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LUMBER}I/AN-GOLFEB VISITS SAN FBANCISCO

L. V. Graham, vice-president and general manager of the Chicago l-rumber Company of Washington, visited his San Fraqcisco ofrice early in the month and conferred with Frank B. Macomber, the local manager. He also found time to play a few rounds of golf. Back in Kansas City where Mr. Graham makes his home he long has been one of the leading golfers among the lumbermen. He also visited his offices in Portland and Seattle before returning home.

MR. AND MRS. RICEARDS START ON TRANS-CON.

TINENTAL AUTOMOBILE TBIP, VI/A, POBTLAND

U. G. Riehards, veteran San Francisco lumberman who retired from the E. K. 'Wood organization last spring after 25 years of active service, has started on an automobile trip across the continent. 'With Mrs. Richards he will drive first to Portland and thence start a leisurely journey to the Eastern Coast. They wiII return to California via the Southern route and wiII be all summer and part of the fall on the way.

Mr. Richards'many friends up and down the Coast hope that he soon will alter his decision to remain permanently out of business. They figure that he is too young a man to retire. Mr. Richards has h'ad an extremely interesting and useful eareer in the lunber industry. He came to the Coas about 25 years ago and sesured. a position as assistant superintendent at the Inman-Poulsen mill in Portland with the avowed purpose of learning the lumber business from the bottom. Later he represented Inman-Poulsen in San Francisco, but after a short time became conneeted. with the E. K. Wood l-:umber Company. He remained steadily with that concern and aided miaterially ilfits growth and development until he retired early this year.

SAN PEDR,O IIAR,BOB TO EAVE MODERN SAW.

Mrr,L, usrNe Loes BRouGIrr FRoM B. c.

Substantial progress has been.made in the last few weeks toward the proposed merger of interests of the Iros Aageles Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. and the Massett Timber Co., I-:td., of British Columbia, looking toward the construction of a modern sawmill at San Pedro harbor.

Tentative plans provide for the transportation of rough, green timber, either in the log or squared, from Graham's Island in British Columbia to San Pedro harbor, where it is to be finished in accordance with the needs of the trade.

The Massett interests, it is understood, own the logging rights on more than 100,000 aeres of heavily wooded timber Iand. This stand consists mostly of hemlock and. spruee with some fir and cedar. It is proposed to cut the timber and load it onto vessels that, incidentally, are to be built at the shipbuilding plant at San Pedro, and carry it to the saw mill. These same vessels then would be used in distributing the finished lumber, if necessary, but it is believed that the Southern California market would. absorb about all the lumber and by-products that the mill would. turn out. fnasmuch as the tinber runs heavily to spruce and hemlock, it is proposed to construct a modern box factory in connection with the plant, and. cater to the box consuming trade of the southern end of the state.

Arno Mareen, for more than 20 years iclentiffed with the C. A. Smith interests in Minnesota, Oregon and California, has aecepted the position of mill manager and will superintend the construetion of the new mill at the harbor. Mr. Mareen directed construetion of many important parts of the C. A. Smith plants at Coos Bay.

rBANT }IULCREW TO EANDLE PI'BLICITY IN CAMPAIGN TO SAVE SEINGLE8

X'rank Mulgrew, a well known newspaper mhn of long experience, has been engaged. by the committee of lumbermen in charge of the anti-shingle referendum to handle the eampaign for the lumber industry preparatory to the November election.

Head.quarters have been establishecl in Room 310, St. Clair Building, 16 California Street, San trlraneiseo, a'!d. Mr. Mulgrew will go to work at once to give the voters of California the truth regarding the anti-shingle provision in the housing code which they are to vote upon in November. A tremendous lot of work remains to be done to reach all the voters. It is apparent that few persons outside the lumber business are aware that, as the measure now stands, they would be prohibited from using shingles on their houses even in the rural and. non-congested districts. The referendum which was invoked last year, just in time to save the law fron going into efrect, alone makes it possible for Californians to eontinue to exercise their own judgment in the matter of choosing their roofing materials.

The committee first hopes to impress the retail lumber dealers of the state with the seriousness of the situation and enlist their aid in the campaign to edueate the rest of the voters.