Among the Dealers

CBOSS LI'DTBER COMPAI{Y I8 GIVEN PI'BIJCITY IN RECET{T EDITION OT }TERCED gUN

A reeent issue of the Mereed Sun gave prominent attention to the plant and activities of the Cross Irumber Company of that city. A well written story told, in interesting fashion, what the company is d.oing in the growth and development of Merced. Photographs showed. the offices and a part of the yard, while another picture showed. the stafr-numbering about 40 people.

1 The Cross Irumber company has been operating at Merced Itor the last 11 years aod oow is reputed to beihe biggest / industrial enterprise in that city. The company carries a { stock of nearly 750,000 feet of lumber and operates a modern and up-to-date planing mill in connection. In common with most of the yards in the valley, Douglas fir is the prin-

BICEARD EISCOX NOW EANDIJNG PINE DEPABT. UEITT FOB EABT.WOOD

Rishard lliscox, son of the redoubtable "Dick" Hiscox himself, is now associated. with his father in the Hart-'Wood I-rumber Company, at San X'rancisco, as nanager of the white and sugar pine wholesale department.

The youag man is a college grad.uate, and. for some time served. an apprenticeship among the mills and. logging camps of the Pacific Northwest getting the "atmosphere" of the mills at close range. He was recently a "kitten" at the Hoo-IIoo concat at Modesto.

NEW OWNEBS OT CENTUBY LI'}IBER CO}IPAITY AT LONG BEACE WILL BETAIN OLD NAME cipal item in stock, with redwood second. _ Th: tlgFc__T]] I Ross E. Eall, E. 'work and Roy 'work, the new owners re-allv is more^than a planjng mill' r! t: 3 :lqt":t y-Tt {of the century Lumber company ul r.,oog ii""on, n""u iaken where some of the finest fixtures prod.uced in the central part of the state are turned. out. Sash and doors are manuover the active management of the property and will confctured and all kinds of built-in features for mod.ern homes tinue to operate it ,nder the old name' Mr' rrall and Roy are made to ord.er. s ur uu'L-ur rva'u.ts rul' uru(r'r' 'uucs Work reeently came to California from Hutchinson, Kan., rn arldition to its main ptant at trlerggcl, the cross Lum- ilTf;:L"';[Totff"11ued in the lumber business' H' work ber company also operates yards at coalinga, corcoran and

The century Lumber company is one of the most aotive Winton' institutions in l-.,ong Beach "oa n". "rioy.a

BE'{NETT f,onfgf;C' TO ENTEB LONG BEACE

share of the trade growing out of the big building boom now in progress there. Builtling permits are running over

The Bennett Lrumber company is negotiating with the har- $1,000,000 a month and every lumber concern in the city is bor authorities at Long Beach for space on the municipal busy. There is no indication of a decline in builcling efrort. dock in that city. The company proposes to handle cargo John W. Fisher, the retiring owner of the Century yard, shipments of ffr and wants space for the storage of 1,000,000 wi11 remain in 1iong Beach. 11e is a veteran lumberman, feet. It is intended to cater to the trad.e of Long Beach par- was formerly in the retail business at Centerville, Iowa, and ticularly but the company also will engage to some ertent in served a term or two as president of the Southeastern Iowa lhe wholesale business. I-rumber Dealers' Association. He has gained a wide eircle of friends since coming to California.

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FRANK PABAffiNO DBIVES TO NOBTEWEST

Frank Paramino, of San Franeisco, well known wholesaler and Secretary of the Douglas Fir Club, left July 18th with his family, on a well deserved. vacation trip. They drove to the Pacific Northwest, probably going as far as Yancouver. B. C.

DINI'BA EAS GOOD BIILDINC YEAB

One of the busiest cities in the San Joaquin valley is Dinuba. Builcling activities there have been on a steady increase for the last five or six months and the local lumbermen have been enjoying a large share of the attending prosperity. X'or the month of June the building permits aggregated $350,000, and while records for July are not complete it is believed they will approach that total.

The new retail yard of the Gibson l-rumber Company at Anaheim now is finished and ready for operation. Herman Loehr is the manager. The plant is complete and modern in every particular, with rooms and aceommodations for prospective home builders. It will carry a conplete line of builders' hardware in addition to the regular stock of lumber and other material. The company also has yards at Fullerton and La Jolla.

OAKLAND PLAMNG ffiLL TO UOVE

The Manly planing mill at the corner of San Pablo svenue and Myrtle street in Oakland will be forced to move to a new loiation as the result of a recent decision of the Oakland city council. Residents of the neighborhood conplained that the operation of the plant disturbed their peace and quietude. -C. M. Manly, the owner, will be given time to fincl a suitable place.

Wc offer one of the bcrt manufactured tath in tbe marketBright, full width and thicknerr-up to grade-and madc from rtrictly old growth yellow Fir.

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Alro cvcrything in Douglu Fir Lunbcr.

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