The California Lumber Merchant - August 1925

In This Issue

"Redwood Educalional Contest" ,

"Spoftane Prepares f or Hoo Hoo"

"McCormicft Interests Buy Pope & Talbol"

"SAingles and Climate"

"Oaftland BrcalTs Building Record"

"C alif ornia Prices W eaft"

"San Francisco Excceds Building Totals"

The Collar Bufton Championship!

There was recently conducted through newspaper columns a contest to decide the ownership of the oldest collar button in active service.

The winner was found to have worn his button through better or worse, feasts or famines, without fear or favor, since 1897. It is slightly worn on one side.

We do not know what the button was made of, as HDE was not manufacturing lumber atthat time, but it was evidently of a like durable material.

If you, however, are not vitally interested in this peculiar championship, but are interested in the problem of securing good hardwood lumber from a responsible cottc.itt which takes a pride in its production,weoffer you the friendly service of HDE.

STEAMERS "Claremont" "Solano" "Hartwood" "Willapa""San Diego" "Avalon" "Quinault" "Point Loma" "Point Arena"

Bank Inte riors and Fixtures

of Philippine Mahogany

Many of the bankg of the Southwest have hoth interior 6nish and fixtures of Stanton Quality Philippine Mahogany-and the banking institutions of this district are known to bankers ever5rwhere for the beauty of their banking roomE.

The Philippine Mahogany thus used is finished in a variety of ways such as walnut, true mahogany, weathered oak, etc. Our salesmen are glad to help dealers become familiar with the use of Stanton Quality Philippine Mahogany, of which we are direct importers.

E. J. STAI\TOI\ & SON

'Wholeralen of Hardwoods, Panelr rnd Venccrr

2050 E" 38th Street

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A wholesalers' service is often measured by their manner of handling "erief."

"The cuetomer must besatisfied." We have stuck to this principle for 20 years. No reinspection. No arbitration. No passing the buck. If you are displeased with a shipment our representative will call and settle the matter to "your ratisfaction" in one visit.

Only through handling our own lumber from the logging camp to delivery to the customer is it possible for us to maintain such a policy. You will 6nd it pays you best to buy lumber from us.

HartrybodlunberCo.

PHIL B HART Mrurlry Edtc

A.M.THACKABERRY

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A. C" MERRYMAN, Advcrdrln3

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W. T. BLACKllg..Portlud Officc

THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

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How Lumber Looks

Perhapr it would be foolich to talk of ponible advanced pricer, here in the middle of rurnrner, with a majority of the craft on vecationr, fiching, camping, e*imming, etc., but it ir a fact that in the past two weekr orderr have been placed at better lists, right down the line and there is a decidedly better feeling among tfie Eade, both wholerale end retail.

An authority raid the otrher day that tte increared rail volume, into the middle welt, wal bound to have itr efiect on the California market, erpecially conddering the prices that the dealerr in tfie rail territorio are paying. The mills have a very different attitude toward ofierr from California, their order bookr are thicker than they were eixgr days ago and the trade .in ttir rtate ir going to be paying better pricer for their goodr, in a very rhort time, andr.incidentally, migbt perhapr begin charging better pricer, to the contumer.

The receipb at San Pedro for the month of July will be conriderably lower than for Jrme, when over one hundred and forty million feet war unloaded. To tte night of the 3Oth, a little under I3O,OOO,(X)O had been reported and the lart day of the month promired rmall, from tte reports.Ar ctated in the lart irrue, the docks are not overloaded.

Our correrpondent in San Francirco reporte ar follows, for the Bay Di*rictf

The market in Northern California har a much better tone to it than two weeks ago. Retail rtockr continue low;

FIRES CAUSE OF HEAVY LOSSES

Forest fires, according to figures given out by the forest service swept over 29.000,000 acres of public and privately owned land last year, causing a rhonetary loss of $38,00,- 000. The number of fires, many of them preventable, was fixed at 92,000.

William E. Greely, chief of the forest service, feels that public opinion is the greatest weapon which can be used again.st this enormous annual destruction of wealth, and welcomes any agency that may be used in arvakening sentiment among the people that may result in greater precaution, and a lessening of unnecessary hazards.

BUILDING NEW MILL

The Bray remanufacturing plant at Brayville has been prepared for the installing ofits new machinery. George Stafford, noted mill builder. is in charge of the work, which rvhen completed, will place the Bray mill among the finest of its size in the state.

there ic very little unrold lrunber coming into San Francirco; rancheru and farmcrc are getting good pricee for their cf,opr; and the lumber trade ir looking for a more active market and good fall busineu

DOUGLAS FIR: The volume of cargo burinere continues good. The reil burineu ir more active and reveral large concertrs report that their July bruiners rhowt a geod increase over their raler during June. Severd lumbermcn who have made recent rurveyr of conditionr at the milb in tbe Northeagt rtate f:hat the millr report a lerger volurne of bueinecs from the Eart and Middle W€!t.

REDWOOD: Redwood operatorr report rhat burines ir looking better. Ac one large operator rtated, "bared on actud ralel buriners ir looking bctter all along the line."

CALIFORNLA. WHTTE AND SUGAR PINE: The marka har rhown a little pick-up in price during the part two wecLr. The dernand continuer about the same, aod the larger millr are all nrnning to cepacity.

Reportr from the Fir mills, through ttre Weet Coart Lum' bernen'r Auociation, gite some interesting fi$r€.. Thcy rhow t'he part week'e production ar jurt alittle ovcr one hundred million feet and their raler totaled withh r bdf miL lion feet of the rame emormt. They ehipped llor(Xlor(Xx) in the rame period. Lecc than half of thic new burines b for water delivery. They have unfilled rail orderr for 5r1(X) cars, a larger number than the report har thown for a long time.

ACTIVITY AT DIAMOND SPRINGS

At Diamond Springs, Eldorado county, full crews in the big electric mill and logging camps are working for a record season's output.

Three logging trains are hauling logs from the Caldor logging camps over the reconstructed Diamond Caldor Raihvay, and the electrically operated box factory of the California Door Company is working overtime.

BUSINESS FOR SALE

It is not often that the opportunity presents itself to buy a business established over ten years in a city that is growing as fast as Seattle. But as other interests demand all our time, we are going to dispose of our lumber business. No real estate, buildings, accounts .or "blue sky." Will give a long lease on land and buildings. $20,000 to $25,000 necessary to handle. Address Box 4-60, care Lumber Merchant.

ASSIIRTMEIIT [!F STIIOK

The extent of our mill operations on Puget ,Sound enables us to accept a wide variety of business. A dealer specializing on NETTLETON stock is assured of a DEPENDABLE grade to suit the requirements of his trade.

..MONKEY BUSINESS''

Bg Jach Dionne

Perhaps more people have heard, read, and talked of "evolution" recently than ever before in the nation's history, because of the acute and spotlighted publicity given the trial of the school teacher in Tennessee.

Because few people have the faintest idea what evolution really means, what Darwin really taught and wrote, and just how it conficts with scripture, if it does at all.

The trial in Tennessee is just another one of those peculiar slants of the human mind that makes life so interesting to the onlooker. The same tendency that burned Bruno at the stake for saying the earth was round" and that it and the other heavenly bodies actually moved through space; and that persecuted Gallileo because his'figures, facts, and telescope proved the things for which Bruno died, is the thing that started the Tennessee feast of folly.

But the only commendable thing about it is that it is probably making a whole lot of people do some sober thinking, and when you do that you have benefited mankind dirrictly.

Also, it brings up a wonderful opportunity for again discussing one of our favorite topics-Evolution in Business.

For in business, at least, every man worth while....every thinking man-must of necessity be an evolutionist.

If we ourselves make no forward steps-if we but manage to keep from falling behind-we can still be nothing else.

"Evolution"-it really means nothhg else than "coming f1e6"-3nfl it is but a perverted and extraordinarily narrow mind that limits its meaning to that of the descentor ascent if you will-of mankind. (If we started with perfect Adam, and came to our present sinful, sickly, striving state, surely "descent" is the word.)

We might indeed, to use the jargon of the controversalists, define the old time lumber yard as the "monkey" of the lumber business, and to point with pride to the modern retail building material merchant as the present day development.

Evolution of lumber-coming out of-growing up-developing.

From the thought of material came the thought of the home; from that thought came the idea of plans; and from that thought in turn the thought of BETTER PLANS; and from that the idea of informing the public about these plans and materials. Then followed--evolved if you please-the ideas of places to show plans and materials; of thoughts about the greater care of materials; and finally, after years of development there has evolved out of the "monkey-in-a tree" lumber yard of yore, the sentient, vigorous, mentally ascendant human in the full glory of his life and achievements-the modern retail building material Emporium.

Perhaps to many minds that is the "fund" that is the attractive feature of fundamentalism.

We of this industry-an industry that is so basically evolutionary-so basically progressive-must perforce align ourselves with the true "evolutionists"; not in the very limited sense accepted by the people at large of some sort of physical history of mankind, but in itsREAL sense at the natural and proper march of man to better and higher things.

And in that sense-SURE WE ARE EVOLUTIONISTS.

The same sort and spirit of lumber service that we gave the stricken city of Santa Barbara, after the earthquake, is always available to all the lumber trade of California.

SERVICE SATISFIES

CHAS. R. McC0RIYIICK

Los Angeles & c0.

San Francisco

EVERYTHING IN HARDWOODS

Our battery of modern kilnsr-operated under the direction of an experienced kiln engtneer, aaEures our trade of a complete stock of correctly seasoned hardwoo& to meet the climatic conditions of Southern C,alifornia"

Santa Barbara's first relief ship, tlte "Silzteradoi' from Chas. P. McConnick & Compan7,, unlooding a quarter million feet cargo of special stoch, on LVedncsday morning, following the quahc. : Sw"r

June Building Totals Half Billion

Half a billion dollars of buildings under construction throughout the country is the record-breaking figure set by June, 1925, according to compilations made by the Associated General Contractors of America.

. The June total exceeded the record set in May last.

A nationwide survey has led experts to the conclusion that a great portion of the record-breaking activity is due to the construction of residences.

The association predicts that the volume of construction will remain at or near its present high mark during the seasonal peak period, covering the next three or four months.

The actual volume of building in June, indicated by shipments of construction materials, was more than twice that for the same month in 1913.

The combined construction activity for the first six months of.1925 exceeds the 1924 period by 13 per cent.

ARSON GANG TRIES TO BURNLUMBER YARD

Firebugs were sought by detectives, while a squad of police patroled the Nelson Lumber Co. yard at TwentyFourth and Third Streets, San Francisco, following a recent attempt to destroy the lumber yard by setting fire to a lumber truck. In an effort to frustrate efforts to summon

the fire department, the telephone wires in the office of the plant were cut, according to the police. G. H. Nelson reported to police thattwo men phoned to him threats to burn the plant.

D. R. ELSE SOJOURNTNG AT YOSEMTTE

D. R. Else, Bay District representative of Sudden-Christension, is on a two weeks' vacation, which he is spending at Yosemite. He expects to do considerable hiking on the trip and visit all the-scenic wonders of the Park. He will be back on the job around the first of the month.

DICK HAMMATT AT DONNER LAKE

Dick Hammatt, well known Secretary-Manager of the California Redwood Association, is spending his annual summer vacation at Donner I-ake. He is accompanied by his wife and daughters on the trip. He expects to return to his desk about August 1.

RTCHARD JONES VISITS THE PrNEMrLLS

Richard Jones, Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco, has returned from a business trip to Placer County where he was calling on the White and Sugar Pine mills in that District. He states that the mills are working to capacity and that the demand continues good.

The L. VY. BLINN LUMBER CO.

MAIN OFFICE

25Ol So. Alaneda St. [,os Angeles

HUnbolt 3770

TVHOLES.A,LE DISTRIBUTING YARDS Wilmington, Calif.

Panels Doors

M0RRltLand STURGI0N tUMBtR 60.

Portlend, Oregon

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KNOX & TOOMBSI Hoquiu, Warh. Mrnufecturcrr of Vcrticrl Grein Fir Doorr

Can Make Prompt Shipment Straigbt or Mixcd Carc of Panelr and Doon

Alro Fir, Hemlockr Spnrce Lunrber

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Coast Consolidation

Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. Takes Over Pope & Talbot Interests

CAa- R. McConicft

The consummation of one of the largest, if not the largest, single deals involving the purchase of mangfacturing plants and timber that his evei been made on the Pacific Coast has just been completed, whereby ihe timber holdings. sawmills and other property of Pope & Ta-lbot, located in the state of Washington, has been transferred to the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. of Delaware. The latter named organization is a recently formed corporation embracing whallvas formerly eight companies, comprising the various activities of the Chas. R. McCormick interests.

The McCormick interests, now combined under one corporate head, have for several years beeh the largest single factor in the marketing and distribution of forest products from the Douglas Fir belt, having sold and shipped in 1923 more than 530,000,000 feet, about 50,000,000 feet of rvhich moved by rail and the rest by water.

The acquisition of the huge timber holdings and sawmill plants of Pope & Talbot will mean that the McCormick organization becomes a much stronger factor in the manufacturing end of the business. Although for several

years it had operated two good sized sawmill plants at St. Ffelens, up to this time the development in the manufacturing part of the business had not been as great as that of the selling end of the business. The annual production of the company's own sawmills will now total 25Q000,000 feet, which represents about one-half the amount handled through the selling organization.

_ In brief, the new deal adds to the holdings of the Charles R. McCormick Lumber Co. of Delaware property worth ap: proximately $20,000,000 and which comprises about 80,000 acres of land with timber, cruising in the neighborhood of 3,000,000,000 feet; two large sawmills, both on Puget Sound, one at Port Gamble and the other at Port Ludlow, with unsurpassed cargo shipping facilities and also rail connections rn'ith the transcontinental railroad lines; together with hotels, real estate, logging railroads and other prop. erty.

The eignt McCormick companies referred to above and which were absorbed by the newly organized Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. of Delaware were: St. Helens Lum. ber Company, St. Helens, Ore.; Island Lumber Co., St. Helens, Ore.; St. Helens Dock & Terminal Co., St; Helens, Ore.; St. Helens Creosoting Co., St. Helens, Ore.; Chas. R. McCormick Lumbef Co., Los Angeles; Chds. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Diego; Chas. R. McCormick Steamship Co., San Frahcisco; McCormick Intercoastal Steamship Co., San Francisco.

The purchase above mentioned in reality means the consolidation now of these two large holdings and gives to the company a total of : Four large sawmills (250,000,000 feet annual production,) fifteen to twenty years' supply of timber, unsurpassed in quality and location; about 25 steamships for coastwise and intercoastal lumber trade; terminal docks at Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Brooklyn, N. Y.; yards at Los Angeles, Brooklyn, San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino and Oceanside; a high- ly efficient buying organizatiorr in charge of E. H..Meyer at Portland, Ore.; Atlantic Coast sales offices in charge of W. R. Hewitt at New York City, and general offices occupying the ninth floor of the Matson Building, San Francrsco.

With its big production inits own sawmillq, its supply of raw material in the form of standing timber, its unusu. ally efficient buying service, its steamship lines, both in the coastwise and intercoastal trade, the company controls all the essential factors for special service in the largest of orders and has the facilities for the greatest despatch i4 cases of emergency or rush order requirements for special business in lumber of all kinds, including construction material or large tirnbers, piling, cedar poles, spars, ties, or creosoted lumber, piling and ties.

Just a keyhole glimpse at the history of this orgahization shows that Chas. R. McCormick has been identified with the lumber and shipping interests of the Pacific Coast for

JOHN G. McINTOSH, C. P. A. c. s. cowAN, c. P. A.

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We have built our busine$s on the SATISFACTION we have sold our cugtomers.

Our stocks are 'always of dependable quality, we deal otrly with mills tfiat specialize in the quality of their producteither shingles or lumber-and the trade has learned toknow the dependability of our

SA]ITA FE TUMBER Cll.

Here and There With The Red River Lumber Co.

