Another McCormick Corporation In Los Angeles This Time

Another important lumber corporation has just been atkled to the long list that bear the name of "Chas. B. McCormick."

This time it is the Chas. R. McCormick Lrumber CompanX, of Los Angeles, just incorporated. John Olsen is General Manager of the new corporation. It was. formed to own and operate the wholesale lumber properties end business of the McOormick organization in Los Angeles and at the harbor at Wilmington.

It is strictly a wholesale, and not a retail concern. The great plant which is fast being whippetl into shape at 'Wil-i''gton is being created so that the McCormick organjzation nay better serve the lumber trade of the IJos Angeles territory.

the most economical and efricient manner.devisable. There will be no shed. on this dock, for the present at least. These docks and improvements will be completed in another few weeks.

Other [c0ormick Gorporationr

The growth and development of the MaCormick organization is one of the mbst interesting in the history of American lumber. Tersely told, Chas. R. Mc0ormick came to California from Northern Michigan about twenty years ago, and about eighteen years ago hd started in the lumber business for himself in San Francisco. Today he heads a great group of corporations which divide the operations of a tremendous business institution.

Chas. R. McCormiek & Co. is the parent concern, with ofiiees in the Fife Building in San Francisco. ' About ten years ago Mr. Mc0ormiok bought tinber ancl built his first big sawmill on deep water at St. Helens, Oregon. Since then, one at a time, they built three nore big ancl modern sawmill plants at St. Helens. They also built one of the biggest autl nost modernly equipped ereasoting plants on the Pacific Coast at that point. Each of the four mills and the creosoting plant are separately incorporated.. H. F. Mc0ormick, brother of Chas. R. Mc0ormick, is General Manager at St. Ilelens, while f. 'W. Thompson is Assistant Manager in charge of sales at that point. There is a belt line railroad connecting the four mills, the ereosoting plant, and the docks, at St. Eelens. I-rikewise at St. Eelens there is a ship builtling. plant. During the war they built many ships for the Clovernment, but now they are building barges for business purposes, the ship yartl being a permanent institution. It, likewise, is a separate corporation.

At Portland., Oregon, Chas. R. McOormick & Co. maintain a big suite of ofiices with a powerful organization, which sells McCormiek lumber over much of the world. This department is in charge of Mr. E. H. Meyer, and is likewise a separate organiz'ation. Mr. Meyer is well known thrbughout the lumber world as one of the tlynamic members of the fraternity.

The separate eorporation eimply follows the line which Mr. McCormiick and his associates have followed throughout the entire growth of their business, which is to separately incorporate every division of their properties, although all operated under the parent concern, which is Chas. R. McComick & Co., of San Francisco.

The ofiices of the new Iros Angeles corporation are in the I. N. Yan Nuys Builcling. The'Wilmington properties, which will handle the cargo business for the L6g Angeles territory, eonsist of 30 acres of water front property, on which there is being constructed a dock 1200 feet long and ?0 feet wide. This will be one of the best equipped docks for the unloading antl handling of lumber and timbers on the entire California eoast. On this dock will be six standard gauge railroad, tracks, accommodating a la.rge number of cars; and an equipment of cars, traveling cranes, switch engines, and other facilities for handling the lumber from the vessels in

Chas. R. McOormick has been doing a huge business on the Atlantic Coast for the past year, shipping through the Panama Canal. They have shippecl some ?5,000,000 feet to New York already this year by water. They maintain a big d.epartnental ofrice in New York City at 17 Battery Place under the management of Mr. 'W. R. Eewitt, where their eastern business is handled. This is a separate corporation und.er the name of Chas. R. McCormiek Lumber Co.

There is another Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., a separate corporation, at San Diego, California, where they have twenty-five acres of water front property, docks, planer, lumber hantlling facilities, etc. J. F. Garlantl is Manager.

Besid.es, the McCormick interests own seven steamers that haul lumber fron the mills at St. Elelens to the various California ports. Each of these steamers is separately incorporated. In atltlition they charter six or seven boats most of the time.

'When the steamers unload their tonnage of lumber, they don't want to go back north empty, so there is another very active corporation, The McCormick Steamship T:ine, of San Fhancisco, that does a general freight business, loading these vessels for their return trip. This is a very useful, practical, and efficient organization directed by a- very live periori named. Charles L. Wheeler. tLis is all of the McOormick corporations we can remember right now, although there probably are others; and if there are, the chances are that they are big and prosperous ones, like those mentioned.

Charles R. McCormick, of San Francisco, is President and enthusiastie overseer of all these concerns, closely associateq with his partner in all of them, Mr. C. M. Ilauptman, who i$ Vice-President of all the McOormick enterprises. Jas. S. Brown is Secretary of the parent organization. Mr. Eauptman is Treasurer.

This great system of industrial, mercantile, and financial enterprises, is, like practically all other things of that character in the world, the result of foresight, vision-the lengthened. shadow of a mbn-as they say. Twenty years ago when Chas. R. McCormick left Michigan to establish himself in California, he saw in his mind's eye something of the lumber development that has come to this great commonwealth. Hard work, careful planning, tireless energy, and enthusiastic planning, has made the Chas. R. McOormick system of Iumber enterprises.

PINE OFFICIALS ATTEITD POR,TLAND MEETING

R. D. Danaher and C. Stowell Smith, president and. secretary, respectively, of the California White and Sugar Pine trfanufaeturers' Association, went to Portland last Wednesday to attend the stand.ardization meeting cond.ucted under the auspices of the Unitecl States Department of Commerae and the National Lumber Manufacturers'Association. Representatives of nearly all the important softwood manufacturing. organizations attended. The Portland. meeting was a continuation of similar meetings previously held at Madison, Wis., and Chicago. The idea is to secure uniform standards in both grades and sizes of lumber throughout the country.

PLAMNC DIItt MEN COME TO S. F. IN NOVEMBEB

The first session of the proposed.'Western Planing Mill & Woodworking Congress wilt be helcl in San Francisco November 23,24 and 25, and. planing mill owners and operators from all states west of the Rocky Mountains will be in attendance. Charles D. LeMaster of Fresno, secretary of the San,Joaquin Yalley MiII Owners'Association, is in charge of the arrangements and that in itself is a guaranty of tle success of the event. A preliminary meeting was held in Portland in June and the general sentiment there erprssed was for a permanent organization.