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From the Jnly Ir tO2S Issue

The California Lumber Merchant was one year old today, and we celebrated the occasion with an anniversary number which carried a number of special articles.

A. D. McKinnon of McK'innon's purchased the San Benito Mill & at Hollister.

Lumber Yard, Hollister, Lumber Company plant business in Fred J. Mc-

Reprinted in this issue was an article from the Humboldt Herald of Eureka, Calif., on the new mill of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co. at Eureka which was nearing conpletion.

The Falconbury Lumber Co. opened for Stockton. W. H. Falconbury is president, and K:ane, vice-president of the new firm.

Members of the Sacramento Valley, San Joaquin Valley and Central California Lumbermen's Clubs, together with their families and friends, made an automobile trip to the Redwood region in Humboldt County where they were the guests of the California Redwood Association.

An illustrated article on the American pany of Los Angeles is in this number.

Hardwood Com-

The Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club staged a golf tournament at the Brentwood Country Club, on June 14. E. R. Maule won the low gross prize, and Russell Postlethwaite was the low net winner. There was a dinner dance in the evening.

A write-up of the Strable Hardwood Company, with views of the plant, appeared in this issue.

Oakland,

Redwood, was in continuous use on a roof since 1849, making this old monarch 74 years old, and its condition indicated many more years of service. He located this shingle on the old Guadalupe Rancho, near Santa Maria.

A. D. McKinnon, of the McKinnon Lumber Yard, Hollister, was the winner of the second prize, $25.@. Mr. McKinnon's entry, also a Redwood shingl.e, was 71 years old, and taken from the Mahon house in San Juan which was built in 1852, and the roof was still doing service.

A large number of shingles were entered in the contest, many of them over 60 years old.

The contest was open to California retail lumber dealers only, and called for the oldest sawn wooden shingle, Redwood or Red Cedar, in use on a roof in California.

E. D. Tennant, Henry Riddiford and F. L. Morgan, all of Los Angeles, vr'ere the judges.

Miss Mary Elizabeth Gilhuly of Kentfield and Albert j. Nolan of San Francisco were married on the evening of June 6. Mr. Nolan is Western sales manager for The Pacific Lumber Company.'

This issue carried an article, with illustration of the office interior, of the Boorman Lumber Company of Oakland.

Friend & Terry Lumber Company, Sacramento, pleted their new office building.

The Palo Alto Lumber Company, Palo Alto, was purchased by M. L. Herschfeld from the former proprietors, E. R. and A. C. Ellis.

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W. L. Smith, manager of the Pacific Coast Coal Company, at Santa Maria, was the winner of the first prize, $75.00, in the California oldest wooden shingle contest, conducted by A. J. Russell of the Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco. The shingle submitted by Mr. Smith was made of

A record attendance turned out for the annual basket picnic held by the Southern California Retail Lumber Dealers' Association, at Brookside Park, Pasadena, on June 9. Prizes for the various contests were donated by the cement companies, and The California Door Company of I-os Angeles prov,ided the smokes for the day.

Up And Down The State

E. H. (Ernie) Bacon, manag'er, California, San Francisco, has been ness and pleasure trip to Southern two weeks. He expected to be back

Fir-Tex of Northern on a combination busiCalifornia for the past around lulv 1.

Elmo Lombardi, formerly yard foreman at the Coos Bay Lumber Company's 9th Avenue, Oakland, Terminal, Francis W. Pool, Phoenix, Arizona, representative for E. San Francisco.

Fred S. Stanley, Oregon Lumber cently visited San Francisco to confer Northern California representative.

Wm. G. McMorran, son Bay Lumber Company, San the 302nd Signal Operations as.

Stanley C. Moore, manager fornia, Los Angeles, is back west.

W. E. (Bill) Davis, vision, San Francisco, cation.

Sales, Eugene, rewith Carl W. Watts, of William Francisco, Battalion at

McMorran, Coos is in the Army in Camp Swift, Tex- of Fir-Tex of Southern Califrom a visit to the North-

Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Diwas recently in Los Angeles on va-

Frank J. OtConnor, manag'er of the San Francisco office of Donovan Lumber Co., was recently elected a director of the American President Lines. He is widely known in Pacific Coast shipping circles.

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GROCT GIRGULATION KILlTs

l. 2JVo to JOVo morc capacity due to solid cdge.to.cdgc rtacking'

2. Beacr qudity drying on lor tcnpctanrrs ritrh e fart tcvcrdbic circulation.

3. Lowcr rtacking coro-juct colid cdge-to-cdgc rtacting in thc rinplcst form, the West Side Lumber Co., Danebo, Barker. were recent visitors to San

Fred Lamon, Lamon-Bonnington Co., been in the Northwest for two weeks He will be back about July 1.

George Barker of Oregon, and Mrs. Francisco.

San Francisco, has on a business trip.

Francis W. Pool, Phoenix, K. Wood Lumber Co., was

Arizona representative for E. a recent Los Angeles visitor.