Twice each month we are sending out our message of business news, ideas and good cheer to the lumbermen of California. On every page there are matters of direct and practical interest to every California lumberman. Isn't this then an ideal medium for those who have a business story they want to send to these lumber folks?
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Henry M. Hink, sales manager, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, left July I for an automobile tour of the Northwest. He traveled north by the Redwood Highway, Roosevelt and Olympic Highways and visited Victoria and Vancouver, Canada. He planned to return by way of Bend, Oregon, and to visit the famous Crater Lake.
D. S. Watrous, Shreveport, La., sales manager of the Perfection Oak Flooring Co., who has been spending some time at the company's Los Angeles warehouse, returned to Shreveport shortly after the first of the month. The company's mills at Shreveport and Trout, La., have an annual capacity of 4O million feet, and at their Los Angeles warehouse they carry large stocks to serve the trade in this territory. The Perfection Oak Flooring Co. is a division of the Frost Lumber Industries, one of the largest lumber producers in the South.
Ben W. Krug is manager of their Los Angeles operations. He has been connected with the flooring business in Southern California for many years and is well known to the ttade. The Los Angeles warehouse is at 5420 South Avalon boulevard.
Bill Chantland, Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., Los Angeles, has been vacationing in the Northwest. He plans to spend some time in Idaho, and on his return trip will visit the company's mills on Grays Harbor. He will be back on the job again after the middle of the month.
E. C. Parker, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles, recently returned from a two weeks' trip to Chicago where he visited the World's Fair.
Robert H. Taylor, formerly with the Central Co., Compton, is now managing the Clearwater Co. yard at Clearwater.
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Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Hewes arrived in San Francisco July ll from a vacation trip to Alaska, which included a number of side trips to scenic points in northern waters.
Mr. Hewes is president of the Clover Valley Lumber Company, and a director in the Pacific Spruce Corporation.
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During the first six months of. 1934, lumber production exceeded new business at reporting savrmills by 7 per cent and excoeded shipments by 9 pet cent; production was 29 per cent above that of the first half of 19331, shipments were 4 per c€nt lese and orders 8 per cent less than during the 1933 p€dod' according to repolts to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association from regio,nal associations covering the operations of leading hardwood and softwood mills. The half-yearly reports were made by an average of IrfO2 mills.
During the week ended June 30, shipments and orders wete above thoae of the two previcus weeks, production was the lowcst since Februaryt due latgely to mid.summer shut-downs. Reporte ftolrrt 11754 mills for the week ended June 30 gave production 16114941000 feet; shipments l53r72lr00o feet, and o'rderg 149,828,000 feet.
New business reported to the Wqst Coast Lumbetments Asrociation for the week ended June 30 by 551 mills was 57,332,2@ fet against a production ol 4319321348 feet and shipments of. 4617861012 f.eet. Shipments were over production by 6.5 per cent, and current sales were over production by 30.5 per cent. Orders booked by this group of mills were over the preceding week by 11,0fi),000 feet.
The unfilled order file at the.ee mills stood at 487,153,701 feet, an increase of approximately 7r(X)OrOO0 feet over the previous week'
The Southern Pine Associationo 121 mills reporting, gave new business for the week ended June 30 as 24r547,'OOO feet, shipmenta 281633,00O fedt, and production 24369,0O0 feet. ShipmeDts were 17 pe cent abbve productiono and orders were one per cent above production and 14 pet cent below shipments.
Orders on hand at these mills on June 30 totaled 7611251000 feet, equivalent to 31635 cars.
The Vestern Pine Associatiotl 127 mills reporting, for the same week gave new business as 37l95rOO0 feet, shipments 42,700rO00 fea, and production 5116821000 feet. Shipments were 17 per cent below production, and orders 27 per cent below production and 11 lrer cent below shipments.
Orders on hand at the end of thd week et 127 mills totaled 89r619,(XX) feet.
The California Redwood Associatiosr fo,r the week rqrorted productiotr from 16 mills as 7r33OrOOO feet, shipments 6124710OO feet, and new business 7r73lrOOO feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week werc 35r695r000*feet.
482 hatdwood mills for the week ended June 30 gave new busincss ar 1Ql85r0OO feet, or 39 per cent below productiotg and ahipmentc 2018891000 feet, or 2l pec cent belon' produc. tioa. Production waE 26,437$00 feet.
There is no change in co,trditiotrs in the California lumber situation and the volume is light. At this writing the longahore. ments strike remains unsettled, most of the Fit tidewater millr are down and the cargo movement of lumber is still tied-up.
Retail prices in Southem California have been reduced as follows: Fir and Redwood l0 per cent, and. everything elre 4 per cent excepting roofing and hardwoods. Prices went into effect July 5. The lumber code authorities for Division 32r Southern California, authorized t{rese reductions in order to make immediately eft.ecltive to the consumer the anticipated reductions in wholesale costs and in their modal mark.up which had_ been approved by the Administration after a reque"t of the dealers in order that they might cooperate with and contribute to tfte Presidentts Housing Program.
New mill prices on propooed reductions have not been released yet but are expe/ctd within the next week. Precent mills prices which were scheduled to expire July I have been extended-indefinitely and will r.emain in ltfect until new pricer are established.
Los Angeles reported the largest volume of building permitr lmotg the western cities for the month of June accorling to the Vestern Monthly Building Survey prepared by H. R. Baker & Co. San Francisco wai second, followed by Oakland, Qtoclton, Seattle and San Jose. June permits for ihe tweoty. five leading western cities totaled f4r2r2rl$g as compared wiih f4,1O4,224 in May, 1934 and fsrt7t,Og4 in June, 193i.
Unsold stocks on the public docks at Los Angeles hartor on July 9 toaled 6521000 feet. Due to the longshoremen?s strike, no report of vessels operating is available.
Washington, D. C., June 25.-In voting $8.00 per M ft., including Government charges, as the minimum freight rate applicable to shipments from points in the West Coast Division to the Panama Canal Zone, effective June 28, the Lumber Code Authority stopped a gap in Conference water rates which include no schedule for coastwise shipments to the Canal Zone. To the $8.00 rate are to be added other delivery costs as provided in the Authority's Bulletin No. 45, containing minimum prices on Douglas Fir and West Coast Hemlock.
At the annual meeting of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau held at Seattle, Wash., June 28, Leo S. Black, Seattle Cedar Manufacturing Co., Seattle, lvas re-elected president. H. J. Bailey, Saginaw Shingle Co., Aberdeen, Wash., was elected vice president; W. W. Woodbridge, manager, and Grace Jones, secretary-treasurer.
The board of trustees include: D. H. Lowery, Bellingham, Wash.; S. S. Waterman, Tacoma, Wash.; Nick Jerns, Bellingham, Wash.; P. H. Olwell, Everett, Wash.; H. J. Bailey, Aberdeen, Wash.; Leo S. Black, Seattle, Wash.; Jess Schwarz, Kelso, Wash.; R.P. Arkley, Raymond, Wash., and E. H. O'Neil, Snoqualmie Falls, Wash. Trustees from British Columbia: Geo. Kidd, Vancouver, B. C. ; Chas. Plant, Vancouver, B. C.; Earl McNair, Vancouver, B. C., and Aird Flavelle, Port Moody, B. C. Logging representatives are R. C. Richardson, Vancouver, B. C.; R. D. Merrill, Seattle, Wash., and C. H. Kreinenbaum, Shelton, Wash.
President Black presided over the business session. R. C. Kimbell, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, talked on conditions in the consuming territories, sales methods and the efflcient distribution of shingles. W. W. Woodbridge, manager of the Bureau, discussed trade promotion and asked that the membership dues be doubled
to provide a larger fund to carry on this work. President Black announced that Mr. Woodbridge's recommendation had also been presented to the board of directors, and the board had recommended that the dues be quadrupled. More than 75 per cent of the members present voted in favor of the larger appropriation as recommended by the board.
A sketch. "Mrs. Gilroy Buys a Roof," written by Mr. Woodbridge, manag'er of the Bureau, which gave the members an idea of what happens when a person is buying a roof covering for his home, was presented by the Burton Iames Players of Seattle.
C. C. Campbell, for many years manager of the Van Nuys Lumber Co., recently died at his old home in Woodstock, New Brunswick. Following a nervous breakdown, he went to Woodstock with the hope of recovering his health. He was 57 years of age.
Mr. Campbell first came to Van Nuys when the town was founded in 1911. He is survived by his widow. Mrs. Ida Orrell Campbell.
The Hammond Septic Tank is made from clear all-heart, air-seasoned California Redwood, because of Redwood's great durability and remarkable resistance to decay. The tank is made tight and held together with heavily galvanized steel hoops andlugs, which are removable for access to the interior.
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I asked Gus Russell of San Francisco to tell me how things were doing in Northern California. He said between the dock strike and trying to follow the flip-flops of the lumber code, he was reminded of a fellow in the insane asylum at Stockton. This fellow, says Gus, used to be a football player before he lost his mind. And now all he does all day long every day frorn breakfast until dark is just kick a football around the asylum yard. He hasn't any football, but that makes no difference to him; he kicks it eternally anyway. "And," says Gus, "about another month of this and I'll be over there CATCHING THAT FOOTBALL."
