The surface that will not "grain-raise" under enamels and paints; rich grain figures for staining; wood that does not check or warpthe qualities that have made "old fashioned White Pine" the American standard of perfection.
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Current new business of 216 mills reporting to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended July 16 was 22 per cent over production. This group reported production approximately nine million feet more than the previous week. Shipments for the week were 18 per cent over production. Unfilled orders increased 8O0r000 feet, new export business was 2r53lro00 feet morer' and new domestic cargo orders werc lr535rOOO feet over as compared *ith the previous week's businss. New rail business decreased lr24lrOOO feet, while the local cade was 46trOOO feet less than the volume reported for the week before.
Production, orders and shipments at these 216 mills for the week were as follows: Production, 4713751542 feet; Shipments, 55r92V,991 feet; Orders, 57,8111988 feet.
Details of orders and shipments at these mills for the week follows: Orders-Rail, 171574,609 feet; Domestic Cargo, l9r273rllt feet; Expott, 1614131143 feet; Local, 4,5511125 feet. Shipments-Rail, l9rt09r057 feet; Domestic Cargo, 2015421763 feet; Export, 1115211046 f.eet; Local, 4,5511125 f.eet.
A total of. 321 mills reporting to the Association for the week ended July 16 operated at 19.1 per cent of capacityr:rs compared to t5.7 per cent of capacity for the previous week and 39.6 per cent for the same week last yeer. During the week 212 of. these plants were reported as down and 109
The lumber situation in California was quiet during the month of July, but the trade reported a considerable increase in inquiries during the last fifteen days of the month. Retail stocks are reported very [ow. The passage of the Federal Ffome Loan Bank Bill was well received by the trade and it should be of gteat benefit to the industry ilsl s(x)n as the banking system begins to function. The increased prices for wheat and livestock and the reports on bumper grain crops in the middle west reflect a better business outlook.
Unsold stocks on tlre public docks at San Pedro on July 27 totaled,318131000 feet, as compared to 4r275rOO0 feet for the previous week. Cargo arivals at San Pedto for the week ended July 23 were very low and amounted to 515051000 feet, which included 9 cargoes of Fir carrying 4r733rOOO feet, and 2 cargoes of Redwood with 772rOOO feet. 45 lumber vessels were operating in the Cdifomia service on July 23, with one vessel, the Missoula, operating off-shore; 65 vessels were laid up.
Production during the week ended July 16 remained at low ebb, according to telegraphic reports to the National Lumber Manufacturets Association, having arnounted to but 110,292.OOO f.eet at 641 leading hardwood and softwood mills covered by reporting regional associations. Orders receiv"d by the.se mills amounted to ll7r875rOOO feet, while shipments were 11715361000 feet, both approximately 7 per cent above production. A week earlibr (the July 4th holiday week) 645 mills reported production of 92r422rOOO feet, with orders 17 per cent above and shipments 5 per cent above the cut.
The Southern Pine Association for the week ended July 16 reported new business from 12O mills as 2lr247r000 feet; shipments, 2016891000 feet, and production, 19,050,000 feet. Orders were 12 per cent above production and 3 per cent above shipments. Shipmenrc were 9 per cent above production.
The Western Pine Association for the week rcported new business from 111 mills as 29r327rOOO feet; shipments, SO/O6rOOO feet, and production, 3615381000 feet. Orders were 2O per cent below production and 4 per cent below shipments. Shipments were 16 per cent below production.
187 hardwood mills gave new business for the same woek as 7r7O7rOOO feet, or 17 per cent above production, and shipments 718801000 feet, or 20 per cent above production. Production was 615821000 feet.
Earl McCormi,ck, McCormick Bros., San Diego, for the second time within a period of one month shot a hole-inone at the La Mesa Country Club, Thursday, JuJy 14. He rvas playing with D. Frank Park, Park Lumber Co., La Mesa, and Ed. Culnan, Chas. R. McCorrnick Lumber Co., Los Angeles.
Mr. McCormi,ck sank his tee shot for a hole-in-one on the 1l0-yard 13th hole. Just twenty-five days before he made a similar shot from the same tee registering the first ace of his golf career. He is the 2oth player to join the San Diego Union-J. Jessop & Sons Hole-in-One Club and has the honor of being the first repeater in the club's history.
R. O. Wilson, of the R. O. Wilson Lumber Co., San Francisco, rvas the victim on July 19 of a serious automobile ac,cident on the highway near Liverrnore, when a truck crashed into his car ancl wreckecl it completely. Mr. Wilson fortunately escaped rvithout any broken bones, but is in St. Joseph's Hospital, San Francisco, suffering from bruises and shock. The truck driver admitted having been asleep at the wheel.
Waverly Tilden has succeeded his father, the late E. M. Tilden, as president of the Tilden Lumber Co., Berkeley.
"We are finding a good field for sales of Palco Redwood Bark Fibre through the lumber dealer," said Edric E. Brown, in charge of the by-products division of The Pacific Lumber Company, San Fran,cisco, to a representative of this paper. "Redwood Bark is being used extensively for cold storage construction, and we have supplied this material for the insulation of many houses in the California valleys. The houses have been insulated above the ceilings, and it has been found that the temperature has been reduced as a result from 10 to 16 degrees. In cold storage work Redwood Bark is used in cases where the temperature is maintained around 20 degrees below zero."
William Dinning, for many years manager of the South City Lumber & Supply Co., South San Francis'co, Calif., has resigned. Mr. Dinning is well known to the San Francisco Bay District lumber trade and was connected with the firm for the past eighteen years. He has not announced his plans for the future. Israel Horton, formerly assistant manag'er, rvill succeed Mr. Dinning.
W. R. McMillan, manager of Hammond Lumber Co., Inc., Chicago, arrived in San Francisco July 30 for a visit to the company's mills and the home office.
There are m:rny species, each with its own standard of grades, width and length limitations, and other trade conditions. The average lumber dealer has no occasion to know this technical information.
We carry at Los Angeles an exceptionally complete stock of hard. wood. It is, of couris€, a pa,rt of our seflice to furnish to lumber dealers information and guidance in hardwood matters.
Ve have succeeded in making many friends thrcugh our effofts and ability to relieve lumber yards from the burden of hardwood technicallties, the result to them b"irg a profit and an elimination of hazards.
Ve ask your inquiries.
There are a lot of commercial, industrial, agricultural, and financial signs right now that definitely point UPWARD. You don't suppose, do you -? ***
Students of history are bursting into print every day now in our magazines and newspapers, striving to comfort us with the declaration based on the history of all previous civilizations, that too great prosperity enervates, degenerates, debilitates, and destroys; while times of adversity strengthen, inspire, enthuse, and elevate.
Quote me saying that if this be true, f have been strengthened, inspired, enthused, and elevated in the past two years to an absolutely alarrniing degree.
Does advertising pay? Ask the coffee man. Every bum that hits you for a dime wants it to buy "a cup of coffee." I'll say it pays !
