The California Lumber Merchant - August 1928

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Schumite improves with age-grows harder, more durable every d^y.comes ln convenlent sizes, /a or % inch thicknesses, 48 inches wide, and in all foot lengths frorn j to lZ feet.-And there's plenty of profit for deaiers.

SCHUMACHER

Wall Board Corporation

Kto tlre wellare ol all branches of the Lurnber Industry'Mlll, Tard and Indlvtdual. vol-. 7. NO. 4 Index to Advertisements, Page 3 AUGUST 15, I92E We also publish at Houston, Texas. The Gulf Coas_t _Lumberm.an, America's foremost retail lumber journal, ' which covers the entire Southwest and Middlewest like the sunshine covers California.
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AND NOWCADWAI. TAD E R'S INCOMPARABLE NEW LINE OF [AM.ART

PHILIPPINE DOORS

Here are actual photographc of a few samples. In addition we carry a variety of other decigns in stock that will appeal to the most discriminating demand for wonderful grain, beautiful design and quality that is immediately obviour.

CADWALLADER-GIBS0N Co. rnc.

3628 Mines Ave. LOS ANGELES

YOUR CHOICE

of any of these doors can be supplied in Bataan Mahogany or Lamao Mahogany for thore who favor the mahogany stripe. Those who prefer the "flowered" figure may select Bagac "Teak," a wood that may be finished as a perfect walnut. or natural teak.

DESIGNED TO BLEND

with any .scheme of idecoration, Lam-Art Doors give a touch of character and richness that enhances the value of a home.

OUR DOORS ARE MADE from beautiful Philippine hardwood lumber, sawn in our own mills, from trees f rom ,our own forests, transported in our own ships, handled on our own docks. and made in m,atchless fashion in our own factories.

599 Brannon St. SAN FRANCISCO

No. 556, Bagac "Teak," Circle Head Paneled lnterior Door, S-ply panelr, I inch thick, raised 2 aidee, raired mould 2 rides. No. 5lX, Bagac "Teak" Flurh Front Door, Derign formed by Raired Mould Planted on face. Thir ia a rlab door made to rhow panel door derign, No.Sfi), Bataan Mahogany Flush Front Door Slab Type. No. 601, Bataan Mahogany One Panel Interior Door.

33The Customer Must Be Satisfiedtt

We have stuck to this principle for more than twenty years, and have always found that it pays. No reinspection! No arbitration! No buck passing! We guarantee stock and service and our guart. antee means busmess.

STEAMERS "Claremont" "Solano" "Hartwood" "Willapa" "San Diego" "Quinault" "Point Loma"

Such a policy could only be maintained by such an equipment as ours, our own mills and timber, our own boats, our own sales and distribution service.

IlartilbodLumberCo.

August 15, 1928 THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT
Fife Bldg., San Francirco Keatney X2E Manrfacturerr and Wholeralere 633 Pctrolcum Securiticr Bldg. Lor Angclcr WErtnorc 0Zl9 Gerco Bldg. Portland BEacon 962) OUR ADVERTISERS *Advertisement appears in al,ternate issues. *Albion Lumber Co. 45 American Mfg. Co. * Arkansas Oak Flooring Co. Associated Lumber Mutuals 35 Baxter, J. H. Beebg W. M. ... 'F Blinn, L. W., Lumbcr Co. 47 Bookstaver-Burns Lumber Co. * Booth-Kelly Lrmrber Co. t3 Brown, Geo. & Co ... Bruce, t. L., Inc. 'F Built-In Fixture Co. Cadwallader-Gibson Co. .....I.F.C. California Panel & Veneer Co. .. . 2t California Redwood Association 25 Central Coke & Coal Co. :r Chamberlin & Co., W. R. .... 20 Chicago Lu:rrber Co. of Washington.. t Consolidated Lumber Co. . 'F Consolidated Shinste MiUs of B. C., Ltd. 'r' Cooper Lrmrber Co., W. E. ...... ...... 46 Cooe Bay l,umber Co. . 28 Coos Veneer & Box Co. *t Dallas Mactrino & Locomotive Works 37 Defiance Lrrnber Co. * Dodse Cq, E. J. 43 Dolb-eer & Carson Lumber Co. 'F El Rcy Products Co {' Fageoi Motors Company * Garmor Masters Lumber Co. .... '. rts Geigcr, F., Truck Co. ... 'r Gritzriacher & Gunton 43 Gulf Coast Lumberman Hamrnond Lumber Co. ... '.I.B.C. Hanify Co., J. R. ....,.,. 20 Hart-Wood Lumber Co. 3 Higgins, J. E., Lumber Co. 28 Hipolito Co. . :r' Hobbs-Wall & Co. t7 Holmes-Eureka Lumber Co. rF Hooper, S. C., Lumber Co. 42 Hoover, A. L. . l0 Industrial Servi,oe Co., The 'F Johnso,q C. D., Lumbcr Co. * Jones Hardwood Co. Kochl & Son, Jno. W. Kolarnbugan Lurnber & Dev. Co. Laucks, I. F., Inc. Laughlirl C. J. Little River Redwood Co., The Long-Bell Lumber Co. Lumbermen's Reciprocal Assn Madera Sugar Pine Co. Mariq H. 8., Panel Co. McCloud River Lumber Co. McCormick, Chas. R., Lbr. Co. .... McKay & Co. Monolith Portland Cement Co. '. Murry Jacobs & Co National Mill & Lumber Co. ' ' Norris, W. H., Lurnber Co. Pacific Door & Sash Co. .. Pacific Lumber Co., The Pacific Southwest Hardwood Co '... Pacific Tank & Pipe Co. Pioneer Paper Co. ..26-27 Red River Lumber Co. I Rees Blow Pipe Mfg. Co. * Riversidc Portland Cement Co. ., . * Robbins Flooring Co. 44 Santa Fc Lumber Co ... 19 Schumachcr Wall Board Corp. ....O.F.C.-9 Seattle Boiler Works 49 Shevlin, Carpenter & Clark Co. ,. .. * Simonds Saw & Steel Co 33 Slade, S. E., Lurober Co. 't Sotrthwestern Portland Cement Co. 21 Stanto,n & Soq E. J. !i Strable Hardwood Co. . * Sudden & Christenson 43 Thackaberry, M. N. . 49 Truck Tirc Service Co. '; Uniqr Lrrnber Co. 3l Unio,n Oil Co. .. . * 'Weaver-Hearry Mfg. Co .. .O.B.C. Wendling-Nathan Co. tI West Coast Lbr. Trade Ext. Bureau. . * 'Western Door Mfgis. Association 4l Western Hardwood Lumber ll Western Sash & Door Co. ..,. ...; t 'Wcyerhaeuser Sales Co.,.....l+ts Wheeler-Osgood Co. * Whito Broa. * Willipa Lurnber Co. Willamette Iron & Steel Works * Williams & Cooper Wood Lumber Co., E. K. . 3l * rt rla 7 :1. 39 29 :F 7 48 {. * {. :s 49 34 * 23 5 IF *

THE CALIFOR}.IIA-'LTTMBER MERCHANT JackDionoe,prblisltu

Subrcription Price, g2.l[ per Ycar Single Copier, 25 centr ealch. LOS ANGELES, CAL., AUGUST 15, 1928

How Lumber Looks

Lumber looks conriderably difierent in Cdifornia from the picture the national situation showr. So do rhingler. For instanse, in the Northwest where our Red Cedar Shingles come fro'm, the shingle market is strong, the price ir finn and ttreateng to advance, the shingle makcrr are optimirtic, rhingl€s are lcarce and getting scarqer, and the situatio'n ir strorrger tlran it has been in reveral years. But in Southern Cdifornia ttere are lotr of fingler on the docks, tfie price is comparatively cheap, and the demand ir lagging. Some difrerence!

The netional lumber market continuer very strong. In the Pacific Northwed lumber is scarcer than it hat been in five y€ars, rtockc are more broken than they have ever been in that rame length of time, curtailment continuea, lumber is v€ry, very hard to buy, lumber that is rold is dfficult to replace, and the rituation looks very good.

In California buying is light, and that rtatement coverc the entire rtate. A whole lot of lumber war bought during the early suurmer furry, and tte dealerr don't need much lumber. But while volume ir light, prices continue firtn, due entirely to the fact that you can't buy lumber to replace what you selln ro why cut the price? This same thought is aleo holding ffre retail lurnber rnarket rtrong tfuoughout the atate. No ure giving away lumber when you may have to pay more to replace it than you get for iL Tbere isn't any. thing dispiriting about the rituation It ir about in normal rhape, and volume should increase in the next thirty dayr.

It is frne to relate that nearly eyeryone who sells lumber in

California today, maker a profit on it, and it hasn't alwayr been ttat way. They have learned, alro, that reduced volume nececritates higher salea prices in ord'er to develop the ttnet.tt

Water rhipments into Los Angelee harbor of late have been aa followr: JuIy 1 to 7, 26198610,00 feet; July 8 to 14, 18,384q)o; July 15 to 21, 27,259,flX); July 22 to 28, 16,577,000; July 29 to Aug. 4, 19,585,OOO. Building permits in Los Angeles for July were $81298141 1, ar cornpared with $9r286,2(X) for July 1927, and the total for this year to August lrt was $601300198l as compared with $67,479,177Iart year.

CONDITIONS L@K GREAT IN THKAS TERRITORY (By Wire)

Houston, Texan, Augrrot l4.-Prorpectr fine for d'andy Southern Pine market thir fall, only quection being whether mitts will be able to rupply demand. Orders plentifuln particularly for mixd car stuff, pricec advancing, mill rtockr low and badly broken, many itemr scarce and millr turning dorrn burineu accormt cannot handle. Scramble for dealer stockr expected in September. Southern Hardwood market ic good shape, rnany mills over sold o4 white and red oab advamceE continue on oak fooring lumber, mill stocks broken and situation strong. Crop conditions fine throughout Southwect and prospects are very bullish.

The Gulf Coast Lumberman.

Don't overlook the last few pages in this issue. They're filled with personals and other short ne\ zs notes of interest.

H. C. CLARK MOVING TO SACRAMENTO

H. C. Clark, popular representative for the Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. at Los Angeles, is moving to Sacramento to take over all the territory north of Stockton. Geo. N. Robinson, who has been making all of the territory around Sacramento, will take over the San Joaquin Valley and everything south of Stockton. A. T. Show, who has been with the Los Angeles office for several years, will be in charge of that branch. Mr. Clark made many friends in Southern California who will regret to hear of his returning to his former location.

J. N. MANNTNG VTSTTS LOS ANGELES

J. N. Manning of the Charles R. McCormick Lumber Company at Portland recently drove down to Los Angeles with his family for a short vacation.

\^/ALTER SCRIM ON VACATION

Walter Scrim, Los Angeles representative for the Findlay Millar Timber Company and the Kolambugan Lumber and Development Conrpany, Manila, P. I., has gone to the northwest for a month's business and pleasure trip. Mr. Scrim is stopping in San Francisco to buy some machinery for the mills at Kolambugan and Cebu, P. I., and will go from there to Vancouver for a two weeks' vacation.

W. E. COOPER VISITS WISCONSIN

W. E. Cooper, head of the W. E. Cooper Lumber Company, wholesale hardwood specialists of Los Angeles, has gone east for an indefinite stay, and will visit his old home territory in Milwaukee and other parts of the middle west.

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udcr thc law of Catifmla J. C. Dimc, Pres. and Treu,; J. E. Mstb, Vie-Prea; A- C. Merrynan, Jr., Secy. Publfuhed tle lrt and.lSth of each moth at 3rE-19-al CENTRAL BUILDING, LOS 4NGEL-ES, CAL., TELEPHONE, VAndike ,t96s Entered u Secmd-clas mtter Septenber-?5., !:gn, at thc Po.toiflc. at las Angcleq Cdifcnfa' u&r Act of Mech 3, 16?9. San Francitco Oficc ?lt Santa Marina BUg. rr2 Mukct Strat Telepbouo Dawqrct t?3 Southem O6cc 2nd Nattoul Bark BH8. Houton, Tcrar
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Advertieing Retcr on Applicatioa

Ve'll soon be taldng about PUNTS, FORTY-YARD RUNS, and OFF TACKLE BUCKS.

There have been some minor rule changes tfiis year, no radical ones. For instance:

The lateral pass rule now tequires the ball to be passed six feet before it becomes protected if fumbled. Now the offense takes a chance in handling the ball in rcverses and ctiss'ctosses.

A fumbled punt is dead at point of recovery. The kicking side may recover a fumbled punt but cannot run with it.

The screened forwatd pass is gone. The ofiense cannot clip de' fending players before the pass is thtown.

Othenryise the game is the same. These changes may develop more deception and stately.

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT
The rules of th" lumber game haven't been changed. A winner still has to serve his customer a little better and a little more economically: must be sure he furnishes the best material possible.
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So you always find the winner in this game to be a friend of Redwood-the wood of value. It helps him give real service.
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Random Editorial Ramblings

The Millwork Institute of California took a great stride along the road to fame, when, at its recent conference in Los Angeles, it adopted its proposed Plant Certification plan. The act stamps the word "forward-looking" in indelible letters upon the Institute. It marks the first definite and practical step of the Institute to begin the exploitation of the remarkable products of its members. It gives to its members a tangible and interesting thing to tie their trade promotion work to, and in so doing tie themselves closer togcther. Up to now the Institute has known that its members make the best and most beautiful millwork on earth. But that has not been well knbwn to those whose money in exchange for millwork is necessary to make their business more successful financially. When the Certifica$on plan gets to working, they will manufacture up to a required standard, and will then stamp their goods with ttis mark of guality, and be enabled to advertise to the world the fact that that stamp is their safeguard and guarantee of this better artd greater millwork Luck to the working of the ntoj""a.

, A thousand times this question has been asked: "I{ow can an individual manufacturer help the lumber dealer create a market for lumber?" The Exchange Sawmills Sales Company, of Kansas. City, Mo., a great milling concern il'ith mills in the South and West, has probably done as much experimenting with that idea in thb past couple of years as any other manufacturer of lumber, and they have evolved sorn€ very excellent and practical ideas. Right now t'hey have out a vefy simple little sales and advertising campaign that looks perfectly good. It concerns a plan to sell hog houses by dealers in agricultural districts, and should be perfectly feasible. And it offers an opening wedge for creating more business. Dealers in farm districts would do well to write for the i"Tn"lFl They'll get it, quick.

fs the world changing? Frequently in this column we have been driving home the idea of the great change that is taking place, the craving for variety that the public manifests, and the need for the lumber business to keep up with the times. Along that very line, grab this thoughtTHERE ARE FIVE INDUSTRIES IN THIS COUN. TRY TODAY THAT WERE PRACTICALLY NON. EXISTENT TWENTY YEARS AGO, THAT EMPLOY THIRTY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. They are the auto, radio, motion picture, chemical and electrical iridustries. Isn't that worth thinking about?