Surely the lumber industry has had its dog kicked around during the last few weeks in utterly foolish fashion. On June 9 every news agency in the country headlined the story from Washington that all price fixation in codes had been cancelled. Everyone in the United States who can read was given that story. The very next day the wires brought to industry everywhere a cotrection. The new rule, it said, did not apply to codes already in force and effect; only to new codes.
Unofficial reports n".r" 1a *", ,n" first report was genuine; that they DID decide to cancel all price fixing under NRA, and that for some reason they did a flip-flop. The apparent inco,nsistency and unfairness of applying price fixation to part of the business of the country, and issuing a blanket denial to all others, lends rnuch color to this report. But be that as it may, NRA the day aftei the papers announced elimination and cancellation of price fix. ing notified industry directly that prices already fixed continued to apply.
The trouble was that the FIRST report, announced by all the press of the country, REACHED THE CONSUMER; THE SECOND DID NOT. Did such a botch help the poor old lumber industry? It did NOT, my inquiring friend-it did NOT! It gave the industry a fit! How could it do otherwise? The public, notified that price fixing had terminated and knowing that with very little demand for lumber prices could not by the wildest stretch of the imagination be expected to hold, decided that this would be a good time to put aside any thought of lumber buying. It MUST come down, they naturally assumed. The SECOND announcement never reached the newspapers at all. It hasn't done so yeL So the lumber folks
knew the day after the cancellation announcement that fixed prices were to continue; but the folks to whom they looked for business didn't know it, and don't know it yet. Hurt? I'll say it hurt!
But that was only the start. On the last day of its recent session Congress passed the new Housing Act. So far as direct help to prospective builders is concerned I'm afraid that Act is only a gesture. I'm not sure yet, but I suspect so. But the immediate aftermath of its passage was another gut-shot for the lumber industry. Out of the publicity-cursed city of Washington came another spreadeagle piece of news that the eager public was quick to grasp. It said that in conformity with the new Housing Act and to help the effectuality of the new law, lumber prices would immediately be cut ten per cent. Fine! Cried everybody. But unfortunately they forgot to tell the lumber industry.
I lmew one city where ;":"i"r" got busy and the very next day joined in a loud announcement to the public that in order to help the President put over his new Housing Act, get building started and get people to work, and in conformity with the announcement rnade from Washington, they were ofrering the public lumber at an immediate reduction of ten per cent from prevailing minirnum fixed prices. They expected, of course, that the formal instructions would be immediately forthcoming. They urere wrong. They haven't come yet. ***
I know other cities where the newspapers, seeing the announcement of the lumber folks in the city referred to in the preceding paragraph, called on their local lumber people and suggested the same sort of announcement for them; and refused to be convinced when the lumber folks assured them that all the news they had so far received concerning reduced lumber prices was from the pages of the newspapers. What a nice mess that put them in ! :t*:l
Soon the retail division of the lumber industry received instructions permitting them to reduce their retail markup about ten per cent. This put them out on a vety fine limb. And did they bellow? No price reductions on the stuff they botrght-only on the stuff they sold. "Oh, Yeah?" came the cry from the retail camp. !f**
Naturally bedlam broke loose in the industry during the
days immediately following the press announcernents of price reductions. The wires to Washington and to and from the various code offices were kept literally hot with eager query, and with negative answer. "We don't know" was all the answer anyone could give. Then came the formal announcement from General Johnson of NRA advising the rnanufacturing end of the industry that prices that had been fixed early in June and dated until July first would remain in effect until further notice. And that's how it is now'
First the public was told that fixed prices would be abandoned, and it has never been told otherwise. Then it was told that lumber prices would be cut. They never have, unless some dealers here and there may have made the mark-up reduction. They don't have to, you see. The lumber price is a fixed MINIMUM; NOT a fixed sales price.
To show how swell ,. Jorir,l".'" "r.,r-e that the price of an item of lumber was $20 a thousand, and the mark-up in that locality was 40 per cent for gross retail profit. Then came the permissable reduction from 40 to 36 per cent. 40 per cent of $ZO is $9. His price under the old mark-up was $28 on that item. If he puts in the reduced rnark-up the price is $27.2O, or a little less than 3 per cent retail price reduction. But the customer has read in the paper that the price has been reduced 10 per cent, and he thinks this particular dealer is skinning him. So he doesn't buy.
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Of course, the mill price of lumber IS corning down. No doubt about it. As this is written the mill folks are meeting in many places throughout the land, and within a few days reduced mill prices are apparently certain to be announced. They are expected to be about l0 per cent off preient mill prices. When THOSE mill prices go into effect, THEN the reduced retail mark-up will'make the total price reduction to the public the l0 per cent the public has been told about. But in the meantime the lumber folks, particularly the retailers, have been placed in a very uncomfortable and embarrassing position by reason of tooardent publicity coming out of Washington, causing the public to look for things that have not yet taken place.
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Personally I think the reduction in lumber prices very, very wise. There is no question but that people here, there, and everywhere have held-and loudly voiced-the opinion that lumber prices are too high. Whether or not they ARE too high is not of the least consequence under the circumstances. If the public is sold on the idea that lumber is too high, it will also hold tightly to the opinion that they must and will come down. So those who have lumber to buy-rivait. Few building projects are ever of
emergency character. It is usually very easy to postpone a building or improving idea. I am entirely convinced that all over the United States there are millions of people who need lumber and know they need lumber, who have been waiting for lumber prices to come down.
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And a large part of this belief has emanated fro'm the lumber folks themselves-not from outside sources. All over the country the retailer quotes his code lumber price, and then adds, apologetically-"That's the price the Code makes me charge; I dare not sell for less." No use contradicting it,folks. THAT has been the attitude of the MAJORITY of those who sold lumber. The other day a retailer whose family has been in the business for two generations told me that he was sticking tight to the Code and would continue to do so, but that he didn't blame people for not buying. He said that one of his other interests needed some building done, and he had himself advised them to wait until lumber got lower, as it was bound, in his judgment, togo. Under such conditions as those f cannot help believing that lumber prices-regardless of the fact that compared with other building materials and other useful commodities lumber is fair in price and NOT rapacious-have been the cause of preventing much building in this country. :t**
And I don't mean to imply that the dealers have been done in spreading this innuendo against lumber prices. I have heard big mill people say that before the price was fixed they were selling more lumber and making a generous profit, and that when the Code raised their prices it cut ofr their volume and made their business really less
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Therefore I believe that the reduction in lumber prices will have a variety of very beneficial effects. In the first place it will reduce the cost of building, remodeling, and repairing. In the second place it will have a useful efrect on the public mind that will amount to even more than the price reduction. If the new Housing Act proves to be really practical and directly efrective in getting building started (as we all hope and pray) there is every reason why there should be a CONSIDERABLE and not just a light improvement in building and in lumber sales. We have been hovering on the brink of improved building conditions fo'r some time. The opinion of the general public about lumber prices and the dearth of building credit have been the two things that have done most of the damage to the industry. Change those two things, and business is likely to take on a real hum.
Washington, D. C., July 3.-The Lumber Code Author. ity approved the following report by a committee directed by the Authority to coordinate prices and certain items concerning which representatives of the West Coast Division and the Southern Pine Division had failed to agree:
"I. That the West Coast Division and the Southern Pine Division coordinate their Dimension prices at Chicago on their rail business. Both parties have agreed to do this.
"2. That as regards the Eastern Territory which is supplied by water shipments from the West Coast, that all No. 1 Common and lower grades of boards be coordinated on the basis of an approximate reduction of $1 per 1000 on West Coast Division Boards. That on all other grades, including Dimension, prices be coordinated on the basis of no change from the present status of coordination.
"3. As to water shipments from the Atlantic Coast by the Southern Pine to Eastern ports, that specific delivered prices be established on the basis of 60 per cent of the rail rate.
"4. That Committee recommends that in the future coordination, facts be presented to the Coordinating Committee by all Divisions, setting forth statistics as to shipments and stock on hand of the difierent grades and species, and that these factors be given full consideration in the coordination of all prices. In the absence of such statistisc, it is impractical to coordinate prices on an equitable basis."
I really look for it. Right now, as a result of some of the things I have talked about in this article, things in the lumber industry have been less bright than they really had a right to be. Due to decreased lumber sales the sawmills have just been given a reduced allowable production for the summer. That hurts. It hurts dl concerned. It is reduced income and reduced buying poveer for the mill qmployees. It means increased costs for most mills. As you reduce the working hours of an industrial plant like a sawmill, you increase the cost of production very materially. The new allowable is going to be a bitter pill for most big mills to swallo,nr. It is to be prayerfully hoped that because of various things the demand for lumber will increase during the summer so that the production allotment may soon be increased to a point where economical operations may be had, and increased wages offered the men.
