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_ Douglas Fir-A total of 343 mills reporting to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week Lnded July lS operate! at 39.61 per cent of capacity, as compared to 32.33 per c_ent of capacity for the preceding week and 42.23 per ient during the week of June 27. For the first 28 weeks-of l93l these_mifis have operated at 41.56 per cent of capacity, as com. pared to 61.43 per cent for the same period in fSiO. During the week ended July 11, 172 plants were reported as down and. 162 as operating. Those operating reported production as 55.8 per cent of capacity.
Current new business rqrorted by 223 identical mills to the Association for the week ended July 13 was 0.59 per cent over production, and shipments were 6.67 pet cent undet the output. Production, orders and shipments at these mills for the week were repotted as follows: Production 10014681142 f.eet; Shipments 9t,769,415 feet; Orders 101,065,675 feet. During the past 28 weeks of 1931 orders for these 22V rnills have averaged 2.08 per cent over production.
Details of orders and shipments as reported by these 223 mills for the same week follows: Orders-Rail 3316961183 feet; Domestic Cargo 45rO43r08O feet; Export 1412481271 feet; Local 810781141 feet. Shipments-Rail 32r785r8t4 feet; Domestic Cargo ,7r48OrOO2 feet; Expott 15r425,4t8 feet; Local 8r078r1.4l feet.
The California market shows very little change and the volume of business continues light. Fir lath is reported scarce. 58 lumber boats in the California service are reported laid up. tlnsold stocks on the public docks at San Pedro on luly 29 totaled 912191000 feet, compared with 7,773IOOO feet for the preceding week; fir cargo arrivals at this port for the week ended luly 25 totaled 9,682,oo0 f.eet.
The Califorrri" n.a'i"u ,^1"*ia" reported production fror4 12 mills for the month of June as l4r293r000 feet, shipmerrts 15r880r(X)0 feet, orders on hand l7r727rOOO feet, and orders received 1618091000 feet. The California Vhite and Sugar Pine Manufacturers Association reported production from
R. N. Sack, bridge engineer of the Missouri State Highway department, has completed a tour of the Redwood Empire during which he visited the mills in Humboldt, Del Norte and Mendocino Counties, for the purpose of investigating the merits of structural Redwood for use in State and county bridges in his State.
24 mills for the week ended July 1S as 17,060,0fi) feet, shipments 1618431000 feet, and orders 16r609,0fi) feet. The same number of pine mills reported a decrease of 36 pet cent in production and an increase of 7 pet cent in orders, compared with the same week of 1930. No material changes are reported in the Pine and Redwood markets..
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797 leading hardwood and softwood mills to th; Narional Lumber Manufacturers Association. These mills gave their total cut as 2O7r74)rOQO f.eet. Shipments were approximately 5 per cent below this figure.
I-umber orders reported for the week ended July fS by 5O4 softwood mills totaled 18613111000 feet, or 2 per cent below the production of the same mills. Shipments as reported for the same week werc lTTrEElrOOO feet, or 7 per cent below produc- tion. Production was 190,58710O0 feet.
Reports from 252 hardwood mills for the same week give new business as 22rO5Er0O0 feet, or 29 pet cent above production. Shipments as reported for the week were 20286r00/J feet, or 18 per cent above production. Production was 1711561000 feet.
The current relationship of shipments and orders to production for the first 26 weeks of 1931, as reported by-the regional associations to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, follow:
'West Coast Lumberments Association-Production 21754169l M feet; Shipments 2,886,514 M feet; Orders 2,9t0,7t4 M feet.
Southern Pine Association-Production 9221649 M feet; Shipments 1,007,727 M feet; Orders l,006,719 M feet.
California Pine Manufacturers Association (25 weeks)Production 266,171 M feet; Shipments 798,646 M feet; Orderc 4O9,977 M feet.
Western Pine Manufacturers Association-Production 72E,126 M feet; Shipments 746$45 M feet; Orders 72O,2O2 M feet.
Total Hardwoods-Production 5591167 M feet; Shipments 603,421 M feet; Orders 611,957 M feet.
Leonarcl C. Hammond, vice-president of the Hammond Lurnber Co., San Francisco, and H. W. Cole, vice-president of the Hammoncl c& I-ittle River Redwood Co. have returned to San Francisco from a visit to their companies' operations at Samoa and Crannell.
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The tin medal for the pessimistic championship goes to the bird that said: "Boy, in L937 we'll be looking back and saying-'weren't things fine in good old 1931?' "
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That was really a first class tip I gave president Hoover in this column recently, when I suggested that he was the guy that could, should, and by every right ought to take on the job of protecting American labor, American industry, and American safety, from the inroads of Russian goods, of every sort, shape, and description. ff there ever was a man that has been getting the worst of the ,,breaks", President lloover is that IT. .
And if there ever was an individual who needed to take advantage of every presentable opportunity to do something definite and specific in his own behalf to wipe out the debits that have been heaped upon him, he is likewise that same party. ft remains to be proven whether or not Mr. Hoover is really a man of action and decision, a man big enough, and brave enough, and quick witted enough, to really DO things. From the time he took office until his recent proposition of a moratorium for Germany, our friend Herbert hasn't showed much. Even his most subsidized biographer will admit that.
Yet it would only take a few bold strokes of definite and decisive character, performed in such a way that the populace could see and admire, to wipe out the past anJ em_ blazen'the future for this Mr. president. If f were Mr. Ifoover, and was not even interested in the various pertinent aspects of the situation but only in the matter of votegetting, I would call in the press boys this very day, and I would say to them, "Boys, tell the people of the United States that I am going to keep Russian goods out of this country". And it would make him more votes than the business depression has lost him.
That's a tip, Mr. President. No extra charge for the suggestion. And, while I'm at it, here's another that hinges right in with that one, and with your proposed moratorium for war debts. Why not do some smart trading? Why not say to the European countries that owe us money, ,,We will grant you a moratorium on your war debts, if you will do something that will be healthy for both of us-close your doors to Russian goods". How would that be for a smart proposition? We'd be helping the other fellow, and we'd be helping ourselves at the same time. American
goods have been chased bodily out of Europe by the Russian goods invasion. Now the Russians want to come and chase American goods out of America also.
'We are asking yo.r, ui, tioolur, to take a good strong dose of iron before you go to bed tonight, and when you get up in the morning, start doing something definite, something practical, something immediate, something brave and timely about this *""_rtT b*usiness.
Fling aside the silly sophistries that our Government has been indulging in with regard to this Russian blight that is starting to creep into our land; supersede these half-baked politicians and would-be diplomats who are acting as apolo- gists and stalking horses for this Russian menace: take the job over yourself, and settle*this thing, man-fashion.
Frankly, Mr. Hoover, there are probably a hundred million Americans who have decided-and are not backward about so expressing themselves-that you ..haven't got it,', if you know what I mean. Personally, I believe you HAVE. Give us a sample of genuine Americanism, get yourself a big stick like Teddy used to swing whenever the creeping, crawling things of the earth began getting in his way, and let's have some action. What say? rf!**
Change ! We are accustomed to hearing asphalt roofing and shingles referred to in the lumber industry as ..wood substitutes". Several years ago a big Redwood manufacturing concern in California hired a lot of smart scientific guys and opened up a research laboratory to see what they could find that they could make out of their Redwood besides boards. One of the best ideas these be-spectacled birds dug up was to take the bark of the Redwood tree, defiberize and grind it, and use it as a base for asphalt roofings'
For several years now several of the large asphalt roofing manufacturers of the West have been using Redwood bark in place of rags for asphalt roofing and shingle base. It helped a lot. Removing the bark from the Redwood trees is ordinarily one of the high costs of logging. Here they found a market for the bark after they used it, so they brought it right in to the mill, prepared it, and shipped it in bales to the asphalt roofing folks. And now they announce that their market is spreading, and that they are
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TlN fur minds of most home owners and prospective home owners, oak flooring holds its own against any other flooring or floor covering. To them oak flooring is more than a good investment. In floors of oak they see real beauty, style that is always uP to date, warmth, color, life and the ease with which these qualities can be maintained.
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selling large quantities of this Redwood bark to middle western and eastern manufacturers of asphalt roofings, for the rltne porpore.
Someone might well ask, ,.Who is the substitute now?" for wood is here replacing rags for a commercial purpose for which rags have been used for generations. And, instead of this asphalt roofing being a ..substitute for wood", we find it depending on a wood base for much of its virtue. Where we used to find competition, we now find cooperation.
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Change! Only a few months ago the oil iroducers would all have gone to jail had they gotten together and said"The market is over-supplied, the price has gone to pot, let's agree to reduce our production and get this business straightened out". That was a few months ago. Today we find Government clamoring to MAKE the oil producers agree to cut down their production. Proration, they call it.
I know a lot of other industries that would like to get a Government permit to agree on restricted production. Take lumber, for instance. We manufacture from raw materials that are just as important and probably far more limited in final supply as do the oil people. How about getting pro. ration permit for all the sawmills? They need it, and could use it to advantage.
And lots of others -oorl ,;" ."". My friend, Dan orr, who owns a showcase manufacturing company, and one of the keenest thinking birds I know, froths at the mouth every time you mention Governmental interference in business. "They've got a Farm Relief Board in Washington
low", said Dan the other day, ..so when f went to Washington I looked around for the showcase and fixture relief board, but couldn't find one. No reason why not. The showcase and fixture business is in worse shape than the farm business, but no one seems interested in relieving us. f wonder why they discriminate? Why don't you see if you can't get them to appoint a lumber journal relief board to help YOUR busines*s?"
Speaking of moratoriums, I wonder if we couldn't gei the Government to declare a moratorium for a year or so on the activities of The Federal Trade Commission, and give business a rest. It really w*ould help.
