UICTl|REigh Eaily Strength

PORTI.AND GEMDNT

Gucrcrnteed to meet or exceed requirements ol Americcnr Society lor Testing Mtrterials Sppcilicc' tions lor High Ecrly Strength Portlcrnd CemenL qs well crs Federql Speciliccrtions lor Cement, Portlcnd, High-Ecrrly-Strength, No. SS-C-201.

HIGT EARI.Y STRIIIGTH

(28 dcrY concrete strengths in 24 hours.)

SUTPHATD RDSISTAIIT

(Result ol comPound comPosition cnd usucllY lound onlY in sPecicrl cements designed lor this Purpose.)

IIIIIIMUIil DXPAIfSI(II| and G0lfTRAGTI0ll

(Extremely severe cruto-clcrve test results consistently indiccte prccticclly no expcnsion or conlrcrc' tion, thus elimincting one of most difficult problems in use ol c high e<rrly stsength cement.)

PAGKID III MOISTUND. PROOT GRDEII PAPEN SACT STAMPDD WITH I}ATD OT PACKIIIG AT MII.[

(UserE' asiurqnce ol lresh stock, unilormity cnd proper results lor concrete.)

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20th birthday. San Francisco was fillei with powerful lumber characters of the old school. A. B. Hammond, Jim Tyson, C. R. Johnson, peter McNevin, Robert Doflar, and others, were the type of men who, once known, are never forgotten. There was a big sawmill at Los Angeles harbor and another at San Diego cutting up logs rafted down from the Northwest. The Hammond yard at Los Angeles was one of the wonders of the world for size, capacity, and efficiency, and lumber visitors from everywhere went out to see it operated. Harry Mcleod was running it then as he does now. The philippine Mahogany business was just beginning to loom up in size and importance. The month The Merchant started business 92 million feet of Fir lumber was unloaded from boats in Los Angeles harbor. That was a record at that time.

More recoltections-p"la"i "lU Davies were just starting in a big way; Jack Ferger, J. G. Martin, and Dean Prescott were the strong men of the Fresno district, and powerful characters. They made me a member of the San Joaquin Valley Lumbermen's Club at that time. Andrew F. Mahoney of San Francisco, was one of the big factors in the coastwise lumber shipping trade. The LongBeIl Lumber Company was starting construction of its huge Longview mill in Washington at that time. Dave Woodhead was building up a string of big lumber yards in Los Angeles, and was head of the Hoo-Hoo club there. H. F. Brey of Porterville, was called the ,,grand old man,, of the California retail lumber industry. Walter C. Ball had just joined John S. Reed as sales manager for Hanify. Chas. R. McCormick & Company was doing a whale of a business then.

Among the unforgettabls .t *. California lumber industry then, f must mention George X. Wendling, organizer of the Wendling-Nathan Company. What a swell guy he was to spand an hour with. He had color and fire to the day of his death. ..Duke" Euphrat and Roy Hills were the young lumber gang in those days. Another ord timer who became a great friend of mine was Hiram Smith of san Francisco, who originally organized The pacific Lumber Company. What a coffee drinker he was. And what a grand old man. Harry Lake was just coming into outstanding leadership among the retail lumbermen of Southern California. Chas. S. Keith of Kansas City, was then finishing construction of a big trir mill at Veronia, Oregon. Dolbeer & Carson were building their new Redwood mill at Eureka'

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As you look around, and backward over twenty years, the strange thing is that you are more impressed with the gang that is still here than with those who are gone. Lum- bermen are hardy. A gang meeting in Los Angeles or San tr'rancisco today shows a tremendous number of the same faces that were attending lumber meetings twenty years ago. For instance, there was a Hoo_Hoo Concat in San Francisco the summer oL 1922, and among those present and officiating were Eddie peggs,.Walter Kelly, I{omer Maris, Howard Gunton, Henry Hink, Jerry Bonnington, Al Kelley, Lewie Godard, Harry Vincent, Jim Farley, Frank O'Connor, Larue Woodson, Bert Bryan, Bob Grant, H. Sewall Morton, C. C. Stibich, Ed Martin, Bob Caldwell and Floyd Elliott. They're still on the job. At a Los Angeles meeting today you would likely find Roy Stanton, Bob Osgood, Fred Golding, Dee Esslen Stuart Smith, W. B. Wickersham, Earl Galbraith, Bob Byrne, Andy Donovan, W. P. Frambes, Lee Weaver, Mel Coe, Gene DeArmond, Percy Youst, Nat parsons, Bert McKee, Don Philips, Frank Connolly, paut Hallingby, Gus Hoover, Clint Laughlin, and others, just as you would have twenty

Sylvester'Weaver was just getting started in the asphalt roofing business in a big way in Southern California. I called on him and suggested advertising. He said, ..Sure, I'll take your two-page center spread every issue.,' I almost fainted. I{e was like that. Frank Curran carried lots of weight in the retail business in Los Angeles. Charlie Bird was going strong long before that in Stockton. Billy Dean was running the big string of Diamond Match yards. \V. E. Cooper had just come from Wisconsin and opened a big wholesale lumber yard in Los Angeles. A. p. McCullough was.doing a whale of a wholesale business in San Francisco, with Bookstaver running his Los Angeles business. The Coos Bay Lumber Company, San Francisco, was operating the biggest single unit sawmill ever built. ,Walter Scrim and Roy Barto were both running sawmills in the Philippine Islands. Right after the CLM started C. \Il/. Pinkerton helped organize and became first president of the new California Retail Lumbermen's Association; Earl Carlson had been selling lumber in the Valleys for Santa Fe Lumber Company for lZ years. That makes 32 he's been with them now. Just a n-ewcomer. And so on, indefinitely. It would take a book to recall the things that come to mind about that first few months The Merchant was in business. Roy Stanton was the worst lumber golfer in the state. "Cappy" Slade was probably the best. Some day I'm going to write a book about that first lumber gang I met in California, and the things they said and did.

THE cALTFoRNTA L,i"ir* MERcHANT completed its twentieth year of life under rather lean circurnstances. Business has been lousy since 1929, continuously. But wasn't itgr;d before that ! And won,t it be grand again some of these days !