The California Lumber Merchant - July 1947

Keep Up Your Good Work

Pope & Talbot, Inc., congratulates you the California Lumber Merchant, on your twenty-fifth Anniversary. In every field of endeavor, there is alwayE one who takes the lead . . . forstng ahead to high standards and service. Now old enough to chart the course, and young enough to sail it, the California Lumber Merchant is a vital factor to the lumber industry and has contributed greatly to its progre$. Pope & Talbot, Inc., at the threshold of its 100th anniversary, tips its hat to the California Lumber Merchant and says, ttYou have done a real job. Continued Euccesr to you, and grateful appreciation to your editors."

Executlve Ofiices --- 32O Colifornin Streel --- Son froncisro 4

I. E MARTIN

M<rncaing Editor

W. T. BLACK

f,dvertising Mcncger

THE CALIFOR}IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

Jack Diorr ne,prhlishu, Iuco4rordlod uldcr thc lcwg ot Cc[Ioruic t, C, Dionae, Pres. cnd Treqs.; I. E. Mqrtia, Vico-Pre:.; W. T. Blacl, Srcrcicry Publighad the lst qad lSth ol ecch nrouth at 508-9.10 Contrcl Buildiag, 108 W*t Sixih Street, Los Aagcles, Cclil., Telepboac VAadihc {565 Entcred cg Second-clcgs natter Scptenbet 25, 19X2, at th. Porl Office ct Los Aageles. Cqliloraic, urdsr Act oI Msrch 3, 1879

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Matters of Particular News Interest \trhen California Lumber Merchant rilfas Startin g .-.-...--......-.-

Vagabond Editorials, By lack

Here Are The Advertisers In The First Issue of The California Lumber Merchant

And Now rWe Know There \7ill Always Be Lumber

The Lumber Merchant Is The Best Paint Merchanr

The Lift Truck-C.L.M. Votes It Outstanding Innovation ln 25 Years ---.---.--

The Point Of Contact, By lack Dionne

Pacific Northwest Logging-Past And Present, By H.V,Simpson

Eventful Day, By Ad.eline Meniarn Canner

The Great Ghost Mill That Never Started, By lack Dionne

Penberthy's Precision Piled Wholesale Yard

Twenty-Five Years ril7ith Philippine Mahogany

A Quarter Of A Century In Plywood, By Cbarles E, Deolin

Plywood And The Lumber Dealer

Plywood Manufacturers Meet And Make Plans -----.----.

New Plywood rl7arehouse Built For Efficiency

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Progress $r-r{Deyelopment Made In The Past 25 Years In The Manufacture And Usage Of Plywood,

Twenty-Five Years Of Progress In The \Testern Pine Region of California, By W. E. Grifiee

J. A. "Al" Privett-Fifty Years A Los Angeles Lumberman

Redwood Industry-1922-1947, By Selwyn l. Sbarp an:l Ben Wad.e ......._..

Pacific Coast rWholesale Hardwood Distributors Association Annual Convention .-.--.---

Saving Lumber-Splitting Big Pine Logs With Power Saw

Take A Look At 1896 Redwood Prices

Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Associa:ion Celebrates 25th Anniv€rsar/, By Don F. Vbite

California Buys Bulk Of Redwood Lumber-Leads In Pine And Fir Consumption Also

History Of Berkeley's Pioneer Built-In Fixture Company

A Million And A Quarter Eubank Ironing Boards

The Red cedar shingle Indusuy, tg22-L947, Prepared. By Red. ced.ar sbingle Bureau

"Smiling Bob" Osgood Celebrates His 25th Anniversary, Also

"Notlng your qpprooching birrhdoy, my mlnd goes bock to the time lhe'Merchqnl'firsl gppeored, qnd how difiereni condifiong ore now from then.

"A lvsty bobe, to be sure, bul only the confirmed oplimist could hqve then foretold how importont in Gqlifornio's lumber world rhe child would become.

"World-shqking events hcrve tronspired since lhe poper': firet oppeoroncei millions of men hove fought ond dled, counlries ond governmenls hcve disappecred, bul twice eoch monlh rhe lumber froternify feets, no moillr whqt conditions prevoil, .on uptifr through the 'Vogobond Edi. toriols' qnd sound philosophy to be found in whot il now c grond ond growing publicotion.

"Mony happy relurns, ond mcy lhe mogozine go on forGYOI."

SANTA FE TUMBER CO.

Matters of Particular News Interest \(/hen

The California Lumber Merchant Was Starting

Los Angeles harbor was doing a terrific business early in the year 1922. For the three months preceding July first when'IHE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT started business, the following were the water receipts from the harbor : lumber 199,332,932 feet ; lath, 48,147,867 pieces ; Shingles, 40,000,000 pieces; shakes, 431,000 pieces; ties,. 160,000 pieces, a total equivalent of over 221,}ffi,W board feet of lumber. During that time 105,000 feet of lumber came into the harbor from Guatemala; 110,000 feet from Philippine Islands; and 635,000 feet from Japan. Japanese Oak was then very popular in California.

At this time Jack a ;"r;, *J", pr"riaent of the San Joaquin Valley Lumbermen's Club, Frank Minard was Secretary, and J. G. Martin was Treasurer. ***

Harry S. Fuller, Lodi, was Vicegerent Snark of the Sacrainento district of Hoo-Hoo.

David Woodhead *".*t,.1*"rlnt Snurt of the Los Angeles district of Hoo-Hoo, and the Club held weekly luncheons.

Fred Hamilton was Vicegerent Snark of the San Diego Hoo-Hoo district, and the Club held regular weeklv luncheons. ***

Parson Peter Simpkin was Supreme Chaplin of Hoo-Hoo fnternational, and made his home in Santa Monica.

C. A. Smith, th. tounJ"., rl'u. in .t u.g" of operations of the C. A. Smith Lumber Company, at Coos Bay, Oregon. The story was that Mr. Smith moved to California fiom Chicago, and brought with him $29,000,000 in cash which he invested in the lumber industry in California. He is reputed to have lost that fortune.

California, at this,i-"]nuJju.l O..o-" nationally noted as a hardu'ood consuming state. From every part of the country the manufacturers of hardwood rvere pushing their products into California. Guatemala and the Philippines rvere sending in a lot of cabinet woods, and Japan lvas shipping in plenty of Jap Oak. The battle for the California hardwood market had begun.

Major E. G. Griggs, President of the St. Paul & I-umber Company, of Tacoma, Washington,'was the Universe of Hoo-Hoo.

Percy J. Brown, of Eureka, was Vicegerent Snark for the Redwood region.

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Homer B. Maris was Vicegerent Snark for the San Francisco district of Hoo-Hoo.

Henry Riddiford *u" J""rJury of the Lumbermen,s Exchange, in Los Angeles, and made it his business to com. pile statistics regarding lumber and other wood. products in Los Angeles and the harbor.

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Dolbeer & Carson, oldest of the California Redwood manufacturers, was getting ready at this time to build a bigger and better Redwood sawmill in Humboldt County, with timber enough to keep it running for several generations.

Two famous San "rri.rr.l t,rlrl.rrrr"n had met tragic death just before this date. John R. Hanify and E. A. Christenson were drowned when a small boat in which they were riding was caught in a severe storm.

Bob Osgood came to Los Angeles just at the same time THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT started business, and opened an office for Wheeler-Osgood. ***

A. O. Nelson had just opened a sales office in Los Angeles for the Santa Fe Lumber Company.

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Fred Hamlin and Garry Bennett, two well known lumber salesmen of San Francisco, had just purchased the Pacific Mill & Timber Companv. ^;:l'k

A. C. Hamer and A. T. Show had just severed their lumber partnership and each continued in business for himself.

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The Hutchinson Lumber Company had started operations at their large new sawmill at Oroville, California, rvhere they were cutting Pine lumber, J. S. Hickok was Sales Manager.

George Stepherrson and

Hoo-Hoo was going strong at this time in Arizona. J. C. Light was State Counselor at Miami. Vicegerents for the state were S. S. Cornick, of Riordan, Albert W. Stacey, of Douglas, P. I. Merithew, of Phoenix.

both San Francisco and-Los

** Charles I. White had formed a Tacoma rvholesale lumber company, the Stephenson-White Lumber Snark of Company, and had offices ir.r Angeles.

A. J. "Gus" Russr:ll, of the Santa Fe l-umber CompanLy, San Francisco, had accepted the Chairmanship of the Stater.vide Lumber Committee appointed to fight the antirvooden-shingle law to be voted on by all the voters of

California in the fall. (The lumbermen won the fight and killed the proposed lar.g that would have outlar,ved shingles.) Mr. Russell got the famous author, Peter B. Kyne to help write newspaper stuff for the lumber side of the argumeni.

New and attractive ."]t,.J "r,J .ut". rooms rvere going into lumber yards all over California. The Barr Lumbei Company, of Santa Ana, and the Modesto Lumber Company, at Modesto, were building such additions at this time' * :k *

F. L. Morgan was Secretary-Treasurer, and William T. Davies, President of the Southern California Retail Lum_ ber Dealers Association. * * ,<

Carpenters and other building unionists rvere out on strike at Bakersfield at this time.

J. C. Light, of Miami, u,as president, and. J. H. Wood, of Lowell, was Secretary of the Arizona Retail Lumber Dealers Association. A big two day convention rvas held in June, 7922.

One of the great lumber show places of Los Angeles at this time was the retail yard of the Hammond Lumber Com_ pany on Alameda Street, of which Harry Mcleod was manager. Besides huge quantities of other materials this yard sold and shipped out an average of one million feet of lumber every working day. It was,a.most popular place for visiting lumbermen.

About 8 million feet of lumber a month rvas coming into the Port of San Diego from the North.

In the month of June, l9ZZ, came into Los Angeles Harbor at was a record for the port.

92,430,6A feet of lumber San Pedro by boat. This

Reports of the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau shorv that during the first three months of l92Z the mills of Wash_ ington, Oregon, and British Columbia shipped out 763 million feet of iumber, which is more than double the shioments during the same time in the previous year.

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Los Angeles .w'as enjoying a building boom. During the month of June, 1922, building pernrits issued in Los An_ geles totaled 910,652,000.

The Bentley-Schoeneman Lumber Company, of Glen_ dale, had just completecl a very beautiful service and sales room in their modern office.

The Portland Lumber Oregon, had just started of idleness. -

Company's big operations after mill at Portland, nearly tr,vo years

R. E. Danaher was President and C. Stowell Smith, Sec_ retary, of the California White & Sugar pine Association, which had offices in San Francisco.

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Oakland lumbermen were joining the Oakland Chanrber

of Commerce in creating a "California Complete lfomes Exposition," to open in that city September first.

The orvens-Parks turlo...aoJ'nu", had just opened a new retail lumber yard on Thirty-Eighth Street near Alameda, in Los Angeles. The principals were J. C. Owens, G. W. Prince, Jr., A. S. Parks, T. B. Trimb, and Edith A. Shluglat

Long Beach *u, rru.rir,| " J",,ol"* boorn, the total building permits for the last fiscal year being more than $15,000,000.

The Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Drydock Company and the Massett Timber Company, Ltd., of British Columbia, were working on a merg'er of their interests that resulted in the bfiilding of a large sawmill at Los Angeles harbor.

Sylvester Weaver announced that he considered the asphalt roofing plant of the Weaver Roof Company, in Los Angeles, the most efficient and modern industry of its kind in the whole country.

The Fruit Growers Supply Company were operating their big new Pine sawmill at Susanville, and now completing the rest of the plant and town, such as a box factory, a club house for employees, and other units of a big institution. ***

Lumber receipts at San Francisco harbor for the first six months of 1922 including both rail and water shipments totaled 332,000,000 feet.

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Walter C. Ball had just resigned as Sales Manager for the Charles R. McCormick Lumber Company to become Sales I\{anager for the J. R. Hanify Cornpany, in San Francisco.

From Don White

"\Me, at White Brothers, want to take this opportunity of congratulating you and THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT on the occasion of your 25th Anniversary in July. To us, THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT is the FINEST TRADE MAGAZINE IN EXISTENCE. Its news keeps us posted on our good customers and personal friends throughout California, and as an advertising medium we believe it has no peer. It is avidly read from cover to cover by most of your subscribers.

During the war it was my pleasure to receive copies of THE MERCHANT out in the Pacific, and f was able to keep pretty well posted on the goings and doings of my friends and acquaintances. Our best wishes for one hundred and twenty-five years of continued success." Don F. White, White Brothers. San Francisco.

At last we can see daylight. Almost a full worling crew now on the iob. The understanding and patience of retaildealers has been much appreciated. We hope to sup' ply you with more and more Redwood lumber as the situation in production and delivery continues to improve.

Under the.title "We're Saying Howdy,,, there appeared in the first issue of THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT ever printed, July first, 1922, my first editorial addressed to the lumber people of California. It scarcely seems possible-to use a worn old platitude-that it was 25 years ago that I sat here at this same desk and type- writer I am using now, to type my first remarks to the great California lumber audience. But the calendar is not to be contradicted. And the calendar says that this really IS July first,' 1947, and that we really started this journal 25 years ago.

I am going to quote freely from that first editorial, because there f stated clearly the reasons why I decided to create a California lumber journal, and the aims, ambitions and intentions of the new sheet; Judge for yourself, friends, whether or not this journal has lived up to its original promises to this industry.'There was at that time no lumber publication in California. There had been one published by one Guy Buell in San Francisco years before, but it had died with its. publisher, if I remember rightly. And when f came to California in lg?l and spent some time looking over the field, it peemed to me that here was a priceless opportunity for a regional lumber journal, because f sensed at a glance that California is in reality a lumber empire all by itself, separated in various fashions from the rest of the lumber industry of the country. And I likewise correctly guessed that a mighty building boom was headed for this area-

I was so thrilled by the prospect that I could hardly restrain my enthusiasm for getting started. I had come to California in May, 192L, to address the annual convention of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association held that year at Fresno. I talked to them about modern merchandising for retail lumbermen, and I was enthused and amazed at the resDonse I got to my preaching of salesmanship, advertising, display rooms, doing the building thinking for the community, etc. I had been telling that story by the spoken and written word since 1910 before lumber conventions all over the country. But it seemed to me that the dealers in California showed a more pronounced interest in modernizing their lumber yards and their merchandising methods than any I had met. So a study of.the situation soon convinced me that California really needed a merchandising lumber journal, and that I wanted to be the supply agent. On July first,1922, we started publishing.

California was at that time setting the pace for the whole world in advertising its products. Just about the

time I was debating starting this journal, I picked up the Saturday Evening Post one day and, saw an ad that thrilled me. The California Peach Growers Association in a full page ad bf many colors, made this statement: ,.We paid the Curtis Publishing Company 911,000 for the privilege of telling the housewives of America how to make this wonderful shortcake." And all there was in the ad was a recipe for peach shortcake. That ad impressed me. I said to myself-"People with that much advertising enthusiasm should go strong for advertising their lumber products." That ad really helped me make up my mind.

When r discussed ,rlr*ru"J *iL trr-u"rmen in various parts of the state I got a world of encouragement from every person I talked to. So we started, and here we are, 25 years later, looking back over that term of years. We havi much to be thankful for. For 25 years we have enjoyed the goodwill, the generous friendship, and the continuous cooperation and support of the lumber industry and its associated industries in this state. THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT has, we believe, been respected and respectable throughout that long period of time. Never has there been any ill will, any misunderstanding, between this journal and the industry it serves. We have gone through some tough times together, this journal and its lumber friends. Ten years of cgntinuous depression tried the metal of journal and industry alike. Both have ridden the rapids.

I wish I might tell the California lumber industry how really and deeply grateful THE MERCHANT is for all the help and kindness of its California lumber friends. We , can only demonstrate our feelings in the matter by promising to continue in the future as we have in the past, to give this state and territory the best lumber journal we are capable of. Ed. Martin and Bill Black, and also Miss Maymme Adams, have made themselves part of the lumber industry of California through their long service as contact points between the industry and THE MERCHANT, and the industry has repaid them by the confidence, trust and; friendship that has been given them by thousands of lumbermen and lumberwomen. Thev are grateful, indeed.

In that first editorial, 25 years ago, we stated our aims and ambitions, as follows: "We hold that the primary job of the Modern Building Merchant is to do the BUILDING THINKING for his community. Therefore we will discuss the various phases of building thinking, or commercial imagination, as it is frequently called.

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"We believe that a business is frequently judged by its general appearance, and that much of its effectiveness in public service depends on its equipment. Therefore we will have much to say about the EQUIPMENT of the lumber dealer.

"fle must do their nr*"r* f.l fri" trade, furnish them with their building plans of the most practical, attractive, and satisfactory character. Therefore we will discuss the use of PLANS and PLAN SERVICE"

"FIe must properly ;pl| ni" gooa" to demonstrate their uses, because people buy building materials, not to HAVE them, but because of what they WILL BUILD and DO. So we will discuss display and service departments for retail lumbermen

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"We believe that a dealer cannot properly serve his trade unless he KNOWS his trade personally and intimately. Therefore we will discuss the pERSONAL EeUATION in business, the art of making fricnds, and the value of friendship in selling building materials. **:1.

"We know that a dealer cannot properly supply his trade with their buitding needs until he knows what those needs are. Therefore, we will discuss PROSPECT LISTS by which the dealer keeps track of the building necessities of his sales territory. ***

"ff a merchant has the ability and the equipment, and

From Walter S. Iohnson

"Heartiest congratulations on the Silver Anniversary of THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT. As a constant reader of the LUMBER MERCHANT I can frankly say that your coverage of these ever changing conditions has been most complete. Best wishes to you, and hop.ing that we will be around to congraulate you on the Golden Anniversary of your magazine." Walter S. Johnson, president, American Box Corporation, San Francisco.

knows his people and their building needs, then there is another very powerful requirement. He must ADVISE THEM of his ability to supply those needs. Therefore we will frequently discuss PUBLICITY and ADVERTISING. ***

"And when he has them ALL, he has still to make the connecting link between necessity and desire on one hand, and fulfillment on the other. Therefore we will continuously discuss the Science of Salesmanship-the most interesting of all business subjects.

"We will strive to cater to every district of California and to every branch of the industry. We will endeavor to act as the vehicle for the transportation of lumber news and ideas to and from every part of California.

"We will endeavor to spread the gospel of cooperation, and believe that there is much need for such work in California. We believe in association activities-in men getting together to help one another to the end that the public may be the better served.

"We will practically and fearlessly handle all subjects that arise affecting the lumber industry of California. And we will particularly try to invest the lumber business with the'enthusiasm we feel for it, and with the halo that the title 'I{ome Builders Of the Nation,' confers upon it." *t<i<

So said we in this column 25 years ago. We believe that in most matters we have kept our word, and lived up to our own original billing.

From Stephen Westover

"flaving been a subscriber to your publication from its initial issue your paper has been and still is a great help to anyone in the retail lumber game. Your editorials are read with great interest by me and also by -y wife who remarks that she never thought any lumberman (except me) was familiar with the works of Kahlil Gibran, whose teachings you occasionally quote." Stephen Westover, Lemon Grove Lumber Co., Lemon Grove.

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Since sfreornlining lumber helndling wifh ?kll0$J Sqrr*' ol SIRADDTE CARRIIRS ond tlFI TRUCKS

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Age not guaranteed---Some I have told for 20 years---Some Less

Couldn't Be Coal

Two gentlemen sat side by side on the bus going to town. One of them was deeply interested in the newspaper he carried. Across the front. page the headlines fairly screamed something about John L. Lewis and the danger of a nation-wide coal strike.

Finally he who was reading turned to his companion and asked:

"What do you think about this fellow John L. Lewis, anyway?"

The other guy militantly replied:

"I like him fine !"

The first one fairly glared.

"Do you mean to sit there and tell me," he said, ..that you approve of John L. Lewis?"

The second one said: "I certainly do !"

The other thought a minute, then said:

"There's only one thing to it. YOU MUST BURN wooD."

From Al Privett

"We very much appreciate the cooperation of THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT and at this time want to congratulate you on your 25th Anniversary." Al Privett, E. K. Wood Lumber Co.. Los Angeles.

From Walter Mink

"We have read your magazine for many y6ars and feel that you have justified your publication through the human editorials and discussions of timely topics of the day affecting the lumber industry." Walter Mink, Cross Lumber Co., Merced.

Here Are The Advertisers In The First lssue o[ The California Lumber Merchant

The California Lumber Nferchant naturally feels a sense of special gratitude to those rvho bought advertising in the first issue we ever printed, July first, 7922. We are aCditionally proud that some of those who bought space in that first number, have ,been aclvertising with us continually ever since. In that listing there are four names, our special roll of honor. They are i

Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco.

\\rendling-Nathan Cornpany, San Francisco.

Western Hardwood I-umber Company, Los Angeles.

W. E. Cooper Lumber Company, Los Angeles.

The first advertising order ever received by The Lunber

Merchant rvas from A. J. "Gus" Russell, Santa.Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco. On June frrst, 1922 he r.r,rote: "Run us a full page in red and black, and keep on running it." It has been running ever since.

The others who advertised in that first issue, rvere :

Cornell Wood Products Co., Chicago, lll. (This concenl had the whole front cover the first year of our existence.)

Lumbermen's Service Association, I-os Angeles.

Lumbermen's Reciprocal Association, I{ouston, Texas.

Chas. R. McCormick & Company, San Francisco.

The Long-Bell Lumber Company, Kansas City, Mo.

Schunracher \!-all Board Company, Los Angeles. (This concern has z,dvertised u'ith us during tl.re greater part of our 25 years.)

I)ioneer I'aper Company, Los Angeles. (During the first several years of our history, this n'as our biggest advertiser.)

lJradlev Lumber Company, \\Iarren, Ark. (This advertiser is u'ith us still, and has been fairly consistent for 25 years.)

R. I\t. Williamson, Dallas, Texas. (Irlan Books.)

Robert H. Brooks. I-ittle itock, Ark. (Advertising agency has been one of our most consistent patrons for 25 years.)

Arkansas Soft Pine Bureau, Little Rock, Ark.

W. R. Pickering Lumber Company, Kansas City, Mo.

E. L. Bruce Company, Memphis, Tenn.

Standard I-umber Company, Stanford, California.

Glasby & Company, Los Angeles.

Arizona Gypsum Plaster Company, Douglas, Ariz.

Rite-Grade Shingle Association, Seattle, Wash.

M. R. Smith Lumber & Shingle Company, Seattle, Wash.

Hipolito Screen & Sash Company, Los Angeles.

National Hardwood Company, Los Angeles.

Northwestern Mutual Fire Association, Seattle, Wash.

J. M. Tees, San Francisco.

Trower Lumber Company, San Francisco.

Holmes-Eureka Lumber Company, San Francisco.

H. W. Browning, Los Angeles.

Fruit Growers Supply Company, San Francisco.

U. S. Epperson {Jnderwriting Company, Kansas City, Mo.

Union Lumber Company, San Francisco.

(At the end of 25 years, we are glad to say to those listed above-thanks, friends, you gave us a goocl start and a lot of solid enconragement.)

When the second issue of The Merchant appeared, July- lsth, 1922, there u'ere the follorving new advertisers listed :

Hart-Wood Lumber Company, San Francisco.

Coos Bay Lumber Company, San Francisco.

E. J. Dodge Company, San Francisco.

\\r. R. Chamberlin & Company, San Francisco.

I3urton-Beebe Lumber Company, Los Angeles.

Pacific Clay Products Company, I-os Angeles.-

The Wheeler, Osgood Company, Los Angeles.

Hendrickson Lumler Companl', San Francisco.

Red River Lumber Company, San Francisco.

The Brininstool Compar-ry, Los Angeles.

\\reaver Roof Company, Los Angeles.

Personnel of California Lumber Merchant From The Beginning

There has been little "turnover" in the personnel of THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT IN 25 YEARS.

Its first N,Ianaging Editor was Shad O. Krantz, a veteran ne\\rspaper man from Portland lvho had joined Jack Dionne's rvorking orgarization just a year before the Lumber Merchant started. Mr. Krantz died suddenly in the early part of 1923, and, M.. J. E. Martin, .ivho had lteen in charge of our San Francisco territory from the beginning, was moved to l-os Angeles and became Managing Editor, a job he has held continuonsly ever since.

N{r. \\'. -l'. Black carne .ivith The Merchant as an advertising man in 1923, n'orking in I-os Angeles. He was moved to San Francisco to succeed Mr. Martin, and has been there ever since. Miss Maymme Adams has had charge of the Circrrlation in the Los Angeles office since 1930. She is an executive in various capacities, and is a stockholder in the business. as are I\1r. Martin and Mr. Black.

First Subscription Check Comes to The Lumber Merchant

The honor of sending in the first subscription, and the first check of any kind received by THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT, fell to the lot of the late R. C. Merryman, of Pasadena, a Vice President of the Fruit Growers Supply Company. Mr. Merryman was a lumberman of the old school who had sarvmilled in \Visconsin before coming to California. The check was for two dollars and was dated June llth, 1922.

THERE WXLL ALWAVS tsE LUMTtsEROOO

Twenty-five years ago, when THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT was starting business, it was the automatic assumption of the lumber industry generally that the South and West would follow naturally in the footsteps of the North and East; cut its timber, close its mills, and quit. What the builders would do after that for construction materials was any man's guess.

ft is true that there were living at that time lumber atld timber men who were gifted with foresight into the po*ibilities of timber regrowth, but they were few and far between, and were generally assumed to be crackpots rather that practical men. The great forests of other regions had been cut out in precedihg de,cades, the mills had fallen into decay or moved South or West, and the industry had fallen asleep. Why not the South and West? Tust as

so many highly intelligent lumber manufacturers in the North and East had cut out and moved South, so wer€ many of the wisest mill men of the South cutting out and moving West. Nearly everyone took it for granted that one day the timber of the South would be gone, while the timber of the \\/est rnould last for many years and then it, in turn, would be gone. And with it the lumber industry.

_ Mr. F. V. Simpson, recently reviewing the history of luthber for 'a generation, quoted a sound authority on Southern lumber as saying in the early twenties: ,,The South is following the course of other regions, and the re_ maining supplies of virgin pine are only about one_fifth of the original stand. Within a single decade Southern pine production promises to exceed by little, if any, the needs of the South. In 15 years the South will become deoen_

This new timber crop is rising to mcturity on logged-oll

Conelratutations

To Icrck Dionne crnd his associates on the Silver Anniversary oI The Calilornic Lumber Merchant. Our orgrcrnizcrtion wishes you many more yecrs oI continued success

dent for its on,n needs from the Pacific Coast.

large importations of lumber

And then came, slowly but surely, into the mentalities ,of the luml>er industry the understanding of the miracle 'of miracles-timber regrowth. And with that came the un'derstanding of things that came along rvith that miracle, such as selective logging, completely changed logging methods and equipment to protect future tree growth in the old cuttings, protection of the 1'oung trees frorn fires .and pestilence, scientific planning for future forests, tree farms, etc., etc.