And now the Federal Trade Commission is investigating the cement industry. And the various retail lumber associations of the country are made parties to the investigationby having their records examined to see what they have been doing with and about cement. Some of these days these cement folks will see the wisdom of the advice I have given them for years, which is, to enthusiastically exploit their individual brands. Outward evidence of competition is healthful. The public tjn.: ,.; So does the law.
More change! In 1909 lumber production reached its peak in this country, the total for the year having been 44,510,000,000 feet. In 1931 production will not exceed 30,000,0001000 feet. Continual reduction in evidence. But plywood, which is wood sliced up and practically and attractively re-made into perfect boards, increases in volume of production. In 1909 we cut 435,981,000 feet of logs into plywood. In 1929 we used 1,112,910,000 for this purp<ise, an increase of about 250 per cent. And plywood, there can be no possible doubt, is just beginning to scratch the sur. face of its possibitities.
Burdette Green, secretary of the American Walnut Association, Chicago, is spending some weeks on the pacific Coast, calling on the hardlvood trade.
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(It is with pardonable pride that The California Lum- ber Merchar,rt publishes this first sketch of his own earlv ca.reer as a lumberman, by that great lumberman of San Francisco, Captain Robert Dollar. The California Lumber Merchant considers Captain Dollar one of the world,s out_ standing citizens. He has brought honor and glory upon the industries with which he hai allied himseti,-ana maae the world a much better place to live in, because of the things he has done. At g7 years of age he has the ,.rp..i of the entire world).
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In the town of Falkirk, Scotland, there was a two_story building, on -the ground floor of which was my uncle,s lurn_ ber. office. My father and mother lived upstairs in this building, and it was there that I was born on the 7flth of. March, 1844. Soon after that the building was demolished and a new one erected. A new home fdr my father and mother was also erected nearby.
A lumber yard in those days was a difierent kind of in_ stitution from the lumber yard of today. There was no saw mill and all the timber was re-manuiactured into sizes to. suit with whipsaws. We had what we called pits for the whipsaws, and my recollection is that there weie from 15 to 20 whipsaws working steadily. Afterwards, when I grew up, I remember my father planning and building a real saw mill, so the whipsaws wint oui of date and lhe sawmills took their place.
I attended school until I was eleven years old, at which time I had to leave it and go into a maihine shop to work. Before I was thirteen my father emigrated to Canada and we made our headquarters at Ottawa. I started to work in a stave mill first in Ottawa, but later I hired out to Hamilton Bros. to go into their camp, getting out logs.
We left Ottawa in bark canoes, all loaded, and went up the Gatineau river to the place where we were to lumber for the wintbr. It took us twelve days to reach the place and we were away beyond civilization close on t'o 5O miles. A few years ago I drove in an automobile in five hours to the same place.
Immediately upon arrival we started in to build a camp
for the winter. We had a real good foreman and unfortunately I played a little trick on him which turned out to be a splendid lesson to me. In the building of the camp they brought a lot of hollow cedar logs to be split into scoops for covering the roof. One night when we all went in for supper the foreman told me there were some polecats around that were a nuisance, and asked me to stay outside and when I saw one to let him know. Before long I saw one run into a hollow log. I quickly shoved a poli into one end of the log and then put a plug in the other ind. I then ran in and told the foreman I had a polecat. .tWhere is it ?" he asked and I replied, "In the hollow log.,' He brought along a gun and I took out the plug from the end of the 1og. I then gave the polecat a jab with the pole and he ran out of the other end where the foreman was waiting, and the foreman got full benefit of the polecat,s defensiv-e weapons right in his bewhiskered face. The first thing I saur was the foreman's two big fists before my face, and I lost no time scampering to the woods. I had no supper that night and had to sleep in the loft of the hay barn.-But next morning, as I was chore boy, or cook's devil, I had to be on hand to help the cook. I went in and was hard at work when the boss arose. He still had the polecat od& clinging to him. When he saw me he took hold of me and put me across his knee and gave me a right good spanking. This was a good lesson-it taught me that while I migit monkey with some people I'd better not monkey with ihe f oreman.
My work while chore boy consisted of carrying in the wood and water for the camp, washing the dishes and do- ing all the odd chores aboui the placi. Besides that we had ten or twelve yoke of oxen. This was the mode of travel, as well as hauling, etc.. in those days. It was up to me to clean the stables and look after the oxen, all of which kept me out of mischief.
Life in the lumber camp in those days was somewhat different from anything I had ever seen or heard of. There were only itwo or three men in the camp who could spepk
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Caltain Robert Dollar
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English, the rest spoke French. I was a green Scotch lad an-d- you can imagine the situation I was in. Every Tom, Dick and Harry was asking me to do things and i had a pretty hard time getting along, but in six months I could understand practically everything they asked me and in a y_gar- I could speak French as well as English, so I was all right in that respect.
Our food in those days was very simple. We'had flour and pork in barrels, and peas to make soup, and tea. This was the entire stock of provisions in the camp. Later on, a{t91.a couple-of y-ears, we @d beans. 'This-was a great additrgn-a Splendid treat. The pork was always sJrved boiled except on Sunday. 'We were allowed to 6ave fried p_ork on Sunday. This diet was very monotonous and furthermore rvas not at all healthful. We had no vegetables of- any kind and towards the spring of the year we had what was called "blackleg". The l-eg became black and sore and you could press four finger iito the flesh and the depression would not come out for some time. We afterwards learned that blackleg could be prevented or cured by eating vegetables, even a small piece-of potato--cooked or raw, though raw potato was best-two or three times a YTk. - However, potatoes were so extremely scarce and difficult to obtain that this knowledge worild not have done us' much good. A strange thing-in Singapore a short time ag9 ye had an outbreak of beri-beri among the grey. I lpp!"a the blackleg test with my finger, and the beri-beri in Singapore seemed to be the - samJ disease as the blackleg in Canada.
The hours of labor were from daylight to dark, and the work was hard. The food remained about the same all the time I was working in the Canadian lumber camps.
The -camp bu-ilding in tho_se days was a large building probably sixty feet square. In the middle of thi floor wai what was called a camboose. This was raised up from the floor about two feet and was filled with sand. 'A bie fire was kept burning in the middle of it, and theie was a dhimley gp through the roof. All the bunks \rrere put in with the feet towards the fiie. In this building wi generally ;had from forty to fifty men. You can imaline oir primi- tive way of getting along when I say that I never ia* " table knife or fork in a lumber camp. We all carried our :own knives and we had to eat with our fingers. Another thing-all the men in the camp washed in tEe same basin, a crude affair which was supported by two pegs in the wall and which w_as emptied simply by tifping ii up so that the drrty water flowed through a hole in the wall. There was only one roller towel for all to use, and I soon found that it was expedient for me to be the first one up in the morning in order to have a dry towel. In this civilized day one would be certain to catch some disease if fifty men'used the same towel, but no such misfortune resulted in the Canadian woods. Similarly, when we had our dinner, several men drank tea from the same dish, a thing which would never be allowed at the present time for feai of contagion, but we lumberjacks were singularly free frorri all diseases except "blackleg", which I have already mentioned.
When I was between sixteen and seventeen years old I came to the conclusion that if I was going to succeed I must have a little education. My intention was to get alons in the world, and therefore I itarted in to learn"to riadl write, and figure. The education I got in Scotland was sadly neglected. There was no reading matter to be had in the camp-I never saw a newspaper in a lumber camp
in Canada in those days, and there were no books, except & pocket Bible which I kept and read every Sunday. Tirere yas_ no paper in camp either, except that used by the clerk, So I peeled some white birch barli which made i good substituts for paper to figure on. Every night, sitti-ng at the lre, I practrced writing and figuring. We were not allowed a-ny ca1!!es, so we had to usJ the fire for light. I was making fairly good headway considering the fact that there wasn't a person in the camp who could help me, as I was already as well educated as-anyone else.
On_e d,af an.incident took place which at the time I did not think was of any importance, but in later years I have thought of it many times. The owner of ttre camp made an inspectiol tour in the winter and stayed at oui camp overnight. As usual I was sitting with m11 back to the fir6, working at my figures.
"'What are you doing, bo;r?" asked the lrrmberman.
"Learning to write," I replied.
"Let me see it."
"No, I am ashamed."
But he insisted and finally I showed him what I was doing.
"That. if q9t bad," was his comment. ..Yoq are gettinf on all right."
Nothing more was said and I forgot the incident for years. But when vre came to hire for the next vear (we, were all hired for a.year at a stretch) the boss said he irad a little beiter job foi me this time than last year.
"We are going to put you in as clerk for.a French foreman," said he.
"I can't write well enough," I said. "I am not cornpe- tent, I am not able to do the work."
But the boss would not listen to me and I had to do the work. In later years I have thought that the owner of the c-app lad the foreman give me this job. It was a splendid thing for me and_gave-me an opportunity of helping along my education. I worked hard in the woods all div and did the clerking at night.
The men in the lumber camp could be explained as the' roughest of the rough, and so it was pretty liard for me to be associated with that class of men. However, I kept lght at it, and when I was a little less than Zl years of ale the superintendent told me he was going to put me in is boss of a camp. I immediately said that would never db,, for two reasons. First, becaus'e I had not had enough ex-' perience, and second because I was too young, Bit the superintenderrt insisted and I had to taikle the job. In later years I have often thought of the progress'I made at that time,. a green Scotch boy, plunged into a lurnber camp when 14 years- of age, and in sev€n years they put me in as foreman of the camp. Looking itit trom ftris date it appears as ifI was making tremendous headway. I well remember when, after my firit year as for'eman, thJy paid me $26.00 per month and I thought my fortune wai made.