The development and use of laminated wood is reaching all lines of lumber consumption since the construction of aircraft has demonstrated its advantages and brought out new glue formulas that make a joint stronger than the wood itself and that will rvithstand the severe conditions under which airplanes operate. Manufacturers of sash ancl doors are utilizing built-up lumber to give greater str€ngth, reduce warping and for greater economy.

The examples illustrated are door stiles made by the Red River Lumber Company in their new veneer factory at Westu'ood. Calif.. for use in their orvn sash and door factory and also for sale to the trade.

Beautiful panelled interiors in moderate pricecl homes and in stores and office buildings are now possible with a great saving in material and labor. Here is a California Pine panel rvith a one-piece face 60x120 inches as produced by the Red River Lumber Company. J. H; Rickard, manager of the Los Angeles office and warehouse at 7A2 East Slauson avenue, is showing some very handsome examples of these panels finishec[ in mahoganv, walnut and ofher stains. The grain has a soft, delicate beauty and a great variety of patterns. Rotary cuttinS brings out unexpected beauties in the California pines without sacrificing the qualities for lvhich these woods are noted-their non-checking property and their ability to take paints, stains and enamels with economy and fine lasting quality.

- Westwood, Lassen county, up in the High Sierras, enj-oys !h.is moder! l,lOGseat theaier, recently-opened by the Red River Lumber Company. Picture prograhs of excep-

tional quality are shown every night and six afternoons a rveek. A fine Wurlitzer Hope-Jones organ, presided over by an expert organist, is also featured. A complete air: washing and filtering installation tempers all ventilating air, reducing the summer temperature some thirty degrees below that ontside. Panelled walls in lobbv. fover and

auditorium are finished in walnut, oak, gray. -rlfhe latest type of lightiirg and fects are us'ed. Mothers with crying show from a comfortable, sound-proof

enamel and French stage electrical efz babies can see the room walled with

plate glass. The building was designed and is managed by "Bill" Laughead, who rvrites and illustrates the "Paul Bunyan" stories and other adr-ertising of the Red River people.

Mt. I-assen, the only volcano in the United States rvhich has shown recent activity, is shorvn here in a peaceful mood, as vierved from Lee's Camp Lassen, National Volcanic Park. The pl-rotograph, contributed by the Red River Lumber Company, was made in June of this year by Mr. J. H. Eastman.

Logs of California White Pine are shown here on the deck of the veneer factory of the Red River Lumber Co. at Westwood, Calif. From this point the logs go to the steam vats where they remain for from 40 to 60 hours and then are peeled and taken to the lathe. Rotary cutting on the lathe takes off a smooth cut one-eighth to one-tweniieth of an inch thick, as required. This comes off in a continuous strip like unwinding a roll ofpaper. Logs like these are particularly rvell adapted to veneer manufacture.

FINLAND TO MARKET LUMBER IN UNITED STATES

Finland, now the most heavily forested of European countries. has aroused much attention from American lumber manufacturers by creating an organization in its lumber trade for marketing in the United States.The National Lumber Manufacturers Association, one of the Ameriqan groups most concerrred, has received advices that the Finnish saw mill owners have put in charge of their enterprise John Saari, formerly a lumber manufacturer of Port-

'land, Oregon, and are attempting to establish a permanent foothold in this countrv.

HARRY CARTER RETURNS FROM GOLDLAKE

Harry Carter, sales representative of the Van ArsdaleHarris Lumber Co., San Francisco, has returned from a two weeks'vacation spent at Gold Lake. We haven't heard of Harry bringing back any remarkable "fish stories" but he reports he had a fine time roughing it in the mountains. Mrs. Carter accompanied him on the trip.

more than trventy years and during all of that time has had closely associated with him his partner in allof his business ventures and the vice-president of the company, Sidney M. Hauptman, who in his quiet and efficient way is iuitlv entitlel to share withMr' McCormick in the honors du. [h. men who have developed a business rvhich has had such an exceptionally steady and at the same. time rapid climb toward- the toi place in the history of the industry of selling and shipping, manufacturing and distribrrting Pacific Coast forest Products.

Chas. R. McCormick was born in Michigan and as a vouns man entered into the lumber business, where he orLanir".a an inspection bureau for the inspection of white iin.. He first went to San Francisco in 1901 and entered ih" emplov of the Hammond Lumber Company. In 1903 he and Mr. Hauptman entered the commission lumber busi-

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Ertabliched 1885

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QUALTTI COTIM0NS AND CLEARS

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ness, which rvas the initial step in the founding of the present Chas. R. I\{cCormick Lumber Co., and since that time every year has seen awell worthwhile step in the development of the business. The company early rvent into the business of building steam schooners for the coastwise lumber trade and has h1d an enviable record for operating these vessels. The establishment of the St. Helens Mill Co. at St. Helens, Ore., in 1912, marked the real beginning of the company's lumber manufacturing business. Steadily the acquisition of creosoting plants, terminal docks, timber, steamships and all necessary equipment for conducting the business has gone on until the present finds the company in the enviable position where it can guarantee and deli'r'er the best of service to the largest of buyers as 'lvell as the smallest, controlling, as it does, both production and transportation with facilities that reach from the stump to the yard.

And norv a word as to the new properties thus acquired. The Pope & Talbot operations are among the oldest operations on the Pacific Coast and date back some 72 years, rvhen in July, 1853, the schooner "Julius Pringle," commanded by Captain W. C. Talbot, entered Port Discovery Bay, Puget Sound. The purpose of the visit of this ship u'as the establishment of a sawmill on Puget Sound for W. C. Talbot & Co., which organization was composed of W. C. Talbot and A. J. Pope of San Francisco and J. P. Keller and Charles Foster of East Machias, Maine. After careful consideration of timber and shipping facilities of various locations, the company's first plant was located at Port Gamble, where one of the company's mills is still operating. The first building put up here was constructed of lumber brought from East Machias, Maine. The machinery was brought out the following fall. A mill at Port Ludlorv, the site of another of the present-day plants of the company, was ourchased in 1878.

Thus it is seen that the holdings of Pope & Talbot in the state of Washington, l'r'hich have been operated for many years under the name of the Puget Mill Company and rvhich comprise the property just transferred to the McCormick company. were acquired at such an early date that it is evident the founders of this business had full opportunity to choose the most favorable timber holdings in rvhat today is the state of first importance in lumber production of the country. The quality and accessibility of these vast holdings is unsurpassed on Puget Sound.

Another fact may easily be pointed out, namely, that Puget Sound is the most favored location for timber on the Pacific Coast today. It furnishes protected waters that may be entered at all stages of tide or weather and in the intercoastal trade which has assumed first rank in importance for Pacific Coast woods, it is the last American port of call for discharging westbound cargo and thus the vessels all discharge the last of their cargo at Seattle and are

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HIGHEST QUALITY

C.A.LIFORNI^A. SUGAR PINE CALIFORMA WHITE PINE SPRUCE, RED AND WHITE FTR

THREE PLY FIR AND SPRUCE PANEIS

BROWN and DERRY LUMBER

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Full Duty

During trhis summer seaEon of lighter sales and smaller profits, we suggest that you make each buying dollar do its full duty, securing the maximum in quantity and quality.

This result is assured if you call on us for sash and door products.

Flease keep in mind that we SPECIALIZE on C. C. work.

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We Sell Wholesale Only-We DO NOT Sell Contractors

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in immediate position to load eastbound cargo, which of necessity in most cases consists of lumber. Thus, although the rate may not be lower than from ports farther south, there is always a greater volume of space to call on.

It will be seen that the McCormick interests have made a happy choice in securing the Puget Mill Company property; first, in the high quality of and economical logging conditions surrounding the timber, and, secondly, the strategical location from a shipping standpoint of timber owning sawmills located on Puget Sound.

It may alSo be noted as of considerable importance that, in addition to the properties on Puget Sound, there is included in the transfer approximately 20,000 acres of fine timber tributary to the Columbia River, rvhich will be logged and manufactured in the company's mills at St. Helens. Ore.

Plans are now under tvay to replace the present mill at Port Gamble by the erection of a new electric drive mill costing $1,500,000.00 according to Mr. McCormick. The new mill will cut 200 M feet per eight hour shift.

Pope & Talbot have acquired a substantial interest in the McCormick Company and rvill be represented on the Board of Directors.

The officers of Chas. R. l\IcCormick & Co. are Chas. R. McCormick, President; Sidney I\I. Hauptman, First Vice President, and James S. Brorvn, Secretary, rvith headquarters at San Francisco. Ernest H. Meyer, Portland, Vice

President, is manager of the company's Portland Office, Charles L. Wheeler, San Francisco, is Vice President and General Manager of the McCormick Steamship Company. J. Walter Kelly, with headquarters in the San Francisco Office, is Sales Manager. John Olson, is manager of the Los Angeles Office, with Lawrence Beckstrom in charge of sales. F. J. Garland is manager of the company's San Diego Yard.

STATE'S LUMBER INDUSTRY

The lumber industry of California ranks second in the state, points out the Sin Francisco Chamber of Commerce, giving employnent to apploximately 35,000 persons annually. The value of lumber and lumber products produced in California in one year, according to the latest available figures, amounted to $170,000,000.

California ranks fifth among the states in the quantity of lumber produced in the United States; third in the number of people employed in the industry; and second in the value of the product, the Chamber points out.

YARD SOLD

Frank Berka, pioneer lumberman of Santa Rosa, has sold his yard to E. U. White ofFort Bragg. White has been sale.s- manager for the Union Lumber Company in Northern California for several years. Berka will ietiie from active business life.

Her.e are shown _forfy million feet of air-dried Redwood uppers from which immediate shipment can be made of siding, finish, battens, mouldings, column3, etc,

I J. M. (Jimmie) Chase Goes With I Chamberlin

I J. M. Chase, one of the best-known and widely liked of Southern California lumbermen, has severed his connections rvith the Woodhead Lumber Company, where he has been acting as sales manager for some time, and on Au-

gust Iwill become affiliated with \Ar. R. Chamberlin & Com-

pany, manufacturers and wholesalers of Fir, Redwood and

Pine.

I Mr. Chase will call on the Southern California trade, out

of their Los Angeles offices in the A. G. Bartlett Building,

working with Chamberlin's popular Southern California

manager, J. J. Rea.

CLTTS *l':Hil'-'!

Hundrcdc of clcvcr ncw illuetrationr for housc. organs, dircct-by-mail and all othcr advcrtiein g pu r. poee. Cute in all rizcr for all clasoce of businers. FFI

NATTONAL AD.ART SYNDICATE l?3 Arylun St. Hartford,

CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY

The Lamm I-umber Company, after a varied and roman!i_g caregr, is this year celebrating its thirteenth birthday. W. E. Lamm, president of the company, is a "go-gettei" who has overcome the obstacles that lie in the wav of those who climb upward, and his achievements form " .,rg- gestive chapter in the history of lumberdom and its heroei.

_ Modoc Point, the home of the Lamm Lumber Company, is composed of Lamm buildings, among which are a modern sawmill. planing mill, four Northwest kilns, a. Moore kiln, an_ up-to-date system of yards and docks, thirty-one homes designed for the use ofmill workers, and miies of piled lrrmber.

ACTS TO PREVENT SPREAD OF BLISTER

- Stringent .effo1!9 will be made to prevent the spread of the rvhite pine blister disease. Warnings have bien sent out by the forest service, and informatioi given which will enable those interested to recognize and cbntrol this pest, and the Blister Rust Control, Mills Building, San Francisco. desires that all evidences of rust be reported at once, n'hereupon co-operative measures will be taken for its eradication. Douglar

We have been ruPPlYing the rash and door trade of Souttern California for a number of Yearr, and feel well juetified in atating our claims of "The Belt at all Times, at the Proper Price.tt

Member Mllls:

Alblon Lumber Company

C,rrpar Lumber Company

Dolbeer & Cargon Lumber Oo.

Glen Blalr Redwood Co.

llrmmond Lumber Company

J. R. Hantfy Company

Eobbe, Wall & Company

Holmes Eureka Lumber Co.

Llttle Rlver Redwood Co.

Mendoclno Lumber Co.

Northwectern Redwood Co.

Rcdwood Manufacturers Co.

Ite'Paclflc Lumber Co.

Ilalon Lumber Company

it'.s Your Book

lor gou. Here is uhgue did it.

After price, which is fixed in advance by circumstances, the first thing that a prospective home builder is interested in is the design of his new home.

That is why we, at big €xpense, held a competition among certified California Architects and published our new book, "Redwood Home Plans." which contains twentv-two of the designs submitted.

\['c had a purpose, too, in distributing this book through retail lumber dealers rather than through our own channels.

For we want you to meet the prospective home builder right at the start. We want you to assist him in the matter of design. You can do it easily by means of this book.

And we want you to have a chance to tell him about Redwood at the time when it rvill do the most good. In other words, we want to lead the best type of prospects to you first.

Retailers everywhere are using this book and this service to real advantage. If you are not profiting to the same extent write us for full details.

LUMBERJACK BAND

At the recent Rose Festival at Portland, one of the big features of the parade was the "Lumberjack Band," made up of talent recruited from the lumber industries in and around Portland.

"'We congratulate you upon the development of your publication during the first three years of its existence and the service you have rendered to the California lumber trade, and best wishes for your continued prosperity."

Barr Lumber Company, O. H. Barr.

BIG SPRUCE TREE

PORT ANGELES, July 10.-A giant spruce tree cut down this week during logging operations near the Beaver schoolhouse, scaled 56,564 feet actual measurement. It was ten feet in diameter at the stump.

JAY HEARD AND GLADON DAVIS ARE ON RUSSIAN RIVER

Jay Heard and Gladon Davis, connected with the sales department in the San Francisco Office of Chas. R. McCormick & Co., are spending this year's vacation on the Russian River. Both these young men are expert swimmers, and during their sojourn they expect to enter several of the competitive s'wimming contests, that will be held there during the latter part of July. Judging from their past performances, they should be exhibiting some goodlooking prizes on their return.

112 Market $rca

Sutter 387-398 San Francirco

Pufect Matching Side and End

Al opccot b rhorn chcc&ing a piccc of ilEvetladngl' f,ooring. Evay nachine i" .q"ipFd witb thFg tool rtecl garrger o chec& tbe cildtht thic&nix, tonguc and gloove. C.ontinuoru inrpoct ion inrrrcl cnact, unvaqfrng uaifornity.

Nichols & C,ox Lumber Co.

Clud R.pidq Michigelr %of fuf,,oodmtti€

c00s BAY TUMBER CO.

of Celifornir

Manufacturen of Doughr Fir end Port Otf"d C.edar.

Sarnnillr, Marchfield, Oregon

Distributing Plant Bay Poinl

Annual Production

2(X),0(X),(XX) Fect

GENERAL OFFICES :'J!3 ??'j::i.j"'"

Loe Angeler Ofice, r! ccatrrl Blds.

Why Sell Redwood?

HARIIU(I(III tU tTI BE R C(l.

Twenty Varieties of Hardwood

Oak & Mapt" ti""ring-Panels

n NE of our good dealer friends in a recent letter jokingly V remarked that from his standpoint one of Redwood's big disadvantages is its permanence-its great durability makes replacements unnecessary. Nothing short of a cyclone will destroy Redwood. Fungus does not rot it and worms and insects leave it alone. It is a slow burner. Thoroughly painted, it looks well a long time. Even unpainted, it still rcsists decay. A Redwood house needs little repairing. But this dealer keeps right on ordering Redwood. He finds that telling these sad facts about Redwood to his customers does not drive them away.

Sometimes he even ventures to remark that according to the U. S. Government Report entitled "Physical, Mcchonical and Chemical Properties of Redtlood" there isn't any other wood, either soft or hard, that averages as high on durabilit!, lach of shrinkage, strenglh as a beam or post, ease of glueing, uorhabilit! and ability to "stay put."

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' And After That-

"Hory long yo' allin jail fo', Mose?"

ttTwo weeks.t'

"What am de charge?"

"No charge at all--eve'ything's free."

"Ah mean, what has yo' all did?"

"Shot Mah wife."

"Yo' all killed yore wife ah' only in jail fo' two weeks?"

"Uh Huh. After that Ah gets hung."