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It is not too much to hope that when the reduced lumber prices become effective and the new Government Housing Act becomes operative, the lumber business rnay improve very rapidly and very perceptibly. :f**
Of course the dock strike on the Pacific Coast is plain murder to the lumber industry of the West. Twenty thousand men are out of work in Washington and Oregon because of the strike in the lumber mills and camps alone; and many more in California. If the termination of that strike could be brought about coincident with decreased lumber prices and increased building credit, the sun miglrt shine by fall, and shine very brightly, indeed.
Washington, D. C., June 25.-The following terms of sale for the California Redwood Division, upon recommendation of the Trade Practices Committee, were approved by the Lumber Code Authority:
On Intercoastal Shipments to Wholesalers: All freight and transfer charges net cash on arrival; balance subject to 2/o discount; 80% to be paid by sight draft; balance 3O days from date of arrival.
On Rail Shipments to Wholesaleis: 80% of the net amount after deducting estimated freight within 15 days from date of invoice; balance less 2% of total net after deducting actual fr,eight within 6O days from date of invoice.
An order, approving a new modal mark-up for retail sales of lumber and building materials, has been signed by Administrator Johnson and became effective on June 27, 1934. The order will expire on March 1, 1935. The new ord,er will reduce prevailing prices approximately 10 per cent. Administrator Johnson specifically declares that these reductions are established "to promote the home building and home modernization program of the President."
The new mode was determined by eliminating the cost factors, previously included in the percentages, of interest and lost accounts items, excepting a reserve for lost accounts of one per cent; and also by a recomputation of previous figures used as a basis for determining cost.
Under the new mode, the dealer rvill not have to file his retail price list with the code authorities-the code authority will furnish the dealer with a minimum cost list below which the dealer must not sell. The dealer may charge any price he desires to above the minimum. The modal mark-up on lumber is in a flat percentage, the same as other items covered by the Lumber Code.
The modal percentages vary for different sections and for the various wage rates. In Northern California, where
the rn'age rate is 45 cents, the modal percentage is 38 per cent. Where the ll'age rate is 4O cents the modal percentage is 37 per cent, and where the wage rate is 35 cents the modal percentage is 36 per cent.
In Southern California where the wage rate is 4O cents the modal percentage is 37 per cent. Where the wage rate is 35 cents the modal percentage is 36 per cent, and where the wage rate is 3O cents the modal percentage is 35 per cent.
In Arizona rvhere the 'rvage rate is 35 cents the modal percentage is 35 per cent. Where the wage rate is 30 cents the modal percentage is 34 per cent, and where the wage rate is 25 cents the modal percentage is 34 per cent.
A party which included George W. Gorman, sales manager, Frank White, assistant sales manager, Bob Caldwell, F. K. Peil, and W. T. Wallace of the sales department of the Hammond Lumber Co., and yard managers from various California points, spent a few days at the company's mill at Samoa around the Fourth of July. All joined in the local celebration, and some members of the group took part in a baseball game.
New Septic fank is Described in the
Followins A*icle by Morton B. Smith Chief Engineer, Technical Department, Hammond Lumber Co., San FranciscoThe Hammond Lumber Company is now placing on the market, through retail lumber dealers a complete line of Redwood septic tanks which have attracted unusual interest wherever offered and have received enthusiastic endorsement by sanitary engineers, health authorities and physicians. The Company maintains a stafi of engineers constantly on the alert for developing a wider field for the use of Redwood in industrial and engineering fields, and to combat the efforts of manufacturers of competitive materials to usurp fields in which wood is naturally suited.
They have many noteworthy achievements to which they may point with pride, two outstanding examples of which are the largest wooden tank ever built, which was the subject of an article in the California Lumber Merchant some time ago, and the largest atmospheric cooling tower ever built, which has just been completed. The former was in. stalled by the City of Pasadena, California, for the btorage of sewage after extensive investigatiori of the relative merits of various materials for the purpose. The cooling tower has just been built for the Passotex Petroleum Corporation in Texas in connection with their enormous refining plant. This tower is 54 feet high, over 1000 feet long and contains over 800,000 board feet of all heart Redwood, 6000 pounds of copper nails and $10,000 worth of brass bolts. It was designed by the engineers of the Hammond Lumber Company to withstand the frequent Texas Gulf hurricanes and before completion was tested by a recent severe storm lvhich did no damage, although a portion of the complete system of bracing was as yet not installed, thus proving the adaptability of wood construction for major projects. The tremendous forces which the structure was designed to resist called for considerable originality in wood framing construction and engineering analysis to obtain the very critical approval of the engineers employed by the customer.
This tower received a great amount of local publicity and accomplished considerable toward advancing public understanding in that locality of the unique characteristics of Redwood and its superiority for many applications. One amusing newspaper story stated that all the Redwood for this tower was obtained from one single giant redwood tree.
The natural advantages of Redwood for septic tanks has been demonstrated by wide experience, and that Redwood is a very superior material to resist the attack of sewage has been recognized by engineers was demonstrated by the choice of Redwood for the Pasadena tank by the municipal engineers.
In many instances aggressive producers of steel, concrete and other competitive materials have induced their substitution for wood by exaggeration of unimportant advantages which have blinded the consumer to many important advan-
tages of wood construction and thereby induced the consumer to "choke on a gnat and swallow a cam,el."
In addition to the great superiority of Redwood as a material for septic tanks, the Hammond Lumber Company recognized the desirability of having the design of the tank equally superior in engineering and hygienic phases and their Technical Department has devoted its talent to the production of a simple septic tank answering these requirements.
The Company makes many claims of the unique advantages of their septic tank, stressing the fact that it is "bottle tight" and is designed to have inherent strength and rigidity following correct proven engineering principles, which, together with the natural durability of Redwood and its resistance to attack. by sewage, warrants their definite guarahtee for an extended period of time and assurance that it will last many years beyond its guarantee.
Ralph Duncan, Merced Lumber Co., Merced, chairman of the executive committee of Retail Lumber & Building Material Code Authority (Northern California), presided at a meeting of the committee held in San Francisco July 6. Elmore King, King Lumber Co., Bakersfield, member of the executive committee of the National Retail Code Authority, who recently returned from spending two weeks in Washington, D. C., attending the meeting of the executive committee there, gave an interesting report of matters discussed at that gathering.
William Walker Peed, owner of the Los Gatos Lumber Co., passed away in Los Gatos, July 2.
Born in Plattsburg, Mo., 56 years ago, Mr. Peed became a logging engineer, and spent 25 years of his business career with the Hammond Lumber Co. He was their logging superintendent for a number of years, and served several terms as president of the Pacific Logging Congress. He was the author of a book on logging that is used as a college textbook. He was later associated with the Monterey Bay Redwood Co., and entered the retail business five years ago when he purchased the Los Gatos Lumber Co.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. May Belle Peed; a daughter, Miss Margaret Peed; a son, William Peed, Jr.. and his mother and a sister.
Max Price, manager of the Roscoe Lumber Co., Roscoe, is on a motor trip to the Dakotas.
Washington, D. C., June 30.-After conferring with the National Recovery Administration through a committee, the Lumber Code Authority this afternoon wired all its divisions and subdivisions that the Presidential order affecting price maintenance agreements does not apply to lumber code minimum prices. The telegram is as follows:
"Reference President's order June 29 allowing fifteen per cent price reduction in connection sales to Government Agencies. This order does not apply to Lumber Code. Consequently our present prices are not afiected and remain unchanged, and the executive order of March 14, so far as it applies to Lumber Code also remains unchanged. Please give suitable notice to persons under your jurisdic' tion."
The executive order of March 14, provides that all bids for government requirements shall be accompanied by a certificate stating that the bidder is complying and will continue to comply with each code of fair competition to which he is subject; also that all provisions of the codes shall apply to contracts with or sales to agencies of the United States.
It is understood that the reason why the presidential order of yesterday does not apply to lumber is that the Lumber Code specifically authorizes only minimum prices, established for cost protection, which now return less than the costs of production.
Washington, D.C., June 28.-David T. Mason, executive officer of the Lumber Code Authority, in a statement concerning NRA Administrative Order No. 9-41 which approves existing lumber prices for an indefinite period in the future, declared today that the "Order clearly indicates definite recognition that the cost-protection minimum price system is essential if the Lumber and Timber Products Industries are to secure the funds necessary to meet their payrolls at the wage rates provided in the Lumber Code and likewise maintain a maximum of 'employment consistent with the present low volume of demand for the products of our industry."
The new administrative order continues in effect indefinitely prices approved by an emergency order issued June 9th. The intent of the new order, according to NRA, was to eliminate all question as to effective operation of minimum cost-protection prices established under the Lumber Code.
"The issuance of this order of approval of minimum prices," General Johnson said today, "determined and published in accordance r,vith the provision of Article IX of the code, should eliminate any grounds for questioning the application and effectiveness of such minimum prices. They are binding upon all members of the Lumber and Timber Products Industries."