Changing? Yes, indeed! It took us 200 years to discover that the tomato was worth while as an article of foodEven then they were slow in coming into general use, many idiotic ideas being prevalent for years concerning their hurt-i fulness, germ-making tendencies, etc. Now we know thati ' tomatoes, canned or fresh, corltain vitamin E, which assistsl

{fie red blood cells in absorbing iron from foods; now we

know that they are one of the best of all foods for young and old, great and small, invalid and athlete. The lowly tomato has come into its own. +***

H. J. Kenner, writing in "The Executive" on "Merchandising on [Ionor"r puts great emphasis on the part that proven integrity and character plays in the success of a business, and points to the fact that there are firms who build their business on the fact that everyone knows they are on the square, cin be depended upon in every way, and always give their customers more than a square deal. Think it over, men. Does your trade think and feel and speak that way abqut YOUR business? If not, you have oierlooked the greatest thing in busin€ss;th: greatest asset in life. ,

The old order of things was jungle competition-the competition of the lion and the tiger. The new order of things is furnishing better human service, and so justifying success. Every man should go out of business who can't or won't keep up with the new order. The crook, the man of no dependability, must go.

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Any industry that does not organize stoutly and intelligently for mutual protection against antagonistic legislation, is in danger. Our constitution staqds for freedomfreedom in religion, freedom in politics, freedom in education, freedom in business, without unwarranted restrictions of our constitutibnal rights. * *

No longer does commerce mean merely exploitation. It means humarl service, and the more a business does to supply human needs and increase human happiness, the more right it has to succeed.

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Everything in this world depends on the viewpoint. VoItaire tells of two Athenians who saw Socrates passing, and ,one said, "There is that atheist Sgcrates, he believes there is only one God." To believers in many Gods, Socrates was a4 atheist, an unbeliever. To the orthodox Christian of today, Socrates was a "itT. *OlU * it goes.

Gii us, Oh Lord, a sense of humor. Without it we are just mud-and not very*i"Tr"i.t1t mud at that.

Regardless of how well or efficiently the other departments of your business are handled, if the selling end fails, the business fails. Moral-concentrate on your selling. Improve your selling methods. Increase your selling "ffortr. +rt,t+

../-Nowadays we only get what we go after. We likewise get what we deserve, but we only deserve what we go after. sothere! + * * ,r

Big men never pose. Little men who want to be thought big have a comer on the posing concessions.

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT Aueirst 15, 1928
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M AD ERA SUGAR PINE

MADEBA SUGAR PINE was sel€c{ed a half a century ago, and is cut from the finert stand of tinr,ber in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

MADERA SUGAR PINE is a boft, rtraight grahd' true and durable White Pine which lends itself most admirably to exact fidelity of reproduction, and delights woodworkerr and pattern makers tbe world over.

MADERA SUGAR PINE is unexcelled in quality, well manufactured, water-cured, scientifically air-dried, and handled by an organization which benefits by more than 4O years continuity of progrersive managemenL LET US SERVE YOU WITH OUR FAMOUS MADERA ATR DRIED, WATER CURED SUG.A,R PINE.

August 15, 1928 THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT
@) iIADENA SUGAR PIlIE G(l. MADERA, CALIFORNIA, U. S. A. A T1'pical Sugar Pine Forest. il*d uith LAUXEIN;' All glue manufactured since June,1928, bears the Spangle identification mark. I. F. LAUCKS, INc. Factorier Seattle, Wach. Blmlngtm, lll. \l/archourc Stockr Chicago, llltnois Oaklarid. C8Uf. Is Argeles, CaUf. Gluec Muufcturers Soya Bm Gluer-Soyr Beu ud Cas€in Blen& -Cuein Glues Scattle, U. S. A. California Divigion 3l,l Architets Bldg., Lc Angeles Patentes Soya Beu d o *onn c r,zi]/ilff(r4sssgsrEs

Thomas Barlow Walker, One of the World's Greatest Lumbermen Is Dead

Thomas Barlow \Aralker of Minneapolis, Minnesota, died in that city on July 28, at the age of 88 years.

A mighty pine has fallen in his passing. To attempt to even highlight the real story of T. B. Walker within the confines of a magazine obituary, is a futile effort. Every page within these covers might be filled, with much of interest left to tell.

For the story of T. B. Walker is not only the story of a riran who amassed a wonderful fortune in the lumber business, but the story of a very long life so filled with well directed activity and admirable devotion to every call of citizenship, that a history could well be written of each phase of his varied life work.

The newspapers of his beloved home city, Minneapolis, to which he had been a marvelous godfather through two generations of well-doing, stated in writing of his works, that he died one of the fifteen richest men on earth. There can be no doubt as to the truth of that statement. With the possible exception of the original Frederick Weyerhaeuser, who built up a timbered estate in the neighborhood of a billion dollars, no other American lumberman has ever approached Mr. Walker in the quantity of his wealth. And it should be said here that few if any have equalled him in the good work that he has done with his great fortune. It is said that in California akone the Walker interests possess upwards of twenty billions of feet of California Sugar and White Pine. The market value of such a property in terms of today's values, stagger the imagination; in terms of their worth ten years from today, , the value should double.

But in reciting the life work of T. B. Walker, his intimate historians have used many great terms ahead of the title of multi-millionaire. "Courageous pioneer", "man of incomparable vision". "kindly philanthropist", "practical scientist", "one of world's greatest art collectors", "connoiseur of art and precious stones", "citizen extraordinary", are among the terms used to describe his characteristics.

That he was modest, simple, kindly, g'enerous, of the highest moral character and possessing outstanding integrity, are facts that his life story seem to thoroughly reflect. That he was the most charitable of men, all his historians declare. He helped everyone.

In addition to his great industrial and commercial activities he has for more than thirty-five years been one of the world's greatest collectors of pictures. He employ,ed no art collector, being recognized as one of the world's great experts. His early art galleries were in his own home, to which he built additions to house his pictures. He bought at home at first, and later went abroad for his greater collection. His first foreign purchase was Rosa Bonheur's "Lion". Then for many years he added steadily to his marvelous collection. One of his choice possessions is Rembrandt's "The Erting Woman Before Christ". Then, just a few years ago, he housed his great collection in a

palatial art gallery which has since been open to the public, and is one of the show places of the eniire continent.

In reciting the business history of T. B. Walker, three cardinal principles and characteristics are outstanding, vision, indomitable courage and unshaken perseverance. His mighty fortune was built on these three. He saw, long before other men, the great future value of Pine timber.-And he had the courage and the sticktoitiveness to fight for a great lot of it, and kept it until it made him an industrial monarch.

He was born at Zenia, Ohio, February 1, 184O, the son of Platt B. Walker and Anstis K. Walker. His parents joined the great rush toward California in 1849, and when they reached Westport Landing, now Kansas City, the father took sick and died, Ieaving the mother and four sons to take care of themselves. The mother succeeded in educating her children. So well did she educate them that the son Thomas was offered the chair of mathematics in the lJniversity of Wisconsin in his early twenties. He refused, because he had gotten the timber bug that was to make him famous.

He went into Minnesota and 'Wisconsin surveying the timber lands of the region, and his determination to polsess his share become his obsession. He began buying timber for investors, taking a share for his pay. Later, as he acquired means, he invested in Pine timber that was so far ofi the beaten track that he was ridiculed for his investments. It later became the most valuable of timber. He was in the lumber business in various wavs for vears. It was in the late TO|S 11t"1 he, with his son Gilbeit organized The Red River L.umber Company. They cut the timber from their lands, and later on the worthless cut-over lands developed ore, and were sold for millions of dollars for mining land. Thd early firm operated mills at Crookston, Minn., and Grand Forks. North Dakota.

In 1889 Mr. Waker began looking around for more timber, and after looking the country over, he chose California and began buying California Pine in great quantities. His 'five sons joined him as each finished his education, Gilbert M., Archie D., Willis J., Fletcher L. and Clinton L., all being actively in charge of the affairs of the firm today. The great mills at 'Westrvood, California, were instituted, and will probably run perpetually, such are their timber holdings. They also operate today at Fernley, Nevada, in the same stand of timber.

Mr. Walker married Miss Harriet C. Hulet of Ohio in 1863, and besides his five sons, he is survived by a daughter, Julia Walker Smith.

Mr. Walker had retained wonderful mental and physical health almost up to the time of his death, that condition making it possible for him to enjoy and indulge himself in the finer things of life in which he was so much interested after he had relinquished the reins of business management to his capable group of sons.

He was one of the most interesting, colorful and useful men in lumber history.

MILL MAN USES ASSOCIATION OFFICE TO HELP BUILDING

J. M. Montgomery of the Silver Falls Timber Company, Silverton, Oregon, has listed the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association as one of his strong sales allies. .With each of his retailer customers in central California he has placed the telephone number of the San Francisco office of the Association rvith instructions that they are to be called by his customers at any time for aid on their lumber, construction and other similar problems. The Western Division office has O.K.'d this arrangement.

THE CALIF'ORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT August 15, 1928

Says Paul Bunyotrr

"'We oldtimers like to brag about 'Old Fashioned l7hite Pine'and the doors and millwork made by the old masters of colonial days. "Here is a door made of pine that would cheer the heart of the crankiest old craftsman and

everlastingly put together

to hold its shape in spite of Time and the elements."

Look at the way thie slab door is made. All small blocks Iaid together with broken joints and locked with a tongue and groove "B." "A" showe the edge strips for finishing and 6tting; "C" the pair of 5-inch dowels every 12 inches and "D" the spline that locks every member. At every joint "E' the glue covera | 00 percent of the area. "F" shows t'he veneer and "G" the direction of the heavy pressure that unites the whole assembly into one unit.

PAUL BUNYAI\I'S lOO PERCENT DOOR

are generally first sold on PAUL BUi{YAN'S 100 PER CENT CORES because their light weight saves freight. With use their superior strength and freedom from distortion is apparent.

There are few "comebacks" where PAUL BUNYAN'S 100 PERCENT DOORS and DOOR CORES are used. Thie is of vital importance to the Manufacturer, Builder and Dealer.

We rnake and sell complete doors and. inteilocked, core stocks.

August 15, l9?3 THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT
l00vo CALIFORNIA PINE IOO% INTERLOCKED CORE Manufacturers
Tndc MerL "Producers of White
Cenlury" The RED RIVER LUMBER CO. MILL FACTORIES and SAIIS, WESf'WOOD, CALIFIORNIA Dietributing Yard+ CHIC^AGO aDd LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES BRANCH 702 Eart Shuroa Avcnuc Phonc AXridgc 90llt FULL STOCKS, FACTORY FACtLtTtES FOR SPECIAL JOBS SALES OFFICES: Monrdnock Bld3, t{17 llcnnqrin Avo, 360 N. Micbigu Blvdo 702 E. Struroa Avr, SAN FRANCI9CO MINNEAPOLTS CHICAGO LOS ANGELES
Pine f or Over Half a

Lumber Dealer Gets Good Write-up In Local Paper

It's always a good thing for a lumber dealer to so operate and live that he shall be highly esteemed and well spoken of in his own home torvn. This is evidently the

case with George A. Good, of Tracy, California, President SAN DIEGO

of the Good Lumber Company which operates yards in

LUMBERMEN'S SERVICE BUREAU

INAUGURATES INTERESTING CONTEST

ITracy and Byron. A recent issue of The Byron Times, The Lumbermen's Service Bureau, of San Diego, has that very famous and very citified country. newspaper been_conducting a very interesting contest for the past issued at Byron contained a very glowing write-up of Mr. lo1th among.the employes.of .its.members, the.idea being 5 -'---- -r -_ ---_' Good and his business and business methods. and amonpr ,totevelop.information that will be useful to all. or rorows r

other things, spoke of him as follows:

"At all times Mr. Good is alert as to how he best can I ing question:

"At all times Mr. Good is alerf es fo hnrrr hc hcqf .r. I ,--

help the com,munities he serves in their upbuilding pro- "Why is it more beneficial to the contractor or buyer for grams. He always is among the first to sponsor any move- lumber and building materials to be sold on a one-price ment designed to further the progress of the great West plan?" Side country, w-hether it is something affecting his particu- First prize is $25; secon-d prize $15; third and fourth lar line of business or not. He is a firm believer in the glir_:: $10 each. open to all employes of members of the

creed that if one works earnestly for the good of a com- TL^ ^ The contest closed Jrrly 31st. The priizes will be awarded munity as a whole, in time it is bound to reciprocate. He r'e c.,rrlssl cruscuJury ' has dlne his frrll .shere ^f nnmmrrnirrr r"rnrL nnr ihrao soon at a special dinner giiven for that purpose. has done his full share of community work.- For three

terms he served as President of the Tracy Chamber of Commerce, and his tenure of office still is spoken of often as a period during which big things were aciomplished for that city and the surrounding territory. He has also served as President of the San Joaquin County Associated Chamber of Commerce. Tracy owes much to George Good, for he has given unselfishly of his time to advanle its interests."

There isn't much the editor could have said to improve on that fine description. The lumber,business profits largely by such men as George Good.

MYRON WOODARD OF OREGON VISITS CALIFORNIA

Myron Woodard, of Portland, Oregon, one of the best known manufacturers of Fir in the Pacific Northwest, has been in California of late attending the Bohemian Club Grove outing in Northern California, and also visiting in San Francisco. Mr. Woodard is manager of the Westport Lumber Company, tl-re Western Lumber Company, and the Silver Falls Timber Company.

Bureau.

NATIONAL PARK RESORTS USE FITITE COLONIAL SHAKES

The Union Pacific Railroad Company recently ur6d for;t carloads of one-inch Fitite Colonial Shakes on their resort hotel at Bright Angel Point in the Grand Canyon. A carload of one-inch Fitite Shakes was used on the new bungalows built this year at Yosemite National Park, and another carload was used on the Feather River Inn at Blairsten.

Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco, are Northern California distributors for these famous shakes, which are in great demand for achieving artistic effects both on roofs and sidewalls.

P. C. McNEVIN VISITS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

P. C. "Peter" McNevin, of San Francisco, Director of Sales for The Pacific Lumber Company, great Redwood manufacturing concern, was a recent visitor in Los Angeles. He was accompanied by his wife and daughter and spent a week at the Casa Del Mar Club at Santa Monica.

l0 THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT August 15,1928
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Larrick and His "Timber Tim" / Stores

Down at Solano Beach lives and operates a lumber merchant by the name 'of H. G. Larrick. And when wg sfY "lumbei merchant" we mean that in every sense of the word. For Larrick is one of those men who realizes and appreciates the fact that the world IS moving very rapidly, tfiit a business man has to keep right on progressing or become himself 'an obstacle in the path of progress, and he does business accordingly.

Mr. Larrick operates The Lumber & Builders Supply Company, with stores at Solano Beach, Del Mar, and Fncinitis. -That is. he is the official and financial head of that concern. What he really operates is the "Timber Tim" building stores at those three points. For, a short time ago he'announced to the trade of his fast growing and lovely territorv on the beautiful Pacific shores in Southern California, lh"t i.t the future his places of business would cease to be The Lumber & Builders Company lumber yards, and would automatically become the "Timber Tim" Stores.

In making that announcement through his own very re-

markable little newspaper, the "Sunkist Splinter," Mr. Larrick said:

"Timber Tim will become a real live personality and mean something definite in the lives of his customers, for he will WARRANT all the high grade merchandise sold in the future in his stores. If you will examine Webster you will find that WARRANTED means to assure a thing sold to the purchaser. That is, to insure that the thing is what it is represented to be. This implies a covenant to make good on defects. Folks, this is nothing more or less than we have been doing, but henceforth we will emphasize that fact by branding all our high grade merchandise with the figure of TIMBER TIM, and the words 'Warranted Merchandise.' These three TIMBER TIM STORES will serve the people of the San Dieguito and Broadway of the Facific districts with a coinplete home builders stock of building materials, lumber, cement, hardware, paint, rolled roofing, plaster, lath, shingles, brick, hollow tile, sash, and doors."