Twenty-five years after the dire predictions above quoted with regard to Southern lumber, what do we find? In 1946 the South produced 9,474,000,0m feet of Pine and 4,961,000,000 feet of hardwoods, a total of about fourteen and .one-half billion feet of lumber.

And what about the West? The production of Western Pines totaled more than six billion feet in 1946, and 1947 will show still higher figures, a huge increase over prewar years. And the Western Pine experts tell us that they are growing more than four billion feet of Pine annually right now, and that this rate of growth will greatly increase as the old forests are harvested and young and fast-grorving {orests take their place. They think that the future production of Western Pine as well as the future regrorvth will be about five billion feet annually, giving them rvith their present stands of virgin timber as a ba,cklog, a perpetual supply of sau'mill fodder at that rate.

Then there is the Douglas fir regions, tvhich producecl in 1946, 6,253,000,000 feet of lumber. In that region also, re-growing timber and permanent supply for sarvmills is the thought that rides the crest of the wave, and the 26 million acres of commercial forest land is looked upon by practical men as one great tree farm. Timber authorities in the Northwest disagree widely as to the possibilities for regrorving timber, the more optimistic holding that they will eventually produce twenty billion feet of timber annually in Washington and Oregon; while even the conservatives think it will be possible to grow more than eight billion feet of commercial timber annually, enough to keep the mills all going at their present capacity, and leave enough over for plywood, shingle, and pulp requirements,

Then, there is Redwood. There still stands in the California Redrvood forests something over forty billion feet of commercial timber. For the past 25 years it has been cut at the rate of about 400,000,000 feet annually. Just as new forestry and logging methods came to Douglas Fir ancl Western Pine, so have they come to Reclwood, where the rvaste in logging has been enormously reduced, ancl where trees-for the 'futtrre are being in'telligently protecteel and grown. It is considered likely that if ever the Redwood strike ends the production of Redrvood lumber rvill increase. It might be fair to expect a production of half a billion {eet annually from now on. Already there are mills cutting second grorvth Redrn,ood. There is sufficient virgin timber to last for at least 80 years, without any regrowth. So it is fair to assume that, like Southern Pine, and Fir, and Western Pine, rve rvill alrvays have plenty of Redwood.

And so rve know now ihat u.e rvill always have a generous supply of lumber in this country. Not being a prophet

or tlle seventh son of a seventh son, we shall not in this article attempt to say what the future will unfold. But it looks as though lumber yards will always have plenty of Iumber; and with improved methods, care, and equipment, it should be better lumber as the years roll on.

And it is all due to the miracle that happened when the lumber industry suddenly discovered to its huge amazement, that commercial timber CAN be regrown in practical fashion, and that mills CAN be perpetuated by intelligent planning. In the South the thing is a double miracle. There are hundreds of sawmills in Southern Pine today that are ass'ured of a permanent supply of timber, that were either cut out or preparing to cut out years and years back. Today their cut-over lands are commercial tree farms that furnish a fresh supply of sawlogs in cycles of from 7 to l0 years. There is no second-growth timber in suclr forests. It is all virgin timber, g.ro\,vn to order, a new crop every few years, and another crop growing rapidly all the time. A little more slowly but just as definitely rhe forests of the West are being replaced with young forests that rvill provide ample lumber for future generations.

The greatest champion of commercial timber growing in the entire lumber industry, is Q. T. Hardtner, of Urania, Louisiana, President of the Southern Pine Associatjon. Forty years ago Mr. Hardtner and his elder brother Henry were practicing on their lands in Louisiana all the things that the rest of the lumber industry has taken so .long to believe. For forty-five years they have been growing their own trees, and today they have a lot more timber back of their big mill than they had when they started. The other day, addressing a lumber cong'ress in Chicago, Mr. Hardtner remarked that the viewpoint of the sawmill man has entirely changed. His principal business formerlv r,vas making lumber. Now his principal business is grorving trees to make lumber from. And thus has the entire face of the industry changed.

Congrrcts From Severcrl Old Friends

"We take this opportunity to extend our best wishes to your publication." C. \il'. Cooper, Los Angeles.

"Best wishes for your anniversary number." T. J. Fox, President, John W. Fisher Lumber Co., Santa Monica.

"Our heartiest congratulations and good wishes for your continued success." H. A.. Brown, President, Woodhead Lumber Co., Los Angeles.

"It is a pleasure to add our congratulations to the many you will receive." J. F. Wright, Brey-Wright Lumber Co., Porterville.

"We do enjoy THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT." Associated Plywood Mills, Eugene, Oregon.

"We wish to congratulate you." Western Lumber Co., Fraser Mills, British Columbia.

"Congratulations on the quarter century of successful work." Tom Hogan, Flogan Lumber Co., OakIand.

hePe nbe rthy organization of California proudly joins the in rejoicing with lumbe r industry THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT yadrs ot on this very important bitthdav. 25 Y( useful service is something to 6e proud ot. Muv it |" long conUnue.

The Lumber Merchant ls The Best Paint Merchant

(When THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT made its bow to the California lumber trade 25 years ago, a close canvass of the retail lumber dealers of the state revealed the fact that very few lumber dealers were pAINT dealers, and still fewer were paint MERCHANTS. So rve went to work to convince the California trade that the lumber dealer is the ideal paint dealer, with great advantages over any other seller of paint. We have seen that proven by thousands of lumber dealers farther East, and knew it would work at least as well in California. So, from that day until this, we have been editorially bombarding the lumber dealers on the subject of paint selling. Result-today nearly every California lumber dealer is a sqccessful paint merchant. The following is the first editorial on that subject that appeared in THE MERCHANT, a signed article by Jack Dionne.)

The lumber dealer is the best possible paint merchant because his main business is selling the stufi that paint is made to cover, protect, and beautify-wood. So, why shouldn't he sell both? Who could be in better position? Who has a better right ? And besides, he is in business to make a profit, and there is fine return on the paint investment.

The greatest living authority on paint said to me not'a month ago: "There is no doubt on earth that the iive lrrmber merchant is the best paint merchant." I have heard the

From Henry Hink

"I certainly want to take this opportunity of extending to you and your organization hearty congratulations on your 25th anniversary of THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT, and f extend to you, your staff, and your paper best wishes for a long and useful life."

flenry M. Hink, president, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co.. San Francisco.

same thing from many other big paint men. So for many years I have been talking paint right along rvith lumber because they work together like the legs on a stool, help- ing one another.

The thing that makes paint a great.lumber sideline is the natural teamwork of the two materials. When the dealer finds lumber hard to sell "as is," he just dresses it up with a plan and some paint, and-Presto-it sells itself !

There's no doubt about it. If there's one thing on earth more infectious and contagious than the Bubonic plague, it's the paint fever'. Why, Mr. Lumber Dealer, evertblessed housewife in your entire territory is a paint prospect right norv. Every blessed one. And every husband, too.

Yes Sir ! Paint naturally belongs to the lumber dealer. He has a chance,to talk paint with every board he sends out of his yard. If he doesn't merchandise paint he is refusing to take good and legitimate profit. Stock paint ! Display paint ! Merchandise paint ! Make your trade paint conscious. You can sell paint to scores of people hot even in the market for your building material. Make the paint dbpartment one of the most attractive places in your plant.

If you haven't been a paint merchant in the past, get busy and start being one. California is the best painted state in the union. Are you getting your share of that fine busirtess ?

From W. H. Mccy

"The first trade magazine we pick up is THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT, and the first pages we read are the Vagabond Editorials. They always entertain, always give us cheerful information, and always give us inspiring thought to carry along wherever we go." W. H. Macy, Macy Lumber Co., Orland, Calif.

rhe L|FT TB U 0I( |;I L,i::";,;: ";;,"#,::,

We have been talking about what was the greatest blessing, the most outstanding innovation that has come to the retail lumber industry of carifornia in the past 2s years.

After scanning the field thoughtfully we arrived at the easy conclusion that the lift truck holds that high honor; far surpassing any other one good thing that has come to the industry in a fourth of a generatio". Witt any str-rdcnt .of the situation raise a voice in doubt?

Look at the lumber yards of the state today, think of them 25 years ago, and witness the wonders the lift truck has wrought. It has cut the cost of transporting lumber in and around a lumber yard to a point no one would have thought possible. It has made it possible to store from tr,vo to five times the amount of lumber in practical fashion on the same amorlnt of ground, or in the same coverage of shed. It has made it possible for the lumber yard to load or unload flat cars of lumber in about one_tenth of the time it used to require to do it by hand.

The fact that the lumber yards of the state have been almost entirely rebuilt to fit the lift truck. way of package handling and piling, speaks for itself. Everywhere paving

Production of Fir Increases Rapidfy in California

According to the Bureau of Census figures, Fir produc_ tion (all species) for the State of California I& g4S amounted to 658,523,000 feet, of rvhich total 201.000.000 feet was Douglas Fir.

Total figures for 7946 production are norv being pre- pared but not yet released, but rvith the many new sawmills that have been buil1. recently in the Fir regions of Northern California, it is practically certain that the 1946 figures rvill be greater than those of the previous year.

has ,come, to give the lift truck smooth running room. Everywhere the sheds have been changed to elimiiate up_ rights and allow the lift trucks to run in and out and pile high their heavy burdens. Those that have not alreadv been rebuilt are now being worked on, or the

changes planned.

When you own the ground, the sky above is free for high piling. So the lift truck has given to the lumber yaJds storage territory toward the sky that they pay no rent for. Shove it up ! Thats all you have to do wher.r vou need more lumber storage room.

The more you thiirk of it the more the lift truck seems to be in a class all by itserf. with the labor situation like it is, the lift truck came along to absolutely save the lumber yard industry of California. The whole arrangement, the whole set-up of the luniber yard has been changed. Expenses have been cut tremendously, unbelievable spled in handling lumber has been attained, storage space has been several times multiplied, and efficiency heretofore un_ known has come to the lumber varcls.

Viva, la lift truck !

Boosting Bill Black

"I just cannot let this opportunity go by without telling you how much Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39. the ' lumber dealers, and all lumbermen of Northern California, like Bill Blick. Bill gives us complete coverage of local news, helps select splendid articles, and as_ sists us with advertising that pays dividends. your magazine throughout is so readable, practical, interesting, educational, and informative. Thanks for a grand 25 years, and best wishes for many more.', Jim Over_ cast, Strable Hardwood Company, Oakland.

E appreciate the fine service which has been rendered to the lumber industry in Southern California by The California Lumber Merchant and its publisher, Jack Dionne, over the past twentyfive years. We wish you continued success.

when THE CALfI'OBNIA LUIIBDB

A q.rora" r of a century doesn't seem long until you star rooking back a1 th.e developments that have taken place during this period. For exam- ple, back in L9222-

: Th" present scotia rnn-famous for irs "Lumberjack Meals', was only in the plan stage. Likewise,- plans were being compreted for our p;;1 motion picture theater which-seats 600 peopi-". Toi"y, it would be hard to estimate how many thousands of evinings of eniertainment this has provided our workers and their families.

o we'were installing a new 2,000 Kw turbine and contemplating the installation of two more.

iv: were building a new machine shop with 36,000 sq. ft. of Redwood floorrng, and a 10-ton cyclops crane.

o our remanufacturing plant containing 10 resaws, 12 cut-off saws and a double rip was underlonsrruction.

A new short yard of 2,000,000 sq. ft. had just been completed.

,' v" wer.e opening oyr Freshwater Tract to lay t,ooO,ooo M'BM of timber, as well as the Laribee Basin Tract, which would add another 200,000 M'BM.

o $7e were supplying Redwood sawdust for packing grapes. :tW" were,investigating the- possibilities of electric togging. lo record the major events that have transpired during ihe-past 25 years yorl{ requiie every one of the 2,600 issueipublished 6y california iumber Merchant during this cavalcade of progress.

IIDRCHATTT was founded.

p ictored above is a view of our mill at Scotia 25 years ago. This historic photograph is but a milestone in the development and Progress of our company-just as this 25th anniversary issue marks the tutn of a quaner. of centuty of setvice on the part of the Catifornia Lumber Merchant to the lumbet industry of this great state. . '

rHE PAeInIe LuMBDn ooMPAITY

(Reprinted frorn July first, 1922)

The Point of Contact

By JACK DIONNE

The other dav I went into a prace of business to cail on itr manager. The pliace war modin. i"t""."ting,.:ttriltir.. signs of industry were ever5rwhere. -The first impression *"" spb]idia. - : -

At the d'oor sat a yourg worhan with_an_',Information, sign at her erbow. she looked rne over as t istea r* ttr. Cigr, rr"grl..fr1*J'** no welcorne in her glance. when assured that ttr" t"a-"r i[""rr".,""'*ilJ r."uv trre person I want&l.to see, she frowned *ittt "-"rt*tr, ri"oo";*t;;olone attachment over her head. oushed a button,-waited' a_f_ew moments, puliid [" G;;;;; ofi,- fi'g it from her with ai'a&",1i'-*-;;;l;;'k-l;"#;; her desk worlr, and from the corner of her -o.rth

ttHe's not in.,t

No more. Not a word as to where he -was, when he would be in, wouldnrt I see someone elre. what courd tt "v-J" riit ,-J, i'irri""g] Jrut prain, frank discorrtesy.

I was arnused. I had. seen the ty_pe befo-re. And aq I wondered how rittle the firm must think 9f -$. art of "iti,"-."Jip t";;fi; iir-""u.r to so rude a ttpoint of contactttwith the firm, ttre -".r"g*" carne in.

He was courteous, business-like, friendlyr-all right.

And I wished that-I knewhim well enowh to have uttered before leaving, a few thoughts on salesrnanship, with th" ,,poirrt of contactrr as a text.

Mr. B'sinesr Man, regardlesr of how large or how smalr your b'siness may be, what line vou are in,1r what you """ tiiigi"-;;;;;ii"illn".u. to this:

STUDY THE POINT OF CONTACT BETWEEN YOUR BUSINESS AND YOUR CALLERS.

DON'T overlook that point. The -person who rneets yo.r calle* FIRsr is one of the most important per_sons Lt "-"y ;i"";r;;Jiior". If you will rtop to think, vou will quickly iealize the high "J"" "i Frnsiinapnrssions; and the firct impreesion your businers gi;;th;-;r*,'['ti*r"gr, the first person who addresses him.

And the morg yoqr Euc-ceEE- depends rpon its standing with the pubric, the rnore necessary is it that the right personlorm your ..point oico,ntact."

In the modern buil{ing storer- for instancg the man who meets tlre trade at the door is decidedlv -ou "bl" to help ; h*t th; ;;;;rr, than ,is the rnanager in the back office. MUCH nxrre so.

Think it over. Is the contact person in. yow place of business-regardlesr of _where or what it is-srtart enough t" -a[q E, -;k-see that he is welcome, and to put him at his ease?-

--r-oq-'jn-o!qt of contact" should have just one thing in view: To MAKE THE CALLER FEEL THAT HE IS A _CUNST iN YIJUR FLACE.

It rnakes no difie'rence whether he is a big prospective clienf or just a bill collector. He should be treated the same *.y.

agd if yo'r"point of contact" m,akes the caller glad that he carnq he has rendered your business a valuable service-

I(enneth $rnith

This is a story about Kenneth Smith, of San Francisco. President of the California Redwood Association; a Texas ranch boy who came West and made good, and who has in_ jected into the lumber industry of California a thousand times more good than he can ever take out of it, regard_ less of how well he may fare. It would be more fun to write about this man were the writer not impressed with the dif6culty of doing justice to such a Tellow.

It is pleasant to re,call that long ago this writer penned just a short editorial note in the columns of THE CALI_ FORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT which is remembered by Mr. Smith as "the first complimentary thing ever said about me in print, and while it was one of thoselhings you wrote at the moment and.forgot, it was a big thing to me.,' That came as a grand compliment to THE MERCHANT and its editor.

fn August, 7929, Mr. Smith was up to his ears in one of the most potent campaigns ever waged in the lumber industry of the West. He was attempting single_handed to switch Los Angeles from a no-grade Oregon pine market to a specified grade and grade marked Douglas Fir mar_ ket. It was a titanic job, and he tackled it with full knowl_ edge of the difficulties, but heartened by the great necessity. So he wrote a letter to Col. W. B. Greeley of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, driving home rvith sledge_ hammer blows the impracticability and crudeness and un_ intelligence of marketing good lumber in the fashion it was then marketed in California and suggesting methods and means for .correcting it. That entire letter was oub_ lished in THE MERCHANT, together with an editorial note that said; "Here is one of the grandest business let_ ters I have ever read. I strongly recommend its earnest and careful digestion by this entire industry in California.,'

Of course Kenneth Smith won that battle, changed. the entire face of the lumber industry in Southern california, and was well on his way to becoming the recognized per-

sonal force for ,better merchandising and better thinking in the industry that he i's today.

It was just two years before that happened that he got himself drafted into the lumber association life of California by reason of a lot of good speeches he made. He was, in 1927, Sales Manager for E. K. Wood at Los Angeles. One day he made a speech to a lumber crowd that rocked them back on their heels. He simply told them that the only way to HAVtr a good competitor is to BE a good competitor. At that time good competitors were not overly plentiful in the Los Angelse district. The thought was catching, particularly when worded in the fashion of Kenneth Smith. so he responded to various other invitations from lumber groups,and told that same story many times. It caught on. And the result was that the major retail lumber yards of Los Angeles called his hand on this philosophy and put him in charge of a newly organized retail association within the city. So he became a Trade Association Executive, and in such a groove he has remained for over rwenry years. There were several reorganizations during the thirteen years, he served in association work in Los Angeles. During those years, he represented at various times the hardwood dealers, the coast wholesalers, and the custom millwork people, as virell as the retail dealers. In 1934 and '35 he rvas Retail Lumber Code Authority for Southern California.

In such a man as Mr. Smith there is a born and bred talent for leadership that nothing can deny, and that will not down. From the day those Los Angeles retail yards drafted him into service, that genius for leadership has continually manifested itself in his life and in his work. He combines with his leadership urge an apparently bottomless reservoir of mental and physical energy that furnishes the needed power and drive to get things done. He puts everything he has into his effort Tor today, and his preperations for tomorrop. He possesses not a feather of that fictitious bird that spends so much time looking back-

wE cAN GIVE yOU.. r

the servlce you are entitled to, and we can supply you with what you want in lumber, with thc modern facilities at our command.

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is ideal for shipping to the Califiornia, Nevada, and Arizona trade, so let us have your requirements.

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Hearty congratulations to Jack Dionne and Staff of The Calilornia Lrmb"r Merchant on the attainment of their 25th Anniversdry/ Julv 1st, 1947

ward. He has no such time or inclination. Always he is rrusy at useful jobs largely of his own devising; "rrd ul*'uy. he gets them done in such fashion that the industry that knows hirn has come to expect such accomplishments. From the beginning of his working career he has been a "fool for work." Which is largely why he has come from a kid stenog rapher in a sarvmill office in Houston, Texas, to the Presidency of the California Redwood Association. He has hustled for what he got, ah,vays willing tq pay the price in energy and devotion for the chance to step a rung furtherup the ladder. He goes ahvays forward.

Let us take a brief look at his business career. He r.vas born on the Matador Ranch at Matador, Texas, on January l6th, 1893. He went through the 8th grade in school in Bowie, Texas, and then rvorked for a time rvith his father, learning the trade of watch repairing. Then l-re pushe<l lumber in a planing mill, trucked cement for a railroarl bridge gang, did a bit of carpenter rvork, and even kept books in a country bank. He denies that his services helpe.l the bank go broke, but the fact stands that the bank closecl up shop. \\/hen he u'as 18 years old he tried to learn something al;out office business in a business college in Houston. Texas, and here is rvhere he and the lumbdr industry got together for keeps.

The Carter Lumber Company, u'hich operated several East Texas sarn'rnills, sent over to the business college for a stenographer, and they sent our hero. He got the joll, and the lumber business has been stuck with him ever since. While in the Carter office he met two characters he has been friends with ever sin'ce. One was Harrv T. Kendall, norv Vice President and General Manager of the \\reyerhaeuser Sales Company, and the other was Jack Dionne, then ecliting a lumber journal and getting reacly to start THE, GUI-F COAST LUN{BERMAN. This was in 1911.

Then our budding lumbernran, nou, 19 years oi age, g()t a job with the I-ong-Bell Lumber Corr.rpany, and stayecl rvith that concern lrom l9l2 untll 1926. He u,ent to n.ork under a grand lumberman named Lloyd Chipman, and, as Kipling's hero "learned about women from her," Ken Smith learned about lunrber from Chipraan. This rvas a man ' rvhose chief aim in life seemed to l;e to help the worthy young men rvho rvorked under him. To Nlr., Chipman goes the eternal gratitude of Nlr.'Snrith for his unsellish help and teachings. He taught yorlng men to have confidence in themselves, to make decisions, in short, to become executives. And he built our young and green stenographer into a lumber exceutive, and then turned over to him executive duties to perform.

Smith sarv service at the mills in l-ouisiana, then in the general office in Kansas City, and then, as District Sales Manager he rvas located successivelv at Nevr. Orleans, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. He opened the tt'o latter offices, and then had charge of them.

Which brings us up to the good year 1927 u,hen he lett Long-8e11 and became Sales Manager in l-os Angeles for the E. K. Wood Lumber Company. The next thirteen years, as has already been related, he was with various lumber associations in and around Los Angeles. During this time many important tasks rvere given him as side .lines, and

volunteer positions. One of those jobs was that of President of Associated Se,cretaries, in Los Angeles, in 1938, 1939, and 1940.

On July first, 1940, he was offered and accepted the office of President and General Manager of the California Redwood Association, with home offices in San Francisco. For seven years he has held that position in such manner is to win the approval and applause of the Redwood industry. It has been a job far removed from simply sitting in an office and compiling statistical reports about Redwood. It has been complicated by the longest labor strike in history; one that still goes on, and Mr. Smith has been spearheading the work of the Redwood mills in the handling of that very trying situation.

He has become more and lnore an evangelist-a crusader.. A splendid thinker and public speaker he has the faculty of throrving impressive facts and thoughts at his listeners, :rnd- his public speaking has covered a wide territory. No arm-lvaving orator this, but a man who clothes impressive thoughts in punchful and lasting words, ar-rd 'rvho invariablv leaves a deep impression upon his hearers. The rvriter of this piece has recently charged him with having become a 1>reacher, but Smith insists that he is not really a preacher, but rather a peddler of ideas. In that he is correct. He considers that the things he has been recently r.vriting and saying to the lumber industry and to business men of other lines, are at least as important as the rvork he has dor.re rvith his head and hands in his association activities.

He is a crusader u.ho believes implicity in the crnsade he leads. His recent hne of thought is that businessmen must accept the responsibility for doing the all-important job of re-educating Americans about rvhat makes their country tick. He thinks that if every lumberman u'ho attends a convention u'ould return to his home and start practicing, preaching, and putting into effect enlightened handling of human relations, it rvould do more good for all concerned than zrll the other things they could accomplish, put together. That the fate of this industry and this nation depends tremendonsly on better and more intelligent handling of human relations, is at present tl-re burden of the song of this strong man. And never forget that a strong man adds to the sum of human knorvledge, extends the horizon of human thought, releases souls from the Bastille of fear, gives nerv continents to the domain of intellect and ner'v constellations to the firmament of mind.

The rvriter, rvho has knowr"r 1-rim since boyhood, looks upon him as one of the great and valuable men who have come his rvay in life; a man of character, of honor, of courage, of devotion, and lvithal a man of high humor; who loves his friends, serves them, and has no other gods before them.

Smith, It is a privilege to walk by the side of Kenneth and all the other Kenneth Smiths of the world ; if indeed, there be others.

It is alone is subject

ar-r ordering of God that character and character the basis of all true greatness. Which makes the of this sketch one of the truly great.

Pacific Northwest Logging--Past And Present

By Executive Vice President, H. V. Simpson West Coast Lumbermen's Association

As long ago as the last century it was the timber of the Pacific So"tt which really caused the eyes of veteran loggers to widen. They never had seen timber to match it. Loggers reported, according to Stewart H. Holbrook, that it took "two men and a boy" to look to the top of a giant Douglas fir.

What was more, they were growing in unbelievable abun- ' dance. There were five times as S*many board feet to the acre as '. ever had been found in Maine or the Lake States. This West Coast timber had another quality which was not apparent to the early lumbermen. No area reproduces so much timber so fast. It is gradually becoming apparent that the more remote areas probably never will be logged-it is cheaper to take advantage of the soil's regenerative potvers and grow the needed timber on land handier to the manufacturing plants.

The size of the Douglas fir, to say nothing of the Sequoia, meant new logging problems. The big sticks couldn't be handled with the ease of the white pine logs; there were too few rivers which lent themselves to driving, and not enough snow to make the use of sleds feasible. The answer in the West was skidroads. These were simply paths swamped out in the ,woods; small trees were felled at intervals across the paths and half buried in the moist ground. These made natural skids, along rvhich the rnammoth logs could be dragged.

The motive power required was greater than the traditional team of horses could supply. The loggers employed oxen, rvhich they ,called ",bull" teams, hitching up as many as ten yokes of the animals to haul long turns of the big sticks. For decades, bull team logging \\'as the rule orr the Pacific Coast.

The bullwhackers were privileged men, highly paid, ancl the most colorful woods workers of their era. To get the most out of their teams they relied primarily on invective of a distinctive sort, but logging legend records that, in a pinch, a bullwhacker might spring upon an animal's back and walk in his calked boots down the length of the team.

Mechanical inventiveness was at rvork in the woods, as elservhere. In the 1880's on the West Coast; men who

were impatient with the deliberateness of oxen devised the logging donkey engine. This consisted essentihlly of an upright boiler for the generating of steam, and a drum from which a line was run out into the woods. Mounted on heavy log skids, the donkey engine could be maneuvered wherever desired in the timber. When the first log came booming out of the woods at the end of a length of wire rope which wound up around the donkey engine's drum. the days of the oxen were numbered.

This method of pulling in the logs, or "yarding," was known as ground lead logging. A natural development was high lead logging. The principal was the same, and the power was supplied by the same donkev engine. The difference was that a pulley was rigged some 150 or 26 feet in the air at the top of a spar tree. These pulleys often rveighed more than a ton. Their installing, as well as the guying of the spar tree so it could withstand the tremendous pressures of a dragging log, created the job of.the high climber or high rigger. Few sights are more dramatic than the sight of a high climber, a midget figure against the sky,, bringing down with ax and saw the green top of a Douglas fir. High lead logging is being used to a far lesser extent than it was a decade or two ago, largely because of the greater economy of tractor operations.

