalers, has started ln business for himself, with temporary offices in the Pacific Mutual building, Los Angeles. He will handle a fuil line of fir and redwood lumber, and shingles. A. T. Show will continue the business of the old. company in the Central building.

BROWNING VISITS SIIINCLE I/IIA,KERS

II. A. Browning, Los Angeles wholesaler, has just returned. from a trip to Portland, Seattle, Grays llarbor and other lumber-producing points in the Northwest. He made the trip by automobile and reports the roads in good shape aII the way with the exception of a few miles in Northern California where construction work is in progress. The shingle market, he says, was fairly firm when he was in Seattle, but gave indications of further fluctuations. Manufacturers and dealers are meeting heavy demands for shingIes.

New Yard At Stockton

J. J. Mclntyre of San Francisco has opened a new yard. at the corner of Poplar and Union streets in Stockton. A new and attractive office has been erected. A spur track connects with the Western Pacific railroad. J. J. Mclntyre is the manager.

J. M. TEES, TNC., SUCEEDS LAUDEN & TEES AT SAN FRANCISCO

J. M. Tees, fne., has succeeded the firm of Lauden & Tees, 112 Market Street, San Francisco, in the u'holesale lumber business. M. K. Lauden has retired from business on account of ill health, so Mr. Tees incorporated und.er his own name and is contimring and enlarging the business.

He has the agency in California for Geo. T. Mickle Lumber Co., of Portland., Oregon, spccializing in two-by-fours, but selling everything in Douglas Fir, rail delivery. He also has the agency for The I. Stephenson Co., Wells, Mich., big producers of Maple flooring, and for the Arkansas Oak Flooring Company, of Pine Bluff,.Ark., producers of high grade oak flooring.

HUTCIIINSON PLItIgf AT OROVILI,E NOW BUISNI.NG; J. S. HICKOK SALES ilIrA'NAGEB

Successful operation has characterized the plant of the Hutchinson I,umber Company at Oroville since the opening ceremonies ineidental with the completion of the big mill late in May.

This splendid new property is one of the largest and most modern pine mills in the state. Much of the work, both logging and manufacturing, is being done with electric polver. Steam is employed only for carriage feeds, Iog turners, lift skicls and dry kilns.

A monorail system is used throughout. The lumber is moved from the sorting tables to the yard by this method, and again picked up and carried by monolail when it is to be loaded onto the cars.

The 'woods are equipped with electric logging engines. Both yarders and loaders operate under electrie polver.

The eompany owns a large tract of virgin tiniber, easily accessible by logging railroad from the mill. Most of the timber consists of California sugar pine.

Every late facility has been installed in the mill, which is housed in buildings having an over-all length of 305 feet and a width of 109 feet. It contains one 8-foot and two 9-foot band mills.

The sorting shed is 540 feet long and provid.es for sorting on both sides of the chain. The monorail carries the green lumber from the sorting shed to the storage yard. The lumber is placed on stieks and correetly pilecl before it is moved from the shed. The monorail merely drops it in place in the yard. No piling need be done in the open weather.

Much attention has been given to the box factory, which is 197 feet long and 80 feet wide. It will have a capacity of 80,000 board feet a day. The dry shed will be of corresponding proportions and will provide for a heavy volume of stock.

The new enterprise was conceived and developed by officials of the Hutchinson l-lumber Company of Huntington, W. Va., and R. L. Hutchinson, the president, gave much of his personal attention to the work. He was the principal ffgure at the eelebration attending the opening.

J. S. Ilickok, formerly of Asheville, N. C., and for many lrears connected with the eastern sales offiees of the llutehinson I-rumber Company, will be the sales manager. He will maintain his office at Oroville.

AR,KAIISAS IVIAN ON VISIT

F. W. Van Houten, formerly head of the Van Houten Lumber Company at Forest City, Ark., has been in Southern California for the last few weeks and may enter into business in that part of the state.