USE IT

A 2x4 with several more is lying in a stack. You wonder when you'll see the yen it cost you coming back. It never will, believe me, Bill, till after you are dead unless that stuff is treated rough and built into a shed. It is no Bood; it's only "wood" with which your yard is filled; it isn't worth a cent on earth until it's used to build. It doesn't pay for you to say bad words or to abuse it; a lot of tin it wiU bring in if you will rightly use it.

Your Job Your Best F-riend

A man's job is his best friend.

It clothes and feeds his wife and children, pays the rent, and supplies them with the wherewithal to develop and become cultivated. The least a man can do in return is to love his job. A man's job is grateful. It is like a little garden that thrives on love. It $'ill one day fower into fruit worth while, for him and his to enjoy. If you will ask any successful man the reason for his making good, he will tell you that first and foremost it is because he likes his work; indeed he loves it. His whole heart qnd soul are wrapped up in it. His whole physical and mental energies are focused on it. He walks his work, he talks his work, he is entirely inseparable from his work, and that is the way every man worth his salt ought to be if he wants to make of his work what it should be and make himself what he wants to be.-(Senator Arthur Capper.)

You've got to have more than just a make your business program a success.

loud speaker to

SHE KEPT THE SECRET

Mr. Pewe+"Why did you buy these shirts four sizes too big for me?"

Mrs. Pewee-"They cost the same as your right size and I didn't want the clerk to know that I married such a little shrir{p as you are."

AND HE STILL THOUGHT SO

This country's going straight to heck, My granddad told me so. The old gent ought to know.

I asked him why he was so sure; He said long years and years agoHis granddad told him so.

-American Legion Weekly.

THAT EXPLAINS IT

Barnum said there was "A sucker born every minute." That explains why the second hand auto market never seems to reach the point of saturation.

A large percbntage of the people you always see running around in a terrible hurry don't even know where they are going.

New Sales Helps For Oak Floorittg

One of the mogt attractively illustrated bookletc on oak fooring is now ready for distribution among prospective home-briildere.

It tells the whole story of Perfection Brand Oak Flooring. You will 6nd it of immense help in making eales.

We also have sor;e very successful envelope stuffers for general distribution that we are supplying free.

Write today for thege selling helps and full information about Perfection Brand Oak Flooring'

Douglas lFin cwith theLong.Bell Trade,Mark

Long-Bell manufacturing plante at Longview, lVashington, are producing Douglas Fir lumber and timbers of the utmost dependability. Established Long Bell msnufacturing standards are being followed in Douglas Fir production. The Long.Bell trademark on the end of the oiece is not only a mark of identiftcation but signiies maximum building velua

Selling FAITH to Young Men and then LUMBER

California White Pine Doors

Cdifornia Vhite Pine timber ftom the Mt. Shssta district furnishes the attractive, dunble lumber that makes Long-Bell doors so economical and desitable. They cost less to moftise, f,t end heng.

Beautiful OakFlooring

Oak flooring is popular becauee of its lasting besuty and performsnce economy. LongBell trademarkcd Oak Flooring is carefully manufectured to reduce cost of laying end fnishing. Write for furthet information.

1l A young man ke know, reJL cently married, started on the wayto home ownership with fifty dollars. He and his wife had faith and courage when the first deposit was made in a savings account. They had found from experience that money could not be saved without a definite plan. They began putting away fifty dollars each month fi,rst, beforc anything else was spent-and how surprisingly quick that sum grew into hundreds! It was not a great while beforetheneat sum in the savings account was suficient for a fi.rst paymentbn a home. They succeeded, as many others have done.

G) It doestake faithandcourage

A to keep everlastingly at this task of saving for a home. Hosts ofyoung people have the desire, but not quite the courage to

start or the faith to persist. The sum they could put away each month looks so pitifully small and the final goal so large!

V Yet there are the commun q) ity'r best prospective build. ers, thepotential buyers of a volume of building material. They have the desire-they lack the starting impulse.

Sell them on courage and faith! Give them the impulse to statt. Make them see clearly the possibility of their dreams, the hope of success, the futility of putting off.

,f In such promotion of home al owning and homebuilding as this, the retail lumber dealer not only may build for his own future, but also have the reward of lasting appreciation.

Doudu Flr Lumbcr aad Tlmbctrt Southctn Plne Lubcr rnd Timbcrr; -Cncorotcd Lubcr.Ttmbcr.Porr. Pola,Tlcr, Guard'Rrll Poro, Pilinlr Southen Herdwood Lumber and Timbcrrt -Oetr Flootlnc: Cellfomia White Plao Lumber; Sarh rnd Doorr.

THE LONG.BELL LUMBER COMPANY

R. A. Long Bldr. Luabcncs Sircc It75 Krnrer Citv' Mo.

Splendid Earthquake Views

Number one, particttlarly interesting to lumbermen, is a tribute to lumber, arrd is nrute testimony in favor of the use of that product.

Here is shown a few of a group of splendid photographs, taken at Santa Barbara, immediately after the quake, by Bill Hamilton, Los Angeles manager for the Holmes Eureka Lumber Company.

The other two pictures were taken in the Ambrose Lumber Company yards, shou'ing a part of the damage suffered by this company.

Number two shows the damage done on another church, and gives further ideas on the staying qualities of wood against other materials.

A standardized carrier throughout, embodying a wonderful direct load-lift; exceptionallyfast, simple and fool-proof, eliminating pressure tanks, cables, screws, gears, pinions and clutches.

California Building Conditions Fine-Selling Price Only Weakness

In the last two issues of "The California Lumber Merchant," many splendid facts have been published, to show that the building situation in California is much better than some of the pessimistic things that are frequently uttered, are not founded on fact.

There rvas much "kicking" heard about June business. But we showed that instead of being a poor, June was a splendid building month. More lumber was shipped into Southern California in June of this year than during any month for a very long time; and June began with the lumber docks of Southern California well iammed with excess lumber.

The end of June found these excess stocks reduced to normal, and all the large income of the month moved and used. Nothing very bad about that.

Then came the total building permits for June- which told the same story, not only for Southern California, but for all the leading cities of the state.

Here are the totals for these cities for June last year, and June this year. Look them over:

they should do a prosperous business. And when they do NOT, the trouble is not with the lumber business, but with the men who run it.

Every man is entitled to a reasonable return on his investment. All good business accepts that statement as fact. The laws of California particularly stress it. The lumber industry in California is complaining of business conditions, when business conditions as a whole are really very good.

The price of lumber in California is too low. The wholesale and retail prices are both too low. The retail price delivered in Los Angeles for the past month is no higher than the mill price should be, one thousand miles away, if the industry is to prosper.

Competition of the unrestricted and regrettable sort makes the price of lumber in California, and not values. When logs that sell for $20 a thousand in the Northwest, are cut into lumber and delivered on the job in Southern California for $28 a thousand, there is something wrong with the thinking apparatus of the lumber men, mill men, wholesalers. and retailers alike.

These home building people in California are fine folks, all right, and we like to see them get the best deal possible within reason. But they are.buying their lumber too cheap for the welfare of the lumber industrv of the west.

Please note the magnificent increase in the totals, and also the splendid increases that were made this June over last by nearly every city in California. There is much food for thought in these figures.

You see, there's really nothing much the matter with thg lumber business in California. The only trouble is with the lumber MEN of California. When men sell a large and sufficient and satisfactory amount of building material,

PAUL BUNYAN'S California Pine Veneers

-fHE wide range of adaptability and economy of this ply-wood is opening up I t ew fields to veneers. California Pine closely resembles the White Pine of the Lake States except that the trees are much larger. Rotary cutting brings otrt a variety and beauty of grain patterns hitherto unknown in soft pines. At the same time all-the-s9-f^tnes_s, smoothnu""-.nd fi--ne working qualities peculiar to this kind of pine is retained. PAUL BUNYAN'S California Pine Veneers have manv advantages-

Il-"* *1"i:rfll':lr",,u Smooth 6nish \,vith very little sanding.

For everything from fruit baskets and odorless dairy containers up to magnifi_cent panelled-interiors. For inexpensive office and house partitions, qui_ckly installed. For door panels and mill work. For drawer bottoms,trunks and furniture bachs.

Inf ormat io n, S atn ples, Prices Gladly sent you upon request.

..PAUL BUNYAN'S VENEERS of California Pines have a place all their own.tt

Ileneer Slteets coming from the Steam Drier

of White Pine for Over Hall a Century"

One of the Clippers whick Trim the Rotary Cut Strip into Sheets

We have in our San Francisco yardc 3r(XX)r(XX) feet of 5-8 in to 164 in. No. 1 Common and F. A- S.Baraan-Red Philippine-White Philippine Lamao.

J. E. HIGGINS LUMBER CO.

Sixth and Harrison Streets SAN FRANCTSCO, CALIF.

Let Ur Submit Quotationr and Samples

WttAPA TUMBER CO.

o6co PORTLAND, ORE. Millr-RAYMOND' WASH.

Wc Mrnufrcturc

Old Growth Douglas Fir Spnrce-Hemlock rEr

OUR SPECTALTY UERTIGIL GRAI]I

FLOORITG & UPPERS

brcfully Dricd Wcll Mraufrctnrcd

For 18 Yean

..CHICKASAW BRAND' OAK FLOORING

. har been a rtandard of Grade{uality-Manuf acture

Manufac{ured By

lfemphis Hardwood

Floori ng Go, ilemphis,Tmn.

And Dbtributed By

E. M. SLATTERY

BRoadwey 1496 315 Producc Blds., Lor Angclcr

GEO. C. CORNITIUS

Amer. NatL Bank Bldg. San Francirco

SAMUEL R. NORTON Henry Bldg. Portland

A. W.KOEHL ON OCEAN TRIP

Mr. A. W. Koehl, president of John W. Koehl & Son, Los Angeles manufacturers of sash and door products, rvill leave Los Angeles on August 5th for a four weeks' trip to Honolulu.

FIR RAIL TRADE HAS FIRM ORDERS IN FAIR VOLUME

During the past week .the territory east of Chicago has apparently awakened to the fact that the Middle West is buying fir lumber rather freely and it in turn is coming forward with firm orders in fair volume. Heretofore the eastern dealers and yards have been inclined to test the coast market by frequent inquiries rather than the placement of actual orders.

It seems evident that so far as the rail trade is concerned line yard and country ward buyers generally consider the time has come to place orders. Quick shipment, however, is being demanded in the majority of orders.

Taken as a whole, the volume of business both for rail and water shipment is now up to a satisfactory level and the next step will be first, the firming of prices and then soon gradual advancement.-4l Bulletin.

NATIONAL WHOLESALERS MEET

The midsummer meeting of the National American Wholesale Lumber Association was held in Seattle, Iulv l_6.- President Dwight Hinckley and Secretary W.- W. Schupner- an-d other directors were present. Grbrrp meetlfgs_wi[be held also in Portland, Spbkane and Van'couver, B. C. The Portland me_eting was held Tuesday, July ZI, 1t ng-gn, at_lhe Bensoa Hotel. The principal speii<drs were President Hinckley, Secretary Schupner, E. b. Kinsslev. president_of the West Coast Lumbermen's Associatiori, and Herbert Templeton, president of the Western Retaile;s; Association.

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TUMBER Ct|.

Mcmberr California Rcdwood Arociation

Adequetc rtoragc rtockr et Sen Pcdro, for your tradc.

PACIFIC LOGGING CONGRESS WILL MEET IN

"The lI/ooil

MILLS Fort Bragg, Calif.

LOS ANGELES

Lanc Mortgagc Bldg. PLonc TRinity ZL62

SAN FRANCISCO

CrocLer Bldg.

Phoac Suttcr 6170

October 28-31 is

,n. three-dav sessioh of the Pacific Logging Congress to be held in Seittle. Secretary A. Whisnant is preparing an interesting and valuable program. An outdooi exh-ibit of logging machinery of every -variety and make will be a new lnd interesting feature of the meeting, and will be of value to every logger-.

ISSUES WARNING ON INSURANCE POLICIES

_,A. C. Baker, Los Angeles manag'er of the Northwestern Mutual Fire Association, has just issued a bulletin to their policy holders, calling attention to a clause in all policies, dealing with FALLEN BUILDINGS, and possibli earthquakes.

The clause reads as follows:

FALLEN BUILDING CLAUSE: Lines No. 71-No. 73 of the California Standard Policy provide: "FALLEN BUILDING CLAUSE. Unless otherwise provided by agreement endorsed hereon or added hereto, if a building or any material part thereof fall, except as the result of fire, all insurance by this policy on such building or its contents shall immediatelv cease."

The efiect of this on,the policy holder is that should any material part of any of. your buildings fall as the result of an earthquake, or for any other reason, the fire insurance o-n -such building and its contents immediately ceases, and if fire occurs thereafter, the loss to the building affected, and its contents, is not covered.

PLANS PLANT EXPANSION

The McCloud River Lumber Company is reported to be planning -th-e erection of a manufacluring plint covering an area of 100 by 280 feet. The company expects to manu-facture more lumber this year than during any year in its ltiftqty.^ Eroduction last year amounted to afpioximately 150,000,000 feet.

WHITE CEDAR

Stoclc on Hand at

LOS .A,NGELES

50,000 ft. lx4 to 12 Clcar A. D.

53,(n0 . 4/4 Shop n

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75,000 ft. lx4 to lxl6 Clear A. D.

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of Ages"

Great Redwood Educational Contest!

Want Facts on Redwood Usefulness ! Prizes for Salesmen and Dealers!

No lumber otganization in the country today is surpassing the California Redwood Manufacturers Association in timely, intelligent, and useful ideas for boosting their particular product.

This is being manifested and demonstrated in many ways. .It may be truly said that the Redwood manufacturers have finally gotten behind their wonderful wood in concerted fashion, and it will doubtless mean much to Redwood.

The latest educational pubticity feature that the Associaiion is trying, is a contest staged for the purpose of digging up, assorting, and distributing ideas of practical character on the uses, merchandising, and building qualifications of Redwood, through Redwood salesmen, and lumber dealers who handle Redwood.

The idea is to pay cash prizes to the Redwood salesmen nrho turn in the most and best thoughts, plans, ideas, and suggestions on the use of Redwood; and to the retailers of lumber who furnish Redwood salesmen with the best experibnces on selling Redwood.

Is'nt that a dandy camPaign?

It should be the means of bringing into the Association hundreds of useful ideas for Redwood selling and consumption that they can mete out to the trade in such form as will help all Redwood sellers to sell more Redwood, and help more consumers to consume more Redwood.

And that, of course, is the idea of the campaign.

The Redwood Association has appointed a strong and enthusiastic committee to handle this contest, which begins at once, and terminates November 15' 1925.

Here is the first announcement of the contest, exactly as it was mailed to the full list of Redwood salesmen turned in by the Association members.

Retailers who have valuable ideas for the use of Redwood should talk them over with their Redwood salesmen. There may be cash in it:

A Prize Contest for Redwood Facts and Figures Object

This contest is authorized for the purpose of making available to customers additional facts, figures and instances about California Redwood and its advantages and usos.

There is a wealth of good Redwood facts in California and elsewhere. Redwood was one of the first woods used in California; in fact the wood and its distinctive merits have been intirnately connected with the history, growth and progress of the State.

WierEver Redwood has been properly used, it has created a host of friends and examples of good service. It is to discover and get acquainted with these friends and examples of Redwood that this contest is started.

Facts and Figures

Redwood facts and figures, in this contest, include anythine that can assist customers to increase their redwood business.

There is a gold mine of Redwood facts, figures and instances around us. Let's get them together. Let's index and cross-index them in convenient form, so that our customers in the retail trade can use them to advantage.

The Contest

This contest is to extend from July lst to November 15, 1925. Anyone working for or representing a Redwood mill is eligible. In addition, three special prizes are for RETAILERS furnishing (to REDWOOD SALESMEN) the three best examples of facts and figures.

Working Rules

1. Turn in reports when you get them. Priority will determine who is to be credited if there is duplication 9f specific instances or examples. However, if one report duplicates another but enlarges or lives additional valuable information, it will receive credit.