Then follorvs a list of what the three stores carry.

You should really see this monthly newspaper, The Sunkist Splinter. There isn't a more beautiful or more practical house organ issued anywhere by anybody of any size, than this delightfully prepared and printed magazine that Mr. Larrick sends to his trade in the three town territory once each month. Eight of the twelve pages is a sepia colored Rotagravure section, showing beautiful homes and home building plans. The other four pages are news of the districts. There is a special column, for instance, by the manager of each of the three stores. There is a column by Mr. Larrick himself. These contairt personal news, building news, and just geheral news of interest. Then they have a variety of interesting reading for their customers, crop reports, planting suggestions, building suggestions, and much definite news of the district. Larrick thinks it's a great magazine, He should. It is.

August 15, 1928 THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT ll
EIrEBYTHING PANELS PHILIPPINE MAHOGANY OREGON PINE HARDWOODS COMPLETE AND FINE ASSORTMENT OF STOCKS PANELS-VENEERS.FLOORING WHITE CEDAR . SUGAR PINE - SPRUCE WHITE PINE We specialize in direct mill shipmentt. VENEER MILL . DRY KILNS HARDWOOD FLOORING OAK. MAPLE BIRCH HAnIDtllr(XDITS WESTER]I HARDWOOD LUITIBER GO. 2014 East,fdth SL WErlnore;6161 Mail Addreq Botr 4 StaL C Loi''iq'ngclc. '',\'.: " l

with the Sash Door and Mitl Workers

A LOVELY FIGURED GUM DOOR FROM KOEHL'S NEW CATALOGUE

Here is a picture of one of the "doggiest" doors in the new catalogue just issued by John W. Koehl & Son, Los Angeles. It is a veneered door of Figured Gum, Segment Head, Irregular V.J.O.S., Moulded Water Table, Scrolled Apron, the nerv look-out type that is so appealing of late to the builder of fine homes. It is builtin regulation Koehl fashion on a core built entirely of one species of wood and perfectly surfaced, and is a strictly high class piece of goods.

By the way, the new Catalogue in which this appears is a very attractive job. They call it "Flush Door Bulletin

..FIRST AID ROOM'' IS INTERESTING DEPARTMENT OF CRESMER PLANT AT RIVERSIDE

One of the very interesting departments in the very modern and attractive millwork plant of The Cresmer Manufacturing Company, at Riverside, Calif., is their "First Aid Department". The management requires that the minute a man gets hurt, even though the injury be ever so slight, that he go at once to the "First Aid Room", in the main office building, and have it taken care of. The men in the office are trained and equipped to take care of him. The injury is cared for immediately, and the infections that cause so much trouble and expense to the average plant are entirely eliminated. If the injury is sufficient to require the attention of a doctor, the office brings in their physician at once. They have saved themselves much trouble and expense by this completely equipped little hospital department, which contains every convenience for "First Aid" attention.

SPLINTER WOUNDS

A splinter lvound may include anything from the "garden variety" of black specks in the skin, to the eight-inch timber removed recently from the buttock of a boy who used a home-made slide of rough lumber. Not long ago a man reported with a three-inch hardwood splinter running the whole length of his finger. The wood was completely hidden but the finger was as stifi as if it had no joints. A more common variety of accident is the "subungual" splinter, i.e., running under the nail, partway to the base or even beyond the cuticle along the back of the finger. Of most importance, however, are the infected splinter wounds.

Fortunately, most splinter wounds heal at once without evidence of infection, but every one is potentially infected. Only the surgeon's cut in the operating room with boiled scalpel through carefully prepared skin can be considered "clean". E,very wound of the worker's soiled skin with tool or wood contains germ infection at the very start.

It requires a few days for these few germs to incubate and on the third or fourth day or later the injured individual decides that there is a piece of wood still in the wound. Occasionally this is found to be the case, but more often a small abscess or accumulation of pus is found where the sprlinter inoculated the deep tissues. Very seldom are these infections serious but every year some men spend a few days in the hospital to overcome the resultant blood poisonlng.

No. 3", and contains nine brand new door designs which Koehl is offeriug to a particular trade. Shown and described in this bulletin is a plain slab Philippine Mahogany door, a Quartered Oak slab V.J.O.S., a White Pine Door Half Circle Head with Random V.J.O.S., a plain Oak door with Elliptical Head and Rectangular Light, a Fir door with Tudor Head Shaped R.M.O.S., a Juana Costa door of lovely design, a Black Walnut door with Rectangular Sash to swing and three spindles in front of sash and the ninth door here pictured.

Al Koehl says if you haven't this Bulletin and want it, drop him a line at 652-676 South Meyers Street, Los Angeles.

How shall we avoid the dangers of these wounds ? First, examine them critically to see whether they go through the skin or merely into the skin. The latter very seldom give trouble. Those through the skin demand attention. Do not take out a jackknife and carve yourself. Wash the hand thoroughly, "prepare the surgical field" and then have a clean instrument used to renlove the splinter. If it is deep, a local anaesthetic helps.

Then the after-care. Keep the small wound bandaged until it is entirely well, not just for a few hours. Hot ap- plications night and morning for a day or two on even the most innocent appearing puncture wounds will further reduce the number of bothersome and dangerous infections.

"Safety First," our motto.

-Dr. Norman C. Paine in "Stiles and Pails."

t2 THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT August 15, 1928

YdP Sash Door and Mill Workers E. A. Nicholson

Here ie a brand new picture of E. A.'Ed" Nicholron, Lor Angelel, that juatifier reproducing. It ir not only a splendid up'to-date photo' graph, but it ir a dietinctive character atudy of a very .trong person' ality.

IVtr. Nicholeon ir well known to the California lumber world ar Precident and General Manager of the Pacific Door & Sath Conpany' one of the biggert millwork inrtitutions of the entire country, and ar a prime moverln the Millwork Institute of California. He ic- organizalion-minded aud accociation-minded ac well. He believel tLet in un' ion there ie etrength, and that in concert of efrort there ic rafety, aan' ity, and progre33.

Read the rigne in hic face. He rtarted burinesr life as a echool teacher, and thire are in hic face the traits of the rcholar, the rtudent, and the teacher, that will alwayr be there, becauce they are fundamental with tbe man. Then he aold lumbcr, and worLed with lumber and milling concern!. He learned the lumber game fro'n the founda' tionc, righi here in California, and all hie activitiee have been here.

The Madera Flume and Trading Company, the Sanger Lumber Conpany,'the San Pedro Lumber Company, and thcn thc Wertern Dooi & Sash Company' were the etepping rtoner of hie burineer anbitions and career, terminating in the grouping of indurtrier and plantl that made the Pacific Door & Sarh Company, juet three ycar3 ago.

Ed Nicholson is a rnoct ueeful man, both to the world, and to the burineu he follows. He is a deep, thoughtful, practical, and technical rtudent of the millwork bueiners. He ir eeeentially a rnanufactureFa ereaton He believea in the urefulner of the wondcrful thinge that can bc made with wood. He'believer in thc law of progrera-that thc millwork indurtry rnust keep forging ahend, appealing with evcrchangiog aervice and cupply to the ever-changing human clement. And he bJliever that the good men in that induetry murt work togethcr along thoae liner if they are to achieve tucccat.

He is a tireler worker-yet with a world of worL alwaye rpread out bcforc hin. Hie office ie alwayr openr no fine*e ie nceded to aprrroach him, he ie interected ir the other fellow and hil problemr, ir cheerful, genial, kindly, poreering grcat warmth of toul. A ve4r, very worth.whilc Pcrron.

HOOVER INDORSES GRADEMARKING OF DOORS

One of the last official acts of Herbert Hoover as Secre' tary of Commerce was the indorsement of- the grademarking of forest products, particularly with reference to doors. Iria telegram sent to tlie Western Door Manufacturers Association at Tacoma, Wash., he said:

"The Grademarking of lumber and wood products with suitable guarantee makes for more efficient merchandising of benefit to manufacturer, distributor, and especially the consumer. It helps stabilize trade and decreases distribution costs through establishing steady demand and lessening quality complaints".

EMPIRE PLANING MILL SLIGHTLY DAMAGED

The Empire Planing Mill, San Francisco, had a close call on the morning of July 31, when the building and co-ntents of the City Bag Co', next door, were destroyed by fire. Damage to the mill building was about $2000, and the mill was shut down for one daY onlY.

TILDEN TO HAVE NEW WAREHOUSE

The Tilden Lumber and Mill Cornpany,.Oakdale, California, are building a new warehouse to replace the old one which was recently destroyed by fire. The new building will be 32x54 feet, constructed entirely of lumber with a fireproof roof.

G. B. BOSWORTH BACK AT HIS DESK

George B. Bosworth of the Western Sash and Door Company, Los Angeles, is back at his desk after having been in the hospital for six weeks.

GREGG LUMBER COMPANY REBUILDS PLAINER

The Gregg Lumber Company, Hawthorne, California, have recently installed new machinery and equipment in their planer that has practically rebuilt their mill. A new fast feed sticker, a new band saw, and a complete new blowpipe system are among the improvements.

August 15,1928 TIIE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT
The three W's-Wim, IVigor, and Witality-were the old needs of business. We have now added to them the three I's-Industry, Intelligence, Intestineg.

Another \4byerhaeusertfimmed

squa,re at both sy7fls.-

Packaged and Euawrted

Out of the package on to the job

\I /E caution you against thinking that 4.Square Lumber V Y is ordinary lumber that has been packaged. First of all 4.Square is bettq lumbq. Better because it is prcperly sea. soned and then milled exactly to accepted standard sizes and lengths. Betterbecause it is always uniform in grade" Better because it is smoother and cleaner. It is cut to exoct lengths with ends trimmed perfectly square and smoothsaving the time spent in squaring each piece of ordinary lumber by hand before it can be useil and thus insuring bet, ter construction Then it is shipped in packages with facee and ends thorcughly protected. It is wasteliss lumberready to use just as taken from the 4.Square package The kind of lumber you carr alwavs sell at a profiL

t4 THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT August lS, L928
Ihe Ma* of 45q[Affi l"umber

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What the 4,Square Franchise does for 4,Square Dealers

4,Square Lumber-nbw offered by Weyerhaeuser in addition to the regular line of lumber productsprovides the merchandising tie,up that has long been needed between the lumber dealer and his prospecto. It provides the kind of lumber architects, contractorg and owners want. It establishes a new and easy way for the public to recognize lumber.values-the species, the grade and the manufacturer.Itis attractivelypack, aged to make it a distinctive, easy,ls,identifu line of .fine,appearing merchandise. The species and grade are plainly printed on the label and guaranteed by Weyerhaeuser-yot r proof to the customer that he gets exactly what he pays for.

Only the bata gradu of finest manufactare

Each pachage labeled and guaranteed

SCII'ARB EDGE FINISIIING LUMBBR BEVEL SIDING

COLONIAL SIDING , DROP SIDINGI SOFT\|/OOD FLOORING

BND MATCHED SOFTWOOD FLOORINO CEILING cad PARTITION SHELVING STEPPING CASING. BASE MOULDINGS

Nowavallable under the 4.Square label ln mixed cara with standard lteor of ordinary yard otock

4,Square Lumber is now being nationally adver, tised. Millions of property owners, architects, contrac, tors and carpenters are reading and inquiring about it. And 4,Square Dealers are being backed by all the local sales and.advertising helps that dealers in other lines of merchandise have always had to assist them.

In all respectp the 4-Square proposition has been worked out to insure a bigger volume of businessl quicker turnover and legitimate Ftofi* for 4,Square Dealers.Wherever the line has been introduced alert and progressive dealers have been quick to recognize the value of the 4-Squate Franchise-the details of which cannot be explained in this space.

Ilowever, new territories are being opened as rapidly as possible and dealere who have registered their desire to know all the facts about it will be given preference as new sections are opened. Get your name on record now by addressing our nearest branch office or by inquiry of our district representative.

'WEYERHAEUSER SALES COMPAIVY, Distribator of Veyerhaeuser Forest Products General Ofices : SPOI(ANE, WAS HINGTON

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Mission Sarr Juarr Capistrano

The mission of San Juan Capistrano is fast assuming the grandeur of former years whdn it was at the pinnacle of its glory. Restoration of various portions of the tumbled-down g-roup of buildings has been undertaken from time to time by historical societies and other publicspirited citizens who have endeavored to perpetuate it as one of the greatest and most romantic of California missions.

Latest restoration is that of the convenr school, recently completed under the super- vision of F. H. Ruppel, Pasadena contractor. The work has been done with an attempt to blend the new with the old, reproducing even lines of age which so characteristically mark the other buildings. Altogether it forms a creditable and harmonious addition.

The Mission San Juan Capistrano was given its name from its patron saint, the great evangelical worker and reformer of Europe, who even in life was hailed as a saint. That the patron saint in life had to battle against huge obstacles, coming through his leadership .with glory and vast accomplishments, was in some measure transmitted as a heritage to the Mission named for him. No other

Mission of California has battled against such odds, or has arisen so gloriouslli from one hardship on another, no? has reached such heights of spiritual glory and temporal development, as did Mission Capistrano.

The Mission was to have been founded on October 30, 1775, on the last day of the Octave after the feast of the patron saint San Juan Capistrano. But a temporary altar had no sooner been erected and mass said than rvord was broLght _them of the uprising and destruction of the Mission at San Diego.-Bells and other property were buried and alf hurried to the succor of the unfortunate Mission in the South. ft was one year later when they returned to found the Mission San Juan Cap- istrano.

Most of the records of the old Mission were destroyed in the San Francisco fire so that of the complete record of events .onlv items here and there have been saved for posteritv. Immediately after its foundation, work of-building was commenced and carried forward from year to year. Not another Mission in all Cali, fornia has had such a record of untiring zeal and ambition for building as has this Mi-ssion.

l6 TI{E CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT August 15,1928
that appeareil on the original building Plastite was used. Riaerside cement was used .in the reconstruction of san Juan capistrano M.ission. Plastite utas used for erterior stucco. Detail of zoorh of reconstructiott. Patches are reproduced faithfully.

Can you beat that for a return on an investment?

Mission San Juan Capistrano

Not one year elapsed but what found some -work of construction or reconstruction under way. But to offset their application came fire and earthquake to destroy their handiwork.

In 1797 work on the large stone church was commenced and foi the next nine years the Indians sweated to bring stone and cement a distance of several miles so that it could be strongly built. Then finally it was completed, one of the most beautiful churches in the new world, with six domes of cement and stone for its roof. But the structure lasted only six years for, in 1812 an earthquake came and the domed roof of which they were so proud came crashing down on the heads of rvorshiping neophytes. Forty were killed, only a few escaped.

But the evil genius which had followed its days grew more rampant after the appointment of Jose M. Echeandia as Governor of California. The year after he took office he emancipated the Indians from their Mission connections; in 1831 he secularized all Missions, and in 1833 divided all Mission lands among political followers and other friends.

Finally in 1845 the Mission was completely lost to the Indians by his order to auction the remaining property. The Mission building passed into private hands.

With the American occupation of California the Missions were reborn, for in 1855 the Supreme Court ruled that the sale of the Mission properties had been illegal, and the tumbled buildings again were placed in the hands of the long-suffering padres. By that time the Indians were completily dispersed and lost to them. Nor was it possible to carry on the work of rebuilding. Not until the present day has there been any work of restoration of the historic old structures.