After I had been foreman a couple of years I was seot to open up a new business on the River Dumoine, about two hundred miles _up the Ottawa River from Ottawa City. It was intended that I should bring a drive of logs down the Ottawa River past Ottawa and on to' Hairilton Bros. Mill at the Long Sioux. No logs had ever been driven
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past Ottar,va City before and I tried a small quantity of logs to r un them through the Chaudier Falls, -but found ,l1l *,". going to. be impractical because a great quantity of.the Iogs stayed in behind the falls and rverJch,rrnirrg "ni milling around so fast that they were coming ttlroupn i" !!ip._. Therefore, I got p.ermissibn to run them"througi the Northern Slide. Thls slide had been built to run cr'jbs of timber down it and I got the logs started, but in the mean_ time I had lost so much time fwas very anxious about it and so I got our men to crowcl our logj down faster than the slide could take them, and as a resu-lt it caused a block_ ade, which in turn caused the water to dam. This water overflowed onto a match factory belonging to a Mr. E. B. Eddy. As soon as he discoveied wha-t h"ad happened he rushed over to where I was and commenced calling me all the names he could think of, which were far from-compli_ mentary. I answered him and said, ,,lfere you are keep- ing me while the water is overflowing and going throujir your factory. Leave me alone, and i rvill irv i,.ru *iu possible to put a stop to this flood of water.,' . It looked as though it were going to be impossible to do, but we hnally managed it. Fforn,ever, I had my doubts about- breaking this jam at all, and heaved a sigtr of re_ lief when I found we had accomplished it. As so"on as we had the water under control it immediately ceased running through the factory. I then lvent on back to start the los! going on.their way again. ln the meantime Mr. Eddy hid been waiting to see me. \\'hen I put in "r, "pp"ui.r,." finally he called me over and said, "i want to congratulate you and_compliment you cin rvhat looked to be an-impossi_ bility. .It-certainly did not look as though you would ever accomplish this in such a short time." From that time on
Mr. Fddy and I were fast friends and remained so until the time of his death.
Those were the first saw logs that ever passed bv Ot_ tarv.a City going.-down the riverl Since that iime, horie*,er, Dlllrons upon billions of feet of timber have gone down past there.
.9n -I first visit to my native town Mrs. Dollar and I visited the lumber yard and saw the house in which wi lived. P1le.d up behind the house was a great pile of hewn square timber. We sat down to .rest oi one'of the logs. and as usual I looked carefully at the timber. t touna t-liJ every piece had a $ mark on it. This was a cargo of tim_ ber I got out on Lake Huron and sold to a merchant in Glasgow, who in turn sold it to my cousins.
From then on I kept improving and when I was 2g years old I started in business io. my-self _in lumbering, g.itirrg out logs, in the Muskoka district of Ontario. Lacf o-f busi ness-experience prevented my selling them when I was of_ tered a good price; Black Friday came along and the bot_ tom rvent out of everything and I had to sill the loss at a loss, so that I came out in debt. It took *e ttr..-ie.is to. earn- e-nough money to pay off the debt, but it was a splendid lesson that I nevei forgot.
..I went into partnership_with n'fr. H. H. Cook, the big Cana_ dia.n .lumberman, and began exporting timber to' Cieat Britain and -getting out logj for the saw-mills. Ou. ""-f" were on Lake Huron. at Georgian Bav. But we ,"r, olt of timber large enough to export to Great Britain and moved over to Michiga^n where there was a large quantity gf fig timber. When finally we exhausted the"bis timber !n this part of Michigan I-moved to Californi" ;J h;;; I still am.
The next meeting of the Lumber Committee of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association with the Redwood Relationship Committee will be held in Scotia, Friday, August 21.
Plans are being worked out to invite members of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association to visit the Redwood Empire and attend this meeting. Details of the program will be given.in the August 15 isiue of this paper.
Part of the entertainment program will be the rigular golf tournament, for which a ctip with a beautiful Redirood burl base has been donated by J. U. Holmes, president oi the Holmes Eureka Lumber Company. The idp is similar to the one shown on page 24 of ihe July 15 isiue of The California Lumber Mercliant, ancl must be won.three times in order to become the property of a player.
, H. S. Mgrto.n.,9f Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland, Supreme Jabberwock of Hoo Hoo, went to McCloud recentlyio at- tend a meeting of the Tom McCann Hoo Hoo Club. He was 1:complni.-9 by B. E._Bryan, of the Strable Hardwood L_o., (Jakland. Vicegerent Snark for the San Francisco Bav district, and C. I. Gilbert and J. B. McKeon, members o1 the Oakland Hoo Hoo Club.
They found the McCloud club in excellent condition and very enthusiastic despite the depressed conditions in the lumber industry which have seriously decreasea .-ptoy_ ment.
.Among those present was W. W. Martin, popular choice of many California districts for a position as'field reDre_ sentative of Hoo Hoo Internationai,.and for whom m'any Californians have requested consideration when the O;?;? is able to increase its field staff.
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The Federal Trade Commission was ordered bv resolution of the United States Senate on February 16th, 1931, to investigate the cement industry of the United 'States and report on same to the Senate.
That investigation has started. The Federal Trade Commission-appears to have begun its investigation by investigating first the records of the retail lum6er organiza- tions of the coqntry. It is understood that all thJ retail associations have been asked to show all their records with regard to cement, and already a number of the associations have. been personally visited by investigators for the Commlssron.
The information desired from cement dealers is as follows:
1. List of stores, branch offices and warehouses. with locations and products handled in each.
2. List of companies (names and addresses) from whom Cement was purchased during lgD, 1936 and 1931 to date, by main office and each store or branch office. showing:
(a) 9u-antity purchased from each company;
(b) Prices paid;
(c) Terms, such as discounts, return of sacks, etc.
3. Total sales^(quanlity .14_yllue) of cement during each year lgD, l93O and l93l to date, divided as to]
(a) Sales on contracts for specific jobs;
(b) Sales on general contracts;
(c) Sales on open market.
4. State retail price of Cement in cloth sacks. and in paper sacks at main plant and each store or branch office on January l, 1929, and give each change in the retail prices, with amount of change and dati thereof, from January l, l9D, to date.
The resolution passed by the United Siates Senate is the following:
RESOLVED, that the Federal Trade Commission be and is hereby directed to investigate competitive conditions in the Cement Industry and report to ihe Senate of the United States;
(l) The facts with respect to the sale of Cement, whether of foreign or domestic manufacture, and especially the pric-e ac-tivities of Trade Associations composed of either Manufacturers of Cement, or Dealers in Cement. or both;
(2) The facts with respect to the distribution of Cement, including a survey of the practices of Manufacturers or Dealers, used in connection with the distribution of Cement;
(3) Whether the activities in the Cement Industry on the part of Trade Associations, Manufacturers of Cement, or Dealers in Cement constitute a violation of the AntiTrust Laws of the United States, and whether such activities constitute unfair trade practices.
I The officials, employees and salesmen of the California \f Panel & Veneer Co., Los Angeles, and their families were the guests of Howell Baker, president of the company, for their annual picnic, at his summer home on gatUoa Island, Saturday afternoon, July 18. During the afternoon many of the party enjoyed themselves fishing, sailing and bathing and all remained over for the annuaf'Tourna'ment of Lights at Balboa in the evening. A bufiet supper was served.
Harry Allen, president, and H. B. Copeland, secretary, of the Santa Monica Lumbermen's Association, arrangid for the program at the meeting of the Bay Builders' Exchange held at the Castellammare Inn, Santa Monica, on Friday evening, July lO. Kenneth Smith, secretary-manager of the Lumber & Allied Products Institute of Southern California, Los Angeles; A. J. Stoner, Sawtelle Lupber Co., Sawtelle, and Jack Zehnder, West Los Angeles contractor, were the speakers of the evening.
California architects made an unusually fine showing in the fourth annual small house competition conducted by tfouse Beautiful Magazine. Of the sixteen designs which were awarded prizes and honorable mention, ten were the work of Catifo?nia architects. These are included in the group of fifty designs selected from the competition- which ivitt te on exhibition until August 7 in the Achitects' Building Material Exhibit, Fifth and Figueroa Streets, Los Angeles.
California architects who received awards include Ralph C. Flewelling of Beverly Hills, William Wilson Wurster of San Franiisco, Soule, Murphy and Hastings of Santa Barbara, Roland Coate, H. Roy Kelley and Witmer and -Watson of Los Angeles, and Hammond W. Whitsitt of Sap Diego. Second prize for the best example of a _remodeled house was awarded to Benjamin S. Parker of San Marino.
Charles W. Buckner, northern California representative for Harbor Plywood Corporation, of Hoquiam, Wash., has built an office building entirely of plywood construction on the second floor of the Building Material Exhibit Building 557 Market street, Sari'Francisco. He will use the building for his own office and for demonstration purposes. The entire interior, walls, ceiling and floor, is made of plywood, and the siding has been furnished by manufacturers of various kinds of siding. Full particulars with a picture of the building will appear in the August 15th issue.
According to figures supplied by the Section of Customs Statistics of the Department of Comrnerce to the Lumber Division, softwood imports into the United States during May, 1931, were as follows:
Sawed lumber of fir, hemlock, spruce, pine, of larch, dutiable: from Canada, 37,463,W board feet; from Russia, 3,178,000; from Germany, 83O,000; from Mexico, 20,0@; from Nicaragua, 18,00O; and from Sweden, 14,000. The above cargo of Russian lumber arrived at Providence, B. I., late in April, but was not included in April figures.
Boards, planks, and deals in the rough or planed and dressed on one side; of fir, hemlock, spruce, pine or larch; from Canada,27,90/.,0N board feet; free of duty.
Other kinds of softwood lumber, free of duty; from Canada, 2,868,00O board feet and from Trinidad, 3,000.