2. Turn in reports to the California Redwood Association, 24 Califorhia Street, San Francisco, Cal.

3. Type reports on regular letter-size '($lxIl inch) paper,<ne side only. The judges will only consider ty1rcwritten reports.

+. Type your name, date and the name of the company you represent on the reverse side of each page, so that the report may be read without its identification being first evident.

5. Make each example into a separate report, even though it may contain several good selling points.

6. If you accompany reports by photographs, properly identify them and have them on glossy paper, whenever possible.

To Redwood Salesmen

You can get help from anyone. We would like to see all retailers, particularly, cooperate by furnishing material to you and we have provided special prizes for retailers only. Do not get help from other Redwood mill employees or representatives, since they should turn in their own reports.

Judging

Your reports will be judged by both their quantity and quality. An indication of how the quality of work will probably be judged is as follows:

If you get a retailer or .anyone who uses and prefers Redwood to write a letter or sign a letter specifying where he qses Redwood and why he prefers it, you will increase the value of your report. In other words, good Redwood facts are of more value if they come from unprejudiced parties. Try to keep from giving your own opinions. Get the other fellow's opinion. Act as a reporter.

But if you have some valuable information yourself, back it up with concrete facts as detailed as possible. Pictures in any case would be abig help in improving the quality of work. Try always to be as specific as possible. Get your facts correctly. If you mention persons, give their correct initials, addresses and business connections.

Results

Some of the results we hope to get from this contest are as follows:

(Continued on Page" 34)

Luncheon for Dwight Hinckley

Over twenty San Francisco lumbermen were the guests of Fred Palmer. the well-known California White and Sugar Pine wholesaler, at a luhcheon given at the Commercial Club on Friday, Jaly 24, in honor of Dwight Hinckley, president of the National American Wholesale Lumber Association, who was a San Francisco visitor on July 23 and 24.

After the luncheon, Mr. Palmer introduced Mr. Hinckley, who gave an interesting talk on the accomplishments and service rendered the members by their associations, and what the association was trying to do. He referred to the several services given their members through their collection, credit, traffic and arbitration departments. In speaking of the arbitration department, which he stated is one of the principal thittgs that the association has in immediate cash draw value. he said that thev had done something for the whole lumber industry in improving merchandise methods. Mr. Hinckley stated that the membership of the association is not confined to the wholesalers alone, as they have many manufacturers among their members, and that the manufacturers are well pleased with the work and service rehdered by the association.

Ele said that the membership of the National American Wholesale Lumber Association is now over 800 and that their membership requirements are strict. During the last year he said that the wholesale lumbermen in the country handled over 20,000,000,000 feet of lumber, which was.over half cf the lumber produced in the country during that pe-

riod. and where so much lumber was involved it was essential that their association be efficient. In closing, he stated that the association was so organized that it was able to do something whenever the emergency arose, atrd he cited such several instances where they were able to render valuable service to the lumber indirstrv of the countrv.

This is Mr.'Hinckley's fourth trif to the Pacific'Coast in the interests of the National American Wholesale Lumber Association. He has just completed a trip through the Northwest, and after a few days in Los Angeles, he left for the East. In addition io being president of the association, Mr. Hinckley is actively engaged in the lumber business in Cincinnati, where he conducts a large wholesale business.

At the conclusion of the meeting, a vote of thanks was extehded to Fred Palmer for the excellent luncheon. i

Those rvho attended the luncheon were: I

_Otis Johnson, Union .Lumber Co.; James Tyson, Chas. Nelson 9o.; U. P. Plummer, Union Lumber Co.; M.-A. Murphy, F. S. Muqphy Lumber Co.i F. S. Murphy, F. S. Murphy Lumber Co.t A. T. McKenzie, Chas. Nelson Co.; F. B. Macomber, F. B. Mar comber & Son; C. R. Wisdom, Cal. Pine Box Distributors, Inc.l

Hu1t9r Savage, Sivers Savage Lumber Co.; Fred Palmer, Fiederi& S. Palmer Lumber Co.; C. C. Stibichr Frederic S. Palmer Lumbei Co.; Leon Walker, Red River Lumber Co.; F. B. Macomber, Jr.i

F. B. Macomber & Son; R, A. Hiscox, Western States Luinbei Co.; C. L. Smith, American Lumberman; Dwight Hinckley. Cinl cinnati;_H. W. Sinnock, Redwood Sales Co.; R. F. Pray, I-irmUeri men's Exchange; M. L. Euphrat, Wendling-Nathan Lumber Co.l Ward Dwight, Dwight Lumber Co.; Frank Paramino, Paramind Lumber Co.; J. E. Martin,'"California Lumber Merchant."

Excellent ltalian Architecture

Thir houre won an honor award for exceptional architecturd mcrit, from tte Southern CaIifornia Chapter, Arnerican lirtitute of Arshitectr lt war reported the owner dircharged the architectr, tr, iIr the fint place rhe did not like tbe house.

Here tte deai$ren have.gpt cornpletely away frq4q lhe prec. ent maniq the ro-celled Sp"n- bh. Only an unbroken wdl and an antiqued heavy door are prerented to the du.ty rtreet

With the foothilts ar a beck. ground thir attrac{ive house with its simple lines and roof certainly neritr ib Honor Award.

The lumber on thir job war furnished by E K. Wood hmber Company of "Goodr of the Woodr" farne.

Italian resiilence erecleil in Hollyvooil, nthich non an honor awoil ftom tlre Institule ol Architec* for Exceptional Merit. PIERPONT e. I4|ALTER DAVIS, Los Angeles, Architects.

HAMMOND'S Sp"cial Service to Lumber Merchants

ON'T pass up big orders because youtre short on stock. Remember Harnmondts special Sen'ice to Lumber Merchants. You can draw all the building materials you need from the vast reserye stocks of the Hammond Lumber Company.

Then you can make use of the complete facilities of Harnmond's big special mill work department. Take advantage of these features of Hammond Service.

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A. To make the Association more of a clearing house for better merchandising ideas;

B. To organize these ideas (or good Redwood facts and figures) so that they can be readily available;

C. To use the best of them for a Salesman's Hand Book, thereby giving the benefit of the united experience of everyone working on this camPaign;

D. To give this information to retailers who want to use it in reselling their Redwood stocks;

E. To have this information for the builder, contractor, architect and ultimate buyer so as to more effectively answer his questions as to why he should want Redwood.

F. To stimulate an interest throughout the lumber trade in better merchandising ideas.

From time to time, the results of the contest will be buletined out so that you can tell just where you stand.

GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG MAN

The "California Lumber Merchant" knows of an opening that ofiers a very good opportunity to _some g-ood young man, to make a start with a wonderful 6rganization, with opportunities to make his mark

the opening is at Santa Barbara, with an old established- concirn, known for their fair dealings with employees, and for paying good_ salaries.

itrey want a man in hiJ twenties, married or single, steady, good habits, able to operate a typewriter,- assist tle -bookkeeper, do general counter work, in fact, an all-round office man.

They offer about $150.00 to start.

Sania Barbara is one of the garden spots of the state, we repeat that this is a splendid chance, and inquiries to our Los Angeles office will receive prompt attention.

LUMBER YARDS CAN INCREASE THEIR PROFITS BY SELLING

B^q,LSAM.WOOL

THE PERFECT HOUSE INSULATION

Suitable sound-insulation for income property cannot be too greatly stresged. It has been aptly said "Altho it is not possible to SEE through the walls of the average apartment, the privacy afforded stops therel"

BAISAM-WOOL insulated apartment walls refte the purpore for which they were originally int€oded! E.ch ottit of the BALSiAM-WOOL insulated building ie as efiectively set apart from neighboring noises as if locatcd blocks away.

Specify BALSAM-WOOL ae an inveetrnent toward Bigjer Rentals-Satisfied Tenants and Steady Income.

"'The Wooil Insulation Worth lts Weight in WooI"

Dirtributcd by

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First prize

Here Are the Prizes

..9100.00

Second Pfize . 50.00

Third Prize . 25.00

Four Prizes of . 10.00 each

And in addition:

$15.00 for the best informatiqn coming from the mills.

$15.00 for the best information coming from any place outside of California.

Then:

$75.00 to the Retail Lumber dealer giving you the best selling information.

$25.00 to the Retail Lumber dealer giving you the 2nd best selling information

$10.00 to the Retail Lumber dealer giving you the 3rd best selling information.

GO TO IT!! We wish you luck!

SHOWS WAGE COMPARISONS

Spokane, Wash., July 16.-Claire Bowman, director of the state department of labor and statistics, reports that the average wage rate in Washington, 300 days a year in 1924, rvap $4.99. The logging industry employed D,691 workers at an average wage of $5.11. Sawmills, employing 34,8D men, paid an average of $4.59 a day, while paper and pulp mills rvorkers averaged $4.58 a day. Building construction workers received $6.13 a day. Coal miners were paid the highest wage, $6.!)6 a day. The lowest was $3.88 paid to employes of laundries, broom and textile plants.

-ili'J 3'6t#il1TiEE rN .HARGE.

One of the big "Gray's Harbo/' Yellozu Fir panels manufactured bg Harbor Plyztood Company, Hoquiam, Wssh. Morrill and Sturgeon Lumber Company of Portland. 'are So. California sales agents, and W. W. llilhinson is their Los Angeles reltresentatioe.

Triple-Sheath doee keep out moi.s' ture when used under Exterior Finieh., For use under Stucco, Brick Veneer, Clapboards or Shingle.

Triple-Sheath Building Paper is absolutely waterproof. A better sheet ofbuilding paper cannot be put between the foors or in the walls of a building. Disinterested teste prove. beyond question the buperiority of Triple-Sheath.

Result of teste made by ARTHUR D. LITTLE, INC., PAPER CHEMISTS.ENGINEERS Cambridge, Maasachueette

The above water rcristancc tcst! wcre madc by thc Ground Glaaa mcthod, reccntly devired by the United Stateg Bureau of Standardr; Thc buriting etrengthc wore determined on thc Mullen Tcster. The Triplc.Sheath aamplee,used ehowed no aigns of penetration at the end of 24 houra. The compctitivc ramplea'thowcd averagc complcte penetration in from 12 to 20 minutca'

The secret of the superiority of Triple-sheath is in the high quality of the sized Kraft paper used, combined with theinner layer of waterproof asphalt.

The pure Kraft paper itself, from.which Triple-Sheath is made, without the addition of the asphalt layer, is capable of resistance towater and moisture for a long period. This is,due to the high quality of the materials used in its manufacture and to the sizing applied.

Showing the uge of Triple-Sheath.in w-alls and under floors.

laxlldbg Paper Vaterproof \-

Triple, Sheath is a Superior Building Paper

Water|roof WeatherprooJ r Darrrpproof

Triple-Sheath is made of two plies of strong, tough Kraft paper cemented together with an inner layer of waterproof pure asphalt which constitutes 45% of the total weight of the sheet. Paper made by the "K B" process contains only ?% "f emulsif ied asphalt.

Triple-Sheath is made absolutely waterproof by the innerlayer of asphalt. Light in weight, yet'durable, it will retain its strength and waterproof quality as long as the house or floor lasts.

Triple-Sheath is pliable. It will bend or crease at a sharp angle without breaking.

Triple-Sheath under hardwood fooring will keep out sub-foor dampness and prevent buckling.

Triple-Sheath enables you to lay a smooth floor with level joints. Its thinness allows it to be lapped without ridging thus assuring an even, flat surface.

Triple-Sheath is clean to handle. The asphalt waterproofing on the inside cannot come in contact with painted baseboards to do damage to their surface.

Triple-Sheath is vermin-proof. Rats do not like asphalt.

Triple-Sheath weighs 20lbs. to each 500 sq. ft. Ordinary building papers weigh 35 lbs. per 500 sq, ft. and upward. Do not let thickness and weight confuse you, its quality that counts. Triple-Sheath is convenient to handle, saves half the freight, trucking charges and storage space.

Triple-sheath Building Paper was used under the floors and in the walls of both of these homqs-it's going into many of the finest homes from coast to coagt.

Triple'sheath Building Paper helps to make a 100% job--it is being specified to make 100% jobs throughout the country. It makes satisfied customers and keeps them satisfiedit's a

Triple-sheath is used succesafully and extensively under stucco

Sotd by alt Buililing Material Dealers, Retail Lumber, and Hariluare Merchants

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HARtr'YY99D E9HRANY

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA Distributors

PACIFIC COAST COMMERCIAL COMPANY

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Distribulors some

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Pacific Coast Commercial Co., Los Angeles

Hoo Hoo Have High Tirn-€ at Riverside

The recently organized Citrus Belt District of Hoo-Hoo held a very enjoyable and well attended combined Golf Tournament and Concatenation at the Country Club in Riverside on July 10.

A number of old cats from the Los Angeles District were in attendance to show their stuff in the golf play and to assist the orange-growing Nine how the Junior work is done.

Five Kittens bit the dust. Garrett Van Fleet. Fox-Woodsum Lumber Company, Colton; D. S. Ilansen, Hansen Lumber Company, Fontana; A. H. Smith, Smith-Grubbs Compahy, Riverside; R. L. Lund, Hayward Lumber Company, San Bernardino, and J. T. Bason, Hammond Lumber Company, Redlands.

They were given the work by a Nine composed of Frank Curran, Dave Woodhead, J. C. Ellis, J. A. Thomas, all of Los Angeles, and A. D. White, L. W. Finley, W. V. Whitson, J. Wesley Shrimp and Snark Newton of the Citrus Belt District.

A large number of the boys played golf in the afternoon at the Victoria Country Club. E. R. Maule, Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles, and J. W. Shrimp, Cresmer Manufacturing Company, Riverside, each won a club, Bert Maule winning on a low gross of 79 and Shrimp on low net of 66.

Dinner was served at the club, followed by the initiation ceremohies.

HOO.HOO PICNIC

Sunday, Augurt 16th, 1925

KENDALL DELL

(Near Mountain View)

Bascball Crames Field Events Baby Show Beauty Contect Daqcing

Watch for Posters annorurcing complete Program of Entertainment and Field Events.

Kendall Dell isan ideal Private Picnic and Camping Grounds. It is easily reached by automobile from both sides of the Bay. Good roads right to the Picnic Grounds. If you make the trip by automobile watch for "Road Posters."

Southern Pacific train leaves 3rd and Townsend Street Station, San Francisco, at 8:05 A. M. for Grant Station. Transportation Committee has arranged to meet train with automobiles to convejr passengers to the Picnic Grounds.

DON'T OVERLOOK THIS EVENT . BE THERE SURE!

FRED ROTH, Chairman General Arrangements Committee

Prof. Al Williams Speaks at Hoo Hoo Club No. 9 Meeting

Prof. Al Williams, well-known San Francisco instructor of physical cultnre, was the speaker of the day at the luncheon of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9 at the Palace Hotel on July 23. His subject was "Physical Efficiency in Business" and his interesting talk was enioyed very much by the large gathering.

Fred Burgers, IJnion Lumber Co., was the chairman of the day. Fred provided a snappy musical entertainment that went over big with the gathering..

Rod Hendrickson presided over the business session.

G. W. Fraser, "On to Spokane" Committee, read a communication from Secretary Henry R. Isherwood on the railroad rates to Spokane. Fred Roth, chairman of the Picnic Committee, reported that everything was progressing nicely for the picnic at Kendall Dell on August 16, and a record crowd would attend. President Hendrickson ap- pointed the following-Nominating Committee to bring in nominatiohs of candidates to be voted on at the aniual election of officers to be held in September: R. A. Hiscox, chairman; Frank Trower, G. W. Fraser, Frank Harris and Theodore Lerch.

N{. W. Davis, Davis Hardwood Co., will act as. cheirman of the day at the regular meeting on August 13.

Have You a copy of our ne$r Catalo g?

Every lumber dealer and tmost everyone in the buitdng industry ghould have the new Hipolito CEt& log for reference.

It rhowr our diffenent deaigns in stock scnaen doorr and window rcreens, dl from actual photographic reproducdona

If you have not neceived your copy please write for it today. Hipolito Scrcen Doors and Window Screenr are tilre choice of dealerc, contractors, and builderc for their superior quality and low price.

