The California Lumber Merchant - July 1934

\THOLESALE LUMBER

Specializing in Perrglas Fir - Hemlock Spruce Philippine Mahogany Port fford Cedar Lath and Shingles

LAWRENCE.PHILIPS TUMBER CO.

714 WBST TENTFT ST., LOS ANGELES Phone PRospect O229

San Francisco Oftce 206 Fife Building EXbroo& 3393

Agentr for Lawrence-Philips Steamship Co.

S. S. "Point Loma"

S. S. "Quhwult"

Memba of Cotifoi*ia Wholesale Lumber Assochtin

For Lumberrnen Who Want to Improue their Competitiae Position, and ta;ke a Larger Volurne of Aaailuble Business at Good Profi,t Margins

TOOTHED-RING CONNECTOR

NEW PURPOSES.

Evety day in California

and across the entire United Statec TECO Timbet Joint Connectors are opening wide, and hitheto unexplored fields of potential profit for progressive, alett lumbermen.

By incrtasing as much as 1(X) petcent the structutal eficiency of timber framing and utilizing less,matedal more efr.ectively, TECO connectors are producing strorger, lighter buildings at substantially reduced cost.

Lumber may now be uscd in manY types of structures not Previously consideted by lumbermen and its competitive position for heavy structural purpooes is being elevated to a new importance.

Despite their tremendously important contribution to structural engineering TECO connectors are simple, inexpensive and eacy to install. They set up a iimplified and improved system for designing timber structures. As opposed to the troublesome centralization of stresses in ordinary bolt and .plate constiuction, TECO connector-built joints decentralize and spread loads evenly over the entire cross section area of joined members, which permits the use in design of the full allowable working load of timbers and eliminates oversizing and overdesigning to obtain safe bearing areas around bolts.

The traditional assembly of heavy and expensive labor-consuming iron and steel

straps, angl6, plates, rods, hangers, etc., need no longer be associated with timber framing.

TECO connectors are owned, manufactured and sold everywhere by the Timber Engineering Company, 1737 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, D. C., a subsidiaty of American Forest Products Industries, Inc.

Since design factors for TECO construction differ from commonly known practice for ordinary bolt connected structures, the Timber Engineering Company maintains a competent stalf of engineets and wood technolqgisg to serve and assist lumbermen, architerts, and engineers in the preparation of plans calling for TECO connectors. All portions of working drawings calling for the use of connectors are checked by the Timber Engineering Company without charge before orders ane accepted.

Wood trusses constructed with toothed'ringr for providing large clear area in store building erected for F. V. \ffoolworth & Company, San Mateo, California.

NEW TECO JOrNT-CONNECTOR DESTGN SYSTEM VASTLY IMPROVES EXISTING METHODS OF TIMBER VTTLTZATION, SAVES TIME, MATERIAL, AND SO STRENGTHENS TIMBER. FRAMING AS TO MAKE IT SUITABLE FOR MANY

A typical lap joint assembfy of rplit ring connectors. All grooveg into which connectors 6t in the face of adjoining timbers are pre-cuf. Boltc do not function in a load-carrying capacity, but serve primarily to hold timbers and connectors in poeition.

M. ADAMS Clrmletlon Mua3cr

A. C. MERRYMAN Advcrtlrh; Mrn Sc

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LOS ANGELES, CAL., JULY l, lg34

How Lumber Looks

The California lumber situation shows no change, and the cargo movement of lumber ic still tied up by the longshoremen's strike. President Rooseveltts National Longshorements Board, selected for the purpose of settling the PaJific Coaot stdkg ie in session at San Francisco at this writing and reports indicate that an early settlement of dre strike is looked for. The lumbet trade f.eels very optimictic over the passage of the National Housing Act which is aimed to revive the btrilding industry.

Unsold stocks on the public docks.at Los Angeles Flarbor totaled 72lrO0O feet on June 25. Owing to strike conditione, no report on the cargo lumber

is available.

The California Redwood Association reported production for 17 mills for ttre week as 711761000 feet, shipments 7r42OrOO0 f,eett and new business 6r3E4rOO0 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week werc 34r3VOt000 feet.

The Vestern Pine Aesociation for the same week reported

new buciness fiot 127 mills at tE,47rrffiO feet, ehipmentc 43A97r 000 feet, and producion 55r132,0fi) feet.

New business reported by 599 mills to t{re West Coast Lum! bermen's Association for the week ended June 16 was 4Trlotr7O4 f.eet, production 5Or54Or227 feet, and shipments 4tr0tE923 feet. Sales were under production by 7.1 per cent, and shipments were under the cut by 19 per cent. Ordere booked by this gtoup of mille for the week were under the preceding wee& by about 10,(XX),(X)0 feet.

The unfilled order file at theEe mills stood at 481910,064 feet, an increase of approximately 4r(XX)r000 feet over the week before.

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491 hardwood mills gave new business for the week ended June 16 as l9r5O8rOOO feet, ot 34 p* cent below ptoductiotrn and shipments were 22J.45.OOO feet, or 25 pet cent below production. Production was 29r756rofi) feet.

President Signs Housing Bill

The National Housing Act to provide 93,200,000,000 for the construction and repair of homes passed during the closing session of Congress, was signed by President Roosevelt on June 28. The act is designed to revive home building and relieve unemployment.

Simultaneously, a reduction of approximately 10 per cent in the cost of lumber and building materials was announced by the National Retail Lumber Dealers' Association as an aid to the administration's housing program.

Spencer D. Baldwin, president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers' Association. in a statement said: "The executives of the Association expect an immediate and sensational surge of building as soon as the machinery of administering the housing act gets in operation."

Several other major moves already have been made to aid home builders. The interstate commerce commission has been given power to reduce rates on shipments of building materials.

The President prepared to set up immediately the machinery to put the housing program into operation. Officials stated that the new act can be put into operation as soon as private agencies are ready.

The leading provisions of the act are:

A federal housing administrator to be appointed by the President.

A $200,000,000 fund under his jurisdiction to insure 20 per cent of losses by private lending institutions in advancing funds for home repairs and improvements.

A mutual mortgage insurance fund, also under the ad. ministrator, to insure first mortgages on homes and second mortgages on low cost housing projects. It will apply to mortgages up to $16,000 amortized over a N-year period and representing not more than 80 per cent of the valuation of new homes or 6O per cent of old ones.

Authority for the creation under the administrator of $5.000,000 national mortgage associations by private individuals to buy first mortgages in a manner similar to the way the fed'eral reserve system discounts commercial paper.

A savings and loan insurance corporation with a capital stock of $100,000,000 to insure accounts up to $5,000 in savings and loan associations comparable to the insurance of bank accounts.

Additional borrowing power for the Home Owners' Loan Corporation of $1,000,000,000, making $3,000,000,000 in all, with fund for repair loans on refinanced homes increased from $200,000,000 to $300,000,000.

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Twelve Years Aso Today

By Jack Dionne

Twelve years ago today the first number of The California Lumber Merchant rolled off the press.

There's a swell chance to pull that grand old bromide about how much water has run under bridges since that eventful date.

But in THIS case it would be both true and provable. Certainly twelve of the most eventful years in California history have been the twelve years during which this journal has striven for its ideals-and fo,r existence. For arnong those years were numbered the biggest boom time this territory has ever known-and the deepest depression. Just between us girls, we liked the former the better.

Ours was an auspicious start. The first month we were in business we printed 37 pages of paid advertising. To show you how things go, the LAST month of our twelve years in buslness we printed just 17 pages of paid advertising. Looks kind of bad, doesn't it? But then, think of dl the months in between those two when we printed as high as 150 pages of paid advertising. THOSE are the months to think about. Will they return, do you think?

You'll have to credit me with catching the boom just right. It was a first class guess. The big upward swing that made California the center of building attraction the world over, got started just about the time we got the Merchant going good, and we had a lot of fun for a while. The California folks were mighty good to me. We gave them a live, interesting journal right from the start, and right from the start they gave us generous patronage and generous friendship.

What a thrillingly live thing the lumber industry was those first few years of our history. The building boom was on. Everyone in the game was making money. Everyone talked, and acted, in big figures. We used to be able to sell advertising over the telephone-and did. There were lumber meetlngs everywhere, and always a crowd out. Hoo-Hoo was riding the crest of the wave then. There were several clubs that met every week, others semimonthly, others monthly, all of them well attended and full of pep. The old Hoo-Hoo Club in Los Angeles met every week with big attendance, fine programs, and lots of frolic and fun. Such men as Dave Woodhead and Curtis Williams acted as President, and gave the movement wonderful leadership.

Good times may come-WILL come ef s6u1ss-fo this grand lumber country again, but I'm afraid those good old Hoo-Hoo days with those grand old Hoo.Hoo enthusiasts, are gone for good. In San Diego they had a wonderful Hoo-Hoo Club, with weekly meetings, and plenty of life

and interest. I rise here to remark that the Coricatenations they pulled off in those days at San Diego far surpassed in dignity and cleverness anything that Hoo-Hoo has ever known. Every member of the team lmew his ritual by heart, and when his turn came he gave it in delightful fashion. There was no horse play. It was a really beautiful ceremony.

In San Francisco they met twice a month, and had wonderful meetings. So did they in Oakland. Many of the strongest hearts that ever beat for Hoo-I{oo, and many of the best men that ever worked for the preservation of the Great Black Cat, were in the Bay District of California. I really marvel that such spirit did not keep the thing alive and booming.

The first advertising order f got for The California Lumber Merchant was frorn Gus Russell, of San Francisco. In characteristic fashion he told me I was a damn fool to start a lumber journal in California, that my merchandising talk was all bull, etc., etc., and then he gave me the first real advertising order he ever gave anyon+and it has been running ever since. The first subscription I got was from R. C. Merryrnan, then of Exeter, California, who was called to his reward in the last couple of years. We still have a picture of that first two dollar sub check.

When the first number of The California Lumber Merchant was issued, California was well organized in the way of associations. Jack Ferger was President of the San Joaquin Valley Lumbermen's Club, J. G. Martin was Treasurer, and Frank Minard was Secretary. W. C. Ball was President of the Douglas Fir Club, of San Francisco, with Frank Paramino, Secretary. The Southern Retail Lumber Dealers Association was then presided over by W. T. Davies, of Pasadena, and the veteran F. L. Morgan was Secretary. The Central California Lumber Dealers Club was headed by B. R. Duvall, of Ripon, with H. S. Fuller, of Lodi, Secretary. C. W. Pinkerton was President of the Orange County Lumbermen's Club. Henry Patten was President of the Lumbermen's Exchange, of Los Angeles. And there were others I have forgotten.

It used to be a real sight to watch them unload lumber in Los Angeles harbor in those days; it used to read like a fairy tale to go over the building permits in all parts of California.

Checking over the advertisers in the early days of The Merchant is rather depressing. The number who were here, and are gone, is surprising. More than one.half the advertisers in the first month's papers, no longer exist. By

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ALWAYSSUDDEN SENVICE

lVhether it is Pine, Ffo, or Red Cedar Products of any sort, we offer you Santa Fe Service of the most prompt and personal character. Our standards of quality have been known to the Cali' fornia trade for a generation.

ECLIPSE MILL COMPANY

EVERETT, WASH

Manufac'turers of Soft Old Growth Yellow Fir

SAIITA FE LUIUIBER G0.

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Erclurivc Rcprcrcrtrtivcr in Norihora Crlifor:ail for Cro-Dipt Company, Inc., lforth Tonawande, N. Y.

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SAN FRANCIIICO

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16 Crlifonia St.

PINE DEPARTMENT

F. S. PALMER, Msr. California Poaderora Pinc

C,alifdnh Sugar Pine

WILLIAM SMITH ON EUROPEAN TRIP

William Smith, president, Smith Lumber Co., San Francisco, left for New York June 24, and will sail on the Leviathan July 1 to visit England and several European countries. Mr. Smith is accompanied by his daughter, Miss Valencia Smith.

GUY SMITH BACK FROM EAST

Guy E. Smith, general sales manager, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, arrived in San Francisco June 18 from an extended Eastern trip. Mr. Smith visited Gulf Coast and Atlantic Coast states, and also made a trip to Puerto Rico. He returned by way of Chicago and Washington. On June T he left to visit the company's mills and offices in the Northwest.