Tom V. Sawyer, Minneapolis, Minn., sales manager of the Insulite Co., was a recent California visitor where he spent several days conferring with the company's representatives at Los Angeles and San Francisco. "Business is good," Mr. Sawyer stated. "The Insulite Co. has been manufacturing insulation for nearly twenty years and June business was the best in the history of the company," he reported. "And July business," he said, "is going along very well." He attributed this to the company's retail-dealer policy. Following his visit in California, he left for the Northwest to call on the company's representatives at Portland, Seattl'e and Vancouver, B. C.
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Our stocks of Philippine Mahogany are unEurpa$dt lhgy consist of TANGUILE, REDLAUAN (Dark Red) and ALMON (_Light Red_). Our dry kilns and veneer mill enable us to furnishPhilippine Mahogany in any quantityto meet your specifications. We epecialize in direct mill shipmentt.
For the purpose of forming a new association to replace
ty_o organizations, the California White and Sugar Pine Manufacturers Association of San Francisco and the Western Pine Manufacturers Association of Portland, a meeting of pine manufacturers, including members of the above associations and non-association members, was held at Klamath Falls, Oregon, on July 22 and 23. There was a full attendance at the two-day meeting, more than 8O per cent of the entire pine production in the west being represented. It was voted to form a new association to be known y' as the Western Pine Association. The new association will include all the territory from British Columbia to New Mexico. The majority of those present believed that their needs would be better served if all matters were handled through one organization presenting a solid front in the exploitation of their product.
"Ponderosa Pine" was adopted as the common name for the species Pinus ponderosa. ' No change was made in the common names of Idaho White Pine and California Sugar Pine, which names have been in use by the trade for many years.
Principles of the association adopted following the report of'a committee on plans. and scope of the new organization included standardization of grades, sizes and basic weights, use of trade marks and car cards on shipments,
A fire which might have been very serious occurred at the Coos Bay Lumber Company's plant at Bay Point, July 11. The blaze did some damage to the flooring and piling under one end of the planing mill. No delay in operation was caused as this end of the mill was no't in use. The damage was estimated at $40,000, fully covered by insurance.
basic price for all regions, establishment of an export bureau to develop foreign markets, a wooden box promotion committee, employment of a secretary-manager, and the establishment of a headquarters in Portland, Ore.
B. W. Lakin, general manager of McCloud River Lumber Co., McCloud, Calif., was elected president; J. P. McGoldrick, McGoldrick Lumber Co., Spokane, was elected first'vice president, and J. P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr., Potlatch Forests, Inc., Lewiston, Ida., was elected second vice presi. dent. C. L. Isted, Shelvin-Hixon Co., Bend, Ore., was elected treasurer. Directors electeil were: E. 'H. Polleys, Polleys Lumber Co., Missoula, Mont.; Walter Neils, J. Neils Lumber Co., Libby, Mont.; Ralph J. Hines, Edward Hines Lumber Co., Chicago; Charles H. Ingram, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Tacoma; W. E. Lamm, Lamm Lumber Co., Modoc Point, Ore.; D. S. Painter, Fruit Growers Supply Co., San Francisco; J. M. McNary, Cady Lumber Corporation, Flagstaff, Ariz.; Geo. W. York, George E. Breece Lumber C<i., Albuquerque; James Clifford, Sugar Pine Lumber Co., Pinedale, Calif.; J. P. Her4phill, Madera Sugar Pine Co., Madera; John D. Tennairt, Long-Bell Lumber Co., Longview; Walter C. Leuthold, Deer Park Lumber Co., Deer Park, Wash.; R. B. White, Forest Lumber Co., Kansas City; B. W. T akin, J. P. McGoldrick, J. P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr., and C. L. Isted.
Fred Burgers, r:salesman for the pany, San Francisco, returned July vacation.
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J. B. Blair, J. B. Blair Lumber Co., Placerville, Calif., has returned from a visit to Steamboat Springs, Nevada.
The Building Material Dealers' Club of Ventura County held a barbecue outing on Monday evening, July 2O, at the home of L. R. I'tyers, manager of the Sun Lumber Co., Ventura, in Ojai. Delicious steaks prepared in Mr. Byers' special built barbecue pit lvere served to the lumbermen under the large spreading oak trees on his grounds. Following the dinner there was a round table discussion on local building conditions. Paul Hallingby, Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles, and Kenneth Smith, secretarymanager of the Lumber & Allied Products Institute of Southern California, addressed the meeting. Forty-five lumbermen were Dresent.
British Columbia saw mills are reported to be operating at 46 per cent of capacity. Water-borne exports of lumber during the first five months of this year amounted to 228,721,W board feet as compared with 323,2D,W for the same period a year ago, atcording to reports from Vice Consuls Nelson P. Meeks at Vancouver and Robert M. Newcomb at Victoria and made public by the Lumber Division of the Deoartment of Commerce.
Vancouver disirict shipments to Canadian Atlantic ports were 14,6O3,000 board feet during the first five months of this year as compared with 29,393,0N for the same period last year.
Water-borne exports to lJnited States Atlantic coast amounted to 70,604,00O board feet for the first five months of 1931 and to 100,484,000 for the same period of 1930, and to California 16,941,M board feet this year and 9,3O4,000 last year.
The movement from Vancouver and New Westminster to California during May, 1931, came to 5,756,W board feet and during the first five months to I2,943,OQ board feet, whereas a year ago none had been exported to California up to the end of May.
During the four-rveek period ended May 30, 1931,2,683 cars were loaded with lumber in Western Canada as compared with 3,933 and 5,46O respectively during the corresponding periods in 1930 and 1929.
British Columbia saw mills anticipate that shipments to eastern Canada will increase as reports indicate a gradual improvement in building activities in some of the larger cities.
The preliminary report on lumber cut for California and Nevada for 1930 prepared by the U. S. Forest Service for the Bureau of the Census shows a 26.7 per cent decrease over the cut for 1929 and is the lowest since 1921. A total cut of 1,512,787,W board feet was reported from mills with an output of 50,000 feet or more of lumber per year, as compared to 2,063,2D,W feet for 7929, which represents approximately the two billion board feet at which California production has held during the seven year period since 1923. The decrease in the total cut lrom 1929 was distinctly greater in the pine than in the redwood region, and in both regions the decrease came mostly from the species that are less desirable commercially.
The hardwood stock of the Weston Basket & Barrel Co., San Francisco, has been purchased by the Jones Hardwood Co., which is operating a hardwood business as successors to the first mentioned firm. Nelson E. Jones is manager.
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Lumber dealers will find at Flammond's a definite form of Flatdwood service. Besides Philippine woods, there are large stocks of domestic hardwoods as well as the more expensive from Central America. These stocks include over thity-five varieties in a wide range of grades and sizes.
PHIIIPPINE HARDWOODS are imPorted direct by Hammond's. All stock grad'e.d in strict accordance with the Grailing Rules of the National Hardzoood Lurnber Associa' tion.
Generally conceded to be the most practical manual of its kind, an instructive specification folcier covering the use of Asphalt Emulsion for industrial floors was re&ntly issued by the Pioneer Paper Company, as announced in the Anniversary Number oi The California Lumber Merchant.
Abandoning the precedent of lengthy pages of technical description, common to literature of this-kind, the new folder approaches its subject in a crisp, easy to understand style, with profuse illustrations effectively dramatizing each step in the installation of Asphalt Emulsion Mastic Floors from the mixing of materials to the completion of the job. The illustrations show each operation and were photographed in "motion picture" progression, during the actual installation of a mastic floor.
"The new manual of instructions and specifications is alrgldy proving a valuable help to lumber dealers," stated J: H. Plunkett, General Manager of the Pioneer Paper Company, "because of its practical value in the sale- of Asphalt Emulsion for industrial floors. Lumber dealers are reporting increased volume for the product since they are now able to show their customers the outstanding advantages of the mastic floor and the economy and-simplicity of its installation through the means of actual photographs of well-known installations and the picturizalion of the installation steps."
The folder_may be had without obligation upon applica- tion to the Industrial Department of the Pioneer -Paper Company, and it is well worth having for reference on this modern type of industrial floor installation.
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A survey of the European markets for American lumber is being made by Axel H. Oxholm, director of the National Committee on Wood Utilization, for the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce. The results of the survey will be presented in a report upon his return and it is hoped that it will indicate new outlets for American lumber.
In addition to his directly commercial investigations Mr. Oxholm will be on the outlook for European practices in rvood utilization that may be applicable in America. The trip will also yield a report on the present economic situation of the European forest products industries for the IJnited States Timber Conservation Board, Mr. Oxholm being a member of the board's advisory committee. His itinerary covers the principal nations of western Europe, including Scandinavia and England.
Charles F. A. Talbot, son of the founder of the pioneer Pope & Talbot Lumber Company, died in San Francisco July 14, at the age of 83.
Mr. Talbot arrived in San Francisco on December 1, 1849. He journeyed from Maine by boat and crossed over the Isthmus of Panama, making the trip from there to San Francisco on the steamer Oregon.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Julia Talbot, a son Earle, and two daughters, Mrs. C. F. Wilson and Mrs. H. D. Cooke.
Philippine lumber manufacturers and exporters recently met under the auspices of the Philippine Lumber Export Association and will petition the European shipowners' conference for a general reduction of freight rates on lumber exported to Great Britain, Continental Europe, and South Africa, states a report from Trade Commissioner Harvey V. Rohrer at Manila to the Lumber Division of the Department of Commerce. The petition does not specify the percentage of reduction requested.
Immediate establishment at Missoula of the "Northern Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Fxperiment Station," undei which will be consolidated all research work for Region One, has been announced by Evan W' Kelley, Regional Forester for the U. S. Forest Service.
