What Live California Lumbermen are Doing

HILL VISITS FIB DtrLtS IN OREGON AND FINDS LUMBER, HARD TO GET

L. S. Hill of HilI & Morton, well-known San Francisco wholesalers, has just returned from a combined business and vacation trip to Portland and points in the Willamette valley.

Mr. Hill reports that it is increasingly harcl to place business with the mills. Forest fires have curtailed the output and lumber ig getting scarcer and scarcer. But the.Douglas fir folks in the North are exceedingly optimistic, he says. They have good prospects for a big Eastern and Middle 'Western deman<l in the fall which, with the California business in sight, wiII offer a read.y outlet for fir production.

The only unfavorable element in the situation is the impending car shortage which wiII become very real, so far as the lumbermen are concerned, if the rail strike continues, as cars will be in heavy demand for the movement of crops within another month.

WHOLESALE OR,GAMZATIONS CONSOIJDATE

Consolidation of the YeIIow Pine Wholesalers' Association with the American 'Wholesale Lumber Association has just been efrected. It is understood that practically all the members of the Yellow Pine organization will affiliate with the American, whose headquarters are-in Chicago and whose managing secretary is L. R. ("Dick") Putman. This merger now makes the American'Wholesale Lumber Association one of the most forceful lumber organizations in the entire country.

EAYWARD RETUBT{S FROM EUROPE

Charles Hayward of the Hayward Lumber and Investment Company, well-known retail yard operator, has just returned to his home in Los Angeles from a trip of several months that took him to.many interesting points in Europe and America. He is glad to be home, he says.

gAN rRANCISCO EABDWOOD DIrAN REPORTS BUSINESS FINE TEIS YEAR

Ilomer B. Maris, of San Francisco, who specializes in all sorts of hardwoods, as \4'ell as Oregon pine panels and veneers, reports that business is so unusually good that it reminds him of the good old days of 1920.

When not busy with his hardwood business, Mr. Maris devotes his business hours to the cause of IIoo-Hoo, for he is the vice gerent for San Francisco Bay district

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