LOS ANGELES

ROBT. FORGIE

311 Fmancid Center Bldg.

7(M So. Spring St - TRinity 9821

VISIT SCHAFER MILL

George Melville, of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Company's Los Angeles office, recently made a trip by automobile to the company's mill at Montesano, Wash. He was accompanied on the trip by Floyd Elliott, manager of the San Francisco office.

GEORGE CONE AT LCA MEETING

George B. Cone, sales manager, Lumber Division, Fruit Growers Supply Co., San Francisco, attended the annual meeting of the Lumber Code Authority held at Chicago, June 11, and reconvened at Washington, D. C., June 15. Following the meeting Mr. Cone will go on a business trip through- the Eastern states, and rvill return to San Francisco about July 15.

V.sabond Editorials

By Jack Dionne

A famous advertising authority now declares that one of the troubles with the advertising business is that advertising people do not themselves read advertising. Maybe they are like the Irishman who came along the road pulling a wheelbarrow load behind him. A friend said to him, "Pat, you know better than that. You know it's easier to push a wheelbarrow than it is to pull it." And Pat said, "I know, but I get so tired of looking at the damn thing."

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I'll wager that the guys that write the cigarette and coffee advertising, do not read advertising. Not their own, at any rate. If they did they wouldn't have the heart to go on with it.

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Those who preach birth control are evidently not readers of history. Frequently the world has seen a mother bring forth a series of barnyard mongrels; and then an eagle. Had birth control been practiced through the ages many of the mighty minds that have swept across the human horizon like flaming meteors-would never have been born.

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Take Benjamin Franklin, for instance. To me he was the most useful man in all the history of this world; the wisest, most practical human who ever wore the crown of American citizenship, and the only really great diplomat America has ever produced. As the truthful perspective of history more and more accurately measures the altitude of men now gone, the size of Benjamin Franklin looms ever larger. And Ben was the fifteenth in a family of seventeen children. Let us thank God that birth control was unknown in his day.

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Coleridge, the great poet, was, if f recall correctly, the last of thirteen children to be born to his mother. None of the first twelve amounted to anything. She bore twelve ordinary brats while preparing to bring forth a genius. History is thronged with such significant examples. Mothers have often given birth to a yard filled with pygmies; and then produced a giant. Of course, if the birth controllers could legislate to compel the mother who is to produce one of the world's great to bring him forth FIRST it would all be very fine. But it would seem rather difficult. And, since no man knoweth when or where that child shall be born whose mind will illumine this dull world, legislation or education along lines of birth control would only people the world with pygmies. God sends

great men and great women. But He does it at His own time and in His own way. And so far in this world's history those who have blazoned their nannes on time's firmament have frequently been born to mothers who have already produced a brood marked only by mediocrity. But we could ill spare these great folk of the past; ill afrord to lose a single one whom the future may be prornising us.

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I have been declaring most emphatically in these columns that one of the saddest things that could happen to this country would be the elimination or even the modification of stout, efficient competition, that keeps men and industries up on their toes, thinking, striving, hustling to out-do the other fellow. With this great urge we progress; without it we die. ***

The other day I made an address to a group of publishers, using tlrat thought as my topic. And I ilustrated it by telling them how a forest of Pine trees grows, and how that growth illustrates more perfectly than anything else I know of the fact that there is no socialism in Mother Nature, and that she teaches her children the immutable law of competition and its beneficial results. ,1.**

I told them of watching young Pine forests grow, the little trees planted closely together. And how immediately there begins. a quiet but mighty competition between those little trees to grow UPWARD toward the sunlight and the moisture in the upper air; those two priceless factors which give to the tree life and strength. And every little tree in that forest strives and stretches and fights its instinctive way upward, and ever upward. And so by this competition and this striving it grows straight and tall. The tree-tops merge; there is shade below; and gradually the lower limbs fall from the trunks of the young trees, the bark covers over the scars, and the surface of the trunk becomes smooth and straight, as the trunk itself is straight.

And to show what the lack of this competition and this upward striving does, f pictured a lone tree planted a hundred feet from the edge of this young forest, out where it gets the sun and the available moisture without effort. What happens to that tree? An amazing thing. It is invariably stunted in its development. Because it does not strive and strain upward, the trunk is squat, and much shorter than in the forest trees. And because there is no competition and therefore no shade to destroy them, the

lirnbs of the lower trunk do not fall off, but rather become stout, and gnarly, as does the trunk of the tree itself. The wood is gnarly, and knotty in this tree that has grown non-competitively. It has no value, other than for firewood. The tree is squat, wide, ugly, and valueless. While a hundred feet away stand its sister trees, tall, straight, strong-fibred, clean-trunked, valuable in a hundred ways for man and his uses.

I can't remember talki; ; ;, subject that interested my listeners so much. One of my friends told me he went home that night and told his mother-in-law, who is a militant socialist, the story of how Pine trees. grow, and how Mother Nature demonstrates in their growth that there is no socialism in nature, and that competition, even in inanimate things, makes for strength, and beauty, and quality. Perhaps YOU can use this story of trees. It's a fine lesson-subject.

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If I were asked what one thing more than any other is obstructing the return roadway to'prosperity in this country, I would unhesitatingly reply-TAX-FREE SECURITIES. Damn tax-free securities, say Mhe man who first thought of such a thing in a country like this ought to be sought out, arrested, and locked up in an asylum for life.

How i4 the name of all that's good and holy are you ever goin$ to get money-owners to invest in business things-with all the hazards and the difEculties that beset business today-when their Government offers them securities that are free from taxation, pay interest, and are exactly as sound as the Government itself ? ***

On one hand we work for a return of prosperity; and on the other hand we pile obstructions in the way of any such return. Prosperity will return when there is sufficient confidence in this country to put our money-and thereby our people-to work in honorable and useful employment. Every time a man takes a thousand dollars and buys these dad-blamed securities-he is prolonging this depression. And every time he turns around and invests that money in active business channels-he is picking at the jam that blocks business recovery.

ff we haven't learned the eternal damnation that comes to a nation in time of economic depression by the wholesale issuance and sale of tax-free securities, and the recovery obstructiveness of such procedure, then we ought to have our skulls trephined to give our brains room to grovr. Every time you see a m4n (and I've seen an army of theln myself) closing out business investments and selling busi-

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ness paper and investing the money in tax-free securities, you see a man doing everything in his pourer to keep this nation in the depths. Nothing else he could possibly do would work more definitely in that direction. And, naturally, his good kind Uncle Sammie who sells them to him, is an equal-sharing partner in the operation.

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Funny how differently well-meaning men can think. There was one bill before the recent Congress that was finally substituted out of business. It had the administration indorsement. Yet personally I would far rather have the dark days of the first week in March, 1933, return again, than have such a law on our statute books. Recov. ery is to be desired, but not at the price of liberty.

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It has been said that "The world was discovered in 1492, but MAN was not discovered until 1776." Men who think straight must gird their loins these days to provide that that great discovery be not lost once more.

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A famous Texan used to say that "It will take all the he-men and the she-women to beat the she-men and the he-women in times like these." Never was straight-thinking, fair-speaking, and courageous acting more essential to the wel,fare of rnan than right at this present moment when strange doctrines are emerging from their dark caverns and stalking in the sunlight.

Some of the great ,ru"UJ ", an" hour are: co,urage to face facts; character to stand by sound principles; a keener sense of personal responsibility in our human relationships; and a militant personal honor in our dealings. t**

There are plenty of people in this country (and their ranks are not entirely recruited from the ignorant and superstitious by ny means) who think the early summer drouth that has wiped out foodstuffs and live stock in frightening fashion and still threatens throughout this land, is Providential payment for the all-time foolishness practiced by this nation last year when it destroyed huge quantities of our most useful products, in order to help the market price. Most of those who so declare are simply thinking people who believe that the Law of Compensation is a true and unavoidable law that you invoke whenever you transgress the laws of nature too violently.

W. G. Sibley, prolific editorial writer, keeps airing some

of the same thoughts that have frequently appeared in these columns. He said the other day: "Indebtedness is always danger. Waste is always something that carries a heavy penalty, either for a man or a nation of men. No flowery picture of bringing happiness to a man or a nation of men by extravagance or waste, can be true. Those who believe it true are under a great delusion. Working, earning, and saving are the only true ways of bettering the prospects of an individual or a nation. That is what all human history teaches us." ***

It is interesting to note that British South Africa is today the most prosperous business district on earth. Gold and wheat are the two chief anslvers. Business of all sorts is enjoying the greatest boom in all the history of that country, and 1934 bids fair to surpass even 1929, which up to no\ r has been the high spot.

Tacoma Club to Have Exhibit

Tacoma Lumbermen's Club will have an exhibit at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago this year, ,in the State of Washington space. In the exhibit will be a timber or cant 30 inches by 36 inches, 28 ieet in length. The cant was sawn from one side (outside of heart) of a Douglas Fir log.

The piece contains approximately 2,800 feet of lumber, sufficient to construct a small house. The 32-foot log from which the piece was sawn had a top diam,eter of 84 inches, a butt diameter of 92 inches, and contained over 10,000 feet of lumber.

The tree grew in Pierce County, Washington, and was 580 years old, and 300 feet high. Three logs of 32 feet in length, and three forty-foot logs were taken from it. The top diameter of the smallest log was 26 inches inside the bark. A single tree of this size produces approximately 37,500 feet of lumber. The tree was logged and sawn by St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co., Tacoma, whose exclusive representative in California is Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.

Edward E. Gillon

Edward E. Gillon, retail lumber dealer, died in San Francisco on Saturday, June 16. Mr. Gillon operated a retail lumber and hardware business for many years in the Richmond District, San Francisco.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Sara M. Gillon, and a daughter, Mrs. Sara G. Gurley.

Long-Bell Petitions to Reorganize Hold Annual Meeting Under New Federal Law

The Long-Bell Lumber Company, on June 9, applied to the Federal Court to be brought under the provisions of the corporate reorganization law which was signed by President Roosevelt on Junb 7. The petition was signed by M. B. Nelson as president of The Long-Bell Lumber Company. This will bring to the forefront a reorganization plan long shaping.

Judge Merrill E. Otis sanctioned the company's petition and set July 3 as the date for a Federal Court hearirg. In the interval Judge Otis specifically authorized the lumber company to carry on under its own management but with instructions to close its books as of June 10 and to open new books as of June 11. He allowed forty days for a complete statement of assets as of June 10.

The purpose of the new law is to reduce expense and delay in corporate reorganization and to permit distressed and debtor corporations, and their creditors, to reach amicable readjustments. The law permits a debtor corporation to be the finallj' reorganized corporation and makes it possible for the debtor to remain in charge of property operations.

The Long-Bell Corporation escaped receivership through the stalwart battle put up try the late R. A. Long to keep his company intact as a functioning corporation. The new reorganization law formed the backbone of the plans he turned over to his associates.

The annual meeting of the Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers' Import Assn., Inc., was held on June 11 and 12 in the offices of the corporation at Los Angeles. Officers elected for the ensuing year were W. G. Scrim, Los Angeles, president; M. S. Chapin, Providence, R. I., vicepresident; F. J. Dunbar, San Francisco, secretary-treasurer, and G. P. Purchase, Los Angeles, executive secre' tary.

Roy Barto, Los Angeles; J. Raymond Peck, Philadelphia, and Daniel R. Forbes, members of the executive committee, were re-elected. Directors elected for the coming year were W. G. Scrim, F. J. Dunbar, M. S. Chapin, Roy Barto, J. Raymond Peck and Daniel R. Forbes.

VISITS KLAMATH FALLS

Fred S. Palmer, manager of the Pine department of the Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, recently spent a few days in Klamath Falls, Ore., where he visited the sawmill of the Kesterson Lumber Corporation, for which the Santa Fe Lumber Co. is exclusive sales representative.

MEL SALOMON SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA VISITOR

Mel Salomon, sales manager of the Smith Lumber Company, San Francisco, accompanied by Mrs. Salomon and their two sons. were recent Southern California visitors where they spent a week visiting the various points of interest.