Both the speed-up in logging and the sparsity of rivers contributed to the development of logging railroads. These rvere at first of the most elementary sort'; the rails were of rvood and the cars were pulled by horses. As their value became more apparent, the roads became complicated and modern affairs, requiring the investment of hundreds and thousands of dollars. Lumbermen sent their steel rails probing into remote timbered areas, and the one and only purpose of the roads rvas to haul out logs. N{any of these abbreviated railroads are still in every-day use.

Modern logging, however, is distinguished by a greater flexibility rvhich has come to it as the result of two comparatively recent innovations-use of crawler-type tractors and logging trucks. The'first to a large extent have supplanted the complicated ground and high-lead installations; the second, more and more, are replacing the expensive logging railroads.

It rvas rvith dififrculty that the tractor won its place. Old-time loggers resisted the change, viewing the plunging, chugging monsters with suspicion. It soon became clear, however, that a tractor could operate in rough country, on half a road or none at all. The snorting machine had the big sticks down out of the wood and cold decked in less'tirne than it would have taken to set up the traditional

NTOYO,

CHIEFOF THE I \ RED\rooDS, symbol

of Service for Union Lumber Company, extends heartiest greetings to California Lumber Merchant, celebrating its Silver Anniversary. J< Itself a yeteran of over 6o years in the Redwood industry, Union Lumber Company was very much on the job to welcome this real friend of the "Iumberman" when its first issue was launched a quarter of a century ^go.

Today, Noyo products span the nation, while California Lumber Merchant enjoys an enviable position in the hearts of all the lumber folks throughout California. From one " Old Timer " to another . . congratulations and best wishes !

Producers of NOYO REDWOOD . Distriburors of DOUGLAS FIR 4eis

spar tree rigging. Its job done, the tractor could ramble under its own power to the site of the next operation. A tractor was versatile, too. Anchored and equipped with a drum, it could yard logs as well as a donkey engine.

Economy is one of the big advantages of tractor logging. The first tractors, powered by gasoline engines, resulted in reduced expenses; Diesel-powered machines were able to operate at still lower cost. Perhaps the most important contribution of tractors is that they permit the logging of small, hard-to-reach stands of timber which otherwise could not be logged at a profit. They also are invaluable in selective logging.

As useful as the tractors are the logging trucks. These are heavy-duty machines, costing from $10,000 up, but they too help to simplify modern logging.. A truck road is far less costly to install than a railroad, mainly because it seldom needs to be as long as a railroad. This is because trucks can operate on steeper grades than locomotives. Five or six per cent is about the maximum grade for a logging railroad, while a truck road may often contain grades of fifteen and twenty per cent.

Another innovation of modern logging concerns the saw, long spoken of in the woods as a "misery whip" because of its effect on the muscles of the back and arms. The power saw is far speedier than the hand-operated instrument, although it has by no means come into universal use. It has been found most valuable when the lay of the land permits easy access to the butt of the tree. Although the power saw is capable of producing logs faster than the hand-operated cross.cut, the expense of maintenance makes logging costs approximately equal.

So far as present and future production in the Douglas fir region of Washington and Oregon are concerned, it is interesting to hote.production figures for recent years.

In 1931, the total was 5,310,000,000 board feet; in 1935, 6,736,000,000 board feet ; 1940, 7',472,000,W board feet : and in 1946,6,300,000,000. It is probable that 1947 production will exceed 7,000,000,000. Timber experts have estimatecl that future production from the region can be maintained at a level of 8,500,000,000 forever. With more and more emphasis being placed on improved logging practices and on better utilization and manufacturing processes, there can be no doubt that the economic contribution of the Douglas fir .region will increase rather than decrease in the years to come.

From PhiI Gosslin

"In less than a month you will be'publishing the Silver Anniversary of THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT, and I want to join the horde of friends who will be congratulating you. Your magazine has been, is, and will continue to be most valuable to us, and we look forward to each issue. ft is an institution." Phil Gosslin, Gosslin-Harding Lumber Co.. Oakland.

Eventful Day

The day we hail is like a gem Upon a rosary of years, And in its calm, pellucid depths A pattern of the past appears; A dream, a plan, a task assumed, By one who in his wisdom knew, The powelof creative thought When coupled with the will to do.

Some who shared the leader's vision Came with eager hands and hearts, To enhance the new adventure, With their various crafts and arts: So of old were temples builded, So today are guerdons w'on, Dreamers, artisans and craftsmen Marching on from sun to sun.

This smiling day illumines for us, The pathways of our earlier years, And as we follow them in thought, With quiet smiles and wistful tears, We vvalk through olden scenes again Of serious work and care free play, We greet the friends of long ago And sing the songs of yesterday.

The day goes by, but other gems Will grace the rosary oT our years, And we shall welcome them, each one, With reminiscent smiles and tears; With dreams for all the days to be, With courage, faith and wisdom too And gifts of rare creative thought, Linked ever with the will to do.

Adeline Merriam Conner.

From Bert Brycn

"Each time I read one of your Vagabond Editorials (and I read them all), the thought comes that I should tell you how much I enjoy them. Your editorial, 'Luke, the Beloved Physician,' is a masterpiece: my copy is still circulating among my friends, and will come to rest in a permanent and prominent place in my scrapbook. A hearty hand-shake to you, my friend." B. E. Bryan,.Oakland.

The Start of Ope of the WILLITS

edwood Lrrrnber

Tbis all neut, mod.ern steel and. concrete saumill is nou operating to ca,

z electric band. pacity,

o Best wishes to our good friendp, th The California Lumber Merche on their 25th Anniversary.

the staff of :hant

The Great Ghost Mill

That Never Started

The Strangest Sawmill Story Ever Told

Ghost town are not uncommon in the West. The history of the Westward sweep of civilization in the pioneer days left the mountains and prairies littered with many such. Many of them have been remembered in song and story.

But mostly they were the ghosts o'f mining towns, where the miners 'came surging in and then went sweeping out again as the ore played out.

But here is the story of a ghost sawmill. Certainly the most unusual story of its kind in all lumber history. The story of a great mill, one of the biggest and most modern that the lumber rvorld had yet seen, which came. into existence at the Northernmost tip of the great range of Redwood {orests in California, then passed into oblivion without ever turning a wheel, or cutting a 1og.

Today as you drive along the Redwood Highway in Northern California, passing through virgin Redwood forets, you may see as you pass close to the Humboldt County border three tall, rusty steel smokestacks that are clearly outlined against the still taller trees. These stacks are the skyline markings of the ghost town and sawmill that was once called Andersonia. Today the mill site is a practical wilderness. The forest this mill was built to destroy, claimed it again as the once well laid out sawmill town again became part of the forest primeval.

If you should be by curiosity driven to investigate further the matter of these tall sawmill smokestacks, you would find what is left of what started to be a great industrial enterprise more than forty years ago. You will find the remains of a big mill pond that had been cieated.by a thirty foot high dam across a creek. You find only the remains of the dam which washed out a generation back, carrying a million feet of Redwood logs down the river to be seen no more, and leaving behind another two million feet of logs.

You will find what was once a great sawmill strrrcture alongside that mill pond. It is fallen into decay, as pictures here shown will illustrate. Alongside the mill is a big power plant and boiler house, the six big, expensive boilers still in place on their brick foundations. Other buildings that customarily surround a big sawmill have fallen into the decay that comes with the years. On the top of a nearby hill you can see, if you wish to climb up there, two locomotives. They were specially made by Baldwin for this particular sawmill plant back in the year 1902 or L903. The railroad under them has rotted away and sunk into the ground, and the locomotives that were brand new and shiny when the climax came, have been partially reclaimed by Mother Earth.

By lack Dionne

Yes, you will find what is left of one of the biggest and best sawmills of its time and age, after more than forty vears of wind, weather, and disuse. In this sawmill there was a great ten-foot band headrig built by Allis-Chalmers for cutting big Redwood logs. Also there was a doublecutting eight-foot band mill, for slicing up cants that came from the big band. Farther along there was a mighty resaw, an edger, trimmer, slasher and other equipment for handling a great output of Redwood lumber.

Here is the strange story o,f Andersonia; of the expensive plant that was built and made ready for operation, and then never turned a wheel, but was deliberately left to rot and,go back to nature. Tragedy killed the owner and builder of the mill just as they were preparing to start cutting logs; and the tragedy took the life oT the mill just as 'certainly as a timber in the mill took the life of the owner, Mr. H. N. Anderson.

Why was that mighty sawmill, with a railroad connecting it with the Pacific Ocean, left to rot and go back to nature? It had cost some $800,000, and today would have cost three or four times that amount. Why did the buildings fall apart, the locomotives sink into the hillside, the railroad bridges tumble, with no hand lifted to preserve them ? Some say that it was nor done deliberately, but that a series of strange adversities prevented the salvaging of the fortune invested there. Others think that the devoted family of H. N. Anderson were so shocked by his'death, that they chose to simply forget the whole business, and just left everything as it was the day he died. Anyway,

How the sqrpmill proper looks todcry.

Gus Hoover Extends Congrcltulclrions

And Best Wishes to the Ceilifornicl lumber tlerchclnt on its 25rh Birrhdoy, crnd to all of ,irs Orgonization. A Good Publisher - lhough ei lousy

Golfer-ferck Dionne has given the Ceiliforniei lumber Frqlernity o Publiceition of which ir hos been iusrly proud for o querrler of a cenluty. ilcly the rrterchanltt live Long ond prospGfo

A once proud locomotive sunken in

railrocd right of

there it stands today. There has been some salvaging of valuable equipment in recent years. The larger units of sawmill machinery were finally sold and taken out. The Government salvaged some of the railroad rail during the recent war. The grandsons of H. N. Anderson are now salvaging some of the Redwood logs that were cut and waiting for the mill to start. The belting and saws which had never been put in place when the mill died, were taken out and sold not so long ago. But for about forty years the place stood and rotted, and became the ghost of the sawmill town of Andersonia; a desolate ruin. And so it is today. Old logging cars stand right where they were overg'rown with trees and earth. A huge fly-wheel still

stands between twin engines mounted on concrete. It is a bit off level, but still impressive. What is left of the commissary, the waterworkb, the company offices, the logging camp equipment, and other units of the mill that was ready to start in O'ctober, 1905, still peers in spots from the undergrowth. For that is Andersonia today.

The ghost mill of Andersonia ,belonged to the Southern Humboldt Lumber Company, which was organized November 6th, 1902, by the late H. N. Anderson, of Aberdeen, Washington. Investing rvith him in the enterprise were

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Bottom of old log pond. See young Redwoods thst hove grown up.

A Pleasure,

his three sons, H. N. Anderson, Jr., Sam Anderson, and G. E. Anderson, and also A. \Ar. Middleton, all of Aberdeen. The elder Anderson proceeded to California to devel_ op their properties, and build the great mill rvith a railroad to serve it. He built a railroad from Bear Harbor on the Pacific Coast, to the site of Andersonia, rvhich he laid out, a distance of abour_ 15 miles. He bought a dock at Bear Harbor from which to ship their lumber by boat after the railroad brought it out from the mill. He dammed a creek and created a big mill pond, installed logging operations and started cutting logs while the mill rvas building. He bought more than half a billion feet of big Redn ood timber right at the mill. He laid out the mill town, and then he built the mill. Not more than thirty days before the mill lvould have started cutting logs, H. N. Anderson stood directing the hoisting of a beam by a donkey engine, when the timber swung against his head, killing him. Then a 'curtain settled down over Andersonia.

The crews of every kind were immediately dismissed, and everything rvas left just where it was when the tragedy occurred. That rvas late in October, 1905. The entire setup was left just as it was for more than forty years. And that is how Andersonia became the most memorable ghost sawmill in all history. The second generation of Andersons salvaged some equipment and supplies, such as belting and saws, but otherwise left the place just as it was.

The third generation of Andersons, however, have done something about it. Three sons of S. M. Anderson, who , was interested with his father in the company, have stepped into the picture. They are the sole owners of the ,.-iirr_ ing properties including a great stand of Redwood timber. They created the Indian Creek Lumber Company to take over and operate rvhat is left of the properties of the South_ ern Humboldt Lumber Company. They have built a new mill of modest size not far from the site of the Andersonia ghost mill, and are norv operating it. They are cutting over two millior-r feet of logs ,cut by their grandfather, rvhich have been lying there for 42 years. Most of the wood is

From George Kendrick

"You have grown to become such a part of the California lumber picture ,both with the retailers and distributors, that we trust that you and your fine magazine will celebrate the second 25th anniversary.', Geo. R. Kendrick, Pope & Talbot, fnc., San Francisco.

sound and merchantable, quite a tribute to Redwood. And they lvill enlarge the mill at once by the installation of a resaw, and will then continue the mill permanently with a daily production of 50,000 to 60,000 feet of lumber.

The railroad to Bear Harbor is entirely gone, so they are using a new method of getting out their lumber. Their mill is on the South Fork of the Eel River, and they are hoisting their lumber across the river by a sky-line, and then trucking it to the San Francisco area. Their employees live on the opposite side of the river from the mill, and go across on a suspension type foot bridge. Supplies come to the mill by sky-line.

So the third generation of Andersons has now brought life and industry back to that area, rvhile just a stone's throrv away remains and will always remain, the ghost torvn that rvas Andersonia two generations back.

Non', is this a sawmill story. or isn't it?

From Bill Cowling

"We want you to know that the service your publication has rendered to the lumber industry of this state is very much appreciated and we always read your publication from cover to cover." Bill Cowling, Dixie Lumber & Supply Co., San Diego.

Part ol mill and dcmsite. Foreground wcs log pond.

We wish to tell you about our "speciclized Service" in mixed c<rrs ol Douglcrs Fir, Ponderoscr Pine, cnrd Sugtrr Pine.

we crre proud oI our qbility to ship mixed items in vcnious combinqtions oI clmost crrry home construction lumber items. This is the type of merchcr.rdising thct we hcve estcblished lor the benefit ol the retail trqde. Our wellmcrnulcrctured grcrde-crnd tr<rde-marked <rssortnent in a ccr is a distinct <rdvcntcrge to the retciler cnd his customer alike. These mixed ccrs provide the retqiler. with cr well bclcnrced lumber inventory lrom which his customers ccm select m(my oI their requirements.

we iry our best to mcrintcrin cr complete inventory oI the vcrrious items constituting our "Specicrlized Mixed Cars."

Our Plcrning Mill is provided, with equipment necesscry to mcke the various iteis for oui mixed ccrr shipments, including cn S,A. Woodg 10" Moulder with which we mcrke $n ll ccsing cnd btrse and detcril moulded stcndard pcrtterns in both Pine crnd Fir, Our Stetson'Ross 6,,xI5,, Mcrtcher males crll oI our Flooring crnd Stcndcnd Siding pcrtterns. The s,A. woods 6"x25" Surlcrcer hcndles the finish cnrd 4-side bocrds; cr Stetson-Ross 6"x15" Mctcher runs. the shiplcp cnd center mctched bocrds cnd "dcsed-edge" smcrll diirensioq* and the wider a, dimension, Lx1,4x6 cnd lqrgei timbers qre.surlcced by our 16"x20" Stetson-Ross sizer.

This tells you trbout our "speciclized service" in mixed ccrrs oI Douglcs F *,4 tine, but don't oierlook the lcrct tliat we mcke strcright ccr shipments ol boqrds, dimension, timbers, and industrial items.

Russell J. Hogue Scles Mcncger

Penherthy's Prerision

Piled IVholesale Yard

During the last year Paul Penberthy's dream of a rvhole_ sale lumber yard came true. He had been rvorking on it for many years. fn fact, away back in the days when paul was a "lumber shover" himself and spent much time pick- ing splinters out of his hands, he had it in the back of his mind that some day he rvas going to have a lumber yard of his own that would be just as near perfect as his brains and ingenuity could make it. Today he has it. So far as he is concerned,. this is the 'i,ery last word in a wholesale lumber yard, both as to the lay-out of the yard, the buildings, the equipment, the arrangements, the appearance, and the mechanics. If he could think of anything that would improve his newly finished plant, he would get it, and fast. So here we have a lumberman who, though still -in the prime of his business life, has seen his dream of a model lumber yard come true in all particulars.

Let's take a short peek at his background in this industry. When a kid in Northern Michigan he spent his vacations working in lumber n.rills, and got the smell of sawdust and the feel of a plank very early. He went to the University of Michigan, and when he left he came straight West and got a lumber job. His education hacl not spoiled him for rvork, and he shoved lumber in the yard of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company for a couple of years, and learned about Western lumber. He farmed in the Imperial Valley for four years, and then went to war in World War One. Returning, he went to shoving lumber. again, this time for the W. E. CooDer Lumber Company, in Los Angeles. -They promoted him. to salesman and then to Sales Manager, and he stayed ten years with Cooper.

In 1931 his ambi.tions urged him to take a chance, and

High above the lront gcte on precision piled timbers is the Penberthy sign.

Unloading lumber lrom cqr with speciol device, onto belt conveyor, on wcy to unlocding chains.

he started in business for himself in a wee small yard ou 59th street. It was a two-person enterprise, the other person being his wife, a business woman ol impressive ability and fersonality. She ran the little office and he bought and sold lumber. It was a wholesale yard from the beginning, but operated with very small stocks. In about a year the Penberthy Lumber Company took growing pains. They bought the old Brown-Derry lumber plant on East 51st Street, where they had a much bigger yard, and excellent ofifice facilities. They stayed there twelve years. Their slogan of "Hardwoods for everything," was worked out in practice. Still Mr. Penberthy ran the lumber end and Mrs. Penberthy kept her capable hands on the business end of the company.

The war brought a great bulge to the Penberthy business. They took a try at aircraft lumber, stocking, remanufacturing, and distributing their stocks nationally. To carry on this great nerv business they leased nsu' propbrties in various paits of Los Angeler, "r-rd before the rvar ended were operating five yirds, totalling more than tu,elve acres of ground. When the war ended Penberthy rvas the largest remanufacturer of aircraft Spruce in America, according to their own conservative figures. Furnishing aircraft lumber for the war effort furnished them the opportunity for using all their talents and ingenuitv, and the results were.tremendously successful.

When the war ended they consolidated all their holdings at their present location at 5800 South Boyle Avenue. With his long-time dream to guide him, Padl Penberthy went all the \,l'ay in perfecting and carrying out his plans. They secured the services of the most experienced and competent construction engineer they knew of, and turned him loose to draw the plans for their ambitious building program. With regard to every item and unit of their beautiful lay-out they can truthfully say "we planned it this way."

The entrance and the gater.r'ay is original and impressive. The great sign on a high pile of timbers, all precision piled, is certainly most unusual. All Paul Penberthy's own ideas. Precision piling is a fetish with him. Every pile of lumber in the yard is done in precision fashion. All pcis-

sible care is taken in sticking and piling, the sides and ends are exactly even, every sticker is directly above the other. The lumber ends are painted to prevent checking. The alleys and cross alleys in the yard are all straight and at right-angles to each other, and all lumber is piled in the same direction to simplify ease of handling and movement.

The sheds are all built uniformly, the design arcnl-

tecturally attractive, with projecting roofs, faced and painted. The entire yarci is paved with concrete. The buildings were all erected especially to permit the handling of the lumber by lift and straddle trucks, of which they have a battery. An overhead crane is used for truck loading. There are many devices, some of them original, for the handling of lumber. One for unloading cars cut their unloading expenses in half. This unit permits them to unload two cars at once, the lumber coming from two directions to the foot of the sorting table chains. The whole yard is clean, well painted, attractive to look at.

The mill is of the same type of architecture as the sheds the machinery and equipment is all new and of the latest

A view through the lront gcte down one qlley.

Interior view ol outer office.

One oI the modern, ctiractive sheds, 400 leet long.

All the stocks look like ihis, precision piled on concrete design, and the lay-out was also designed for carrier and li.ft truck operations.

That here is as modern, as attractive, and as efficient a wholesale lumber yard as there is anywhere, is the opinion in which all visitors join Mr. Penberthy. The yard has naturally become.a show place, since every part is so easy on the eyes.

All the sheds are high, well lighted, .rvell painted, and are of sufficient capacity for any possible needs. There are several unique portable rigs on the plant for special uses that can be moved in and out on a moment's notice to perform specific jobs.

The office fits in perfectly rvith the rest of the plant. It is Jarge, well lighted and ventilated, attractive to the eye, and affords ample room for all departments. Here again Mr. Penberthy has gone far to make his place unique. The offrce is a decidedly hospitable one, where the caller gets prompt and smiling service.

The business of The Penberthy Lumber Company is buying, handling, and selling hardrvoods, both domestic and foreign. Through long acquaintance with manufacturers and suppliers of hardwood lumber both at home and abroad, they are able to furnish the lumber buying and using trade with all their needs possible of procurement. Northern, Eastern, and Southern hardwoods they bring to Los An-

geles and prepare for market. Foreign hard.woods they bring in and prepare for use, and sell all over the country. They have brought in as much as half a million feet of Central American cabinet woods at a time, during the past few months.

The Penberthy yard, and the Penberthy business are direct results of vigorous and intelligent effort and fair dealing. It is a business built on sound foundations by a gentleman of high character and outstanding ability. In one way and one only has the Penberthy business deteriorated in recent times. Mrs. Penberthy, the powerful partner in that original partnership, is no longer active, but devotes all her time to her domestic affairs.

From Rcry Cox

"I wish to congratulate you on the fine achievement you and your associates have made of California's Own Lumber Journal. We cover this territory with our sales organization and find one accord-that THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT is read consistently. We wish you many more years of continued success." Ray B. Cox, President, Peerless Built-In Fixture Co., Berkeley.

FElITOil UNIYERSAT WOOD IIILT

A new high speed balt becring four head moulder thct is revolutionizing the woodworking industry. This new machine will run four side detail up to 2 x 6Vz inches ct speeds from 30 to 125 Ieet per minute. Priced approximcrtely $3,300.00 delivered including motois, the deliverf is now 30 to 60 dcys.

W eslern Represenfofive Kemp Hnrdware ond lumber Co.

t 133 Eosr 63rd Streel, Los Angeles I' Cqliforni.l GEntury 2-9235

Note the precision piling even on the lilt truck loadg.

Years Young Eighty -liue

THERE ARE STRICT NECESSITIES FOR 85 YEARS IN BUSINESS. A HIGH, UNVARY. ING STANDARD OF QUALITY AND SERVICE IS ONE. A LIST OF LOYAL CUSTOMERS IS ANOTHER.

lN THIS, OUR85th YEAR, \fE SAY TO OUR CUSTOMERS, "THANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDER. STAN D IN G \THILE OUR LUMBER \roRKED FOR VICTORy, FOR yOUR PATIENCE IN THE RECENT WORK. INTERFERENCE . . .,' YOUR LOYALTY MAKES US FEEL 85 YEARS YOUNG.

DOTBEER & CARSON IUMBER CO.

These lqllers ore returning lrom cr dcy's work in the big woods oI the Pcrcilic Northwest. This is cr virgin Douglos lir stqnd, with some hemlock. Under modern cutting procedures, the hcrrvest ol these old growih trees should meqn the beginning oI <r new lorest. Most oI the trees in this photogrcph cre mcrture; iI left stcnding too long, they will begin to deteriorate, due lcrrgely to the inlirmities oI old a€te.

Twenty-Five Yearr With Phtlippine Mahogany

In 1922, the year THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT started business, the serious importation of philippine Mahogany into California actually began. Up to that time there were just small dribs and dabs of this wood coming into the United States, and we have no figures showing actual importation for that year, or the year following. But the business grew in the proverbial "leaps and bounds" as the Philippine mills and American importers got together, and began distributing philippine in serious quantities in the United States. Within a few years from the time the first of these woods came to California, Philippine Mahogany became a major factor in the hardwood business in this state.

In 1925 they brought in 25 million feet. In 1926 it rose to 31 million. 1927 the totals were 39 million. l92g they were 41 million. And in 1929 philippine imports reached their highest mark, the exact figures being 44,4g7,776 f.eet. Then came the depression, and the imports sank rapidly. In 1930 the totals were 32 million; in 1931 they were back to 2O million; in 32, the depth of the depression, they dropped to 5 million feet; 1933 got back to lZ million;1934 they rvere 20 million; 1935 they rose to 28 million;1936

to 34 million. We have no figures for the next three years before the war started, but the totals were off those last given. When the war came the importations ceased entirely, most of the mills were destroyed by the Japs, and the industry over there was prostrate.

Since the-rvar the Philippine Government has forbidden the shipment of lumber out of the Islands, keeping rvhat they could make in rehabilitated mills at home Tor restoring buildings destroys by war.

From Adeline Conner

(Editor's Note: A poem by Mrs. Conner appeared in the first number of this journal ever printed, and another in this present one.) "fn a recent letter from Rod Hendrickson of New York we found these words: 'I have just read this month's CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT from kiver to kiver.' Well, that is the way.we Conners have always read THE MERCHANT and it has never let us down. We especially enjoy your splendid editorials. We both send congratulations on the 25th birthday to you and the entire stafr." Adeline Merriam and Fred Conner, The Cedars.

T. ITf- BAGK IUMBER GO.

Wholesale Distribution Yard

PLYWOOD SECTION

Demonstrcting Bequtiful Possibiliries of Interior Hordwood Plywood

The paneling, door trim, book shelves, and desk are all done in matching walnut. This is one of the offices of,Davidson Plywood & Veneer Company, Los Angeles. All their offices are done in different species of unusual hardwood plywoods.

A Quarter Of A Century ln Plywood

By Charles E. Devlin Managing Director, Douglas Fir Plywood Association

The national housing shortage has caused an increased demand for Douglas fir plywood . a demand that began in 1938 rvhen architects, builders, lumber dealers and home owners first recognized the potentialities of the versatile panel and increased in tempo during the war years rvhen the greatest part of the supply was being channeled into war industry. Now, although the estimated production for 1947 is considerably greater than any other peacetime year, the demand is far greater than the supply.

Specifiers of plyrvood are again designing and building homes of all sizes and types. Plywood is being used both for inside and outside walls, office buildings, factories, service stations, prefabricated structures and forms for concrete buildings, bridges and reservoirs. Demands for these applications plus those for industrial uses has primed the industry to increase its production capacity three-fold. There is no doubt that plywood is a peace-time material that was just drafted to do a job during the emergency and is now again in its own field.

For the first time since August 1941 the Douglas fir plywood industry is free of all government controls. The final fetters were, lifted with the discontinuance of gov_ ernment allocation lvhicl-r recluirecl a high proportiou of the panels to be channeled clirectly to the reconversion housing program.

Before going into the history of plywood's development it should be understood that this article pertains only to plywood made from giant Douglas firs. All thirty-three factories producing Douglas fir plywood are located in Western Washington and Oregon.

