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An Institution For Lumbermen Only
YOUR INSURANCE is carried as an act of self preservation. Its cost is an item of considerable importance to your business.
DEPENDABILITY is your first consideration; COST-your second.
THE INTER-INSURANCE PLAN, under which we operate, affords the most DEFENDABLE insurance available to you and at actual cost as measured by the fire losses. The saving is your profit.
THIS PLAN eliminates the SELFISH interest in loss settlements. Our account with you is individual and separate. Our transactions are several as to each subscriber and not joint. It is this important distinction between Inter-lnsurance and any other form of insurance that makes it the most equitable plan and the only one under which indemnity ii provided at ACTUAL COST.
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OEAMBER,LIN VISITS SOUTHER,N OFFIGE
W. n. Chamberlin of 'W. R. Chamberlin & Company took a trip to Southern California early in July and visiterl with J. J. Rea, man&ger of his Los A-ngeles office. Mr Chamberlin's family accompanied him and they enjoyed the ocean breezes of Long Beach for a week or more.
W. R. Chamberlin & Company maintain connections with some of the largest mills on Puget Sound and on the Southern Paciffc in Oregon. They are handling a large volume of both rail and water shipments.
NOBTEERN BOX llL,AN VISITS CALIFOBNI/A, TRADE
'W. C. Strong, manager of the C. M. Post Lumber and Box Company of Seattle, has been in California for the last two or three weeks looking into the local market for box material. He says that a considerable volume of spruce and hemlock box will come into California this year. Mr. Strong formerly was manager of the box department of the 'Wesl Coast Lumbermen's Association at Seattle.
BENSON LOG R,AFT STAR,TS FOR, SAN DIEGO
The first of the Benson Lumber Company's big log rafts for this season left the Columbia River early in the month for the company's mill at San Diego. It measured. approx- imately 6,000,000 feet, including deck loads, consisting of ced.ar poles. It is understood that only two more rafts will be sent out of the river this summer.
L. A. CATS FINE TAR,DY MEMBER,S' AND USE IVIONEY FOR EOSPITAL
Tardy members at the l-.los Angeles weekly lunch meetings are going to pay for a bed in the Orthopedic hospital of that city.
For several weeks now the Cats there have been lcvying a fine of one cent a minute on every man who is late in. arriving in the private dining room at the City Club where the luncheons are held every Thursday. Soon a substantial sum was accumulated. Then arose the question, rth rt to do with the money?
David 'Woodhead, vice gerent for the district, who presides at the meetings, sugigested the idea of a bed. in-the hospital. That's all there was to it, and the boys now pay their fines with a smile. It will take about 9125 to equip a bed and at the present rate it will take about a year to pay for it.
LONG-BELL MrLL AT KELSO, WASII., UNDEB WAY
It doubtless is of interest to California lumbermen to learn that the Long-Bell Lumber Company is going ahead steadily with the construction of its big mill at Kelso,'Wash., down the Columbia River about 40 miles from Portland. A dock, 500 feet long ancl 48 feet wide. now is under construction adjacent to the uill site. Machinery and supplies for the new mill will be unload.ed on the Oregon side of the river, at Rainier, and brought across on a ferry.
I,eMASTEB R,EPOR,TS NOR,TEWEST IVIIIJS BIt
"f talked to loggers, manufacturers and wholesalers and they all agree that, as a whole, the lumber business is thriv- ing. T-heye was the usual shuLdown over the Fourth, but rtlost of the big operations started. up again within a few days.
"Some of the logging camps are going to remain down for three or four weoks. It is very clry in the woods, as they have had no rain for more than six weeks, so many loggers are going to stay down until after they have had -a rain to reduce the ffre hazard.
"This 1glurally wil] curtail the log supply, which, of couroe, will be refleeted in lumber.',
FBIIIT GROWERS'SUPPLY CO. BUYS BIG TIMBER TR.ACT NEAR MILL AT SUSANVILIJ
With characteristic foresight toward a permanent future timber supply, the Fruit Growers' Supply Company has just lglqht a tract of government timber, aggregating 1,000,000,000 feet, adjacent to their miII at Susanville.
'With this large tract available the Susanvillg plant is assured. of timber for at least fifteen years to come. A railroad eonnects the mill with the outer edge of the tract. It is understood that the tract consists of nothing but mature trees-trees excellently adapted for boxwood..
_ !q the last few years some of the citrus fruit growers of California have become somewhat alarmed over fhe threatened depletion of the supply of .timber suitable for box purposes. But the policy exercised by the Fruit Growers' Sup- ply company indicates that they have nothing to woriy about on that score. In additior to the tract just sold, th-e government has many acres of pine available for box manufacturing. It is the expressed. intention of the forest service to dispose of this as rapidly as the demand persents itself.
Scanlon Interests Buy Iviill
The Brooks-Scanlon interests of Minneapolis have bought the property of the Massack Timber and Lumber Co_mpany at Massaek, Plumas county, and, it is understood, will begin operations on a large seale. The property consists of valuable timber land., together with a sawmill and logging railroad. {he M. J. Scanlon Lumber company has been formed to take over and operate the business. tU. .f. Scanlon, who spent several weeks last spring in California 'looking over various pieces of pine timber lands, will be the active exeeutive of the organization. While most of the timber consists of white pine, it contains some stands of, fine fir.