The value of investigative work in solution of administrative as well as technical problems of the Forest Service is now widely recognized, aicording to Major Kelley' This fact, together with-increased appropriations which permit expansion of the investigative Program have made it necesiary, he said, to gather all this work together and place it under one head.
The reorganization will make no radical changes in,personnel of those investigative units which have been functioning in the past, it is stated. R. H. Weidman will continue in charge of all forest management studies as heretofore. M. I. Bradner, in addition to handling his investigative work in forest products, will take charge of the newly authorized Region One "Forestry Survey" proj99! to which he was recently assigned by the Forester at Washington, D. C.
Additional work made possible by increased appropriations will include, according to Forest officials, expansion of the much needed investigations in forest fire protection problems and research along lines involving grazing, including methods of utilizating forest ranges and of handling livestock. This latter work will, it is said, be confined, for the present at least, to such projects as can be handled in co-operation with the Bureau of Animal Industry at the U. S. Range Livestock Experiment Station, at Miles City, Montana.
"The Director of the new Northern Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station is Lyle F. Watts," said Regional Forester Kelley. "Mr. Watts," he added, "is now a member of the Forest Service at Ogden, Utah, where he has had years of experience in the administrative and research work of that region. He has also spent some time as head of the Department of Forestry at Utah Agricultural College." The date of Mr. Watts' arrival in Region One has not yet been announced.
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Plans for stabilizing the lumber industry were discussed at a two-day conference recently held at Chicago by leading representatives of the industry. Chas. S. Keith, Kansas City, president of the Central Coal & Coke Co., was elected chairman of the conference, and W. B. Greeley, Seattle, secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, served as secretary.
R. A. Long, Kansas City, chairman of the board, LongBell Lumber Sales Corporation, was appointed chairman of a committee of ZO to consider the various plans and suggestions offered during the first day of the conference. The recommendations submitted by the committee follow:
l. That there be a serious attempt to adjust lumber production to demand in all regions, taking into consideration the stocks nor\r on hand; that is, the reduction in production should be sufficient to move a substantial portion of the stocks on hand along with the current cut.
2.Ai a permanent program, that there rlrust be some legal and definite control of lumber distribution.
3. That there must also be, as a permanent program, some definite and legal control of lumber production.
These may be accomplished through the medium of-
(A) Physical, integrated consolidations of properties in each region
(B) Physical consolidations of production and distributing facilities only.
(C) Physical consolidations of timber ownership.
(D) Management control through the medium of companies organized by the parties in interest, to control their production and distribute their product; tnd/or
(E) Sales corporations created to sell the total production of the companies contracted with, and to pro rate sales in proportion to each company's normal rated capacity in comparison with the total capacity of all contracting companies.
4. A committee of five should be appointed for each region to work out-
(A) The adjustment of production.
(B) The other principles covered herein, for the permanent control of distribution and production.
5. The representatives of each lumber producing district attending this meeting should immediately call a meeting of the industry in their own district, for the appointment of the committee in that district. The chairmen of the respective district commitees should constitute a national com-
mittee for coordinating the work of the district commitlees.
6. It is further recommended that uniformity in opera- tions throughout the various regions be given the host .thoughtful consideration, to the end that lumber production 'in all districts mav be more unifo.rm.
7. The most imperative immediate step is the adjustment of production to current demand. There should then follow the constructive program recommended, looking toward a permanent stabilization of the industry. The program outlined under sections A, B and C (paragraph No. 3) above represents the ideal which should eventuaily be aicomplished. For immediate application we recommend special consideration by the industry of sales corporations-as outlined under section E. Each lumber producing region is urged to work out and apply this program as may appear most advantageous to that region.
To carry out these recommendations, committees are to be organized as soon as possible in the various legipnal districts which will be undertaken by the following representatives:
West Coast-E. G. Griggs, St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co., Tacoma,'Wash., and W. B. Greeley, Seattle.
Southern Pine-Charles Green, Eastman, Gardiner & Co., I aurel, Miss.; A. J. Peavy, Peavy-Wilson Lumber Co., Shreveport, La.; F. W. Reimers, Natalbany Lumber Co., Hammond, La., and D. T. Cushing, Great Southern Lumber Co., Bogalusa, La.
California Pines-W. E. Lamm, Lamm Lumber Co., Modoc Point, Ore., and B. W. Lakin, McCloud River Lumber Co., McCloud, Calif.
Southern Hardwoods-C. Arthur Bruce, E. L. Bruce Co., Memphis, Tenn.
Western Pine-J. P. McGoldrick, J. P. McGoldrick Lumber Co., Spokane, Wash.
Northern Hemiock and Hardwood-A. L. Osborn, Scott & Howe Lumber Co., Oshkosh, Wis.
California Redwood-Fred M. Fenwick, Charles Nelson Co., San Francisco, Calif.
New Mexico and Arizona-George E. Breece, George E. Breece Lumber Co., Albuquerque, N. M., and T. P.-Gallagher, White Pine Lumber Co., Bernalillo, N. M. _ Northern P^ine-J. A. Mathieu, J. A. Mathieu (Ltd.), Rainy Lake, Qnt.
Southern Cypress-H. B. Hewes, Jeanerette Lumber & Shingle Co., Jeanerette, La.
Seattle, July 16.-An aggressive and long-sustained effort to increase the sales of Western red cedar siding and other lumber and wood products of the same species throughout the United States will follow the incorporation during the week at Olympia of the Western Red Cedar Exploitation Company of Seattle, according to interested lumbermen. The incorporators were Leo S. Black and W. C. McMaster, Seattle, and Robert M. Ingram, Abgrdeen. Eleven mills, three in British Columbia and eight in Washington will constitute the initial membership.
"This is a group move on the part of the principal mills interested in Western red cedar to increase their markets by aggressive joint trade extension, including advertising and concentrated promotional efforts in the important lumber using markets of the country," according to Colonel. W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. "These mills are all members of our association and for the past two years have been working with our staff in a series of intensive market studies to determine ways and means by which the sale of their products might be increased. They are now getting ready to proceed with active trade extension work and have taken the first step by setting up the exploitation company.
"Our studies have shown that the siding lumber made of Western red cedar and used for the exterior of homes. is one of the highest class articles offered to the American public. The wood is an excellent insulator, weather-resisting to a remarkable degree and has no superior as a base for paints. These native qualities, together with its durability, will be merchandised in modern ways to architects, builders and prospective home owners throughout the country. When the trade extension plans are once well started we expect them to continue for several years, allowing for such modifications as may be necessary from time to time."
.In addition to siding for home building, which is the principal product of these mills, special efforts are going to be made by the new company and by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, in cooperation, to secure new uses, in industry and in building, for other products of the Western red cedar log.
The incorporation was for $50,000. A small tax per thousand board feet on all lumber sold by the member companies will go into a fund with which the exploitation company can carry on its advertising and sales promotion work for the group.
The mills participating in the incorporation are the Capilano Timber Company, North Vancouver, B. C.; Hammond Lumber Company, Hammond, B. C.; Thurston-Flavelle Lumber Company, Port Moody, B. C.; Whatcom Mill Company, Bellingham; William Hulbert Mill Company, Everett; John McMaster Shingle Company, Marysville; Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing Company, Seattle; St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company, Tacoma; Snoqual- mie Falls Lumber Company, Snoqualmie Falls; Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, Longview; Bratlie Brothers Mill Company, Ridgefield, Wash.; and E. C. Miller Cedar Lumber Company, Aberdeen.
Trustees of the new company are: R. M. Ingram, A. H. .Landram, C. J. Culter, E. H. O'Neil, L. S. Black, C. H. 'Ingram, H. J. Bratlie, H. D. Lowery, W. H. Mclallen, Aird Flavelle, and T. J. Skalley.
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In the July issue of "Looking Ahead", Alvan T. Simonds, President of Simonds Saw & Steel Co., Fitchburg, Mass., says in part:
"Charting the relation between major (i.e., short cvcle swings) of business activity and swings of industrial siock prices shows at a glance that they move together very closely in t!me. Twenty-three swings (not including the swings in 1892) are com- BustNEss Acrtvlw-
emphasize the fact that regular warning was given by the movements of money rates. Perhaps in this way we may help prevent the warning being disregarded in the future or, better still, we may arouse business men to the fact that money rates should not be allowed to move up step by step in mgjor swings tg a point so high that a serious reaction becomes inevitable. We hope that
some day financiers and business men will be aroused to this end and will cui d;;
or abort the booms in order to avoid the depressions. We fear, however, that such hope is not likely to be realized in the near future, if at all; for when boom develops. iudsment flees. It begins to look as if we should have to insiitute clinical examinations of financial and business brains to discover the "boom bug" which like the rabies in the mad dog causes the business man infected with it to run wildly frothing at the mouth to certain destruction. p.erhaps when we have tagged the bug, we can inoculate and thus protect troth the biter and the bitten and mitigate or prevent the boom with its serious consequence"-i.pre_ sion, red ink, business failures and unemplbyment."