Mr. Mason's statement follows:
"By order of June 9, General Johnson, NRA Administrator, approved the cost-protection minimum prices for lumber and timber products for the period ending July 1, 1934.
Lumbetmen know good lumber, and lumbermen know tfiat good lumber comes from McComiclc
Treated or untreated poles and piling, ties and P$ts' laths and shingles, whatever your requirements, cdl the McComrick salesman. Your order will be delivercd quickly, dependably and economically-via McCormick.
"On June 27th, Administrator Johnson approved the existing prices for an indefinite period in the future. This action of the General removes all doubt as to the continuance of cost-protection minimum prices in the Lumber and Timber Products Industries. General Johnson's order clearly indicates definite recognition that the cost-protection minimum price system is essential if the Lumber and Timber Products Industries are to secure the funds necessary to meet their payrolls at the wage rates provided in the T umber Code and likewise maintain a maximum of employment consistent with the present low volume of de' mand for the products of our industry."
Copies of NRA Administrative Order No. 9-41 have been mailed to Divisions, Subdivisions, members and alternates of the Lumber Code Authority.
California Lumbermen's Council met at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, July 7. George Burnett, Burnett Lum. ber Co., Tulare, vice-president of the Council, pr'esided.
The Western Institute
of Trade Secretaries held their at the Hotel Leamington, Oak-
I am positively guaranteed that the following actually happened very recently in a colored church in East Texas:
The congregation had become broken up into factions, and the factions were at open warfare with one another. As is often the case the unfortunate preacher for the congregation was being buffeted around by the various combatants, and was having trouble and plenty of it.
One Sunday morning he rose to preach. He had no more than uttered the words of his text, when the biggest, ripest tomato that East Texas could produce, hurled by a violent hand, hit him right square in the middle of the face, and splashed all over him, closing his eyes, and making him a horrible spectacle to behold.
At the annual meeting of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association held at Chicago, June 11-14, the following were elected directors:
Northern Hemlock and Hardrvood; R. B. Goodman, W. A.Holt; Northern Pine; S. L. Coy, E. H. Broughton; Southern Cypress ;C.R. Macpherson, L.W. Gilbert; Southern Pine; A. J. Peavy, Geo. L. Pope, R. B. White, M. L. Fleishel. Chas. Green, W. T. Murray, L. O. Crosby; Northern Pine; J.L. Camp, J. Ross McNeal; Western Pine; D. J. Winton, Walter Neils, Geo. E. Breece, Harry K. Brooks, W. E. Lamm, S. V. Fullaway, Jr., B. W. Lakin, Ralph Macartney; California Redwood; L. C. Hammond, A. S. Murphy; Hardwood Manufacturers Institute; Lee Robinson, C. Arthur Bruce, Fred Bringardner; Southern Hardwoods; C. Arthur Bruce, Fred Bringardner, Lee Robinson; West Coast; C. H. Watzek, J. D. Tennant, M. C. Woodard, J. P. \Meyerhaeuser, Jr., Ernest Dolge, E. W. Demarest; At Large; J. W. Blodgett, R. H. Burnside, E. L. Carpenter, R. E. Danaher, G. W. Dulany, Jr., Paul Eames, E. G. Griggs, Carl Hamilton, J. P. Hensessey, H. B. Hewes, Ralph Hines, Robert Hixon, C. S. Keith, J. H. Kirby, E. L. Kurth, W. M.Leuthold, J. P. McGoldrick, W. M. Ritter, C. C. Sheppard, E. G. Swartz, A. Trieschmann, W. J. Walker, J. W. Watzek, Jr., F. K. Weyerhaeuser, Frank G. Wisner, F. E. Weyerhaeuser.
E. E. Schmidt, manager of the Los Angeles office of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., has returned from an automobile trip to the company's mill at Montesano, Wash.
He held control of himself with great fortitude. Slowly and deliberately he scraped the tomato mush away with his hands. Then he pulled out his big blue bandana handkerchief, and wiped away more of the trouble, getting his eyes open in this fashion.
Then, having cleaned up as best he could right then and there, he pulled out his big old silver watch, and scanned the time diligently and attentively. Then, for the first time since the tomato assault he spoke, slowly, and deliberately, and this is what he said:
"Brethe'n an' siste'n! Fo' de next twenty-nine minutes we goin'to devote oursetes to de bizness of de Lawd! An' afteh that you goin' to see de damndest niggah fight dat evah taken place in Angelina County."
The Northwest Lumber Agency, Los Angeles, wholesale firm, is representing the Aberdeen Plywood Company of Aberdeen, Wash., in California. Don M. Oder, manager of the Agency, is well known to the lumber trade in this territory and has been associated with the lumber business in Southern California for a long period. The firm also handles Fir and Cedar lumber.
Don Philips, Lalrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, accompanied by his family, is spending his vacation in the High Sierra.
F. J. Dunbar, Robert Dollar Co., San Francisco, attended a meeting of the board o.f directors of the Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers' Import Association, Inc., held in the Association's offices at Los Angeles on July 6.
BACK FROM WASHINGTON
S. M. Hauptman, general manager, California Wholesale Lumber Association, returned to San Francisco laly 2 after an absence of a little over three weeks spent in attending the annual meeting of the Lumber Code Authority in Chicago and in Washington, D. C. He made the round trip by the air route.
Mr. Hauptman visited Los Angeles in the early part of last week on the business of the Association.
Chicago,;July S.--Paul Orban, Orban Lumber Company, Pasadena, Calif., visited the Lumber Industries House at the Chicagb Fair recently and was so impressed by it that he went hofne, gave his local paper-the Star-News-an enthusiastic account of it and hastened to get a set of blueprints from the .National Lumber Manufacturers Association in Washington. Now he is actively engaged in selling the Lumber lfouse idea and ideas to his patrons.
An inspection of the inquiries received from visitors at the Lumber House indicates that there is a good follow-up field for retailers in the favorable impression it is creating.
Several hundred lumb.er dealers have ordered plans and blueprints of the Lumber Flouse and no doubt are utilizing them energetically and intelligently in their work.
The most important thing about the Lumber Industries House from the standpoint of the lumber dealer is that it enables him to provide his customers with something as novel, modern, and inspiring as his competitors in other building materials can offer. The Lumber Industries House reveals lumber as a building material which is as modern in its adaptability as it is persistent historically.
Lloyd Ferrill, of the office stafi of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., Eureka, recently spent two weeks' vacation in San Francisco.
The request of The Long-Bell f-iijhber Company and a group of creditors that it be given bn opportunity to work out a reorganization without the necessity of a trusteeship was granted July 5 by Judge Merrill E. Otis of the federal court. On June 9, when the company applied to the court to be brought under the provisions of the new corporate reorganization law, Judge Otis sanctioned the petition and set July 3 as the date for a hearing.
J. G. Hughes, former state finance commissioner for Missouri and former vice-president of the Commerce Trust Company of Kansas City, Mo., was designated by the court for appointment as a vice-president of The Long-Bell Lumber Company, and in that capacity, a special representative of the federal court in the lumber company's reorganization.If at the end of six months, no reorganization plan had been effected and approved, Judge Otis said he then would appoint federal trustees.
Judge Otis said he was assured an earnest effort was being made to reorganize and added: "I hope it will be successful. I do not intend to do anything to obstruct the plan. I can see some force to the argument that the appointment of trustees at this time might create the impression that conditions were worse than they really are. I have advanced this solution to avoid such an impression and I have confidence the officers will carry their reorganization plans to a successful conclusion."
The stalwart battle put up by the late R. A. Long kept the company intact as a functioning corporation and enabled it to escape receivership.
Washington, D. C., June D.-The Lumber Code Authority today replied to the Darrow Commission's recent recommendation that its executive secretary, Carl W. Bahr, be removed from office by adopting a resolution unequivocally standing by Mr. Bahr for vindicating him against aspersions cast upon him by that bbdy. The resolution was adopted at the instance of a special committee which has spent two weeks in careful consideration of the commission's recommendation and an examination of the charges upon which it was based. The resolution is as follows:
"RESOLVED, That after adequate investigation of the charges and recommendations made by the National Recovery Review Board:
"1. The authority finds the charges unsupported in fact, and the recommendation fully unjustified and unwarranted.
"2. That the authority finds nothing in the said charges and the record upon which they were based or in the recommendation made to impair their confidence, gained by full and long tim.e acquaintance, and experience in the high character, integrity, fairness and impartiplity, conduct and demeanor, of their executive secretary, and reaffirm their confidence in the fidelity with which he discharges the duties of his office."
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Washington, D. C., June 30.-The President's llousing Bill, desigrred to release the log jam which has been damming the progress of the durable goods and capital goods industries toward recovery and which has been described by Albert Deane, nationally known business executive, and one of the three men delegated by the President to draft the measure, as the greatest single achievement of the Administration, is a piece of legislation enacted during the turbulent course of the recently-ended session of Congress which holds particularly encouraging interest for lumbermen. It has been described as the outstanding hope of the construction industry and, consequently, of those industries to which construction must look for materials.