OUTSTANDING SERVICE

Through the courtesy of Mr. F. A. Steiger, County Surveyor of Solano County, California, this old structure was dfawn to our attention. For 69 years the Redwood in the substructrre of this bridge has defied the elements. Today the material is sound and serviceable.

Of special interectr and indicating the age of the bridge, ic the.ncthod of mortise and tenon framing. Time has failed to eradicate the timber framer's mibe marko by which he made his cutst

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the time the paper was two years old it had a tremendous volume of business from wholesaiers, the great majority of whom are not only out of business but long since forgotten. We had half pages, and pages, and two-page spreads from people and firms who have long since gone-and won't come back.

Of the advertisers who had display advertising in the first issue of the paper twelve years ago, the following are still with us regularly:

Pioneer Paper Company.

Santa Fe Lumber Company.

Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.

W. E. Cooper Lumber Company.

Union Lumber Company.

Thanks, you veterans and good friends. Without you this journal would long since have gone the way of all flesh. Your helpfulness will never be forgotten. Ingratitude is not one of our sins.

Two other concerns just missed a perfect score with us. W. R. Chamberlin & Company, and The Red River Lumber Co. Chamberlin started their ad the second issue, July 15th, and Red River the third issue, August 1st. Both have been with us ever since.

And what of the future of this great American fireside journal ? The question naturally arises. I think qf it frequently, myself. Frankly, I am rather proud of the sort of journal we have continued to produce during the past

four or five years. No publication ever had tougher sailing, so far as I have seen. But we have stuck to our oars. We have lowered our standards not the slightest. Yet, we have lost money continually for years. Our editorials have been rnore freely quoted even than during the boom times. We have served the lumber industry of this territory just as we did when the profits were rolling in. And in consequence we have a well-oiled, efficient, workable machine ,that is ready to do some real business when real business comes back to this world again.

I am notoriously an optimist, and I was nev€r more hopeful than I am today. I know that we are four years nearer to good times than we were four years ago; I know that the building industry is going to have a tremendous high tide of prosperity again one of these.days; I know that California is going to boom once again, even higher than it boomed before; and I hope to be around here, and to see the rest of my good friends around, to take advantage of the harvest, when it comes.

In the meantirne, if we can do anything for you-call us up. Same old number; same old stand. If it should ever occur to you that The California Lumber Merchant has served a true purpose and is a thing of real value to the lumber industry of this territory; and that furthermore, if it is to continue indefinitely it must have income; and you are in position to slip us a little business to help meet the printing bill and the modest payroll; just give the long yell and we'll come a-running and get it.

Douglas Fir Plywood Ass'n A. J. Glassow Appointed Elect Officers Assistant Manager

The annual election of officers of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association was held at Tacoma, Wash., on May 2. New officers of the association, which is composed of seventeen member mills, will be: President, Henry McCleary, Henry McCleary Timber Co.; Vice-President, Bruce Clark, Elliott Bay Mill Co., Seattle; Treasurer, Philip Garland, Oregon-Washington Plywood Co., Tacoma; Secretary, E. J. Galloway, Wheeler Osgood Sales Corp., Tacoma; Asst. Secretary, Harrison Clark, Tacoma.

Members of the executive committee will be: Henry McCleary, Bruce Clark, Philip Garland, E. J. Galloway, who are officers of the association, and J. A. Malarkey, M & M Plywood Corp., Portland, Oregon; J. R. Robinson, Robinson Mfg. Co.. Everett; E. E. Westman, Washington Veneer Co., Olympia; A. R. Wuest, Harbor Plywood Corp., Hoquiam; M. Sekstrom, Olympia Veneer Co., Olympia.

Announcement is made of the appointment of A. J. Glassow as assistant manager of Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Co., Bend, Ore. The appointment fills the position made vacant by the death of H. E. Allen five years ago. It involves no other change in the Brooks-Scanlon organizationMr. Glassow is a native of Wisconsin, and has been in the lumber business all his life. In l9L2 he took a position with Wausau Southern Lumber Co. at Laurel, Miss., and remained with them as manager until recently, when they rvent out of business.

Mr. Glassow is accompanied west by his wife and young son,

HAS NE\^I TELEPHONE NUMBER

Loop Lumber Company, San Francisco, has a new telephone number-EXbrook €31.

Cut in Lumber Production Ordered bv Code Authority

Washington, June 20.-Lumber production for the third quarter ot 1934 was fixed today by the Lumber Code Authority at a total of 3,845,000,000 feet, B.M., which is a reduction of 15.5% from the established production for the current quarter. Of the total amount 3,170,000,000 feet is for softwoods and 675,000,000 feet for hardwoods, the reduction in the former being 13.2/o and in the latter an average of 25/o as compared with the current quarter amount. The softwood divisions were assigned a reduction of. IO/o except the three largest, namely, West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Southern Pine, and Western Pine, which took an average reduction of. about t4/o. The allocation of quotas in 'millions of feet is as follows:

*Salvaging operation following fire of last August.

The log quota for the West Coast Logging and Lumber Division is fixed for all purposes at 1,119,000,000 feet.

The severe curtailment of production for the next quarter is partly due to the fact that production totals have been consistently kept above the probabilities of consumption since the Lumber Code became effective, last August. on the theory that every reasonable effort should be made to encourage production, employment and sales. The result is, it was pointed out, that there has been some increase in inventories since the Code went into effect, while the expected revival of building has not yet come.

Are you one of those alert retailers who are taking advantage of the many time-saving services and money-saving facilities available only through the McCormick Lumber Company's salesman? FIe knows today's problems in the business. Be. sides, he has the25 years experi. ence of the McCormick Lumber

Company solidly behind him.

The Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. congratulates The California Lumber Merchant on its Twelfth Anniversary

Production of Lumber, Lath and Shingles in California, 1933

This is a preliminary statement prepared by the Forest Service based on returns from the lumber census conducted for the Bureau of the Census by the Forest Service. Figures are subject to correction in final published report by the Bureau of the Census.

LUMBER CUT-M FT. B. M. (Mills cutting 50M or over)

(5) For mills rvithin reporting class but reports not received.

(6) About 8 million feet of Douglas fir was cut from Oregon logs.

Comparative production since 1920-totals for all mills (California and Nevada) cutting over 50 M feet per annum including hardwoods:

(1) Does not include northern part of commercial California pine region in southern Oregon.

(2) Includes both white and red fir.

(3) The pine region cedar cut was entirely incense cedar; that of the redwood region was all Port Orford cedar.

(4) Bigtree (Sequoia washingtoniana). The redwood of the (coast) redwood region is Sequoia sempervirens.

E. L. REITZ COMPANY \THOLESALE LUMBER

Good Values to Pass on To Your Customers

Give the contractors, carpenters and buildersBIG TIMBERVallboard that is ttbang-uptt on quality.

Pass these good values on to your customers and clinch their future orders.

..DISTRIBUTED

ELLIOTT

THRU LUMBER YARDS''

BAY SALES CO.

LLOYD HARRIS

1924 Broadway Oakland

Telephone Hlgfigate 2447

Manufacturers of CAMINO OUALITY

CALIFORNIA SUGAR PII{E

CATIFORI{IA POI{DEROSA PINE

Our sawmill has been operating this seoson since early April on logs from a hish quality stand o[ Susar and California Pine. Kilndried stock of Ponderosa Pine and air-dried Sugor Pine is now availoble.

Camino Ouality lumber is well manufactured ond seasoned. Shipments are carefully sraded.

CALIFORN IA

\THOLESALE LUMBER ASSOCIATION

San Francirco Office: Merchante Exchange Bldg.

S. M. Haupbnan, Gen. Mgr., Phone SUtter 6126

Wholesalers of DOUGLAS FIR REDWOOD

CALIF. PINE - SUGAR PINE

Ageats for

Loe Angeler Office: Petroleum Securitiec Bldg.

Clint Lrughlia, Dirtrict Mrnager - Phonc PRorpoct 2703

MEMBERS

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Eutcm & lVsrtcn Lurnber Co.....,.,.......,..,.,.Port|ud ud Su Fruciro

Jam I- Hrll ......,..... ........Su Fruirp

J. C. Huilto Bq & Lunbcr Co. .,...,....... .Su Fmire

Hr--od Lmbcr Co. ..,.,...Su Fmcirco ud Lc Aagclcr

J. R. Hulfy Co. .......,..... ..SuFruchorldl.aAagclo

Het-Wod Lmbcr Co. ...,.....Su Fnads

A. B. Johnro Lumbcr Co. .....ttrn Fnrctre

C. D. Johnm Lubcr Co. ,...Su Frudrco ud Lc Angclor

Alvin N. Ia{gro .........,.,....!hr Fmdco

MacDould & Huington .....Se1 Fnncho end Lc Anlclcl

A, F. Mehoy Lunbcr Cc .,....3u Fruclro

Chu. R. McComlcL Lubcr Go ...,...........3u Fmcbo rad Lc ADfd..

McCamlck Supply Cc .,.,..,.Sa1 Frutis ud Is Aryclar

W. J. Mulligan & Co. ..............,............Su Fruicro ud Lc An3alcr

Chrrlcr Ncbm CG Su Frocl*o ud Lc Aa3olr

Prramino Lmbcr Cq ..........Su Fruclro

Santa Fe Lumbcr Co. .......,Su Fnncbo end Lo An3clcr

Suddon & Chriateuo ........Su FmcLco md Lor An3clor

Trcwa Lunbcr Cc ,......... ..Sen Fruds

Wcndllng-Nrthan Co. ......... Su Fnncbco and La Anlclc

R. O. Wllro & So ,......... Su Frrncbco

Wi|ro Bru. & Cq......... ..SuFnrciroudl.cAn3cler

E. K. Wod Lumbcr Co ....,SuFrocircomdLoe Anrdsl

Hlll & Morton, Inc. .......Od.Ltrd

Pvroid Luber Sala Cc .,..........Oa1land

Bladd-Dmm Lunbcr Mlllr ,.,Lor Algclor

Boo&rtas-Bunr Lunber Co .........,... ........Lc Angelc

Brolrr Lmbcr Ce. .,IsAqolcr

GriFGr & ffaglind .......,.......Ld AracL.

Kackhofi-Cuacr Lmbc Co. ..,.,.....,.. ........Lc An3cler

hvrcne-Phlllpr Luber Co. .,..Lc An3clor

PatEn-Blinn Lubc Co. .........LoAngcler

E. L Rcllz Curpany ....,........Ia An3clrr

Su Pcdre Lubcr Co. ............Lc ArrCo

Schafer Bru. Lunbcr & Shingle Co. ,.....Su Froim ud Is Aqdce

Tacma Lumbcr Salc A3cncy .....,..Tacom ud Lc Allglc

Tvohy Lmbcr Co ............. ...LdA!gd..

St. Prul & Teme Lunbcr Co ........Teot

E. U. Wbclo& ...IrAry.L.

MY FAVORITE STORIES

Ag" not guar€nteed---Some I

Jack Dionne have told for 20 years---Some less Road Information

The prosperous looking tourists in the big car had been watching for road signs rather anxiously as they drorre along, having passed several intersections they were not entirely certain about, and finally they came upon a long, tall, lanky colored man, leaning on the handle of a hoe at the edge of the cotton patch, and lazily wiping the from his face with a blue checkered handkerchief. driver stopped and addressed himself to the man hoe.

"Boy," he said, "can you tell me how far it is to Plains-

Talks on Money Matters

ville?"

"De way you'se going?" inquired the darkey.

"What do you mean the way I'm going?" asked the white man.

"Well, Suh, Cap'n," drawled the dark one, with much sweat show of interest; "de reason why Ah axes does you mean The de way you'se goin'is fo' de reason dat de way you'se goin' of the right now hit would be jes' 'bout twenty.fo' hunderd an' ninety-six miles to Plainsville. But if you turns 'round an' goes zackly de othah way hit would only be'bout fo'miles."