Every now and then some guy tells the truth about a subject so directly artd simply that it is more forceful than any rhetoric. I was just reading one of the speeches ot this interesting fellow He4ry Field, the countryman who has been nominated for U. S. Senator in Iowa on the Republican ticket (the late J. P. Dolliver used to say that "Iowa will go Democrat when Hell goes Methodist"), and this is what he said about Government in business:
"The Government never got into business of any kind without messing it up. They messed up the railroads. They messed up the shipping business. And they messed up the grain prices and most everything they ever touched. The Government can't even build a battleship economically. They tried to build one in competition with an.other ship on exactly the same plan built by a private shipyard, and the Government-built ship cost 30 per cent more to build and took four months longer to complete, although they didn't pay a cent of taxes or overhead." Three cheers for pJain. talking Mr. Field ! ***
Most poliiician orators sit blinking on the dead limb of political heredity, hooting the same hoots that have been hooted ever since politics began. Once in a while, though, someone climbs out of the rut aqd utters something that
repays you for your listening effort. The other day I heard one politican flaying another, and I gurgled with delight when he uttered this potent play on words and logic: "Some good and wibe men will probably vote for him," said the speaker, "but my observation is that the GOOD who db so, are NOT WISE, and the WISE who do so, are NOT GOOD." That paid me for my time. ***
There are tens of thousands of dog hospitals, dog doctors, and dog nurses all over the land today, charging the sissified owners of anaemic modernized and spoiled dogs millions upon millions of dollars annually for doctoring, nursing, and pampering the present-day degenerate descendents of the good old dog of years gone by. A pampered and spoiled generation of people have carried their ideas of modernis- e.'en to their dogs, and as a result we find them lazy, spoiled, expensive, unhealthy, far less alert physically and mentally than the dog of ye olden time. Even the dogs have gone to the dogs. rt**
One state in the union has passed a law reguiring every drug store to employ a registered pharmacist. Ridiculous ! Since when did making and serving toast, near-chicken, and Coca Cola require a chemist?
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If the railroads do not receive some business soon, there'll be receivers. But then, if the feceivers do not receive any business-what?
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It's vacation season. And, while a few fortunate ones are enjoying themselves, ALL the rest of us are waiting for Old Man Depression to take HIS. ***
The fellow who counters every suggestion or prediction of better times with the question "what can you point to that is going to make conditions better?" continues to be persistently pestiferous. He doesn't stop to consider that if his agnostic measuring stick be built on truth, things can NEVER recover. ***
THIS f know, and from it I take continual encouragement; for thousands of invulnerable reasons we HAD to HAVE a panic; we've got a panic; and when it has run its course, the panic will pass. Some day we will say to
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At a well attended meeting of business men in the Los Angeles territory held at the Hotel Ashmun, Belvedere Gardens, on Tuesday evening, July 26, it was voted to form a permanent organization to study the best methods of financing the construction of small homes. N. Whitacre, Whitacre Lumber Company, Los Angeles, who acted as temporary chairman of the meeting, was authorized to appoint a committee of five to draft the ,constitution, by-laws and aims of the organization which will be presented at the next meeting.
This is the third meeting that has been held and at all sessions the matter of financing the small home owner through government long term loans at a low interest rate has been discussed. The committee that arranged for the meeting included N. Whitacre, R. M. Ashmun, Kenneth Smith, M. H. McCall and James Comer. Following the dinner there was an excellent musical program.
Eugene Leo Swift, a member of the lumber firm of Swift & Co., San Francisco, collapsed on the street in San Francisco, July N, and. died shortly afterward at the hospital. Physicians said the cause of death was a heart attack.
Mr. Swift was 49 years of age, and was a native of San Francisco. He is survived by his wife and three daughters, and his brother, Edward D. Swift, with whom he was associated in business-
W. W. Peed, widely known California lumberman, has purchased the Norton-Phelps Lumber Co. yard at Los Gatos, Calif. The Norton-Phelps Lumber Co. yard at Los Gatos was established thirteen years ago by the late E. H. Norton, his son, J. E. Norton, and H. K. Phelps. The Norton-Phelps company will retain their yards at Aptos and Twin Lakes.
Mr. Peed, the new owner, was .connected with the Hammond Lumber Co. at Eureka for twenty-nine years, and has been in 'charge of production for the Monterey Bay Redwood Company for three years. He will operate the yard as the Los Gatos Lumber Co.
The Vineland Builders Supply Company has opened a retail lumber yard at North Hollywood, Calif. R. E. Burmeister and A. T. Hilton, who have both been asso,ciated with the retail lumber business in Southern California, are the new owners. Thev will carry a line of lumber and building materials.
.Fire destroyed a shed in the yard of the Star Lumber Co., Stockton, Juty 24.
We don't believe in selling direct to every "dealer next door." 'We want the strongest, the most progressive dealers in each territory. When we have them, we protect them from over-crowding of territories. 'We won't load a territory with dealers to start wildcat competition, and we're sticking to that policy.
No business, no matter how exceptional the pro. duct is, can be permanently successful unless it is mutually beneficial to both the manufacturer and the dealer. This fact has been too frequently forgotten in the building material business. 'We're not forget. ting it!
The very fact that we have an unusually sound and firm merchandising policy is one important reason why so many leading companies in the building material field arenow CanecStructural Insulation dealers. Ffere are some of them-Hammond Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Securit! Materials Co., Los Angeles; Sterling Lumber Co., Oahland; Sudden Lumber Co., San Francisco; Blachstoch Lumber Co., Seattle; and Lumber and Warehouse Su00b Co., Seattle.
We want you to know about this merchandising policy of ours. You'll like it. And then, discover for yourself how remarkable Canec Structural Insulation is in comparison with the usual insulation board. Write us now for information.
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ens ansfhsi-"things are better." And that day will be just the day after a day when we will be truthfully saying-t'11tints are worse." The day before business is actually know4 to be better, no man will be able to point to any particular reason or' causc and say-"tomorrow will show improvement." One day we will be as we are today. The next day-without rhyme or reason-things will be admittedly and provably on the upgrade. That much is true. Take comfort from it, and don't break your neck or strain your optics seeking for signs. Maybe that glorious day will be tomorrow. Who knows-maybe it is TODAY?
When you speak of "men with eras in their purpose, men with epochs in their brains," you'll have to mention King Gillette, who died the other day. Since the beginning of time men who tried to expose their features to the light of the day, did so by tortuous ways and methods. Mr. Gillette looked at the old fashioned razor, realized that in creating a modern substitute for that ancient and fearful weapon there was a chance to build a commeriial empire, and he stuck to the task until he found the safety razor idea. As a benefactor to humanity he ranks high.
Look about you, Mr. Man-Who-Would-Become-Rich ! Seize upon something of everyday use that, like the old fashioned razor, is a million years behind the times, create a modern replacement for it at modest prices-and the world is yours.
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News dispatches state'that the higher paid movie folks in Hollywood have had to take a deep cut in their salaries. Now ain't that just too bad? Vot do you tink dem bik ekseckutives iss going to do ven dey iss forced to sell dere pushcart peddler brains for only a bitiful four or five tousand dollars a veek? Vat do you tink? And consider the sad plight of those dizzy blondes who hopped over a ribbon counter from eighteen a week to several thousand! Ainlt this depression just awful? What do you suppose Mr. American Wage Earner thinks, trying to feed his folks on his double-cut wages, when he reads of the salaries the movies pay to numerous bounders and blondes
whose intellectual capacities only lend added horror to the name of moron?
Mdch criticism has been heaped upon the big railroads of late by the published high salaries of their executives. But the movies pay a lot of their employes salaries that make the highest salary of any railroad executive look like a tip.If costs in movie production could be placed on a plan comparable to costs in well run business institutions the public could see the best pictures made, for not over fifteen cents-and leave plenty of profit for the producer. Imagine paying a snippy little dame fifteen thousand dollars a week ! She couldn't earn that much in a year if she worked twenty-four hours a day !
