REDWOOD

E IFTY-THREE years aso I - built this Catholic school California. It is now being Redwood lumber it contains.

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' Crockcr Buildins SAN FRANCUTCO

F()RT BRAGG

LOS ANGETTS

Mobcn Celifornie Rcdrvood Arocirtion

Catholic school erected in 1870 now being dismantled fof its soand Redzaood lumber.

McCORMICK MILL DESTROYED BYFIRE ET MORE W, KING HAS A NEW PASTIME

The St. Helens Tie and Timber Company, ciperated by Elmore W. King, prominent reiailer of I Bakersfield, has the Chas. R. McCormick & Co. interesis and iocated on given up, golf and all other kindred sports, and is now deSauvies Island at St. Helens, Oregon, was destroyed by Y9t!"9 all his_spare time to mastering the mysteries of fire during the night of August 4.- The entire plant wasl Mah Jongg. Elmore has secured the services of the most a total losi. The hre started in the boiler.oo- .'nd spread. proficient instructor in San Francisco and is spending so rapidly that it was. im.possible tq check it. The l,oss is eve-ry, Sunday in the bay metropolis learning the techn,ique around $125,000.00 to the mill company and the St. Helens and finer points, of the game. After a few more lessons, it Ship Company suffered a lqss ofb"i*..n $7,0fi).0o and is rumored that he will be sending out a challenge to the $10:000.00. The big shed was burned to the ground and Pacific Coast lumbermen fora series -of . competitive one of the ship ways *as destroyed. matches. Elmore was- formerly a great disciple of Isaac

The St. Helens Tie and Timber Company has been run- \A/alton, but.this year.he passe_d up his-annual fishing.pilninq two shifts for the past six months and gave employ- ^cr1iT*g.' as he couldn't sparq the time froml his new diverment to about 100 men. The daily cut avEragea atout sr()n' 125,000 feet of lumber for the two shifts or more than s,oio,ooo feet fer nronth. The product of the mill was en- tilely ties and'mining timbers.

R' F' HAMMATT oN sourHERN TRrP

R. F. Hammatt, of San Francisco, secretary-manager of

H. F. IlcCormick, of St. Helens, president oi the com- the California Redwood Association' is on -a b-usiness trip pany, stated that it was yet too eariy to make a positive to Southern cal'ifornia that will extend until after the first statement as to the rebuiiding of ihe'mill. He intimatecl, of Septemher. H-e is calling on the r-etail trade rn the inhowever, that if the mill is iebuilt it .is probable that it terest of the dealer service plan work that -is betng conwould be constructed on the mainland, so that both water ducted !ytttt associllion'- He will spend about ten days and'rail facilities would be available. The output of the in the Los Angeles District and will also journey,as far St. Helens Tie and Timber Con.rpany was handled by Chas. south as San Diego. He is traveling by autonr'obile and n.

& or San Francisco. plans to call on the retail trade along both these.lines of

.FROST HARDWOOD CONAPENY EXPADINGy' TTAVCI'

The Frost Hardwood- Company of San Diego is building a h'ew yard on West Market Street, in that city. The ne* httilclings will be of brick and concrete consiruction, tlle ofices furnished in various kincls of hardwoods. and will make this nerv establishment one of the most attractive in the south.