Joins Hardwood Firm

Lloyd E. Graybiel, assistant vice-president, American Trust Co., San Francisco, addressed members of the East Bay Hoo Hoo Club at their monthly dinner meeting held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Monday evening, June 11. He made his subject, "National Money Troubles," very interesting to his audience and at the end of his talk answered many questions.

President C. I. Gilbert presided, and announced that there will be no meeting in July.

An enjoyable program of music was given by a trio of young ladies.

ON EASTERN AUTO TOUR

James Maddock, of the Santa Cruz Lumber Co., Santa Cruz.,left June 10 for an automobile tour of the East which will include a visit to the Chicago World's Fair. Mr. Maddock was accompanied by his wife. He expected to be gone about 30 days.

Alexander Parson. one of the best known hardwood lumbermen on the Pacific Coast, has recently become associated with the Jones Lumber Co., San Francisco. The yard of the Jones Hardwood Co. is at 706 Bryant Street. Nelson Jones is president.

With Diamond Match Co.

Wm. A. "Bill" Tice, formerly with Klicka Lumber Co., San Diego, and rvell known in Southern California, is now with The Diamond Match Co. at Marysville.

M. D. CAMPBELL VISITS CALIFORNIA

Mark D. Campbell, rail sales manager, Chas, R. McCormick Lumber Co., Portland,.recently visited the Phoenix and Los Angeles offices of the company on his way back from an Eastern sales trip, and conferred with executives at the home office in San Francisco.

Lumber Code Authority Elects Officers at Chicago Meeting

Chicago, June 1l,-At its annual meeting here today the Lumber Code Authority elected the control committee for the gnsuing year and chose its officers. The membership of the Authority was increased from 3O to 44 to provide for six additional members representing small enterprises, and for representation from important divisions of the industries not now represented on the Authority.

The afternoon session was entirely given over to a public hearing of complaints and suggestions regarding the Code and its administration.

John D. Tennant, of Long.i'iew, Wash., was re-elected Chairman of the Authority and C. W. Bahr, Washington, was re-elected as Secretary and Treasurer. David T. Mason, of Portland, Oregon, was formally elected as Executive Officer to fill the existing vacancy. C. C. Sheppard, of Clarks, La., was elected Vice-Chairman of the Authority.

The membership of the new National Control Committee is as follows: C. C. Sheppard, Clarks, La.; B. W. Lakin, McCloud, Calif.; E. J. Curtis, Clinton, Ia.; A. W. Clapp, St. Paul, Minn.; E. B. Ford, New Orleans, La.; E. W. Demarest, Tacoma, Wash.; H. Dixon Smith, Columbus, Ga.; Floyd Hart, Calif.

The last three named on the list are in the nature of nominations pending necessary changes in the Code Charter, but in the meantime the three gentlemen will sit with the committee.

Here's the Evidence

The gentleman holding the string of five striped bass is Thomas P. Hogan, Jr., president of the T. P. Hogan Co., Oakland. These were caught on a recent fishing trip on which Mr. Hogan had as companions City Manager J. F. Hassler, of Oakland; Park Superintendent L. L. Kerfoot, Oakland, and Ted Pfluger, Oakland.

The largest of the five fish weighs 17l\bs. and the average is 15 lbs. Tom says they were caught near Red Rock in San Pablo Bay, with a Pfluger spoon with pork rind, and that there are plenty mo.re where these came from. Ambitious anglers take note !

RETURNS FROM

Lyman Taft, manager mond Lumber Company, a trip to the pine mills in

TRIP TO PINE MILLS

of the Pine Department, HamLos Angeles, has returned from Northern California and Oregon.

FOR MORE THAN 70 YEARS IT HAS BEEN OUR PLEASURE TO SERVE THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER DEALERS.

NOW, AS IN THE PAST, IT IS OUR CONSTANT AIM TO MERIT THEIR CONTINUED GOOD \(/ILL.

iltoDEn[l lAlr0il demqnds SETAB N[![!FS

Through the agencies of the Flome Ovrners' Loan Corporation vast sums of money are now available for President Roosevelt's home modernization and remodeling Program.

A large amount of this fund will fow through the hands of lumber dealers and it will mean profit to those dealers who are ready to satisfy the exacting demands of modetni' zation buyers.

People who are availing themselves of this remodeling fund are not chance buyets. They have given their plans a great deal of thought. They want full protection for their homes. Standard Hex Seab Shingles give complete, sealed-in protection fot erty type of roof, and Clover Blend and Clovet Green will harmonize with any colot scheme.

Show these buyers the best that the market ofiers at a price they can afiord. Explain the completely sealed-in roof feature that only Standard FIex Setab can give. Buyers such as trhese easily ruognize merit.

Protected with Pioneer-Flintkote exclusive products, Setab dealers will not feel the stress of competition that will be brought on through the disbursement of the remodeling fund.

Conditions in the Redwood;lndustry

Bv Sdwvn J. Sharp Colifornia Redwood Association

Reports received by the California Redwood Association show that Redwood production for the first five months of L934 was more than double that of the same period last year and was heavier than for any year since 193O. It is also a fact that a larger number of mills are,in operation than at any time since 1930.

' Redwood shipments during this period were 39/o gredter than for the same period last year. From the seasonal distribution of 1933 shipments and those of 1934 to date, it would take an optimistic viewpoint to conclude that the shipments for this year will exceed those of last by a similar percentage. 1933 started out with very light shipments, the shipments for the first five months amounting to but 27%% of the year's total. 1934 shipments were 25/o less than those of 1933 in the month of May. This was in part, at least, due to strike conditions but this fact, coupled with relative conditions of the order files, indicates that the increase shown earlier in the year will not be maintained in the immediate future. Redwood shipments this year to date have amounted to more than 4OVo of the total for last year so it is probable that the year will exceed the volume shown in 1933.

The decrease in stocks. which has been continuous for several years, extended through January of this year. Gross Redwood stocks at that time were 265 million feet which was only 69/o of the average stocks the first of the ye.ar during the last five-year period. Since that time production has exceeded distribution very slightly. The increase in stocks at mills which had been idle for a long period of time has been greater than the increase in the Industry as a whole, many of the stocks continuing to decrease in volume. There is need for additional increase in the stocks of these long idle mills and need for building up broken items in all stocks. It will, therefore, be desirable to have production in excess of shipments for some time to come.

The following figures are for Redwood only as reported by identical mills representing approximately 87/o of the volume for the Industry:

Production of species other than Redwood by the Redwood Industry has equalled 2O/o of. the Redwood cut during 1934.

\(/egt Coast Shingle Rates Order

An order by National Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson has been annouriced withdrawing a shingle transportation schedule in the rules, under the code for the Lumber and Timber Products Industries, for lumber shipment rates from Oregon and Washington to California cities.

General Johnson's order of February 19, 1934 (which appeared subsequently as Bulletin No. 79 of the Lumber Code Authority) approved appeals, regarding lumber shipment rates, of the Willamette Valley Lumbermen's Association, certain Washington and Oregon cargo and other rail shippers to California, the California Wholesale Lumber Association, the Merced Lumber Co., and the Pacific Coastwise Lumber Conference, from previous rate sheets or orders of the Code Authority. The Administrator's February 19 order set forth detailedly the rules for such ship ments. A sentence toward the end read: "Shingles to be figured at l/I0 of the B.M. rate to arrive at transportation rate per square."

The order announced today deletes that sentence because it has been shown that the matter of transportation rates of shingles was not properly up for consideration in the aforesaid appeal.

Lumber Code Authority Meets in \(/ashington

Washington, D. C., June l9,-Following adjournment of the sessions in Chicago last week, the Lumber Code Authority reconvened its annual meeting here last Friday. Principal discussions thus far have centered on production control, price differentials among the various mill classifications in the Southern Pine Division, future price schedules, production allotments for the various divisions during the third quarter, the question of what properly constitutes a concentration yard, code compliance and the Darrow report on NRA activities.

A formal reply to the Darrow Board's statements regarding the Lumber Code and its administration is being prepared.

Appointed Sales Representative

F. M. (Cappy) Slade of Los Angeles has been appointed exclusive sales representative in Southern California for the "DOUGLAS FIR" brand wallboard and plywood which is manufactured by the Elliott Bay Mill Co. of Seattle. Cappy also represents the Edward Hines Pacific Coast Lumber Co. in the Southern California territorv.

Buys Interest in Retail Yard

Walter N. Baker has purchased the interest of Joe Holmes in the Woodland Lumber Company at Woodland, Calif., and took over his new duties on June 25. He was formerly sales representative in the Sacramento Valley for the wholesale department of the Sierra Mill & Lumber Co. of Sacramento.

California Sales Agentr for Polron Lumber & Shingle Co. Hoquiam, \Farh.

Andenon A Middleton Lumber Co. Aberdeen, Verh.

Prouty Lumber & Bor Company

Warrenton, Oregoa

Operating Steamen

$(/holesale 2 o"lv

Sin ce 197

SashrDoorsrBlinds

Veneered Doors

652 South Myerr Street Lor Angeler

ANgelur 8191

Reducing Fire Costs

When you prevent such fires ac t{ric, you reduce 6re coctr for alland 75Vo of atl firer can be prevented. Our companier fir* help our policy-holders to prevent 6rec. If firer do come, our epecial. ized policier provide maximum protection againet lolr. Clainr are promptly and fairly adjusted and paid. And our dividendr rep. rernt a welcone ceving in net inEurelrce cost.

Ask any ol our companies lor lull inlormatinn about policies, protection, senice and'saoing.

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"National Lumber Meetings in Chicago Vote

New Set-up

Chicago, June 16,-The lumber gatherings here the past week mark a new departure in the national set-up of industry organization. The National Lumber Manufacturers Association is to be established in a federation form of organization. Representatives of all the principal associations pledge their cordial co-operation in an effort to bring into the National activity all divisions of the lumber industry. At present the National Lumber Manufacturers Association in addition to association memberships in some regions has individual company membership in others.

It is planned to bring into the National all regional and species groups of lumber manufacturers and timber owners, such as the Northeast Association, the National Oak Flooring Association, the North Central Hardwood Association, the Northern Pine and the Appalachian Hardwood; as well as the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, the Southern Pine .Association and the Hardwood Manufacturers Institute, which are now well represented in the National through individual memberships. All told there will be a dozen associations, covering all species and all regions, constituting the National. In the meantime the National will continue its individual membership in all regions not covered bv Assbciation membership. At present the lumber groups represented in the National by their Associations are Western Pine, Redwood, Cypress, Northern lfemlock and Hardwood, Maple Flooring and walnut.

It is also planned by the Directors of the N. L. M. A, and the American Forest Products Industries to conduct all general industry protective work through the former.

The A. F. P. I. will handle such particular promotion enterprises as the Timber Fngineening Company, with its modern timber connectord$bnd"it's plans for further commercial extension of its Seratioriq; pending cooperation and likd action. i:

The Directors of the two national lumber groups came to the conclusion that the first thing to be done is to improve the financial and membership strength of the National Association; and that when that his been accomplished the American Forest Products Industries can become more active in its particular field of specialized trade promotion endeavor, with the emphasis on self-supporting activities. Those problems and those bearing on the relations between the National and Regional associations were carefully analyzed..

President Sheppard made a strong plea for all the reg- ional associations not now affiliated *ith the National Io affiliate and financially participate, pointing out that the National industry problems are of such magnitude that the industry should not longer delay in providing united effort through the National l-urmber Manufactureri Association. In particLr-lar he urged prompt affirmative action by the Southern Pine Association, West Coast Lumbermenis Association and the Hardwood Manufacturers Institute. After

thorough discussion and assurances by the directors of the several regional associations of prompt action in affirmatively seeking such action by their respective associations, upon motion by Mr. Eames, seconded by Mr. Watzek, a resolution was unanimously adopted.

Presenting his report "The Road to Recovery" at the general meeting of the N. L. M. A. and the A. F. P. I. Tuesdav afternoon, Wilson Compton, Secretary and Manager of the National, and member of the Code Authority, clearly defined the activities of those two groups and of the Lumber Code Authority.

Success of Code

In his annual report Dr. Compton expressed astonishment and gratification at the extent to which "this difficult code, for a difficult industry, under exceedingly difficult circumstances, has stood the test of its first year."

