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George R. Christie
George R. Christig of Houston, Te;ras, General Manager of the Lumbermecr's Rcciprocal Association, has been a visitor during the past few wceks in various California cities, particularly in Los Angeles and San Francisco, where the offices of his concern are located.
Mr. Christie is one of the very interesting and powcrful characters connected with lumber insurance in the United States. For many years he was in the lumbcr business. He was General Auditor of The Kirby Lumber Company, a great lumber manulacturing institution in Tcxas, at the time he decided to try a venture in reciprocd insurance.
With a group of the leading sawmill men of Texas and Louisiana, he organized the Lurnbermen's Reciprocal Association, its purpose being to furnish lumber liability i4surance at cost, and save its members the extrernely high rates of insurance then being charged by the old line companies in the Southwcst, In this they adrnirably succeeded, and the Association was a thorough success from its very inception-
In a few years' tirne it has spread rapidly over t'he milling districts of the country, entering California three years ago, and building up a splendid line of business in thie tcrritory as well as going into other mitling districb of the country.
Mr. Christie himscU is a rnan whose pcrsonal qualities and attainments lend him high rank among all men. He adds to his fine business ability and his charning personatity and friendly outlook upon all men and things, moral qualities that make him respccied by all who know him. He is not as well known pe.rsonally as he should be in Californii, where his great worth would be much app'reciated.
WESTERN PLYWOOD MMPANY EIiTLARGING PLANT
The Western Plyr,vood Company, 905 Balfour Building, San Francisco, whose plant is l,ocated at Martinez, California, advise that they a-re starting construction on an additional building to tieir plant 6Oi300 feet in size' They-will install in this building the largest Black Electric Press made, and also a new design Francis Glue Mixer and Spreader. -Carrol W. Smith who is president of the company is at present devoting considerable of his time to their operations.
MAX COOK A LOS AI',IGELES VISITOR
Max Cook, San Francisco, farmstead engineer with the California Redwood Association, was a'recent Los Angeles visitor where he spent several days calling on the retail trade and architects in the Los Angeles District. In speaking of the proposed new shingle ordinance in San Francisco, hJstated thaf the matter had been referred to the Building Committee of the Board of Supervisors for a compromise ordinance, as the ordinance proposed by Fire Chief Murphy to eliminate shingles rvas considered entirely too stringent and would also add an extra burden on the tax payers' He stated that the lum'bermen hoped that the Building Committee would adopt the 100 per cent vertical grain shingle with a minimum thickness of.5 to 2.
. VALLEY LUMBER COMPAilTY
Mr. Jack Dionne, Fresno, California. California Lumber Merchant, July 8, 1927. Central Building, Los Angeles, California.
Dear Friend Jack:
Please accept my congratulations over the excellence of the birthday issue of the California Lumber Merchant.
This particular issue contained such a wealth of good articles, that I have not yet read it through. Hope to do so within the next two or three evenings. My heartiest good wishes for the continuance 1f your splendid success, I am
Sincerely,
.W. K. Kendrick.
E. J. BROCKMANN ON TOUR OF MrLLS
E. J. Brockmann, San Francisco, Pacific Coast manager for 'the Lumbermen's Reciprocal Association, is making a tour of the mills in the Pine District. He is accompanied by Mr. Gibson, the company's chief engineer, from their Houston, Texas, office.