Among the Deolers

BIITINCEN YABD IEA,KING U/A,!fg IUPBOVEUEIITS

A substantial acldition to the office is und.er way at the yard of the'William J. Bittengen I-rumber Company at Eagle Rock, successors to the Shirley-Allen Irumber Company. W. R. I-.letton, the new manager of the businesg is planning nany other improvements designed to make the plaut oue of the most modern in Southern Caifornia. His idea is to cater particuarly to prospective home builders, he says.

ITPI.AND PAPER GIVES TLATTEBINC TEITTION TO J. W. EEINECTE'S LUUBEB STORE

The recent special edition of the Upland News gave flattering space and position to the lumber store conducted in that eity by J. 'W. Ileinecke, one of the progressive lunber merchants of San Bernardino county.

"Mr. Ileinecke conducts one of the best stocked lumber yards in this section of the state," says the News. "His stock is noted for its quality.

"Mr. Eleinecke is familiar with every detail of the lumber business and has had many years of practical experience. He takes a personal interest in every customer and advises his customers on the best use of lumber and building materials.

"The J.'W. Heinecke Lumber Company is one of the large contributors to welfare of Upland and one of the important business institutions of this community. "

- IONG BEACE "U""** "*M STILL ON

For the fiscal year ended June 30, building permits in Long Beach reached the total of $15,000,000-by all odds the biggest volume of building in the history of the city. That the volume of building in l-rong Beach is constantly on the increase is indicated. by the steady growth in the monthly permit figures. For the ealendar year of 1921 the permits aggregrated $13,000,000.

/ rsEW YABD OPENS AT ALEAUBBA I

/ The ShuII Lumber Company has begun business in Alhamlbra. The yard is located on South Palm street in that city. l Alhambra is the center of a big builcling boom and the lumher dealers in that city have enjoyed good business this year.

OAK.AND PEBMITS CONITNI'T TO EBOW

Builtling aetivities in Oaklancl continue tq increase in volume and vigor. For the month of June a total of 733 permits was issued, with a valuation of $3,391,045. The valuation of the May permits was $2,243,745. The permits for June of this year exceeded those of the same month last year by more than a million dollars.

LOUITA EAs ITEW YABI)

Lomita Lumber Supply Company began business in , I-ros Angeles county, early this month. Lumber and other building materials are handled. H. B. Hagenow is the manager.

BRIDGETOBD PLAI{ING uILL ADDS TACEIIIEBY

Important improvements are under way at the plant of the Bridgeforcl Planing Mill Company at Sebastopol. New machinery is being installed and the mill is being enlarged. It will be possible, when these improvements are complete, to handle a bigger volume of business. The mill specializes in sash and door work and enjoys healthy trade in its territory.

ONTAR.IO IS EAVIITG BIG BIIILDING YEAB AND DEALEBS PBOSPEB COR,BESPONDINGLY

Lumber dealers at Ontario are enjoying a gogd volume of business this year as the build.ing activities of that city are greatest in history. For the first half of the year the permits aggregated approximately $500,000.

This is not quite as much as the total for the entire year of 1921, when permits represented an expenditure of $600,000. The big builcling year in Ontario was 1920, when the permits were $800,000, but this year is certain to exceed. that one.

WILI.IJA,M CA}IER,ON, FAUOUS TEXAS LUUBEB DE{I.NB, VISITS CALIFOBNTA

'William Cameron, of Waco, Texas, president of the.Wm. Cameron & Co., has been a recent visitor in California, enjoying his vacation. Mr. Cameron is head of one of the great retail lumber concerns of the whole country, and one that enjoys a national reputation for the modern methods it employs. This concern operates sixty retail lumber STORES of all sizes in Texas and Oklahom&, one of their stores having cost a million dollars. Ee is one of the greatest living exponents of forceful efrorts to CREATE business by creating the desire for those things which lumber will build.

Valley Dealebs Eit City Togeteeb

It almost would have been possible to hold a meetiug of the San Joaquin Valley Lumbermen's Club in San Francisco one day last week for some of the high-powered. members of that wide-awake organization all happened into town at once. Among them were J. C. Ferger of the Swastika Lumber Company of Fresno, and president of the association; W. E. I-.,andrum of the Merced Ilumber Company at Merced, and J. G. Martin of the F resno Irumber Company, the association treasurer. A roll-call probably would have produced. more.