"Recovery of lumber markets", continued Dr. Compton, "and revival of lumber consumption will not happen accidentally. Other competing industries are seeing to that. It seems to me that an industry so obviously and so desperately in need of greater volume, and which can afiord to pay annually over $3,000,000 for the administration of a Code which at best can control onlv whatever business there is, can afford to invest something in an efiort to increase the volume of business to be controlled. Especially so when the United States Government undertakes, as under the pending National Housing Act it proposes to undertake, to make available at low cost, billions of dollars for modernizing and for the construction of low cost small homes. There is no industry which, if it does its part, stands to gain more than the lumber and timber products industries from this promised new national recovery enterprise of the Government."

Geo. W. Dulany, Jr., Chairman of the Board of Directors of American Forest Products Industries, analyzed. the relationship existing between N. L. M. A. and'A. F. P. I. and the Timber Engineering Company, which is the particular corporate instrumentality used at present by A. F. P. I. in its research and commercial work.

Arthur

Upson Reports

on Trade Promotion

President Sheppard introduced Arthur T. Upson, acting manager of Lumber Promotion, in a highly complimentary manner, and Mr. Upson's report entitled "Just a Year' Not a Century, of Progress in Organized Lumber Industry", was received with intense interest and appreciative applause by the large audience.

It covered fully the opportunties for lumber in the colossal building activities of the Federal Government, not only in the PWA and the other emergency fields, but in ordinary public building by the Post Office and other Federal Government departments. Particular attention was given

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Lawrence-Philips Opens San Francisco Office

B. W. Booltstauer

The Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., well known wholesale lumber firm, r'ith headquarters at 714 West 10th Street, Los Angeles, has opened an office at h6 Fife Building, San Francisco. The office will be in charge of B. W. Bookstaver, who was formerly with the Bookstaver-Burns Lumber Co., Los Angeles. Mr. Bookstaver is well known around the Bay District, having started in the lumber business with the McCullough Lumber Co. in San Francisco in 1910.

The company will offer a full line of cargo Fir, Spruce and Hemlock from the Columbia River and Grays Harbor tegiuns and will also offer for rail shipment products of many of the Portland and Willamette Valley rail mills. They will act as agent for Dant & Russell, Inc., of Portland in the distribution of Port Orford Cedar and Philipt'ine Mahogany as well as other Northwest semi-hardwoods.

The Philippine Mahogany to be offered will be the well known Dahican Brand manufactured by the Atlantic Gulf & Pacific Company of which Dant & Russell, Inc., is sole United States distributor. The Port Orford will be the product of the Port Orford Products ComDanv of Marshfield, Ore.

The company also is agent for the Lawrence-Philips Steamship Co. operating four boats in the coastwise lumber and general cargo trade.

Ted Lawrence and Don Philips are widely known in the Bay District, both having started in the lumber business there, Mr. Philips with the J. R. Hanify Co. and Mr. Lawrence with the Hart-Wood Lumber Co.

Dimension and Timbers From Small Trees

Dougtae Ftr Plywood

Wallboard Goncrete Forn Plywood

PAGIFIG MUTUAT II(l(lR G(l. TACOMA, WASH.

Complete Stocks-All Sizes and Thicknesses of PAMUDO Plywood and Wallboard.

Also Direct Mill Shipments.

Northern California Distributors

Hardrmod Headquarter $nce lS72

5th & Brannan Sts. SAN FRANCISCO SUtter 1365

5(X) High St. OAKLAND ANdover 16fi)

Southern California Warehouse and Ofice 1126 Westminster Ave., Alhambra, Cdif.

E. C. NORDNESS, Mgr. L. A. Phone: CApital TSOS

"Red"Wood Scys.'

There is a gtade of Redwood f.u evety ptrrpooe-$e sure to get the proper grade.

princled gnda arc: The ten CLEAR ALL HEART .4"

STRUCTURAL IRRIGATION No I HEART COMMON No. 2 COMMON No. 3 COMMON BENCH SHOP COMMON

-Un€xcelled qrrllty.

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-In 3 gnde-fr Enginerr and Brldgc builden.

-Sfeciat Dunbllry4ighest cmon gnde.

-Fa high cbs crutructim and dunbility.

-Suitable fc ordimry cmtructioo.

-The lwst gnaefor temlm4r wck.

-A cheap gnde, for the gmnhocc tra&.

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National Lumber Hearings

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to the subsistence homesteads and a comparable govern' ment project along the same line but on a much larger scale. -The requirJments for lumber and other forms of wood for highway use, railway lumber demands, California school construction (resultant from the earthquake) etc., were discussed at length.

Among the several resolutions adopted was one expressing appreciation of Don Critchfield's work on the Forest Products Industries Paint Campaign; and another expressing appreciation of the work of the staff of N. L. M. A. and A. F. P. I.

David Mason RePorts for L. C. A.

David T. Mason, the new Executive Officer of the Lumber Code Authority, reviewed the work of the Authority and commented pirticularly on the Darrow report's ref' erence to the Wistern Pine Association. He also mentioned the recommendation of the Darrow Board reearding the Executive Secretary and declared that all who f,ad wdrked with Mr. Bahr marveled at his patience, understandine and fairness. The lumber industry, Mr. Mason said, wduld welcome a thorough and competent investigation. The Authority, he said, was doing a good, fair and

Safety First

The lighted match you throw away May start a fire no hand can stay.

Mary had a camp fire bright, But failed to put it out, And soon the western wind came by To scatter it about; Now in that place no flowers or birds

Salute the summer breeze, And death and desolation reign Where once were living trees.

Tommy struck a Lucifer

To light a cigarette, Then threw the burning thing Which later brought regret; For soon a fire sprang up and Throughout the livelong day, And left a cruel, ugly scar Upon the King's Highway.

Officers of the American Forest Products Industries

Re-elected were:

Chairman, Board of Directors, Geo. W. Dulany, Jr', Chicago, Ill.

Cha'irman, Executive Committee, C. L. Hamilton, General Timber Service, Inc., St. Paul, Minn. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

C. L. Hamilton, Chairman, General Timber Service, Inc', St. Paul, Minn; P. V. Eames, Shevlin, Carpenter & Clarte Co., Minneapolis, Minn; R' B' White, Exch-ange Sa-wmills Sales Compiny, Kansas City,..Mo.;..D. J. Winton, Winton LumDer uompany, lvllnneaPunsr trrrtt'.

Officers Re-elected bY the National Lumber Manufacturers Association were:

President: C. C. Sheppard, Louisiana Central Lbr. Co" Clarks, La.

Vice President and Treasurer: W. M. Ritter, W. M' Ritter Lbr. Co., Columbus, Ohio.

Vice President: J. P. Weyerhaeuser' Jr., Weyerhaeuser Tbr. Co., Tacoma, Wash.

Vice President: Geo. W. Dulany, Jr., Chicago, Ill.

Secretary-Manager: Wilson Compton, Washington, D. C'

Jerry had a pile of trash

Down in his basement dim; That he was breeding trouble there, Did not occur to him; But when a fire broke out one night And menaced half the town, The firemen read the riot act

To heedless Jerry Brown.

fire,

raged Remembering, in each Potential dangers lie, Be this our slogan, "Safety First," As summer days go by. A. Merriam Conner.

would the plague desire; heedless act

Directors of the Timber Engineering Company were elected as follows: W. M. Ritter, elected director. Following re-elected as directorsGeo. W. Dulany, Jt., C. L. Hamilton, Wilson Compton, A. T. Upson, C. W. Bahr, Harry G. Uhl.

WHOLESALE ONLY 745 So. Raymond Ave. Pasadena, Calif. \T ITH BRASS NAILS ARE SAMPSON SCREENS STRONGEST Los Angeles Phone SYcemore 1409 COMPANY, INC.

Random ftems---Mifl Run

FOLLOWS LUMBER BUSINESS IN CALIFORNIA 30 YEARS

This year is Arthur E. Twohy's thirtieth anniversary in the lumber business in California. He started in the lumber business in San Francisco in 1904, and after spending a year there, he went to Scotia where he was five years with The Pacific Lumber Company. He then came to Los Angeles where he represented The Pacific Lumber Company in the Southern California territory for four years, and in 1914 he went into the u'holesale lumber business for himself. He operates the Twohy Lumber Co. with headquarters in the Petroleum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles.

NEW SMOOTHCUT SAW

The California Saw Works has developed a new hallou' ground circular saw which is especially suitable for fine cabinet work and other similar operations where a smooth cutting saw is needed. It is called the California SMOOTH. CUT saw and is made in all standard diameters.

A. E. WANKE IN CALIFORNIA

A. E. Wanke, president, Wanke Panel Co., Portland, Ore., arrived in Oakland, June 14, to take charge of the Oakland branch while L. B. Krohn, manager, is on vacation.

PETE RUTLEDGE VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

P. J. "Pete" Rutledge, well known Redwood lumberman, superintendent of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Company's sawmill at Eureka, recently spent a few days of his vacation in San Frnacisco and vicinity.

SUDDEN &CHRISTINS(}N

Lumber and Shipping

7th Floor, Alarka-Conuncrciel Bldg. 310 Sanrome Strcct San Francirco AGENTS

Arnericrn Mill Co.

-- Hoquien Lumbcr & Shindc Co.

'.Hulbert Mill Co.

Villepe Hrrbor Lumber Millr

STEAMERS

A. S. MURPHY BACK FROM EAST

A. S. Murphy, president, The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, returned June 27 from an Eastern business trip. Mr. Murphy attended the annual meeting of the Lumber Code Authority at Chicago and Washington.

VISITS SAWMILL

Henry M. Hink, sales manager, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned June 25 f.rom spending a few days at the company's sawmill at Eureka.

RETURNS FROM WASHINGTON

C. H. White, vice president and general manager of White Brothers, San Francisco, was back in his office June 25 f.rom two weeks' vacation spent at his summer home in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

MAKES FAST TRIP TO WASHINGTON

Herb Klass, general sales manager, The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, left June 19 by United Air Lines plane for Washington, D. C., to,attend the meeting of the Lumber Code Authority.

WITH SIERRA MILL

& LUMBER CO.

Bill Fairfield is now connected with the Sierra Mill & Lumber Co. at Sacramento. He was formerlv with the Empire Planing Mill of San Francisco.

GEO. GERLINGER VISITS S. F.

George Gerlinger, president, Willamette Valley Lumber Co., Dallas, Ore., spent a fe'iv days in San Francisco around the middle of June.

HIIL

- Aberdeen, Werh.

- Hoquiam, Varh.

. Aberdeen, Varh.

- Raymond, Veoh.

Jene Chrirtenron

Annie Chrictencon

Edwin Chrictenron

Catherine G. Sudden

Eleanor Christenron

Charler Christenron

PORTLAND

2fi) Henry BIdg.

Ine.

Wholesalers and Jobbers

Dennison St. T?had

Oaldand, Calif.

Northern California Agents for BOOTH.KELLY DOUGLAS FIR LUMBER

A NEW "IF'I

By Dorothy Gramm, Lima, Ohio

If you can hold your stocks when all about you, Are selling theirs and urging you to sell, And know you're right when other traders doubt you, And tell you that the market's shot to hell.

If you can trust your hunches to inform you When up or down your favorite stock will go; If you find on the tape a sign to warn you When Bethlehem has reached its all-time low.

.If you're content to take a fair-sized profit And let the other fellow have his share. If you can tell how high a stock will rocket And know just when to turn frorn bull to bear.

If you can see a move and play it rightly Or guess what laws the brain trust will concoct, If you can go to bed and sleep well nightly With nerves that are not ruined, or tape-shocked.

If you can use your knowledge, not abuse it. If you know neither losses nor defeatThe stock exchange is yours, to have and use it, And what is rnore you should be given a seat.

MORE POWERFUL THAN KINGS

i Wtt.t a wonderful opportunity an executive in a big buiiness office has to influence the lives of thousands of men and women ! Few professional preachers have as great an opportunity. The great executive is more powerful than kings. From him goes forth an infuence which manifests itself in thousands of homes. A business builder ioday must also be a man builder.-Thomas Dreier.

