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TUMBER NEWS TETTER lrsued Every Sqturdqy Phona: 2-875I E*cblished 1922

BOX r16 CROSSTOWN STATTON

4, TENNESSEE

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Issued weekly. Corries estimqte of weighed overoge of sqles coveringf bond sqwn, oir dried, hordwood lumber produced in Southern Appolcchiqn, ond Northern oreos. Subscription rote-$30.00 per yeor.

Wheeler Pine Co., San Francisco, manufacturers of California pine lumber, and wholesalers of all West Coast woods, are successors to the first Wheeler lumber operations established in New York State in 1795. I. P. Wheeler, president and general manager of the company, a Yale graduate, is of the fifth generation of lumbermen in the Wheeler family. His father, John Egbert Wheeler, graduated from Yale in 1900 and started in the lumber business in Portland in 1905. At one time the Wheelers claimed to have held more redwood timber than any other concern, and to have been next to the largest holders in both pine and fir.

W. E. Wheeler, father of John Egbert, managed the family's lumber operations in Michigan, where they operated on a large scale. The original operation on the Delaware River, New York State, was founded by William Wheeler. The lumber was sawed by water power and delivered by raft to Philadelphia. His son, William F. Wheeler came out to the Allegheny River in 1834, and this concern rafted its lumber to Cincinnati, Louisville, and Pittsburgh for more than 60 years, until rail transportation did a quicker and better job.

The ,company's mill at Klamath Falls, Oregon, has a capacity exceeding 100,000 feet in an 8-hour shift. In addition Wheeler Pine Co., represents numerous mills in Northern California and in tl-re Willamette Valley, Oregon. Sales offices are in the Russ Building, San Francisco. The telephone number is DOuglas 5223.

Purchcrses Additional Ycrd Spcce And Mckes Improvements

J. E. Higgins Lumber Co., wholesale hardwood dealers, recently purchased a piece of property almo5t adjoining their yard at 99 Bay Shore Boulevard, San Francisco. The property fronts on Jerrold Avenue and contains 180,000 square feet, 'with two spur tracks and a good siding. The whole space is paved, and was used by the Navy during the war, later leased by Lumber Terminal, Inc. It is the intention eventually to put buildings there to make full utilization of the additional space.

This company has carried out extensive improvements in its large shed, where old fashioned bins have been cleared out and a leveled area installed to provide space for modern handling of lumber and building materials with lift trucks and carriers.