HIPOLIT O CO MPANY

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A. J. RUSSELL AT BOHEMTAN GROVE

A. J. Russell, manager of the Santa Fe Lumber Co. and prominent member of the Bohemian Club, is at the Bohemian Grove to attend the Annual Bohemian Club Jinx. The Bohemian play will be staged this year on Salurday evening, August 1. Mr. Russell will be back at his desk the first week in August.

BEN OSLIND LOOKS OVER CALIFORNIA MARKET

Ben Oslind, Coos Veneer & Box Co., Marshfield, Oregon, was a recent California visitor where he spent a few days looking over market conditions in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Districts. The Coos Veneer & Box Co. are manufacturers of the well known Port Orford Cedar Panels, with the H. B. Maris Panel Co. of San Francisco, and the California Panel & Veneer Co. of Los Angeles, acting as their California representatives.

LLOYD HARRIS RETURNS FROM VACATION

Lloyd Harris, representative of the Holmes-Eureka Lumber Co., is back on the job again after spending two weeks camping and fishing in the Redwood Region. He divided his time between Humboldt and Trinity Counties, where he said the fishing was very fine. He also spent a few days camping out in the Giant Redwoods at Richardson Grove.

S. L. SAYRE ON HIS VACATION

S. L. Sayre, Secretary and Treasurer of the Sterling Lumber Co., with headquarters in San Francisco, is on his summer vacation that will cover a period of three weeks. He expects to return to his desk around the first of the month.

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EARL CARLSON SPENDING FEW u|EEKS IN MOUNTAINS

Earl Carlson, San Joaquin Valley representative of the Santa Fe Lumber Co., is spending a two weeks' vacation in Shasta and Trinity Counties where he will try his luck at fishing. Earl will be back on the job again with a good line of new fish stories about the first of the month. Mrs. Carlson and their two boys accompanied him.

BIG TIMBER DEAL

Montesano, Wash.,, July 21.-One of the largest timber deals in the history of Grays Harbor logging operations was consummated here when the land, timber and equipment of the Wynooche Timber company and the Lamb Boom company were taken over by Schafer Brothers, Inc. The consideration was said to be nearly $4,000,000.

A new timber company was formed to be known as the Schafer Brothers' Timber company. Peter Schafer, pioneer lumberman of Southwestern Washington, will be president of the new firm.

FOREST LUMBER COMPANY BUYS KLAMATH FALLS PROPERTY

The Forest Lumber Company of Kansas City have recently acquired from L. B. Menefee, Portland, approximately 500,000,000 feet of Pine timber and the millsite of the Modoc Lumber Company in Klamath County, Oregon. The consideration was close to $1,000,000. It is the intention of the Forest Lumber Company to erect a modern mill on this property immediately.

ORDERS KILNS

The Robert Morton Organ Company of Berkeley, Calif., has just given an order to the Moore Dry Kiln Company for two Moore charge kilns to be installed at their plaht at Van Nuys, Calif. The Dry Kiln Construction Company of Los Angeles was awarded the contract for the kiln building.

The accuntc coiltruCtlon of Andcrcn Frane alao appcals to thc archi. tet, ss he knows his clicnt will have a snug: 6ttlng. ycai[61 1ig[g window. The Genuine White Pine uscd on all cxposed parts keeps thi! accutacy pemnent.

'Writc for latest lnforDrtioo on An d e r se n Standard Framcr, rtating wnetner you arc an architcct, buildcr. dcelcr or prorpective homc wnct.

Look for thk trede- mark-lt appearr oo cvcry Andcrren Framc.

K. A. MILLICAN ADDRESSES HOO-HOO CLUB NO. 9

K. A. Millican, President of the Pacific National Bank of San Francisco, was the Speaker of the Day at the regular Hoo-Hoo Luncheon held at the Palace Hotel on Thursday, July 9. His subject was "Three Points ofContact." Mr. Millican, who is an excellent speaker, stated that the three important points of contact in any business are the "Personal," "Qorrrespondence," and ttTelephonic." He spoke in detail how these important factors should be carried out by a successful business concern, and as his talk was injected with much humor, his remarks were thoroughly enjoyed by the large gathering.

Harry W. Gaetjen, Empire Planing Mill Co., was Chairman of the Day.' "Harry's own Trio," composed of his three childr:en, Norma Gaetjen, and Harold and Walter Gaetjen, furnished an excellent vocal and musical entertainment. Mrs. Gaetjen accompanied them on the piano.

President Rod Hendrickson presided over the business session. R. A. Hiscox made a report on the "On to Spokane" committee for the 34th Annual. Fred Roth made a report on the lloo-Hog Picnic that will be held at Kendall Dill on August 16. Bill Beebe was the winner of the Attendance Prize donated by G. W. Fraser, and Bob Gehring was the winner of the Attendance Prize donated by Bert Dimmick. R. W. Wilson. Chairman of the Fraternal Committee, announced that C. Stowell Smith, who is confined to the hospital in Oakland, is much improved in health,-and he also- reported the death of G.R. DeVore No. 170o1. President Hendrickson announced that the Club membership was now 196 and that he hoped to reach the 200 mark before September.

Fred Burgers, IJnion Lumber Co., will act as Chairman of the Day it the meeting on July 23. \4. W. Davis, Davis Hardwooil Co., will have charge of the first meeting in September.

INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY SPEAKERS TO FEATURE HOO-HOO ANNUAL PROGRAM

Realizing that many of the lumbermen who will travel long distances to attend the Thirty-fourth Hoo-Hoo Annual at Spokane will be interested in inspecting the big logging and manufacturing operations of the Inland Empire, the committees in charge are planning side trips to these operations as a special feature of the program.

Not only will these trips take the visiting lumbermen to the plants and mills, but to the vast stands of virgin timber as well.

Conservation and reforestation being among the principal interests of all Hoo-Hoo, these subjects will have a prominent place on the annual prog'ram. Authorities on the subject from the United States and Canada will speak.

The scenic wonders of the Pacific Northwest will be shown the visitors during their trips out of Spokane, and in these the ladies will find things of interest, while their hubbies are visiting the camps and mills.

Reduced rail rates will be effective from all points in the United States and Canada, according to R. S. Brown, chairman of the transportation committee. He has received assurance of the railroads that the certificate plan, providing one and one-half fare from points of origin west of the Missouri River, and including Western Canada, will be in effect. Summer tourist rates will allow the reduced fare from other points.

SEATTLE HOO HOO CLUB'S GOLF CHAMPION IS MARFIELD BALCOM

The winner of the first annual golf tournament of the Seattle Hoo Hoo Club was Marfield Balcom. who defeated Carl Blackstock in gaining that honor.

Twenty- Seven Initiated, TwentyThree Reinstated at Portland

Hoo-Hoo has really taken o'n a new lease of life in Portland. The concat staged July 9with Parson Simpkin in charge brought twenty-seven kittens and twenty-three old cats into the fold.

Vicegerent E. D. Kingsley led the nine, which was as follows: Charles E. Miller, Senior Hoo-Hoo; E. E. Hall, Iunior Hoo-Hoo; K. H. Koehler, bojum; W. H. Anderson, jabberwock; Wilson W. Clark, arcanoper; David Davis, scrinvenoter; W. B. Mack, custocation, and A. R. Baker, gurdon.

Spokane sent an invitation expressing the hope that a large number of Portland lumbermen would be able to attend the Thirty-fourth annual convention of the order, to be held in that city September 14-17, Portland Hoo-Hoo Club held its first luncheon July 15, and had a very good attendance.

VANCOUVER. B. C.. HAS CONCAT AND FORMS HOO-HOO CLUB

A big evening's work rvas accomplished at Vangouver July 10, when 60 kittens and 17 old-timers were elected to membership at a concatenation attended by 150.

Dinner was served at 6:30. J. A. Edgecumbe, vicegerent, presided, and his remarks drew attention to the fact that rvhile there are now 2O4 members, it was difficult to find the minimum number of nine to revive the Vancouver branch.

After the concatenation a Hoo-Hoo Club was formed. P. D. Roe was elected president, A. E. Robson and W. H. Tomlinson, r'ice-presidents, andHarold Hurndall secietary-treasurer.

An invitation was sent to Henry Isherwood, general secretary, $t. Louis, asking the delegates to the thirty-fourth annual convention at Spokane tovisit Vancouver.

PORTLAND HOO HOO CLUB ENTERTAINS NATIONAL AMERICAN WHOLESALERS

Officers of the National-American Wholesale l-umber Association visiting Portland for their midsummer meeting .were entertained at luncheon by the Portland Hoo Hoo Club July 21. The attendance wis large, and representative of all branches of the industry.

C!Ls._L. Iaindner presided ind brief addresses were given by, E. D. Kingsley, president, West Coast Lumbermen,s Association; Dwight Hinckley, president, National-American Wholesale Lumber Association; W. W. Schupner, secretary- of this association; Herbert A. Templeton, president Western Retail Lumbermen's Association, and A. W. Cooper, secretary and manager, 'Western Pine Manufacturers Association.

In his address Mr. Kingsley urged all his hearers to do theirpart towards conservation. Mr. Hinckley sketched rapidly the important work being done by his association, whose 800 members last year marketed 20 billion feet of lumber, and Mr. Schupner outlined in more detail the work of the various departments.

Mr. Templeton issued an invitation to the Portland Hoo Hoo Club to take charge of one of the sessions at the annual institute of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association to be held at Portland next February. This invitation was accepted by Chairman Lindner on behalf of the club.

LADY CADDIES FOR THE HOO-HOO

Visiting delegates to the Thirty-fourth Annual Convention of the Concatenated order of Hoo-Hoo rvill have the privilege of golfing on any of the Spokane Golf Courses. Special arrangements have been made by A. L. porter,

'chairman of the local entertainment committee. to have lady caddies for those playing at the Spokane Country Club. Twenty-five of Spokane's popular society girls have volunteered to act as caddies for the visiting golfers. It is predicted thatthis course will be very popular during the convention.

The convention will open September 13, with serviceb at St. Paul's Methodist Church, presided over by Parson P. A. Simpkins, National Chaplain. The morning of September 14 will be taken up with the registration of visitors. After lunch a flying trip will be made to near-by mills. In the evening, the Osyrian Cloister initiation will be held at the Davenport Hotel, followed by the Osyrian Cloister Banquet.

Business sessions proper will open September 15, to be follou'ed later in the day by a "Concat" for local candidates. A theater party will be given in the evening for visiting ladies.

September 16 will be giveh over entirely to business sessions and the Concatenation will be officially closed with a dinner dance, to be held at the Davenport Hotel in the evening.

All Hoo-Hoo Clubs in the Northwest are co_operating to make this the biggest convention ever held. An iiinerarv is being arrahged following the convention wl-rich will pei_ mit the visitors tovisitall the large mills and lumbeiing operations on the coast. This itinerary includes Seattlq Tacoma, Longview, Portland and Vanctuver. B. C.

Spokane, Washington. Jane 27, 1925. Presidents Hoo-Hoo Clubs.

Brothers:

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link_so let's have no weak links in the attendance committee for the 34th Annual Convention of Hoo-Ho", to f" held in Spokane, September 14 to 17.

- As you have been appointed one of this committee by our wo.rthy Secretiry-Treasurer, Brother Isher_ wood, and-by_all_doing their part, this year,s Annual can be made the best ever in fhe history of Hoo_Hoo. Write at least 25 of yoar friends perso-nal invitaaio;: 1o p9."t .you here. Circularize the members of your jurisdi-ction. Keep the dates before the membeis of your ctub, 1ld get them all to working, and tell them we want all lumbermen here, whethlr members of Hoo-Hoo or not. Tell thern what a wonderful vaca_ tion, a. trip -to the Northwest will be-wh.r. .""rr.rv abounds-also the educational part, where th.l;r;;:i remaining.forests of this courrtry now prevail ;;J lumber in its every stage of manuiacture Can be seen.

Last, but not least, the lumber interest of not only lpokane and the Inlapd Empire, but on the Coasi, Portland, Seattle, Tacoma and Vancou""r, "i"-U,irij ing to entertain them and conduct them to various places of interest.

We want 9999 to be with us, September 14 to 17, so all get together and put it over. -

Help-Help-and Cohe, bringing a delegation with you.

Fraternally,

Gen. chai rm"n, p,,Du, ili,f ?3311".. DCS-FB.

P A N E L S

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Shingles and Climate

By Jack Dionne

This article is written for the purpose of driving {urther and further home the thought that California should use more wooden shingles, and should use BETTER wooden shingles, to the end that it may use more wooden shingles.

But it is likewise written for the purpose of mentioning in passing the fact that this California climate makes possible the use of certain building materials that couldn't possibly be used with success anywhere else on earth.

It is just possible that some of the lumbermen of California do not rcalize their many blessings, and that those who do may not rcalize the unusual quality of their blessedness, and we want them to fully understand how thoroughly the Lord has his arm around this state, when it comes to climate and building materials.

I have been criticising California lumbermen for selling too few shingles, and have uttered the thought several times that if they sold BETTER shingles, they would sell MORE shingles.

The fact is that if it were not for this most "unusual" climate of California, they would be absolutely EORCED to sell better shingles, to a considerable degree, at least.

whv?

Because a roof will stand for years in California, keep out the rain and the weather, and give excellent servicecomparatively speaking-thatwould not stand up anywhere else on earth.

Same way with other building materials. I have seen a house thrown together in California in the flimsiest way possible, low grade two by three framework, cull sheeting, a layer of common chicken wire, and then a layer of stucco, and pronto ! We have a home.

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And we, who see building done in other climes and other climates, raise our hands in horror and cry-"How many days will it stand ?" And we come back at the end of five years and discover that it still stands, that it still looks good, that there isn't a crack apparent in it, and the "home sucker" who bought the shell from the rascally builder still thinks he has the best house in town, because nothing has happened to make him think otherwise.

If you built a house of that sort in Texas, the rain would fall and drench it, and then the sun would blaze out upon the wet materials and kiln-dry it, and it would crack wide open in a few days. And then the wind would come along and blow it into fragments.

And so it would in most other climates, except California. A lot of the sorriest rascals that ever built homes that were in fact "whited sepulchres filled with all uncleanness," have operated in Southern California, and thousands of victims remain blissfully ignorant of the fact that they are living in houses that wouldn't stand up three months in any other territory on the globe.

And this statement is made calmly and seriously, without any idea of humor or exaggeration.

Now, a wooden shingle is an ideal roof. A 6 to 2 Star shingle is a far better roof than a world of the roofs that are sold for more noney. A Star shingle in this California climate lasts longer than it does anywhere else, and gives better satisfaction than it does anywhere else. It does not have to stand the strain that comes in climates where high temperatures and heavy rains go together. It is the soaked shingle, suddenly exposed to heavy sun glare, that catches the Deuce. That doesn't happen in California, where the rain comes in the cool weather.

And undoubtedly a thin wooden shingle will last longer and give a better roof than it will anywhere else.

But the Lumbermen of California specialize too particularly in the thin shingle. They do not give their trade enough variety. They do not give them enough opportunity to choose between that and better shingles. They do not offer their trade a service that their trade is entitled to, in the opportunity to see and choose-if they wishthicker, longer, better quality shingles, that will be better suited to their purposes, more in keeping with the homes they are to cover, etc.

There IS a change going on. Within the past two weeks I have had the pleasure of seeing long, beautiful, thick shingles being placed on new and beautiful homes in Southern California. There are some very active forces at work in the state in behalf of these better shingles.

And there will be more of them. I predict it freely. By the end of this year you will see high grade wooden shingles being offered the building trade in every spot in California. Then the trade will have the right and the chance to make their choice.

But the man who builds a roof in California and wants a wooden shingle, has a right to be shown a variety of shingles, told the price of the various kinds, and permitted to choose. In the past such a man has had only one choice in most districts of California-thin wooden shingles, or some other roof.

Which is plainly and manifestly an injustice to the shingle business, and to the lumber industry.