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A life and death struggle is raging between the consurner magazines and the radio. Both live on advertising-or cease to exist. In times of plenty, both might prosp'er. But in times like these the pickings are poor, and the competition is bitter, and to the finish. They are fighting at close quarters-head-locked. There will be no quarter. And there are no Marquis of Queensbury rules. Striking below the belt is O. K. if you can land; and the strangle hold goes if you can grab it. **i.
Just as a sample of the "no quarter" scramble between the two, it is announced that the word "radio" and anything about radio is taboo in the news columns of all members of the New Orleans Newspaper Publishers Association. They not only decline to further publish radio programs or activities as news, but they bar the word itself. The newspapers, of course, take the stand that the radio, which sells advertising and lives by advertising, is their competitor, and when they run the radio news and programs in their free news columnp they contribute to their own destruction by advertising their most dangerous competitors-free. So there !
Every lumberman everywhere will want to join in the discussion that has been raging in Texas for the past two weeks since 'Wm. Cameron & Company made the mills a proposition- If Wm. Cameron & Company has done nothing else it has given the industry something interest-
ing to think and talk about, with plenty of arguments pro and con. Here's what.
wm. cameron & ""-;"; ir*" ,ut"il tine yard concern at Waco, Texas, which operates close on to one hundred retail lumber yards, and is the biggest lumber and building material buyer in Texas by far, likewise it is an old, respected, and highly progressive concern, headed by a group of splendid citizens and business men. Two weeks ago they sent out an inguiry for lumber. It was the biggest inquiry in two years in Texas. They offered to buy this lumber-and probably a lot more-on one basis and one only. That the sellers guarantee them against any decline in the price for six months. And then the chorus rose.
The head of wm. ""*".; I "o-n"n, says that the mills keep urging him to buy lumber and help them keep operating their mills; that for three years they have been buying sparingly because every time they go into the market and buy, they find the market declining immediately afterwards, making their purchases bad ones. They should have waited. This has been so continual that thev
-like innumerable others-have become afraid to buy lumber. Result, their huge string of yards running with almost no stocks. They are, and have been, ready to assort their stock wherever they can do so without taking a huge loss by reason of further declines.
So they say to tt e -ill], ';J *.", lumber, but we are not willing to try and help the situation at possible great loss to ourselves. We have money in the bank to pay for all the lumber we can store. If you will protect us from the great loss that would follow a decling in the market after we had bodght all this lum,ber we need, we will buy. It is up to you. We can keep on with the low stocks we have, indqfinitely. Or we can buy hundreds of cars of lum,ber. But the mill that sells us must guarantee that if they reduce any of the prices charged us, within six months, they must refund us the difference between their reduced prices and the prices charged us, on the amount of lumber sold us."
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Is it creating endless talk and discussion? Almost a tidal wave of both. What do YOU think of it?
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The Home Loan Bank Bill, the last measure recommended by the President to Congress in the economic reconstru'ction program and designed to aid employment by supplying credit for home construction, was signed by President Hoover on luly 22.
Under the home loan act, a system of from 8 to 12 loan bank districts will be created under the supervision of a board of five to be named by the President. The board will designate one,city in each district as the site of a home loan bank whi,ch will be under the direction of I I directors. Each bank will have a minimum capitalization of $5,000,00O, with a total subs'cription by the United States of $125,000,000 held ready by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Building and loan associations, savings banks, insurance companies, savings and loan associations, homestead associations, and cooperative banks are to be eligible for membership in the system. Provisions are also made which permit organizations to organize under certain state laws to become non-member borrowers for a period of 42 months pending enactment of amendments that will permit them to join. The banks will not advance nore than 6O per cent of the unpaid principal of a home loan mortgage nor more than 40 per cent of the appraised value of property securing the loan. Loans running longer than 15 years will not be eligible for dis,count. A $20,000 limit of valuation is imposed.
The law carries with it the Borah-Glass rider in the fonn of an authorization for 'currency inflation to the extent of $1,000,000,000. In announcing his approval of the bill, President lfoover said that he had been advised by Secretary Mills of the Treasury that in the practical working of the Borah-Glass rider to the legislation there will be no inflation of the ,currency.
In signing the bill, the President issued the following statement:
"I have today signed the home loan bank bill. This institution has been created on the general lines advocated by me in a statement to the press on November 13, last. It is the outcome of the national conference on home olvnership, which represented every part of the country.
"Its purpose is to establish a series of discount banks for home mortgages, performing a function for home owners somewhat similar to that performed in the commercial field by the Federal Reserve banks through their discount facilities.
"There are to be eight to twelve such banks established in difierent parts of the couutry with a total capital of $125,000,000, to be initially subscribed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
"Building and loan associations, savings banks, insurance
companies, etc., are to be eligible for membership in the system. Member institutions are required to subscribe for stock of the Home Loan banks and to absorb gradually the capital and they may borrow from the banks upon their notes to be secured bv the collateral of sound home mortgages.
"The Home Loan banks are in turn to obtain the resources required by them through the issue of debentures and notes. These notes have back of them the obligation of the members, the mortgages pledged as securities of strch obligations and the capital of the Home Loan banks themselves. The debentures and notes thus have a triple security.
"The creation of these institutions does not involve the government in business except in the initial work of the Reconstruction Corporation, and the setting up of the board in Washington to determine standards of practice.
"The cost of this board in Washington the Home Loan banks and the banks are run by, their members.
to be paid by be owned and
"In effect, it is using the good offices of the government and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to set up cooperative action among these member institutions to mobilize their credit and resources. There are several thousand institutions eligible for membership. The purpose of the system is both to meet the present emergency and to build up home ownership on more favorable terms than exist today.
"The immediate credit situation has for the time being in many parts of the country restricted the activities of building and loan associations, savings banks and other institutions making loans for home purposes, in su'ch fashion that they are not only unable to extend credit for the acquirement of new homes but in thousands of instances they have lteen unable to renew existing mortgages with resultant foreclosures and great hardships.
'"A considerable part of our unemployment is due to stagnation in residential construction, There has been. overbuilding in certain localities in boom years but there has been far less than normal construction of new homes for three years in pace with the increase of population and there is thus a shortage which, while now obscured by present huddling, will become evident with the first stage of recovery.
"Nearly 200,000 new homes are erected annually in normal times which with initial furnishing contribute $2,000,000,000 to construction and other industries.
"A survey by the DePartment of there are localities in which there demand for homes amounting from
Commerce shows that is today an immediate $300,000,000 to $500,-
000,000 which could be undertaken at once if financing were available. Thus the institution should serve to immediately increase employment.
"In the long view we need at all times to encourage home ownership and for such encouragement it must be possible for home owners to obtain long-term loans payable in installments.
"These institutions should provide the method for bringing into continuous and steady action the great homeloaning asso'ciations which is so greatly restri,cted due to present pressures.
"There was attached to the bill by the Congress a rider for the limited extension of the old national bank currency. I am advised by the Treasury that in the practical working of this provision it will not result in inflation.
"The Comptroller of the Currency informs me that:
"'This section of the bill runs counter to the general plan established through the Federal Reserve Act intended gradually to do away with an inflexible bond secured currency and represents a backward step in currency and banking legislation but in view of the fact that the provisions are limited to a three-year period I do not feel justified in recommending that the bill be vetoed, more especially as it is a rider to an important and constructive piece of legislation to which it bears no relation.'