NOT ALL LOOKS

Lady Shopper: "I don't like the looks of that haddock."

Fish Dealeri "Lady, if it's l,ooks you're after, why don't you buy a gold fish?"

Boss: "Jim, I o""'r,:":;;1":::- died the other day."

Jim: "Yassuh, Sam's gone."

Boss: "What was the complaint?"

Jim: "Ah nevah hea'd none, Boss, cep'n fum de white folks whut done guv Sam credick."

SHORTAGE

There is a world-wide shortage of all varieties of executives, from foremen to rulers of nations; that is why the world as a whole is so abominally managed.-W. B. Pipkin.

OPTIMIST

An optimist is a feliow who takes the cold water that others throw over his enthusiasm, heats it with his own fervor, makes it into stea.rn, and goes driving ahead.

HENRY FORD SAYS:

The man who cannot think is an uneducated gardless of how many diplomas he may possess. man re-

SCOTCH COURTESY

A Scotch soldier was accosted by an officer. "\llf'ho are you?" asked the officer. "I'm fine," replied the Scot; "and hoo's yersel'?"

succEss"

Many a successful man works like the dickens to get rich and then spends the rest of his life sitting on the porch of a sanitorium watching the healthy poor go by.

NO HELP

Teacher: "Did your father help you with these problems?"

Pupil: "No, teacher, I got them wrbng all by myself."

JUST COMMON SENSE

Sambo: "Hambone, does you believe in clubs fo' women?"

Hambone: "Only as a las' resort, an' den only when de wornan is so big you caint handle her no othah way."

Setab Sales Show Big Increase

One of their recent achievements, the Standard Hex Setab shingle, is having an excellent response from the retailer lumber dealers according to officials of the PioneerFlintkote Company. Three big features in one, they state, is making this shingle a popular seller. These outstanding values are the standard hex design, the Setab sealed edges, and the new clover blend-a beautiful blended green.

The standard hex shaped strip shingle which has always been one of the Pioneer-Flintkote most popular selling designs is the basis of the Standard Hex Setab in the clover

Standard Hcx Setab Shinslc

blend. The edges of the hex strip sealed in with asphalt and heavily coated u'ith crushed rock is an exclusive Setab feature; the thick, sealed edges give a rugged, textured appearance and the "deep shadow line" so sought after. By using the Setab starting strip at the edges, and by simply cutting Standard Hex Setabs or Square Butt Setabs into individual units for hips and edges, all exposed surfaces and edges have an extra sealed in protection making a completely sealed-in roof from ridge to drip edge.

The natural color harmony of clover blend or the crisp freshness of clover green together with the "deep shadow line" makes a delightful combination. Lumber dealers throughout the entire western territory are quickly taking advantage of the sales opportunities offered by the Standard Hex Setab Shingles, company ofificials state, and they are meeting with popular favor with the trade.

WHEN YOU SELL

Booth-Kelly Douglas Fir, the Association grade and trade mark certify to your customers the quality of the etock you handle. Builders quit guessing about what thcy'rc buying, and buy . where they know what they'rc getting.

General Saler Office: Eugene, Ore.

Mitls: Wendling, Ore., Springfield, Ore.

CALTFORNIA REPRESENTATIVES

Northern Californire

Hill & Morton, lnc.

Dcnniron St. Wharf

Orhhad ' ANdovcr 1077

Southcrn Glifornir

E. J. Stanton & Soa 2050 E. 3ttb st., Lor Angclcr AXridgc 92ll

From the

Ten ftles of Th

Years e California Ago Today

Lumber Merchant, July 1 , 1924

Two years old today. This is our Second Anniversary number'

The market report states that from the standpoint of price, demand and general interest, the situation shows improvement. "There is actually a lumber market again, aird practically every item of lumber really has a price once more" is the way one promin*enfwholesaler puts it.

In the leading editorial, "We Are Grateful," Jack Dionne says-"The California Lumber Merchant believes in California, in its present, its tl,uJ.,and its possibilities."

The Los Angeles office of the Chas. R. McCormick Lum. ber Co. had charge of the Hoo-Hoo luncheon on June 26. Among those who attended the meeting were George Lounsberry, Henry Riddiford, Frank Curran, S. E. Slade, E. G. Goodrich, H. J. Mueller, Frank Marmion, T. L. Ely, Henry S. Patten, E. C. Parker, Walter Harris and C. A. Wesson. W. B. Wickersham was chairman of the day.

E. G. Tennant writes on the Los \bermen's Club and its influence in situation.

Angeles District Lumstabilizing the lumber

R. F. Pray of San Francisco discusses market conditions in the pine industry.

The San Francisco Hardwood Club reports an active r ;l€4r. The officers of the club are C. H, White, White Brothers, president; F. Richards, Richards Hardwood Co., secretary, and Owen Gibson, White Brothers, treasurer.

"Redwood During the Past Year," by R. D. Hammatt, is an article wherein Mr. Hammatt discusses "Redwood Service" to the retail lumber dealer.

The San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club met on June 12. Homer Maris was chairman of the day and C. H. White was the speaker

The Lumber Salesmen's Club of San Francisco reoorts much activity.

"The Romance of Sugar Pine," by Henry W. Swafford, E. J. Stanton & Son of Los Angeles, is a very interesting and informative article. rf tt ,*

Ben W. Reed of San Francisco discusses "The Trend of Lumber." *rf*

The California Retail Lumbeimen's Association held their eighth annual picnic at Balboa Park, San Diego, on Saturday, June 21. C. W. Pinkerton of Whittier acted as toastmaster at the Annual banquet; E. L. Bullen of National City was the principal speaker.***

A letter from T. C. Ferger of Fresno, president of the San Joaquin Valley Lumberrien's Club, gi.r"" " resume of the activities of the Club.

Reprinted from the San Francisco Chronicle is the story of the new club house of the Tracy Lion's Club which was built by the members. Herbert C. Schaur, president of the

Tracy Lion's Club, and manager of the Tracy Lumber Co., is shown in his carpenter's working outfit.

Pictured here is William Bawbell, Bawbell Lumber Co., Hollywood, surveying the catch of the year, a. twenty-one inch trout, by his son, Donald, on their recent fishing trip on the Ventura River. ,r( * *

The Lumbermen's Club of Arizona has had a healthful year according to H. S. Corbett of Phoenix who was recently elected president of the Club. He. advises that the Club was organized in 1909, the first meeting being held in Phoenix. The Club was promoted and organized through the efforts of E. E. Young, at that time with the J. Knox Corbett Lumber & Hardware Co. of Tucson. John O'Malley was the first president of the organization..

"That Golden Opportunityl' by Ruth Alberta Brey of the Brey-Wright Lumber Co., Porterville. Miss Opportunity in this instance happens to be the Display Room Service. Miss Brey says-"Ask any lumberman who has added a Display Room to his establishment if he would give it up, and I am sure he will answer*'NO'!"

When the Pioneer Paper Company's new $100,000.00 administration building at Los Angeles is completed, a new note will have been struck*in industrial architectural design.

The Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Inc., have closed their Seattle yard and have appointed Ehrlich-Harrison Co. as their representative in that territory.

Walter C. Ball, J. R. Hanify Co., San Francisco, writes in an article "California and Fir" that California has held her position as the dominating factor in the Douglas fir trade during the past year regardless of the Atlantic Coast demand, export shipments*and other markets.

E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, opens beautiful new ofiFces in which are combined*utility, beauty and s.ervice.

C. Stowell Smith, writing on the activities of the California Pine Association, mentions the inauguration of the Association's advertising campaign and the revamping of the Association's grading rules to bring them in conformity with the American Lumber Standards.

Pioneer Lumber Company, Hollywood, will open a yard at Downey Road and 25th Street, Los Angeles. Orville L. Routt is president of the P*ioneer Lumber Company.

"Rambling Through the Hardwood Business," by C. H. White, White Brothers, San Francisco, is an address that was delivered by IVIr. White before the San Francisco HooHoo Club on June 12. * * ,F

California Door Co., Diamond Springs, Calif., is building five new'kilns, the equipment being furnished by the Moore Dry Kiln Co. of North Po;tl1nd,

Henry Riddiford has an article on "A Little California Association History." The Southern California Retail Lumber Dealers' Association, he states, was org'anized November 5, 1910. Homer T. Hayward was the first president.

Other officers elected were: A. B. Snow, first vice-president; Jacob Hannp, second vice-president; Henry S. Patten, treasurer, and Peter Orban, secretary. The other successive presidents elected were: 1911, John S. Billheimer; L9L2, Frank L. Fox; 1913, Frank N. Gibbs ; L914, Charles P. Curran;1915, C. C. Eymann;1916, W. T. Brown;L9t7, C. W. Pinkerton; 1918, O. H. Barr ; 1919, H. A. Lake ; 1920, A. C. Bowers ; 1921, Wm. T. Davies, and 1922, A. E. Fickling.

*rtrt

Barry Hanawalt was chairman of the Los Angeles HooHoo luncheon on June 12, and at the Club's luncheon on June 19, Clint Laughlin was in charge of the meeting.

A. L. Frost, San Diego Lumber Co. and Frost Hardwood Co., of San Diego, was host to members of the San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club at the San Diego Yacht Club, Coronadq, June 19. Mr. Frost is Commodore of the Yacht Club. Bob Zumwalt, Benson Lumber Co., passed around a large box of cigars, the occasion being the arrival of a baby daughter.

**,i

A. B. Wastell, San Francisco, H. L. Rosenberg, Los Angeles, D. A. Williamson, Galt, and Henry R. Isherwood, St. Louis. discuss Hoo-Hoo activities. ***

"Jack Dionne-We Thank You," by Alberta Ruth Brey, congratulating Jack Dionne and the staff of "The California Lumber Merchant."

*rftt

The Gabriel Lumber Co., San Bernardino, has been purchased by the W. J. Bettingen Lumber Co. Charles Gabriel was head of the Gabriel Lumber Co.

Paul D. Ransom, secretary of the Pasadena Sawdust Club, reports on the Club's activities during the past year.

The membership includes the retail lumber dealers of Pasadena, South Pasadena, San Gabriel and Alhambra. rt * rl.

E. H. Wheat, formerly with the Flagstaff Lumber Co., is representing the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. in Arizona'

Bob Osgood of Los Angeles, who represents the Wheeler, Osgood Company of Tacoma, also celebrates the second anniversary of his locating in California. He made his business debut in t"r f"l.t": on July 1, two years ago.

The June 1 issue of the "Merchant" printed the news that Gus Russell, of San Francisco, had started playing golf. The news was given to us by an alleged reliable source. Mr. Russell promptly threatened us with a libel suit. We promptly replied by offering to allow him judgment if he would agree to split the winnings with us. That discouraged him, and the suit has been settled out of court.

In his letter of expostulation Mr. Russell admitted that, like Chauncey Depew, he is not old enough to take up golf, being still able to play numerous young men's games, doesn't know how to swing a "caddy," etc.

The Strable Hardwood Company entertained the Central California Lumbermen's Club at a luncheon at the Hotel Oakland, Saturday, June L4, after which the lumbermen inspected the Strable*Hardwood Company plant.

The California Redwood Association announces the appointment of Max E. Cook as their Southern California representative. trIis major work will consist of consulting the architects and contractors in*the interests of Redwood.

James Elder of the Saginaw-Manistee Lumber Co., Flagstaff, Arizona, and Miss Alice King of San Diego, were married at the Grant Hotel, San Diego, Saturday, June 21.

The E. J. Dodge Co., redwood manufacturers, announces that their new dry kilns which were inst_alled during_the spring are now operating, and the first shipment of clear kiln dry Redwood has been shipped to the Tracy Lumber Company. In the car was some of their specially selected drain-board stock which was 2x36x72 inches. ***

George I. Williams, Jr., has been appointed sales manager of the Richards Hardwood Co. of San, Francisco. Felix Richards, proprietor of the company, announces that William Schieman of their sales department has been appointed yard superintendent. L. A. White will represent the company in the San Francisco and Coast territory, while Mr. Richards will call on the Sacramento Valley trade.