A good shingle roof, well nailed and constructed, will last longer than the man who builds it, regardless of his present age. He should know that fact. He should see the better shingles. Then, if he still wants the thin shingle, the lumberman will have done his duty, and the builder will have been properly served.

GIANTTREE PROVES I\{INT

Cannon Beach, Ore., July l.-George Walker recentlv 9ug .tp the giant redwood tree which-has lain embeddei in the sands near Elk creek at Cannon Beach fo. v"a* He worked fortwo days with a team and scraper 6"f.;; he was able to move the tree. Mr. Walker esUmater-it ai he has taken nearly $3,000 worth of lumber out of thu-ifi and has cut 30 circular dining room table tops, wortt a-f, proximately $75 each.

This tree was 8 feet through and 50 feet long. Louis Burke_reported that.he saw the tree lying in the sime;il;; rn 166/, ancl accordlng to the number of rings it wai SZ7 years old.. For years people -have been Uuiia;ne U."n.", ft:Ti:.i. and picnicking in its shelter withouf ,;;ii;G

Yes! 1,0001000 Feet of Hardwood Flooring Always in Stock at Woodyts Warehouse.

Woody knowsthat hardly anyone will need a MILLION FEET OF HARDWOOD FLOOR-, ING, but he also knows that SUPER-ADL QUATE STOCKS enable him to fiil ANY order without delay.

DON'T WONDER!

"Whetter Woody has it." Just phone Woody and PLACE THE ORDER.

Phoner AX- 5722 AX O24r

HARDW(X)D FLOORING DEPARTMENT

Member Buililers' Exchange of Los Angeiu

Another Building Record

San Francisco spent $1059,971 more in new construction work during the fi}st six months of 1925 than during the corresponding period of last year, according to a compilation just announced by the Information Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce. Expenditures involved in new buildings during the first half of this year amounted to $27,2I7,64l-as compared with $26,157,67O from January to June, 1924.

The Chamber's compilation also shows a gain of.Zfi-permits during the same period, there having been-issued-5,647 permits to" date this year as compared with 5,391 during the corresponding period of last year.

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

At the next general election California will vote on the proposed adoption of an amendment to the state constitution^ which would provide for tax exemption of certain trees, including "all lmmature forest trees which have been planted on lanls hot previously bearing merchantable timLer, or planted or of nltural growth, uPon lands from which the meichantable original growth timber stand to the extent of seventy per c-nt of all trees over sixteen inches in diameter has been removed." A proviso is added stating that "forest trees or timber shall be considered mature for the purpose of this act at such time, after forty years from the ilmi of planting or removal of the original timber."

MICHIGAN; Yield Tax-Michigan passed what is considered to be an improved yield tax measure. By some it is considered excellent and adequate, by others as inadequate and probabty futile. Private lands, upon application by the owner to the Department of Conservation, may be ilassified as commercial forest reserves. Such lands are not, thereafter, subject to the ad valorem general property tax, but shall be subject to an annual specific tax of 5 cents per acre on pine lands, 1O cents per acre on hardwood lands, and a 25 per cent yield tax based on the stumpage value at the time of cutting' The State aids the countGs in which classified land is located by'giving to each countv annually a warrant on the State Treasurer for an n-ouilt equal tb 5 cents per acre for all lands so classified.

USES EDITORIAL

Mr. T. H. Edwards, Vice President of the Northwestern Mutual Fire Association, in a recent letter to all field men of his company, used the text of Mr. Dionne's editorial, "About Being a Good Salesman But a Poor Collector."

Mr. Edwards commented on the piece, saying that the idea is keen and true. He said that collections are just as essential as sales, in any line of business, and urged men in his organization to make special effort to so train themselves.

Random Lengths and Remarks

!1I. W.WILKINSON ADDS ANOTHER LINE

Mr. W. W. Wilkinson, Los Angeles wholesaler, in the fnsurance Exchange Building, has just completed arrangements with the Metropolitan Redwood Company of San Francisco to represenf this large concern exclusively in Southern California.

Mr. Robert Reed, formerly with the Albion Lumber Company, has become identified with Mr. Wilkinson in the sales department, handling the redwood department.

A. A. OHLIN VISITS COAST

Mr. A. A. Ohlin, assistant manager of the Lumbermen's Reciprocal Association of Houston, Tex., was a California visitorthis month, spending several days with their Los Angeles representative, T. W. Jacobs, and with Mr. E. J. Brockmann at San Francisco.

WEST COAST LUMBERMEN'S ASSOCIATION GOLF TOURNAMENT

The annual West Coast Lumbermen's Association golf tournament will be held August 28, following the August meeting of the association, which will be at Gray's Harbor, August 27. This tournament was won two years ago by George Duncan, president of the Duncan Lumber Company, at Portland, and lpst year was woh by A. L. Paine of the National Lumber-and Manufacturing Company.

JACUMBA FrRM 3.9:?iyAREHousE oN

Jacumba Hot Springs, July 17.-The J. E. Peck Lumber company, which has lumber yards in Imperial Valley and a branch in Jacumba, has just completed the construction of a large warehouse at the San Diego & Arizona railway station here. The warehouse will be used for the storing of cement, lime and other building materials received by railway for distribution in this section.

Large quantities of cement are used by the Peck company in the manufacture of conduit and building blocks at its plant adjoining the lumber yard in Jacumba.

CARGOES AT VENTURA WHARF

The Ventura wharf was the scene on June 16 of much lumber activity, when the Steamer Stout discharged a half million feet of lumber for the Sun Lumber Co.,.and as she cleared for another cargo in the north, the lumber steamer Cricket took her place at the dock with another half million feet or more for the People's Lumber Company, and the Sun Lumber Company. The latter's cargo is said to be one of the largest ever discharged at Ventura.

MAT'THARRISBACK FROM CLEVELAND CONVENTION

Matt Harris, Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco, and President of 'the San Francisco Rotary Club, is back at his desk again after attending t!-e Annual Convention of the Rotary-Clubs at Cleveland-. He r'eports that the Convention this year was very largely attended and that they had a wonderful time, 6ut the-temperature in the Central States was a little too hot for him and he was glad to get back to San Francisco again.

FIRST

YEAR OF SOFTWOOD STANDARDIZATION SHOWS LARGE SUPPLY AND DEMAND FOR A.L.S. LUMBER

"I am elad to tell you that the survey made by the Central Cominittee on Lumber Standards shows that during the past quarter the Standards already established have been used in the movement of the vast bulk of the lumber in the country. This is indeed an astonishing success. It has been estimated by responsible members of the industry that the waste already eliminated by this work runs into millions vearly. Whaiever it may be it is just as important to the pubtic- and the industry as a reduction of taxes"' (From Secretary Hoover's opening address May 1, General Standardization Conference.)

CENTRAL COMMITTEE URGES CO.OPERATION AS SECOND YEAR OF AMERICAN LUMBER STANDARDS OBSERVANCE OPENS

Washington, July 16-July 1 marked the beginning of the second yeai oi the sbftwood lumber industry's per{ormance uttder American Lumber Standards. The notable progress made in this movement in every lumber manutuciurine and consuming section of the country, as shown bv reoor-ts t othe Central Committee during the past twelve montirs. is a certain indicator for the lumber industry of the trpward trend of Progress.

^After nearly a-century of diversifying, the brakes have been placed on needlessly multiplying of a variety of lumber sizes, grade names, patterhs, workings-and -shipping oractices and the lumber industry has settled on less comolicated methods in the way of economy in production and in conserving his source of supply, and better for the consumer in being able to secure a uniform reliable product.

BOB TATE WED

Robert L. (Bob) Tate of the Tate Itumber-Company, I{untinston Park,'and Miss Reba Copeland of the same citv weie married at Riverside on July 7.

These wonderful panels are especially adapted for high-class enameling. Free from insect and bug activity, and an ideal wood for closetlinings.

Terrible, If True

Many tales have spread across the c-ountry about Los Angeles and all- of Southern California, but it rvas lefi to the Portland "Oregonian" to print the most amusing of the lot.

In a recent issue they had this to say:

"A slump has certainly hit Los Angeles," states Edward Hunter of Seattle, where- he is interested in the lumber business. "I paid 150 for a small apartment the winter. a ylear ago. and t-his past winter I got the same accommodations for $65. One LoJAngeles hotel has closed two floors and another has closed one floor. The effects of the real,restate boorh are apparent. A friend of mine paid $11,500 for-a lot 50 bv ll0 i,iet. He put up a house on it, five rooms, otf light construction that i could duplicate for $3500, and sold it for $35'000' but the other day he had to take it back. There are sections two miles from a car line where the district i's built upt with $25.000 and $35,0@ houses and there are no sewers' Thev h"rre gas and electricity, however, but it is a long way to go to wo-rk for the owneis. The collapse was bound to come, for the hish point had to be reached some time and those who held 6n ire still holding the sack. I walked down Seventh street from Figueroa for five blocks one morning last week and I was the-only man in sight. I counted 50 emptv stores in another district that was formerlv a busv section. I stepped into a fruit stand and dealer asked me what had happened, for mine was the only sale he had made up to that holi' since opening, and there had been no people going by. The peoole have not gone to Los Angeles the past winter as thev -have been doine for years, and the effect is noticeable on business, and this,ln connection with the real estate slump. has given the city somewhat of a set-back."

R. M. PRICE NOvt' WITH E. K. WOOD

Mr. Rankin M. Price, brother-in-law of Fred E. Cohner, and formerly of the Sacramento Lumber Company, has secured a position with the E. K. Wood Lumber Companv of Oakland

W. R.

. Dbtributing Agentr for ClerL-NicLcrrron Lurnbcr Coo EvcrctgfV9ub.

Dcmprcy Lunbor Cor Trcomr, Warh.

Dcdrncc Lurnbcr Coo Trcomr, \f,ferh.

Fcrr5r Balrcr L-rbcr Coo Evcrctt' lVuh.

Littlc Riva Rcdwood Co' Hunboldt Bry.

909 Porter Bldg.

N. W. Bank Bldg. Po*land, Ore.

We Specialize in Grayr Harbor OLD GROWTI{ YELLOW FIR Finish and Vertical e'rain Ffoorhg.

lf you like e:rtra good quality Rd Cedar Shingles we can furnbh tlrcm"

WEST OREGON PLANING MILL AND DRY KILNS DAMAGED BY FIRE

A fire of undetermined origin damaged the Planing Mill and Dry Kilns of the West Oregon Lumber Co. at Linnton, Oregoq on July 16. The mill and yard stocks of the West Orefon Lurirb6r Co. were not damaged by !!r-e fire. The Beaier Linnton Mill, which adjoined the West Oregon Lumber Co. plant, was entirely clestroyed by_fire.-

M. L. Euphrat, of the Wendling-Nathan Lumber Co., San Francisio, Northern California representatives of the West Oregon Lumber Co., states that mill officials will replace thJ damaged Planing Mill and Dry Kilns. 4t 1!" mill and yard stocks were not.damaged, he-says that his company -will continue shipmeirts from the West Oregon Lumber Co. into the California market.

McCORMICK OFFICIALS VISIT SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE

R. C. Merryman, Los Angel'es; Ernest Meyer,,Manager of the Portland Office; John Olson, Manager of the Los Angeles Office; and J.W. Thompson,-Assistant Manager of fhe company's miil operationJ at St. Helens, Oleg^on, *ere recent-visitors at the company's San Francisco Office, where they spent a few days conferring with Chas. R. McCormick. Fresiaent of Cha3. R. McCormick & Co., on business matters.

HUGH HANDLEY SPENDING VACATION AT GOLD LAKE

Hugh Handley, of the Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co' Sales -Department, San Francisco, is on a two weeks' vacation at Cbta f-ate. Mrs. Handley and children accompanied him to the Lake. Hugh will return about the first of the month, and ashe generally brings back some pleasant wild game experiences, his many friends are anxious to find o-ut what incounters he had this summer while in the mountains.

& GO.

Fo r 15 Ye ars

THISINSTITUTION HAS BEEN SUPPLYING SASH, DOORS AND WINDOW SCREEN PRO. DUCTS TO THE TRADE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. WE HAVE AN ENVIA.BLE REPUTATION FOR FAIR DEALING, WELL MANUFAC. TURED AND ACCURATELY GRADED MATERIALS, OUR SERVICE NEVER VARIES, AND WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS.

Hepburrl-Topham Mill Co.

176 E. SLAUSON

LOS ANGELES

AXridge 011GO117

MY FAVORITE STORIES

By lack Dionnc

Age not guaranteed-Some I have told for 2O years-Some less.

A Few Scotch Gags

"Caddy, what's your name?"

"Sandy, Sir."

"Sandy, are you a guid caddy?"

ttl am.tt

"And Sandy, are you guid at finding balls?"

ttl am-tt

"Well Sandy, hurry up and find one, and we'll start to play."

t***

"What is the hardest thing on earth to find?"

"A Scotchman on tag day."

BIG TIMBER

Priccr NOW: l5r3ll ino $250; 21h30 in, S35l; lSxfl in' $6.00; 20160 or 31}140 in, $75|L Exl0 printr, $6 pcr doz. Mailed on Approval to Responsible Lumbemen

JOHN D. CRESS, "Forest Fotografe/'

"Have you heard of the latest use for German Marks?"

"\ll/hat.is it?"

"The Scotch are using them to tip their caddies."

***

"Hour did the Scotchman commit suicide?"

"fn true Scotch fashion."

"flow was that?"

"I{e went over to a neighbor's house and turned on the gas.

Sees Bright Outlook

Carl R. Gray, President of the Union Pacific System, in a speech before the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, at Washington, said:

"I have just completed a trip of three weeks through the West. It is my firm belief that fundamentally bus-iness conditions are better now than at any time since the War. For obvious reasons buying is restricted, but by and large, crop prospects are favorable, prices promise well, the banks have money, and credits are readily obtain-able for proper business vCntures. I believe that we shall have good business throughout the West in the late summer and fall."

Makc Your (Xffcc Attncdvc by l}irPlay|nl

Photo Enlergcncntr of Wondcrful Qurlity. Douglar Fir, Ccdrr, Sprucc, HcmlocL. Logging Sccncr or Sew Mill Vicwr.

liII Seventh Avcnuc Scattle, Warhington

Mcmbcrs of Californitt Redutood Assochtion

rc$AIIGDI,ESWf,OLE$AI,DNS

SmitL, A. W, Lunbcr Co.

327 Bartlctt Bldr. .......MAir tllf

Suddca & CLrirtenron

9lXl Brrtlctt Bldg. ......MAia 3l0C

Trconr Phaing MiIl

915 E. 6i2nd St. ... .......Axrid3c ll?l

Twohy Lunbcr Co.

.MEtro. 3332

Forgie, Robt.

523 Central Bldg. .VAndikc E229

Fruit Growcm' Supply Co.

7ll Corrolidetcd Blds. ..,..TRinitt IOll

Gcrnain Lumbcr Co.

6Ol Trenrportrtion Bldg. ......BRoedrrr.y ZJ27

Golding Lbr. Co, Fred

609 Central Bldg. ..TUcLcr tl,ll

Hrnnoad Lbr. Co.

2010 So. .dlancdr St.

R.

- _1100 Lane Mortgagc Bldg. .......TRinity SZf

McCullough Lbr. Co.

Chamber of Commerce Bldg..........TRinity 0296

Ncttlcton Lbr. Co.

^ 725 Bank ltaly Bldg. .....TRiaity ZgOl

Oregon Lbr. Agency

E. 62nd St. .. . .......AXridgc t374

Pacific Lumber Co.

Standard Oil Btdg. ..VAndike 8532

Rcd River Lurrber Co.

E. Slaueon .......MEtro. lllBs

Redwood Manufacturcrr Co,

318 E. 3rd St.

Sentr Fc Lumbcr Co.

6lll Bertlctt Bldg. .

Sladc Lunber Co.

828 Ven Nuyr Blds.

.VAndikc l8?2

.FAbcr 156l

.MEho. tElS

A HANDY DIRECTORY FOR

_- ^22|_KcrcLhofr Blds. ....BRoedrry 0Cll

Uaion Lunbcr Co.