Today, though, the Mission is coming into something of its own, although w'hat has been done only partially reflects some of the glory and beauty that once was hers. No longer do thousands of Indians flock about it for religious worship, and in their stead are sighteers and tourists whose interest, nevertheless, is the interest and fervor of the religious pilgrim, while the halo of former suffering has only added infinite charm to the present Mission San Juan Capistrano.

August lS,1928 THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT t7
A necessary building will last a lifetime and during all that period offers to mankind and his possessions Eome of all the fwrdamental attributes of shelter, protection, insurance, safety, reliability' corlfort, cbnvenience, satisfaction, health, Iuxury, and financial balance.
- Nathan Co. SAN FRANCISCO Wholesalers of Douglas Fir Redwood California White & Sugar Pine If you have never had Let us sell you a car. It can be mixed with any other items of Old Growth Yellow Fir worked uppers. Main Office: A. L Hoover, Agt. San Francisco Los Angeles I l0 Market St. Standard Oil Bldg. 6G BBS,H(} lYAtt & c0. Manufacturers High C'rade Redwood and Fir Owning and Operating Steamers Elizabeth South Coast Westport Ample Stocks at the Mill Plus Three Steamers Insure Prompt Delivery San Frencirco O6cc: Loe Angclcr O6cc: No. I Dnrmrn Strcct ll5l South Broedvry Phonc Kcerncy 2795 Phonc WErtnorc 2G[, Members Calif ornia Reilwooil Association
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Douglas Lumber Co. Has Attractive Yard at Phoenix, Arizona

The new yard of the Douglas Lumber Company at Phoenix, Arizona, which was recently constructed is exceedingly attractive in appearance and has attracted the admiration of all visitors. The office building is built of stucco which has been painted pink with light blue trimmings. The high gabled roof is of tile in the variegated colors. The yard which covers over one half of f city block is enclosed on one side with a high board fence with picket tops while in front the fence has neat slats with dove tail tops; the base and posts being built of concrete. The other two sides of the yard are enclosed with lumber sheds that are large and spacious and house the upper grades of stock. The rough lumber and timbers are neatly airang- ed in the center of the yard. A well surfaced driveway circles the entire yard which makes it possible for a truck to drive in through one of the front gates, load and circle the yard and drive out through the other gate without backing to turn around. At the rear of the office buildine is a Mission style 5f1uqfu1s-this is the hardware atrd stock room.

Joe Tardy, General Manager, has adopted a unique business slogan Jor their new yard-"Hot as a Depot Stove for Business." Anyone who is familiar with Arizona where the thermometer often hits 110 degrees in the shade knows lhqt " depot stove is about the hottest thing imaginable. Other slogans printed on the fence are: 'Tarm Trade Solicited," "Where Cash is King," and "'We know our S-hingles." In the accompanying- photograph, you notice the small houses on the tops of the fence posls. These miniature house are reproductions of house- designs that are _most popular and especially adapted to the locality. IJnder each small house is a slogan such as: "We will not rest until every farmer has a home like this one": "Build a home like this one and she will soon eat chili and call you papita. "Papita" is Spanish for "daddy.,, - Tttg Douglas I umber Company now operates two yards in Arizona';"one is located at Douglas where Joe Tardy was its mdnager for'rirany years before coming to Phoenix to build and operate the Phoenix yard. The officers of the company are: J. B..Herndon, Hollywood, Calif., President, Iom Schofie-ldi'Dougla'd,'Ariz., Vice President, J. W. "Joe" Ta1dy, Secretary-Treasurer and General Manager, Phoenix, A:i"gggu" ".i.*.

Joe Tardy, General Manager of the company, has been connected with the lumber business for many years. He has lived in Arizona since 1919 and is one- oi the best known lumbermen in the state. He is a progressive lumber merchant and has always been a strong booster for better homes. He takes an active interest in lumber affairs in the state and is Vice President of the Lumbermen,s Club of Arizona.

AIR TRAVEL IS POPULAR WITH NORTHWEST LUMBERMEN

Travel by airplane is becoming popular with Northwest lumbermen, particularly between Portland and Tacoma, and Portland and Seattle, on which runs the West Coast Air Transport Company maintains a twice-a-day service, using palatial Bach Air Yachts which are tri-motored and carry eight passengers, a pilot, and a mechanic who is also a pilot.

- Among those who recently made the trip between portland and Tacoma to attend the monthly luhbermen's sales managers' meetin _ were Coleman H. Wheeler, Jr., presi- dent of the Eagle Lumber Co., Portland, R. A. Steve-nson,. sales manager of-the E-agle l.umber Co., Charles E. Miller, sales manag_er of the West Oregon Lumber Co., Linnton, Ore., and Carl Crow, editor ol Crow's Lumber Digest, Portland.

The West Coast Air Transport Company will establish a daily service August 1, between Portland and San Francisco, making the trip in just a little over six hours. As an illustration of how easy it is to make the trip in six hours, one of their planes made the trip in four hours and thirty-six minutes from Portland to San Francisco.

APPOINTED PILOT AT SAN FRANCISCO

Capt. W. A. Magee, who is well known to the lumber trade of California, has been appointed bar pilot at San Francisco. Ife-was :master of the Forest Kittg, a lumber carrier that runs between Puget Sound and Calif-ornia ports. Mr. Magee was formerly connected $ith the lumber-business, at which time he made his headquarters in Seattle.

l8 THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT August 15, 1928
Joe Tardy's Attracttuc Lumbcr Yard.

SAI{TA FE LUMBER Gl|.

Incorporrtcd Fcb. 14, 190E

A. J. ttGurtt Rusrelltc Outfit

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Central Corl & Coke C,o. Oregon-Amcrican Lumber Co., Vcrnonia, Orc.

Westem Lumber Co. West6r, Oregon

So. Crlif. OEco LOS ANGEIJS

397 Pacific Elcstric Btds.

Bnrcc L Brnlingare PLo TUctc 5t?r

RED CEDAR SHINGLES

SAGINAW BRAND

QUALITY

UNSURPASSED NOT COOKED TO DEATH

Goaorel OGce SAN FRANCIIICO St. Cleir Bld3. 16 CelifornL St.

KILN DRIED FIR

PERFECTLY SEASONED

WON'T DEGRADE IN THE YARD OR ROT OR SHRINKINTHE BUILDING

.August L5, t928 THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT
..SUDDEN
SERVICE''

J. R. HANIFY co.

Lumber and Shipping

Manuf acturers-Whohcalerl Rail and Cargo

?/l Market Street

Lor d,ng€ler Oftce

522 Ccntral Building

Douglas Fir

San Francirco, Calif.

Portland O6ce American Bank Bldg. Redwood Spruce

Members California Rcdwood Agociation

Philadelphia Lumberman Visits Redwood Sales Company Group of Mills

v W. N. Lawton, Philadelphia lumberman, of the Lawton Ilooring & Shingle Co. of that city, recently drove to Eureka over the Redrvood Highway in company with Fred V. Holmes, Holmes-Eureka f,umber Co.. and Charles S. Dodge, E. J. Dodge & Co., visiting en route the mills of the Redwood Sales Co. group.

A stop was made at Benbow's Hotel, near Garberville. In this splendid new hotel practically all the wood used is Redwood, and the Eastern visitor saw some beautiful examples of Redwood interior finish.

/ While at Eureka a meeting was called at which 27 heads 'of departments of the various mills of the Redwood Sales Co. attended for the purpose of discussing the problems involved in Eastern shipments of Redwood lumber.

After a very fine dinner at the Eureka Inn, the discussion turned to the question of how to irnprove, if possible, the methods of handling Eastern carload shipments, and how to enhance, if possible the reputation of "sequoia Brand" products.

Mr. Lawton stated that it is only necessary for Redwood lumber to become more widely known in the Eastern territory, in order that present sales may show a laige increase', and he predicted a big sale for California Redwood in the near future in that territory. He has become so enthused over the possibilities of the future of Redwood, particularly of "Sequoia Brand" products that he is going to represent the Redwood Sales Co. in the Atlantic Coast territory.

Those present at the meeting were as follows:

Lloyd P. Luther--E. J. Dodge Company.

T. H. Nelson-E.J. Dodge Company.

Alden Ball-Dolbeer & Carson Lbr. Co.

W. Larson-Holrnes Eureka Lbr. Co.

A. C. Nelson-E.J. Dodge Company.

T. W. Hine-Holmes Euteka Lbr. Co.

D. E. Holcomb-The Little River Hwd. Co.

John E. Suminsby-The Little River Hwd. Co.

J. Rafter-The Little River Hwd. Co.

Chas. S. Dodge-E. J. Dodge Company.

P. J. Rutledge-Dolbeer & Carson Lbr. Co.

A. Johanson-llolmes Eureka Lbr. Co.

Magnus Rudd-E. J. Dodge Company.

G. S. Kunkle-The Little River Hwd. Co.

E. J. Stewart-Dolbeer & Carson Lbr. Co.

E. Areklett-Holmes Eureka Lbr. Co.

L. B. Graham-Dolbeer & Carson Lbr. Co.

G. E. Knab-The Little River Hu'd. Co.

C. A. Moore-Dolbeer & Carson Lbr. Co.

G. C. Malcolm-Holmes Eureka Lbr. Co.

D. MacCormack-The Little River Hwd. Co.

G. McKinnon-Holmes Eureka Lbr. Co.

H. E. Newell-E. J. Dodge Company.

W. H. Dalton-Holmes Eureka Lbr. Co.

W. N. Lawton-Philadelphia, Penna.

Fred Holmes-Holmes Eureka Lbr. Co.

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W. R. GHAITIBERLIII & GO. Wholesalers of Douglas Fir and Redwood GARGO and RAIL Dirtributing Agente tN OPERATING STEAMERS Southern Califoruia
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ROY E. JAMES VTSTTTNG MrLLS

Roy E. James, Secretary of the W. E. Cooper C-ompany, Los Angeles has been visiting the spruce mills in Washington and Oregon.

BALES VISITS NORTHWEST

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W. A. Bales, manager of the McKinnon Lumber Yard, at Hollister, California, has returned from a trip to the Northwest. He made his vacation trip by auto, and took his family along. They visited a number of the big sawmills of the Pacific Northwest.

H. A. HANSEN VISITS REDWOOD TERRITORY

H. A. Hansen, of Monterey, California, owner and manager of the Union Supply Company, of that city, recently made a two weeks'vacation trip into the Redwood territory of Northwestern California. He made the trip by auto, accompanied by his family. He visited a number of the big Redwood mills.

STOLE LUMBERMAN'S CAR-GOT PINCHED

Arthur Hayward, of the Homer T. H4yward Lumber Company; Santa Cruz, California, went to Salinas to a rodeo, and someone stole his car. It was finally found by the police in San Francisco, with two young men from Colorado driving it. The thieves and the car were brought back to Salinas.

LUMBERMEN VISIT COLORADO

Mr. and Mrs. Homer T. Hayward, of Santa Cruz, California, are spending the summer in Colorado. Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Griffen, of the Homer T. Hayward Lumber Company, recently drove to Colorado to visit them, and will bring the Haywards' son back with them.

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SHEPARD VTSTTS BAY DTSTRTCT

Shepard, Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento, was a Bay District visitor August 3.

LLOYD HARRIS BACK ON OLD TERRITORY FOR SHORT TIME

Lloyd Harris, Holmes-Eureka Lumber Co., San Francisco, spent some time recently calling on the trade in the upper San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys, in place of Harvey Isenhower, who was working temporarily in the Los Angeles territory. Lloyd says he enjoyed this new contact with'many old friends very much indeed.

PORT GAMBLE LUMBERMAN VISITS CALIFORNIA

Tom Kattell, superintendent of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.'s mill at Port Gamble, 'Wash., was a recent visitor to California, making the company's offices his headquarters while in San Francisco. The trip was really a second honeymoon trip for Mr. and Mrs. Kattell, who will celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary very shortlv.

AL NOLAN SPENDS WEEK rN SAN JOAQUTN VALLEY TERRITORY

Al Nolan, assistant 'Western sales manager, The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, spent a week recently calling on the trade in the San Joaquin Valley, while Hugh Alderman \nras on vacation.

J. E. COOL ON AUTO TRrP TO CANADA

J. E. Cool, accompanied by his wife and family, traveled by automobile last week to Vancouver, B. C.. where Mr. Cool attended the meeting of sales -attagers held there August 10. Mr. Cool is western sales agent of the Central Coal & Coke Co., with headquarters it Portland.

EWAUNA BOX CO. ORDERS HILKE PILER

Ewauna Box Co., Klamath Falls, recently ordered another Hilke Piler from Murry Jacobs Company, Seattle, distributors of this machine, to replace one which was burned in the recent fire.

sAN FRANCTSCO JULY CARGO ARRTVALS

Fir cargo arrivals at San Francisco during the month July totaled 49,345,000 feet, and Redwood amounted 23,223,OA0 feet.

SAN FRANCISCO PERMITS

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Five hundred and seventy-four building permits with an estimated value of $2,930,836 were issued in San Francisco during the month of July.

OAKLAND BUILDING PERMITS

Oakland building permits for the month of July totaled $1,381,908. The number of permits issued was 443.

FRED ROTH BACK FROM EASTERN AND NORTHWESTERN TRIP

Fred Roth, sales manager for J. H. McCallum, San Francisco, returned July 31 from a three weeks' tfp to eastern and northwestern points.

Fred was the guest of Melvin M. Riner, Supreme Senior Hoo Hoo at Kansas City. and also visited Hoo Hoo Headquarters in St. Louis. He is loud in his praise of Henry Isherwood's hard work on behalf of Hoo Hoo, and of the efficient manner in which the headquarters offices are conducted.

He returned by way of the Pacific Northwest, visiting Westport Lumber Co.'s mill at Westport, Ore., and the mill of the Prouty Lumber Co. at 'Warrenton. He also spent a full day at Longview, visiting the plants of the Long-Bell Lumber Co., where he found the Grainart department particularly interesting, and expects to push the sale of Grainart products in the San Francisco territory.

While in Portland Fred made his headquarters at the offices of Dant & Russell, where Bill Russell asked particuarlv to be remembered to all his California friends.

CHARLES GARRISON IN NORTHWEST

Charles Garrison, manager of the Two Rocks Commercial Co., Two Rocks, accompanied by his wife and two children, recently made an automobile trip by. way of the Redwood highway to Portland.

Mr. Garrison visited most of the Redwood mills. and a number of the Fir mills along the way.

FRANK

. Frank Adams, Eastern sales manager of The Pacific Lumber Company, with headquarters at Chicago, has been spending a few weeks on the Pacific Coast, visiting the company's operations at Scotia, and the San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.

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The average lumber merchant could get rich selling kitchens alone, if he went at it right. No foolin'.

Of all the changes that have taken place since Noah built that single'windowed Ark and kept all the living things of the world in it for several months, right down to the beautiful, stepsaving, ventilated modern home-none have begun to equal the change that has taken place in the home kitchen.

It has, by reason of the most remarkable evolution, become a thing glorified. No longer is it an humble room of stove, sink, table and cupboard. Go through the attractive nBw home, which shows the last word in type, style, layout, finish, decoration, lighting, ventilation, equipment and general attractiveness, and what room- is it that catches and holds the attention today more than any other?

The KITCHEN! Every time!

Wonderful in scientific arrangement you find it. Every location carefully planned. The stove, the cabinets, the built-in holders of everything from pots and pans to eatables, the ironing board, broom closet, cooling closet, wonderfully arranged and equipped sinks, a place for everything with the least possible room, a thousand advantages and helps that the old-time kitchen never knew, dl beautifully done with attractive wood and tile and paint and enamel, remarkable as to arrangement and utility.

