Ten Years Ago Today

From the files of The California Lumber Merchant, Julv 1,1925

Three years old today. This is our Third Anniversary Number.

California lumber n-d".ar." *rn ,rrOexceeded all previous figures. The total production of all pine mills for the year was 1,325,I65,m0 feet while the redwood mills produced 602,988,000 feet making a grand total of 1,98,153,000 feet.

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The Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club held their first annual Wives and Children's Day on June 25 with a hundred and seventy-five in attendance.

The San Diego H""-H: .:"":o a concat on the evening of June 25. Nineteen kittens were initiated and two members were reinstated.

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The San Joaquin Valley Lumbermen's Club held one of its most enjoyable meetings on June 19 and 2O when the members and their guests motored into the High Sierras to visit the Central Logging Camp. The destination of the first day's trip was "The Pines", a summer resort on Bass Lake, where there was dancing and an entertainment program following dinner. The next day the party continued the trip to the Central Logging Camp where they were guests of the company at luncheon after which they made an inspection of the camp and later in the afternoon were taken on a trip into the woods on a special logging train where all phases of their logging operations were seen. About 160 were in the party.

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At the regular monthly meeting of the Central Valley Lumbermen's Club held at Stockton on June 13 there was an interesting discussion on "Credits and Collections". President W. H. Falconbury presided at the meeting. ***

Sixty-five members of the Millwork Institute of California attended the quarterly meeting at Fresno on June 12 and 13. President Harry Gaetjen presided at the meetitrg.

**'t issue carries an article and warehouse and distributing plant of the Red River Lumber Company at Los Angeles. *:*r< other articles in this :Jrer are "Facts and Figures Concerning Western Door Sales," "Los Angeles Building Statistics," "The Value of Trade Papers to the Industry," "Three Hundred Million Dollars-How to Get It for the Lumber and Construction Industry" and an interesting write-up on the W. H. Norris Lumber Company of Houston, Texas.

When the "Rotary Special" left San Francisco a few days ago to attend the annual Rotary Convention at Cleveland the party was headed by M. A. Harris, president of the San Francisco Rotary Club. Mr. Harris is an executive of the Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co.

Walter Scrim was chairman of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo meeting on June .18. Walter formerly served as vicegerent snark for the Phillipine Islands District for a good many years. He gave an interesting talk on lumber and logging operations in the Phillipine Islands.

At the annual election :, ;.lv"tio,''r Hardwood Lumber Association held at Louisville, Ky., on June ll and 12, C. H. White, vice president and general manager of White Brothers, San Francisco, was elected a director for the three year term.

Special articles upn""r,l* ,r anr, issue are "Regarding Redwood" by R. F. Hammatt; "Douglas Fir in California" by Walter C. Ball; "History of the Wholesale Market in Southern California" by T. B. Lawrence; "California Pine Outlook" by E. P. Ivory; "The Retail Lumberman and His Advertising" by Adeline M. Conner; "The Builder's Opportunity" by David Woodhead; "San Francisco Hardwood Market" by C. H. White; "Advertising" by Emil Brisacher; "College Training for the Millwork Business" by Prof. Emanuel Fritz and "The Manufacture of Plywood" by J. M. Langton.

Lumber club activitt., "r" Ot*ussed by W. H. Falconbury, Stockton; L. A. Chapman, Sacramento, and E. D. Tennant, Los Angeles.

This issue also carries ,:,"*J"* and illustrated articles on the California Redwood and California Pines.

Under the title, "tn. ;r: Jtu.t "a."r, ," arewrite-ups on Fred Golding, "Jimmy" Chase and Clint Laughlin.