Standardization and mass production nf products always has differentiated this industry from the manufacturers of other plyr,r'oods (principally the hardu,oo<ls). Fir plywood is manufacttired in large, flat sheets of stanclar<l sizes (ustrally 4' by 8') and grades and accounts for the great btrlk of all plywood production. In 1942 the producers of Douglas fir plyrvood shipped 1,800,000,000 square feet of the panels.

While plywood may be neu's today, this widespreacl recognition has been long in accumulating. The first Doug- las fir plvwood panels were manufactured expressly for display in 1905 and attracted iittle attention. However, those dozen panels represented the birth of the Douglas fir plyr,vood industry today valued at more than 100 million dollars and employing 10,000 men and women.

At first the manufacture of Douglas fir plyrvood rvas carried on in a crude manner. The presses, lr'ith jack screws to supply pressure, rvere made from timber. Animal glue was applied to the veneers with a hand brush, as the first mechanical glue spreader was not installed untl 1906. Similarly, drying at first rvas accomplished merely by air drying supplemented by use of an ordinary lumber kiln with home-made veneer racks. ft n'asn't until 1915 that the first veneer drier was installed.

The panels were manu{actured in trvo grades: .,two-

sides" and "one-side". The "two-sides" panels, lvhich indicated the 'panels with trvo clear sides, rvere sold to door factories and this was the primary use of plywood for several years. "One-side" panels had a back with imperfections and wer:e used primarily as stock for drawer bottoms.

Tlie most commorl construction of Douglas fir plywood until about 1911 was of three-ply panels in thicknesses of s/s-inch and half inch. A price list issued by Portland Manufacturing Co. about 1913 listed /g-inch panels 40 to 48 inches 'ivide and 48 to 84 inches long, 22 cents a square foot if good one side and 26 cents if good two sides. An interesting contrast in cost is offered when it is realized that current prices for panels quite similar are less than half that much.

It was 192O before the first plant.was erected as a plyrvood mill, separate and apart from any other enterprise. Before this, plywood operation was always a part of a door factory or a plant making boxes, crates etc. Gradually the plywood industry developed until in 1925 the production figures of output in square feet based on panels ol /s-inch thickness was 150,000,000. fn 1946 the figures had increased to 1,390,000,000 and the estimated production for 1947 is r,600,000,000.

Of course, production alone does not characterize the development of the industry. Manufacturing fir plywood today is a highly specialized undertaking geared to machine procluction of a high quality, nniform product. Plyrvood is an engineered u,ood that capitalizes on the advantages of rvood and overcomes the shortcomings of lumber rvith the skills and machines of America's mass-production technique to produce consistently higher quality panels.

Nerr' machines and impror.ements to older equipment have cansed constant increases in production and provided moro efficient utilization of the rarv material. Today with the careful selection of every piece of fir veneer so it will be used to the best advantage, and with the utilization of machines for repairing defects and joining together narrow \/eneers, the recoverl' ratio in plyrvood manufacture is about 2.3 to 1. That is, from a log scaled to bring a given board footage of lumber there will be about 2.3 times that many square feet of plywood recovered

The most important single advancement in the production of plyu'ood since it r,vas first introduced is the manufacture of Exterior or completely.lveather-proof type panels. Harbor Flywood Corp. was the first to produce Exterior fir plyu,ood, and norv it is being produced by 72 of the 33 factories in the industry. In 1942 there rvere nearly 300,000,000 square feet of Exterior plyrt'ood produced which was nearly three times the amount produced the year before; in 1946 the Exterior production accounted for a third of the industry's volume.

This development rvas due to a apply heat and pressure at the same hesives, as well as to the formulation

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IThe variety of uses for PLYWOOD has increased tremendously each year. During the war many different uses wete uncovered for this pliable material.

All of these users can now be supplied from instock merchandise. Plywood is a wonderful, easy material to handle--it's a great wood to SELL. Reach out to all the users.

Fill your stock from "The Best in Plywood" .

. Remember, too, that our in-stockl merchandise also includes SIMPSON INSULATING BOARD.

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Circular Plywood

Plywood Hallway

Circulqr sundeck two stories high covered with exierior plywood.

Fir plywood wcg uged lor wcllg, doorg, qnd shelves iu this unugucl h<rllwcy.

A Quarter o( a Century in Plywood

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when set, formed a permanent bond impervious to rvater, weather and other conditions.

The machine is called a "hot press" and resembles a giant accordian stretched out and stood on end. The panels are placed in the openings and the plates come together with a pressure of about 200 pounds per square inch while steam heat of from 2& to 285 degrees pours through the plate walls to speed the bonding process. Pressing time is f.rom 4 to 10 minutes. Phenol formaldehyde resin adhesives, which are ,completely waterprooT, are used to bond Exterior type plywood. Although spread on the veneers (in the manufacturing process) as a liquid, when heat and pressure are applied, the adhesives between the plies set iir a permanent waterproof bond akin to bakelite and stronger than the wood itself.

Since 1928 the plywood industry has maintained an association almost continuously to promote the use of its product although the sale has remained directly the activity of the manufacturers. The Douglas Fir Ply.ivood Association as it is today was formed in 1933. Today the industry through the trade association has an efficient staff to do grade inspection, promotion and research.

Although the industry can not filI the demand for plywood today, it is, through the association, accumulating much information for furthering the use of plywood when it is again plentiful. This is particularly true in the agricultural field. There has been a great deal accomplished through the cooperation of universities and colleges. During the past five vears 207 projects have been initiated at 35 state colleges by agricultural engineers for the industry. Plyrvood engineers have worked directly with agricultural leaders at the schools in perfecting the designs, erecting the structures and observing their performance.

The industry also maintains a stiff of inspectors who operate through the association. They circulate among the various plants to revieu' the manufacturing processes, cooperate lvith the mill inspection departments and collect random san.rples of plyn'ood for testing at the industry laboratory at Tacoma, \Vash. These samples are tested to destruction in the laboratory to determine the effectivqness of adhesil'es under varying gonditions.

It is tl-re purpose of these laboratory studies to assure the ultimate user of Douglas fir plywood that the panels are of uniform quality and meet the rigid requirements set forth in U.S. Department of Commerce Commercial Standard CS45-45 applying to the material. The first commercial standard for fir plywood .r.vas established in 1932; since then five revisions have been effected with the current standard established January 27,1945. The standard sets forth the grades and types of fir plywood that are manufactured and lists the testing procedure to be followed to determine that each panel conforms completely to its grade.

In the fnterior type there are three grades; Plypanel SolS for interior walls. Plypanel So2S for applications where both sides must be finished such as cabinet doors. Plyscord for sheathing.

Exterior or waterproof type is also produced in several

appearance grades. Plyform is an intermediate type made especially for construction of multiple-use concrete forms.

During the war much research was geared to the immediate needs of the armed- services. An example is the series of experiments recorded to answer the questions of the U.S. Army Engineers as to the resistance of adhesives in Exterior type plywood to oil, gasoline and salt water. The laboratory staff developed tests for adhesives and resin sealers used for a special grade of plywood introduced to meet specific war needs and manufactured only for the Army and Navy.

Recent projects developed data on nail holding qualities of the panels, and tests have been made on structural characteristics of built-up box girders and'I-beams. Designs for shipping cases have been tested.

The plywood industry has continued, through its trade association, to promote Douglas fir plywood. This has been done through advertising and literature. The activity has continued, although there was very tittle plywood for civilian use, to promote the building of plywood boats, farm structures, concrete forms, houses and office buildings. Also for use in store displays and in industrial utilization. Large quantities of literature is being mailed out constantly in answer to requests and several motion pictures are available to lumber dealers, architects, builclers and plywood users,

Another milestone in the development of the plywood industry of the Pacific Northwest was the establishment of the Plywood Research Foundation at Tacoma in 1945. It is a separate organization supported entirely by the plywood producers who already have appropriated more than half a million dollars for its operation and have pledged continued support. Its purpose, separate and apart from the testing and product development activities of the laboratory of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association are:

1. To develop means of using waste wood material resulting from present processing at plywood factories and in the forests.

2. To produce new products which the plywood factories can manufacture in addition to their present panels.

3. To improve plyrvood through chemical means.

4. To improve the production and properties of Douglas fir plywood through improvement in processing and manufacturing equipment.

Unfolding the history of Douglas fir plywood has been at top tempo for the past ten years. For during this period, it has been firmly established as the material that does more different jobs than any other; its spectacular war role made it ready for added construction and industrial applications in the years ahead.

From Lcrrue Woodson

"The good things of life are often passed by lightly, and your good magazine comes under that category. At any rate, Jack, we enjoy your publication, your excellent editorials, and appreciate the fine work you are doing. Every good wish for your continued success." L. J. Wogdson, Nicolai Door Sales Co., San Francisco.

With Exterior'tYPe Douglns fi, PIYwood siiling, this home exetnplifies one ol the unusual methoils ol PIY' uooil application. Battens couered the joints, iliuid'ing the outsid'e walls in modular uertical sections. Interior' type plyuooil uas used' on the attrac' tiae tlinette uall shown aboae,

PIYWOOD'S,UIANY ADVANTAGES

KEEP DEMANDS GREATER THAN PRESENT SUPPIIES

Douglas fir plywood production is greater now-than in -prewai years. Today's demand, however, is ulprecedentedand raw material availability is the control' lins factor in obtaining higher output. This uneven demand-supply ratio naturallv means that Plywood maY not alwavs'be readilv obtainable at any given time and place' KeeP in touch irith vour regulai source'of supply as to price and-delivery information. For technical data, write the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma 2, Washington.

One of Nine Built in '38 ond '39 . . . Feotured Nqtionolly in'471

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tItHIS attractive modern Portland, Oregon, home was fea' I t,rred this year by rtwo national publications and termed by one 'oA House of Great Merit" yet it was built not this year or lasi, but in 1939! One of a group of nine which utilized Douglas fir plywood for exterior walls and interior detail, it features an advanced design whioh keeps it a oodis' play home," even after six years. The builder' Burt Smith of br*.go, Oregon, says: 'oThe houses were built in 1938 and 1939 and the plywood is more than ojust satisfactory'' There is a definite labor saving in application. The insulition value is good. These houses have had no repair or maintenance, while other houses built by me the same year have had major repairs to exterior finishes."

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"These Houses of Plywood hove hod no repoir or mointenoncer"

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Builder Burt Smith, ..THE PTYWOOD IS TUIORE IHAN .JUST SATISFACTORY'''

Douglas fir PIYWOOD

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Plywood Subfloors

Plywood for Boats

Plywood sublloors cre smoolh, level, speeditv loid, and lurnieh insulction qs *"i1.

Plywood outbocrd is rugged, light, ecrsily built.

PI,YIryOOD fo, er)ery Purpose

Plywood And The Lumber Dealer

Elsewhere in this Plywood Section will be found two detailed articles concerning the history and present status of Douglas Fir plywood. Needless, then, to use this article (which aims simply to be a round-up of plywood thoughts) repetitiously. Charlid Buckner, and the Plywood Association, give you the facts.

In 1922 when THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT started business there was no such thing as Douglas Fir Plywood. They were making a small amount of laminated Fir veneers in the Northwest at that time, but the panels were mostly for doors, and the Plywood industry that the retail lumber dealer knows had not even been born. It was in 1925 that suddenly Douglas Fir plywood lunged ahead into considerable production, and it was then that the California lumber dealer found a stock item that was destined to become one o'f his biggest and best merchandising products.

Likewise it was destined that this Fir plywood should find in the retail lumber dealer its biggest and best sales agent, and distributing unit. fn a recent speech Charles E. Devlin, Managing Director of the Douglas Fir plywood Association, referred to the retail lumber dealer as one who had "historically done the selling job for our industry.,, He did. And he will continue to do so. The rise of plywood production is likewise told elsewhere. Year after year the sale of plywood for a continually developing and widening number and character of users became a bigger and bigger part of the lumber dealer's business. He learned to sell it for at least a thousand uses As the plywood industry reached out and made more kinds and qualities of plywood for rnore and different uses, the lumber dealer went along, and enlarged and intensified his merchandising efforts. Until it came to pass that Douglas Fir plywood became the lumber dealer stock that was sold for more purposes and used in more ways than any other lumber yqrd stock in history.

When the war came along and -tle govenlment reached out for building materials for the million and one war needs that so rapidly developed, then plywood came into its own. But it was at the expense of the retail lumber dealer, for the war effort needed all the plywood that could be made and a whole lot more; so the place in the lumber yard where the plywood used to be piled, became a very lonesome spot indeed. And though the war has been over for two years, Douglas Fir plywood is still very scarce in the shed of the average California lumber dealer. Hereby hangs a tale; a very wretched tale indeed. For no other building material seemed to subject itself rnore thoroughly and completely to the operations of the Black Marketeers. as plywood.

They call it the "grey market"; why grey, no one knows, for it was and still is one of the darkest of the dark market spots in the building world. As has been said to THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT many times of late by sad-voiced specialists in plywood-1,the grey mar-

ket still prevails." So D<.ruglas Fir plywood is very scarce in the retail lumber yards of California at this time. You can hear the story on all hands that if you are willing to pay the price and know the right people you can buy all the plyrvood you can possibly use. But on top of the business table, plywood is scarce, particularly the everyday ihicknesses of one-quarter and three-eighths. Thicker stuff is somewhat easier to get.

No so with hardwood panels. They are in surplus, both in California and throughout the entire nation. "They are running out of our ears, all species," said a big panel and plywood man to the writer of this piece. You can get any species you want. Just name it. In any quantity you can pay for. Only Southern Gum panels are scarce, and even that item is getting more plentiful. The hardwood panel market was strong until ahout the first of last February, 11'hsn-fang-the demand began to sag. The lumber dealer can get all the fancy hardwood panels he wants. Of course tl,ey cost nearly three times as much as Douglas Fir plylvood, and so cannot be used for the same purposes to any great extent.

The Douglas Fir mills of Washington and Oregon, 33 in number and with several others in coursd of construction, are making 30,000,000 square feet of plywood panels every week this year, making it by far the biggest peacetime year. Some of these days the "grey market" will pass away, some of the great needs of the nation rvill cease to be needs, and the lumber dealer will again be able to stock plywood in quantity and go forth and sell it enthusiastically.

Hqrdwood Plywood Mcde lrr San Frcrncisco Plant

The Davis Hardrvood Company, Bay and Mason Streets, San Francisco, has the only plant in the San Francisqo Bay area that makes plywood commercially. Hardwood plywood is made in the following woods: prima vera, ujuste, Spanish cedar, oak, harewood, satinwood, mahogany, maple, ash, genisero and walnut.

This plywood is mostly used for fine furniture, store fixtures, cabinet work, and interior paneling in homes, offices, and department stores

The plant equipment includes hydraulic presses, veneer taping machine, a 54" glue spreader with rubber rolls for synthetic glues, veneer jointer, and sanders. The plant lras been in operation for the past 25 years, and has furnished panels for some of the finest buildings and stores in San Francisco.

Plywood Paneling Suggestions

The Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma 2, Washington, publishes a very attra'ctive and practical booklet on the use gf plywood for interior paneling. How to panel wall surfaces in homes, offices, and shops is plainly taught, demonstrated, and illustrated in this very useful book.

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Color is cdded to this kitchen by Colonicl gcenes inside cobinet doors.

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Plywood Siding lor Home Exterior

Plywood Manufacturers Meet and Make Plans

Though maximum plywood production for the nation's pressing housing program remains the immediate concern of Pacific Northwest panel makers, continued development of the progressive, 33-factory industry occupies prime attention among the manufacturers.

This pronouncement was made June 10 at Tacoma, lMash., as 150 leaders of the Oregon-Washington industry met for the annual business session to chart long-range promotion for their product. The Northwest plywood manu{acturers who produce virtually all the country's construction plywood, now are turning out the material at the rate of 1,600,000,000 square feet a year.

As announced at the meeting of the industry trade or'ganization, Douglas Fir Plyrvood Association which has Tacoma headquarters, the future progress of the industrv is founded on:

1. Continued high performance of the product, now in .demand not only for home construction but alike for boat building, railroad cars and farm structures.

2. Development of new, improved surfacings for ply_ wood and supplementary panel materials through research instituted three years ago.

3. Continued national promotion of plywood to sustain <lemand.

Thomas B. Malarkey of Portland, Ore., vice president of M & M Wood Working Co. and retiring president of the plywood trade association, forcefully presented the case for plywood when he said, "The industry is dedicated to a road of quality production and efficient distribution that leads toward a vista of prosperous and productive years.

"The widespread preference for plywood among construction men and industrialists ha-s been built directly upon the integrity of our product based upon its performance in service."

Malarkey fired his address with an attack on Senator Harry Cain of Washington for "blocking passage" of a Congressional bill that would stimulate plywood and lumber production by authorizing construction of more logging roads in timber lands. The bill, House Bill No. 3203, rvould appropriate $10,000,m0 to the United States Forest Service to build "access roads" into remote forest regions.

Plywood manufacturers, Malarkey explains, long have supported the "access road" program as a means of obtaining greater output of lumber and plyrvood through reach-

Gives entirely new note to cttrqctive home exteriors. Exterior pcnels crnd pcint do this job.

ing timber stands now bottled up. Plywood remains in short supply, with' conventional builders and prefabricators alike demanding more than ever before. Production now is at a peak level, but any increased output is dependent on available log supplies, which would be bolstered by the "access road" program.

Exhibited at the meeting were npmerous new plywood products, surfacings foi panels and combination products, somq of them manufactured from sawdust and other substances previously considered as waste. Displayed were . numerous laboratory sanples made by the industry research organization, Plywood Research Foundation of Tacoma and which are being readied for factory production.

Also shown were several plastic surfaced plywood items now being produced by several manufacturers. Samples with metal facings also were displayed.

New president of the industry trade association, named to succeed Malarkey who has served three terms, is Arnold Koutonen of Olympia, Wash., general .manager of the plywood division of St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Co. The Olympia plant which he manages, until recently was owned by Associated Plywood Mills of Eugene, Ore., a company which Koutonen formerly headed as president.

J. \\t. Forrester, general manager of Coos Bay (Ore.) Lumber Co., which operates a plywood factory at nearby Coquille, is the new vice president of the plywood trade association. Secretary of the industry organization is Leon-

ard Nystrom of Eugene, president of Associated Plywood Mills. The new treasurer is Joe H. Smith of Tacoma, general manager of Puget Sound Plywood Inc.

Trustees of Douglas Fir Plywood Association include: Philip Garland, general manager of Peninsula Plywood Corp. at Port Angeles and formerly of Tacoma; Fred L. Johnson, general manager of Anacortes (Wash.) Veneers fnc., Vern A. Nyman, general manager of Aberdeen (Wash.) Plywood Corp., and Dennis Slenning of Tacoma, assistant general manager of Oregon-Washington Plywood Corp.

E. -W. Daniels, president of Harbor Plywood Corp., Hoquiam, Wash., and chairman of the management committee of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, gave his ninth consecutive report to the industry today.

E. L. Blaine, Ir., of Seattle tvas the guest speaker on the luncheon program. Ife gave an interesting dissertation entitled "Which Road?" tslaine is vice president of the People's National Bank of Washington and president of the Seattle chapter of the American Institute of Banking.

In outlining the continuing development program for the industry, Charles E. Devlin, managing director of the industry trade association, emphasized the importance attached by plywood makers to performance of their product to sustain "consumer confidence." "I just. want to say that plywood quality is not good enough if it can be made better; the industry is dedicated to that principle."

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AS AVAILABLE, these produsts arc sold through distributing warehouses

to established lumber dealers

VENEEN

VENEEN

Hqrborite is Horbor Plywood's time-proven, resin-impregnoled, plostic-foced plywood. The smooth, groinless, weotherproof surfoces-of o pleosing brown color-ore of phenol-type resin -impregnoted plostic, permonently bonded to the Douglos fir core body. Two types of core body ore ovqiloble-single.ply, with the plostic foces opplied to both sides of o single sheet of veneer os shown obove. Multi-ply -shown ot the right-is mode with q cross-bonded plywood core body,

HARBORITE PANE[S-Single or frlulri-Ply

Tfte eut-owoy illusfrqlion Ebove showing eoch veneer of the <ore body ond showing fhe lwo plortic foces serves lo 'f6veol the imporldnce of ' lhe plostic overley lo fhc plywood ponel. Ncw ic.ric; ona cpp€dnoncG *ducr ore odded.

fhe unique quoliiies of Harborile, proven in militory service, estoblished o demond for lhe producl for o wide voriely of conslruclion ond induslriol uses. A check lisl of proven uses includes siding for roilwoy refrigerolor cors, buses, lrucks ond lroilers; cobinet work, toble tops, concrelG forms, signs, foys, sports equipmenl, ond

wide ronge of utilify itens.

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WATERPROOF TYPE DOUGTAS FIR PLYWOOD

SUPER-Horbord is lhe orlg' incl ortcrior or votcrProof fypq of Douglor fir PIYwood. llr world'widc rcPu' lotion for guolilY wor flrm' , . ly lrtcblishcd bclgrc ll ,.;-.1 addd .nn unmolchcd wry'r,1y, rcrvicc record. ln mqnsfoc' luring tht Ptoduct thc componstrf nntart qrc bondrd wil'h o uniqua Proc.3t 6iE: ptoTing o PhcnoioldohYdc lno rytthcfic rc:in rP! in ar hot Pra3s undcr'norfrol

EXTEND PTYWOOD'S USES

iAOISTURE.RESISTANT TYPE DOUGTAS FIR PTYWOOD

Giqnt-size SUPER-Horbord ponels ore produced to order by ioining slondqrd-size ponels with q speciol.scorf ioint' Any iength Giont ponels moy be produced with o moximum width of 9 ft. unsonded [8 ft. 6 in. sqnded l. The sPeciol scorf ioint develops lhe full strength of the ponels which ore ioined. The Giont sizes exlend the usefulness of the product qnd hove solved inony construction problems in lhe morine, roilwoY, qnd olher tronsporlolion fields. For exomple, the Giont ponels ore used for plonking ond decks of boqts of mony sizes which qre constructed for pleosure or work s.ervice. The sides, floois ond roofs of buses, liucks, troilers ond roilwoy cors copitolize upon the odded strength ond eose of fobricotion of the lorger unitsof SUPER-Horbord. Likewise, designers of olher iypes of construclion hove been quick to oppreciote thot similor unitfype construction reduces lhe number ond bulk of froming members; hence, it increqses usqble cuboge qnd reduces over-qll weight.

HARBORITE, GIANT PANETS

Giont ponels of Horborile cre olso produced fo 9rder.; The some bosic :corf-1oint technique permitting o borely perceptibld loinrJine is used lo produle the lorge size plostit-foced ponels.

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Sees Increase in Demcnd For Hcrrdwood Panels

The expected removal of building restrictions will in_ crease the demand for hardwood panels, according to a statement by Wayne Rawlings, manager of Harbor ply_ wood Corporation of California, San Francisco.

"The many long delayed remodeling jobs and new struc_ tures that will soon be started will enlarge the retail lumber dealers' field for the sale of hardwood plywood,,' he said.

Plywood Holds Ncils

Nail bearing is the vital property on which the efiective_ ness of any sheathing or diaphragrn depends. Douglas Fir Plywood possesses this strength property to a high degree, even when nails are close to the panel edge.

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Outstcnding excmple oI plyrood home. Exierior is textured pcint to simulcrle stucco.

We hnve o lorge stock of VERIPLY Hqrdwood Pqnels ovqilsble fir immediqte shipment to you..Speiies include Birch, Unse' lected Gum, Wolnul' MohogonYr ond mqny olhers.

Hqrdwood Pqnelled rooms ore commencing to become popu' lor ogain . . . w€ crre PreP.lred to meet the demqnd.

Your orders ond inquiries will be hqndled promptly'

This prccticcl plywood rectcrngutcr grcrin bin built qt Iowa Stcrte College.

pcinted white.

Splendid big dciry born completely lined with fir plywood

New Plywood \Tarehouse Built jor Efficiency lJ,$.P,tm6i"

Planned to give the highest'possible degree oi ,.rlri.. j speeding the receiving, storing, and shipping of plywood; and the assembling and loading of ,customers, orders, the new Oakland rvarehouse of the United States plywood Corporation is fulfilling the ideas of its planners.

The warehouse is located at 330 Brush Street. and fronts on three streets, with 200 feet on Brush, 150 feet on 3rd Street and, 75 feet on 4th Street. Three 5Gft. freight cars can be unloaded at one time, and the material is handled swiftly by modern hydraulic and fork lift trucks. The loading bay has accommodation for four trucks at the same time, insuring fast service for customers, pickups.

With a total area ol 22,5@ square feet the warehouse has a width of 150 feet for most of its length, with spans free of columns for 75 feet. The building is of reinforced concrete construction

. Daylight from skylights and windows is ample at all times. No artificial lighting is needed. An appreciated feature is a lunch room for warehouse personnel.

Offices Paneled in Hardwoods

' All the offices are paneled in hardwood Weldwood. The general of6ce is finished in Oak, Birch and Weldtex. The shipping clerk's office is done in Birch. The lunch room walls are paneled in genuine Mahogany, and the room is

Whct Is Douglcrs Fir Plywood?

Douglas Fir plywood consists of an odd number of thin sheets, or veneers, of selected Old Growth Douglas Fir, laminated with alternating grain direction. Both waterproof and water resisting adhesives are used, which after settling under high.pressure form a bond of great strength

-stronger, in fact, than the wobd itself.

A grade and thickness of Douglas Fir plywood suitable for virtually every purpose is norv available and is made to conform with the moisture-resistance specifications set forth in U. S. Commercial Standard CS45-45, established through the National Bureau of Standards.

Registered grade-marks and trade-marks for all standard panels have been adopted by the Douglas Fir plywood'

tequipped with a stove, refrigerator, and a Murphy Cabranette.

The manager's office is well worth a visit from anyone who is interested in the use of beautiful hardwood for interior finish. Paneled in highly figured prima Vera, it is a fine example of what any homeowner could have to enjoy in at least one room. Many live lumber dealers are selling such jobs both for new homes and for remodeling old ones, and dealers are invited to bring their customers in for a life-size demonstration of the various species of hardwoods shown on the walls of these of6ces.

A11 ceilings are acoustically treated. Lighting is indirect, of the most modern type.

The fixtures, including all desks, counters, and waiting room furniture, were built by S. Kulchar & Co., Oakland.

The building was designed by Alben Froberg, architect, of Oakland. The offices were designed by the United States Plywood Corporation's staff architect, \rernon Sears, of New York.

Don L. Kesselring is manager of the Oakland branch. He is ably assisted by George Allen and Bill Haskin, and two foung ladies, Pauline Armstrong, and Dorothy lrvy.