Among other acts of interest to lumbermen are the "Loans to Industry Bill," the Tariff Act, the Corporate Reorganization Act, the Revenue Act of 1934, and the act providing for the relief of government contractors operating under codes.
Wilson Compton, general manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, when discussing the Housing Bill before that body at its annual meeting in Chicago, described it as an undertaking on the part of the government "to make available, at low cost, billions of dollars for modernizing and for the construction of low cost small homes."
"There is no industry which, ifit does its part," he said, "stands to gain more than the Lumber and Timber Products Industries from this promised new National Recovery enterprise of the government."
The purposes of the act will be accomplished largely by the creation of the Horne Credit fnsurance Corporation, to be capitalized at $200,000,000. Through this corporation, the government will encourage the flow of private capital into the financing of new home construction and home modernization activities. Special provision is made for each.
Loans for modernization purposes are to be based upon "consumer credit," that is, upon the character and the ability of the borrower to pay, and do not involve real estate as security; consequently existing mortgages will be no deterrent to the granting of these loans except as they may hamper the ability of the borrower to discharge his new obligations. The real basis for this form of credit is to be the assured income of the borrower less his fixed expenses, considered in the light of his general credit standing.
The Home Credit Insurance Corporation will insure the lender against loss on such loans up to twenty per cent of the total amount, loaned by any one lending institution to borrowers who qualify. The fact that the lender must assume 8O per cent of the risk will operate to deter the unwise granting of accommodations. That the government is willing to extend total insurance to the extent of $20O,000,000 should cause $1,000,000,000 of private capital to be available for these loans.
In the case of new construction of dwelling houses, for
not more than four families each, which are used in whole or in part for residential purposes, the government will insure the full amount of any loan up to 80 per cent of an appraisal not in excess of $20,000. Funds are to be loaned at 5 per cent, although in certain areas where such a rate would upset local money markets, interest may be increased to 6 per cent. To this is to be added an insurance premium of 1 per cent to be paid by the lender ind collected by him from the borrower. Loans are to be secured by mortgage, and payments will be arranged to affect amortization in twenty years. From the.fund created by the I per cent insurance premium will be deducted any losses which occur and the expenses of administration; the remainder will be returned to borrowers in a way which will afiect amortization in less than the contemplated twenty years.
The plan could hardly be expected to accomplish a complete revival in the construction industry if the real estate market were cluttered up with property in distress because of existing short-term mortgages. That this fact was quite obvious to the formers of the bill is shown by the provision that such obligations may be refinanced with longterm loans under the same condition as those effecting new construction. To solve the problem of a construction industry which has suffered depletion of its capital and which might therefore be unable to carry the financial burden of building activity pending the realization of mortgage proceeds, the bill amends the Federal Reserve Act in such a way as to make acceptable for rediscount any loans made by member banks to operators in the construction field engaged in the erection of homes which qualify for insured loans.
To facilitate the easy flow of private capital from one part of the country to another, the bill authorizes the creation of National Mortgage Associations rvhich may be organized, with a capital of $5,000,000 each or more. These associations will be enabled to rediscount insured loans and in turn issue bonds against such mortgages.
It will be readily seen that the buyer of these bonds will have as security the value of the properties themselves, the financial responsibility of the original lender, the endorsement of the United States Government, and the capital assets of the bond-issuing National Mortgage Association.It is almost unquestionably the greatest degree of security ever placed behind any open-market bond, anywhere, any time.
Another important feature of the act is the insurance of savings and loan accounts up to $2500 in eligible and qualifying federal savings and loan association, building and loan associations, homestead associations, and cooperative banks. This insurance, which is to be provided at a premium of one-quarter of 1 per cent per annum is mandatory upon federal savings and loan associations, of which about three hundred were organized under the authority of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act.It is optional with other qualifying institutions.
The bill amends the Home Ow,ners Loan Act to authorize the sale of an additional billion dollars in debentures for the relief of distress mortgages, and to allocate another hundred million dollars for modernization loans to improve property already mortgaged to the corporation. The act will function under the direction of a Federal Administrator, to be appointed by the President. It is rumored about Washington that Harry Hopkins, present director of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, is slated for the post.
The "Loans to Industry Bill" authorized the Federal Reserve Board to make S-year loans to established industrial or commercial business institutions for the purpose of providing them with capital. Member banks are enabled to rediscount up to 8O per cent of such loans.
The bill amending the Tariff Act of 1930 authorizes the President, for a period of three years, to enter into foreign trade agreements with other governments and to increase or decrease existing tariff schedules on any item up to 5O per cent. lfe cannot, however, transfer any article from the dutiable to the free list or from the free list to the dutiable.
The Corporation Reorganization Act permits the scaling down of the obligations of debtor corporations through agreement with their creditors. A corporation finding itself unable to meet matured debts will be permitted to file refinancing plans in the Federal courts, which are authorized to approve settlements where creditors holding two-thirds of the claims agree.
In the 'new Revenue Act, Congress has retained Section 115 dealing with the tax-free distribution of earnings and profits accumulated or increase in value of property accrued before March 1, 1913.
The Act providing relief of government contractors operating under codes creates a means whereby persons who entered into contracts with the Federal Government before August 10, 1933, including subcontractors and material men, may file a claim for additional costs incurred by reason of their compliance with a code or codes of fair competition or the President's Reemployment Agreement.
All of these measures, and particularly the Housing Bill, were actively supported by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.
Washington, D. C., July 3.-In order to terminate what has up to now seemed an almost interminable problem, the Lumber Code Authority last week, working with the Administration, obtained agreement from representative wholesalers in the matter of bringing the wholesale trade under the Code. While hitherto it had been the contention of wholesalers that before they could come under the jurisdiction of the code and a separate wholesaler Division of the Lumber Code Authority be established, it would be necessary to agree upon a definition of wholesaler trade in the lumber industry to be written into the Code, the wholesalers nevertheless last week graciously acquiesced and, at the request of the Authority, submitted a petition to the Authority that they be placed under the Code. The petition read to the Authority by W. W. Schupner, secretary-manager, National-American Wholesale Lumber Association, was thereupon approved, and th,e association was recognized as sufficiently representative ofthe entire wholesale lumber industry to warrant its functioning as the administrative agency of the projected wholesaler division.
On the closing day of the annual meeting, David T. Mason, executive officer of the Authority, reported to the Authority that conferences with the Administration had resulted in a pledge from the Administration of speedy action on the wholesalers' petition. Major Mason said NRA at the earliest possible date would give notice of the Authority's proposed amendment bringing wholesalers under the code, and would at the same time issue an Authority-approved definition of wholesaler trade, allowing not less than fifteen days for receiving protests either against the amendment or the definition or both. In the meantime the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association will proceed with the work of setting up a new administrative Division of the Lumber Code Authority so that if possible it will be pr'epared to function immediately upon final action in the matter by the Authority and the Administration. Thus it appears that one of the most vexing problems with which the industry has had to deal since the creation of the Code is now finally destined for settlement within not more than 6O days.
The Viking doorman scorns fatigue, Humming a marriage march from Grieg. The Italian bootblack's brushes ply To an aria from "Butterfly."
The German forist sprays the palms Crooning a lullaby of Brahms.
The French chef seasons a rich filet To a broken phrase of Charpentier.
The Russian liftman signals off, Whispering Rimski-Korsakoff
The American guest in his gilded suite, Sings "She's my baby, ain't she neat?"
"He says he can read you like a book."
"Yah. And he uses the Braille system."
He-"Vt/hat would I have to give you to get just one little kiss?"
She-"Well, most anything practical; chloroform, ether, gas, or even novocaine might help."
Card in Florida newspaper: "Thursday I lost a gold watch I valued very highly. Immediately I inserted an ad in your paper. I waited. Yesterday I found the watch at home in the pocket of another suit. God bless your good paper. It brought results."
'Naturally," said Jones, "I want my daughter to have some sort of an artistic education. I think I'll arrange for her to study singing."
"Why not art, or literature?"
"Art spoils canvas and paint, and literature wastes reams of paper. Singing merely disturbs the atmosphere temporarily, and wastes nothing."
The Governor of North Carolina told one recently at a banquet:
A king, desirous of going hunting, asked his weather prophet what sort of day it would be.
"The day will be fine,. your Majesty," said the weather prophet.
Whereupon the king, in high glee, set out for the forest. Passing a farmer joggling along on a jackass, the king hailed the countryman jovially:
"Fine day we are going to have," said the king.
"I'trn so.rry, your Majesty," replied the farmer, "but it is going to rain before night." And it did rain. The heavens opened up that afternoon and the king, soaked, cold, and disgruntled, returned to his castle and fired his weather prophet. Then the king sent for the farmer.
"I shall make you my weather prophet," declared the king. But before conferring the final degree on him, the king asked!
"Tell me, my good man, how did you know it was going to rain?"
"By my jackass. When his ears stand up, I know the day shall be bright. When they flop, I know it wiU rain."
"Aha !" said the king. "Then I shall appoint your jackass my weather prophet." And he did so. And from that day to this we usually have jackasses for weather prophets.
