Janes $. Brown Betires

This is a brief career sketch of one of the best knorvn and respected executives in the lumber business of the Pacific Coast, James S. Brown, who recentlY retired from the position of assistant secretary of PoPe & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division, San Francisco.

Mr. Brown was born in Ontario, Canada, came as a child with his parents to the United States, and grew up l<rmes s. Brown in Reinbeck, Iowa. His first experience in the lumber business was right there in his home town, and he did everything that was to be done in a retail yard from bookkeeping to loading lumber.

In 1898 he went to Minneapolis to become associated with the C. A. Smith Lumber Co., rvhich later became the Coos Bay Lumber Co., and was with this concern until the fall of 1913. In February, 1916, he started with the Charles R. McCormick Lumber Company. He was at the mill at St. Helens, Oregon, for three years, and then moved to San Francisco where he was appointed secretary of the lumber company, the McCormick Steamship Company and allied companies.

When Pope & Talbot, Inc., took over the McCormick interests in April, 1938, Mr. Brown continued as assistant secretary.

Mr. and Mrs. Brorvn have two sons and two daughters. They are going to live at Brookdale in the Santa Cruz mountains, rvhere they have maintained a summer home for rnany years.

One of their sons, Frank Brown, is well known in the lumber industry. He is manager of Tynan & Rogers, Redwood City, Calif., fence manufacturers. Milon, the other son, was a first lieutenant in the infantry during the war, and has norn' returned to his former position with the Fruit Growers Exchange, Los Angeles.

Comparative Annual Redwood

Production 1940-1945

Below is a summary of lumber production in the Redwood region for the past six years as prepared by the California Redwood Association.

It is estimated that the companies whose figures are included cut about 93% of. the Redwood lumber produced in 1944. They cut about 4O/o of. the other lumber (white woods) produced in the Redwood region. The Redwood region as defined by the Forest Service includes areas outside the Redwood timber belt. The production of small mills operating in this portion of the region and cutting primarily Douglas Fir was larger during the last three years than it has been in the past. Final annual figures were obtained from 17 major companies in the region.

Redwood Feet, B.M.

Other SpBcies Feet, B.M.

49926,W t94t. . . 463,848,000

'9,40.. 379,O57,W t942.. 458,227,0W

L943.. . 442,r04.,W t944.. . 438,487,000

1945.. 397,556,000

45,500,000

67,590,000

75,256,M

80,635,000

84,768,000

These figures include sawn shingles, shakes and lath produced at lumber mills but not production of shingle mills not operated in connection with lumber mills. Included shingle production was approximately 3.8-million feet in l94l: 3.4-million feet in 1942; 3.3-million feet in 1943;Z.8-million feet in 1944i and Z.4-million feet in 1945. U. S. Bureau of Census figures do not include shingles, shakes or lath in their board measure totals. Total Redrvood shingle production reported by the Bureau of Census was approximately B6-M squares in 1940; 90-M squares in l94I 64-M squares in 1942;45-M squares in 1943; and 63-M squares in 1944. 1945 figures are not yet available.

The 1945 Redwood production shown in the table includes 393,387,000 feet of lumber and 4,169,000 feet of byproducts, largely shingles, shakes, lath and car strips. White woods production includes 84,739,nO feet of lumber and 29.000 feet of lath.

Los Angeles Visitor i

R. W. (Bob) Reid, Park-Olson Lumber Co., La Mesa, spent a few days in Los Angeles last month on business.