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ments in money rates forecast serious depressions, by moving to progr.essively higher rates for the two or thret cycli- cal swings in succession preceding the turn down. Since 1884 at least we have been thus warned of the coming of eve_ry ^serious depression. The overlooking of the warning tn L9D is very strange and difficult to exphin. We are re-ferring to this oversight, not to criticize the failure but to pared. Stock prices fluctuate in these major swings with business. If business is now in a maior upswing, then stoik prices are now in a bull market or will be very soon, if the record of the past is a reliable guide for the immediate future. A forecast of a major swing up or down in business is a forecast of a similar swing in stock prices. This is very gener- ally believed in theory but not so generally acted upon. These statements do not mean that business activity and stock prices have in the past and will in the future turn up or down at just the same time. A study of the chart will show that in sixteen of the twenty-three turning points (not including I89? or 1931) stbck prices turned before business activity and in seven turned at the same time or after business activity. An investor who purchased securities at or about the time busi ness turned up in a short cycle swing and sold them at or about the time business turned down in a short cycle swing would have made consistent gains. He could have added to his gains by selling short for the downswings. For the investor, the speculator and the business executive, the ability to forecast major business swings means the power to make money which in the final analysis is their aim. "Looking Ahead" has forecast these major business swings correctly months in advance. It is trying to teach its readers how to do it. When they can, then they can also forecast major swings in security prices, if we can rely on past experience.tt
"In the May 15 issue of 'Looking Ahead' we explained how we had been able to predict the present depression months before the turn down. We pointed out how move-
Lester G. Sterett, secretary of the Millwork Institute of California, is spending six weeks in Northern California territory on the business of the Institute, making his headquarters in San Francisco. He left Los Angeles Iulv 1 and traveled north by way of the San Joaq.uin Valley.
Homer Derr, J. M. Derr Lumber Co., Elk Grove, Calif., is spending his vacation in the High Sierras where he is building a summer cabin.
.Begi.nning with the issue of October 15, 1931, .,Looking Ahead" will be published monthly instead of 'bi-monthli and the annual subscription charge will be increased frorir $2_ to $5. Tfre g2 s'r.bscription witt 6e effective up to Oc_ tober 15. Mail checks or bills to ,,Looking Aheid,,' Box 486, Fitchburg, Mass. "Looking Ahead,, innounces that they will not acknowledge receipt of checks for the return of the cancelled check proves iCwas received and cashed; also_ they wish to be informed if for any reason copies sub_ scribed for are not regularly_ received.'Be sure to'give the name and the address legibly written or typed t5 which "Looking Ahead" is to be sent.
Edric Brown, of The Pacific Lumber Co., has returned from a trip to the Mountain States in the interests ;t ih; sale of the company's ReCivood Bark insulation.
Joe Holmes, Woodland _Lumber Co., Woodland, Calif., and family are motoring through the l'lorthwest and wiii go as far as Vancouv"Il B:. C. -He plans to ,risit many oi the mills while in the Northwest.
The Coast Lumber Company is now located in their attractive new office building at 3O35 East Anaheim street, East Long Beach, which was completed around the middle of July. The Coast Lumber Co. were formerly located at Wilmington where they operated a yard for the past eight years, and moved to their present site about a month ago. Robert P. Holmes is the owner of the company and in addition to lumber they carry a complete line of building materials. Robert P. Holmes, Jr., has charge of the outside sales for the firm.
Two dry kilns of the Reversible Cross Circulation Internal Fan design have recently been shipped to Tasmania by the Moore Dry Kiln Company of North Portland, Oregon. This kiln equipment was exported on the "S.S. Golden Harvest" which sailed from Seattle on July 27th.
These two kilns are being installed by the Ideal Casewoods, Ltd., who are building a new plant for the manufacture of boxes at Launceston, Tasmania. The kilns are of the single track type employing fans mounted on a longitudinal shaft underneath the loads of edge-to-edge flat stacked lumber and will be used for seasoning of Australian hardwoods.
The Moore Dry Kiln Company also recently shipped dry kiln materials from their Jacksonville, Florida, plant for installation of three kilns in Russia. These kilns were sold through the Amtorg Trading Corporation of New York City.
A revised edition of "Light Frame House Construction," a bulletin issued jointly by the Federal Board for Vocational Education, and the National Committee on Wood Utilization of the Department of Commerce, has j'"i'bee;r released from the Government Printing Offices.
While this bulletin, as announcements carrying the first edition distributed last Fall have stated, is intended primarily for carpenters interested in the technical phases of dwelling construction, it answers many questions with rvhich the prospective home owner is confronted and contains usable information constantly needed by the contractor and builder. Many thousands of copies of the first edition of this bulletin have been sold to the home owning and house building groups.
The second edition of this publication contains additional information concerning the allowable leads for wooden girders and beams in dwelling houses ; the treatment of porch joists, posts, and columns to prevent decay; the construction of roof collar beams, as well .as information on all other structural features of a frame house.
Framing methods ; foundation sills and girders; columns, joists, and bridging; walls, partitions, and roofs; floors, sheathing, siding, and shingles; interior trim ; and miscellaneous structural items such as chimneys, porches, and furring are all discussecl in detail. In addition the physical characteristics of wood and the grading of lumber receive brie{ treatment in this bulletin.
f'l EALERS are particularly capable of judging quality in the products they LJ h^rrdle. It is therefore gratifying to note the frequency with which we find dealers selecting Sisalkraft for their own homec or yard buildings, because of its unequalled quality.
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A dealer who has had personal experience with Sisalkraft is the best possible dealer for he can positively as:eure a prospect as to the advantages of using this tough paper. Ffe knows how it saves labor and he has seen it stand up under many kinds of abuse. He knows how absolutely air and moisture proof it is.
Use Sisalkraft yourself--and sell it with the enthusiasm that naturally results from such personal experience.
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The old colored man who takes hats at the door of the dining room of the big city hotel, prided himself that he had never made a mistake, and never failed to give each diner back his right hat. His uncanny ability along this line frequently attracted the attention of visitors.
A certain college professor who was interested in various phases of mental training, memory development, etc.' came to this hotel, and watched with interest this old colored man, apparently without hesitation or indecision, give back the right hat to several hundred men at each dinner
George Gorman, salesman for the Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco, has returned from a two weeks' vacation spent in the Northwest.
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hour, and he was keen to discover what particular system the darkey used for his exact identifications. So as he came out of the dining room he thought he would invctigate. The old man handed him his hat, and he asked:
"ffncle, how do you know this is my hat?"
"Ah don't know it, suh," replied the old darkey.
"Then why did you hand it to me?" asked the puzzled professor.
ttBecuz hit's de wun you handed to me, suh," was the placid reply.
A. E. Millington, vice-president and general manager of the Fir-Tex Insulating Board Co., St. Helens, Ore., was a recent visitor to San Francisco.
The Insular Lumber Company's new mill, which is situated on the old mill site at Fabrica on Ne6,'ros Island, started operations,on July 13. The plant covers an area of about one mile square and it required over six million feet of lumber to construct it. The new mill building is 150 feet wide and 540 feet long. The main mill floor is 20 feet above the ground.
The'company was cutting six million feet a month, largely specialties, and the new plant has been built with the object in mind of increasing these special orders and being in shape to give their trade prompt service of better manufactured lumber.
When the mill is complete, it will have four bands, two gangs, two horizontal resaws, two vertical resaws, two twin resaws, several edgers, two trimmers, one slasher, two hogs and several shingle mills. It is all electrically driven. The bulk of the lumber will go dirbct from the sorting chains on to the dry kiln trucks and from the dry kilns to the cooling sheds, where it will pass final inspection and be put in packages and then stored in the warehouses by cranes. One warehouse holding ten million feet of lumber is already completed.
The planing mill and box factory is 200 feet wide and 60O feet long. The lumber from the dry kiln trucks will go directly into the machines and from the machines will go to the sorting chains, where it will also receive its final inspection and be handled by cranes in the warehouse.
The machine shop, car shop and foundry ar! all under one roof 25O feet by 300 feet. It is said that this will be the largest hardwood plant in the world, and the company has started up with a big volume of orders on their books. They have large concrete docks with a locomotive crane that travels the whole length, so that they can easily load a half million feet of lumber every day. They have a large stand of timber, which warranted their building this large plant. They have eleven locomotives and ample logging cars and donkey engines, and sufficient railroad to furnish this plant with plenty of logs.
The plant was built under the able direction of the general manager, M. E. Grey. Mr. Grey is one of the most capable and experienced sawmill builders and operators in the United States and has organized a staff of experienced hardwood executives who, with his instructions, have been able to rebuild this plant r,r'ithout outside assistance. The plant is designed for the most economical operation and 'complete utilization of by-products so that nothing uiill go to waste, except the smoke fromrthe stacks. The company has their lumber well introduced in practically all the markets of the.world.
This mill and logging operation has built a town for 10,000 people in which their employees and families live. They have their big general store, hospital, club, motion picture theater, ice plant and four schools. The mill supplies electricity, and they have modern sanitary conditions.
The Robert Dollar Co., San Francisco, is western sales agent for the Insular Lumber Company. The Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and White Brothers, San Francsico, are the California distributors.
Jim Farley, assistant Western sales manager of The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned July 27 frorh two weeks' vacation spent in Humboldt County. Jim is loyal to the Redwood Empire, and thinks there's no place like it for a vacation.
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Creating wide interest among roofing dealers, contractors, and roofers, is the recent announ,cement by 'WeaverHenry Corporation of their new shingle product, the Thatch-Lock. The shingle, according to W. B. Koehler, Weaver-Henry executive, was designed particularly for the large market in the low competitive price class.
Mr. Koehler states: "Weaver-Henry moved cautiously in the matter of manufacturing a single 'coverag'e shingle until a thorough study had been given the problem. We now offer our customers a shingle of excellent quality. One which attains the utmost in beauty and utility, and can be laid single coverage where price is an important factor in making the sale or it can be laid double or even triple coverage according to the Thatch effect or exposure desired."
Colors which feature the Thatch-Lock are: Fieldstone Green, Standard Red, Romany Red Blends (in three combinations) and Blue Black.
Don Philips, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has returned from a two weeks' vacation spent at Garberville and Klamath in Humboldt County.
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Fred lfoeptner, the winner of the tournament of the In the play-off, he
auditor in the lumber department, was John Olson Cup at the monthly golf McCormick Los Angeles organization. beat Herb Butz of the steamship deis awarded to the low net winner and
partment. The cup to obtain permanent possession of the cup it must be won three times. 16 took part in the tournament.