He-(On country road) "Out of gas. Well, what do you think of that?"
She-(Pulling out flask) "Oh, yeah?"
He-"What's in that, licker?"
$hs-"\Js\ r. Gasoline."
fsashsl-"And why did Noah take two of each kind of animal into the Ark with him?"
Johnny-"Because that was before they started that stork story."
A. Burlingame Johnson, 78 years of age, diplomat and fomer State legislator, died at the Pasadena Hospital. Pasadena, Calif., June 27, following an operation. He was the father of Earl Johnson of the johnson Lumber Co., Pasadena. His family came to Pasadena in 1904.
He was native of Colorado. In 1897, when a resident of that state, he was appointed Consul-General to Amoy, China. He spent nearly twenty years in the Orient. He was the founder of Tung Wen Boon College at Amoy, for which he was decorated by the Chinese government. After a period in China, he moved to the Philippines, where he lvas largely instrumental in constructing the Manila street railway system. He was interested in Chinese art and had one of the most famous collections of Chinese porcelain and bronzes in the world, which he presented to the Los Angeles Museum. As a California State Senator, he assisted in framing the gasoline tax so that the proceeds went toward the building of state roads.
Mrs. Johnson died two years ago. Besides his son, Earl, he is survived by a daughter, Miss Erma Johnson of Pasadena, and three brothers, Russell of Pasadena, William of Grand Junction, Colo., and Denton J. of Delta, Colo.
Roy E. Hills, of Wendling Nathan Company, San Francisco, accompanied by Mrs. Hills and their son, sailed from Los Angeles on the Mariposa, July 7, for Honolulu. They expect to be back in San Francisco August 1.
Washington, D. C., July 3.-Mill price differentials, a cluestion of difficult complexity with which the Lumber Code Authority and its administrative agencies have been struggling for months, was brought to the fore at the Annual in two major issues, that of the differentials to be aliowed small Southern pine mills on a group of sub-standard items (disposal of which issue was recounted in reports of the meeting's first week of business) and that of the petition for parity of Western Ponderosa Pine Manufacturers. After two weeks of study of the problem by a specially appointed committee, the following decision was approved:
"That there shall be an increas.e of $3 per thousand feet B.M. in the price of No. 1 and No. 2 shop grades of fir Iumber and a decrease of $1 per thousand feet B.M. in the price of No. 1 and No. 2 Ponderosa Pine shop grades;
"The difierential in price between Ponderosa Pine doors and doors of fir, spruce, yellow pine and redwood, based on the mixed carload minimum price, shall be as follows:
"No. 1 Ponderosa Pine doors shall be priced at three points shorter discount than No. I doors of fir, spruce, 1'ellow pine and redwood;
"No. 2 Ponderosa Pine doors shall be priced at two and one-half points shorter discount;
"No. 3 Ponderosa pine doors shall be priced at two points shorter discount."
It was further decided that a committee, the members of which shall be designated by the interested Divisions and Subdivisions, shall be appointed immediately to confer and recommend to their respective Divisions and Subdivisions and to report to the Authority not later than August 15 their conclusions as to equitable rules for the distribution of softwood doors, windows, frames and other items of woodwork on business contracted or purchased by or for the Federal Government. Within ten days after this committee has reported to the Authority the West Coast and Western Pine Divisions shall coordinate their prices on shop lumber.
The Authority had taken steps towards a thorough study of the entire differential problem, a number of the menl, bers suggesting that in future consideration of the matter an attempt be made to base price schedules wholly on quality and not on such factors as mill capacity, mill production, opportunity for sales or sales facilities. A committee appointed to weigh the problem from all angles reported back to the Authority that any searching inquiry into the situation would require time and first-hand observation, and so recommended that a member of the.Lumber Code Authority staff be delegated to make a survey of the field and report its findings to the Authority. The recommendation was approved. It is thought that several months will be required before such a survey can be completed.
Blendin3STRIKE CONDITIONS have tied upcoastwise steamers, thereby oreating ashortage of yard stocks.
lle have on hand a well assorted stock of TIMBERS, and solioit inquiries for quiok delivery, either by truck or cars.
LUMBER
Chamberlin & Co., W. R. |rh Flu, Fife Bldg. ....,.......DOus!s 5a70
Dolbeer & Caron Luber Co., ?30 Mercbuts Excbuge Bldg..,....Sutter 7156
Hammond Lumber Co., 310 Sanrcme St...........'........Dougls 33Eg
Holmes Eurcka Lmber Co-, 1505 Financial Centcr Bldg. '...'..GArficld f92f
Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., 2lti Fife Building...... .......'. "..EXbrok 3i193
Loop Lumber Conpany, Ft. of l6rh st....,...........,.....EXbmk fi3r
Long-Bell Lumber Salcr CorPontion' 135 Markct Strcct ...............GArfrc|d lt39
Mulllgan & Co., \il. J.' 520 Montgmcry St. ......,.......GArfield 3E90
LUMBER
McComick, Cbu. R., Lmber Co., 16l Market Strut .....,....'.."..DOuglu 2561
Mrcre MilI & Luber Co., 525 Market Strat ...... ....,......EXbrek 0l7il
Paqific Lumber Co- Tbc lfil Burh Street ....,,.,.,........G.drfreld lltr
Red River Lmber Co., 315 Monadnck Bldg. .............GAr6e1d 0022
Santa Fe Lumber Co16 Califonia Street ..,............KEamy 2ol4
Schafer Brc. Lumber & Shingle Co.' 1208 Fife Blds. .............,.......Sutter liltl
Sudden & Chrigteroon, 310 Sancome Stret ., .GArfield z!41
Union Lumber Co., Crcker Building ..Sutt.r aUl
LUMBER
Van Arsdale-Haris Lumber Co., Inc., Fifth & Brm Streets..........GArfield f|0l
Wendling-Nathan Co., ll0 Markct Stret ... ... ,., .,,, ...Suttsr 53ar
E. K. Wod Lumber Co., I Drumm Street.......,......,......KEamy 3?le
Weyerhaeuscr Sales Co., llt Califmia Street , ,. .GArfield trTl
DOORS AND PLYWOOD
Nicolai Dor Sales Co., 3045 lrth Strcct ..,,.. ....Mldon ?tzo
\l/heeler-Osgood Salee Corporation, 30{5 rgth st. ........,....,........V.A,|encia 22tl
CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLES_PILINGTIES
McComick, Ches. R., Lumber Co., Itl Mukct Strat .................DOughr 25Ctr
LUMBEB
Hill & Mctou, hc{ Dennim St WLrrl ...........,.'ANdwr lfl?
T. P. Hogan Co, hd & Afic! Strcctr.............Glcnqrt |t|l
Califmia Buildere Supply Co.. sof ,th Arenue ...........,......ANdoer lltt
HARDWOODS
Strablc Hardwood Co.. 537 Fint Stret ...........,...TEmp|cbu lEll
LUMBER
LUMBER
Bokrtavcr Bunr Lmbc Co'
Chambcr of Cmncru Bldt.....'PRosFct lalt
Chambcrlln e Co., W. R.
tlt wett Ninth sL """""""'TUcLsr l'|'1
Dolbccr & Cano Lumbcr Co.'
lzt ShcU Bulldlng......'..... .VArdlke l?12
Holmca Eureka Lmbcr Co., - 7rl-?r2 Architectr Btdg. , .MUtual lltl
Hmod Lrnber Co.
20lO So. Almeda SL .'.......'...PRdFGt ?ul
Hovcr, A. L.'
?00 Sc la Bra Arc. ........'.......YOrk UcC
Lawrcnce-Philips Lunber Co., G3 Pctrolom Securitier Bldg...,PRcFct OZ2t
Lbng-Bell Lumber Salc Ccporation'
?29 Petrolem Seoritis Bldg....PRo.p€ct tl6t
McComiqk, Char. R., Luber Co,
U7 lf,|est tth SL ................TRiniV 524r
Mulligan & Co-, W. J., ll7 wert trh st. ..................vArdike llE6
Pacific Lunber Co., Tbc 700 So. La Brea Ave......,...........YOrk ll(t
Pattcn.Blinn Lumbcr Cc. 52r E. 5th SL ....................VArd|te 2!2r
Rcd Rlver Lmbr Co., 702 E. Shuro ..,AXrtdrc |0?r
Sute Fc Lumber Co.,
3ll Fimcial C.nt6 BldS...,......TRinttt ttAl
Schaler Bru. Lmbcr & Shinglc Co, l2E Petrcllun Ssritier Bl&....PRopct tlTt
Suddcn & Chriatcncoir, lSll Bord of Tn& B!ds. .........TRtntV ttL
Union Lubcr Co., Lan Mctga3c Bt&. ,.............TRiniV 22E2
Wendling-Nrthu Co., 700 So. La Brca Avc. .................Yffi ll,0
E. K. Wood Lumber €o.
,1701 Santa Fe Ave...........,....JEfrenon llll
Weyerhaeusr Sale Co., t4l Petrcleu Sgorttier BtdS....PRo.Nrcct 55ta
CREOSOTED LUMBER-POIIS_PILINGTTES
McCmick, Char. R., lmbr Co., u7 w6t 9rh st. ..........,....TRhtt' 5atr
HARDWOODS
Cococr, W. E., Lmbcr Cc, 20:t5 E. rSth St. ......,...........PRoFGr 5ltr
Hammond Lmba Co20rf So. Alemc& St..,...........PRopcct ?l7l
Lrsblin, C. J., 625 Pctrclun Seurltlce Bldg....,PRorpcct 2?ll
St|ntoo, E. J., & Sm, 2090 Eart ltrh Stret ,,,.........,r1Xr1d3. tzu
SASH_DOORII_MILLWORK
Hunod Lumbcr Co.. 2010 So. Almc& St.....,...,...,PRdFct ?ltl
Kchl, Jno W., & Sor, 16ll Se Mycn St. ...............,.AN'c|u lc'r
Rcd River Lubcr Co., ?02 E. Slaum ..AXridgc tJlr
Wheler-Osgod Sales Ccporatim, l0itl So. Brodmy ....,.........,,PRcpect salc
PANELS AND PLYWOOD
Califmi. Parcl & Vcns Cc, t55 So. Alueda St. ., ,TRinity, G?