___ ho" Mortgagc Btdg. .. ..TRinity 22!t

Wuhington Lunbc,r & Miltwork Co.

ItOl Evcrett Plecc ..DElrwrrc 58f

l\fcadling-Nathen Co.

?116 Staadrrd Oil Bldg. ..VAndikc E5E2

W. W. Wilkinron

l2ll Inrurencc Erchangc Bldg - ., .TUckcr l43l

\ilillienr & Coopcr

___ f/0-7 lrurt & Srvingr Bldg... ......TUchcr 5ttl

lVood, E. K, Lumbcr Co.

l70l Sentr Fc Avc. .......AXd&c !61 HARDWOODS

Ancricrn Herdwood Co.

tillo E. lsth St. .......HUnbolr lttt

Brown, Rollinr A.

6lX6 Carloa Ave. ., ..GRaaite 1612

Cadwallader Gibron Co. Inc.

819 E. 59th St. ..... ...AXridgc 2l0l

Coopcr, lV. E, Lumbcr Co.

aBs E. lsth St. ..i.......HUEbolt lttg

Grippcr, Jcromo C.

756So._SprinsSJ.. .......TRinityl|{0S

Hammond Lumber Co,

2010 So. rdlameda St. .......HUnbolt l5gl

Kcllo3g Lumbcr Co. of CrL

5Zl Central Bldg. . ....VAndihc E2i,5=

Kolambrigan Lbr. & Dcv. Co.

910 Central Bldg. ..TUckcr 9126

Netional Hardwood Co.

631 Aliro St. ......MAtn ttDl

Nickey Bror. lnc. . ilm So. Park Ave. ..THornwall 1197 'Stuton, E. J, & Son.

3Eth and Alancdr Str ....AXrid3o tZn

\lfcrtcrn Herdwood Lumbcr Co.

20t1 E. lsrh st. ........HUubolr 63il 'if,/cie, Gcorgc F, & Co.

___--Prod-u-cc Bldg.. BRoadway Zl3E

Wilron, riln. M.. Lumbcr Co.

2OS7 E. lsth St. ........TRi!ity .8ta

Woodhead Lumber Comprny

5720 So. Main St. .:...... .AXridgt SZi&, SASH AND DOORS

Anerican Door Co.

4322 Moncta Avc. ....HUnbolt Cllt

Bcnir & Cowan

5059 So. Hoovcr .....UNivcnit, ZfSl

Glarby & Co.

zlm E.25th St. .HUnbolt 65?

Hammond Lumber Co.

2010 So. Alameda St. .......HUmbott l5gl

Hattcn, T. B, Co.

1600 E. Warhington .....HUnbolt 5CCZ

Kochl, Jno. W, & Son

652 So. Andcrson .ANgclur 16'lll

Koll, H. W, & Co.

432 Colyton ...MEtro. llilCtl

Lillard, Mark W.

O{93 Stanford Ave. ...THornwall E244

Pecific Coart Con'c'l Co.

4616 So. Main . ..AXridso !510

Pacific Door & Saeh Co.

3216 So. Main

ll/crtern Sarh & Door Co.

160l E. 25th St. .HUmbolt 2it$Z

Wheeler-Oegood Co.

1617 E. l6th St. ..HUmbolt tCef SCREENS

Hipolito Company, 2lrt and Alameda Str. .HUmbolt 3695

THE BUSY LUMBERMAN

Oakland Building Record Hits High Mark

Oakland is enjoying an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, with indications pointing to a new high record for 1925; so prove statistics gathered from various sourc€s for the fiscal year ending June 30.

Building permit records, an ever reliable source of informaticin regarding growth of a community, bear out the claim that Oakland is the fastest growing city of its size in the United States. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, building permit totals reached $36,028,262, an increase of $7,744,149 over the previous period ending June 3O, t924, which had a total ol $?3,84,113.

Following is a comparison of the two twelve-month periods:

RECIPROCAL IIVSUR/NCE-

what it is:

Reciprocal insurance viewed from a baric etandpoint is self-insurance put into practical operation by a large body of employere.

Reciprocal insurance while participating in its bene6ts, restricts and confines ite contingent liability and even this contingency in our organization is de6nitely controllcd and sct aside by thc cxcess and aslessment re-inrurance which we carry.

Rcciprocal ingurance ie placcd thru an agreement in which every obligation is clearly sct forth and known before the insurancc is placed.

.THE UPSONIZER' USES LUMBER MERCHANT EDITORIAL

Under the heading "There's Profit in Porches," the current issue of "The lJpsonizer" the beautiful monthly magazine issued by The Upson Company, of Lockport, N. Y., reprints an original sleeping porch editorial formerly used in "The California Lumber Merchant."

The article is not only reprinted, but it is delightfully illustrated, showing how porch additions may be made with the use of Upson Board. And with a little editorial boosting The Lumber Merchant article, there is also a nice little porch boosting letter prepared by The Upson Company for the lumber dealer to use in suggesting new porches to his trade, which reads as follows:

Dear Homester:-

How would you like to speel in the Great Wide Open Spaces with the comfort of being at home ?

Round here, at our office, we have photographs and plans of some beautiful porches where people do that very thing. These porches are lined with Upson Board, the nearest perfect wall and ceiling material.

It is waterproofed to resist the elements, and is guaranteed not to warp or break if properly applied.

Drop in and see us, or let us call and show you how we can transform your sleeping porch with Upson Board-it won't cost very much.

Yours for More Ozone, BLANK LUMBER COMPANY

Rcciprocal ingurance supported by cxccts and acecsmcnt rc-insurancc is a fundamentally "oorrd, cquitably benefrcial, and cverlaatingly enduring ryctem of protection.

Thie dependable form of completc covcrag+and no other-ic offered by ur.

COMPENSATION INSURANCE FOR

COST

LUMBERMEN-AT

GEO. R. CHRISTIE, Gcacrrl Mrnr3cr Honc OEcc HOUSTON, TEXAS

lVorLmcn'r Conpcnretion Inrurtucc San Frencirco Branch Lor .A,a3clcr Brrnch E70 MonrdnocL Building 51,{ Ccatnl Building

qrood lurnbcr quiclr?

TIC0ttlI Filtsll

Ttcoiil PmilrG ml[s, llc., Ttc0ill

Direct MilI Shipmentr or Truck tord Lots

From Orr Loo Angeler Warehoure.

9rS E 62nd St AXridge 1374

e carloed or e rticlcl

UA]I ARSDALE-HARRIS

IUiIBER GOIIPilIY

5th and Brannen Sb., San Francirco

WHOLESALERIi

with complctc rtoctn on hud in rll gndcc, both orrdinrry end unururl rizcr:

PORT ORFORD WHITE CEDAR

SUGAR PINE

WHITE PINE

DOUGLAS FIR

REDWOOD PATTERN STOCK

REDWOOD (wor&cd)

SPRUCE

STRATGHT OR MIXED CARS-DRY STOCK

BRADLEY BRAND HARDIlIOODS

Scientific Liln drtfug prercrvcl products ntuletr beautiful quelitieq

within rturdy while

our and

Modenr machinery and filled human effort iuetifies our elogari

TRY US FOR

OAK FI.OORTNG

GUM FLOORING

WHITE OAK TRIM

RED GUM TRIM

CASING BASE

OAK WAGON STOCK

BEECH FLOORING

AROMATIQUE CEDAR LINING

RED OAK TRIM

SAP GUM TRIM

MOULDINGS

GUM F1JRNITURE STOCK

Furniture Stock in Setr CUT TO SIZE Rcady to Aremble

Flat Surfacce Hardwood Trim Sandcd

BRADTEY LUMBER C(). OF ARKAT.ISAS WARREN . ARKANSAS

C. nil. Clark, Reprercntative l.oe Nrry.1e3

Chicago Ltrmbcr.C.o. of Wash San Fnncirco

oscAR JoHNSON SPENDTNG HrS VACATTON rN HIGH SIERRAS

Oscar Johnson, Albion Lumber Co., San Francisco, is on his summer vacation which he will spend this year in the High Sierras. After attending the Annual Picnic of the -Albion Lumber Co. mill employees, he hiked ofi for the mountains to spend the balance of the time trout fishing. He will return to his desk around the middle of the month.

BAY DISTRICT LUMBERMEN ATTEND KNIGHT .TEMPLARS CONVENTION

Fred Roth, J. H. McCallum, San Francisco; W. E. Rampe, Hart-Wood Lumber Co., San Francisco; and E. W. Holmberg, Coos Bay Lumber Co., San Francisco, are in Seattle attending the Knight Templars Convention. -At the conclusion of the Convention, they r'vill spencl about tr,r'o weeks touring through Washington and Oregon, and also visiting several of the large Northwest mill operation".

J. M. WHrTE A SAN FRANCTSCO VISTTOR

J. \,I. White, manager of the Weed Lumber Co., Weed. was a recent San Francisco visitor where he spent a few days looking over market conditions. He attended the meeting of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9 on luly 23, the guest of Kenneth Smith, San Francisco Manager of the Long-Bell Lumber Co.

ED. AND OTT HELLER SPENDING

FEW WEEKS ATTHEIR RANCH

Ed. Heller, manager of the Sterling Lumber Co., at Los Gatos, and Ott Heller, his brother, Assistant Manager df the Sterling Lumber Co., at Mountain View, are spending their summer vacation at their ranch near Hollister. They expect to resume their work again about the first of the month.

ALBION TUMBER CO. REDlYOOD

FULL STOCKIi GREEN LUMBER

COMMON AND UPPERII AT [trr I s.

AIR DRY UPPERIT AT SAN PEDRO

Mrin Srlcr O6cc

Hobrrt Bldg. SAN FRANCISCO

Lor Angelcr Officc

397 Prcific Elcctric Bld3. Phonc TUchct 5Tl9

Memben California Reduaod Ascociotion

SAN DIEGO

Ut Spr"cclotr Bld3.

Mrin AllS

"If lt's Bradley's lt's Better"

A Milliorr lor lfile.High Qualfty

AFTER three vears of la. sxpbring, testing, prospecting hundreds of sample ores, the Blue Diamond Company an nounces the openingof its ne\il g\rpsum deposit

On a mountaintop inthe middle of the American desert, it was the most ex, pensive and inaccessible deposit available, yet rich. est in quality and quantity.

To develop it necessitated eleven miles of railroad, eight miles of trlck road" a giant tramway, bunkers, living qrrarters, machin.

ery...a cost of over $1,OOO,OOO.

BlueDiamonds ultra modern Loe Angeles plaster mill is assured a constant supply of gyp6um-pure, white, rrniform and ungur. passed.

l. Afiw bolnts to ncu Rfuc D,amo d,gr|smilefusia

2.Rcryb of fit*btc, thotol dymmircdaqunt 3.Quhedgpsum flwitginto ant-wtictaF'€'r.ot trdmu4r.

4 5. Aeri,al btckct grqbbing a lwil of " gtp,' ard t,g;td;ng on itt long rad,e dow thc tmuia4in qe tle 48OO.fl ttomwa!.

6. Yitru. of ich, pute tein of white gyp*m.

7. Big rccks skilirg into wha.

8. Pattiol oiw of whas and cnoe5mts at edge ol qefit ,1@J,

Nothing could be better fer pattern stock and planing mill lumber for all purpoEea, than our wide, thick, soft textured lumber. lt comes from California Sugar Pine trees, which are famous for their exceptional size and quality

One Hundred Page Plan Book

Three Colors on Cover

CONTAINING_

rTT FLOOR PLANS OF ONE STORY HOMES

25 PLANS OF TWO STORY, DOUBLE BUNGALOWS, FLATS, GARAGES, ETC.

IT'S THE_ MOST PRACTICAL MOST ATTRACTIVE MOST COMPLETE PLAN BOOK EVER CREATED

For a $f .00 bill we will send you a copy together with prices on these books in quantities with your name and advertising copy on both the front and bach outside covers.

MRS. A. B. HAMMOND DIES

Mrs. A. B. Hammond, rvife of A. B. Flamtnond, prominent Pacific Coast lumberman and President of the Hammond Lumber Co., died at San Francisco on Saturday, July 25. Funeral services were held from the family home, 2252 Broadway, on Tuesday, July 28. Mrs. Hammond is survived by her husband, A. B. Hammond; four daughters, Mrs. Frank B. King, Mrs. Florence H. Whiteside, IVlrs. W. S. Burnett, and Miss D. E. Hammond, and a son Leonard E. Hammond.

Another Million Dollar Job Finished in Superior Brand Oak Flooring

Tbc Scurity Apertro.otr ia llollywood, CeliroNrt. er. rmng thc finc* in that lamue city. They werc rmdy completed et e ccol acerly$2,0o0,(XD with the dcfrofte obiective ol creatiag e group ol living quarters which ehould be the laet word in @rrect 4pointmeotand decorative echeme.

Seeking the best ob tainable material with which to 0oor the roomg ol this exclueive home oommunityr

wae chos. using the Select (luanered in tl/16' x l%' lae, giving a mircrnooth flor oI re beautl.

Hm is.enother iaaane ol the etadilr inmeiDgrcputstionlor mit which Suerior Bmd ir outantlv buildiu Tf,e wordol-mourh endoment ol the who hevc mviouely u*d it ha proien e nost ptoffoble rtimulator oI sles-ad oI ercial beoefft to ibo* dealea-who ouids it aa indispcuble ito oI their rcgrilar sto"k Thc srciffc leatw which re a mrt oI Supcrior Bmd muufactuie arc clcarly explain d iD ow interediDg bol!* uitrcn speially Ic dolm Your epy will be sert Ire on rcq@Et.

' On @hat shlll @e qaote?

SUPERIOR OAK FLOORING COMPANY

HeIena, altkansas

Pdfic Cusl RcPwalallra

R A. BROWN.6o46 Carlo Ave., Iac Angela

THEODORE KNAPPEN A .CALIFORNIA VISITOR

Theodore Knappen, connected with the Publicity Department of National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Washington, D. C., was a recent California visitor. During his visit here, he spent several days in Los Angeles and San Francisco attending to Association business matters.

J. C. HAMTLTON NOW ASSOCTATED WrTH FYFE LUMBER CO.

Joseph Fyfe, manager of the Fyfe Lumber Co., announcrls that J. C. Hamilton is now associated with the Fyfe Lumber Co. and will act as manager of their Domestic Lumber Department. Mr. Hamilton has been connected with the lumber industry on the Pacific Coast for many years, and was formerly Iocated at Raymond, Washington.

R. \v. CONDON A SAN FRANCISCO VISITOR

R. W. Condon, general manager of the Puget Mills Co., Seattle, was a recent San Francisco visitor where he spent a few days at the offices of Chas. R. McCormick & Co. The Puget Mills Co. operated the Pope & Talbot mills, at Port Ludlow and Port Gamble, which were recently taken over by Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. of Delaware.

JUNTUS BROWN BACK AT NEW YORK HEADQUARTERS

Junius Brown, manager of the New York Office of the Pacific Lumber Co. has returned to New York after his recent business trip of a few weeks to the Pacific Coast. While on the Coast, he was a visitor.at the company's San Francisco and Los Angeles offices and also made a trip to the mill at Scotia. On his way east, he spent a few days at their Chicago office, before proceeding on to New York.

It Poys To Buy "NB QUALITY"

The unvarying quality of Veneer made under the NB Brand never fails in its favorable impression upon the wood worker, the retailer and the consumer who buys it.

High standards of practice in Nickey Brothers' Yards assures every buyer of Hardwoods that NB Quality really means "NONE BETTER."

"NB" Branil Oah Flooting

Office qnd Yards

6420 South Park Avenue Phone THornwall 1197

and Cornpany

SO. SALES OFFICE

7TI VAN NUYS BI.DG., LOS ANGELES, TRiDitr ?5el

Inquirico rolicitcdUnlinitod crprcity- Supcrior rcrvic> Cr13o ud Reil Shipmcntr

Old Growth Clcar*Grccs or Kiln Dricd Spccial Cutting Ordcrr-TinbcrrBorrdr end Dincnrion.

l$ Squrrc Pec\ \lfirc-ticd LethMenufecturcd to Strict SpecificetiorrErpccirlly for Celiforaie Tndc.