"I do not, therefore, feel that the amendment is su,ch as should warrant refusal to approval of the measure which means so much to hundreds of thousands of home owners, is such a contribution to their relief; such a contribution to establishment of home ownership; and such an aid to immediate increase of employment."
According to figures supplied by the Section of Customs Statistics of the Department of Commerce to the Lumber Division, softwood imports by species and countries during May, 1932, were as follows:
Softwood boards, planks and deals in the rough or planed and dressed on one side, free, in board feet:-from Canada, of. fir 2,148,000; of hemlock 164,000; of spruce 11,033,00O; of pine 4,626,W. From Mexico, of fir 41,000. Total imports of this class from Canada during May amounted to 17,971,@O feet.
Softwood sarved boards, planks, deals and sawed timber, n.e.s., dutiable, in board feet:-from Canada, of. fir 4,447,000; of hemlock 390,000; of spruce 8,449,00O; of pine 4,081,000. From Germany, of spruce 195,000. From Nicaragua, of pine 24,00. From Mexico, of pine 550,000. Total imports of this class from Canada during May amounted to 17,367,ffiO f.eet.
Other species of softwood sawn boards, planks, deals and sawed timber, free, in board feet:-from Canada 1,689,00O feet.
The J. M. Derr Lumber Co., at Elk Grove, Calif., has completed the construction of a new modern and attractive office buifding at their plant. The new building will serve as a combined office and display room.
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Seattle, Washington.-Reduced lumber rates into the Central Freight Association territory from the West Coast due to go into effect July 14, 1932, were postponed by the Interstate Commerce Commission, according to advices received by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, on petition of interested railroads. The case was originally decided by the Commission late in March, the decision favoring the petition of western lumber associations and ordering reductions of from 7f cents to 57/z cents per hundred pounds on lumber from the North Pacific group to typical points in the Central Freight Association territory, which includes Indiana, Southern Michigan, Ohio, and Western Nerv York.
The railroads rvest of Chicago, friendly to the reduction, called on the roads in the Central Freight Association to reduce their rates in compliance with the order but the eastern roads countered u'ith a suggestion that the Western roads should raise lumber rates into the area west of Illinois-Indiana line and so remove the prejudice to lumber buyers and users which the commission found to exist east of Chicago. This the Western railroads refused to do,
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stating the action, if taken, would be protested by Western lumber shippers and suspended by the Commission, thus causing a probable delay r,vith great expense and without advantage.
Because of the disagreement as to the method of complying with the order the Commission was petitioned to grant an extension of the effective date. This was secured and the carriers are required, under the new order, to comply on or before October 14, 1932.
After the order of postponement was secured, executive officers of the Western and Eastern carriers met to harmonize viervpoints. Information received by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association is that the Eastern lines have, with reservations, decided to concur in reductions in compliance with the Commission's order, but indicate great dissatisfaction and state they intend to ask the Commission to re-open the case with a view to modification of the requirement that the rates to points east of the trllinoisIndiana line definitely be fixed in relationship to the Chicago group rates. These roads are apparently fearful the Chicago group rates will be reduced in the near future in response to the claims of Western lumbermen that rail rates into the area are more than the industry can bear or pay. If the relationship is maintained as ruled by the Commission, the effect of rate reductions to the Chicago group in the future would be also to reduce rates to points east of the Illinois-Indiana line on the relationship established by the Commission in this original order.
Iio advice has yet been received as to the effective date of the proposed reductions to points east of Chicago and St. Louis.
The Yancey Lumber Company at Newman, Calif., has completed the installation of mill equipment at their plant to take care of their business calling for planing mill requirements.
our main ofFce at Dennison St. \7harf, Oakland, if you can't locate either of our three salesmen, when you want speedy action.
C. H. TERRELL, headquarters Sacramento, covers the territory fgom-f;eddiqrg .sgqth'to Mo.desto.
V/. J. SUTTERN, headqtarters Fresno, covers territory from Merced south to Bakersfield.
ED ADAMS, headquarters Oakland, covers Marin, Napa and Sonoma counties, and Coast counties tetritoty.
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The following business letter was received by a certain wholesale concern who had written an overdue account in 6rm but courteous fashion demanding payment:
Gentlernen: This acknowledges receipt of your very kindly and courteous favor of the 17th, in which you requested payment of your account. Beg to advise you that we have listed our creditors into three groups, as follows:
Group 1. Those who will be paid as soon as possible.
Group 2. Those who may be paid at some later date.
Group 3. Those who will never be paid under any conditions.
Because of the very kindly character of your dunning letter we beg to state that we have seen fit to change your grouping effective at once, and have therefore on this date changed your name from Group 3 to Group 2.
Very Truly Yours, COHEN & COMPANY.
Ed. Seward, Dolbeer-Carson Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and D. E. Liggett, Liggett Lumber Company, Santa Ana, with a score of 83 were tie for low gross honors in the monthly golf tournament of the Orange County Lumbermen's Club held at the Hacienda Country Club, Whittier, on Wednesday afternoon, July 20. C. C. Barr, Barr Lumber Company, Santa Ana, was the low net winner. Bill Chantland, Chas. R. McCorrnick Lumber Co., Los Angeles, rvon the blind bogey prize.
Following the tournament, dinner rvas served at the clubhouse. The winners were awarded golf balls which were donated by the Schumacher Wall Board Corp. of Los Angeles. Norman Lentz, Art Kelly and R. E. Hostetler had charge of the arrangements.
Frank W. Reitz of Los Angeles has purchased the yard of the Stangor Lumber Company at Hynes, Calif. Mr. Reitz will be in charge of the yard, and his daughter, Miss Viola Reitz, rvill assist him in the office.
By Presidential proclamation of July 12 the California National Forest will now be known as the Mendocino National Forest, according to information received today from Washington by the U. S. Regional Forester. The purpose of the change of name is to avoid the confusion resulting from a national forest having the same name as the State in rvhich it is located. The national forest is located in the Coast Range in parts of six different counties.
The name Mendocino was selected as the most euphonious as well as the most appropriate historically because it is the oldest in the entire California coast region. Cabrillo, the Spanish explorer, named a prominent cape Mendocino in 1543 in honor of his patron, Antonio de Mendoza, then g'overnor of New Spain (norv Mexico),
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L. J. Wentworth, manager of the Portland office of the Douglas Fir Exploitation & Export Co., recently spent a feu' days in San Francisco.
Washington, July 1S.-There is such a thing as genius in business, including the building materials business. A recent analysis of the comparative profits to be had from selling different materials for one design of house, which recently reached the offices of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, serves as a reminder why some men with "heads for facts" successfully bring their concerns through storms like the present while other concerns are allowed to flounder and sink.
This analysis covers the siding and roo{ materials for "Tlre Pioneer," a design from the home plan book of the California Redwood Association. It figures the prices and profits for the house sided with Anzac siding; the same for stucco. It shows that the wood-sided house is n,ot only less costly for the builder, but nearly 100 per cent more profitable for the dealer. While it deals with figures quoted in the rvest, they are much the same in other sections.
The analysis reads:
Memo of Comparative Costs on "Pioneer Design"
198 Lineal feet around the house
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1980 Total feet to cover, or 22O yards
D7 Deduct for openings l5/o (in this case 16)
1583 Actual feet to cover jrt OqO l/5 for waste in lap
2O2O Feet Anzac Siding required
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Booth-Kelly Douglas Fir, the Association grade and trade mark certify to your customers the quality of the stock you handle. Builders quit gueesing about what they're buying, and buy where they know what they're getting.
