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The subject of this career sketch, Rex Williams, is wholesale salesman for Eureka Sash Door & Moulding Mills of San Francisco. He coveis the California territory from San Luis Obispo to Yreka, and east to Reno, Nevada.

He has had a broad experience including logging, sawmill and lumber yard work in various capacities a,nd many years spent in selling lumber, sash, door and millwork.

Reared in the tall timber in Idaho, near the Montana line, he worked at logging and in sawmills where logging was done with horses and wagons. Driving an automobile in traffic nowadays, he says, is child's play compared with one of his early jobs driving jerk line six head of horses on a one-way mountain road with a big load of green lumber. In those days, he recalls, all who passed by the mill were free to eat and sleep at the company boarding house.

He left sawmill work to engage in surveying and mapping in the early days of railroad competition for new fields in Idaho, Montana, Utah, Nevada, Oregon and California. This was followed by a period of U. S. Army service in the executive office of Headquarters Company, Engineer Corps at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana.

After this he was with the Southern Pacific Company for a time as valuation engineer and accountant, but returned to the lumber business with the Sunset Lumber Company, Oakland, where he held successive jobs at grading, piling, and as yard clerk, order desk, estimator and salesman.

He was out of the lumber business for a while after leaving Sunset Lumber C ompany. During this time he had a Civil Service appointment as residential appraiser for Alameda county and also worked in the regional office of the Home Owners Loan Corporation.

Returning to his old line of work he became wholesale salesman for National Mill & Lumber Company and Pa- cific Tank & Pine Company, Oakland, remaining with these concerns until May 1, 1938, w,hen he made his present connection with the well known San Francisco firm. Eureka Sash Door & Moulding Mills.

The accompanying picture of Mr. Williams was taken in the uniform of the famous California Grays, of which he is a member (Oakland Company).

He lives in Oakland, is married and the father of four sons, one of whom is at college and two are in training with the C.M.T.C. at the presidio of Monterey.

Going and Coming

A. W. "Bates" Smith, MacDonald & Harrington, Los Angeles, is back from attending the annual Bohemian Club festivities at Bohemian Grove.

Henry M. Hink, vicepresident and sales manager of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned July 31 from a vacation at Trinity Alps, Trinity County.

Dale Fischer, of the Fischer Lumber Co., Malcola, Ore., took time out to visit the Golden Gate International Exposition recently when on a business trip to San Francisco.

M. H. McCall, Union Lumber Company, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Call, spent the last two weeks of July vacationing at Big Bear.

Harry McGahey, San Diego Lumber Company, San Diego, spent a few days in San Francisco around the middle of July and took in the Fair.

Probably Lacked Cost System

The Santa Barbara newspaper in its column "Olden Days -Fifty Years Ago-July 3, 1889," carried an item of lumber interest in its issue of July 3. It read: "Lompoc lumber is being hauled to Santa Ynez and Los Olivos at a cost of ten dollars for hauling and sold for four dollars less than the same quality of lumber is selling in the yard in Los Olivos. We never could figure out this lumber business anyway."