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/ Actual development work has been started on the first unit of the new saw mill of the Los Angeles Lumber Products Company in the 1ss Angeles harbor indtrstrial district. Arno Mereen, production manager, formerly conneeted. with the C. A. Smith interests at Marshfield, Oregon, is on the ground. in charge of the work. This unit of the plant will be completed early next year and will have an eight-hour capacity of 150,000 feet of finishecl lumber.

As previously explained, the Los Angeles Lumber Products Company is a $10,000,000 corporation recently formed to log ofr a tract of high grade timber on Graham Island, B. C., transport the rough logs or lumber to Lios Angeles harbor and there convert it into commercial wood products. The property of the 1169 Angeles Shipbuilcling and Drydock eorporation has been merged into the interests of the new company, as the owners of the shipbuilding company are the principal factors in the new enterprise.

'Weather cond.itions on Graham Island. permit logging operations practically thb year around. Several aamps aLeady are working there. The logs will be rough-sawn into cants or flitches and loaded on board. vessels owned and operated by the company, and brought to the Los Angeles mill.

The new mill is to be modern in every particular, equipped with band saws, gangs, dry kilns, and planers. The finished material will be distributed throughout Southern California, and to more d.istant markets.

Most of the timber consists of Douglas f.r, but there is a more than usual proportion of Pacific hemlock. All the clear hemlock wiII be manufactured into vertical grain flooring.

The tract also contains a large quantity of red. cedar. A shingle mitl wiU be established. near the source of supply , and the green shingles brought south with the rough lumber. Some of the best ced.ar, however, will be carried. south in the rough state and converted into finish and siding.

A box factory also will be erected at Los Angeles, taking care of the spruce and hemlock not capable of manufacture into higher grade material.

The mill will be d.riven by electricity throughout. New machinery will be installed.

Officeri of the company are Fred I-i. Baker, president; Erie M. Leaf, vice-president, and Frank Lr. Buckley, vicepresid.ent and geneial manager. Mr. Baker and Mr' Leaf iespectively held similar ofrices with the l-ros Angeles Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, and Mr. Buekley is }ead of the Massett Timber Company, original owners of the company's timber tract.

E. F. BREY-GRAND OLD RETAILEN-SUMDIERING IN OAKLAND

H. F. Brey, of Porterville, the "Grand. Old Man" of the retail lumber business of California, is spending the sum' mer at Oakland.

IIe is locatect at 578 Thirty-fourth street.

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Come, little lumberman, blow your horn;

It pays to ad.vertise, sure as you're born.

Where is that Iumberman 'Tis to weep !

Ife'g under a shingle pile-fast asleep.

A. M. Conner, Sacramento, Cal.

EOLMES-EUBEKA LIIMBEN COMPANY BUY SPLEN/ DrD TRAcr oF REDwooD (

Fred V. Holmes announces the purchase of a magnificent tract of Redrvood timber, one of the finest tracts of Redwood in existence according to Mr. Ilolmes, by the HolmesEureka I^,umber Company, of San Francisco, from the'Wm. Carson Estate. The timber totals about 200,000,000 feet, and is located in Humbolt county adjacent to their big nills. The purphase was made because of the opportunity to secure this magnificent tract of high class timber, and not because the purchasers were in need of stumpage, as their holtlings are very large without this acltlition.

They operate at Eureka a saw mill that cuts 100,000 feet of lumber daily; also a shingle miII and planing mill. Thig is one of the best equipped of all Redwood mills, having a battery of six new type dry kilns in addition to a spleridid manufacturing equipment.

Pomona Eas Good Building Yeab

The city of Pomona, in the fiscal year ended June 30, issued more building permits than in any previous year of its history. The total was $787,840-an increase of more than $400,000 over'the previous 12 months. The builcling movernent eontinues very aetive there and at the present rate of progress the present ffscal year will show up even better than the last one.