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Millr: Wendling, Ore., Springfield, Ore.
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. before the fall rains begin, is the time to go out and line up the roof coating jobs in your territory. Dealers who have NOT developed this part of their roofing business will be surprised how easily roof coating sales may be made. In the first place-the cost to the customer is extremely small compared with replacement. Second, Pioneer Asphalt Emulsion roof coatings are easily applied to any type of roof. Third, Pioneer Asphalt Emulsion assures your customer rugged, weatherproof protection for many years to come. And fourth, Pioneer Asphalt Emulsion is an EXCLUSIVE product that pays YOU a splendid margin of profit!
Pioneer has prepared a definite, workable plan that will sell these jobs for you, based on the successful experience of other lumber dealers. A copy is yours for the asking. Write TODAY!
The Weyerhaeuser Sales Company of St. Paul, Minnesota, has selected two nationally prominent lumber merchandisers to direct industrial and dealer sales activities.
C. J. Mulrooney, who for many years has served the Weyerhaeuser interests in an executive capacity, has recently been promoted sales manager of the dealer division, while Harry T. Kendall, well known in lumber circles, but a new comer to the Weyerhaeuser organization has been chosen to direct sales of the industrial division.
Mr. Kendall is one of those who claim to have been born a lumberman. Both his father and grandfather were associated with the lumber industry, and he himself was born and reared at La Crosse. Wisconsin in the heart of the old lumber operations. As a resu'lt of his early acquaintance' and experience with lumber his first job was selling to retail dealers throughout the northern part of the United States. From 1902 to 1911, Mr. Kendall sold through both retail and wholesale channels and experienced dealer contacts from Maine to California and from the Gulf to Canada.
In March, 191 1, Mr. Kendall became assistant general sales agent for the Kirby Lumber Company of Houston, Texas, and three years later he was appointed general sales agent. The chief .operations of the Houston Company \\rere in the southern states. After twelve years of service with the Houston firm, Mr. Kendall was selected by the Central Coal and Coke Company of Kansas City, Missouri, to head their sales activities as general sales agent. He directed the sales activities of the Central Coal and Coke from February l, 1926, to July lst of this year, at which time he became affiliated with the Weverhaeuser Sales Company.
Mr. Kendall is now numbered among' the most active leaders in the industry. During the past four years he was chairman of the Trade Practice Committee of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, and was also honored with the chairmanship of the General Conference Committee of the industry which dealt with intra-industrial problems arising between manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers.
Many years of varied experience have made Mr. Kendall especially qualified and particularly well equipped to direct the Weyerhaeuser industrial sales activities.
Mr. Malrooney, who has been connected with the Weyerhaeuser interests for the past fourteen years, received his first experience in the lumber business when he was employed by the willow River Lumber Company upon being graduated from high school. His experiences there varied from logging to bookkeeping, including grading and the general run of mill jobs.
After attending the University of Minnesota Forestry School, he sold Douglas fir to dealers in fowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota, and was headquartered at Sioux City, Iowa.
In March, 1918, he joined the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company as a salesman, working out of Mason City, Iowa. It was a year later that the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company decided to build a distributing plant at Baltimore and upon the recommendation of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company, Mr. Mulrooney was selected to assist in putting the project through. In September, t921, when the Baltimore plant started operations, he was appointed district sales manager, a position which he held u-ntil 1927, when he moved to a new distributing plant at Newark, from which he directed the selling from the three Weyerhaeuser Timber Company's eastern distributing yards.
When the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company moved their headquarters from Spokane to St. Paul in October, 1931, Mr. Mulrooney was called in to join the general office staff. In his new capacity as sales manager of the dealer division, Mr. Mulrooney will direct lurnber sales to the thousands of dealers who purchase lumber each year from the Weyerhaeuser companies.
The separation of sales supervision into an industrial and a dealer division, it is learned, is a recent development, growing out of intensive study and investigation of industrial and retail dealer markets. Because of the dissimilarity of the two outlets, the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company decided it could render greater assistance and better service in each direction by dividing their salesmanagement accordingly, and placing at the head of each division men particularly trained in that particular market.
Taylor Sublett, of Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, chairman of the comrnittee of the East Bay Hoo Hoo Club that is organizing a University of California Extension Course in lumber, reports that he has had a fine response to his letter, 24 lumbermen having already signified their- intention to enroll. The course will start in October. The cost will be only $1.00 enrollment fee and $6.00 tuition fee for each semester of 15 hours. Frofessor Emanuel Fritz, associate professor of the School of Forestry, University of California, will be the instructor.
Any one interested in joining this class is requested to get in touch with Mr. Sublett, Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland. (TEmplebar 5584).
Washington, July lO.-Life and life's styles have an odd way of swinging in circles and getting back to starting points. Luxury in Pullman travel seems to have described such a,cycle. The all-steel lounge car that afforded "fresh, clean air" in the nineties, because it was so ventilated as to keep out some of the cinders while admitting some air, is norv giving place to the air-conditioned, wood paneled club car, seeking to lure the luxury-loving, travel-apathetic traffic of modern America.
Cars, ,cool in summer, warm in winter, and attractive in appearance the year round are one means the railroads are using to \ roo more travelers. Two decades ago the rvoodbuilt coach was legislated out of existence. With it for a time went the beauty of wood interior trim. In its pla'ce came a tawdry, but generally acclaimed imitation of woodgrain painting on metal posts and sheathing. Beauty was supplanted by mere novelty. But after twenty years the railroads have found that their'customers want sincere and real as well as comfortable surroundings.
The Canadian Pacific Railway Company is one of the pioneers in this renaissance of Pullman luxury. Its lines, traversing the northern belt of the continent, present an easy air conditioning problem, requiring simple insulation and ventilation rather than the more complicated systems of air cooling and humidity regulation. However, the need for beauty rvas there, and this railroad has definitely replaced the imitation grained metal which looked like wood with sheathing and posts of choicest grained hardwoods.
L. S. Beale, se,cretary-treasurer of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, recently noted the attractive appointment of the Canadian Pacific cars and took occasion to inquire of the general passenger agent rvhat advantages the road found in using such trim. The practical answer from this practical user of materials is convincing and reads:
"Your comment on the interior of our cars being finished
in wood instead of steel is very interesting. I may say that our decision in this regard was dictated by the {act that 'rve ,considered the hardwood finish gave a far better appearance, is also warmer in winter and cooler in summer. We also had in mind the maintenance of this equipment would be less than steel finished cars."
The lumber industry has paid considerable attention to the railroads in re.cent years and this shows one instance of the efiect that such education on the advantages of wood has had. In appreciation of the practical compliment thus paid to wood, Mr. Beale is letting it be known in the industry and outside of it that the Canadian Pacific is affording handsomely luxurious surroundings to its passengers and telling why it has selected wood to provide such accommodations.
The Canadian Pacific is not alone. There are other roads that have gone in for the extensive use of wood trim. Diners and lounge cars in particular have been so equipped, And with the coming of extensive equipment of Pullmans with air'conditioning systems the use of wood for finish is taking on added technical as well as esthetic advantage. Its property as an insulator, among the highest of available materials, makes it an almost compulsory adjunct to preserve advantages produced by air 'conditioning equipment. So that while we have structural steel ,cars, with large quantities of copper, brass and other metals used in their 'conditioning equipment, wood is marching back to its old place for the trim and sheathing of palatial. coaches, a technical necessity and a rich, inspirational interior finish.