Adam Welker is in charge of the warehouse.

Association mills. These marks are designed to protect the purchaser of plywood and to assure him that he will always receive the exact grade he specifies.

Plyrvood and Building Codes

Plywood is approved in the lJniform Building Code Tor almost any use in house construction recommended by the Douglas Fir Plywood Association. This code has been adopted by more than 380 cities, towns, and counties throughout the United States.

Some cities, such as Seattle and Los Angeles, have recently modernized their codes and have incorporated into them special sections and paragraphs recognizing plywood as an acceptable structural material.

INSTATLATION TIME

REDUCED 1O%IO8(I% With Douglqs Fir PPg-Ftr Stock Doors

Your Customers Will Approve The Precision-Mode Feqtures of These lmproved Doors!

ANr BUILDER reports as many as seven installaVtions in the time previously required for a single door! Savings of from 5O/o to $D/o ate common.

That's why builders and specifiers so thoroughly "pprove these improved Douglas fir stock doors-doors that are precision pre-fit at the factory. You deliver them to the job ready to hang, with no sawing, planing or squaring required. Corners are clean, trim, true-scuff-stripped for protection. The result: better and faster installations for your customers-and bigger volume potentials for you !

qnd PRE-SEALED, too, for Proteclion ond Better Finish

Douglas fir stock doors-featured in definite, plainly marked grades and a wide range of designs, including mod' ern 3-panel layouts adaptable to all types of building-are also pre-sealed at the factory. They reach the job fully prepared for a better finish. They're protected against moisture and checking, with resulting improve' ment in dimensional stability.

MORE FIR DOORS SOON !

For Even Gre Economies, S

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TIe Netional Asqoclation ol Flr Door Manulacturers

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Durable, attractive Dou fir doors may also be dered completely precir machined-not only pr and pre-sealed, but ga for hinges and mortise bored for locks as r Here again, cleaner, t mer jobs are assured, cause all work is don the factory by high-s1 precision tools. Time ings more than ofrset slight additional cost.

Douglas , be or,,

y precisiononly pre-fit gained mortised or ls ryell.

)aner, trimrssured, bedone at high-speed

Time savr ofrset thc

Douglas Fir DOORS

FIR DOOR INSTITUTE

W:rt 24,@O feet of unobstructed floor spsce, spocious looding dock ond omple free porking, this unique new building enobles Allied Veneer lo offer unusuql service to its friends qnd cuslomers. There is plenty of room lo ocsommodote our ropidly growing stocks of the finest domestic ond imported plywoods ond veneers. Why not drop in ond let us show you oround?

Port Angeles Plant Makes lmprovements

Peninsula Plywood Corporation, manufacturers of hot press Douglas fir plywood at Port Angeles, Washington, is a co-operative, wholly owned by the working siock_ holders thenrselves.

The annual capacity of the plant, based on s/s_inch 3_ply, is 66,000,000 square feet.

This concern was started in l94l under a Certificate of Necessity to aid in the war effort, and it operated con_ tinuously on war business throughout the war period.

The plant has two driers, and a third is "*p"it"d to b. installed during July of this year.

Plans are being made to salvage some of the waste ma_ terial, and a chipping machine is being installed to furnish chips to a local pulp mill.

_ Phil Garland, gendral manager of peninsula plywood Corporation, has spent many years in the plywood business. He recently disclosed that they are planning to diversify the operation rvith the manufacture or some hardwood veneers.

It is interesting to note that this is the only plvrvood mill in the northern area of the Olympic peninsula.

Speciclize in Wcterprool plywood For Bocrt Builders

B. W. Byrne & Sons, hardwood dealers, 1325 Harbor Avenue, Long Beach, Calif., specialize in waterproof hard_ rvood plywood for the boat building trade. fheir stock includes oak, walnut, prima vera, and mahogany.

This firm also has on hand for immediaL delivery I.,_ surok, a decorative plastic sheet that is used for table and counter tops, because it is cigarette resistant, alcohol proof. and generally impervious to stains.and u.ear.

9qgtgig Hcldwood Co. Buys

Be_lli_nghcm Plywood Corp.

Bellingham Plywood Corp. of Bellingham, Wash., with an annual capacity of 75,000,000 feet of Douglas fir plywood, has been purchased by the Georgia Hardwood Co. of Augusta, Ga., in a ,cash transaction.

_ Victor Olson, general manager of Bellingham plywood 9o.p., will become president and manager of the subsid_ iary. He established the company in tg+t.

HARDWOOD qnd

GALI FOR]IIA PIYWOOD, IJIG. VENEERS AT{D PANEIJS

wrnsurnctun e# Permanent

Raw Material Resources

fhc Simpson Logging Compony is one of thc leoders in the for-sighted policy of surfoined-yield forest mqnsgemcnl in order to stabilize forcst indurlricc, comrnunilics, cmploymcnt ond torqbtc wcohh, ond to ossurc c conlinuous ond omplc supply of forert productr.

Progress And Development Made In The Past 25 Years In The Manufacture and usage of Plywood

By C. W. Buckner, Sales Engineero Harbor Plywood Corporation

In 1922 the n'ord PLYWOOD was not used in connection with laminated rvood. Our Douglas Fir laminated veneers at that time rvere knotvn as panels and were manufactured in a very limited volume and mostly.used for door panels. There n'ere only trvo grad,es, namely, door panels and drawer bottom grades. Practicallv all were 3-p1y and sanded to 3/s" thickness.

In the middle 20's lve began making some other thicknesses and also about this time some /4" rvas made-in 18, 20 and 24 inch widths, 8 foot lengths, bundled and sold as laminated finished lumber. On account of the wide sar,vn lumber in this thickness splitting and checking so easily this wide laminated material became very popular. Also about this time the Eastern furniture manufacturers became interested in panels and many carloads were sold for shelving in kitchen cabinets, table tops and other parts of medium priced furniture. Most of this r,vas ./g,,,, some 3f,,.

Up to this time lumber yards practically ignored this material and vgould not consider stockir-rg it in their yards as they considered the panels, or plyr.vood as it r.vas by this time sometimes called, as encroaching on the lumber dealers' market.

The writer about this time suggested that if the plyrvood plants wouid make a grade of r/"x48"x96" panels, and put it on the market as lvallboard, and get ten per cent of the retail lumber yards to put it in stock, that u'ithin ten years the demand for pl1'u.oocl could be doubled.

This was in1926 in which year the procluction of Douglas Fir Plywood t'as 173 million surfacc feet 3/i,, basis. Bearing out this prediction, I r,vould call attention to tl.re fact that in 1936, ten years later, the production of Douglas Fir Plywood r,vas 700 million surface feet )(," basismore than four times the production in 1926. Procluction continued to increase and in 1946 1,390 million surface feet 3ft" basis was produced-more than eight times the production in 1926, rvhich u'as t.rventy 1'ears pr.ior.

About 1929 and 30 contractors became interested in the use of plywood for concrete form material. The first sizeable order placed for this use was 500,000 feet to be used for forms on the approaches to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. This led to the purchasing of several million feet for this purpose on the Golden Gate and San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridges.

Abou.t this time foreign countries became interested in Douglas Fir Plywood, particrrlarll' England, Australia, New Zealand and the Scandinavian countries and manv million Teet were shipped abroad.

About 1932 highr,vay engineers became interested in plywood Gussett Plates for r,vooden bridges. The first ones

were used on a temporary bridge across the Sacramento River at Sacramento, California. This proved so satisfactory that many wooden bridge designers in California specified plywood Gussett Plates and they were supplied in many thicknesses up to nine inches and over, with eighty-one or more plies. This rvas before resin bonded plywood was developed and great care had been exercised to keep the Gussett Plates well painted.

In 1932 a plyrvood house was built in Oakland, California. This house consisted of living room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom and sleeping porch. This was perhaps the first time that plywood was used for inside and outside walls. Since that time plywood has become a recognized building material.

The two houses illustrated, the one referred to above built in 1932 and the other a modern house built of plywood about ten years later in Portland, Oregon, which is only one of many thousand modern houses built and being built all over the coun-try, tell the story of the progress and development of plyn'ood better than any tvay I can describe.

In 1935 a Phenolic resin-bonded weather-proof plywood was developed. This revolutionized the usage and demand for plywood. In the past the bonding agent had been vegetable glue, casein glue or soybean glue but none of it n'as entirely rveather-proof and'would delaminate when given sufficient exposure.

The Phei,olic bonded plywood would stand unlimited exposure and still show no delamination and became kno.ivn as exterior plywood. Contractors demanded it for concrete form material, boat building and exterior walls for housing.

When the World's Fairs rvere to be held in New York and Treasure Island, San Francisco, in 1939 it u'as imrnecliatelv decided that exterior plywood rvas the ideal material and specifications rvere drawn accordingly. As a result sixtl'-three buildings at Treasure Island and six buildings at Neu. York l'ere built almost entirelv of plywood.

On the Federal Building at the Treasure Island Fair there 'ivere 48 columns rvhich were built of 47'x72" exterior plyr'vood, 29-p1y, 3" thick. This, so far as the writer knor,vs, is the heaviest exterior plywood ever produced.

Plywood has been used for many years as lining for railway freight cars and as it r,vas not exposed to weather the interior type would stand up for several years without delaminating.

In 1938 the first railway refrigerator car using exterior plywood for outside sheathing, floors, ceilings, bulkheads. and linings, was built in Los Angeles by the Pacific Fruit

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Plywood Patrol Station

, Small Plywood House

Peninsula Plywood Gorporation

Port Angeles, Wcshington

The Olympic Peninsuio's only rr- r , i plywood mill-a cooperotive orwe .'re prouct oI our snqre rn gcnizotion, owned by its own. building the Plywood Industry working stockholders. qnd crlso o greoter Port Angeles.

Manulcrcturers oI the well-known Exterior " Ftn Ply" Gradcg

Plywood in lour by eight sheetE makes this building strong, tight cnd wcrm.

Here is q minimum cost utility posturdr smcll plywood house.

Progress and Development in Manufacture and Usage o[ Plywood

(Continued from Page 78) Express Company. It proved so satisfactory that by 1947 there were over 30,000 raihvay refrigerator cars built wholly or in part of plywood.

The demand for exterior plyrvood for railway refrigerator cars has grown until now it is impossible for the industry to supply all that is wanted.

During World War II exterior plywoo'd became in very great demand for boats of all sizes, houses of all types, containers, and many other uses. The assault boats that carried our soldiers across the Rhine and the PT boats like the one that was used by General MacArthur to go from the Philippines to Australia, and many other boats both large and small made use of exterior plywood extensively.

For many years the width and lengtl-r of plywood r,vas liqjted to the width and length of the presses but in recent years by the use of scarfing equipment, plyr,vood can be secured in almost any'ividth or length and has been supplied in five-foot widths and fifty-foot lengths. The length is limited only by the space available in the plant. In fact, if space would permit, it could be made a thousand feet long or longer. Several railway refrigerator cars har.e been built using only two panels on each side and one on each end, six panels enclosing the car.

A large number of single wall railroad freight cars have been built of large panels ol '/s", 9-ply exterior plyrvood reducing the overall weight of the car and therebf increasing the pay load capacity by several thousand pounds. On account of the large sized plyrvood panels that are now produced the labor cost of building either a freight car or refrigerator car is reduced very much ,below the cost of building the same cars of four-inch siding and lining, and I am sure that as time goes by the railroads are going to utilize more and more plylvood to take the place of steel and lumber.

One of the most interesting and important developments in the plywood manufacture in recent years is the plastic overlay. This is particularly important on account of the tendency of Douglas Fir Plywood to weather-check when exposed to the elements as an exterior material, and unless excellent methods of painting are used it would develop small ha-ir checks which cause oainted surfaces to deterior-

ate. The plastic overlay overcomes this tendency as it has a very smooth surface and when painted it is a great improvement over the conventional type of plywood. This material is now being used as an exterior sheathing on railway refrigerator cars instead of steel sheathing with very satisfactory results and several hundred refrigerator cars are being built this year using the plastic overlay plywood.

During World War II practically all Douglas Fir Plyrvood lvas required to be used in the war efiort.

The highest production was reached in 1942 when 1,800 million feet was produced. Since that time production has been considerably less, particularly on account of the scarcity of suitable peeler logs and a scarcity of other materials entering into the manufacture of plywood; also, because of the difficulty of securing mac.hinery and equiprnent to keep the plants up to their usual efficiency.

Below is the annual production of the Douglas Fir Plywood plants in the United States for the past 22 years as compiled by one authority. This does not include British Columbia plants lvhich have nou' reached a very sizeable production.

Douglas Fir Plywood Production 1925-1946

In Million Square Feets/s Inch- 3-ply

1925.. ....153

1926.. ....173

1927. . ...206

1928.. ....276

1929.. ....358

1930.. ..305

1931.. ....235

1932.. ....200

1933. . ...390

From Mark N. Bcldwin

"We wish to congratulate you on this anniversary and also compliment you on the way you have handled this lumber magazine. If you should happen to have a Golden Anniversary we will hope to be with you then. Jerry Sullivan, Jr., joins me in congratulating you on this big ociasion." Mark N. Baldwin, Sullivan Lumber Company, San Diego.

PLYWOOD

Wholesale Distri6utors

Adequote slocks ore' mainloined qt oll timesincluding Mohogcny, Wclnui, Ook qnd primq Vero. The woterproof plywoods ore designed for mqrine use qnd qlso moke distincfive ofilces, stores, public buildings snd homes.

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Insurok is o lominoted plostic sheet of rnony uses for tcrble, bqr or counler tops, sinks, wolls ond decorqfive efiecis. lt is cigorefie ond heol resistonl, clcohol-proof, ond comes in o voriety of groins, colors cnd pofterns.

Pcri ol plywood lorms hove been removed to ahow smooih wcll remcining.

Exlerior wectherprool type plywood uged lor lining cnd sheothing Greqt Northern lreight cors.

DEATSLAB

Available for IMMEDIATE DELMRY in Rotary Cut Douglas Fir

Our DEdTSLAB Door is again available. This'door is now manufactured by the newest post-war method using modern principles of electronics and ptessures, hydraulic and air. The exterior grade is completely waterproof.

DEATSLAB Doors are solid core doors as shown in the cutaway illustration. This solid core gives the door weight to convey the feeling of substance when opening and closing the door.

Slab doors of othet face woods are also made to order.r '

We solicit your inquiries.

RAYNPROOF Com6ination Door

Soon to be available again from stock will be this popular combination sash and screen door; This cornbination door has a watertable at the top of the lock-rail to covef the pocket for the sash when in the lowered position. This watertable sheds wlter from the pocket to the outside of the door, keeping the pocket dry.

{u*bn, Qentlt*en "f b;rtinction

STAN MURPHY, PRESIDENT,-THE PACIFIC LUMBER COMPANY, SAN FRANCISCO

We Are Ptoud To Record - ' -

that we were qdvertisers in the iirsi issue of The Colifornicr Lumber Merchont, ]uly !, 1922, cmd that we hcrve crdvertised consistently in it ever since'

It gives us grect pleosure, therefore, to wish this publicction and its stq{f, on their 25th Anniversory', mqny more yeqrs of useful service <rnd profitoble operotion.

W. E.

Twenty'Five Years 0f Progress In The lVestern Pine Region 0f California

By ltl. E. Griflee Assistant Secretary-Manager, lTestern Pine Association

During its first twenty-five years the California Lumber Merchant has witnessed a steady, almost revolutionary, development of lumbering in the Western pine region of California. Improved methods have come so quietly, first in one mill or logging operation and then in,another, that even those of us closest to the industry scarcely realize the changes unless we stop to think back over them.

Twenty-five years ago California loggers dsually worked nine or ten hours a day, six days a week. Now they rarely work over eight hours a day and usually only five days a week, yet their modern methods and equipment produce ;nore logs per man, even though timber stands generally are less accessible. The old hand falling of timber has largely been replaced by gasoline or electric bhain saws which are much faster, easier and usually leave lower stumps.

Steam skidders, which slaughtered the young growth, have been replaced by tractors and arches rvhich, with a little care in falling timber and laying out skid roads, Ieave forest lands in a growing and reprodu,ctive condition. F{orses and the "big wheels" they pulled are no longer seen in the woods. Any barn boss who insisted upon working with horses has had to leave the timber and take to ranching.

Some of the largest operations still use railroads, espe- cially for the long hauls, but most logs ride on heavy_ duty trucks and trailers, either on their way to the railroad or direct from the woods to the mill p.ond. Some companies have built their own main truck roads the equal to state highway standards in. grades, curves and heavily rocked surfaces. Tractors equipped with bulldozers have made it so mu.ch easier to build roads that .,long corners', are not left like they used to be. Numerous roads cut down the skidding distbnces and give ready access for the fire fighters who must be especially vigilant in protecting lands recently cut over. t

Although new methods and equipment are necessary to log retreating overmature forests economically, they have further advantages which recommend them for the future, as well as the present, of the Western pine lumber indus_ try and its customers. In the old days, even as recently as 1922, the timber supplies for mbst mills were close at hand, with plenty more a little farther back, so logging was conducted with little conscious regard for the future. Most lands logged during this period restocked surprisingly well, if recurring fires were prevented,, but now our timber resources are too yaluable to leave the next crop to chance.

With modern tractors and trucks it is possible to log selectively, leaving seed trees, reproduction and .,rigoroui

young growing stock comparatively unharmed. In many cases operators are logging their lands "once over lightly,, in order to harvest overmature timber which otherwise might not be reached until it falls prey to decay or beetles. At the same time the forest is converted from a stagnant reservoir of timber in which growth barely balanc.es losses to a thriving young forest in which new growth rapidly adds timber for another crop. This ,comparatively new treatment of forest lands is so important, and such good business for the industry and communities dependent upon it, that progressive operators recently have helped secure enactment of state legislation requiring at least a minimum of sound forest practices.

To give encouragement and recnognition to the growing of timber on private lands the Western Pine Association certifies as Western Pine Tree Farms both small and large forested areas which owners intend to hold and protect for continuous growing of commercial forest products. As part

Fqllers mcking bcck-cut. Fqller with "hcrd hct', is tending the mcchine-end of c gcs-powered chain sqw,

MERCHANT 0onls Lumbcr Oornpilny 68 POST STREET . Teletype SF'973 SAN FRANCISCO 4, CALIFORNIA DOuslas 9469 Responsible Wholesale Distributors of West Coast Forest Products

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Importers and Distributors ot Mexican, African and

Specialists in Custom Milling and Kiln Drying

CUSTOM MIITING

Resawing, ripping, S2S, S4S, or detcril motcher work qt our remanufqcturing plcrni crt Long Beqch, Cclifornic

rIIr..[ DRYING

Philippine Mahosany and other hardwoods from Tropical Ameiica and the Philippine lslands, CONGRATULATIONS and Begt Wishes [or thc T\TENTY.FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE cALIFORNIA LUMBER -

Precision drying of both hordwoods ond softwoods.

of a nation-wide program this development is comparatively recent, yet there already are 113 certified Tree Farms totaling 2,403,113 acres in the Western Pine region. California has over half a million acres in 24 certified units.

California has a little over 13 million acres of commercial forest land in the Western Pine region, which includes all the forested areas of the state except the northern coastal counties where Redwood is the principal species. The total stand of timber on these 13 million acres is about 171 billion feet, of which a little over 40 per cent is Ponderosa Pine and Sugar Pine; the balance is Douglas Fir, White Fir and other associated woods. About 54 per cent of Cali. fornia's {orest land is publicly owned and inanaged.

The 1946 production in the pine district of California was just under two billion board feet, a record volume even higher than that of any of the war years. So California has enough timber already standing to equal 85 years' production at this record rate. Whether the present volume would last 75 years or 100 is oT little practical importance, however, because the rate of new growth is constantly increasing as the inactive mature forests are first logged over and again become productive. Standing timber forecasts at best are only estimates and are usually very conservative. California has on the west side of the Sierra some of the best timber-growing lands in the entire Western Pine region. With even fairly good treatment they will produce tihber faster than it has yet been cut from them.

fmprovements in sawmills have come right along with better woods operations. When the California Lumber Merchant first made its appearance in 1922 it was an unusual pine mill that had dry kilns. Now nearly all of the larger and some smaller mills have kilns in which carefully controlled heat, humidity and circulation season the lumber better and much quicker than did open-air drying. Mechanical piling of lumber on kiln tru'cks is done with but a fraction of the labor that is required for hand piling. Even sqme of the smaller mills pile green lumber mechanically into units and then a lift truck or straddle carrier whisks

the units out into the yard for drying, and afterward brings them back to the planing mill. or shipping dock.

The old horse-drawn "buggies" on which lumber used to be moved around the plants have been replaced by faster conveyors or equipment of several types which moves lumber in compact units and puts it right where it may be most conveniently fed into machines or car doors.

The Western Pine mills have a reputation for good planing mill work. Newer machines have high speed cutterheads which will surface lumber at 400 or 5@ feet a minute and not show a knife mark. This smooth machining is especially important for knotty pine paneling where broken knots and torn grain would ruin the desired effect.

The work of the Association's Grading Bureau, though financed by the mills to assist in the orderly distribution of lumber, is even more important to the users of lumber. The grading at member mills is checked by Western Pine Association inspectors every month and nearly all sales, even by non-members, are based upon the standard grades. The accurate methods of grading developed in normal times were surprisingly well adhered to during and since the war. The Association maintains a reinspection service which is available to any buyer who believes the grade or tally of a shipment is not as invoiced.

Improved methods of operation have meant as much to the industry's employees as to its customers. Producing lumber still requires much hard and sometimes dangerous work but increased mechanization and safety programs have greatly improved the conditions under which men work. The old camp bunkhouses, with their double and even triple deck bunks, are things of the past. Now loggers live at home and drive to work in their own cars or, if they. live in the modern camps, at least can get home to their families for week-ends. Wages have increased more than the average for industry generally, \Mestern Pine employees in California now receive, including the last increase, an average of about $1.60 per hour. Their hourly increases since

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Pole-size, young Ponderosc Pines gnowing rcrpidly on lorest lcnd in the Sierrc ol Ctrlilornic-I944.

We Tha,nk Our Custorners

at this time for their many favors, and for their patience during this difficult production period. We can only assure them that we have been doing our best, and will continue to do so.

We also wish to extend greetinss to The California Lumber Merchant and staff on their 25th Anhiversary

A Solid Hordwood Poneling rreoted by E. f. SIAllI0ll & 5011, Inc.

Processed for woll surfocing, STANWATL offers rhe builder q wide selection in colors ond groin. Comes in rondom widths-tongue ond groove -kiln dried-ot o price ihot permits its use in the most modest homes, os well os stores qnel offices. Avoiloble now in Genizero, Primq Vero, Rosq Morodo, Cedro ond mony other inleresling ond beoufiful hordwoods from Mexico, Centrql ond South Americo.

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SA.TIPSON SCREENS ARE STRONGEST

'Oyer o Holf Century of Relioble Service os o Wholesole lumber Distribvlor'

V-J Day alone toial as much as common woods and mill labor received back in 1922.

In 1922 the Western Pine industry of California cut 1070 million board feet of lumber, a little over half as much as the two billion feet produced in 1946. Even then a considerable footage oI the select and shop grades went to eastern markets but a high percentage was used for frrlit and vegetable shook or for 'construction work within the state. The shook market still is of great importance to the industry but it takes a smaller precentage of the present larger total volume of production. The tremendous demand for construction lumber in California has been fully as insistent since V-J Day as war demands were during the conflict, yet the industry still manages to serve much of the trade its efforts developed in the Middle West and East before the war. Many of its eastern customers, as for example the foundry pattern makers who use Sugar Pine, are dependent upon California for their supplies and compete with West Coast purchasers for the lumber they must have.

The industry's cooperative efforts date back to six years before thd appearance of the California Lumber Merchant. In 1916 the California White and Sugar Pine Manufacturers Association was formed. Harold D. Mortenson of the Pelican Pine Manufacturers, Klamath Falls, Oregon, was its first president. It is interesting to note that Mr. Mortenson is still active and right now is engaged in building a new operation, the Trinity Alps Lumber Company, at [Iayfork, California. This operation, which will open up some of the finest timber in the Trinities, is one which would not be possible except for the mobile equipment which has been developed within the past 25 years.

In 1931 the Western Pine manufacturers of California and southern Oregon, recognizing their community of interests with the pine manufacturers in the Inland Empire, merged with them to form the present larger Western Pine Association. This Association supervises the lumber grading, assists the mills with their forest management and fire control plans, advertises and promotes their products, conducts an extensive research program and performs many other services for their mills and their customers which can be more efficiently handled cooperatively than by the individual operators. Homer B. Jamison of th'e BylesJamison Lumber Company of Fresno is president of the Association this year.

Frorn Roy Stcrnton

..THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT has now been certified tiy a quarter century of service. Whom shall we- congratulate-Jack Dionne, &l Martin, Bill Black et al who are the vitals of TIfE MERCHANT, or the Lumber fndustry which they have served so faithfully and well through these 25 years? So that none shall be slighted, we extend our congratulations all 'round. Jack's 'Vagabond Editorials' and wholesome stories and comments, and Ed's close coverage of the new field, coupled with the excellent mechanical make-up of the paper (to mention only a few factors) combine to produce a publication of high standing and great worth. 'Well done, good and faithful servants,' and as you plunge into your second quarter century of service, be assured of the best wishes of Stanton's for success and happiness in all you do." Roy Stanton, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles. Macllonald & Harrington, Ltd.

Wholesqle Lumber - Direct Shippers in Corloqd Lots

Redwood - Douglas Fir - Ponderosa Pine

Also crvailable out of loccl stocks, Scrr Frcrrcisco Bcry Areo Rock Wool-Insulcrtion Bocnd-Asbestos Cement Bo'crd Aluminum Gcrcrge Doors

Powerlul, Diesel-motored log trucks, mcny ol which trcvel over priv_gtely-bu_ilt, heovily rocked rocds, crre uled ct c lcrrge numbei ot Western Pine operolions to hcul the piire logs out of thi woode. The Ponderoec Pine-Sugcr Pine lorest piclured h=ere is pcrrt oI <r \iVestern Pine Tree Fcrm in Northern Cclilornia mcrncged to produce continuous timber crops in balqnce with the cnnuql g:rowth. -

MAIN OTTICE

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We Wish to Congrrctulqte The Stafl ol The Calilornia Lumber Merchcrnt On Its 25th Anniversdry

Our Sincere Compliments

To The

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URANIA, TOUISIANA o oll species of SOUTHER,N HAR.DWOODS

mode in modern

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and to lack Dionne and the entire organization

Attractive concrete driveways that cost only a very little more to build, "stay put" through many years of service, and, saae lnoney in tbe long run.