It is all planned and beautified to help the lady of the house-the real builder and user of the home. Throughout the land the idea of glorifying the kitchen has crept into everyrhome building endeavor, and this will continue as time goes on.

Mr. Lumber Merchant ! Walk into a kitchen like the one described, interpreted into details of your own. Be prepared to show it to the ladies of your town, either in picture orlin reality. Be prepared to sell them through the eyes. Of course, as you say, it's "llard to create a demand for lumber." But it isn't hard to create a demand for things like THESE that are made from lumber.

Plenty of people in your town don't know about modern kitchens. Are they learning from you?

flonest, if you sold all the kitchen equipment possible in your town this season your business would be prosperous, even though business in general might be, as you say-"Very quiet."

Why not prosper-and make friends-selling kitchens?

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on the Licensed Pioneer Shingle Application agent the latter accurately estimates the cost of the entire iob clos6 the sale for the dealet does the work guarantees it amangeo easy Pa''ments for the ownef.

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BIG HARDWOOD FLOORING BANQUET IN LOS ANGELES

A social event of considerable interest was staged at the Cafe Marie Louise in Los Angeles the night of Thursday, July 26th. It u'as a banquet given by the wholesale hardwood flooring yards of Los Angeles to their list of sponsored hardwood flooring contractors in that city. There are about 130 firms on the sponsored list, and these firms brought about 175 men to the banquet, which was a very delightful one. Charlie Cooper acted as master of ceremonies for the evening, and addresses were made by Kenneth Smith, of Los Angeles, Secretary of the local retail lumber and millwork groups, and by Col. Smith of the Better American Federation. The meeting was jovial in its atmosphere, and served to bring about better acquaintances and better feeling betrveen the hardwood wholesalers and the contractors, and between the contractors themselves.

B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the West Coast WESTERN HARDwooD LUMBER CoMPANY Lumbermen's Associatin, Seattle, rias the speaker 1t.a I toKES ovDER

special luncheon meeting called by the Douglas Fir Club, 1

San Francisco, July 13.

/ fhg famous old hardwood flooring yard of the National col. Greetey discussed the probrems of the industry, "naVHttdY:rtd".c:Tl1l.I' i" Los Angeles, is no more' The busiexpressed the belief that the newly organized association :.t^t:r"iLjl"^t-kt 5t" purchased by The western "Hardwiil receive the kind of co-operaiion "fro- its members ::rtd.*"i*l^t-:-T.o"ny' as announced some time since, which is vitally necessary for the working o.tt or trr.r" and the stocks were nlQved to the big western plant' probrems. ffi';::'1":3j i,"1il"'ii5il:i, ffi i?JiT;"T*"".,'it:J:"":t:

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Sends Out Trade Practice Agreement For Signature by Millwork Industry

Following close upon the heels of the splendid Trade Practice Conference of the Millwork Industry which was held in Chicago, May 15th, 192f., at which more than 84 per cent of the entire industry was represented, the Federal Trade Commission has mailed to the millwork concerns of the entire country an agreement, which, if signed and filed with the Commission, obligates the signer to join the other signers in abiding by the rules that were drawn up at that conference.

The agreement is as follows:

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION.

in one order and at the optio-n of the shipper are moved as one shipment."

Rule 6-"Price Discrimination" (freight and drayage).

"As the failure of the industry to adopt uniform practices with respect to re,quiring purchasers of millwork products to pay transportation and trqcking charges has inevitably resulted in unfiir price discrimination,-the allos'ance.of transportaiion or trucking chirges on,products. sold on f.o.b. mill Sasis, or if such products are soldan a- delivered basis transportation charges to be piid by the consignee, the allowance of_ transportation or trucking charges in excess of the actual amount of such charges is an unfair trade practice: Provided. however, ttrat nothing herein slrall be construed t-o prevent the pay- ment -by the seller at his option of trucking chaiges within 'ciiy limits."

Gentlemen: Millwork Industry

Washington, D. C.

In consideration of the aban{onment by others in the industry of practices covered by rules adopted in resolution form at the Trade Practice Conference held by th-e Federal Trade Commission for the millwork industry at Chicago, Illinois, May 15, 1928, and for the prlrposi of placing as near as may be all in the industry on an equally fair competitive basis, the undersigned hereby subscribes to, and the undersigned and such gthers as now have subscribed or in the future shall subscribe, hereby mutually agree to abide by said rules, copy of.which has been received and read by the undersigned.

(Name qf Company)

(Name atrd titlg of officer signing)

(Address- of Company)

Date:

The rules which this refers t9 have been arranged in two groups: Those under Group I ari affirm-qtively approved by the Commission; those under Group II are accgpted by the Commission as expres'sions of the trade.

GROUP I

Rute l:-"Inducing Breach of Contract".

"The wilful interference by 4ny person, firm, corporation or association, by any means or d-evice whatsoever, with any existing contact betwegn a manqfacturef and a wholesale distributoJ, or any other party, or between a wholesale distributor and a retail distributor, contractor, ionsumeg, or any other party, in or about the production, manufacture, tranqportation, purchase or sale of any millwqk product, or the perfgrmance of any contractual duty or service connected therewith, such interference being for the purpose or with the effect of disgipating, destroying or appropriating in whote or in part the patronage, property or business of another engaged in such industry, is unfair trade practice."

Rule 2-"Misbranding".

"The marking or branding of ,products of the millwork industry for the purpose or with the e$ect of misleading or deceiving puichasers with respect to the quantity, quality, grade or substance of the goods purchased, is an unfqir trade practice."

Rute F'Fraud and Misrepresentation".

"The sale or ofiering for salg of any product of the millwork industry with intent to deceive customers or prospective customers as to the quantity, quality, substance or size of such product is an un- fiir trade practice."

Rule 4-"Secret Rebates".

"The payment or allowance of secret rebates, refunds, credits, or unearned discounts, whether in the form of money or otherwise, or extending to certain purcha-sers special services or privileges not extended to all purchasers under like terms and conditions; is an unfair trade practice."

Rule S-"Price Discrimination" (selling prices).

-"Any discrimination.in price of millwork pioducts between purchasers of the same class, not including disCrimination in prici on account of_the difference in gra-de, quality or quantity of the-product sold, or which makes only dug allowance for difteience in tost of selling- and transportation, or discrimination in price in the same or difrerent communities not lnade in good faith- to meet comoetition, where the effect of such discrimination may be to substantialtv tessen cor;rpetition or tend to qreate a monopoly, is an unfair tradl practice: Providcd, however, th-at nothing in thil resolution shatl be constru€d'to prevent the publication and use of a special ouantitv price applicable to a definite quantity of goods which are- placei

Rule 7-"Price Discrimination" (packing charges).

"$_s-packing charges are nec_essarily reflected in price, and as the variable practice on the part o-f sellers of millwork- products of re- quiring purchaser-s-in some ingtanc.es to pay published charges for packing is an unfair trade pragtice."

GROUP II

Rule 8-"Guaranteed Prices" Qrgainst decline or advance),

"Thc sale or offering for salg of any prodpct of the millwork industry under qny fgrm of gua-rantee to the purchaser or proposed purchaser ?gainst both advance and protection against dlcline in the price of the said product, is an unfair trade practice,"

Rule 9-"Anti-Dumping",

"The practice of certain manufacturers and wholesale distributors of shipping considerable quantities of surplus stock into territories o'lside_their-particular marketg, and of selting such stock at prices below the qrices established for their own territories, seriouslylends to demoralize the market for millwork products within the territories -into which shipments ar-e made, disrupts normal competitive conditions throughout the entige industry, and is condemned as an unfair trade practice."

Rule lfDefinition of a "Quatified Distributor".

"The industry hereby recor{s its approval of the definition of a gualified whole,qale distributor gf millwork to be one whose principal business is selling millwork to the retail distributor, carriei a well selected stock of merchandise, buys in suitable quantities, warehouses a reservc stock for retailers within a radius of economical distribution and convenience of service, resells in proper units to the retailer as economicalty as possiSle, assumes the credit risk and iuch othtr.obl.igations as are incident to the transportation, warehousing end distribution of sash, doors and millwork,'r

Rule ll-"Terms of Sale". :

. "Ttr. industry hereby recordg its approval of the practice of makilrS ^tl!9 t€rms of sale a- part 9f all published price schedules, and the failure on the part of wholesale distributors br manufacturirs to strictly adhere to such terms of sale and enforce cotlection under suc_h, shall be termed an unfair trade practice.',

Rule l2-"Distribution of Price- Lists".

.'The industry hereby recordg its approval of the practic{ of dis- triluting and circulating to the entiie industry curient price lists and all notices of advance or decline in pricei made by-any individual distributor or manufacturer, either by the individuit distributor or manufacturer or by the association or group her may be identified with."

Rule l3-"Arbitration".

..."Th9. industry hereby re-cordg its-approvat of the practice of hanoung crsputes tn a tatr and reasonable manner. coupled with a soirit oJ m.oderation a-nd go-od will, and every efroit should be maaC Uv the dispu_tants-themselves to arrive at an agreement. If unable to do so,, arbitration under some one of the pr&ailing codes shoutd be lgre-ed upon, -as at all times pleferable to titigatiSn with its iostly handicaps and delays."

Rute l4:"Selling Without Specifications".

"The acceptance by wholesale distributors and manirfacturers of contracts for the sale of miltw_ork to deaters or wholesale aistribu- tors of- this product without stltement of specifcations, afiordi oo- porLunity for the reje-ction of such contracls by the piocn .Jis 6" d-eclinc- of price, -provides an artificial stimulus to the industry throueh the-.cxistensc of Iarge-numbers of unconfirmed contracts, with r:e- sulting enhancement of prices to consumcrs, and constituies an un- fair trade practice: Proyided, ftowever, that'nottring tiiE, stiit dl co-l-strued to_ prevent the acc€ptuce of contracts for the satc of miltwork under the terms -oi fhich complct" spc"ifii"tfii ;ili t; furnished within ten days froni date of e':cecution."

30 T,HE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT August 15, f928

LITTLE POEMS ON HOMES

Hearts and Homes

The roses dream of the dawn-light, The river longs for the sea, And for aye the birds are singing, Of nests in the wild-wood tree' For the roses the dawn-light's splendor, For the river, the curling foam, For the bird, a nest in the wild-woodFor the human heart-a HOME.

Seeking a Horne ' A restless breeze goes straYing, Across the landscape fair, It whispers in the tree-toPs, It searches here and there. It rustles through the grasses, It flies across the fenIt cannot rest until it finds, The little homes of men.

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Rule l5-"Definition of Qualified Manufacturer"'

"The industry hereby record.s its approval--of the definition qf- a oo"tinia marruf-acturer -of sash,' 'doors -and miltwork,to. be one who sells to qualified wholesale distlibutors and to the-legrtmate retatl trade in not less than cartoad lots, at a reasonable drtterentlal ln ;;i;; ;;;t the price at which th-e wholesale distributor is sold by the manufacturer,"

Rule lL"The Principle of a Reasonable Differential".

"Recognizipg that the expens.e of manufacturing,-selling and transoortins miltwort< products is appreciably higher for small-quantlty ltin i6r laige-quantity lots, and'ilrat the failure to apportion to each shipment oimillwork its correct proportion of such expense necessaiily it cr.ases the cost of other shipments, -the millwork indrrstry tiriirv records its approval of the principle of a reasonable differential iri prices in the-siveral lypqt q"! tharacters of sales."

Rule l7-"Adherence to Published Prices".

"WHEREAS, It is the general practice of sash, door .and mitlwork distributois to issue priqi schedules from time to time, such schedules presumably representing their selling- price.on give-n qu-a.1tities for ihipment io the destination or territory indicated, while as a matter of fact, in many iSrstances the sole purpose of s,ending out such schedules is with the idea of gathering in such orders as may come from the unwary buyers and trusting customers' at the same time making secret priceg to favored buyers and,competitors' customers in the way of r-ebates and supplying certain items at cost or tess, special cash discounts and gifts and many other unbusinesslike methods in order to'efiect the sale:

"WHEREAS such practices are discriminatory as between purchasers and encourage dishone.sty on the part of salesmen and the public, and should be condemned by other reputable merchants:

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Mcnrbcr California Rcdwood Areociation

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..THEREFORE, RE IT RESOLVED THAT:

n'The members of the Millwork Industry, whil-e maintaining.abs"tute lre.aom in the issuance of price schedules from time to time, in ionformity with the establis-hed trade ,practices, -do adopt as a cardinal printiple that there s!!ll be no discrimination as between o"i"-tiri.rr of like amount and Conditions in the same territory,--and itrii *f,it. published prices are issued by a-ny member, same shall set toritr ptainti the pricC and termg and conditions, and that such pub' iirti-a-pii".t shali truly represeirt the sales price in atl cases where the co6ds sold and the quantities and conditions and terms are set fortfr- in the consignor's curregt price schedule, and any deviation from the principle expressed herein shall be deemed an unfair trade practice."

Rute l8-"Uniform Contract".

.,HEREBY BE IT RESOLVED THAT:

"A uniform sale contract bq made applicable between manufacturers and wholesale distributols and wholesale distributors and reiait- ai"t.rs. Terms of sale to qpply as published by manufacturers and./or wholesale distributors."

We cater to the small yard-----

And the smalter deaters have found out that our service to them is REAL SERVICE. Our quick shipment of anything and cverything for the building tradc by car or truck makes it possible for the small dealer to Srve tip-top. service to his trade, and yet keep down his invcstment, his insurance and his ovcrhead.

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT 3l August 15, 1928
F. If,. WOOD LUilBEB CO. "Goodr
of 6c Woodttt (Coeilrr'tO
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Forest Service Figures on Timber Resources

of the West

Just how much merchantable timber there remains in the West is a subject of intense interest to the lumbermen, not only of the West, but of the entire world, because this last great stand on the American continent must be the source of lumber supply on which the western world will depend for years to come..

So the following table, prepared by the Office of Products, IJ. S. Forest Service, Portland, Oregon, and believed by that office to be the closest actual compilation of the sort so far made, is of great interest. It is, as noted, divided into states, districts, and species, and will furnish the lumber student much food for thought.

Merchantable Timber Stand of West, fncluding Alaska aad B. C. M Feet Board Measure

Simonds Saws Exclusively at Great Plant at Lon$view, Washington

The biggest sawmill institution ever built by man is the great two unit plant of The Long-Bell Lumber Company, at Longview, Washington. Here stand side by side two great sawmills that manufacture from a million and a half to two million feet of lumber DAILY.

Naturally the saw equipment for so vast an institution, with its great planing mills, box factories, remanufacturing mills, etc., is a tremendous one.

The Simonds Saw & Steel Company of Fitchburg, Mass., with offices and distributing warehouses in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, announce elsewhere in this issue of The California Lumber Merchant, with pardonable pride, that this great milling institution uses Simonds saws exclusively, from the biggest bands to the smallest circulars,'and the finest resaws. All Simonds. This is a complim.ept indeed from a great milling concern.

18,865,67

LUMBER LEADERS MEET AT VANCOUVER UNDER AUSPICES OF HOO-HOO

One of the most important meetings of lumbermen ever held in the Northwest convened at Vancouver, B. C., August l4th, under the auspices of the Vancouver lfoo.Hoo Club.