ONE STOP SERVICE

OFFICE, MILL, YARD AND DOCKS

2nd & Alice So. OAKLAND Glcncourt 6861

TrE SPECIALIZE IN FULL MILL BIDS, DETAIL AND MADE.TO.ORDER MIIL\UTORK, AND CAN GIVE IMMEDI. ATE SERVICE ON ROUGH LUMBER, SHINGLES, LATH, UPPERS, STOCK SASH, DOORS. TRIM, WALLBOARD, PANELS 6, BUILT.IN FIXTURES.

Low Cost Redwood Cabin Utilizes Short Lengths

The most interesting exhibit in a model labor camp exposition staged recently in Memorial Hall, Madera, by Dr. Lee A. Stone, Madera County Health Ofificer, was a l$/o Redwood farm cabin, Madera Typ., that has been developed by the Hammond Lumber Company.

This cabin, designed by Roy Matheny, of the San Francisco office of the Hammond Lumber Company, is I4'x24', and is constructed throughout of Redwood, utilizing short lengths pre-fabricated at the mill, at very little added cost over the prevailing prices for the materials. This type of cabin is particularly suitable for farm labor cabins, or can be made in any size for auto camps and for mountain cabins. It is not what is commonly known as a "portable" house, but is a complete, permanent building when assembled.

The cabin is of the single wall variety, very sturdy in construction, and does not show any unsightly studding on the interior. It will be noted that the shadow lines of the building are designed to render it capable of easy decoration both on the exterior and interior.

The Hammond Lumber Company feels that this new cabin represents a definite forward step in house pre-fabrication, and that it offers a real opportunity to the retail lumber dealer. Unlike most ready-cut houses, anyone with just a little building intelligence can erect it without difficulty. Each piece will be plainly stenciled with either a number or letter according to its position in the building, and will be so designated on the plans and details which will be furnished with each unit.

The design complies with the State Housing Com'mission's regulations as to air and window space. The windows in the labor cabin illustrated on this page were located according to recommendation by the Commission, but any arrangement of windows desired may be had without additional cost.

VISITS OREGON

H. Sewall Morton, Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland, recently visited Eugene, Ore., to conier with The BoothKelly Lumber Co. He made the trip by automobile, accompanied by Mrs. I\forton, and returned by way of the Roosevelt and Redwood Highways.

The cabin has a Redwood shingle roof, and the foundation is made of 6"x6" laminated sills, which can be used as sled runners in case it becomes necessary to move the building to another location.

Any grade of Redwood may be specified by the dealer, but All Heart grade is recommended.

Redwooil Farm Cabin-Mailera Type

The model labor camp exposition mentioned above has been running for several weeks, and the cabin exhibit which was in charge of C. L. Marsh, manager of the Hammond Lumber Company's yard at Madera, attracted a lot of attention from the cotton g'rowers and other producers whose work requires the housing of itinerant labor and their families.

BACK FROM NORTHWEST

L. C. Stewart, vice-president, Sudden & Christenson, San Francisco, was back in his office June 25 after a lGday business trip to Portland, Grays Harbor, Willapa Harbor and Seattle.

BT]YBBS9 GT]TDN SAN FBANCISOO

LUMBER

Chambcrlin & Co., 11r. R., 9th Floor, File Bldg. ............DOuglas 5470

Dolbeer & Carson Luber Co., Zl0 Merchants Exchange Bldg.......Sutter 7456

Hammond Lumber Co., 310 Sanrome St....................DOu8|ar 33E9

Holnea Eurcka Lmbcr Co., lfllS Finueial Ccntcr Bldg. .. ., ..GArfield l92l

Larene-Pbilips Lmber Co,, 20t Fife Building.,, ......... ..'.EXbrok 31193

Inop Lmber Conpany, Ft o{ r6th St......................EXbroh,O:ll

Logf-Be[ Lmber Saler Corporation, |25 Market Strut ...,.........'.GArfield lt3t

Mulligu & Co., W. J., 52o Mdtgomery St. ....,.......-.GArfield @0

LUMBER

McCormick, Chm. R., Lmber Co., ,16l Market Street DOuglas 2561

Mmre Mill & Lumber Co., 525 Market Stret .......,.,.......EXbrok 0f73

Pacifrc Luber Co., Tbc ltX| Bush Strcet .,. .GArncld f f Ef

Red River Luber Cc, 315 Mmadnck Bldg. .............GArfie1d 0922

Santa Fe Luber Cq, ll Calilomia Street .............,.KEamy 2O7l

Schafer Bru. Luber & Sbinglc Co.' l20s File Btds. ..................'..Sutter U?l

Sudden & Chrirtemn, 310 Sas@e StEt ...............GArfield ztAl

Unlol Lumber Co., CmL* Buildia3 ..SUttcr 0U0

LUMBER

Van An&le-Hmie Lumber Co., Inc., Fifth & Brm Streets..,......,GAr6eld 36O

Wendling-Nathan Co., ll0 Markct Stret .,................Sutbr 53ait

E. K. W@d Lmber Co., I Drmm Street.. .KEamy 3ill0

Weyerbaeurer Sales Co., 14! Califmia Stret ..............GArfield t97l

DOORS AND PLYWOOD

Nicolai Dwr Salea Co., 30{5 lrth Stnst .,..................MI$|il 7t20

Whelcr-Orgood Saler Coraontio, 3045 lr:h !t. ......................VA|encia 22{l

CREOSOTED LUMBER*POLES_PILINGTIES

McComick, Chu. R.. Lubcr Co., aol Mark"t Stret .................DOug|er 2561

LUMBER

Hill & Mat@, lrc. Dcmiro SL Whltl ..'.........'.ANdwor l0?

T. P. Hogan Co, hd & Atic. Stctt.............GLGrdrt atal

PANELS

Elliott Bay Saler Co., Itill Bndny ....Hls.-te 2'r?

Califm:a Buildm Supply Co, 30f ztth Awnue ..................ANdwer lltt

HARDWOODS

Strable Hardwood Cr, 5:17 FiEt Strect ...............TEnr|cbrr l6!a

LOS ANGDLDS

LUMBER

LUMBER

Boo|rgtrwr Bunr Lmbcr Co' Cbambcr of Cmcrcg Btdg..'..'PRopcct lZtl

Ctubcrlir & Co., W. R.' 3ll Wcct Ninth SL ...............TUc&a l|tl

Dolbccr & Cenm Lumbr Co.'

aZf Shcll !dti|'3..................VArd|}c 37lz

Hohcr Eurcke Lmber Co., ?ll-712 Architects Bldg. .......'.MUtuaI 9ltl

Hmmord Lmbcr Co.'

2010 Sc Alanodr St- .............PRocpect ?Ur

Hovcr, A. L.,

?tt0 Sq h Bro Avc. ......"........Yffi 1l6t

Lemne-Pbilipr Lumbar Co.,

t3it Pctrolcrn Sccurltlcr Bldg..,.PRo6pcct 022t

Long-Bell Lrmbc Sds Crpmtim'

729 Pctrolgun Scurldcr Bldg....PRocpect t4iE

Prttm-Blim Lubcr Co, 52t E. sth SL ....................V4DdL. 2ta

Rcd Rlrcr Lmbc Cq, ?02 E. Shrm ...AXridrc ro7f

Suta Fc lanber Cq, ilf Fhreial Ccata Bldg.,........TRinity |taf

Schafr Bro. Lmbcr & Shiaglc Co, 12t PctrcLun Smritia Bldg.,..PRcpcct 5l?t

Sudden & Chrietcnld.

6!0 Berd of Tra& Bl&. .,.......TRirfty${r

Uaion Lmbcr Co., Lrne Mutgagc Bldt. .,......,.,..,TRbtty 22tz

Wodling-Narhu Co., 7O So. Ia Bro An .................Y()rt lt$

E. K. Wood Lmber Co, {701 Silta Fe Ave....,...........JEfrenon llll

HARDWOODS

Cooecr, W. E., Luba Co, 20it5 E. rsth St. .............'..'.PRaFct Slll

Humod Lmbc Co, 20ll Sc Alancdr SL.............PRo.p.ct ?Ur

Lawhlia, C. J. 525 Pctrclm Ssritier Bl&...,.PRaFct A0t

St Dto!, E. J., & So, !30 Eut Stth Strrct ............,AXr|d'c lAl

WORK

Hrnncd Imbcr Cc, 2010 So. AIEG& SL,.....,......PRcprct 7l7l

Kchl, Jao. \[t, & So+ |!ii2 Sq Mym SL ...,........,,...AN3c|ur lo?l

Red Rivcr Luba Co., m2 E. Slaum ..AXrldtr tifl

Whclcr-Orgood Safe Conmdom, 161 Sc Bredmy ........,.......PRcpcct llll

PANELS AND PLYWOOD

Mulllgan & Co., W. J.

McCmtck, Cbu. R. Lunbcr Cc, u? West tth 3L ................TRhity '2|r

U7 W6t ftb 3t. .........,....,,..VArdikc l4ti

Pacific Luber Co., Tho

700 So. La Brca Avc.,................YOrk ll0t

Weyerham Sala Co, t{9 Petdcun Santtbr Bl&....PRo.Ecct 55t0

CREOSOTED LUMBER_POLEI'-PILTNGTIES

McCmick, Chil. R., Ianbq Co., 117 Wct fth SL ...............TRirit 5zlr

Celiloain Pr+l & Vens Co955 So. Alameda SL ...........,..TRinipni7

Cooper, \l/. E., Lunber Cc, 2035 E. lsth SL .................PRocpcct5l!r

Whelcr-Orgod Salcr Coryontion, l03l So. Brudway ...,,.......,...PRc1ret 5tl3

Three Santa Cru, Land Lubbers Cruising With "West lvis" on the Pacific

By George \7. \flood \Uood Brothers Co. ' Santa Cruz, Calif.

(Continued lrorn the June l5th issue)

CHAPTER VI

Let's Get Acquainted

, For those of you who may not have followed our yarn from its beginning, let's pause and get our bearings. Mrs. Wood and my five-year-old daughter and I started out on this cruise from San Francisco as guests of the Charles McCormick Lumber Company. We are taking our car along and have the rare privilege of motor- ing wherever the boat stops. We steamed up the coast, disembarking at Coos Bay, where we drove to Portland; then re-embarking we went to Vancouver, British Columbia, and Puget Sound points.

Let's see, I think we were just finishing oysters when I ended my last chapter. My wife and child are on the boat at Brittania Beach, B. C., and I am at the Roosevelt Hotel in Seattle. Let me pause just a minute and tell you about this hotel. As I was entering the city I noticed a big sign, "Hotel Roosevelt, Rooms 91.50 and Up" and words something like "Service With Economy," I was agreeably surprised that the hotel lived up to its motto, It is a fine l5-story structure completed very recently. The interior is finished in modernistic style, and the bell boys are all dolled up in purple uniforms with pink lapels. When I asked for a $1.50 room, little did I expect to find the luxury and comforts that are charac' teristic of this hostelry. My room, while quite small, had many conveniences, lavatory, a big broad window overlooking the city, and, of course, steam heat, subdued lights for the desk and bed. The blankets were soft. comfortable woolens and the beds the verv finest. If you go to Seattle, you will enjoy the Hotel Roosevelt. '

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Fishing Tales

During the evening I learned that there is good fishing for Cut Throat trout. Next morning at 20 minutes to 5 I am out on the street, and before 5:30 I am initiated into the method of trolling for these 6ne fish. The boatman furnishes me with lines, tackle and worms. We use a spinner similar to the "Jack Lloyd" baited with angle worms. Two willow branches about three feet long are placed upright on either side of the row boat, to the ends of these the trolling lines are fastened. One rows just fast enough so that the ends of the twigs keep vibrating back and forth. There are hundreds of fishing craft in the bay. Big, expensive motor launches, belonging to wealthy folks of Seattle, smaller craft equip- ped with outboard motors and many, many row boats, such as mine, all trolling for the gamy Cut Throat trout. I am a greenhorn and it would be too much for me to land a trout. however, I did have a couple of bites, and just as I am pulling in for the dock I hook a nice one. Alas! I get over-anxious, pull him in too fast and the line gets tangled up in my own oars, but he comes in close enough so that I see he is a lS-inch trout. The boatman says "that was a small one." Eleven pounders are not uncommon. I hurry back to Seattle, as I must be in Port Gamble at noor.r when the West Ivis arrives, Port Gamble is the site of one of the Charles McCormick lumber mills. In arriving there I meet Mr. Gay, the manager. We talk shop, lumber, merchandising and lum- ber display; but soon the conversation turns to fishing. He has just returned from fishing in one of the streams. "Small trout, you know, only eight or nine inches long, the largest one ll inches." I gulp and hunch forward on my chair. "And did you get many?" I asked. "No, only a few. I think we have about 40. By the way, do you like to fish?" "Do I. and would I!" He offers to have me taken out right now, but I tell him I am awfully tired. You wilt remember that I went to bed at 12:30 and was up at l0 minutes to 5 for the morning fishing trip. So I tell him that I would like to lie down in a cool spot for a couple of hours while waiting for the West Ivis to come in. Our boat is delaved l0 hours and will dock at 11 p.m. He suggests that I occupy ihe company's suite in the Hotel Puget, and shows me the rooms. He casually mentions that the furniture in one of the rooms is rather unusual. "It came around the lforn, you know, in a sailing vessel in 1853. It is hand carved, antique walnut, and is rather valuable." Later, I learned that the company has refused $2500 for the three-piece bedroom set. Now, for you folks (including A. B. Herrman) who love antique furni-

ture, I wish it were within my power to adequately describe these rare pieces. I carefully avoided putting even my hat on the bureau or to disturb the room in any way. I wanted my wife to see it at its best. So I occupied the other room of our suite.