A well-built concrete driveway is a good investment for your customers because it gives low-annual-cost service.

Concrete has the stamina to stand up under constant use . doesn't develop annoying holes and ruts.

Concrete paved parking areas too, win friends for both owner and contractor.

There Is OnIy ONE "Rezo" Doorr

The service your publication has rendered to the lumber industry of the state is much appreciated bV usr especially the time Ed Martin gives to lumber and Hoo-Hoo Meetings. We always read "The Merchant" (ro^ Cover to Cover

J. A. 66hln Privett o o o

^&fty Years ,4 Los z{nge/es Lumberman

fo' bits just for loading that lumber back on?" He was assured he would. And so by pure coincidence, Al Privett earned his first money'loading lumber in Los Angeles.

He got a job handling lumber in the San Pedro yard. And from that day to this, a little more than fifty years, he has been continually and continuously employed in the retail lumber business in this district, and has never missed a. day's work or a day's pay. His first job with San Pedro Ltrmber Co. paid him two dollars a day, out of which he paid {our dollars a week for board and room. So he was rich right from the start, just as he had hoped he would be rvhen he decided to leave the farm at Fayetteville. The man rvho gave him the fifty cents for loading the wagon remained his friend for life, and in after years worked for the boy he gave the fifty cents to.

"Spring has cam€, winter has went, It was not did by accident, Ihe birds have flew, as you have sal, And spring has came to Arkansas."

Spring had "came to Arkansas" in April, 1897, fifty years ago, when a tall, husky, apple-cheecked farm boy got on a train heading West. The place was Fayetteville, Arkansas, where heihad been born just sixteen years before, and Al Privett was heading for the golden west to Seek his fortune. California he had heard much of, and when he told his father that he was going out into the world on his own, he headed right for Los Angeles, then a little town of less than 100,000 population.

When he got off the train in Los Angeles his earthly possessions consisted of $2.10 in cash, and a change of shirts. Someone told him about a boarding house, and here he found a motherly woman to whom he told his ambitions. His entire ambition was to find a job. She looked him over and said, "Son, you'Il find a job. I know it. You can have your board and room here for four dollars a week, and pay me whenever you get it." So he moved in.

Someone told him they needed laborers at the San Pedro Lumber Company yard, so he started in that direction. Strange to relate, he passed the yard of Kerckhoff-'Cuzner. Here a slight accident had happened right in the street. A load of lumber had slipped ofi one of their wagons, and lav on the ground. The yard manager had just come out, and seeing the country boy from Arkansas, said to him: "Son, you want a job ?" Al said he did. The lumberman said, "Well, you load that lumber back on that wagon and I'll give you fifty cents." Al said, "You mean you'll give me

When he started shoving lumber for the San Pedro Lumber Company, Los Angeles did not look much like it does now. He recalls that the heart of the city was the junction of First and Main Streets. There was an orange grove at Eighth and Main. At Sixth and Main where the home oT The California Lumber Merchant now stands, there was an old timey lumber yard owned by D. J. Nofziger. Cutting prices was a popular activity in those days, and this yard advertised so all might read: "We skin them a11."

When he r.vorked for the San Pedro Lumber Company the first three years of his lumber career, the manager of that yard was a famous lumberman of the past, Mr. L. W. Blinn. When he went to work for the E. K. Wood Lumber Company in the year 1900, that concern was just three years old. It had started business just a year before Al arrived from Arkansas. With a short intermission when he sold Iumber for a time for others, Al Privett has worked for E. K. Wood ever since. Twelve years ago he became Manager, succeeding a great and well loved man, Frank Curran, whose assistant he had been for many years.

When he first went to work for E. K. Wood the local Manager was another great character of the old lumber days, Mr. Jim Schultz. Now a very old man, Mr. Schultz still lives and is in the farming business in the San Joaquin Valley. Mr. Privett knew the original E. K. Wood very well for many years, and in his memory Mr. Wood looms large as one of the truly great lumbermen of "the good old days." Mr. Wood never lived in Los Angeles, but divided his time betr.veen the Pacific Northwest and San Francisco. Al Privett has now rvorked for three generations of the E. K. Wood family.

Searching the lumber records of the past fifty years, Mr. Privett can remember no other lumberman who was in the lumber business here when he started, and still is. He thinks back over the army of men he has known in the Los Angeles lumber industry with tremendous interest, and could write an interesting book on their histories and personali-

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DOUGLAS FIRCommons - Flooring ' Timbers

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PONDEROSAKnotty Pine - Boards - Selects

LATHCedar and Redwood Shingles

SAN FRANCISCO YARD

Foot of Tunnel Ave. Phone JUniper 5-6083

Generol Offices: lSoo Aimy 5r. ATwqter l3OO Ssn Froncisco

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ties. He has seen small ones come and grow large; and large ones come and grow small; all of which gives him food for thought, and for philosophical discussion.

The next oldest lumbermen in Los Angeles in years of continuous service in the industry are George Lounsberry and E. C. Parker, both of whom started a few years later than he did.

J. A. Privett was born April 4th, 1880, at Fayetteville, which makes him just past 67 years of age. Measured by all true standards, he is a highly successful man; much more successful than most men of large personal wealth. He has lived happily nearly fifty years rvith the same wife, has raised a fine family of children, and is now helping raise a crop of grandchildren which he modestly considers the best of its kind in all history. He has lived well, laughed often, worked hard, given every man a square deal, and has for his reward the good will of all those who knorv him. That, friends, is true success.

As lvas said in this journal once before about this same gentleman: "He is a young man for his years, filled with optrmism, good cheer, friendliness, helpfulness, and human understanding that has made him one of the most popular irldividuals in the lumber industry in California. To know him is to like him, to trust him, and to admire him. And ,if you, too, have reached that tide in life where the shadows are slanting from the West, he is a great man to walk around a lumber yard with, and ramble backward through the years, to other days, and other men. There should be more Al Privetts in the industry."

wishes to add congratulations to Jack Dionne on the 95th Anniversary of The California Lumber Merchant

Redwood Industry r 1922-1947

By Selwyn tI. Sharp and Ben Wade, California Redwood Association

\-,i hcrr the California l-umlter Nferchar.rt started publicatiorr in 1922, the Redrvood industry had entered the fourth quarter of its first century. A list of mills checked by oldtiurers scveral years ago shovvs that there rvere 25 principal mills sawing Redwood lumber in 1922. Nine of them are still sawing Redwood, Seven under the same ownership. They are Caspar Lumber Company; Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Company; Hammond Lumber Company mill at Samoa; Hammond Lumber Comany plant No. Z (the Bayside mill) at Eureka; Holmes Eureka Lumber Company; Northern Redwood Lumber Company; Santa Cruz l-umber Company; The Pacific Lumber Company; and Union Lumber Company. There have naturally been many changes in the men who manage these companies. Each of ttrem has lost important executives through death since 1922. A few of the ,better known leaders amonfJ these are _f. M. Carson, C. E. DeCamp, A. B. Hammond, L. C. Hammond, J. H. Holmes, C. R. Johnson, George Ley, Peter McNevin and James Tyson. Many of tl"te 1947 leaders r,vere rvith these companies tn 1922 in less responsible positions.

According to the l3ureau of Census, the industry has sawed something more than ten billion feet of Redrvoocl lumber during the 25 year period . In 7922 thev produced 566 million feet. The year in which their estimate vvas highest was 1924 with 604 million feet. The lorvest production, in 1932, was less than 136 million feet. In 1945. production was nearly 444 million feet. Because of the stiile tlre _estimate f<>r 194(t rvill be nruch less. For the periocl f.rom 1922 to 1929, average annual lledwood production u,as 538 million feet. For the follou'ing decade the average l,:ts 303 million feet and in the last seven years, the average has been about 415 million feet.

The latest and the best estimate of standing Redrvoocl timber, published by the United States Forest Service last year, shorvs a total stand of approximately 4l billion fdet of Redwood saw timber, of which approximately 33 billiorr feet is classified as "available." Most of the balance has been leserved for parks or for recreational purposes.

Changes in relation to logging practices and forestry are outstanding during the 25 years covered by The California I-umber Merchant. In 1922 the industry r,r,as at the height of the steam logging period in rvhich heavy yarders ancl skidders cleared the land and left some exceedingly unattrac_ tive scenery. In 1922 the reforestation project of the Redwood industry was getting rvell under rvav. Industry nurseries raised millions of seedlings which rvere planted to reforest the cut-over land. This seemed to be the onlv way to reforest after the clear cut logging of that period. The industrv invested over $250,000 in this experiment without obtaning results cotnmensurate rvith the costs. In the 30's, when the development of heavy tractors made tractor logging feasible, the industrv adopted a method of selective logging and natural reforestation from residual trees u,hich

n'crc lclt for tl.re conrl-rined pnrpose of providing seed and permitting accelerated growth in trees of sub-marginal size. The results obtained from selective logging have been satisfactory. Improvement in timber harvesting from the forestry standpoint has been steady in spite of a slowing down of progress due to difficulty in securing enough tractors during and since the war. Simultaneously experiments in artificial seeding and studies of tree grorvth and slash disposal have been in progress. There has been a great change in the attitude of timber holders as to value of cut-over land and the soundness in investment in g.rowing Redwood timber. There has been a similar change in the attitude toward forest fires, rvhich for generatio.rs had been considered relatively harmless to mature Redrvbod stands.

The changes that have occurred in manufacturing are probably no less significant but are less spectacular than the changes in logging methods. Mu,ch of the process of turning logs into lumber remains the same as it u,as in 1922. There have been improvements in machines for better manufacture and improved layout for more efficient work. Additional dry kilns have been constructed and kiln <1esign has been greatly improved. The knowledge of liiln drying problems has increased and results obtained from improved schedules are probably greater than improvemetrts in the kilns themselves. Parenthetically, the indrrstry has embarked within the past three years ul)on a systelnatic study of seasoning problems and their solution. The -\ssociation norv has a full-time dry kiln engineer and an experimental kiln operating in Eureka. Methods of handling lurnber have changed radically with lumber carriers and lift trucks taking over to a large extent. The recent addition of lift trucks revolutionized the methods of piling for air seasoning and layout of seasoning yards at many plants.

The history of Redwood marketing during the period can hardly be sketched briefly. Among the industry-rvide marketing efforts through the California Redwood Association and Redwood Export Company are the follorving highlights.

Dtrring the 20's tl-rere was a relatively extensive advertising and promotion program pointed to the sale of yard grades. Advertising copy was directed primarily to architects and home builders u'ith a positive tie-in to the lumber dealers handling Redrvood. During the 30's there r,vere a series of specialized promotional programs. One of these was intensive promotion of Redwood for structural uses, as a result of rvhich millions of feet of Redwood went into the construction of bridges and other highway structures. There was intensive field work in California with the dealers and their customers in the architectural, agricultural and building trades. Late in the 30's, there was a resumption of advertising to residential and industrial users.

CONGRATULATIONS and BEST WISHES

to ta\e this opportunity to congratulate out good friend JarkDronne on the zSth Artniversary of

'We have read and enjoyed his editorials for,rnarry years, and we wish him greater succe.ss in the years to corn'eHOGAN

2nd & Alice Streets, Ocrklcnd 4, Ccrlil.

Sqsh, Doors and Millwork

There were several special projects torvard the use of Redwood for tanks, cooling towers, reservoir robfs and other specialized uses. During the whole period, individual companies did similar urork in a more limited field toward extending the use of Redwood for specialized purposes. The Export market which fluctuated rather violently, with a low of three million feet in 1931 and a high of 58 million feet in 1923, received special attention with foreign field work periodically. From 1941 the defense program, the war, then the seller's market took over. Marketing problems are now being returned to the industry for solution.

The pattern of the Redwood industry remained relatively static until a few years ago. Some of the old companies dr6pped out, some new ones were established and always there were a few small mills coming and going. However, almost the entire Redwood production was cut by a few large. mills and the operations that continued for the whole quarter century represented by far the biggest portion. Early in the war an influx of new mills began. practically 'all the equipment in sawmills that had discontinued operation moved into new mills. Many small mills moved into the Douglas Fir timber which is located in the Redwood region to the east of the Redwood stands and which had always been inactive. 6ther small mills moved into the Redwood forests, some of them cutting Douglas Fir and Pine, others cutting old growth Redwood and a few cutting second growth Redwood. Several larger operations were added. At least three large plants are planned for production of Douglas Fir and Redwood plywood, with the first one now in operation. In addition there has been a great deal of activity in Redwood stumpage. Several large and well known Douglas Fir produ,cers purchased tracts of Redwood timber lands, especially in Del Norte and Mendocino Counties. For most of these properties, definite operating plans have not yet been announced.

From Lcthrop Leirshmcn

"I believe that you and your paper have done an outstanding job for and with the industry, and I congratulate you on your Silver Anniversary. May it be one of the outstandling trade publications ever p,ublished." Lathrop K. Leishman, Crown City Lumber & Mill Co., Pasadena.

In the first place the old-time operating companies will surely produce a smaller percentage of the total Redwood cut than was the case for many years before the war. Production of Douglas Fir (of which the Forest Service estimates there are available stands of 30 billion feet in the will happen but some rather definite conclusions may be drawn.

These factors point to a future for the region quite different Trom that of the last 25 years. No one can tell what Redwood sub-region and thb adjacent Douglas Fir subregion) will represent a larger proportion of the total lumber cut of the region than in the past. A great many of the more than 200 small circular mills that have been established during the war and post-war period, will pass out of the picture with the return of cornpetitive conditions. The surviving new mills will have to adjust and equip themselves to furnish well manufactured, well graded, worked and seasoned lumber. The capacity of these mills is too great for the relatively small normal demand for rough green lumber. It is also probable that total lumber production will ihcrease as compared with the plst quartei century and that the life of the present virgin timber will be correspondingly shortened. This will make it essential to continue to improve and to intensify forestry practices to provide the next crop on time.

The unusual qualities and characteristics of Redwood lumber and the many special uses for which these qualities are needed, give assurance of an adequate and favorable market. The industry recognizes the fact that it will require vision and the highest type of salesmanship to successfully compete in this market. The new grades recently adopted; the seasoning research program ; and the continuing studies of manufacture and marketing will assist in attaining the goal.

From C. E. Parker

"We think you and THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT have done a -great service for the lumber merchants of Southern California and we congratulate you on your anniversary." C. E. pirker, Patten-Blinn Lumber Company, Los Angeles.

,uLY FIRSI 192i2. . . . . . q new Lumber Jorunql crnd cr new lumbermcrn mqde their crppeqrcnce in Los Angeles. As that lumberman I wcrnt to extend congrrcrtulcrtions cnd every good wish to THE CAJ.IFORNIA tttMBER MERCHANT on our twin 25th crnniversarfr. Every issue ever published hqs been recrd with plecsure cnd prolit, cn invclucble guide cnd inspiration.

To those lriends who have mcde my every business dcry these pcst 25 years cr source oI plecrsure crrrd scrtislclc'tion-my hecrrtlelt cppreciction . .

WE 'WISH TO EXPRESS OUR APPRECIA.

TIOI\ F'OR THE T\,YBNTY.FIVE YBARS OF YALUABLE SERVIOE RENDERED THE

I-.UMBER INDUSTRY I]Y THE CALIF'ORNIA

LUMBER 1VIERCHANT Al\D ITS ABLE

PUBLISHER AND SI'AFF. '

LOUNSBEBRY & IilABRIS

LUMBER DEALERS

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

Hippocrcrtes Advises

Sometimes give your services mind a previous benefaction or if there be an opportunity of in financial straits, give full

where there is love of man, is also love of the art. For some patients, though that their condition is perilous, recover their simply through their contentment with the of the physician. And it is well to superintend the for one's own self, and make them well, but also to care as to observe what is seemly.

Good And Bcd Men

When good men die, their goodness does rtot perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies, and is buried with them. (Euripides).

Removing The Sting

f.oyl6othing, calling to satisfaction. And one who is a stranger to all such. For dent of the

Lcdy Ol The Lcrgoon (From the Chinese)

By the shores of that lagoon, Where the water-lily lies, Where the tall Valerians rise Slender as the crescenr moonGoes Hea Nan . . Ah, Hea Nan! (Sleep brings me no relief, My heart is full of grief.) I By the shores of that tagoo", I / Where the drowsy lotus lies, Y Where the tall Valerians rise, Brighter than the orbid moon

Shines Hea Nan Ah, Hea Nan! .(I turn and turn all night, And dawn brings no respite.)

[Ier Choice

The returned soldier presented

One time John N. Garner, then Vice United States, lost a ten dollar bet on the winner asked him to please giving it to my son as a souvenir, on it, he will keep it always," said

"You mean he wontt ever

the bill. "I'm your autograph

6 gentleman.

?" asked Garner.

"He cert4inly never will," the winner.

"In that case," said the check."

Garner, "let me give you a

From The Scnskrit

brought me one of those about."

There were many close to a logging lumberjack who sat

"You have many tourist.

with a quarters f've read so much

baseball piece of French money, a franc, game in Uvalde. When he offered a ban rn payment, "Thanks," said the dear old ', "but I wish you had

fawn, the gaiety of the sun's rays, and the inconstancy of the wind and the

"He took the lightness of the leaf and glance of the of the mist: dity of the hare; the vanity of the peacock and the of the throat of the swallow. He added the sweet favor of honey, the c of the diamond, the of the tiger, the warmth of the fire, and the chill of . He added the chatter of the jay and the tooing of dove. He melted all this and formed a woman. Then he a present of her to man."

The Beal Problem

A stranger was standing on the platform railroad station when the Northern Into the whirl of dust raised by the master's dog, and tore madly up the

t"Does your dog always chase stranger.

flaihed past. ped the stationk in pursuit. trains?" asked the

"Yes, Sir," said the statir, "he chases every train that goes through here."

"Why do you suppose he

s he going to do with it if he

"That ain't what worrie it?" asked the stranger. me" said the stationmaster. "What worries me is. w ever catches it?"

camp. One sunnrng quaint

summer tJ/ at the rlroryltain resort them ufa{talking to a and c$friing tobacco. here, I see," said the

"Y.p," said the logger, his stream of tobacco juice at least ten feet, fall." ey all go home in the early

Lincoln's Ecrly Politiccl Creed

(From an address of Abraharn Lincoln delivered at Sa\gamon, March gth, 1832.)

Every man is said to fra\e trip, iieculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can sadfd one that f have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition, is yet to be developed. I am young and unknown to many of you. f was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life. f have no wealthy or popular friends or relatives to recommend me. My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of the country; and, if elected, they will have conferred a favor on me for which I shall be unremitting in my efforts to compensate. But if the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointment to be very much chagrined.

n Gives Us Gteaf Pleasute

to jojn in congratulating Jack Dionne and the staff of The California Lumber Merchant on the completion of 21 years of operation.

\D7e hope you will still be around to celebrate "The Merchant's" Golden Anniversary.

Pacific Coast \(/holesale Hardwood Distributors Association

Holds Annual Convention At Victoria, B.C.

Clarence Bohnhoff, Los Angeles, Elected President

The 25th Annual Convention of the Pacific Coast \,Vholesale Hardwood Distributors Association. held at the Empress lfotel, Victoria, British Columbia, June 12, 13 and 14, was described by a number of members as one of the best in the history of the Association, and one of the most enjoyable.

, Members began arriving in the late afternoon of Wednesday, Jurre 11. The first regular business session was held at 10:00 a.m., Thursday, when the sectional reports were

made and committees appointed. A general discussion of matters of interest to the members followed.

Committees appointed were: Golf-Adolph Wanke, F'rank Connolly; Membership-Sterling Stofle, Stanton Swafford, _fim Davis, Leonard Hall; Nominations-Bob 'I'aenzer, Frank Connolly, Bob Kahn; Publicity-Frank Connolly, Adolph Wanke, Bruce Mclean, Don White; Resolutions-Norman Sawers. Walter Scrim.

(Continued on Page 112)

LeIt to Right: Front row: Normcn Scwers, Bruce Mclecn, Frqnk Connolly, I. Fyle Smith, Wqlter Scrim, C. B. Tcrenzer, Bob Kahn. Second row: Bob Sullivctn" E. G. Reel, Chcs. B. (Bruz) White, Stcnton Swcfford, Grcrnt Dixon, Adolph Wcnke, Dcllas Donnan, LeRoy Stanton, Ir- Rclph Mqnnion, Sterling Stofle, Don White.

Third row: Hcl Von Breton, Jim Dcvis, Bruce Mossop, Leoncrd HcIl, Keith Mclellcrn. Bcck row: I. R Ccrey, Pcul Smith, lcck Brush, Virgil Lecch, George Byrne, Alex Gordon,

All West (oast Woods

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For combino tion Sosh doors. Con be mortised in l%" door. Bolonces mode with either wood or sosh hook. Sold through oll leoding iobbers ond deolers'

BEST WISHES AND MANY THANKS TO The California Lumber .Merchant And its Fine Staff HA]IS WAIL

GENERAL IUMBER, qird SUPPTY CO.

806 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles 12, MU. 4022

PLYWOODVENEERS - WATTBOARDS

q'reetrat4

ut fsa Sihtelt Anaarcaaaf.

Crown City Lumber & Mill Company

. LATHROP K. LEISHMAN

Sash and Doors - fnterior Finish - Cabinet Vork MILLVORK

Ort Best \X/ishus

To Jack' Dionne dnd Stdff on the 25th Anniversary of.

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

John W. Fisher Lumber (o,

Since 1923l4th & Colorodo Sts. Sqntq tlonicq Phone S.rYl. 5-0956 Thomor J. Fox, Presidenl Corl A. loughlin, Gen. /rtgr,

IEM0N GR0VE ,u*,ER co

The Bcrck Country Lumber Ycrdspeciclizing in Grademqrked Lumber cmd Nctioncrlly Advertised Building Supplies cnd Insulction

DEVOE PAINTS

Look For The 65-foot Tower - Lemon Grove Ccrlilornicr

Redwood Mills Shut Down For 4th oI July Holidcry

The following Redwood mills shut clorvn after r,r'ork cn June 27, and will remain closed through July 7, reopening July 8:

The Pacific Lumber Company, Hammond Lumber Conrpany, IJnion Lumber Company, Holmes Eureka Lumber Company, Dolbeer & Carsorr Lumber Comfany, Caspar Lumber Company, Rockport Redwood Company, Arcata T-umber Company.

Olfice Moved

The office of L. W. Martinez Co., sale lumber, and representative of Portland. has been moved to the California Street, San Francisco 4.

Opens Portlcnd Olfice

San Francisco, rvholeCooper Lumber Co., Balfour Building, 351

H. \\r. Aldrich I-umber Co., Eugene, Oregon, has openecl a Portland office at 737 American Bank Building. Harrl' W. Aldrich is in charge.

WilI Retcin Phone Nuniber

Santa Fe Lumber Co., San F'rancisco, which rec.ently moved its offices to the Fife Building, 1 Drumm Street, announces that there is no change in its telephone number, FXbrook'2074.

9,000,000 Feet oI Lumber

Destroyed by Fire

Fire clestroyed 9,000,00O fpet of of the Cal-Ida I-umber Co. and pernl', t\\'o miles north of Auburn, age was estimated at $450,000.

rough lumber in the yards the Empire Milling ComCalif., June 18. The dam-

Mcrin Olfice Moved to San Ccrrlos

The main office of the O'Neill Lumber Co. l.ras been transferred to their distribution yard at 755 Old County Road, San Carlos,. Calif. The telephone number is San Carlos 2041-M.

Sidney L Eschen

Sidney L. Eschen, 61, who formerlv was a salesman for the Charles Nelson Co., San Francisco, for many years, passed away in Alameda, June 10.

He is survived by his u'idow, Mrs. Leah Eschen, a son, Robert L., and a daughter, Betty S. Eschen.

From Old Man "Con" Himsell

"When, in your issue of May lst, I beheld a handsome picture of you receiving an Award of Merit, I looked back over the years and wondered why they came to omit the word 'golfer' from the plaque. I notice, too, that though they use the word 'scholar', they omitted the words 'and gentleman'. How come?

Congratulations and best regards." C. P. Constantine, Advertising, Seattle.

Wegl Green Sl. and Veraon Ave. SYccinore 6-3161 Pcscdenq 2, Cclilornic BYoa l-6226

My Favorite Story

Time: 25 yearc ago (t922)

Occasion: Dinner at which lack Dionne was guest speaker Subjece Lumber Mercband.ising

After listening ro one of Jack's very excellent speeches on lumber merchandising, which at the time was quite theoretical, (but standard practice today) a Iistener asked Jack:

"Why don't you buy a lirmber yard and put some of your.rheories into practice?"

Jack's reply, "$on, f am a preacher, not a lumberman."

$Vell, Jack, after 25 yearc you, can look back and see you converted a lot of us, and we're still listening and learning.

Lumber & BuiHers Supply co.

Solane Beech, Colif.

H. G. Larrick, Sr.

Rosboro Lumber Co.

Springfield, Oregon

Manufactur€rs of Uniformly Good Kiln Dried Lumber

Congratulations to Jack Dionne, Ed Martin, and their Very Efficient Staff

Southern Cdifornia Representative

John V. Cooper

149 South Orcnge Drive, Los Angeles 36, Ccrlil. Telephone WYoming 2770

Egtablished 1904. Pcrul Orbtrn, Owner Olfice, Mill cnd Ycrd

77 So. Pcsadenc Ave., Pascrilenc 3, Calif.

Pcscdencr SYccrmore 6-4373

Telephones: - Los Angeles, RYcn l-6997

WIIOLESALE crnd nETAIt

Specializing in truck and trailer lots. HARBOR YARD AT IONG BEACTI

Pacific Coast Wholerale Hardwood Distributors Annual Comvention

(Continued from Page 108)

In the afternoon a tour for sightseeing around the city was arranged, also a trip to Butchart's Gardens, Tamous for their roses. A banquet rvas held in the evening.

Officers Elected

Officers were elected at the Friday morning business session. These are: President-Clarence Bohnhoff, Bohnhoff Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Vice President-Don F. White, White Brothers, San Francisco; Secretary-Treasurer Stanton Swafford, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles.

The meeting was addressed by Virgil Leach of the General Hardwood Company of Detroit, Mich., who spoke on the background of the National Wholesale Distributing Yard Association.

A report was made by Walter Scrim on the Philippine hardwood situation.

Resolutions

The following resolutions were adopted:

RESOLVED: (1) That the Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Association go on record as protesting the high freight rates now in effect from Central and South Am,:rica.

(2) That the boundary of the Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Association be extended east to Denver.

(3) That telegrams be sent to the absent members.

At 4:30 in the afternoon convention members attended a reception held for them by the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, the Honorable Charles Banks.