Carl Seitz, Portland, Ore., representative of the China Import and Export Lumber Co., is a Lbs Angeles visitor rvhere he is spending a few weeks on business.
Oh, should a gypsy lad come by A-journeying from north to south, Perhaps I'd match my stride to his And take his kiss upon my mouth. But on the other hand, perhaps, I'd only smile and wave my hand To wish him godspeed on the way To Cairo or to Samarkand.
-Marion Bussang."All that is really beautiful is not put up for sale but is offered us as a gift by the irnmortal gods. We are allowed to watch the sun rise and set, the clouds sailing in the sky, the forests and the fields, the glorious sea, all without spending a penny. The birds sing to us for nothing, the wild flowers we may pick as we are walking along by the roadside. There is no entrance fee to the starlit hall of the night. The poor man sleeps better than the rich man. Simple food tastes in the long run better than food from the Ritz. Contentment and peace of m,ind thrive better in a small country cottage than in the stately palace in town. A few friends, a few books, indeed a very few, and a dog is all you need to have about you as long as you have yourself. But you should live in the country. The first town was planned by the Devil, that is why God wanted to destroy the Tower of Babel".-From "The Story of San Michele".
"Shanae on you, young man,. I heard you made your girl walk home from a ride with you."
"Naw. That wasn't it. That was only a road test."
It is one of the most profound and important of all exact psychological truths that man in the mass does not think, but only feels.-Herbert Hoover.
By Eddie Guest
When I was but a little boy
My father and my mother said: "You can't have sugar on your bread. We'd like to grant you such a joy, But times are hard, and we must save, And one and all must now be brave".
Way back in eighteen ninety-three, When f was but a youngster small, Strange talks of hardships I recall. My lovely mother seemed to be Forever mending stockings wotn And patching little breeches torn.
I k4ew my father's eyes were sad, But still we children romped about, And all the things we did without No whit disturbed our spirits glad. We all were given tasks to do And seemed to thrive upon them, too.
Let's sigh no more ! The clouds will pass ! In years to come our children may Think back upon this present day And look at us ihrough memory's glass. Then proudly may their pulses stir As they recall how brave we were.
"Don't you think," airily suggested the new partner, "that you ought to brush up a bit on your correspondence? Use big words; they lend dignity to your letters."
"Perhaps you're right," admitted the other, calmly studying the end of his cigar, "but while eschewing mediocrity of expression through platitudinous phraseolog'y, it behooves one to beware of ponderosity and to be mindful that pedantry, being indicatory of inherent.megalomania, frustrates its own aim and results merely in obnubilation."
And then there was the Scotchman who sent his friend a fish by parcels post, and marked it: "ff not delivered in 24 hours-never mind."
Theodore Stearns, of South Pasadena, Republican candidate for,congress in the August primaries from the Twelfth Congressional District, addressed a large gathering at Belvedere last month. Russell Gheen, Los Angeles rnanager of the C. D. Johnson Lumber Co., introduced Mr. Stearns at the meeting.
Mr. Stearns is purchasing agent of the Hayrvard Lumber & Investment Co., of Los Angeles, and is widely known to the lumber and building material fraternity of Southern California. He was elected a Republican candidate for congress at the district conference held at El Monte, Calif., on June 4, and since that date he has been very active in his campaign addressing the voters in the various sections of his district.
Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland wholesalers and jobbers, are conducting an aggressive campaign to serve the whole of the Northern California territory more effectively with the products of the Springfield and Wendling mills of The Booth-Kelly Company. C. H. Terrell makes his he.adquarters in Sacramento and travels the territory from Redding to I\fodesto. W. -J. Suttern with headquarters in Fresno covers from Merced south to Bakersfield, and Ed Adams covers Marin, Napa and Sonoma Counties, and the Coast Counties.
Hill & Morton, Inc. recently became a member of the California Wholesale Lumber Association.
The annual contracts for airplane service in forest fire protection for the national forests of California have just been approved by S. B. Shorv, U. S. Regional forester for California. For the territory north of the Tehachapi the arvarcl has been given to the Associated Air Service Limited, Goddard Field, Palo Alto. The southern forests will be served by the United Air Service, United Airport, Burbank.
Contracts provide that two planes of. 225 H. P. shall be ready on call in the northern division, and one similar plane jn the south. Since 1919 the Forest Service has used airplanes for scout duty to ascertain the direction and rate of spread of large fires, and when fog or smoke impair the visibility of the lookout system. They are also used for messenger service, and transportation of officials and supplies when fighting fires. They have proved to be an increasingly valuable aid to the fire protection forces.
P. .4,. DAME BACK IN S. F.
P. A. Dame, Western sales manager of the Creo-Dipt Co., returned to his San Francisco headquarters July 27 after spending some weeks in Southern California.
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Sacramento, July 27.-Business in the construction industry in California is on the upgrade, and an average of one contractor sprang into business every two hours during the past four months.
And it required one contractor to perform the building needs of each 226 persons in California, according to a report filed with Governor James Rolph, Jr., today by Colonel Carlos W. Huntington, State Registrar of Contractors.
Col. Huntington disclosed that 25,O48 contractors are now operating in California, an increase of 1,625 over March 1, or an increase of one every 1@ minutes.
While pointing out that the increase in licensees during the four month period was a "true barometer of improved economic conditions," Col. Huntington admonished the State's building fraternity that they must apply for the new fiscal year licenses before next Saturday, July 30, if they wish to remain in business or wish to escape a $10.00 delinquency fee in addition to the $10.0O license fee. The fee must ac,company the application.
"The steady increase in the number of contractors in the four month period is indeed a healthy sign, and again points to an improved economic situation in the Golden State," said Col. Huntington, who is also Director of the State Department of Professional and Vocational Standards.
"Business in the construction industry has shown an improved tone. It is the second largest business in the State, and I trust that other industries and businesses will also follow in the general recovery."
"It would appear that business in the industry must have improved, otherwise these 1,625 men would not have obtained a license in the past four months," he said.
A summary of the number of licensed contractors in each county on March I and June 30, together with the net gain in the four month period, follows:
The Santa Barbara Lumber & Mill Co., Santa Barbara, Calif.. has been sold to Glen Nlarchbanks. Mr. Marchbanks has been connected with the company for many years acting as superintendent.
i C. D. Johnson, of- Pacific Spruce Corporation, ,chairman of the committee of lumbermen appointed to work out details of the proposed regulrtory corporation, announced re-, cently at Portland that the gr:oup will test the legality of their proposed .corporation to curtail production and regulate pricqs. A test case will be taken to the courts without delay, he said.
President Hoover suggested the test case as the best means of determining whether such a regulatory ,corpora' "tion is l6gal, in a message to Governor Julius L. Meier of C)regon.
Mr. C. L. Hamilton, Extension Agricultural Engineer, North Dakota Agricultural College, Fargo, North Dakota, las just announced that 95 plans and 56 bulletins dealing with construction of farm buildings and equipment are now available to lumber dealers and farmers within the state. The plans are available at cost of blue-printing and the bulletins may be obtained in single copies without charge. It is planned to in,crease the number of plans to include all phases of farm equipment in the near future.