MODERNTZED MILLS

with Ancient Yarding Methodr

In many mills where latest methods and machinery are used in every department of the plant proper, the yard is left to shift with methods a century oldl

Often some device that will aave a Eecond in an opcration or add a cent to profits is adopted in the mill while methode that waste hours and dollars are allowed to continue in the yard.

The Hilke Lumber Piler puts your yarding operations on an efficiency basis. It effects numeroun savingsti m e, labor, expenae, damage to lumber, etc.

You ought to havc catalog and particular:. A llnc will bring thep. MURRY JACOBS CO.

Dirtributon

69 Columbia St. SEATTLE lZl Monednoch Bldg, SAN FRANCISCO 7rl,l Audubon Bldgo NEW ORLEANS

LUMBER MILLS BUSY

The lumber industry in the Butte county section is in full swing with 1200 men employed in the camps and mills. Operation of anight shift by one company has brought the average daily cut to 500,000 feet.

CARLISLE SALES COMPANY CHANGES MADE

The name of the Carlisle Sales Company, Portland, has been.changed to J. C. Smith Lumber Company. This change took place July 1st. The company will continue to handle the sales of the Carlisle Lumber Company, Onalaska, Wash. The personnel of the company is unaltered.

R. L. REYNOLDS GOES EAST

R. L. Reynolds, sales manager of the Willapa I-umber Company, Portland, has been called East owing to the illness of his father.

MANUFACTURING CONTAINERS A BIG INDUSTRY

The tremendous clevelopment of the industry of manufacturing boxes, baskets aird crates in which to ship fruits and vegetables is brought out in a survey by the Department of Agriculture, which shows that more than 50O,00O,0OO berry boxes, 30,0@,000 round stave baskets, 30,000,000 hampers, and millions of Climax baskets, till baskets, market baskets, crates and boxes are used annually for this purpose.

CHAMBERLIN OFFICIALS CONFERAT LOS ANGELES

Mr. W. R. Chamberlin, head of W. R. Chamberlin & Company, Mr. Charles Stetson, manager of their Portland offices, and NIr. J. A. Rea, manager at Los Angeles, had a meeting at Los Angeles on July 23.

Mr. Chamberlin and Mr. Stetson were in the southern city for several .days.

BIGFIRE AT PORTLAND

Portland, July 16.-The heaviest fire loss in years was caused today when fire destroyed the big planing mill and dry kilns of the West Oregon Lumber Company and the sawmill and yards of the Beaver-Linnton Lumber Company at Linnton today. The loss is estimated at $500,000, about evenly divided between the two companies. One employee of the West Oregon company and one fireman were severely burned while fighting the flames. The fire spread so rapidly that 25 automobiles belonging to the employees of the West Oregon Lumber Company were destroyed. Six box cars were also destroyed. Both plants will be rebuilt, it is announced. Mr. E. D. Kingsley, president of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, is president and general manager of the West Oregon Lumber Company.

H. B. Maris Panel Co. Purchases Stocks of California Plywood & Door Co.

H. B'. Maris, manag'er of the H. B. Maris Panel Co., announ-ces that he has purchased the Panel stocks and good- will of the California Plywood and Door Co. The California Plywood and Door Co. operated at 947 Brannan Street, San Francisco, and were the Northern California representatives of the Roddis Veneer & Lumber Co. of Marshfield, Oregon. Mr. Maris states that the purchased Panel stocks will be moved to their Third Street warehouse.

Fine Figure Makes Fine Veneers

tnaoE ri^Rl(

Figured Red

Gum

A domestic wood of beauty and strong character. The contrast of heart wood and sap, and the clear cut figure design lends itself readily to the matchers' art. Figured Red Gum is aoft textured, and may be used admirably for doors and interior trim as well as furniture.

VENEERS-I /20" Slice Cut Quartered Fig'd & Plain

| /24" Slice Cut Quartered Fig'd & Plain l/16" Sawn Figured and Plain Stripe | /8" to 3/16" Sawn Fig:d & Plain Stripe 8 to | 6 feet long.

PLYWOOD-Stock eizes, /4" and 5/16"-3 Ply 3/s,,-5 ply, 18,', 24,, and 30,, wide x 48", 60", 72" long.

Write for Scmples anil Quotations, The Louisville Veneer Mills Incorporated

Louisville, Kentucky Wedern Sales

Narrow Band Saws That Give Longer Service

Made of the finest eteel by expert aawmakers, Simonds Band Sawa hold their edge longer and outlast others. For Saws of all kinds, Machine Knives and Self-hardening Steel for Shaper Knives, or Saw repaira, call on our Service Stations.

SIMONDS

Saw and 416 E. Third St. Knife Agency - Lor Angelee, Cd.

Simonds Saw and Steel Co.

12-14 Natoma St. - San Francirco

LOG TARIFF

The Tarifi Commission wilt hold a hearing at the Federal Building, Seattle, Washington, August 4, in connection with its investigation oftariff rates on logs offir, spruce_, cedar and Western hemlock, as imposed by Paragraph 'l0l of the Tarifi Act. This hearing will give interested parties an opportunity to present evidence to the Commission in regaid to the differences in the cost of production and other facts.

MARSHALL NO\,[I MANAGER FOR GIBSON

Mr. Gregory Marshall, formerly with Woodhead, in Los Angeles, is now manager for the Gibson Lumber Company at Brea.

NEur DOOR COMPANY

Mr. P. J. Nicolette has severed his connection with the La Brea National Lumber Co., and is now in business for himself, having organized the Beverly Hills Door ComDany at Beverly Hills, Calif. Mr. A. Jacobson has succeeded Mr. Nicolette as office manager and mill superintendent.

LUMBERMAN DEAD

Solomon Frost, widely knorvn Oregon and Michigan lumberman. is dead. A brother, W.H. Frost, resides at Long Beach.

DECREASES USE OF LUMBER

Statistics made public recently, for Los Angeles, show that in the first sif months of this year,79 per cent of-the dwellings builtin Los Angeles proper rvere of stucco construction.

There's a, Difference in Rooft'ng

Even a roofing contractor is unable to detect fro4 it! "p-P"qrance or feel, tfte qualit]y "f the material used to make a finished roll of roofing. Consequently, with tfiegoodwill the Weaver Roof Co. -enjoy-s today, a lot of -ottiy could be irade by cutting corners on quality; changing the run to inferior, paper-base roofing.

But tfiis shoddy roofing wouldn't "tave overhead." It wouldntt be ttWeavertt Roofing-

So the easy money must go elsewhere. t.Weavertt is s5rnonlrmous with permanence and dependability. The run never Yariet. You make no mistake when you recommend ttWeavertt Roofing.

Look What's Happening in San Francisco!

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nore Eoncy, too.

Just recently the building ordinances in San Francisco were amended to endorse the use of Bishopric Base as a backing for stucco or plaster walls. This amendment was made because conclusive proof showed that Bishopric-bu-lt walls are stronger than walls built of sheathing. And they cost 25% lesst

Immediately the demand swamped lumber dealers and they realized that here was a new avenue of profi1-for they make more money on Bishopric Base than they ever did on sheathitrg.

wThe situation in San Francisco is unusual because Bishopric Base is the only manufactured backing permitted. But all through the West there are enterprising lumber merchants who realize that Bishopric Base is a lumber product which gives them a real profit and is easy to sell.

unpreccdentcd profitt on thc rele of rheathing. Rcad how you can maLc

but while you're sellingthestudding you can just as easily sellthe wall material too. Advertising-national and local-has familiarized your customers with the features of Bishopric Base. It's easy to sell. Send for full information about its sales possibilities and free semple. Bishopric Manufacturing Co. of California, Los Angeles Ofrce, 604-626 E. 62nd St., Phone AXridge 9l'08. San Francisco Office, c/o Meyer-Muzzall Co., 60 California St.

Bish ric Bese

There's not enough for you in sheathing-

LUMBERMEN TO AID HOOVER WAR ON WASTE

Washington, July Z).-General use of shortJength lumber, nine fiet oiless, will save enough forest material, now wasted, to build 300,000 eight-room dwellings annually, according toArthurT. IJpson,ilumber technologilt of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association. The association has set up that objeqtive as a part of its contribution to the crusade on industrial waste being waged by Herbert Hoover.

Data gathered by the association, the United States forest product- laboratory at Madison, Wis., and the lumber divt iion of the Department of Commerce now are in the hands of a committee which is considering how to stimulate the public demand for short lengths, whchare said to be lheaper and usually of better quality than long lumber., Mi. Upson said the short-length economy p-rop_o_sed is equivalent in forest conservation to.giving the 20,000 lumbCr mills of the United States an entire year's holiday every tenth year, or about 38,000,000,000 Jeet of lumber, which would require all the saw timber on 380,000 acres of land.

ROY HILLS NBTUTT.ISTNOTT,T NORTHWEST TRIP

Roy Hills, Wendling-Nathan Lumber Co., San Francisco, has r-eturned to his desk after spending a two weeks' vacation in the Northwest. While in the Portland and Seattle Districts, Roy took a few days ofi to call on some of his lumbermen fi'iends and also-look over lumber conditions around the mills.

L. A. BUILDING FOR SIX MONTHS

Los Angeles' building for the first half of. L925 exceeded that for tle correspon-ding period of. 1924 by $4,346,719The number of permits issued by the city building department for six mohths of 1925 was 22,852, and the estimated valuation $83,175,459, as coinpared with 27,78 permits 3nd an estimated valuation ol V9,824,738 for the corresponding period last year. June building totaled $15,305,516. During ihe month 3652 permits were issued'

ED. CHAMBERLIN A LOS ANGELES VISITOR

Ed. Chamberlin, of W. R. Chamberlin & Co., San Francisco, was a recent visitor at the company's Los Angeles office, where he spent several days looking over lumber conditions in the Southern California territory. He also spent a few days with Jack Rea, their Southern California Manager, calling on the lumber trade in the Los Angeles District.

Z. T. THORNINGON NORTHWEST TRIP

Z. T. Thorning, Gray-Thorning Lumber Co., Redwood City, is on a triplo the-Northwest. In addition to looking oner some of the scenic spots in the Northwest, he will also spend some time calling on the Washington and Oregon mills.

OTTO SCHNABEL SPENDS VACATION AT otto Schnao",, *J?I'TE't"t""tT3 lumberman and associated with the Glenwood Lumber Co., is spending his vacation at Donner Lake. He is accompanied by his farnily on the trip.

B. E.BRYAN ON NORTHWEST TRIP

B. E. Bryan, Secretary of the Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland is spending his vacation in the Northwest. Bert, who is a member of the Oakland Advertising Club, went to Seattle with the California delegation, to attend the Annual Pacific'Coast Advertising Convention. At the conclusion of the Convention, he expected to spend a few days looking over several of the scenic spots of Washington and

Oregon.

JACK REA SPENDS FEW DAYS rN SAN FRANCTSCOJack Rea, manager of the Southern California operations of-W. R. Chamberlin & Co., of San Francisco, was a recent visitor at the San Francisco offices where he spent a few days attending to business matters. He also called on miny of his lumbermen friends while in the Bay District.

31 Central Building

The publication offices of "The California Lumber Merchant" are being moved, on August First, from 308-309 Central Building, to rooms 3 f 8319 -32O, same building.

RIGHT ACROSS THE HALL.

We needed more convenient, larger, lighter and cooler quarters, hence the move. Kindly change your records.

Wrn. I*I.

.Wilson Ltlrnber Co.

Moore'c natural draft and mechanical rechcutating kilnr ef pnctical and modern typcl.

Conplete line of dry kiln equipmcng cuch ar tnrdc, trrndq carl recordiog .od regulating inrtnrnentr, lumber liftr and fat and edge lurnber rtackerr.

A careful check of tire upkeep costs among lumber operators here in Southern California has proved beyond any question of a doubt that Goodyear Truck Tires are the ideal equipment for trucks engaged in this type of hauling. They arealwaysdependable-and in conjunction with Truck Tire Service they will affordyou the lowest possible cost per mile.

CITY APPROVES NE\^/ WAY TO BUILD WALLS

Considerable impetus will be given to building in San Francisco by an amendment to the building code which rvas approved last week by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and has just been made into a larv by Mayor Rolph's signature.

This is the first amendment to the building ordinances since 1906 which permits the use of a less expensive material.

Heretofore all walls have had a backing of one-inch lumber sheathing over the studding. With the new amendment a patented backing for stucco or plaster walls, known as

Bishopric Base. is endorsed for use instead of the sheathing.

It was only after convincing proof and tests had been placed before the Board of Supervisors that this amendment was authorized, according to Leo Meyer, of MeyerMuzzall Co., San Francisco distributors for Bishopric Base.

"We showed that.similar amendments had been made in the building' codes of Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, New York and other leading cities," explained Mr. Meyer. "A comparative test conducted by several engineering companies proved absolutely that walls built with Bishopric Base were twice as strohg as walls built of one-inch lumber sheathing.

WANT ADS

(The Clearing House)

This Column of , "'Wantst' and "Don't Wants" is for: The Fellow Who W-antslg BuY

The Fellow Who Wants to Sell The Fellow Who Wants to Hire

Rote: $2.50 per colurnn inch

The Fellow Who Wants to Be Hired

OFFICE CLERK AND STENOGRAPHER WANTED

Young man preferred, but will consider lady, for bill .clerk, counter attd phone work, and must be able to write -shorthand and use typewriter rapidly. Previous ,expgrience necessary. Address in own handwriting and give full particulars of past employment, age and salary expected. Santa Barbara Lumber Company, Santa Barbara, Cal.

POSITION WANTED

Position as bookkeeper, stenographer or general office assistant, wanted by young lady in retail lumber ofifice. For past three years has been associated with S. F. Bay Lumber Company and is thoroughly familiar with lumber office routine. Address Box A-58, care California Lumber Merchant.

SALESMAN WANTED

Large Redwood Sawmill wants an experienced lumber salesman to call on the retail lumber trade in Northern California. Prefer a man with redwood experience and who knows the retail lumber trade. State age, experience and references. Address Box A-59. care California Lumber Merchant.

POSITION WANTED

By married man, fr years' experience in retail lumber business, So. Calif. Will consider position as salesman, yard foreman, bookkeeper, estimator, collector, manager, etc. Can give best of references. Prefer Los Angeles, Hollywood, Glendale or San Fernando Valley. Can go to work on short notice. Address Box A-55, care California Lurnber Merchant.

Position as bookkeeper, stenographer or general office assistant wanted by young lady in retail lumber office. For past three years has'beeh associated with S. F. Bay Lumber Company and am thoroughly familiar with lumber office routine. Address Box A-56. care California Lumber Merchant.

Two Sold in One Order!

Cobbs & Mitchell have bought two new Miller Lumber Carriers.

They already had a Miller in their yard for nearlyfour years.

It gave them such satisfactory service that now they have bought two more.

The reason for their preference has been the excellent performance of the machine that they already had.

The reasons for this performance have been built into the structural design by practical mill men.

B,rya Miller Gas Lumber Carrier for Economy, Speed, Strength and facility in handling.

Write us for specifications and accurate description of the Miller-the original gas lumber carrier.

HARSCH & MILIER, Manufacturers

East Side Mill & Lumber Co., Distributors

PORTLAND, OREGON

MAKING PEOPLE HAPPY

(With apologies to "No, No, Nanette")

I want to be huppy, But I can't be h.ppy, Till I make you huppy, too.

Life's really worth living, When you are mirth giving, Why can't I give some to you?

I'll sell you mirrors, And built-in things, I'll send the sun shining through;' No little Jack Horner, E'er sat in 3 gsynsy_ Like those we build-in For you-o-o.

DISAPPEARINC

TRONING BOARD

ShPPtng wcqhr J5 lbt lnscrt thc complctc fremc bctTccn two Studs' ?un a casrng eround rt, end hang thc uppcr door rn thn e.slng

DISAPPEARING

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BATH

*ith Adyustablc Shclvcs rnd Pletc Gle$ Mirror Made to sct in or agdnst wrll

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