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What Live California Lumbermen Are Doing

W. P. FRAMBES ON EASTERN TRIP

Mr. W. P. Frambes, of the wholesale firm, of Fietcher and Frambes of Los Angeles, is due back in Los Angeles after a five-months' trip through eastern and southern states.

Mr. Frambes visited practically all of the important lumber centers in the struth, as well as stopping at Chicago and other cities farther east.

Beebe Looks Over Southern California Market

W. M. Beebe, of San Francisco, well known distributor of Southern hardwoods, has returned from a two-weeks' tlusiness trip to Los Angeles and other Southern California points. While in the south, he discussed business matters with his Los Angeles representative, R. A. Brown. Mr. Beeibe reports that building operations are active in that section and that the demand for hardwoods is very good.

H. A. BROWNING A NORTHWEST VISITOR

H. A. Browning, well known Los Angeles wholesaler, is on a two-weeks' business trio to the Northwest. He is calling on his mill connections alonq the Columnia River and on Grays Harbor. On his way north, he stopped off at San Francisco for a few days, to call on the San Francisco trade. Mr. Browning reports that the lumber market is very active in the Los Angeles District.

GEO. JE\^/ETT, ON ANNUAL TRIP, WILL FOLLOII/ TRAIL OF FORTY-NINERS

Each year Geo. A. Jewett, veteran head of the Jewett Lumber Company, Des Moines, Iowa, makes an auto tour of the country, visiting different sections each time, and gathering in a world of new ideas and informaticyn on home building which he later uses in his merchandising.

This year he is going to California, and he has the following interesting announcement regarding his trip in his regular daily newspaper advertising space:

"Good-bye Susannah dear, don't you cry for me. I am bound for California with a q'ashboard on my knee."

Following The Trail Of The Fortyniners

"f am leaving soon on my annual automobile trip. This year Iwill follow lhe trail blazed by my father tn 1849 in the mad rush for the gold of California. He went with an ox-team, leaving Red Rock, Iowa, April l9th, 1849, and reaching the gold mines near Sacramento, Novem'ber 9th, nearly seven months on the way. With his diary as my guide, I shall follow. his footsteps as near as I can with an automobile. Ar-rd don't forget I sha'l be on the lookout for new ideas for homebuilders."