Dr. Wilson Compton, secretary-manager, and John M. Gibbs, director of the trade extension department, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, both of Washington, D. C.; Snark of the.IJniverse James M. Brown; Co. W. B. Greeley for the West Coast Lumbermen's Association; and the trade extension managers on the West Coast, including A. C. Horner, San Francisco, and S. V. Fullaway, portland, attended.

The meeting, which was arranged by W. H. Crowe, president of the Vancouver_Hoo-Hoo Club; A. F. ("Sandy,,) McDonald, former member of the Supreme Nine, and Col. h-*.r("!Ioo_t Mon") Lightbody, former Vicegerent for Victoria, B. C., took up, ?mong other things, thi splendid opportunity before the lumber industry of tiking advantage of the co-operation of Hoo-Hoo in the promoti,on of wodd use.

32 THE CALIFORNIA LUMsER MERCHANT August 15, 1928
(Liboceilrus
(Pints
(Chamae
Redwood (Sequoia senPervirns) Sitka Spruce (Phea itchmsis) Sugar Pine (Pinus lambertiaao) Western Hemlock (Tsga heterolhilla) Western Red Cedar (Th*ia rlicata)'Western Yellow Pine (Pi**s poaileroso)'Western Larch
(Lai* occ*lentalis)White Fir (Abiec) Western White Pine (Pints morticola) Miscellaneous Total California I Oregon 39,1t4 5,797 587 .toJ 8,609 5,818,1 t,737 2 2,433,1 75,549 4,457 21,21 7,4 2,1 395. 77,7 Total Western I Alaska States British Columbia 4,055,735 75,972,723 58,898,605 r04,t7 456,767,14 42, 19,s42,874 2,000,m0 64,111,998 77,968,629 4,207,924 3,151,788 3.2,953,362 2,69g,g4o 787,949
(Piceo ngelmatnii) Incense Cedar
de*ne*s) Lodgepole Pine.......
cntorto) Port Orford Cedar ...
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30,678, 9,07 4l Lt,861,2U2 1,737 70, I 1,127,891 | 18,51 1,000 16,165,345 34,361,1 86,601,
August lS,1928 ,fHE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT 3t lMort4thrgotfrryberTl, useSimond,sSails,kclttsiaely ! Chicago, Boston, Detroit, ;l IIL Mass. Mich. F\A SAWASTEEL UD,,,s,gffr,f,llx^" Seattle. Wash. Montreal, Qtre. Vancouver, B. C. Toronto, Ont. St. John, N. B. New York City New Orleans, La. Lockport, N. Y. Memphis, Tenn. Portland, Ore. Atlanta. Ga. San Francisco, Cal. London, England, Los Angeles, Cal. ;::::;- ffi ,',::T::':;- 1: *'rtiffil:J: \*fi*ffi lpng$er& Plents LonCvieru Washin{ton EqurlpedwithSim&ds Study of Costs proved to them that it pays to use SIMONDS Band, Circular and Cross - cut Saws exclusively.
invite YOU to write us about SAWS.
We respectfully

California Leads Lf. S. in Air Transport Development

California is setting the rest of the U. S. a merry pace in its patronage of air transportation. Note these interesting facts:

In 1927 the airplane service that connects Los Angeles with Catalina Island carried one-fourth of all the air passengers transported in the entire United States. And not an accident in three years.

For several months past big air ships are giving regular and exact service daily between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The fastest non-stop train requires twelve hours between these two cities. The planes guarantee to deliver you in three hours, and in the months they have been operating there have been only two late trips recorded, once eight minutes, the other, twelve. Frequently they make the tfip 25 minutes inside of schedule. They serve a wonderful luncheon on the ships.

Los Angeles far eclipsed the rest of the world in its patronage of air mail service in 1927. The per capita use of air mail that year in Los Angeles was four times that of any other city or district in the United States, and twelve times greater than the New York City per capita patronage.

Dependable and efficient air passenger service between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City has been in continual operation for three vears. Plans are perfecting at present for

fast service like that between Los Angeles and San Francisco to connect these cities with St. Louis, Chicago, New York and across the south to El Paso, San Antonio, Ilouston and New Orleans. One of the Los Angeles-San Francisco planes would easily travel from Los Angeles to Ffouston between daylight and dark.

Not only are plans being made but investments are already being made on the theory that within ten years by reason of air transportation business people in Los Angeles and San Francisco will make their homes one hundred to two hundred miles away, and commute into town like they now come five to fifteen miles.

In the true flying sense, "It won't be long now."

MUTUAL PROFIT

Never waste a man's time by proposing to sell him somethingiin which there is no profit for him. Unless he wilt be the gainer by patronizing you, you had better not make the sale. I "He profits most who serves best." You must give before you can,get. If you give worthwhile service, you will get three-fold the returns.

Skirt Boarde (Ironing)

Sleeve Boards (lroning)

Ironing BoardsCollapsible with atand Cabinet

Specialties made of wood

Pitcher Sliding Door frames and hangers

Pacific Five-Ply (Redwood Core) Wallboard

Built-In Fixtures (Complete line)

Kitchen furniture (Caaes and cabinets)

Kitchen tables

Tanks

Pipe, continuous stave and machine banded

Portable houses

Log cabins

Parlc benchec

Cross Arms

Tent polea

Flag polea

Paatry boardg

Bread boarde

Breakfast scts

Card table scrvice trays.

34 THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT August 15,1928
IN ORDER TO ACQUAINT TI-IE LUMBER FRATERNITY WITH THE RAMIFICATIONS AND SCOPE OF OUR MANUFACTURING ACTIVITIES, WE MANUFACTURE AND SOLICIT INQUIRILS ON ANY PHASE CONNECTED WITH THE FOLLOWING COMMODITIES:
NATIONAL MILL AND LUMBER COMPANT, Dept. of Tilden Lumbcr and Mill Company 4OO Hish Street :: :: Oakhnd, Calif. Thc Fmtcy Bchlnd tha Goodr.

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Stayrng theMofM/

Fire knows no law. By naturc it is like the wild beast thag without reetraint, delights to destroy and devour its uneuepecting prey, or like the hardened criminal who, without a bat of the eye or a tinge of remorse, plungee a dagger into the heart of a hclpless victim. Juet as we have learned to guard against wild beaet and murderer, so must we, by fire prevention, stay the destroying hand of 6re.

It ie the business of the Agsociated Lurnber Mutuals to help their policy holders; 6rst, in 6re prevention, and second, in prompt payment for losses. We give the cooperation of expcrts to reduce riskg and prevent 6res. When 6res do come, our resourcea and repution guarantee fair adjustments and prompt eettlemcnta. Through our dividends, which rcprescnt a saving of about 40%, the best ineurance a lumberman can buy ie actually furnished at lowest coet.

Any of our comfunies will be gl:ail to tell you about our fire preaention service, the full coverage of our policies, and, the sazting in cost efrected by our iliztiilenils.

ASSOCIATED LUMBER MUTUALS

Northwcrtern Mutual Firc Auociation, 6f Scattlc, Warh.

Pcnnrytvanie Luuibcrmcnr Mutull Firc lnrurrncc Co- of Philadclphie, Pa.

Ccntral Menufacturerr Mutuel lnrurancc Co, of Vrn Wcrt, Ohio

Iodiena Lumbcrmcne Mutual Inrurance Co, of Indianapolir, Ind.

Thc Lumbcr Mutuel Firc lnrurencc Co., of Borton, Mar.

Thc Lurnbcrraenr Mutual Inrurancc Coof Manricld, Ohio

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SITKA SPRUCE

Spruce, one of the world's most unique and valuable woods, useful for aeroplane and other construction purposes to a degree approached by no other species, is one of the greatest, but not one of the most abundant, woods of the west. Government figures show just 2,6rr,330,000 feet in Oregonr 8,472,161,000 feet in $Tashington, and none in the other western states. British Columbia, Canada, has 16 billion feet, however, and our great territory, Alaska, has l l billion, a total of only 29 billion feet of this wonderful wood left in the west.

36 THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT August 15, L928

Vtctor Hishuay Aduertising

N the support of Vctor and Hydro-Plastic dealers in the State of California the Southw€stern Pordand Cemetrt Company has taken up an ambitious prografir in outdoor advertising. These boards are of the peflrranent type and fully 2O alu.'ady adorrr highways up and dovrn the coast and on dl main roads leading to Los Angeles. ft is our intention to

acquaint the public with the unusual qualities of Victor Hydro-Plastic Water?roofd Cement. The cement working trade is well advised of its easy plasticity and smooth workability, but we wish to stress and impre* the public mind with the inherent and peffianent waterproof qualities which solve many important problems in California construction.

Deolers and contractors, watch the results of this carnpaign

The public is going to CALL for Victor Hyd,ro-Pla^stic

605 II. TY. Heltnan Bldg.t Loc Angelesr Gelltornla

August 15,1928 THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT
SOUTHVE$FRN PORTLAND"CFMENT COMPA

NO MISTAKE

"Are you positive," inquired the attorney, "that your husband was home with you the night this crime was committed?"

"Efen he wasn't," replied Mandy, "Ah done busted a rollin'pin ovah some innercent man's haid."

THE EFFICIENT MAN

The efficient Jman is a type, not an exotic. Like a diamond he is discovered, not thrown up by the sea-

He bears rleither reference nor credential, but his own personality

He is willing to learn, being naturally a better listener than a talker.

He is a good leader because he knows how to follow.

He does not mistake his learning for wisdom; his eloquence for philosophy; nor his clothes for his individuality.

He is willing to go slow, but he will not stop.

Circumstances neither overwhelm nor uproot him, because he is master of himself.

He accepts conditions as they are, and sees men as t'hey are.

'Whenever there is a choice he takes sides; but nerrer resists natural law, nor presumes upon his own infallibility.

He wins because he is..right rather than luckyi and his victories-they are permanent.

-Wade, of Fort Worth.

THE FIRST COMPANY

In a recent examination in the American Institute of Banking, one of the questions was: "Who formed the first c-ompany?"

A certain bright young banker was a bit puzzled at this, but was not to be floored. IIe wrote: "Noah successfully foated a loan company while the rest of the world was in liquidation."

BUT THE MALADY LINGERS ON

"So you had an operation. What for?t'

"Three hundred dollars.t'

"No, no. I mean what did the doctors take out of you?"

"Three hundred dollars.t'

"You donnt get me. What did you have?"

"Three hundred dollars."

"Oh, I see. I was just wondering." A Good Laugh Aids Digestion.

HE WON IT

At West Point there is a timely custom of presenting a loving cup to the officer of the corps who has the first baby after graduation. One of the cadets was graduated one year and forthwith had a pair of twins. He was given two loving cups.

A sweet young thing was visiting his home, saw the cups, and remarked in an enthusiastic way: "Oh, Lieutenant ! I didn't know you were an athlete."

MEANT THE SAME THING

"I wants to be procrastinated at de next corner," said the colored passenger.

. "You want to be what at the next corner?" asked the puzzled conductor of the car.

"Doan lose yore tempeh," said the colored one, philosophically; "de dictionary says procrastinate means 'put off'.tt

THE BEST GIFT

.

I gave a beggar from my little store of wealth, some gold; He spent the shining ore and came again and yet again, Still cold and hungry as before.

I gave a thought-and through that thought of mine, He found himself, the man supreme, divine, Fed, clothed, and crowned with blessings manifold; And now he begs np more.

A PAIR OF TIGHTS

Two Scotchmen took dinner together at a restaurant. After dinner the waiter brought the check. The two sat and talked for a couple of hours, after which conversation failed, and they merely smoked in silence. At I am. one of them got up and telephoned to his wife. "Dinna wait up any longer fer me, lass," he said; "it looks like a deadlock."-VVire and Pipe.

COAL

According to science, coal increases in quality with increasing age, and the longer it stays in the ground the better it is. No fuel like an old fuel.-Passing Show.

FOR LITTLE GIRLS ONLY

Mamma will tuck her little one in; Sleep now, my darling, it's good for the skin; And skin is important, for soon comes the day When baby commences her skin game to play.

Mamma will help you, mamma advise, Take the hard look away from your eyes; Mamma will tell het lamb what to do, Then Zeigfeld will come and glorify you.

Hofrenstein.

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT 39
COOLING TOWERS TANKS-PIPES THE LITTTE RIYER REDIT()()D CO. General Sales Office: Financial Center Building, San Francisco Sales Offices: Los Angeles New York City Endeavor, Pa. Ffavana, Cuba Amsterdanr, Holland Mills at: Crannell, Calif. Fairhaven, Calif. : ,Rail and Cargo PIC.T,JPS IN LCL FROM FOLLOWING POINTS FRIEND & TERRY LBR. CO. Sacramento TTIE tITTtE RIVER REDWOOD CO: Madera WIDE CLE^ARS OUR SPECIALTY
REDWOOD

n/tY FAVORITE, STORIES

Age not guaranteed-Some I have told for 20 years-Some less

SOME FOLKS DON'T LIKE CROWDS

The colored preacher had taken "Heaven" for his text this Sunday morning, and with unusual power and imagiqation he had for a solid hour pictured the Golden Shore, its wonders and beauties, and pointed out the delightful future that awaited the Faithful. Finally he said:

"And now, bredern an' sistern, all dose who wants to go to Heaven, please stand up."

Los Angeles City Hall

Everyone in the church got up except Brother Brown, who held his seat, while from all parts of the church curious eyes gazed upon him in won.derment.

The preacher fixed him with his very inquiring eye, and asked:

"Brotheh Brown, doan youall want to go to Heaven?tt "Yassuh," said Brother Brown, cautiously, "Ah wants to go to Heaven, a'right, but Ah doan wanta go wid no ercursion."

panel 9 feet high around the entire room and by the massive girders and cross-beams of the ceiling, which is entirely of California Redwood.

The painted decorations of the ceiling consist of various coats of arms and emblems placed at intervals, and borders and other compositions of 'color harmony.

Hand-hewn -beams, also of California Redwood, enhance the appearance of the four aisles adjoining the main rbtunda.

..THEY USED THE WRONG PHILIPPINE'' . SAYS B. W. CADWALLADER

"Every now and then we hear someone complain that they used some Philippine Mahogany and that in rubbing it down they couldn't run the 'fuzz' of.f of. it and also that it was so porous it consumed too much 'filler"', we told Mr. B. W. Cadwallader, of Los Angeles, the veteran manufacturer, importer, and distributor of Philippine hardwoods, and then asked: "Why is that ?"

The Los Angeles City Hall, dominating the skyline of Los Angeles, departs from the conventional public building both in exterior and interior design.

The style of architecture might be termed as Italian Classic and its majestic tower gives the modernistic impression.

As to the interior, probably one of the most unique and elaborately decorated rooms is the reception hall of the Mayor's suite (shou'n abcive) which with its southeast exposure has a nrost cheerful, restful and quiet environment.

This note is carried throughout the reception hall by a

"Simple enough," replied Mr. Cadwallader. "There are about two thousand varieties of hardwoods growing in the Philippines, of various characters, hardness, and quality. The people you heard kick simply used the wrong kind of Philippine. There is plenty of Philippine that will rub down withoat'fizzing', will not take an undue quantity of 'filler' and will take and hold a brilliint piano finish. But there is also plenty that won'.t. They must use the right kind for the purpose desired".

Which seems to us to be a perfectly reasonable answer.

L. A. GODARD RETURNS FROM NORTHWEST

Lewis Godard, Hobbs-Wall & Co., San Francisco, recently returned from a business trip to the Northwest, in the course of which he visited a large number of mills in Washington and Oregon.