Cooper, W. E., Lumbcr Co2dl5 E. rsth St. ..,.,............PRcFct 5l3l
Wheler-Oagod Salcr Corpoatim, l03l So. Bmdmy ............,.,.PR6Fct Sala'
Washington, D. C., June 22,-Pursuant to action taken by, the Lumber Code Authority at its regular meeting in Qhicago, June 11, a special meeting will be convened here luie 26 to consider changds in the Certificate of Incorporation of the Authority and in the By-Laws. The laws of Delaware, under which the Authority is incorporated, require that such changes be acted upon at two meetings not less than fifteen days apart. The amendments will have no effect until ratified by the second meeting.
That portion of the charter which now prohibits the By-Laws from providing for more than thirty voting members will be changed to read: "The By-Laws shall not provi{e for more than fifty voting members." The charter iimitation of a total of twenty-two representatives for divisions will be stricken out. The clause providing for a National Control Committee of five members will be changed to permit a committee of eight members.
Upon approval of these proposed amendmetrts to the charter, the Authority will vote on changes in the ByLaws which will provide for a total of forty-four instead of thirty voting members. The manner in which the new allocation of voting strength will affect each division follows:
San Francisco-At a meeting of the Wholesale Hardwood Lumber Distributors of Northern California on June 6th, 1934, after mu,ch dis'cussion the following resolution was unanimously adopted:
"Whereas, one of the principle purposes of our organization is to stimulate and further the use of hardwood lumber and its products;
And, as the manual training departments of the various schools throughout the state, collectively, make a substantial potential market for our products and afford an excellent means of familiarizing the woodworkers of tomorrow with the excellent qualities of hardwood;
And, as the cost of material is given serious consideration by these schools; to insure the continued use by them of hardwood lumber it should be available to them as cheaply as possible,
It is resolved, that the schools shall be considered legitimate customers of the hardwood lumber yards and so be solicited and sold direct by these yards."
In announcing the adoption of the resolution, the Wholesale Hardwood Lumber Distributors of Northern California state :
"A number of cases have been reported where, when an attempt has been made to sell the schools through the local lumber yards and that the profit added by the local lumber yard has made the ultimate quotation to the school prohibitive, with the result that other lumber was substituted for hardrvood."
Henry W. Bode, of the Bode Gravel Co., San Francisco, Northeastern
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ShoulddivisionsbecreatedforFlooring,Cooperage,andD'E'trnEramE'.rr'ocommission Salesmen by NRA action, they will each be FIRE DESTRoYS YARD oF srocKToN LUMBER given one membership on the Lumber Cocle Authority. D:-^ ^{ ..-r,-^,,,CoMPANY other divisions may be recognized as principal divisions ., Fitt'of unknown origin' swept the yard of the Stockton and allotted representatives in the voting membership oy Lt-ber co" Stockton' July 1' destroying lumber valued at subsequent amendments, provided that the total nu,mber $100'000' the office building' warehouse' machinery and of the representatives of the principal divisions does not::Il^t::lillt;.--l*o large lumber trucks and a freight exceed 35. Three memberships are to be allotted to the car loaded with lumber were also consumed' wholesale Lumber Distributors and are to be appointed The fire' one of the most spectacular in the city's hisby and retain membership at the pleasure of the National- tory' swept over two and a half blocks' doing damage estiAmerican wholesale Lumber Association mated at more than $300'000'
The Hardwood, West Coast Logging and Lumber, Southern Pine, Western Pine, Woodwork and Wooden Package Divisions, shall each be directed to include among the members elected to the Lumber Code Authority at least one representative of typical small enterprises to be selected by the operators of such small enterprises.
Other proposed amendments to the By-Laws would in-
crease the National Control Committee to a total of eight instead of the present five members.
Another amendment will change that provision in the By-Laws which makes mandatory the holding of the annual meeting in Chicago to permit the annual meeting be' ing held at any city between the dates of May 15 and June 10 at the call of the Chairman.
California Builders Supply Company, of Oakland, is one of the most progressive firms in the wholesale sash, door and millwork business in the State. Now in their tenth year of operation, they have built up an enviable reputation with the trade in their territory.
The principals, Kenneth J. Shipp and Arthur D. "Art" Williamson, friends and fellow workers since their school days, gained their early experience in the manufacturing
and sales branches of the industry with the California & Oregon Lumber Company at Brookings, Oregon, and with the Stout Lumber Company of North Bend, Oregon. Mr. Shipp came to California to spend some years in the Oakland plant and San Francisco office of the California & Oregon Lumber Company, and Mr. Williamson rvent on the road in California for the same concern.
In 1925 they founded their pfesent business, which is exclusively wholesale. Their plant is located at 501 29th Avenue, Oakland, where they carry a complete stock of sash, doors, millwork, panels and wallboard.
Recently they increased the floor space of their plant to 22,W square feet, and a few months ago became jobbers ,for
plywood and wallboard, manufac' tured by Elliott Bay Mill Company, Seattle.
They report a gratifying increase in their business for the first six months of 1934 over the first half of last year.
They announce that they have started the manufacture and distribution of the well known "Casey" combination door, for which they have exclusive manufacturing rights for the whole of the United States. Further particulars regarding this door will be announced in an early issue of this paper.
An architectural competition for mountain cabins which created considerabl.e interest and open only to certified architects was recently conducted by the Architects Building Material Exhibit of Los Angeles for the Hammond Lumber Company. Three prizes were awarded: first prize, $125.0O; second prize, $50.00, and third prize, $25.00.
The winners announced at the Architects' annual dinner Tuesday evening, June 5, were: First prize, Samuel E. Lunden; second prize, Douglas Mclellan, and third pize, C. Roderick Spencer. Honorable mentions: Arthur Hutchason (2 mentions) ; Irene McFaul, and George J. Adams.
Seventy-five designs were submitted to the competition by Southern California architects. The majority were of such a high standard of design, and presented such interesting.solutions to the problem set forth in the rules, that the jury was in session the better part of a day before the decision was made.
The entire group of designs, including the prize winners and honorable mentions, have been placed on display in the Architects Building Material Exhibit, Fifth and Figueroa Streets, Los Angeles, where they will remain until September l.
The judges for the competition included: Mrs. Walter F. Malone, District Chairman of the American Home Division of the California Federation of Women's Clubs; Miss M.L. Schmidt, Architects Building Material Exhibit; Sumner M. Spaulding, Architect; Gordon B. Kaufmann, Architect, and H. Roy Kelley, Architect.
The rules governing the competition were as follows: Problem :-Mountain Cabin.
At a mountain resort, eighty miles from Los Angeles, a young couple plan to build a week end cabin, as a place to entertain a few of their friends. A level lot 6Ox150 feet, with a number of tall Pines at the rear has been selected. The lot faces the East and the only view is in this direction, which faces over the broad valley miles away.
Due to the limited financial circumstances of this young couple, the area of the cabin is limited to 90O square feet. It shall contain a kitchen, not too large, with cupboards and storage spaces, a small bath with shower, and one or two small bedrooms. The suggested cost is not to exceed $1soo.
Drawings Required:
1. Floor plan at scale ol %" equals one foot.
2, Perspective of exterior at approximately r/4' scale.
3. A smaller Perspective of the Fireplace End of Living Room.
Method of Presenting:
l. All drawings shall be presented in Black and White on white illustration board mount, N'x3U', so that all drawings may be hung vertically.
2. The following title shall be printed in a lf" band at bottom of drawing-A Competition by the Architects Building Material Exhibit for the Hammond Lumber Company.
3. The building shall be of Redwood construction with shake or shingle roof.
4. The name of the competitor shall not appear on the face of the mount but shall have the name and address affixed to the back of the design and covbred with a nontransparent paper over the information thus given.