It was arranged for us to go salmon fishing at 4 o'clock. It is my first experience at this sport. as I get so seasick in the Santa Cruz harbor that I have not attempted it there. I am introduced to Mr. Nickum, the champion fisherman of the McCormick personnel. He has caught 38 salmon this year, his largest weighing 34 pounds. We have a delightful three hours fishing in a beautiful bay. Mr. Hammersmith, mill superintendent, the third member of our party, hooks a big one that breaks his line. I get a bite or two, but we come back with no fish. I am not at all discouraged

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and arrange to come over next rnorning at 5 o'clock, take the motor boat all by myself and try my luck again.

Later that evening the West Ivis comes in. I take my wife and baby to the hotel, where she is surprised and delighted with the beautiful antique furniture. (Ask her about it.) We talk until 3 in the morning. She tells about the wonderful trip to Brittania Beach, B. C,, and I report what the kiddies said over the telephone, and about my trip down Puget Sound (oysters and all), my fishing trip and my fishing plans.

Up next morning at 10 minutes to 5. Over at Mr. Nickum's before 5:30 where I am to be shown just how to run the boat. At the water's edge we look out across at the huge rosy-red ball of fire where the sun is rising over the Washington shoreline. It is awe-inspiring and we pause a moment to admire the beauty of that sunrrse.

"Wonderful. isn't it?" I remark.

"Yes," says Mr. Nickum, "that's one of the sights that fishermen see." And then rather quietly, after waiting, "There's lots more to fishing than just catching fish."

Well, I did not catch any fish that morning, but I had a fine time. I played with that motor boat. I sang and laughed, I went fast and I went slow, I found out just how to make my spinners spin properly, and I became initiated into the great sport of salmon fishing. I brought back no salmon, but I did learn a bit of fishermen's philosophy: "There's lots more to fishing than just catching fish," and my own contribution to fishermen's lore follows: Yes, there's a fraternity among us fish61rnsnFostered by the glow of the morning sunrise;

Strengthened by contemplation of Nature's noonday splendors; Blessed by the memory of beautiful sunsets, over the woodland, by lake and stream, or on the sea.

CHAPTER VII

Monday morning-back at Port Gamble-fishing laid aside. Now, if ever, is the time we must go through this huge lumber mill as by 5 o'clock tonight the West Ivis will have that million feet of lumber loaded for South America and we will then be homeward bound. Since 1853 there. has been a saw mill operating practically continuously at this port. It is strategically located for such opera- tions. In the otd days, before Seattle was a city, hundreds of sailing vessels anchored off Whiskey Spit (there's a name that brings back the old Hetl-a-roarin' days) just opposite where lumber was

taken on for all parts of the world, My wife's grandfather, Captain Percival, was master of one of these lumber schooners and, without doubt, took on cargo here.

You have already met Mr. Gay, You will recall that he is the man who sent us ofi salmon fishing. I have learned that not only does he have charge of the saw mill here but is in charge of the McCormick mills at Port Ludlow (seven miles away) and at St. Helens on the Columbia River. The three saw mills can cut one million feet of lumber each and every eight-hour day.

The Port Gamble mill has two huge double cut band saws that handle any size log up to one hundred and twenty feet long. All machinery is electrically operated by power generated on the premises. Recently the plant has been completely modernized.

Goingthrough theyardslsaw huge timbers abouttwo feet square, known to the trade as Jap squares; also clear flitches for England, Ireland and Continental Europe; railroad ties and sleepers for Manchuria, and lumber of all sorts destined for Trinidad. Porto Rico and other Atlantic ports. One can not but be impressed with the quiet efficiency of the working force of this mill. The plant is not as ostentatious as some, but any lumberman observing the operation, knows right away that here are men who know how to produce lumber. I felt gratified that such facilities are available to take care of lumber requirements of Wood Bros. Co. and that any steamer in the McCormick fleet can put lumber from Port Gamble right on the Santa Cruz Municipal pier in ninety hours.

Our trip will soon be over. It is 4 o'clock. The mate orders my car aboard. Mrs. Wood comes back from a delightful day spent with Mrs. Gay, driving to Port Ludlow across Hood Canal. Their car is piled full with Rhododendron for the ship. We bid our gracious hosts good-bye and steam seaward through Puget Sound. San Francisco is only eighty hours away. "California, here I come."

The next and last chapter of this feature will describe the return trip from Puget Sound.

CHAPTER VIII

-Carrie Jacobs Bond.

New Passengers

We are starting homeward out of Puget Sound aboard the West Ivis. We will be at sea for three days and three nights, so we must get acquainted with the new passengers. southward bound, Meet Miss Holmes, the attractive English nurse, who boarded our freighter at Vancouver and who has been palling with Mrs. Wood for the last three days. Do they have anything in comrhon? Well, it was my wife's early ambition to become a nurse. She likes nurses and knows their language. Miss Holmes has been running a hospital in the Gulf Islands. British Columbia. She's tired and is ofi on a six months' sea voyage for a good rest.

The three other passengers are Miss Benedict, who has had many sea voyages; Miss H6arst, her room-mate, quite young and unused to the sea; and Mr. Denny, a middle aged bond broker who has sailed around Puget Sound in his own yacht and knows a lot about the country thereabouts.

You have already met Captain and Mrs, Westerberg, also the capable first mate, Mr. Thompson, and his wife. There's another officer whom you will like. He is the handsome, young Mr. Hatch, third mate. Some day he will be master of his own ship. He is courteous, thoughtful and efficient, also he is not married. (Wouldn't you like to meet him, girls?)

We steam past Port Townsend, out into the straits of Juan de Fuca, just at night fall. About 2 a.m. we hear the old whistle booming out fog signals, but not for long. In the morning at 6 o'clock when I come on deck, I look aft on our port side and recognize Tatoosh Island receding in the distance.

Al, our cabin boy, says something about big salmon jumping. We look out over the sea and there, sure enough, are what we at first suppose ate salmon leaping out of the water. The Bos'n puts us right. "They're baby seals," he says. But later we do see schools of salmon, all right, many of them leaping out of the water. We also see more baby seals as well as papa and mamma seals and all the grandmammas and granddaddies. As usual, my biologically minded wife has a reasonable explanation. We are witnessing, she says, the annual migration of the seals northward to the Pribiloff islands. Isn't it nice of them to put on this show just for us?

And now follow three delightful days, Not a seasick moment foi any of us, Sunshine early every morning until late every afternoon. Light breezes and ideal weather speed us ahead of our schedule. How do v/e know we are ahead? Come with me into the radio room where "Sparks" will tell us all about it. (Sparks is the nickname given to a ship's radio operator.) This room is equip- ped with batteries, receiver sets, sending equipment, switches, ear phones and all sorts of radio apparatus. Sparks sends and receives messages right before our eyes, Every morning at 8 and again in the evening, Sparks radios our exact position-so many miles north of San Francisco---or where are we? If you glance at this morningls Chronicle you will see the fottowing under q'Ship's Radio Reports": "West Ivis, Los Angeles to Balboa, 1780 miles north of Batboa." You could have spotted me any day of our trip by re-

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ferring to this nervs report and for 20 cents a word I could have radioed this whole story to you, collect, of course.

And now let's go dgwn into the engine room, 40 feet below the boat deck. Mr. Dietrich, chief engineer, takes us through. Our engines develop 2500 horsepower. Here is the refrigerating unit, equipment to keep 10,000 cubic feet at low temperature. Here are the steam condensers. "How much fresh water do you carry?" I ask. "Oh, about 200 tons," is the reply. "And fuel oil?" "About 14,000 barrels." It seems to me we have quite enough of everything on board this ship. This engine room is a most interesting place, but we must go on deck again. There's something doing every minute.

Discovery

In my wanderings on deck I run across a small canvas canoe aft on the poop deck. This was built by the crew who use it when they go in swimming at tropical ports. Greenhorn that I am, I take Katherine aft where she is not supposed to go, and "give her a boatride" in this canoe. Bobby hears about it and wants a ride, too, so Captain Westerberg has the canoe brought forward and with his own hands he fastens it to the shrouds. over the middle hatch cover. What a wonderful and unusual swing for the kiddies I Evenings just before bed time several of us gather in and near the pantry for coffee or tea and "a cold snack." Then is the time when we hear such interesting tales. The captain intrigues us with stories of the old Spanish walled town at Cartagena, a seaport in Colombia, South America. It develops that both the captain and the 6rst mate are interested in farming. Capain Westerberg specializes in chickens and. studious man that he is. has taken two University of California extension courses, one in farm management and one in poultry farming. Do we talk chickens? One day he gives me a little souvenir from South America, which I prize very highly. I bet most of you don't know how Niggertoes (Brazil nuts) grow. Neither did I. Captain put me right and gave me the big shell (similar to a cocoanut) that encases the nuis when growing on the trees. This was cut out, smoothed and polished and.makes a unique ash tray on my desk in Wood Bros. office.

We always dress for dinner, yes sir, everybody does. just like Grant and Amy Hatch did on the Lurline, and so every afternoon about 5, Katherine gets all dolled up in little girl dresses after playing all day in jeans. Mother puts a red or a blue ribbon on her hair and we (doting parents that we are) are proud of our platinum blonde baby girl.

We approach the Golden Gate, eight hours ahead of time. We will go in by daylight. We are called up on the bridge to "see the monk come out" at Point Reyes. I stay up there and try to locate the light ship by the aid of glasses, before the mate does, but of course he beats me to it, The trip in through the Golden Gate, the boarding of our steamer by the pilot, the visits of the immigration officers and U. S. customs. another view of the big Golden Gate bridge tower (highest in the world) and the process

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That evening we try to be nice to our nurse friend, Miss Holmes, We take her to a movie. We run right into the picture, "Men in White" with all its hospital scenes, of wards and doctors and opera- tions. Phew, one can almost smell the ether, and Miss Holmes is taking a "sea voyage" just to get away from all that. She's a good sport and has such "a jolly good time." aeain. ir

And here we are back home again, in the dearest spot in all the world. Oh, the joys of being home. Every little event has new worrq. Joys or Detng nome. lrtile meaning. Mary phones me at the office: "Daddy, the new calf is here." And that evening Katherine announces breathlesslv "Oh. lessly. "Oh,

here." announces daddy, she's a she and we can raise him."

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Well, folks, it has been a pleasure to sail with you. We'll go again about five years from now, when the depression is well passed, only this time we will travel southward to Porto Rico. to Trinidad and to Cartagena. Bon Voyaget

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