UP AND DOWN THE STATE

WAI,TER, R,ASOR, MANAGER SUDDEN & CHR,ISTEN. SON LUMBER, DEPARTMENT, DIES IN S. F.

I:umbermen of California, in fact of the entire Coast, were shocked last week by the untimely death at his home in San Fbancisco, of D. W. Rasor, vice-president of Sudden & Christenson, and active manager of the lumber department of that organization. He was 42 years of age.

Walter Rasor, as he was popularly known, had been with the Sudden & Christenson enterprises for more than 15 years and had worked his way to a position of prominence and responsibility by his capacity for hard work and his executive abiiity. With the tragic death of E. A. Christenson last May, Mr. Rasor assumed practical charge of both the lumber and shipping ends of the business.

Pending a rneetiag of the directors, which probably will be held within the next few weeks, A. B. CahiII, secretary of the conrpany, is in charge of affairs in the San Francisco ofiice.

AR,KANSAS DEALER COMES WEST

C. E. Strube, for many years in the retail lumber business at Pine Bluff, Ark., has been spending the last few weeks in California and may locate here. His last connection was with the Pine BIuff I.lumber Company. He disposed of his interests before starting West.

PEERY RETTREs FRoM BusrNEss

The Ambrose Lumber Company has succeeded the E. L. Peery Lumber Company at Santa Barbara and will continue

We have ready for prompt shipment from our Bay Point, Cal., plant, a considerable quantiy of the business. E. Ir. Peery, the retiring owner, formerly was connected. with the Santa Barbara Lumber Company and has a wide acquaintance in the Coast territory. He expects to take a rest for a while.

..BERT'' DIMMICK JOINS C. AND O. STAFF

A. A. Dimmick, well knonrn wholesaler of Portland, has joined the sales staff of the California & Oregon Lumber Company of San Francisco. This conipany has extensive milting operations at Brookings, Oregon, and operates its own steamships between that point and San Francisco Bay. The (\rtler-Dimmiick Ilumber Company, of which Mr. Dimmick has been a member for the last two years, represents them at Portland. Mr. Dimmick formerly was connected n'ith the Hart-'Wood organization and has a wide acquaintance in California as well as in the Northwest.

DENVER, WIIOLESATER VISITS IIERE

C. W. Kirchner, mer&ber of the firm of McPhee & McGinnity, well-known Denver rvholesalers, is spending a few weeks with his family at Ocean Park. He has just completed a trip through the lumber producing districts of Northern Oalifornia and the Northwest.

FOBGIE BACK FROM TRIP TO NOR,TEWEST

Robert Forgie of the Frank Graves Sash, Door and Mill Company, has returned to Los Angeles from a trip to 'Washington and Oregon, where he visited many of his friends among the wholesale and milling fraternities

\Me are large manufacturerr of Douglaa Fir and rhip in our own boatr to San Pedro dockr for Southern California rervice, at frequent and regular intervdc.