The state agricultural colleges with tll'e U. S. Department of Agriculture have available about 2,20O larm building plans. Several committees of agricultural engineers are now at work sele.cting from these available plans about {00 of those beit adapted to varying conditions found in different sections of the United-states to be used in a coordinated exchange plan service. ,Probably rvithin another year this complete set of approved plans rvill be. available. in reduced loose-leaf folders for use of_e.veryone in .choosing plans of buildings and equipment desired. This coordination of service will eliminate much of the present dupiica,tion of effort and make,.it, possible for all states to have a complete frlan Service at very small cost.
, Practically;.all farm building plans and literatule available from state and federal institutions, lumber ,companii:s 'and associatioris'are on'file in the Chicago offrce of the Nalional Lumber Manufacturers Association. These plans are lvailable to lumber dealers'at about the cost of blueprintjng. No..eff.gr! hgs been made, to extend the use of this service as funds and personnel have necessarily been limited. However,.many lumbermen are making use of the service to supplement that which they have from state colleges and other ai.chitectural service bureaus. An attempt has been made to have for ready reference all special or unusual plans as well as those which show regular farm construction.
, Tom Dant, Los Angeles, California and Arizona manager of Fir-Tex 'of Southern California, has returned from a Short business trip to San Francisco. Mr. Dant recently completed a two months' trip to Arizona where he called on the "trade in that territory..
Washington, D. C., July 25.-The National Lumber Manufacturers Association is futting out a new edition of a book match advertising novelty. Five hundred lumbermen ordered quantities of the 1931 book matches and the demand for another issue has been heavy. The merchandising department of the Association is rnailing dummy samples to 8,50O progressive lumber dealers, offering the match packets at cost. The packets come in two styles, the difference be.tween the regular and the feature style being that the latter has a picture of a beautiful house printed across the match stem.
The outside front covers of all the packets carry the following exhortation: "Repair, modernize !" which appears above a representation of a si'lver dollar on rvhich are these vvords: "Invest a dollar in your home now and save many later." The dealer's name and address are printed on the back cover. Both covers are made additionally attractive by the use of five colors.
The feature packets are supplied at the rate of $3.95 per thousand without the dealer's imprint, the additional cost for imprinting being 4Oc per thousand in orders of more than 2,500 each. The packets that are u'ithout the house picture on the match stems are printed at $2.65 per thousand without and 4Oc additional for imprinting if the order is for 2,500 or fnore, and 85c if less.
Samples of the matches will be sent free to any lumberman uPon request.
In its report for June 1932, the California State Departrnent of Industrial Relations published a translation of the King of Babylonia's ancient building code, as found on a brick'in the Babylonian ruins. This shows that there were stern penalties in the days of King Hammurabi, 2m B. C. The translation is as follows :
A. If a builder build a. house for a man and do not make .its construction firm and the house which he has built collapse and cau'se the death of the owner of the house, that builder shall be put to death.
B. If it cause the death of the'son of the owner of the house, they. shall put to death a son of the builder.
C. If it cause the death of a slave oi the owner of the house, he shall give to the owner of the house a slave of equal value.
D. If it destroy property, he shall restore whatever it destroyed, and because he did not make the house which he built firm and it collapsed, he shall rebuild the house which collapsed at his own expense.
' E. If a builder build a house for"a man and do not make its' construction meet the requirements, and a wall fall in, that builder shall strengthen the wall at his own expense.
The Hull Brothers Supply Co. have moved their headquarters from Hollywood to Reseda, Calif., where they 'have been operating a branch yard.
This stair landing, finished in dark-stained Ameri' can White Oak, enhances the appointments of a private home in Palo Alto. Prof. A. B. Clark, architect.
The ultimate in fine craftsmanship is adequately expressed in the noble propoftions of this staircase and iarved balustrade of small fake Asiatic Oak. From a home in San Marino by Myron Hunt and H. C. Chambers, architects.
T. B. Lawrence, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, left for the Northwest on July 16 to visit the mills in the Grays Harbor, Coos Bay, Tacoma, Seattle and Vancouver, B. C., distri'cts. Mrs. I-awrence accompanied him on the trip. He traveled north by automobile and will return on the S. S. Point Loma which is operated by his company. He will be back at his desk on August 6.
Barry Hanawalt, Longlyfe Cedar Products Co., Los Angeles, has returned from a six months' business trip.in the east where he called on the retail lumber and. building material trade. His trip carried him as far east as the Atlantic seaboard. - In a building rvay, he states that California is shorving nibre activity than the eastern sections of the country.
Russell Edmonston, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is back at his desk following a month's trip in the east. He visited with relatives at East Liverpool, Ohio, and accompanied by his father, R. L. Edmonston, they spent several days at Washington, D. C., and Niagara Falls, N. Y.
E. L. Cooper, Los Angeles and San Diego representative of the Union Lumber Company, has returned from a trvo weeks' vacation spent at the seashore resorts along the Southern California coast. He reports that he spent most of his time bathing, surf board riding and deep-sea fishing. Mr. Cooper is an expert swimmer and fancy diver, and last summer while at Catalina won several prizes in the annual mid-summer swimming contests held there.
Don Philips, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., and his young son, Don, Jr.; Russell Gheen, C. D. Johnson Lumber Co.; and J. H. Prentice, Bloeclel-Donovan Lumber Mills, were the guests of E. L. Reitz, Los Angeles lvholesale lumberman, on July 22 for a day's cruise in his yacht along the Southern California coast.
Oscar Miller, of the Knox Lumber Co., Sacramento, has returned from an automobile vacation trip in the Pacific Northrvest.
M. R. Gill, sales representative of the Union Lumber Company in the Los Angeles district, is on a two weeks' vacation and will divide his time between several of the seashore and mountain resorts in Southern California. At the seashore he plans to do considerable bathing and boating, while in the High Sierra he will devote his time to fishing and horse-back riding over the high mountain trails. He will be back on his territory August l.
Clyde Owens, manager of the lumber department of the Whiting-Mead Co., Los Angeles, left Jaly 2L on the S. S. Point Loma for the Coos Bay and Columbia River districts. He will return on August 6 when the Point Loma is due at San Pedro with a cargo of lumber. The S. S. Point Loma is operated by the Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co. of Los Angeles.
Jas. E. "Jimmy" Atkinson, assistant district sales manager of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned August 1 from 10 days' vacation spent with his family on the Russian River at Healdsburg
Russell Tracy, sales manager of the Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento, left San Fran,cisco July 15 on the McCormick steamer Hollywood for Seattle on a vacation trip. He shipped his car on the boat and will visit Vancouver, B. C., Portland and other Northwest points.
E. G. "Dave" Davis is spending his vacation in Los Angeles, rvhere he will attend the Olympic Games.
The following is an application received by one of the California mills for a job in one of their logging camps: "On Loyal Tip given me you will open again this year for a Seasonal Run hence this early file my name to Re E,mploy On Industrial Relation .clear to you the Quality Ends you have in my Service. When at Work my entire Mental is on the Job, this 2 year Vacation was an adit In, telligence Course of far Reach to Forestry in Salesmenship Some of your Social Set I mixed with in Leisure would as they did Star Gazeing dubb me to be Rajah-Professor-to a nick in my name. Don't let it de'ceive,you-even so this is true. As to Health Equipment also am in far better then with you Please to honor this 'privacy."
