Weyerhaeuser Timber Company Makes Changes in Executive Personnel

Important changes in the executive personnel of Weyerhaeuser Timber Company were made at the recent annual meeting of directors and stockholders at the company's headquarters at Tacoma, Wash.

Geo. S. Long, who for many yeats has served as vice-president and general manager .of the concern, was made chairman of a nervly created executive committee of the board of directors. He also retains his vice-presidency.

F. R. Titcomb. former assistant general manager, has been aclvanced to take over Mr. Long's duties as general manager. Mr. Titcomb has been in service with the organization for many years. Before his incumltency as Mr. Long's assistant, he rvas general manag'er of the Snoqrralmie Falls Lumber Cornpany.

Besides NIr. l.ong. the new executive committee consists of : F. S. Bell. rvho continues as president ; F. E. Weverhaeuser, vice-president ; H. H. Irvine, treastller, ancl W. L. X{cCormick, u'ho was electeci a vice-oresident.

The position of assistant to the general nlanager lvill be fi1led by Charles H. Ingram, .ivho before this change was general manager of the Snoqualmie Falls l,umber Company-a place norv filled by E. H. O'Neill. 'ivho until last

' N{arch rvas assistant to the manager of the Everett, Wash., branch of Weyerhaeuser Timber Con.rPan)'.

Minot Davis u'as designated as having full charge of the logging and timber activities of the company. Geo. S. Long, Jr., u,as elected an assistant secretary. H. J. Richardson also continues on the Danel as an assistant secretary and J. R. Paetz, as cashier. The l;oard of directors elected by the stockholders incltrdes: Mr. I3ell, Geo. S. Long, F. E. and C. A. Weyerhaeuser, Messrs. McCormick, Irvine and Richardson, C. R. Musser, William Carson, E. P. Clapp and F. W. Reimers.

The advancement of Mr. Long to the unnsual position of chairman of the executive comn'rittee of the ltoard recalls an exceptional biography in the lumber industry. Mr. Long was born in Indiana, some 74 years ago. He got into the lumber business in early manhood, and went to Wisconsin when that state still represented one of the industry's fron- tiers. For several years he was connected r,vith the old Northwestern Lumber Company at Eau Claire, Wis., and during this period he played a leading par.t in the organization of the Mississippi Valley Lumbermen's Association.

In 1900 Mr. Long became general manager of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, and since that time his headquarters have been the offices of, that company, in Tacoma. During the rvar he was a member of the Lumber Committee on National Defense and served as chairman of the West Coast committee which supervised the supply of lumber from that region to the.Government.

During Mr. Long's managership of Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, the concern has sold 27 billlon feet of timber; its mill-operations at Everett and, more recently, at Longview, Wash., and Klamath Falls, Ore., have been built; three great distributing plants have been put into operation on the Atlantic seaboard, and other mills affili- t e

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"' w e v c r a c u s c r atccl rvith the Weyerhaeuser g'roup, such as that of the Snoclualmie Falls Lumber Company, have been openecl up.

This record of the progress of his compan). upon a broadgauged plan is indicative of some aspects of Mr. Long's character. None of the men rvith lvhom he l.ras been associated ever thinks of him as tvoical of the tenclencv toward case-hardened conservatisrn irfiich is believed to be common among men rvho aclvance in years. N{ore than 30 years ago, back East, he took the initiative in the formulation and adoption of the grading rules of the Northern Pine Association of Wisconsin and Minnesota.

In other matters, too, Mr. Long has been identified rvith the promulgation of ideas rvhich have been aclopted on an important scale by the industry. Deep-rvater transportation of rough lumber from Pacific Coast mills to distributing plants on the Atlantic Coast has been established as feasible under his leadership. Fire protection of timber under the auspices of producers' associations or by private enterprise when that is required, reforestation on a commercial basis by private interests and the intensive utilization of lumber through the development of by-products are representative progressive steps which have received impetus from Mr. Long's support.

Despite his far-reaching business activities, Mr. Long finds time to devote to many public and civic enterprises. And among his associates, and in industrial councils, his utterance is valued scarcely less because of its wit and humor than because of its rvisdom.