Another banquet was held on Friday evening, with dancing and entertainment. During dinner Scottish bagpipers rvere brought into the banquet hall, and they played in turn at the table of Keith Mclellan, Bruce Mclean, Walter Scrim, and Alex Gordon, and a nervly-made Scot, Bob "Mac" Taenzer.

Saturday's meeting continued rvith general discussion, with golf and sightseeing in the afternoon. Cocktails and music preceded the dinner dance, and there was the presentation of prizes.

Miss Dianne Connolly rvon the door prize, and Sterling Stofle was presented with the golf prize.

Those present were:

San Diego-Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sullivan and Mrs. Olsen, Sullivan Hardwood.Company.

Los Angeles-Mr. and Mrs. Robert Taenzer, American Hardwood Company; Jack Brirsh, Brush Industrial Lumber Company; J. R. Carey, Owens-Parks Lumber Company; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stanton, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Stanton Swafford and their son Sandy of E. J. Stanton & Son; Mr. and Mrs. Hal Von Breton, Tropical and Western Hardwood Lumber Company; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Connolly and their daughters, Dianne and Sheila, Western Hardwood Lumber Company; Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Stofle and their son Roderick, Western Hardwood Lumber Company; Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Reel and therr two sons, Reel Lumber Service.

Long Beach-Mr. and Mrs. Bayard Byrne and George Byrne, B. W. Byrne & Sons.

San Francisco-James Davis, Davis Hardwood Company; Ralph Mannion, J. E. Higgins Lumber Company; Robert Kahn, Forsyth Har.dwood Company; Mr. and Mrs. Keith Mclellan and their guest Miss Dianne Wandke; Charles White and Don White, White Brothers.

Berkeley-Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Gordon, Gordon-MacBeath Hardwood Company,

Portland-Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Hall, Lumber Products, Inc.; Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Wanke, Wanke Panel Company'

Spokane-Mr. and Mrs.'Grant Dixon, Exchange Lumber & Manufacturing Company.

Seattle-Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Donnan, Ehrlich-Harrison Co.; Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Mclean, General Hardwood Company i Bruce Mossop, Ehrlich-Harrison Co.

Tacoma-Mr. and Mrs. Paul Smith, Wheeler Osgood Co.

Vancouver-J. Fyfe Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Norman Sawers, J. Fyfe Smith Company.

And the guest of the convention, Mr. Virgil Leach, as u'ell as Mrs. Leach and their two sons, General Hardwood Cornpany, Detroit, Michigan.

New directors elected were the follo'iving: Bob Sullivan, San Diego; Sterling Stofle, Los Angeles; Bob Kahn, San Francisco ; Len Hall, Portland; Bruce Mclean, Seattle; Norman Sawers, Vancouver, B.C.

All Struck Redwood Mills Now Running

All of the "struck" Redwood mills in California are now in operation. The plant of the Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Company at Eureka, started operating on a full time schedule, Fridav, June 13th.

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PONDEROSA & SUGAR REDWOODFIR TTOUTDINGS

Bert Uir/4gt

To The California Lumber Metchont On its Silver Anniversary

wHotEsALE LUMBER DISTRIBUToRS, lNC.

Douglas FirRedwoodPilingPlywood 54 First Street, Oakland 7, T'Vinoaks 2515

HERBERT A. TE]UIPLETO]I LUMBER

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Announcements Concerning Mcple Flooring Association

The headquarters and offices of the Maple Flooring Manufacturers Association are now located at 46 Washington, Boulevard, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. L. M. Clady is secretary-manager.

The first Association of Maple Flooring Manufacturers was organized. in the year 1897. The present organization is a continuance of the new Associatidn organized March l, 1905. For the past tlventy one years, the offices were located in the McCormick Building, Chicago.

President W. C. Abendroth wishes to announce that the MFMA will be active as heretofore in cooperative trade extension, including space advertising in trade papers, publication of descriptive literature and continued research to stimulate the more intelligent and economical use of maple flooring.

Bodkin to Buy Lumber

Appointment of Robert M. Bodkin as manager, Western purchasing office of Dyke Brop. and Cole Manufacturing Company in Portland, Oregon effective July 1st, was announced by the general offices of these two manufacturers and wholesalers of building material located in Fort Smith, Arkansas and Memphis, Tennessee respectively, with branches in sixteen cities throughout the Soutl-r and Southwest.

Mr. Bodkin has been general manager of Ponderosa Pine Woodwork, Chicago, Illinois since 1941 when this nonprofit association of woodwork and lumber manufacturers was organized.

Olfices Moved

The offices of Il. G. Robbins Lumber Co., San Francisco, were moved July I to the Balfour Building, 351 California Street, San Francisco.

From Ken Smith

"Imagine it! CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT 25 years old ! Boy, what we have lived through together ! And what a contribution you have made to living through those years ! The thing that "*stands out with me-, 4n"d l.ana",sur.e"it-.rnust with all your readers, is ihi optimism and cheer and sure sense of direction that has permeated your editorials through all these years. No one can appraise too highly the influence they have had on our industry in California. I salute you, my friend, both for what you have done, and for what you are." Kenneth Smith, President. California Redwoodr Association. San Francisco.

This is a very glad event And it's a joy to send Sincere congratulations And good wishes without end.

May this special Anniversary

Be very bright all through, Rich in pleasant memories And in many joys for you.

It's an especially huppy occasion For.. it gives us the opportunity as well To say "Thank you" for the way You taught us all to sell.

So on this Twenty-fffth Birthday

We join in wishes sincere That "Vagabond Editorials" Will be with us for manv a vear.

BREY-WRIGHT LUMBER CO.

Gongratulations Jack!

On cr fine iob well done throughout the pcst 25 yeqrs.

May you be still going slrong 25 yecrs from now!

ilrc0rAl ll00n sAtEs

Ptrtonal -/{r*t

R. E. Hills, Jr., son of R. E. Hills, Sr., Wendling-Nathan Company, San Francisco, who was with the San joaquin Lumber Co., Stockton, from the time he was released from the Navy until March 15, joined the Wendling-Nathan Company at that time, and is now a member of the conrpany's sales staff

Tom V. La Coste is now a salesman covering the Sacramento, Peninsula territory.

Ed La Franchi, returned Jane 72 Eugene.

for Paul McCusker, and Coast counties

Pacific Forest Products, Inc., Oakland, from a business trip to Poltland and

\V. H. (Bill) Nigh, manager of the pine depqrtment of Wendling-Nathan Company, San Francisco, is on a 30day business and vacation trip in the east, accompanied by his family.

Louis Larson, Larson Ladder tended the recent convention of San Francisco.

Company, San Jose, atRotary International in

John L. Todd, president, Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland, celebrated his 93rd birthday on June 10, and attended the meetings of fnternational Rotary in San Francisco on that day.

Mr. Todd, who is still active in business, has been a Rotarian f.or 27 years, and has had a 100 per cent atteudance for the past 20 years. There's a mark to shoot at !

Charles Stone, Stone Logging was a San Francisco Bay district Co., Tillamook, Oregon, visitor earlv in June.

Al Peirce, Al Peirce Lumber Co., Coos Bay, Oregon, attended the annual convention of International Rotary in San Francisco, June 9 to 13.

Ray Schaecher, Taylor Lumber Co., Eugene, businebs trip by air to San Francisco and Los early in June.

Wayne Dalby, who attended the annual meeting of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association in Tacoma, June lQ as the representative of Harbor Plywood Corp. of California, is now a member of their sales department, calling on the Northern California trade.

Al Ingraham, Ingraham Lumber Co., Shafter, Calif., and president of Shafter's Rotary Club, attended the convention of Rotary International at San Francisco, June 9 to 13. He was accompanied by Mrs. Ingraham.

Earl Chalfan, former sales manager for Giustina Lumber Co., Eugene, Oregon, is now sales manager for C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation, Portland.

Robert H. Rushing has been appointed sales manager for Giustina Lumber Co., Eugene, Oregon.

Hank Aldrich, H. \V. Aldrich Lumber Co., Eugene, Oregon, has returned from a two weeks' business trip to San Francisco and Los Angeles. While in San Francisco he made headquarters at the.offices of Cords Lumber Co., Northern California representatives for his firm.

Milton Koli, A. J. Koll Planing Mill, Ltd., Los Angeles, left June 13 on a six weeks' business and pleasure trip to the Pacific. Northwest. He is accompanied by his wife and family. They will visit Oregon, Washington, Idaho, British Columbia, and will spend some time at Banff and Lake Louise. Alberta.

Walter Johnson, president, American Box Company, San Francisco, attended the American Lumber Congress, held in Chicago, June 16 to 18.

Mason E. Kline, rvho resigned his position as general sales manager of Union Lumber Co., June 1, is not yet ready to announce his plans for the future. '

made a Angel'es

R. G. (Rich) Robbins, R. G. Robbins Lumber Co., Portland, Oregon, visited the company's San Francisco office June 5 to 10. He traveled by plane.

Kenneth Smith, president of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco, returned June 26 f.ron attending the American Lumber Congress at Chicago, June 16 to 18, and visiting Washington. D.C., and Nerv York. He flew both ways on the ne'"r,' DC-6 plane, making the journey from San Francisco to Chicago in 6tl hours, and on the return trip left Neu' York at 11 P.M. on the 25th and arrived in San Francisco at 7:48 a.m. the next morning.

Truly "there IS something new under the sun." The above pictures show it very plainly. At t1-re sarvmill plant of the American Box Corporation, at Sandy Gulch, California, they used to re'sort to dynamite to split big Pine logs that were too large for their carriage and sau's. This rvasted lots of good lumber. Now they are using an Atkins

New Dernier Plan Book

Miss E. M. Dernier, of the E. M. Dernier Service lJureau, I-os Angeles, announces the readiness of a new book of home plans entitled "Distinctive Modern Homes." The book is 44 pages and cover, filled with pictures and floor plans of attractive California type hon.res. Miss I)ernier sells the plans and blueprints for all these hornes.

SAVING LUMBER Splittins

Bis

Pine Logs with Power Saw

electric falling sarv outfit, and-splitting these logs lerrgthwise. The waste occasioned in blasting these logs is entirely eliminated. The pictures give an excellent idea of hou' it is done. Ali this saving in addition to cutting the timber close to the ground, makes an impressir.e saving in logging operations.

Olfice Moved to FiIe Building

Offices of tMacDonald & Harrington, Ltd., San Francisco, have been moved to the 10th floor, Fife Building, I Drumm Street, Sarr Francisco 11, just across tl.re street from their olci krcation at 16 California Street. There rvill be no change in their phor.re number, GArfield 8392.

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Fel icitations

To Jock Dionne, Ed Mortin ond Bill Block on the occosion of the lrth Anniversary ol

The California Lumber Merchant

ROUNDS TRADING COMPANY

(Successors to Kilpotrick & Compony) Deolers in Forest Products

Genercrl Office

Crocker Bldg., Scrn Frcnrcisco 4, C<rlil.

Soulhern Calilornic Office and Ycrd

1240 Blinn Ave., Wilmington, C<rlil., P. O. Box 548

Congratulations On Your 25th Anniversary

F. L. IORDAN SASH & DOOR CO.

Estcrblished 1920

New Locction Fcctory crnd Office

612l S. Manheittcn Pl<rce

Los Angeles 44, Cclil.

Telephone THoinarcrll 4168 L/GNABIOCK

To Jack Dionne

H. Park

Vice President and Manager

Fox-lYoodsum lumber Co.

"We a.re Sthghtel to Soy'6honk Won' lo, oll the 8""1 Ghingt [to hore l.on" lo, the Jnl.n{try, both. pe?nnolly anl through gpur t*cellent Fnblication."

Arnold

Sales Staff Mosdy Ex-Navy Men

John A. Rudbach Co., of Los Angeles, mill representatives for Douglas fir and California pine lumber, whose full page advertisement appears in this issue, started business in 1934. Previous to that Mr. Rudbach was with the Charles R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, for several years, and with the McCormick Supply Company :rs Southern California representative. During the war he rvas in the Navy for four years, of which three years rvere spent overseas. He held the rank of Lieutenant Commander.

The organization is made up almost entirely of exservice men. Mr. Rudbach's partner, -Jas. S. Ifudson, rvas also a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy.

John Nikkle of the San Diego office was formerly rvith West Side I-umber Co., Eugene, Oregon. Robert Nikkle of the San Diego offi,ce was a Lieutenant (j.g.) in the Navy. Frank Perry, in charge of the Santa Barbara ofifice, was a Lieutenant in the Navy, and Don Bolthouse was also a Navy Lieutenant.

Ed Nelson, office manager, was formerly rvith the S. P. & S. Railroad, Eugene, Oregon.

Offices of the John A. Rudbach Co. are in the RivesStrong Building, 112 West Ninth Street, I-os Angeles 1.5. Telephone number is TUcker 5119.

Lumberm.r, Moo. O,rt ol Soo Frdncisco's 16 Gqlifornia Street Building

As a result of a single tenant, Waterfront Emplovers' Association, taking a l0-year lease on the Santa Clara Building,. 16 California Street, San Francisco, seven lumber firms received 30 days' notice to vacate their offices by June 30.

Tlre firms are: Santa Fe Lumber Co., 40 years in the building, all but a month; NlacDonald & Harrington, Ltd., 20 years occupancy; Lamon-Bonnington Co., tenants since they began business; Barg Lumber Co. ; O'Neill Lumber Co., Ltd.; R. G. Robbins Lumber Co., and L. W. Martinez.

From C. E. Irving

"We are indeed glad to hear that THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT is going to have its 25th birthday. We-have enjoyed for many years the publication, particularly your editorials and stories."

C. E. Irving, Western"I-umber Company, San Diego.

Otto W. Frese, San Francisco wholesale lumberman. recently came across a 51 year-old invoice for rough Clear Itedrvood lumber furnished by the Union Lumber Company to his father Wiliiam Frese for shipment to l.iverpool, England, around Cape Horn on the barkentine Ro_ hilla. He had a photostatic copy made of the invoice, which is reproduced here. It will be noted that it is signed by tl-re l:rte C. R. Johnson, father of Otis R. Johnson, presi_ dent of the Union Lumber Companv. NIr. Frese's father's firm, W. F.e.e & Co., was in the business of exporting lumber, dried fruit and canned goods. It is believed that tfiis was the first shipment of Redwood Iurnber to E,ngland.

From H, W. Mason

"Our hearty congratulations on your 25th anniversary, and wd will look forward eagerly to your Golden Anniversary Number." H. W. Mason, Fisk & Mason, South Pasadena.

Pacific Coast \(/holesale Hardwood Distributors Association Celebrates 25th Anniversary

By Don F. \X/hite \X/hite Brothers, San Francisco

Early in 1922, Bayard "Bob,bie" Byrne, then of the Western Hardwood Lumber Company, made a visit to San Francisco and rvas invited to a luncheon at the Commercial Club, rvhere the San Francisco Hardwood Club met once a week.

The Los Angeles Haqdrvood dealers had a similar club and Bobbie suggested the forming of a Pacific Coast Association, taking in the San Francisco and Los Angeles clubs as a nucleus, and inviting all the hardwood dealers along the coast-San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver.

Bobbie Byrne and C. H. "Harry" White were named the committee to write the dealers, which they did and received enthusiastic responses from all. Plans 'ivere laiC for the forming of this association and a first convention rvas held at Del l\{onte i;1922.

A new vista in the hardrvood business rvas opened up by the acquaintanceship and real friendships rvhich developed. Mutual problems rvere discussed and the principals of the various Pacific Coast hardwood companies became fast and lasting friends, instead of names on letterheads.

At the next rneeting at Santa Barl>ara, Frank Fish, then secretary-treasurer of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, came out from Chicago and signed up practically 1@% of the Pacific Coast hardwood dealers as members. Shortly after a Pacific Coast member was placed on the National Hardrvood I-umber Association Board of Directors. C. H. White u'as the first director and after a six year term rvas follorved by D. J. Cahill of Los Angeles. The present \\rest Coast director is Dallas Donnan of Seattle.

At the first meeting, rvhich formed the association non' knorvn as the Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Association, there were present frorn San DiegoJerry Sullivan, Sullivan Hardwood Lurnber Company, A1 Frost, Frost Hardrvood Lumber Company; from Los Angeles-Ed and Bob Taenzer, American Hardwood Company, D. J. Cahill and Bayard Byrne, Western Hardwood Company, Roy Stanton and Henry Swafford, E. J. Stanton and Son, Charlie and Clarence Bohnhoff, Bohnhoff Lumber Company, W. E., and Charlie Cooper, W. E. Cooper l-umber Company; from Oakland-George ,Brorvn, Strable

Hardrvood Company; from San Francisco-Gus Dieckman, Dieckman Lumber Company, Ed Howard, E. A. Horvard and Company, Ted Higgins, J. E. Higgins Lumber Company, Homer Maris, Maris Hardwood Company, Sam Forsyth, Forsyth Hardwood Company, Otto Wahlefeld, E. F. Niehaus and Company, Felix Richards, Richards Hardwood Company, Ray Ford, Cadwallader-Gibson Company,,C. H. White, White Brothers; from Portland-Ernie Hall and Jim Ahern, Nicolai-Neppach Company; from Seattle-Ken Hopey, Ehrlich Harrison Company; and from Vancouver. B. C.-J. Fyfe Smith, J. Fyfe Smith Company.

The second meeting, held the following year, sarv additional members including Bill Davis, Davis Hard'rvood Company, San Francisco, Norman Sawers, J. Fyfe Smith Company, Vancouver, Frank Connolly, lVestern Hardwood Lumber Company, Los Angeles, and a little later, Bob Kahn of Forsyth Hardwood Company and Roy Barto of Cadwallader-Gibson Company.

There have been many changes in the past tlventy-five years, with some firms going out of business and nerv faces appearing on the scene. At that first meeting it rvas decided to rotate the conventions from the Southern California Section to the Northern California Section and the North Pacific Section, rvith the.gronp in each section putting on the conventio4 as their turn occurred.

Throughout these trventy-five years the Association has continued to hold its meetings, rvith a few exceptions during World War II when conventions were frowned upon.

Thus it is that the founding of the Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardrvood Distributors Association coincides exactly with the founding of The California Lun-rber Merchant. Jack Dionne has ,been a speaker at a number of our gatherings and Bill Black is a constant visitor and is very u'elcome.

Hammond Retail Yard Mcrncrgers Visit Mills cnd Woods Opercrtions

Managers of retail yards of the Hammond Lumber Company in Northern Cdlifornia were guests of the company on a four-day trip to the sawmills, and logging operations at Samoa and Eureka, June 5 to 8, inclusive.

Those u,ho made the trip were the-.following: Harry A. $now, Boyes Springs and Sonoma; Lawrence A. Tibbetts; Calistoga; Mrs. Gladys Luebow, Clearlake Highlands; W. D. Raymond, Freedom; James E. Clarke, Healdsburg; Albert Adamo, Napa; Rutherford Rohland, St. Helena, and J. H. Heick, Watsonville.

G. B. Mcleod, president, H. E. Bailey, vice president, and F. K. Peil, San Francisco, accompanied the group.

C. H. White, Fir:t Pregidenl ol Argociation

Calilornia Buys Bulk of Redwood Lumber

Leads in Pine and Fir Consumption Also

For the past 25 years California and Washington have been close competitors for the honor of being the biggest consumer of lumber products of the Douglas Fir region, with California holding a conrparatively narrow lead all that time.

For the past year or so California has consumed approximately 15 per cent of the lumber products of this region, with Washington a close second at 13.6 pe( cent. Oregon is a good third with a consumption of 9.9 per cent. No other state is even close, the entire Atlantic Coast taking 11.7 per cent. Twenty-five years ago California was the leading consumer from that territory, and still holds the lead.

Califolnia rvas the leading consumer of Ponderosa Pine 25 years ago, and still is. The same is true of Redwood. Twenty-five years ago California was the leading producer of Ponderosa, but has given way to Oregon, which produced 1,365,000,000 feet in 1946 as compared with California's 1,101,000,000 feet.

Sqn Frcrncisco Building Permits

San Francisco building permits in May totaled 664 with estimated value of $2,950,736, compared with a total in May, 1946, ol 734 valued at $2,472,831. Permits in April, 1947, were 624 f.or a total of $2,824,324.

For the five months ended May 31, there were 3,348 permits f.or $17,302,218, as against 3,721 permits valued at $23,048,127 in the same five months of 1916.

More than $1,500,000 of the May, 1947, total represents residential buildings, mostly single family units.

From Milt Tcenzer

"HAPPY SILVER ANNIVERSARY ! To you and your staff we extend the warmest wishes for your continued success and our deep appreciation for the swell aid you have in the past afforded us." E. M. Taenzer, American Hardwood Company, Los Angeles.

The entire lumber production of the Douglas Fir region in 1922 (the year THE MERCHANT started) was 7,893,000,000 feet, as compared with 6,253,000,000 tor 7946.

In 1922 the total lumber production of the Westem Pine region was 3,711,000,000. feet, as compared with an estimated 6,065,000,000 feet for 1946, and. perhaps more for 1917.

Interesting to note the California Redwood Association started its statistical department in the year 1922. In that year the state of California consumed 7l per cent of the Red'ivood cut. In 1945, the last year for which figures are complete, California took 6ll per cent of the total product. In the interim there was only one year during tvhich less than 50 per cent tvent to California.

California Redr,vood producers can therefore point rvith pride to the fact that this famous wood which grows exclusively in this State, sells more than one half of all its production year in and year out, in its home state.

Bcrg Lumber Co. Moves Olfice

Offices of the Barg Lumber Company were moved to the Hansford Building,25 California Street, San Francisco 11, effective June 16. The telephone numbers are unchanged, EXbrook 2082, and GArfield 5748. The move was forced by the leasing of the entire Santa Clara Building to one tenant.

From Union

"You have always been a true friend of the lumber industry in all its branches. In addition there are many lumbermen, particularly some of the younger fellows, who carry real heartfelt appreciation for the helping hand always extended by you and your fine organization. Congratulations for your achievements and hearty good wishes for your continued success." The Union Lumber Company, San Francisco.

Eugene Wholesale Firm Conducts Nation -\(ide Business

Taylor Lumber Company, whose full page advertisement appears elsewhere in this issue, are conducting a nationwide wholesale lumber business, with offices in Eugene, Oregon. They specialize in lumber from the two mills of the Gardiner Lumber Company at Gardiner, and Reedsport, Oregon, and in addition sell the products of many other mills in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.

The principals in the company are Reeves Taylor and R"y J. Schaecher. Mr. Taylor prior to entering the wholesale lumber business in Eugene was manager of the Port Orford Lumber Co. at Port Orford, Oregon. Mr. Schaecher was manager of the Reedsport office of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co. before the war, and during the war saw service as a Lieutenant, Senior Grade, in the Navy in Alaska and the Philippines.

The firm has just appointed a well known lumberman, Charles E. Kendall, with offrces in the Petroleum Building, I-os Angeles, as Southern California representative. They have been represented in Northern California for some time by Floyd Elliott, 1 Drumm Street, San Francisco.

From Park Arnold

"We are delighted to say 'Thank you' for all the things you have done for the industry both personally and through your excellent publication." H. Park Arnold, Fox-Woodsum Lumber Co., Glendale.

ALL 'in the BAG!

There's no longer any need for customers to break their backs luggipg heavy sacks of sand, gravel and cement. Sell thern the new MIX-KWIK dry-mi*ed concrete for repair or construction jobs.

MIX.KWIK supplies sand' gravel and cement aI' ready mixed in the proper proportions. They just add water and they get the quality concrete they need. IVIX-KWIK not only eliminates hard work . . . it does away with muss, waste and .cleaning up aftet' wards. MIX-KWIK dry-mixed qrortar is also avail' able for brick jobs.

' History of Berkeley's Pioneer Built-ln Fixture Co.

I When intervierved at Peerless

Built-In Fixture Company's office recently at Berkeley, California, Ray B. Cox, president, said: "We think time spent in the service of an industry or a business warrants unusual credit, just as The California Lumbes Merchant's 25-y ear anniversary merits the support of all lumbermen for such a fine magazine, and a special number.

Rcy B. Cox

of a century.

"And like our company feels a pride in receiving a certificate from the Berkeley Chamber .of Commerce testifying to continuous business operation for a third

"We also feel that the men who have made these things possible are justified in receiving their credit. Some old timers in this business of ours and their length of service are the following:

Alex Hejjas, factory superintendent, 30 years; Geo. p. Miller, assistant superintendent, 20 years; Roy C. Merkle, assistant sales manager, 25 years; A. J. Moran, secretary and treasurer, 16 years, and Ray B. Cox, general rnanag.er, 30 years.

"When a man comes up with a good idea, no one can tell what may be the resrrlt. For example, see rvhat has hap_ pened in the rvood working industry. In 1912, Chester R. Cox with a ne\\' labor saving invention running through his mind r'*'orked out a folding "built-in,, ironing board to use the space then wasted between the studding in the .ivall. That was some years before sedans and coupes appeared on the highu'ays. Touring cars and run-abouts \\rere con_ sidered modern if they were equipped rvith one-man folding tops. Even long before the first rvorld rvar, and before the Panama Canal jo.ined the trvo oceans. Before the radios and "flying 626[ins5"-indeed it seems a long time, and it was that year ol l9l2 that the seeds rvere sorvn for what was to become the Peerless Built-In Fixture Company, the first name chosen being the Peerless Ironing Board Company.

"Started in a small way, rvhich is said time and time again of maltv successful enterprises, this was truly the way in which Peerless Built-in Fixture Company got its start. Chester Cox had no idea rvhat rvould result when he began making built-in ironing boards in a little shop he had rentecl in a vacant Berkeley building. But r,vithin

two years his idea.became so popular that he started his own plant and added folding tables and seats to his line,', Mr. Cox stated.

Then, in 1915, came the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, and the inauguration of a real Built-in Fixture Company, as it was next called. For in that year the young company began making kitchen cabinets with cupboards. They displayed its entire line at the exposition, attracting nation-wide interest. Names of prospective ctrstomers of the young Pacific Coast company came from all over the country, and the Built-In Fixture Company of Berkeley, California was rvell on its rvay to success.

The following year the company was joined by Ray B. Cox, son of the founder, and now president of the cornpany. He stayed with the young business for 18 months and then, desiring to gain more outside experience, went to Honolulu to engage in the architectural field for a few years before returning to Berkeley and the Built-in Fixture Company, in August of. 1922.

Upon his return Ray Cox took up the active management of. the business, and added the standardized line oI kitchen units and coolers, and broom closets. Shortly thereafter he designed under-sink cabinets and hanging wall cabinets and "Peerless" became the pioneer of the modern kitchert as we know it today. This was followed by many Eastern woodworking. concerns and later by makers of metal cabinets, all using the same standard system of sizes. Sizes rvhich are standard in width, height and depth, widths beginning at 15" and progressively increasing every 3r, until they, reach 60n'-height of 88,, and 98,, and standard clepths of 21" and 21".

