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(Continued from Page 14) 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.