"Red" Wood \|THOLESALE JOBBING

Meet at Carlgbad

The Northern San Diego County held their regular monthly mgeting at Carlsbad, on Thursday evening, July president, presided at the meeting.

Lumbermen's Club the Red Apple Inn. 18. N. E. Lentz,

Due to unsettled conditions in the Northwestit is advisable to place your requirements now for future delivery-carry a suficient stock of -BIG TIMBER-Plywood to tide you over congested shipment periods.

Wilf iam Mulholland, Build et oJ Los Angeles

N H A Loans in Southern Califomia Aqueduct, Pasres Continue to Increase

William Mulholland, builder of the Los Angeles aqueduct and nationally known hydraulic engineer, died at his home in Los Angeles, July 22, after a long illness following an apoplectic stroke last December. If he had lived until September 30, he would have been 80 years old.

He was born in Belfast, Ireland, where he was educated in the public schools and later attended Christian Brothers College in Dublin. He landed in America in 1872, and came to Los Angeles in 1877, then a town of 10,000 inhabitants, and got a job with the City Water Company, a concern which served Los Angeles with water. Mr. Mulholland was promoted from one position to another and in 1886 he was made general superintendent of the water system. When the City of Los Angeles took over the water system in 19O2, he was appointed chief engineer. As the builder of the Owens River Aqueduct, which started in 1908 and finished in 1913, which project the City of Los Angeles voted a total of $24,500,000 bonds, he won international prominence. The preliminary plans and surveys of the Colorado River Aqueduct, which is now being constructed by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, were made under Mr. Mulholland's direction.

In December, 1928, after fifty years of continuous service, he resigned as chief engineer. His resignation was accepted by the Board of Water and Power Commissioners with the understanding{hat he w.ould serve the'city in an advisory capacity whenever his judgment was required on water matters.

On July 3, 1890, he was married to Lillie Fergu5on. Mrs. Mulholland died April 28, 1915. He is survived by two sons and three daughters: Perry and Thomas Mulholland of Los Angeles; Miss Ruth Mulholland of Los Angeles, with whom he made his home; Mrs. Ronalcl Mack of San Francisco, and Mrs. Ruth Wood of New York.

Funeral servi,ces were held at the Little Church of the Flowers in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Thursday afternoon, July 25. Preceding the funeral services, the body lay in state in the rotunda of the Los Angeles city hall.

Subsistence Homesteads'Near Completion

Approximately fifty of the 100 Federal subsistence homesteads at El Monte will soon be ready for occupancy, a'ccording to Ross Gast, manager of the project. It is expected that announcement of the families selected to occupy the farm homes will be announ'ced shortly from Washington.

Forty other homesteads in the San Fernando Valley project are more than half completed.

JEFF TULLY VTSITS S. F.

G. R. "Jeffl'Tully, formerly with the A. W. Smith Lumber Company, Los Angeles, and now field representative with The Haslett 'Warehouse Company, Portland, was a recent visitor to San Francisco.

24,350 modernization loans totaling $9,350,000 under Title I of the National Housing Act have been made in Southern California up to Jaly 24. The average loan is reported as $38s.

Under Title 11, applications for insured loans for refinancing and new construction in Southern California up to July 24 totaled $11,599,988. The average loan application is $4,147. Applications for new construction total $5,089,036, and application for loans for utilization regarding existing construction is $5,510,952. The total of Title II loans approved for Southern California is $8,2t7,782.

Clyde M. Davy

Clyde M. Davy, secretary of the Home Builders Store, Carlsbad, died Tuesday night, J:uly 9, from injuries receiyed in an automobile accident that afternoon. Mr. Davy w/s driving on the Coast highway between Oceanside and Carlsbad when a ,car ,coming in from a side road ran into his machine. The accident occurred in the afternoon and he never regained cons'ciousness, dying the same evening at 11:30 p.m. IIe was 54 years of age.

Mr. Davy was a native of Hartford, Wis. Later he moved to Montana where he operated a ranch for about seventeen years. He came to California in 1925. Mr. Davy became associated with R. W. Baird in 1926 when Mr. Baird started the Home Builders Store at Carlsbad. Mr. Baird had formerly operated the Home Lumber Company at Harlem, Mont., which he sold to the Monarch Lumber Co. before coming to California.

Mr. Davy is survived by his wife and a daughter, Mrs. Bruce Baker of Oceanside. Funeral services were conducted at O,ceanside on Saturday,July 13, and burial was in Greenwood cemetery at San Diego.

Albe* J. Stoner

Albert J. Stoner, pioneer Southern California lumberman '' and civic leader, died at his home in West Los Angeles on Thursday, July 11. He was 66 years of age.

Mr. Stoner was the last president of the Sawtelle Chamber of Commerce and was active in the movement which resulted in the annexation of Sawtelle to Los Angeles. He was a native of Indiana and came to Sawtelle in 1904. In 1921, he organized the Sawtelle Lumber Company which is now operated by his sons, Edward R. and William A. Stoner. Mr. Stoner was prominent in retail lumber association afiairs and was a member of the Executive Committee for the Southern District of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Margaret L' Stoner; foui sons, Edward R. and William A. Stoner of West Los Angeles; James R. Stoner of Los Angeles, and Dr. Alton B. Stoner of Phoenix, Arizona; a daughter, Florence R. Stoner of Los Angeles; and two stepchildren, Cyril L. Straight of San Francisco, and Mrs. Thelma Warren of Temple, Arizona. Funeral services were held at West Los Angeles, Saturday afternoon, July 13.