In 1936 the name of the company r,vas changecl to peerless Built-ln Fixture Company, incorporating in its title the trade mark name of the product, as has since been done by so many other concerns. The line has been improved and enlarged from vear to year, and now includes corner cabinets, china cabinets, breakfast nooks, upholstered seats, chrome leg tables, linoleum and plastic drainboards, mantles, book cases, wardrobes, linen closets, and other residential equipment. .

Fittingly, the latest improvement to the peerless line is on its very first prodnct, the built-in ironing board. The nerv board operates on a ne\\' type of cast iron swivel by which the board may be placed at any desired angle to the rvall ; it may be removed completely, and it is so built that the entire board can be paddpd and covered u'ith ease.

Peerless Built-in Fixture Company enjoys the advantages of a large modern and completelr. equipped factory at 26Og San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley 2, Calilornia.

SeII Haywatd EomGS"'

Now! With Beoutilul "Aivmilite" Finishlhe New, lmproved FIR.TEX F.T..sO SHOWER, CABINET

C/Ig a\ltlv ta/

For Home, Form, or Csbin

a lAadc of Hcovy Aluminum. Showcr Floor Rcrtr on Non-Corrorivc Sioin. lesr Stccl Ba:e

o' -Alumil:t.' Finirh tr Inlegrot Pcrt of rhc lAetql-A Cleor, Smooth, Eory-lo-Cloon Finith Thqt Won't Corrode

.o Simplified Derign, Completely Prcfobricqred, Eq3y lo Arsemble

o Comes Fully Equippcd wilh Floor, Shower Heod, Fixlure:, Cultqin Arr*or,rnorEtY 32- x32" x75" in size . . . suiioble for moin or ouxiliory boihing focilitiet . . rhe F.T.-50 SHOWER CABINET is lighr in weight, yet so slrong ond duroble in construclion it mokes o firm, rigid, permonent instollotion wilh q lifetime of service. Approvad by W€stern Plumbing Officiols Associqlion.

See

ol tbe Hoywcrd 2 bedroom nodelg919 Squcre Feet ol liviag comlort.

A Million And A Quarter Eubank lroning Boards

L. H. Eubank, senior member of L. H.'Eubank & Son, Inglewood, California, states with becoming pride that there are norv in use throughout the United States more than a million and a quarter Eubank ironing boards. This in eleven years time, and starting with a very small production and limited circulation. Today these Eubank boards are being nationally distributed by the Harbor Plywood Corporation, so the number of the boards in use will naturally grow much faster than ever before, due to a combination of this splendid national distributor and increased procluction facilities of the Inglewood plant

The growth of the Eubank business in'Inglewood during the last few years has been nothing short of phenomenal. They started eleven years ago tvith a very small plant making ironing boards and medicine cabinets in very smali quantities. Today that end of the business has grown to great size, and yet is no more than half the total business of the company. In the board and cabinet department there is now an assembly line that turns out 400 ironing boards daily, in addition to a greatly enlarged production of cabinets. This department has grorvn steadily from the very beginning. Mr. Eubank, the elder, is a mechanical genius, and today the many marvelous pieces of machinery that make these boards and cabinets are all speciallv designed and built for the purpose by that gentleman himself. They are marvels of ingenuity, and can be found in no other manufacturing establishment.

New equipment has arrived in the last month and is now being installed by means of which they rvill be able to make built-up ironing boards from solid lumber, and the buyers will henceforth be able to make their choice between the solid boards and the plywood board. ).

There is no shortage of high grade Pine lumber at"the Eubank plant. Sufficient qdality Shbp lumber is available at all times in sufficient supply to keep the plant operating at full speed.

One of the big and important departments of the Eubank plant at Inglewood is the Pine finish and moulding plant, housed in a large new building just behind the board and cabinet building, and as big as the other. Here are in operation two rip saws, a heavy resaw, two stickers, and

a planer capable of dressing two sides at the same time of boards thirty inches in width. There are also cut-off saws and other small equipment in this big brick building. Ilere they make finish and mouldings from Ponderosa and Sugar Pine, their moulding production being about twcr big carloads a week.

They get much of the lumber, for this moulding and finish plant from their own sawmill in the Northern part of California, which ships them an average of 10,000 feet of quality lumber daily. To back up this mill they recently purchased a pix acre tract of land adjoining their manufacturing plant, and here the lumber is stacked when it arrives from the mill. A lift truck and a straddle truck handle all the lumber to and from this yard, the lumber being all stacked and handled in packages.

The newest addition to the Eubank Inglewood plant has just been completed in the shape of a big reinforced brick warehouse. This new building has a truss supported roof with 20 foot clearance Tor straddle and lift trucks, and is 776 feet long and 52 f.eet wide. It is a most modern building, scientifically lighted throughout. Ifere they arg storing their finished products that await shipment.

L. H. Eubank & Son is owned and operated by the elder Eubank, and his son George Eubank. The younger man is now in full charge of operations, while his father looks after production, and the operation of the various departments. The Inglewood plant is something to be prottd of.

From Normen Cords

"May I extend my most sincere congratulations to you, Bill Black, and Eddie Martin. THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT occupies an important position in the annals of the California lumber industry, and your editorials, news items, and features certainly'hit the spot'with everyone that I know. Here's best wishes for another 25 years of success." Normen Cords, San Francisco.

The Red Cedar Shingle Industry, 1922-1947

Prepared lor The Calilornia Lumber Merchant Bv Red Cedar Shinsle Bureau

The last 25 years have seen a great many changes in the red cedar shingle industry of the Pacific Northwest. In brief, the industry has declined in size rvhile at the same time it has made definite, long strides in the standardization and irn'provement of its product as an article of tradc.

The output of shingles in 1922 rn'as at the rate of approximately 10 million squares annually. This rate of output declined gradually during the late l92o's until, with the advent of the depression, an appreciable drop was experienced until less than 4 million squares were produced in 1932. There followed a gradual increase in output throughout the 1930's until a peak of 9 million squares was reached in 1941 . The impact of World War II was severely felt by the shingle industry and as a result the years following Pearl Hz;rbor saw a steady decline until 1945, when output totaled slightly less than 4l million squares. The industry recuperated somewhat in 1946 and turned out upwards of 4fo million squares. This trend 'continues dving 1947 and it is expected that further gains will be registered as the industry shakes off the effects of war.

Back in the 1920's, the industry suffered from lack of grade standardization. Many mills produced shingles according to their own standards and applied to these shingles names which carried little or no meaning to the trade. "Extra Star-A-Star," "Extra Clear" and a host of other names cluttered the picture. Then in 1931 the industry, under the leadership of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, petitioned the U. S. Bureau of Standards for arr acceptable industrr'-r.r'ide grade standard for rvood shingles. There carne as a result the Commercial Standard CS31-38, which has since served as a guide-light for the industry and its trade alike. This Commercial Standard set forth specifications on length, thickness, method of packing, grading tolerances, etc., and has exerted a tremendously helpful influence on the shingle industry.

At the' same time that the grades u'ere standarclized, a

change u'as made in the method of packing shingles which resulted in great benefits for the consumer. The "thousand-pack" method of packing gave way to the present "square-pack" system, which is based on the area coverage of the shingies. This change simplified greatly the merchandising of shingles by the retail lumber dealer.

Red cedar shingles continue to be shipped throughout the 48 states of the union by rail in large quantities. Cargo sl.ripments to California, the Gulf Coast and the Eastern Seaboard were shut off by the war but are again reappearing. Red cedar shingles have shown a substantial increase in popularity in the state of California during the past 10 years until today California ranks as one of tl-re leading users of cedar shingles in the country. In 1935 the Golden State consumed approximately 2/o of total industry output, while ten years later this had increased to 7%.

A great majority of the shingles produced in the Pacific Northu'est are made by member mills of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, whose functions involvq, the inspection and promotion of the product under. the Certigrade label. This label is a guarantee of quality standards as set forth in Commercial Standard CS31-38 of the Bureau of Standards. N{ember mills of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau are located in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia.

Retires lrom Hcmmond Shipping Compcny

Ralph C. Robinson, vice president and general manager of Hammond Shipping Company, San Francisco, has retired from his position on account of the fact that the Hammond orvned ships have been sold, and the ships operated by the company for the War Shipping Administration have been turned back to the Government.

Mr. Robinson, who was associated with the Hammond interests for the last 28 years, was presented with a gold wrist lr'atch by his associates at the office, 417 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, who expressed regret at his departure.

JAMES L. HALL

Wholesale lVood Products

Lunberl Piling, Ticr, Pallets, Fcncing

SPECIALT' ITEMS

10t2 Mill3 Building

San Francisco 4, California

SUttcr 75rO

C. P. Henry & Co.

Wholesale Lumber

714 West OlYmPic Blvd.

Los Angeles 15, Cclilorni<r

Telephone PRosPect 6524 Teletype LA 165

To "Tho ilIorchant"

From cr 25-Yecn Reqder

F. VY. Elliott

I Drumm Slreel' Son Frqncisco I I

Wholescle fumber ALL

P. O. Box 4796' Los Angeles l, Calil. IEIIerson 4221

Mcrnulacturers

Blower Systems and Incinerators

See fhe Acme lncinerator with water washed top

"smiling Bob" Osgood Celebrating His 25th Anniversary Also

"Smiling Bob" Osgood is a top man in personal popularity among the lumbermen of Southern California in general and the Los Angeles district in particular. He is rightfully so. Always smiling, allr'ays cordial, always friendly and courteous, he has for twenty-five years been an oustanding personality in the lumber industry.

It is rvorthy of note that he, also, is celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of his business career in Southern California, so that he and THE CALIFORNIA

LUMBER MERCHANT exchange congratulations. Both have been on the most cordial terms for the entire 25 years.

On July first, 1922, Robert S. Osgood, r,vhich is his formal name, took charge of the branch office and rvarehouse of the Wheeler Osgood Company, of Tacoma, of which his father was a Dartner.. He held that position until 1931 rvhen he went to Olympia, Washington, to become Sales Manager for the Washington Veneer Co. He stayed there two years, then the'lure of the South brought him back to Los Angeles. FIe joined Cadvvallader-Gibson, manufacturers of l'hilippine mahogany and other hard.r.voods, as General Sales Nlanager. He rvorked in this capacity for Roy Barto from 1933 Lo 1941 , 'ivhen he joined Frieder Brothers, handling the entire American end of their philippine lumber brrsiness. In May, 1912, he entered business for himself wifh offices in Los Angeles, doing a rvholesale and commission hardn'ood business, handling both foreign ancl clo-

mestic rvoods.

He is one of a third ger.reration of Osgoods in brrsiness of the I)acific Coast. His father, George

the lumber J. Osgood,

[umbtt. BJy:lt"Fxchange

a pioneer Northrvest lumberrnan, is still active. He is head of the door department of Simpson Industries, Inc., of Seattle.

Associated with Mr. Osgood in his present business in Los Angeles is James H. Forgie, son of the well known California lumberman, Robert Forgie.

"Bob" Osgood is now the President of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club,'an organization in which he has played a prominent part throughout his life in this territory. He is a rnember of the Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers Import Association, and waits eagerly for a resumption of the Philippine Mahogany business in this territory whenever the Philippine lumber embargo is removed.

A good guy, a fine friend, and a loyal lumberman, is "Smiling Bob" Osgood. I{is,friends are legion, and cover the countrl'.

Northern Retailers Directors Meet in San Francisco

The board of directors of the Lumber Merchants Asso_ ciation of Northern California met at the palace Hotel, San Francisco, June 6. President George Adams presided, and he and Executive Vice President Robt. J. Wright gave a report on the meetings recently attended by them in Washington, D.C., and ansu,ered a number of questions arising out of the reports

Mr. Wright reported an increase of lO members since last fall. The total membership is now 360, and this is likely to be greatly increased by field work in the near future

A discussion of the short training course held at the College of the Pacific, Stockton, brought praise from several of the directors for fhe benefits derived by men of their organizations n-ho had taken the course. The opinion was expressed that there is need for a lumber school to be held at San Jose to accommodate students from the peninsula and I\fonterey districts. The next class nill start at the College of thc Pacific on Tune 23.

1060 South Broadway WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS

"Tbe

roonE nsvrisrrLp

CROSS CIRCULATION

J\% co lOVc more capactry due to solid edge-ro-edge stackrng. lJerter quality drying on low cemperatures with a fast reverribic dtr(ulirton

I ower rracktng costs-Just solid edge-to-edge stacking in the srmDtest fOrm

Place to Sell , Tbe place ,o Bn"t" Los Angeles 15, Crlif.

KILNS

Moorekiln Paint Products for weatherproofing your dry kiln and mill roofs.

North Pordand, Oro. JacLsonville, Floride

P. L. lUlatthies Go.

brdustrialWholesale Lumber

Specicrlizing in Ponderoscr and Sugcrr Pine

(Factory ccrd Ytrrd ltems)

_PINE MOULDINGS_

All From Our Yard

817 So. Arroyo Parkway

Pasadena 5, Calif.Phone SYcanpre 3-2149

cusrot tIlHlrc

Rescwin g-S urlcrcing-Rippin g

Complete High Speed End-Mctching

, Rooring Mcchinery

Be-Milling br Trcrnsit

Weslern Custom mill' lnc.

4200 Bcsrdini Blvd. (Centrtrl Mfg. Dist.)

Los Angeles 22, CcM.

Locited on Spur oI L A. Iun,ction R. B.

Telephone ANgelus 2-9147

Hexberg Brothers

tU}TBER COIVIPANY

Speciofizing in o complefe fine oJ malerials lor the builder and the cobinef mdker.

10806 South Gentrol Avenue Los Angeles 2, Gallf. LAfcyeile 8379

Office Wholesalers

f,urnber and its Products

Sawn - Veneered

lorest Produots $ales Company

1270 So. La Brea Ave. WEbster 3-1614 LOS ANGEITES 35

HAMSON TUMBER COMPA}IY

Msnufocturers of 'Ponderosq Pine

We hove for prompt shipment 8", lO" & 12" oir-dried boqrds surfqced four sides for truck delivery in -opproximctety IO,OOO' toods.

Moriposo, Gqlifornio

Phone 53 J

VAN DNIil$$ ililIBNN $AI,T$ COBP.

WHOLESALE LUMBER

WEST COAST FOREST PRODUCTS

Terminal Sales Building Portland 5, Oiegon

BRoadway 0553

LOS ANGELES OFFICE

7 t4 SI est Olympic Bou'levard

PRospect 8770

DEPENDABTE

B0HIfH0ff LUMBER C0. Inc.

WTIOI.ESAI.E DISTilBUTORS HARDWOODS SorrwooDs

PIY\AIOODS

euALtrY ttBQIrUMCQtt sERv,cE

FOB NENT

.WANT ADS

Rate-f2.50 pcr Column Inch.

LT'MBEN CANRIENS _ UFT TEUC&I! _ BOIJ.EB TSUCTS

SAIES AIT'O BEPAIBS

LI,MBER TRANSPOETATION

"Hyrter Htruling"

Lcrgeat Fleet ol Bors cnd Hyaler

Lunbcr Catrierr cnd Lilt Truckr On The Weet Cocal

WESTERN LTIMBER CARRIEBS

1325 Etrst Opp St.

NEvodc 6-1371

P. O. Box 622

WANTED

Wilmiagton, Colil. TEnnincrl 4-6624

Experienced retail lumberman to manage an important line vgp' This is an unucual opportunity for an aggressive man' tralned ln both'sales and management problems.

Addrecs Box C-1379, California Lumber Merchant 508 Central'Bldg., Loe Angeles 14, Cdif.

FOR SALE

LUMBER YARD in Fresno with frontage on main arterial, compt*"tv-iq"ipptd and running. Includes 5.26 acres of real pr.op€rty I"a--dit -b-uil^dings, including planin-g mill. -Is red .opportunity- for buildine material operation, drawrng on large sales area. r otar ;ti;;-$61,0oooo pit s inventoiy at wholes4e.Terms can be-arranged' -Hiil'J j'ch""ce'for a young aggressive lumberman of modest financial worth-{uture unlimitedt

O. W. PEARSON COMPANY

1225 Broadway, Fresno, California. Telephone 3-4151

WANTED

An opoortunitv for experienced retail lumber and building man in i*pari.ii"g orginization at excellent starting salary. Write, stating fully experiencel age, sales ability, etc. Start any time.

. MAYFAIR LUMBER COMPANY

1260 East Santa Clara Street San Jose 12, Calif.

WANTED _ MANAGER

Lurnberman who is capable of buying, retailing and wholesaling lurntrer and builders' supplies. Must be able to supervise yard and direct men in a co-operative manner.

Address Box C-1395, California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

OPEN FOR CONNECTION

Retail lumberman-have you use for a man with twenty years .*o"tGtt.e in retail lumber- sales to consumer and contractors of -iit*.it, cabinet work, stair work, prefabrication, residential -a!d shop draughting, detailing, scheduling arrd estimating materials' Exctllent ability and character references.

Address Box C-1400, Catifornia Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Cafif.

INDUSTRIAL SITES

Sponsored bv the Red Blufi Charnber of Commerce. Ideal for Saih and Dooi Factory and other lumber remanufacturin-g,'- Close io'ioutce of supply, served by the S.P. Railroad and U.S. Highway 99-w.

Inquire: Red Bluff Chamber of Commerce, - Red Bluff, California.

FOR SALE

Hyster Fork Lift Truck, 15,000 pounds capacity. l9l foot lift; ine heieht.

Raymond Lumber Co.

?20 West Anaheirn, Long Beich 13, Calif.

Telephone 7-'1449

EXPERIENCED YARD FOREMAN WANTED

Wanted experienced foreman for retail lumber yird in San Francisco, Must be familiar with fir and redwood grades. State age and give references.

Address Box C-1405, California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Cdif.

AUDITS; FINANCIAL STATEMENTS; TAX MATTERS

Part-Timc BookecPing

E. M. WORTHING

Public Accountant

P. O. Bo: 56, Station M

Lor Angeler 32, Calif'

Phones: Rlchmond 9251 ; CUmbcrland 3-1706

THIRTY YEARS LUMBER EXPERITNCE

, LUMBER YARDS FOR SALE

The June l5th ad in The California Lumber- Mer-chant-gives a U"i"i """"-tt"i bitetait lumber yards we have for sale in Southern California. If vou are interested write or phone. If iou want to sell your yard let us lmow.

TWOHY LUMBER CO.

LUMBER YARD AND SAWMILL BROKERS

8ol Petroleum Bldg', Los Angeles 15, Calif' PRospect 8746

FOR SALE

Hyster Fork Lift Truck. Tri-State Lumber Co. 6221 West Slauson Ave. Los Angeles, Cdif.

WANTED

Man that is thoroughly familiar with the retail lumber and buildine ;aterial business.-Must be able to read plans and give estimates thErefrorn- Salary open. In peplying give full detail and references for last l0 years.

Address Box C-1386, California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

NEW.20M SAWMILL FOR SALE, locatccl in Redwoods. Lqlgq timber supply. logs delivered at mill. Sacrifice account illness. Will sell an int.iri6t oi outright. Grand opportunity for a business having an outlet such as hurrber yard or building concern'

FOR PARTICULARS, WIRE OR WRITE:

A. J. Mathews

P.O. Box 110 SUSANVILLE, California

OPEN FOR CONNECTION

Lumbcrman. who is familiar with the'Western Pines, desires position with weli established company. Experience includes manufacturins. gradins. wholesale and industrial selling, and buying. Prefer Soutf,irir Calit6rnia but will go anywhere.'Now employecl.

Address Box C-13?Q California Lumber Merchant 5(ts Central Bldg., Lqs Angelcs 14, Calif.

YOUNG MAN WANTED

Lons-established lurnber firm wants young man to break into thc busineis. fnside work and no experience necessary.

Address Box C-1399, California Lumber Merchant 51)8 Central Eldg., Los A'ngeles 14, Calif.

WANTED

Wholesale industrial salesman fo San Francisco Bay area- Good op,portunity for the right man.

Address Box C-1396, California Lumber Merchant fr08 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

WANTED ,;'

EXPERIENCED RETAIL YARD FOREMAN for well established South San Joaquin Valley lum er and building materials |ard. State experience. Opportunity for q'alified man, .

Address Box C-1397, California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

WANTED

By Sawmill Manufacturer producing both Redwood and Oregon Co4st Fir in the amount of 100,000 feet per day, interested. in wholesale or retail yard with planing and resaw facilities.

Address Box C-1398, California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

Acme Blower d Pipe Co,

Acme Scsh g"tcncl-Co,'.

Alley Lumber Compcrny

Alllaace Lumber Compcny

AlliEd Veneer d Lumber Co.

Americcn Hcrdwood Co.

Angelinc County Lumber

Angeles Plywood Co, e"ir" c"rii"i"r" L"*r.i i".

Arcctc Redwood Co.

Atkinson-Stutz Co.

Atlcntic Lumber Co.

Atlcs Lumber Co.

Bcrlo Lumber Co., Rclph E.

Bcugh, Ccrl W.

Bcugh Bros. d Co.

Bcxter&Co., I.H.....,

Bohnoll Lumber Co,, Inc.

Brey-Wrighi Lumber Co.

Building Mtrterial Digtributorg

Eungclowcralt Co., The

oulRSIAIDIYERTtSERS

Koll Ploniag Mill, Ltd., A. l.

Lsmon-Bonnington Compcrny

Lawrence-Philips Lumber

Lcusmcnn Co- I. H.

Lemon Grove Lumber Co.

Los Angeles Millwork Co.

LounsberrydHqrrig...

Lumber d Builderg Supply

Lumber Buyers Exchcnge

MccDoncld & Harrington, Ltd.

MccDougoll Door & Plywood

Mchogcny Importing Co.

Medlord Corporcttion

Mengel Compcny, The ....

Monqrch Lumber Compcn

Byil; c$; il".. g. W.

Burns Lumber Co.

Ccrlilornia Builderg Supply

Cclilornic Door Co., The

Cclilorniq Pcnel d Veneer

Cclilornicr Plywood, Inc.

Ccrsccrde Pqcific Lumber Co.

Christicn Engineers, J .D, Cole Door d Plywood Co.

Coasolidctted Lumber Co,

Douglcs Fir Plywood Associqlion

Eqstshore Mill d Lumber Co. ....

Elliott ,F. W.

Fir Door Institute

Pir-Tex oI Northern Calilornio

Fir-Tex ol Southern Ccrlilorni

Fisher Lumber Co,, Iohn W, Fisk & Mqson

Fleishmdn Lumber Co.

Forest Products Scles Co. .......

Fraurbes & Son, W. P.

Fox-Woodsum Lumber Co,

Gcrmerston d Green Lumber Co,

Gcrlleher Hardwood Co.

Gosslin-Hcrding Lumber Co.

GulI Cocst Lumbermqn, The

Hcley Bros.

Hcll, James L, .........

Hcrllincn Mcckin Lumber Co.

Hcmmond Lumber Co.

Hcmson Lumber Co.

Hcrbor Plywood Corporction

Harrie Lumber Co,, L. E, Hoywcrd Homes

C. P. HexbergBrothers.....

Pccilic Cocst .E ggregctes, Pccific Lumber Co., The Pacific Mutuol Door Co.

Pccilic Wire Producte Co.

Reel Lumber Service

Robbins Lurnber Co., B.'d, Roddis Calilornic, Inc.

Rosboro Lumber Co. ..

Ross Corrier Compcny

Rudiger-Lcrng Co. .......

Rounds Trcding Compony

Iohn A. Rudbcrch Co.

Scmpson Compcny

Sqn Pedro Lumber Compcny

Sqnlc Fe Lumber Co. .......

Shevlin Pine Scles Co.

Strcble Hcrrdwood Compcrny Sudden & Christenson, Inc.

Sullivan Hcrrdwood Lumber Sun Lumber Co.

"i Co-p""

Terrell Lumber Co,, The Union Lumber Co.

United States Gypsum Compcny

U. S, Plywood Corporction .....

Urcnia Lumber Co., Ltd.

Vcn Arsdcle-Hqrris Lumber

Vcncouver Plywood & Veneer

Vcn Deinse Scles Corp.

Vcnder Lccn Piling cnd Lumber

Wcll,

West Coasl Plywood Compcny ...

West Oregon Lumber Co.

Simpson Industries, Inc. Specicl Mcteriqle Corp. Stqnton d Son, E. I. Western Custom Mill, Inc, Western Door d Sqsh Co-

Hqrdwood Lumber

Wheeler, Osgood Compony, The Wheelock, Incorporcrted, E. U.

Woodhecd Lumber Co.

Hoover, A, L.

oo$'Goorsrns

To advertise the merits of Cedar ShinEles and processed Cedar Shakes for Eouble-coursed sidewalls, color pages are now appearing in publications of interest to home builders, farmers, contractors and architects. Every advertisement will direct consumers Lo " S ee Y our Lumber Dealer" for particulars concerning Cedar Shingles and Shakes.

Take advantage of this big promotion at a time when quality wood sidewalls are in great demand.

Send today for a free architectural blueprint of double-coursing application. Address a postcard to

RED CEDAR SH I NGLE BUREAU

5510 Whlte Bulldlng, Seattle I, WashlnSton or Mctropolltan Building, Vancouvcr' B. G.

for modern llehogony Interiorr

Panel-ette, the modern interior wall panel board provides botb the rich beauty of genuine Honduras Mahogany panelling and the protection of Gold Bond Insulation Board at a pnce so economical that it is within rhe range of every budget Both faces arct/s2" clear, straight grained Honduras Mahogany veneer, permanently bonded to rhe Yz" core of too% long fibre wood pulp insulation board. Panel-ette planks are available immedrately in 6, 8 and 10 foot lengrhs, 8, 12, 16 inch widths.

EASY rO

''VS TA

LL

Panel-ette planh is prec,rnn mannfactuied Teliuered packaged, rydy for the pb

Qnrckl7, econonical$ installed iith urtially no on-th,e1ob fitting necessary ,eady Jqr In$htng 1il;ileltatcll.

fcowo,r4tcAt. . . . yERsAlrtE

You can mstall Panel-ette at apprtxinatell the cost of pla*er ualls the planh lends ittelf to- ) uttde unery of irchttectural treatmenlr.. Ideal for neu clnstrilctrcn 0r m0deruztng

Avoilable in any quontity throvgh yovr Locol Deoler or throvgh fhe Weslern rlordwood Lumber Company.

SURFACE: Wzn Benune Honduras Mai hogany Veneer

COP'Ez Vz" Gold Bond Insulatron Board

JOINT: Square true fir edges groove< for narlng connected by drvislo-l moldrng

aACk !6'genurne Honduras Mahoganj

Veneer