Thomas Hussey, of Hussey-Williams Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., recently spent a few days in San Francisco, and visited the mills of the Pickering Lumber Co. at Standard and Tuolomne. Accompanied by Mrs. Hussey he also paid a visit to Yosemite National Park.
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The following is a letter bv M. B. Nelson, Kansas City, Mo., President of the Lons-Bell Lumber Sales the company's salesmen
"I just received a letter from the president of a concern with national distribution, the first paragraph reading as follows:
"'A few days ago our Purchasing Agent told me that never in all of his experience had it been as easy to say'no' to the salesmen who call upon him, as it is at the present time. He said the salesmen call on him expecting to be turned down; that their whole manner indicates that they are licked, and that most of them are making their calls in a perfunctory and half-hearted way.'
"I have just talked with our Purchasing Agent, who confirms practically the same thought; further indicating that the salesmen calling on him today, covering all lines we handle, including lumber, spend most of their time telling him how hard it is to find business and bemoaning the lower prices competing salesmen have made.
"I think it is obvious that the depression, from which the country is now beginning slowly to emerge, was the result of economic causes such as over-production, over-expansion, over-building and ruthless stock gambling. I believe, though, that these economic causes have very largely spent their force, and that now the collapse of confidence and the hoarding of idle credit resources, due to fear or uncertainty, which has caused all to restrict their purchases to dire needs, and in a lot of cases even beyond ihat, are the main factors tending to prolong the depression.
"When prosperity is booming most of us think the sky is the limit; then when depression comes we go to the other extreme and think the sky is falling.
"I do not believe we can help ourselves by any form of magic, but do believe there is a lot to psychology and prop4ganda, and I want to appeal to everyone receiving this bulletin, particularly our road salesmen and our retail yard managers, who are constantly in contact with the buying public, that if they have become, through these long months of depression, overly depressed, and fallen in line with 'Gus Gloom', that they check up on themselves, and, pardon the slang expression, 'snap out of it'.
"I believe there is a lot in the suggestion that a united movement among the hundreds of thousands of salesmen in this country would increase business, and want to urge that you view the picture from a different angle; assume an aggressive attitude; get off the beaten path; shake the bushes, so to speak, and, wherever possible, create business in any line.
"Money in circulation makes prosperity, and the only thing that puts money in circulation is an ORDER. Every order that is secured gives some man or men employment. Every man employed receives money, and every man with money spends.
"We know that many of our people are out of employment and they do not have any money to spend except for bare necessities and their consumption of bare necessities has been reduced because of lack of income. We know, also, that many people have money and could spend it without serious sacrifice. They have the desire to spend it but they are afraid of a greater need for it later on, or that they might be reduced to want if they did not conserve their capital now.
"All of the talk and broadcasting of hard times and depression has frightened many to stop spending to a greater extent than sane judgment would warrant. Their action has caused a greater depression than would apply if there had been a saner spending on the part of those who could spend. The atmosphere has been so full of this kind of propaganda during the past twenty-one months that it is hard for many to get over their fright. Let's join the army of sane spenders and talk it to our customers, to our friendi and with all those with whom we come in contact, particu- larly with sales forces, both retail and wholesale. in all lines of endeavor.
"Let's do our part in checking this fright hysteria and start a backfire against pessimism, because I think that is the safest, sanest and surest cure. The harder we push in this direction, the quicker we will bring about an increased business activity which will give more employment, bring greater happiness and prosperity, and a higher standard o-f living."
The Scotchman had worn the same one hat for fifteen years, until finally it played out on him altogether, and went to pieces. So he had to buy a new one whether he wanted to or not. Therefore he walked smilingly into the only hat store in the little town where he lived, and remarked-
The mocking bird out yonder Is calling, calling low, Is asking "Whither wander, Dear love of long ago?"
My heart wells up, repeating The fleeting, lonely cry: And when will we be meeting, Again dear, you and I?
Night shadows brood and tremble Among the dreaming trees, As in my thoughts assemble The shades of memories; And, as the bird keeps crying Its sighing note, I hear Your plaintive voice replying From far-off yesteryear.
You were as fragrant, tender As springtime lilacs blow; You were Love's own defender, And slender as his bow ! How slow the midnight passes; How swift the trend of yegrs; How long the graveyard grass is; How chill the dew of tears.
Tom Dreier tells of a farmer who had a mean disposition and when he got angry always relieved himself by expressing his opinions in doggerel rhymes, composed on the spur of the moment. One evening he had been milking and carried in two pails filled with milk, when he slipped on the kitchen foor his wife had just been mopping, and raising up, remarked: There I go, pell-mell, Two pails of milk all shot to Hell, Ain't I told you times before, Not to mop this gol-durn floor?
And it came to pass a green salesman read in black and white that bad. And low and behold, as he read these tidings, blue. For he was yellow.
You can never acguire anything in this world without paying for it-purchasing it by your own will and effort. You may attain high office. It will never come to you as a grft.
You may attain a high place in business; your name may be emblazoned in the newspapers, and other distinctions may come to you. They are at the end of a long, hard road that only men and women with ability and energy can traverse.
-J. Ramsey McDonald.Sincerity is the foundation stone of true friendliness. It is also a human trait that is hard to counterfeit, as tHe sincere friendly impulse comes from the soul of a man and not from the calculating mind. Think kindly and friendly thoughts. If you have a heart and a soul, why be ashamed of them? Bring them into the shop, your office, and your daily life. Strengthen your faith in men, think kindly of them, believe that they are your friends, and in the long run they will be.
-Raymond Congreve."W'ell, here I am AGAIN."
-Ray Clarke Rose.
"\Mhat would I have to give you for a kiss?"
"An anaesthetic."
Washington, July 1.-A 30 per cent increase in Blue Book special report business during June, as compared with a.year ago, indicates cautious buying in all quarters on a comparative small volume of trade, the Lumbermen's Blue Book reports to "The Lumber Market".
A' much larger volume of collection claims is reported for the current month, though the average claim is slightly'less. Collections have been, and still continue much more difficult than a year ago. The Blue Book, which is the lumber industry's own credit service, is receiving a greatly increased demand for service from all branches of the trade.
Bankruptcies in the lumber trade reported to the Blue Book during June, were 18 compared with 10 for the same month last year. Receiverships also increased, there being 10 compared with 6 last year. There were also 4 assignments, 4 compromise settlements and 8 creditors' meetings, all of which showed slight increases over a year ago.
Washington, D. C., July 9.-According to a statement made today by Wilson Compton, manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, (Inited States government mail subsidies are in effect being applied to encourage the importation into the United States of Russian pulpwood, lumber, and other products of communistic industry.
"Take the case of the S.S. Minnequa," said Mr. Compton, "which recently landed a cargo of pulpwood in Albany, notwithstanding our protest. This American flag vessel received a cash postal subvention of $15,70O for the trip from New York to Leningrad and return. Such a subsidy makes it possible for low freight rates to be ofiered to the Russian government for the transport to the United States of forest products made from confiscated forests by timberworkers who if not convicts are 'forced' or 'exile' workers, such as dispossessed peasants. Pulpwood being on the U.S. free list, the native product has little chance in-competition with products which represent no investment, are taxfree, produced by involuntary labor paid low wages in depreciated rubles, and moved by American ships subsidized by American taxpayers. Among these taxpayers are, of course, the producers themselves of American pulpwood who are thus involuntary and indirect contributors to the subsidizing of their most demoralizing competition.
W. Lloyd llook, formerly field engineer with the Cali fornia Redwood Association. is now on the sales staff of the Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco, engaged in promoting the sale of structural Redwood for State and County bridges in California, Arizona and New Mexico territory.
C. L. Marsh, fprmerly manager of the C. S. Pierce Lumber Company's yard at Biola, has taken over the management of the Hammond Lumber Company's yard at Madera.
The ure of four Vs" doweb ar illurtrated here inrtead of the usual three /2" dovelt ir one of the rearonc for tte durable conatruction of WOCO Doorr. They give over 5O per cent mole atrength and 3O per cent greate! cement gurface than thorc with a half inch diameter.
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D. Frank Park, Park Lumber Co., La Mesa, Calif., has sold his yard at Lemon Grove to J. H. Bjornstad of San Diego. The Lemon Grove yard has been in operation since 1910; Mr, Park purchased the yard in 1926 and has operated it since that time.
Mr. Bjornstad has been associated with the lumber business in San Diego for the past twenty years. He was the founder,of the Dixie Lumber Co., in San Diego, but sold out his interests in the yard three years ago, and since that time has been in the real estate business in San Diego.
Washington, Jrly lO.*Because of the profound impression which E. St. Elmo Lewis, merchandising counsel, made upon those retail lumber dealers who were privi: leged to hear him last spring, the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, under whose auspices he spoke, has had his "Target Talks" printed in book form.
In his talks Mr. Lewis, who has merchandised practically every building material, tackled twenty-eight specific knotty problems which the retailer meets in his daily business of selling goods. Dealers who heard him said that they felt that they were taking vitally important information back to apply to their business. Publication of the talks follow,ed requests from many dealers and retail association secretaries.
"Target Talks" is a twenty-four page booklet, 6 by 9 inches, printed on good stock and in good size, legible type. There will be no charge for this booklet, but distribution will be limited to dealers making requests for it. Requests should be sent to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Washington, D. C.
Six firemen were injured while fighting a fire that swept through the yard of the Grace Lumber Co., San Francisco, July 15. The estimated damage to the lumber yard was $10,000. The fire, which spread to adjoining buildings, was believed to have been caused by a lighted cigarette.