The winner of one prize is automatically out of competition for any other.
The submission of a design in this contest constitutes in itself an acceptance of all the conditions herein set forth.
Washington, D. C., June 25.-Third quarter production quotas for Divisions and Subdivisions, in addition to those already announced, were approved as follows:
Oak Flooring ...36,000,000 ft. B.M.
Maple, Beech and Birch Flooring 19,000,000 ft. B.M. Broom and N{op Handle .19,000,000 handles Veneer Subdivision ...,....80,000,000 Sur. measure Plywood Package Subdivision . .80,000,000 Sur. measure Eastern Shook and Box ..61,000,000 ft. B.M. Redwood Split Products ... ......8,000,000 ft. B.M.
No significant changes from the quotas for the second quarter have been made in the above schedules, except for Redwood Split Products which represents a considerably increased quota based on large demand from the California wine industry. Reduced quotas already have been announced, however, for items going into house construction, due to the consistent falling off in demand. It is hoped the Federal program for stimulating'home building and home repairing, as embodied in the Housing Act, will be reflected in such increased calls for lumber for home-building purposes as to warrant increased quotas in the fourth quarter.
The Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club holds summer picnic at McKinley Park, Sacramento. ***
There is an article illustrated with pictures of the H. H. Shoup Lumber Co. at Phoenix, Ariz.
The market report' states that building permits have shown a decided increase over a month ago and the lumber situation looks better.
"The Day of the Salesman Returns" is the leading editorial by Jack Dionne.
Long-Bell Lumber Company announces that on July 3l they will begin producing trade-marked Douglas fir lumber products at their Longview, 'Wash., plant.
Announcement has been made of the marriage of Dor' othy Smith to Malcolm A. Sinclair. Mr. Sinclair is a popular Santa Cruz lumberman with the Woods Bros. Lumber Co. d<*+
"Lumber Industries Await San Diego Harbor Improve-
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For ovcr 3O yearr we have been grving jurt ruch courucl to individualr and inrtitutionr.
Vhether your inquiry concelnt the purchare or rele of en individual recurity, or the reconrtruction of your entire invertnent pBogr.mr Brootmire will give you information and counrel to lolve your problemr.
On a fcc pcr inquiry baeir.
Vritc to our Invertment Advirory Connitte.
ment" is a reprint of an editorial from the San Diego Union.
Sun Lumber Company, Beverly equipped new offices. has handsomely
The retail lumber dealers in a vote by states give their opinions regarding the packing of red cedar shingles.
A picture titled "An Ideal Foursome" shows Al Kelly, Oscar Miller, Fred Burgers and Allan Turrter.
The California Panel start the construction office building.
rf*rt & Veneer Company, Los Angeles, of a new modern warehouse and *:*,t
H. E. Verble reports on Hoo-Hoo activities in the Fresno District. **,t
Los Angeles retailers beat the wholesalers at baseball by a score of. fu2. ***
San Francisco has a big Paint and Clean Up campaign. *rt*
A base form as used by the Boyd Lumber & Mill Company at Santa Barbara for their estimates, invoices, cash orders, dray slips, etc., is illustrated and described. *t*
W. M. Cady, Jr., Flagstaff, Ariz., wins Arizona Sportsmen's Association trap shooting contest.
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Washington Lumber & Millwork Company has finished the construction of a new warehouse.***
Frank O'Connor Club luncheon.
presides at San Francisco Hoo.Hoo
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Mrs. A. C. Penberthy reads Peter B. Kyne's story, "The Go Getter" at the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo luncheon on July 3.
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Walter R. Fifer is now with the Washington Lumber & Millwork Company of Los Angeles. He will be in the sales end of the business, assisting Jas. G. Browne, president of the company. ***
J. A. McWatters joins the sales stafi of the Hart-Wood Lumber Co. and will cover the San Francisco Bay District. ***
Ted Lawrence was chairman of the Los Angeles HooHoo meeting on July 10.
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One of the most attractive retail lumber offices in Northern California is the head office of the Shasta Lumber Company at Marysville.
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Lumber yard site on Santa Monica Boulevard. The land and buildings of a going business with SIDE TRACKS. Will rent and sell stock or not as owner desired. Also extra land to rent for industrial or business material site. storage house, manufacturing or other purposes. Telephone Owner, ROchester 1107.
Wants position with wholesale or retail lumber yard. Knows both softwoods and hardwoods. Long experience. Anything considered. Can furnish references. Address Box C-511. care California Lumber Merchant.
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will buy one or more well-located lumber Angeles or Los Angeles County. Write full C-512, California Lumber Merchant.
Washington, D. C., June 23.-The Lumber Code Authority has transmitted to the Retail Lnmber Code Authority a set of resolutions by the Emergency National ,Committee of the National Woodwork Association, administrative agency in the Woodwork Division, which sets forth that sales of woodwork for specific construction projects commonly involve both stock and special woodwork in varying proportions; and that it is impracticable in the usual course of business to segregate the two items. Attention is directed to the fact that the application of minimum cost-protection prices of special woodwork and the retail mode markup on stock woodwork introduces difficulties and complexities recognized by both retail dealers and woodwork manufacturers. The resolution requests that the Retail Lumber Code Authority make provision for enough flexibilityin its forthcoming modal costs to permit a practical solution and suggests that the retailers appoint a special committee to meet with a like committee from the Woodwork Division to work out this problem.
According'to Forest Service records, careless smokers are the only cause of fire which has shown a steady increase in the past ten years. A special appeal is made to all travelers to cooperate in preventing forest fires from this cause. Smoke only in safe places and when traveling in autos obey the state law forbidding the throwing of lighted matches or burning tobacco from the car. Every auto should be equipped with an ash receiver, the forest rangers say.
Los Angeles and Southern California lumber yards for sale. Address Box C-480. Care California Lumber Merchant.
Lumberman of long experience wants position as bookkeeper, office or clerical work. San Francisco Bay district preferred. Address E. T. Paulson, 1735 Grove Street, Berkeley. Telephone AShberry 9932.
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One--l-Ton or lf-Ton LUMBER TRUCK. Call UNiversity 4454, Los Angeles, California.
A birdseye view of the farm housing situation, as disclosed in the recent housing srlrvey made by the U. S. Department of Agriculture in 352 counties in 46 states, was given to members of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers at the annual meeting in Detroit, June 20, by Wallace Ashby, of the Bureau of Agricultural Engineering.
Of the six and a quarter million farm houses in the country, probably about 50 per cent are in fairly good structural condition, Ashby stated. About 15 per cent of farm houses need complete replacements of foundations; betn'een 15 and 2O per cent need replacements of roofs; 10 to 15 per cent need new floors; and about 10 per cent need repairs or replacements of exterior walls.
"Between these extremes of houses in good condition and those needing complete replacements of some parts are a large group needing repairs of some kind, including much interior refinshing," Ashby stated.
The estimated cost of repairs and alterations to put farm houses in good liveable conditions, based on the reports of the survey, would amount to about three and one.half billions of dollars, or an average of about $575 per house, but this is several times the amount farmers feel they can spend at present.
In the last three years, they spent an average of $75 per house on repairs and contemplate spending during 1934 about $25 per house, which is about 4 per cent of the estimated amount needed for desirable reconditioning.
Only about 2O per cent of the totdLl of 630,000 farmers interviewed were intereSted in borrowing for farm house improvements, even on their own terms. The estimated amount of borrowing desired was less than $500 per farmer, or less than $100 per farm is based on all farms.
The number of new houses needed was estimated at about one million, but farmers are contemplating building only about one-fourth of that number in the next three years. The average cost of new houses needed was estimated at about $2500, but farmers are planning to spcnd an average of only a little more than $1000 per house.
Another of the new window displays, made in ten brilliant colors with thitteen color effects, size 31 inches high by 31 inches wide, with space for imprint, die-cut and packed in individual cartons, for mailing ot shipping, which is being made available for 1934 use to promote the sale of paint, hardware, seeds, lumber, and building materials, and to increase employment. These displays are being sold on a cooperative price basis, intended to cover only corst of handling, by the National Clean tJp and Paint Up Campaign Bureau, 2201 New York Avenue, N. W., $(/ashington, D. C., from which a colored descriptive circular and price list may be obtained upon request.
"When yotr buy your first Red River Mixed Car you will wonder why you never did it before. After you get the habit you'll find that Red River Mixed Car Service enables you to carry a balanced stock-all QUAUTY merchandise, without increase of inventory "nd that your unit cost and handling expense is lower.t'
When you can buy Plywood and Wallboard at the same mill that supplies lumber items you can take on a trial quantityat a cost that gives you a profit, right fromlhe first panel.
RED RMR "Paul Bunyan's" CALIFORNIA PINE PLYWOOD and WALLBOARD are unique in the plywood field. The combined virhres of laminated plywood construction and "old fashioned soft pinett make a great seller. Dealers who started with a small lot of panels and wallboard in a RED RIVER Mixed Car are now buying them in carload lots.
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