Lumber and Trucks

Motor trucks are now a great factor in all branches of the lumber industry-from the tree to the consumer. Large fleets of trucks are operated by the mills and'logging operators of the Pacific Coast. For the transportation of lumber from the retailer's standpoint, they are indispensable.

It is estimated that the retail lumber trade of California alone uses over 6000 trucks for the distribution of their lumber products. One large retail company in Southern California operates over'60 trucks in their business. Many retail concerns in the state operate fleets running from 10 to 25 trucks.

The above illustration is an excellent example of the use of trucks in the retail lumber business. This shows the loading of a truck load of lumber by an electric hoist on a Moreland truck at the yard of the C. Ganahl Lumber Co., Los Angeles. The hoist lifts the lumber from the ground, where the carrier has dropped it, and lowers it onto the truck-this operation takes but two minutes for loading.

Henry M. Hink, sales manager of the Dolbeer & Cars,on Lumber Co., and vice-president of the Redwood Sales Co., which handles the Eastern sales of six Redwood manufacturers, returned to San Francisco June 30, from a six weeks' sales promotion trip in behalf of "Sequoia Brand" products of the Redwood Sales Co.

Mr. Hink traveled with Milton V. Johns, manager of the company's Chicago office, from Kansas City to Pittsburg, and motored in company with "Sequoia" Bill Lawton_of Philadelphia from Boston to Washington by way of Springfield, Mass., New York and Atlantic City, and reported having had a mos't satisfactory trip.

"Eastern wholesale and retail lumbermen are becoming what one might call 'Redwo6d-minded', and I look for a steady increase in our Eastern business," said Mr. Hink. "Redwood is now being used in many homes in the Fast for half-timbered effects in connection with brick in English style cottages.

"Retailers and wholesalers alike pqrticularly express their satisfaction with the service they have be.en getting o_n Redwood shipments, and with the dependable grades-. Our big job now as I see it is to do more educational work among architects and contractors.

"A recent important instance where Redwood was chosen above all other woods for its ability to stay put, was in the case of the new $1,500,000 Art Institute, now under construction at Dayton, O. The architect specified 'Sequoia Brand' Redwood for the entire interior wall surfaces where the pictures are to be hung."

Charles Henry In Los Angeles

Charles Henry, representative for the Charles R. McCormick Lumber Company at Phoenix, recently spent a week in Los Angeles.