C. J. Hafner, formerly Chief Grader for the Philippine Hardwood Export Association, Manila, P. I., has severed his connections with the Association in the Islands and has returned to the United States.
The Benson Lumber Co., San Diego, Calif., has appointed H. E. Whittemore general manager of sales. Mr. Whittemore has been connected with the company for the past six years. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, class of 1916, and prior to joining the Benson organization he was associated with various California construction projects. He has a wide acquaintance with the lumber fraternity in Southern California.
California's share of Federal funds for forest fire control is $161,288 for the fiscal year beginning July l, according to a telegram just r.eceived by Regional Forester S. B. Show of the U. S. Forest Service. This is an increase of nearly $14,000 over the allotment of last year. This appropriation is made under the Clarke-McNary law which provides for cooperation between the States and the Federal Government in fire control and is used by the State Division of Forestry for the purpose of employing addi' tional rangers or guards, purchasing fire fighting equipment, erecting lookout \towers or other prevention measures. Owing to California's increasing expenditures in forest fire control, the State's allotment from Federal funds has been augmented $104,000 in the last three years. The territory covered by the State Forester's protection organization lies outside of the boundaries of the national forests and embraces about 19,0@,000 acres.
The State of Nevada will this year receive, for the first time, an allotment under the Clarke-McNary law. The amount is $1,22O and will be used on a cooperitive fire control project between Nevada and the U. S. Forest Service located in the forested portion of that State on the California-Nevada line adjacent to the Tahoe National Forest.
Governor Arrillaga, during the days of Spanish rule in California, issued a proclamation in 1793 calling on the parishes to conduct an educational campaign among the Christians and the pagan Indians against fire. The losses from fire along the Camino Real to forests and pastures then threatened the natural wealth of the State just as at present, 138 years later, in the days of Governor Rolph.
Careful study of this charming bungalow home will convey many unique features which you will appreciate and will welcome an opiortunity of adopting. The graceful sweep of the roof, carefully spaced windows and dormer add materially in making the exterior attractive.
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Packets of feature matches have been added as a fifth item to round out the "Build Now" campaign ammunition being provided for retail lumb'er dealers by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. This match is a unique advertising novelty less than tlvo months old, and lumber dealers, due to an arrangement entered into by the N.L.M.A-, will be among the first to show th,em.
Obtainable at less than the cost of business cards. these matches will prove especially effective business-getters. They have a brightly covered picture of an attractive lumber-built home printed on their stems which will make users look to see who is distributing them. On one outside cover will appear the local dealers' name, address and telephone number. The other rvill carry the slogan, "Build Now". The inside cover rvill carry reference to 1931 as the "Home Builder's Bargain Y,ear". These matches are specially suited to distribution at county fairs, in local stores, for business drives by groups of dealers and by cooperating builders and contractors.
Because of the special machinery and art rvork necessary to produce this novelty as an effective medium for advertising lumber-built homes, it was necessary to place a large order with the match company. The trade extension department of the National Association placed this order and will serve as a clearing house for individual concerns. A lorv price was quoted and it will be passed on to the retailers. The price will be $4.95 per thousand packets, with 50 cents additional per thousand for printing the dealer's individual name and address where orders amount to 2,500 pa,ckets or more. The imprinting price rvill be 75 cents per thousand where orders are for less than 2,50O packets.
Other items in the "Build New" campaign material available to dealers include envelope "stickers", building page articles for newspaper use, matrices of prepared newspaper advertising, and direct mail literature-all furnished on a part cost plan. Several hundred dealers are now using this material and one retail association secretary recently sent in a group order from members of his association for twenty sets of this material. I-eading magazines in the home and building fields are supporting the build now ideas and other industries are taking it up as an effective measure for business relief.
Dealers who rvish to obtain samples of the "Build Now" campaign literature or who rvish to order quantities of the "Build Now" advertising matches should write to the Dealers Service Department, National Lnmber Manufacturers Association, Transportation Bldg., Washington, D. C.
E. A. Wright is opening an office in Los Angeles where he will repreient the Washington Veneer Co. of Olympia, Wash., and the Peterman Manufacturing Co. of Tacoma' Wash., handling Douglas fir plywood, doors, moulding and finish. Mr. Wright h1s been connected with the lumber industry in the Northwest for many years and was formerly manager of the Pacific Mutual Door Co. and its associate companies, the Aberdeen Plywood Co. of Aberdeen, and the Olympia Veneer Co. of Olympia, with headquarters in Tacoma. He is well known to the Southern California trade, having made many business trips to that territory.
Chas H. Benton, President of the Benton Roof and Paint Company, San Diego, annotlnces the installation of new paint manufacturing machinery amounting to several thousands of dollars. An exceedingly large volume of paint and roof business with indications pointing favorably totvard future business, gives reason for the new equipment, states Mr. Benton.
Mr. Benton is lvidely known as one of the largest and most substantial roof contractors and paint dealers in San Diego territory. For the past ten years he has 'conducted the manufacturing of building paints in conjunction rvith his roofing business. Mr. Benton states that he has been a staunch Weaver-Henry representative for over twe.nty vears and attributes much of his success to this affiliation.
(W. H. Barg, Hart-Wood Lumber Co., San Francisco, puts his impre-sions of prohibition in rhyme).
- No more poor Tony go catcha da fish, So longa dey have disa ting dey calla probish; I-ota da people lika da country wet, But Tony hope not for a tima Yet; Righta now everything goa fine, Tony geta rich from sella da wine; Soma my cousin maka da beer, An da other ones lerna to be rackateer; No more poor lika da Churcha Mouse, Tony builda da beeg Apartment House; Dose data helpa me are strong and beeg, Da gooda Anti-Saloona League; No more raisa da potate and suchini, Tony go to Italy to liva with Mussolini; Dat sure is one swella dish. Disa ting dey calla probish.
Rate: t2.50 per colutnn inch The Fellow
Planing Mill Machinery for sale. All modern, nern
3 years ago. Los Angeles Planing Mill Co., lE00 Industrial St., Los Angeles, Calif. Phone VAndike 8460.
Young lady with thr,ee years' experience desires stenographic' position. Lumber preferred. Permanent position preferred. Will consider temporary, vacation relief, etc. Will consider positions in or out of Los Angeles. Address Box C-399, care California Lumber Merchant.
Lumberman open for position with retail or wholesale lumber firm, as manager of yard or selling. Several years' experience with Southern California retail Lumber conterns. References. Address Box C-401. care California Lumber Merchant.
WANTED
Position with reliable firm by an experienced cre<lit man, accountant ancl lumberman. Address Box C-403, California Lumber N[erchant.
POSITION WANTED BY EXPERIENCED MAN
Man experienced in lumber-hardware-paint, etc., wishes connection as salesman, bookkeeper, estimator, credits or lineyard manager. Best of references. Address Box C-405, California Lnmber Merchant.
Fifteen years with Los Angeles lumber firms. Office, counter, private secretary, notary, typing, creditman, collections, general bookkeeping, securifiis, iental and propert_v management. References. Interview appreciated. Address Box C-398, care California Lumber Merchant.
WANTS POSITION WITH RETAIL LUMBER YARD
. loung man with several years' retail lumber experience in Southern California wants position. Familiar with office details and selling. References furnished. Will appreciate an interview. Address Box C-400, care California- Lumber Merchant.
WANTS POSITION WITH WHOLESALE FIRM
Lumberman familiar with details of wholesale lumber business wants position in wholesale office. Has had several y,ears' experience with wholesale lumber firms. Has had experience in selling and also good stenographer and bookkeeper. Address Box C-4O2, care Califoriia- Lumber Merchant.
_An opportunity to buy lumber yard in .good location. IJusiness averag'es over $6000.0O a month, fiist class stock and planing mill. Stock and accounts receivable will inventory $25,000.00. Will handle Accounts Receivable. Will sell all of business or if I get the right man will retain an interest. Compelled to get out of active business on account of health. For full information address Box.C-4(X, California Luml>er Merchant.
The office of the California Lumber Merchant is constantly receiying applica- ti9n9, fro_m both men and women, desiring work with lumbir concer;. - -M*t ofr these have had previous lumber experilnce.
When you lre in n.ed of help o-f any kind, either office or yard, why not get the habit of calling uE first and F i.g .r "n opportunityto be of ;.;;; i; -v"" rt well as to those n€eding empl-oymint? Thiie is no ih"tg. with tt i" r"rti"., t" employer or employee.
To oll Weaver-Henry dealcr and prospective Veaver-Henry dealers we enthuriasticclly introduce the ThatchLock Shinsle. Take a long look at this new product. Quaint, inlormal, reminiscent of Old English, yet modcrn, rturdy, cleverly designed and economical, ar becomes a Weaver-Henry product. ( This flexible asphalt rhinglc :tyle has been produced particulerly for thc low competitive price class. It may be laid single coverage where price is an important laclor in making the scle or laid doublc or triple according to Thatch effect or cxpo\YEAVER-HENRY
sure derired. ltmeybe lcid laster than eny other single coverage shingle on the market. t( Get this shingle in your territory right away. Show the Thatch-Lock to your prospects. lt's a "natunl" for western homes. lt lairly sparkles with sales possibilities. Get full information from us. Colorc are Fief dstone Green, Standard Red, Romany Red Blends (3 combinations), and Blue Black. This metnt new profit on summer business.
"Business is a great deal like a prize fight", says "Little Hip". "The winner keeps plugging away with a stout heart-undismayed. The tougher the going the harder he fights."
"It helps a lot, too, to have an old establish€d business which has been through several booms and depressions. Experience gained only in this manner teaches us just how to fight to produce the winning t'knock out" that tingles the cash register.tt
"My boss says to tell you that we are putting in
somo telling blows that are creating business for us all.tt
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Best Quality in Every Price Range.
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