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Olympic Village with its 550 cottages of similar design is now housing over 200O men athletes representing over 50 nations who will compete in the 1932 Olympic games to bei held at Los Angeles, July 30 to August 14. The village is built on a 331 tract of land in Baldwin Hills on a high mesa overlooking the city of Los Angeles. The village is a ten minutes drive by automobile from the Olympic stadium where many of the events will be held.
With the clearing of the ground, the land was ploughecl and rolled, four miles of water mains were put in and ten miles of hard packed roads plotted out. This work done, the ground was ready for the setting up of the 550 houses, each to accommodate four athletes.
The houses were furnished by the E. K. Wood Lumber Co. of Los Angeles. The many lumber items were manufactured and fabricated into the various house units at their plant, then transported to the village in trucks where the units were assembled by bolts and log screws. Insulite was used for the roofs and sidewalls of the houses. It required three men about four hours to assemble a house.
The cottages are 10 by 24 feet in dimension and consist of two rooms, with a hallway leading into ea,ch room. Each house has a por'ch. With the exception of the ridge poles used for the roofs, short length lumber not exceeding ten feet was used. Approximately 1740 feet of lumber was used in each building including the porch ancl floor, and about
1200 square feet of Insulite was required for each house. The houses are provided with a shower, lavatory, and clothes closet and are also equipped with specially built beds and furniture.
Other buildings on the area include the large 60O foot administration building which forms a distinctive entrance to the village, dining halls, kitchens, bathing houses, hospital, post office, press building, theatre, canteen, etc.
Lawns have been made in all available spaces and flowers, shrubery and palm trees growing everywhere add to the beauty of the village. Each cottage has been so placed that the front porch commands an excellent view of Los Angeles, Hollywood and the Beaches. And the layout of the houses have been so planned that the representatives of similar nations are grouped together. In fact, nothing has been overlooked for the comfort of the athletes and the bovs are enjoying all the comforts of home.
The village is completely surrounded by a high wire fence and a regular crew of fence riders patrol the fence both day and night.
At the expiration of the g'ames, the Olympi'c cottages will be sold which simply means the unbolting of the various house sections to be reassembled again on their new location. Reports are that to date more than half the cottages have been sold-just a matter of "knock 'em down and drag'em out."
The value of United States exports of oak lumber and cooperage for 1931 was $12,272.000; a third less than the amount for 1930 which was $18,585,000. The biggest item was boards, planks and scantlings, which comprised twothirds of the value. Staves and shooks amounted to $3,000,000.
Oak is the third ranking United States export species, Southern pine and Douglas fir leading by far in quantity and usually by a considerable excess in value. In 1931 oak quantities were still much below those of the two leading softwoods, but combined values of oak lumber, except small dimension, and of tight ,cooperage, ran a pretty 'close race with export values for logs, lumber, sawn timber and box shooks of Southern pine or of Douglas fir.
The United Kingdom was the best market for exports of oak lumber; Canada next, then Belgium, Netherlands, France and Argentine.
A shingle which had been in continuous use for 74 yearc and is still in good condition, won a prize offered at the Oregon State Fair by the Willamette lumber Dealers' Institute. The winning shingle was exhibited by S. E. Brown, of Gervais, Ore., who took it from a part of the roof of his house that had never been re-shingled.
Proposed comm'ercial standard for fiber insulating board was agreed upon at a general conference on May 16, report of which has just been made public by the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Standards. Twenty-three attended the conference in Chicago, representing various producers' architects, and contractors' organizations.
The conference voted approval of the certification plan which provides for the listing of those ,companies prepared to certify to their customers that fiber insulating board made by them meets the requirements of the Commercial Standard. A standing committee was named to receive all comments and suggestions for the revision of the proposed standard.
Fred C. Newton, former manager of the Tilden Lumber Company's yards at Crockett and Rodeo, has been appointed manager of the company's Richmond yard, succeeding J. L. Eakle, who resigned. Mr. Newton was manager of this yard some years ago.
Increases for 1930 over L929 were shown by the revised comprehensive report of'the forest products branch of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, issued in January, 1932, in quantity of pulpwood, box shooks, fuel veneer, heading, and spoolwood produced; decreases occurred for lumber, lath, shingles, staves, poles, and sawn ties. As regards value, increases were reported for pulpwood, fuel, box shooks, staves, and heading, and decreases for shingles, lath, sawn ties,ipickets, veneer, poles, and spoolwood. The total value of all products of the industry decreased to $12I,142,985 in 1930, or by 17.6 per cent, f.rom 1929. The report has not been issued in final form but further corre.ctions in data are unlikely.
The sawmilling industry ranks fifth among the important industries of Canada in gross value of production. With regard to value of production, obtained lry deducting cost of raw materials from gross value of products, sawmilling comes second, after the pulp and paper industry. With regard to total number of employees, the sawmilling industry ranks first, in wage distribution second, and in capital investment third, among Canadian industries.
There were more mills in operation in 1930 than in 1929, but average production per mill was lower.
That the forest incendiary is not a new mena,ce to public welfare is proved by a law promulgated 250 years ago in Pennsylvania. In 1676.the Duke of York, brother of King Charles II of England, made the penai{y for kindling a fire in the woods and permitting it to escape to cultivated land, the payment of all the damages plus one-half more as a fine. If the guilty pe?son could not pay he was liable to re,ceive "not gxceeding twenty stripes"-in other words, be publicly whipped.
In 1683, following the grant of Pennsylvania to William Penn, the next oldest forest protection law was passed. Whosoever set on fire woods or marshes was requirecl to make good all the damage.
The Whiting-Mead Co. have opened a branch yard at 5157 Long Beach Blvd., Long Beach, Calif. The WhitingMead Co. headquarters are at Los Angeles.
Charles Hammock was elected president and general manager of the Atascadero Mill & Lumber Company at the annual stockholders' meeting held at Atas.cadero, Calif., on July 5. .W. A. Scott was re-elected se,cretary-treasurer, and .Ted Bishop was named vice-president. The change of the incorporation from Nevada to California was approved by the stockholders.
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Employment affecting a million people and an income producing and self-liquidating project involving forest lands has been submitted to President Hoover's Timber Conservation Board by George D. Pratt, president of the American Forestry Association and a member of the board.
The plan calls for an investment by the government of $100,000,000 of its emergency unemployment funds in forest fire protection, forest insect and disease control, timber improvement, reforestation and erosion control. This would provide nearly 32,000,000 working days a year for the unemployed and place more than $27,000,000 in immediate circulation through the purchase of materials and supplies, Mr. Pratt told the board.
Improvements are under way at the Sterling Lumber Company yard at Oakley, Calif., which will include a new modern office before the program is complete. The yard is being rearranged and a forty-foot display rack facing the street has been constructed' Joseph Augusto is manager of the yard.
British imports of Ameri,can hardwoods for the first four months of this year were more than 2 per cent greater than the same period of 1931, according to a report to the Lumber Division of the Department of Commerce. Imports of American hardwood lumber for the four months this year were approximately 59,930,000 board feet, and of hardwood logs about 2,630,W board feet. The consumption of American oak in the London area is greater than a year ago. American softwood exports to the United Kingdom for the four months period of this year were about 74O,000 board feet or 37 per cent less than for the same period in 1931.
The Atlantic Lumber Company of Bell, Calif., has opened a new yard at 1976 East Slauson Ave., Los Angeles, where they will carry a,complete line of lumber and building materials. Dewitt Caspary and Max Gardner are the owners of the Atlanti'c Lumber Company. Mr. Gardner will be in charge of the new yard.
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