40 THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT August 15, 1928

Grnde-marked doors

Tbe letters $m on Douglas Fir doors, madz fu member nills of this Association, protide arch,itects, d.eahrs, builden anl zsers with an aluiys auilable guaranne of qaalitl. It means that the offcial inspectors if tbe Vaien Dior Manufactarers' Ai6ciation baae insticte d tbe mana fact ure and irading of tbe prodact bearinrt this tradc noih, ood that iuch doTri nnfirn to tbe standard grades established by tbe Association.

Your sewices, integrity and good reputation are entitled to the fullest protection, so a statement to the buyer that your quotations arc ongrade-marked doors is a sales argument in your favor and a positive protection on your bid.

The millslisted belownow grade-mark the house and garage doors they make thus providing your customers with a guarantee of quality and a selection ofgrades most economical for their needs.

You will find that Douglas Fr grade-marAea doors will build up your door department on an increasingly profitable basis-a merchantable basis of qualiry identifud.

Any of the mills listed below will send you a copy of the grading rules adopted by the members of the r$Testern Door Manufacnrrers' Association.

Douglas Fir EiHitfr Doors

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\FESTERN DOOR MANUFACTURERS'ASSOCIATION /, TACOMA,VASHINGTON Robinson Mfg. Co. Everett, !?'ash. Clear Fir Lumber Co. . Tacoma,\ffash. Nicolai Door Mfg. Co. - Ponland, Ore. Bufielen Lumber & Mfg. Co. Tacom4 Wash. Washington Door Co. Tacoma, Wash. M. & M. Wood Vorking Co. Ponlan4 Qre. lc.heeler, osgood Co.- - Tacom4!7ash."", S$flCffJfiyttT*.-..."q"-iffil;or.r.jf.ot Door & Lumbei co.
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Treat your iob as a tonic-not an anesthetic.

Exchange Sawmills Offers Dealers Practical Sales Campaign on Ho$ Houses

With a very keen advertising department o-n the-jqb, The Exchange Sawmills Company-, of Kansas City, lVlissouri, manufadturers of lumber in the West and South, is getting out some trade promotion stuff for their dealer friends to use, that looks both interesting and practical.

During the last few years individual manufacturers have been trying hard to devise schemes for helping their dealer friends actually create business, and this concern seems to be on the right track.

Right now they have a very simple campaign hot ofi the bat and ready for dealer use, that looks very good. It not only should sell plenty of hog houses in agricultural districts, but should act as an opening wedge for the dealer to get more business by demonstrating his usefulness to his Irade. The hog house campaign is outlined and contained in a neat fol.dei sent out hy the Exchange Sawmills advertising department. It is simple, easily understood, and easily attempted. The folder shows briefly and directly what to do.

The Exchange Sawmills Company have prepared all the ammunition, ready for use. The dealer writes for the ammunition, and is told and shown exactly how to use it. They furnish him blue prints of three types of hog houses, 'with plans for selling them either of three ways' Ready Built,-Ready-Cut, or Ready-To-Cut.

The dealer has a carpenter build each of the hog houses, paint them, and display them in his yard. Then he has the iarpenter cut up a set of parts for three !_rore hog houses, maik them plainly, and tie them in bundles. This is the Ready-Cut. - The completed house first built is the Ready Built. Then the dealer still has the other way he can sell them, the Ready-To-Cut, namely, the lumber to build them from, and a stt of blue prints for the buyer to use if he wants to do his own cutting and building. He gets either hog house either of the three ways.

Then the dealer takes the material bills and figures what the stock costs, and determines his asking price on the Ready Built, and on the Ready-Cut, as well as on the regular lengths.

Exchange Sawmills also furnishes the dealer with an attractive circular with his name printed on the front of it, that goes with a good sales letter to a selected list of farm prospects, advising them of these hog houses, and the three ways they can be had. The folder shows the actual houses. The campaign manager then says: "Do a little personal advertising of this new plan, put a little enthusiasm and ingenuity behina the idea, and make an honest-to-goodness test for results. The plan is worth trying.

It looks splendid. bther things coulcl- certainly be sold the same way.

GRITZMACHER & GUNTON

Wholerderr

112 Market SL San Francirco

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Air and Kiln Dried Bevel Siding, Finish and Mouldinge

Common Boards and

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Personal Facts

J. D. TENNANT rS SAN FRANCTSCO VTSTTOR

Jolln D. Tennant, vice-president of the Long-Bell Lumber Company, Longview, Wash., was in San Francisco, luly 12, on the way back from a trip to eastern and southwestern points.

C. G. CORKRAN VISITS MEDFORD

C. G. "Jeff" Corkran, California representative of the Owen-Oregon Lun-rber Co., Medford, Ore., returned to his Sacramento headquarters recently from a visit to the company's plant at Medford. He made the trip by automobile.

DONOVAN LUMBER COMPANY MOVES OFFICES

The Donovan Lumber Company, Los Angeles, who formerly had their offices in the Edwards & Wildev Building, rnoved into the Petroleum Securities Building- August the First, a,ccording to an announcement of John Cusfiing who is the Los Angeles representative.

J. J. REA VTSTTS SAN FRANCTSCO

Jack Rea, Los Angeles representative of the Little River Redwood Company and W. R. Chamberlin Company, recently made a short business and pleasure trip to San Franclsco.

JIM TYRRELL BACK FROM CATALINA

- Ji- Tyrrell of McDonald & Harrington at Los Angeles has returned from a two rveeks'vacation at Catalina Island.

. BOX MEN MEET AT KLAMATH FALLS

The National Association of Wooden Box Manufacturers holds its annual meeting of its Pacific Coast Group at the Willard Hotel, Klamath Falls, Oregon, August 17-and 18, 1928. All the box men of the West are invited to attend.

BRINKER RETURNS FROM VACATION

_ N. Tt._Brinker, Director of Sales for the Los Angeles Paper Manufacturing Company, has returned from Jtwo weeks' vacation. Accon-rpanied by Mrs. Brinker, he spent some time at l.ake Tahoe and along the Truckee River. The latter part of the vacation was spent at Coronado and at Agua Caliente Casino l>elow Tia Juana. Horse and dog races, golf, fishing, lrunting and sight seeing via motor rvai enjoyed by the couple.

ERNEST JOHNSON VISITS CALIFO,RI\IIA

Ernest- Johnson, manager of sales for The C. D. Johnson Lumber Company and the Pacific Spruce Corporition of Portland, Oregon, was a recent business visitor in San Francisco.

G. C. CABLE RETURNS FROM VACATION

G. C. Cable, Superintendent of the Terminal yard of the Hamrqond Lumber Company, at San Pedro, recently returned from a three weeks' trip to the northwest where he rvent to visit the Company's mills.

BILL SAMPSON FATHER OF BABY GIRL

Bill Sampson, sales manager of the Hipolito Company, Los Angeles is the proud father of a baby girl, Joan Frances, born July twenty-fourth.

7 GUS RUSSELL'S MEN HEAR MASONITE TALK

" Gus Russell, of San Francisco. head of the Santa Fe Lumber Company, called his yard m.anagers and assistant yard managers together at Tracy, California, the.evening of August 8th, and gave them a dinner at Tracy Inn, while a representative of The Masonite Corporation explained the uses and sales opportunities for dealers in handling Masonite.

FRANK ADAMS VISITS CALIFORNIA

Frank Adams, of Chicago, Ill., Eastern Sales Manager for The Pacific Lumber Company, has been spending several rveeks in California. He visited the mills at Scotia, and called on the Pacific crowd at San Francisco and Los Angeles. Gus Hoover says Adams came to Southern California so that he-Hoover-could give him his instructions for the next year, but you can't always take Gus seriously in these matters.

GEORGE BERGSTROM IS SAN FRANCISCO VISITOR

George Bergstrom, Pacific Mill & Timber Co., Everett, was a recent visitor to San Francisco. He made the trip for the special purpose of meeting his company's Philadelphia representative, 'W. E. Lawton, Lawton Flooring & Shingle Co., who has been spending some time in Calirornla.

In "Robbins" Flooring you are assured of the very fineit that has gver been, or ever will be produced. Our geographical localion, the modern machinery in our mi[, and the type of men who make our fooring, all go to make this statemenlpog"&J.. "Robbinsl' Maple and Birch Flooring is the best.

Southern California

C. J. LAUGHLIN

5il5-O Petroleum Sccuritier Bldr. Loe Angclcr\l/Ertmorc ggSS

Northern Celifornia: GEORGE C. CORNITTUS Merchantr Erchangc Bldg, San Francirco

u THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT August 15,'1928
F4RonmrNslFuclonuNc ROBEINS ETOORTNG

Going and Coming

KOEHLER LAUDS RAINBOW TROUT ON MOUNTAIN VACATION

"Sometimes it pays to be a'doubting Thomas"' says 'W. B. Koehler, secretary of the Weaver-Henry Manufacturing Company, who has just returned from a two-weeks' vacation in the California National Forest, about 100 miles North of San Francisco.

The above temark was prompted when the genial roofing executive aroused the jealousy of the natives by pulling fourteen beautiful Rainbow trout from Salt Creek which stream the said natives had loudly and positively claimed contained none of the finny tribe.

Several limit catches were recorded by Koehler who steadfastly refuses to divulge the exact spot of his operations, all of which savors of a combination in restraint of something or other.

The catch in the supposedly fished-out stream should teach us, said Koehler, that business can often be secured where people say there is none to be had. The proper bait, plus a certain amount of skill, get the fish, he explained, and in business, the right kind of product, with intelligent merchandising, yields the results.

SPEND VACATION AT LAKE TAHOE

D. G. Isaacs of the Corning Lumber Co., Corning, accompanied by Mrs. fsaacs, are sojourning at Lake Tahoe. His son, Knirte Isaac and wife, have just returned from a tour of Southern Oregon and Northern California.

ATBION LUMBER CO.

REDWOOD

JOHN STROUD RETURNS FROM YOSEMITE

John A. Stroud, E. J. Dodge & Co., San Francisco, returned to his desk the end gf July from a vacation spent at Yosemite National Park.

w. J. coNRAD TAKES ArR TRrP

W. J. Conrad, Coos Bay lumberman, recently traveled from Roseburg to San Francisco on the West Coast Air Transport Co.'s eight-passenger enclosed cabin air- liner.

CARL BAUGH BACK FROM VACATION

Carl Baugh, in charge of the wholesale department at the L. W. Blinn Lumber Company, Los Angeles, has recently returned from a two weeks' vacation spent at his brother's camp in the Sierras near Bishop, California.

RAY C. ANDERSON LOS ANGELES VISITOR

Ray C. Anderson of the General Plywood Company, Seattle made a short business trip to Los Angeles, the first of the month.

HOWELL BAKER SPENDING VACATION AT BALBOA

Florveil Baker, President of the California Panel and.Veneer Cornpany, Los Angeles, has been enjoying a rest at his home at Balboa.,

w. J. coNRAD MAKES TRrP TO LOS ANGELES BY PLANE

W. J. Conrad of the W. J. Conrad Lumber Company, Marshfield, Oregon, manufacturers of Port Orford Cedar, was a recent Los Angeles visitor. Mr. Conrad made the trip down from Medford, Oregon by air plane.

F. A. WARNER VISITS LOS ANGELES

F. A. Warner, Vice President of the Coos Bay Lumber Company, San Francisco, spent a few days in Los Angeles recenlly conferring with Jack Thomas, Southern California representative. Mr. 'Warner was accompanied on the trip by his son, Eric Warner.

HOWARD GUNTON HAS NARROW ESCAPE IN TRAIN CRASH

Howard M. Gunton, member of the wholesale lumber firm of Gritzmacher & Gunton, San Francisco, is receiving the congratulations of his friends on his escape from serious injuly in the recent train wreck on the Southern Pacific line at Cortena, when the crack flyer, the "Cascade", crashed into the rear end of the Bar Association special train, at a speed estimated at close to 50 miles an hour.

Mr. Gunton sustained no injury with the exception of a slight abrasion on his elbow, and was one of the first men onlhe job to render what assistance he could to his injured fellow passengers, some of whom were in bad shape.

At the time of the accident Mr. Gunton was returning from a business trip to the Northwest, in the course of which he paid a visit to the operations of the A. F. Coats Lumber Co., Tillamook, Ore., for whose products Gritz' macher & Gunton are the California agents.

BERT NEYLAN IS BACK

J. R. "Bert" Neylan, Booth-Kelly Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned to his ofice August 6 from a two weeks' vacation spent in the Sdnta Cruz mountains.

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W. \,l/. WILSON FLIES TO LOS ANGELES

W. W.'Wilson, R. O. Wilson Lumber Co., San Francisco, traveled to Los Angeles recently on a Maddux Air Lines plane, on a business trip to the southern city.

F. DEAN PRESCOTT VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

F. Dean Prescott, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno, was a San Fraircisco visitor at the end of Tulv.

RUSSELL TRACY HAS VACATION IN REDWOOD EMPIRE

Russell Tracy, sales manager of the Friend & Terry Lumber Co.,.Sacramento, has just roturned to his desk from spending -his vacation among the Redwoods, making his headquarters at Eureka

MRS. M. E. THURMOND. TO BE MARRIED SOON

Mrs. M. E. Thurmond, who has been for some time a popular member of the office staff of the Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, recently resigned her position. She is to be married in the very near future.

FRED GOLDING GOES ON VACATION

Fred Golding of the Fred Golding Lumber Company, Los Angeles, has been enjoying a two weeks' vacation at Redwood and Portland. Mr. Golding will visit the mills while he is gone.

GENE DeARMAND GOES TO SAN FRANCISCO

Gene DeArmand who is with T. B. Flatten Company, Los Angeles made a short trip to San Francisco recently to see his brother who has been seriouslv ill.

VAL BASKETT MANAGER OF PHOENIX FIRM

Val Baskett, formerly of the Blue Diamond Company. Los Angeles, is now Manager of the Cooperative Builders Supply Company, Phoenix, Arizona, and is said to be doing very well.

ST. PAUL RETAILER MOVES TO LOS ANGELES

Arthur Ingvolstad, owner of 'the Ingvolstad Lumber Company, of St. Paul, Minnesota, has moved his home and family to Los Angeles, where he now lives at 533 N. Edenburg. He came to California seeking health for his wife, and reports her greatly improved in the California sunshine.

MONOLITH OFFICIAL GOES NO.RTH

H. E. Gardner, Director of Sales, Security Department, for the Monolith Portland Cement Company of Los Angeles, left Wednesday, August lst, for an extended business and pleasure trip in the Northwest. Mr. Gardner ex' pects to be gone three weeks, and will visit Seattle, Portland and other cities and districts in Washington and Ore' gon.

HOMER DERR AT SANTA CRUZ

Homer Derr of the J. M' Derr Lumber Co., Elk Grove, is spending his vacation at Santa Cruz. Ilomer usually spends a portion of his vacation hunting deer, but this year he is spending the full time at Santa Cruz.

RALPH DUNCAN ON VACATION

Ralph Duncan of the Merced Lumber Co., Merced, has been spending his vacation at Del Monte. Ralph is quite a golfer, and no doubt has been improving his game on the various fine courses on the Monterey Peninsula.

FRED BOOCK ON NORTHERN TRIP

Fred Boock, Gilroy Lumber Co., Gilroy, accompanied by his wife and family, recently returned from a vacation trip north, on which he took the opportunity to visit a number of sawmills. The trip was made by automobile.

HENRY L. KALVELAGE BACK FROM NORTHWEST

Henry L. Kalvelage, manager of the McCullough Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned from a business trip to the Northwest the end of July. The trip was undertaken mainly for the purpose of visiting the company's mill connections, Crossett-Western Co., Wauna, Ore., Robinson Mfg. Co., Everett, and Williams ,Fir Finish Co., Seattle.

HAROLD PLUMMER VISITS CALIFORNIA

Harold P. Plummer, Vice President of the Union Lumber Corqpany, of San Fraircisco, and manager of the Chicago office of that concern, has been spending his vacation visiting his family at Santa Barbara California. He also visited Los Angeles, San Francisco, and the company mills at Ft. Bragg.

46 THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT Aueust 15, 1928
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Up and Down the ^lrt Jtate

MONROE-ENGLES TO BUILD MILL ON NEW TRACT

' Monroe and Engles, Chico, California, lumbermen, have purchased all of the timber on the Pacific Investment Company's property which lies between Magalia and Paradise. The tract iomprises 2I2O acres. Logging has already !'en started and the timber is being hauled by truck to Red Bluff. However, a sawmill at Optimo will soon be ready for use.

EARL BOWE GONE TO NORTHWEST

Earl Bowe, District Manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association at Los Angeles, is in the Northwest, where he went to attend the midsummer meetings of the Board of Directors, Trade Extension Committee and the Representatives of the National Association of Wooden Box lVlanufacturers, *hich was held in Tacoma during the week of August 6. Mr. Bowe will also spend some time at the mills, which are closely identified with the Southern California trade, after which he will start on a two weeks'vacation.

JAFFRAY RETURNS TO DENVER

J. H. Jaffray, Manager of the Monolith Portland Midwest Company, at Denver, Colorado, returned to his home last week after a visit in Los,Angeles. Mr. Jaffray was in the Pacific Coast city for several days going over the preliminary marketing and distributing stiucture of the company with associate officials previous to the opening of the Laramie, Wyoming, plant. IIe reported to the Los Angeles general offices that splendid progress has been made in the erection of the new plant, and that the entry of the Pacific Coast company into the construction material field has been welcomed by architects, engineers, contractors and building material distributors in the Rocky Mountains and Middle West.

PATRICK RETURNS FROM THREE WEEKS' BUSINESS TRIP

Samuel C. Patrick, superintendent of agencies for the Monolith Portland Midwest Company, has returned from a three weeks' business trip to various offices of the company, including Denver, Cheyenne, Laramie, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and San Diego.

s. J. SHARP MOVES TO CALTFORNTA

Selwyn J. Sharp, of Portland, Oregon, has brought his family to Santa Ana, California, and may decide to make his home in this territory. For the past slven years he has been statistician for the Western Pine Manufacturers' Association, and is well acquainted with the pine industry of the West.

G. C. BURNETT IN SAN FRANCISCO

G. C. Burnett, Burnett Lumber Co., Tulare, spent a days in San Francisco at the end of last month. few

BLUE DIAMOND BUYS NEW PLANT

The Blue Diamond Company, Los 'Angeles,- has purchased the rock and gravel plant of 'the Cooperative Sand & Gravel Company, located between Hollywood and Roscoe and noted for its exceptional quality of plastering sand,

MARTINEZ BVTLDING NE\v OFFICES

The Martinez Lumber Company, Martinez, California, has started construction on their new office building. The new structure will cost around $3000.

ASSOCIATED ROCK COMPANY HAS HOUSE

The Associated Rock Company, Los Angeles, recently had a house warming at the opening of their new plant in the San Fernando Valley. The plant is located at Wentworth and Wheatland Streets on what is known as the Annette Kellerman tract and is said to have the finest deposit of rock in the valley.

\^|OOD BLOCK FLOOR USE INCREASES

, Figures issued by the American Wood-Preservers Association f.or 1927 show that a total of 13,853,817 square feet of treated wood block floors were laid in the United States in 1927. This was an increase over any previous year, and' was laid principally in factories, machine shops, printing shops, foundries, etc., where heavy trucking and heavy wear is required.

August 15, l9?3 THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT 47
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Arizona Oftce 209 Luhrr Bldg. Phoenix, Adz. THE L. \il. BLTNN LUMBER COMPANY It's OUR SATISFACTION when we PLEASE YOU with our PROMPT DETIVERIES MODERN EQUIPMENT for Y0UR CONVENIENCE KILN DRIED ROUGH CLEARS & WORKED FINISH ..OUR PRIDB' General Ofices: 2501 So. Alameda St Los Angelesl California lhone: HUmbolt 3770 Distributing Y.rd! ' Foot of McFarlend Avc. \ffilnington, C.lif.

Plans and Progress What Busy California Lumber Here and There Folks Are Talking About

ORGANIZATION WILL HANDLE WESTERN FOREST PRODUCTS TRAFFIC PROBLEMS

As a result of a conference held in Portland late in July, a permanent organization to handle traffic problems common to the forest products industry of six western states has developed. The conference was one of commercial !1affic men serving the industry, and was sponsored by H. N. Proebstel, Trafific lVlanager for the West.Coast Lumbermen's Association. The officers of the permanent organization to be called The Pacific Forest Products Traffic Conference shall be a permanent chairman, vice chairman and secretary and an executive committee. The members of the executive committee shall be chosen from the lumber association members, two from The West Coast Lumbermen's Association, and one each from the Western Pine Manufacturers' Association, California White & Sugar Pine Association, and the Western Door Manufactureri' Association.

N. L. M. A. OPENS TWELFTH FIELD OFFICE AT MEMPHIS

The twelfth of a series of field offices for handling its trade promotion work for the lumber industry has -iust been opened at Memphis, Tennessee, by the National Lirmber Manufacturers Association. It will be known as the Southern District and will embrace Southern Ohio. South9Il Indiana, Southern Illinois, Kentueky, Central and Western Tennessee, Central and Eastern- Arkansas, and the Mississippi River Valley. Walter F. Shaw has been named manager of the office which is in the Bank of Commerce Building.

ONLY WOODEN SHAFTDR CLUBS IN HOO-HOO GOLF TOURNAMENT

Sticking to the idea of promoting the use of wood, the Hoo-Hoo Club of Detroit, Michigan, held a golf tournament for its members and visiting lumbermen on July 24th, and permitted only wooden shafted clubs to be used in play.

HELD INTERtr{ATTONAL HOO-HOO MEETTNG

What was a genuinely international Hoo-Hoo outing was held on July 21st and 22nd on the Pigeon River, which is the border between Canada and the United States iust east of Duluth, Minn. The outing was sponsored by-the Duluth U. S. and Ontario, Canada, Hoo-Hoo Clubs. It was attended by 100 members.

BLAZE DESTROYS WASI{INGTON MILL

Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the sawmill of the Bloedel-Donovan Lumber IVIills at Skykomish, Wash., July 26, with an estimated loss of $50,000. The mill, which will be rebuilt, had an eight-hour capacity of 125,000 feet and employed I25 men.

OREGON HOO.HOO WILL BUILD MODEL HOME

To encourage home building and show what wooden homes can be, The Hoo-Hoo Club of Eugene, Lane County, Oregon, will build and display a model wooden home. Lane County is famous for the fact that it holds more standing timber than any other county in the United States.

RED CEDAR PATTERN 18'YEARS OLD IS AS GOOD AS NEW

The Capilano Timber Company. Ltd., North Vancouver, B. C., have on display in their sales office a large pattern made 18 years ago from Western Red Cedar that is as perfect in every way today as the day it was made. Various tests to which the pattern was submitted showed it to be absolutely true to its original form.

COURT HOLDS HARBOR LUMBER YARD LEASE TAXABLE

Judge Leon R. Yankwich, of the Superior Court of Los Angeles, recently handed down a decision holding the land which the San Pedro Lumber Company leases from the City at Los Angeles harbor, to be subject to taxation. The lunr,ber firm claimed they had been illegally taxed $10,578.80 taxes last year which they paid under protest.

A. G. VOLZ OF PLACERVILLE DEAD

Mr. A. G. Volz, manager of the retail department of the Beach Box & Lumber Company, at Placerville, California, died July % at a hospital in Sacramento, where he had been ill for a short time with pneumonia. Mr. Volz was a very prominent and useful citizen of Placerville, having served for years as a City Trustee, a member of the school board, and was very prominent in the business and social life of the town.

WALTER MANN

Walter Mann,68, veteran shingle manufacturer, who was manager of the Everbest Shingle Company at Everett, Wash., died suddenly at his home in Everett, July 25. He is survived by his widow and a daughter, Mrs. H. M. Rollins of Sacramento.

TACOMA LUMBERMAN PASSES ON

James Buchanan, 55, died at a Tacoma hospital Jnly 24. Mr. Buchanan, who was a native of Canada, came to Tacoma 30 years ago, and was president of the Puget Sound Lumber Co., and the Mountain Lumber Co. He was also associated with the Pe Ell Lumber Co. and the Skookum Lumber Co.

IT. B. MARIS PANEL COTTPANY

PLTrYOOD

48 TIrE CALIFORNIA LUMBER M.ERCHANT August 15, 1928
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OND MATCH COMPANY OPENS APIARY OFFICE IN. WAREHOUSE AND SALES LOS ANGELES

W. B. Dean, General Manager of The Diamond Match Company, and W. B. Dickenson, Manager of the Apiary Sales Department of the s_ame concern, both of Chico, California, where the Diamond Match'Company has its headquarters, came to Los Angeles recently to look into the possibilities of a Southern California warehouse and sales branch for their Apiary Department.

The prospect looked so good that Mr. Dean authorizes the announcement that they have made all arrangements for opening such a branch, and will have it ready for business by October l, 1928. They leased a desirable piece of ground at 1797 Pasadena avenue, on lJnion Pacific rails, and will immediately begin the erection of their warehouse, which will be ready by the date stated. Mr. W. B. Dickenson will take personal charge of the Los Angeles department and move his honre to this city, leaving his son, Roland V. Dickenson, as manager at Chico.

NEW BOOKLET ON INTERIOR FINISH

lMe have just received a splendid new booklet on Interior paneling from Mr. M. S. Munson, Advertising Manager of The Exchange Sawmills Sales Company, Kansas City. This booklet is made to fit the standard file and carries AIA file No. 19422. It contains 16 pages and cover and is attractively illustrated with examples of interiors done irr Knotty pine. It also shows illustrations of the common grades of Cal. Pine and quotes the grading rules for each. The technical information which it contains together with the beautiful illustrations of interior paneling will make it a most welcome addition to your files. A free copy may be obtained by addressing The Exchange Sawmills Sales Company, 10th Street & Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Mo.

THERE IS A REASON

Why the largeet mills are installing our IMPROVED AIR COOLED REFUSE BURNERS.

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The Diamond Match Company has for many years operated a wonderful factory for the manufacture of bee hives and apiary supplies at Chico. The hives are all made of Sugar Pine, which material is said to be better suited than any other wood to this use. The Los Angeles plant will not be a factory, but a distributing station. The bee hives and other accessories rvill be manufactured in the big Chico plant and shipped to Los Angeles for distribution.

It is interesting to note that the Los Angeles warehouse will be located right next door to the plant of the Southwest Honey Producers' Syndicate, Inc., where a new and modern honey packing plant has been built and placed in operatron.

SK ILSAW

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The saw you tal(e to the lumber instead of the lumber to the saw.

Built in sizes for all classes of work where a portable hand saw can be used.

Operates from ordinary light socket. Veight 1O to 26 lbs.

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HILKE PILER

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August 15, 1928 THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT
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M. N. THACKABERRY

This Column of "Wants" and "Don't'Wants" is fon The Fellow'Who Wante to Buy The Fellow Who Wanti to Sell The Fellow Who Wants to Hire

Ratet E2.s0 per coturnn dncf, The Fellow Who Wants to Be Hifed

r F'OR SALE OR LEASE

Lumber Yard and complete hardware store. New upto-date lumber yard and a number of exclusive old-time agencies. Reason for selling is that in six years' time we have ac.cumulated enough to retire on. Best chance in the state for a live man. Situated on main highway in a live town.. Address Box C-l12, care Calif. Lumber Merchant.

LUMBER YARD WANTED

Wanted-To buy a small size lumber yard in or around Los Angeles. Must be good location and a going business. A. Ingvoldstad, 533 North Edinburg Ave., Los Angeles. Phone WHitney 69,1O.

MONOLITH NEW PLANT NEARLY READY FOR ACTIVE PRODUCTION

Active production will soon be inaugurated at the new $2,000,000-cement plant of the Monolith Portland Midwest Cornpany in Laramie, Wyoming, according to Harry C. Gardner, assistant secretary and director of sales in the department of securities and investrnents, who has just returned from an extensive inspection trip'of the new properties.

"Few industrial concerns ever began their active careers with greater assurance of success and with stronger safeguards than surround the issue of eight per cent preferred itock, now being offered by this company," said Mr. Gardner.

"Our new plant is located on an immense deposit covering 2950 aires, declared to be one of the few natural

LUMBER SALESMAN WANTS POSITION

Lumber 'salesman w,ith experience in California, the Southwest and Middle West wants position as salesman representing wholesaler or mill. Will consider in either of these territories. Knows the manufacturing and selling ends of the industry and formerly represented large manufacturer for several years. Can give good refeences. Address Box C-n6. care California Lumber Merchant.

WANTED

Partner with $15,000 to $20,00G-Lumber yard-good location, San Joaquin Valley. Address Box C-N9, care of 'iCalifornia Lumber Merchant."

the widespread goodwill which has been built up over a period of years by the original organization.

"fts financial structure presents a new departure in the customer-ownership plan. Each stockholder is given the opportunity of retaining a permanent holding in the company if he so elects, besides receiving the regular benefits and returns that go with a substantial investment in a going concern, well and pro,fitably operated."

$5O,OOO SAWMILL BURNS

Maple Creek Lumber Company lost their sawmill, near White Salmon, Wash., by fire, July 27. Loss was estimated at $50,000. The fire also destroyed 200,000 feet of lumber, logs and other buildings.

LUMBERMEN ON SHRINERS' TRIP TO THE ORIENT

cement 'mixers' in the country. This means that it commands an unlimited supply 9f raw- material in -which are / Among those who sailed recently on the S.S. President combined all the essential ingredients for a high-grade lTatt on the Shriners'tour of the Oiient were Mr. and Mrs. cement. This deposit is close-to_the Wyoming coal field.s,{ f-erry W-hiting, Whiting-Mead Lumber Co., Los Angeles; insuring_extremely_che-ap fuel. -It is served_by the main Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Thompson, San Francisco, ani Mr. line of the Union Pacific, affording reasonable transporta- and Mrs. Henry Bode, Spring Valley Lum6er Yard, San tion costs. Electric power is also available at low rates, Francisco.

and right at hand is the bfeat market of the lntermountain States and the Midwest where ntlmerous highrvay, reclamation and general construction projects of vast proportions and involving large expenditures are being launched.

"Viewed through the eyes of even the most conservative investor, this company has been started with every factor of success in its favor. In the first place, while it is a separate, corporation, it is allied in the closet possible manner with the Monolith Portland Cement Company, a concern already well-established and prosperous.- Ii is under the same management, and can therefore profit to the fullest extent by the experience, ability and prestige of the elder company.

"Monolith Midwest will manufacture the same unique and superior products already well-known and widely d-istributed on the c,oast under the name 'Monolith Plastic Waterproof Portland Cement'and 'Monolith Regular Portland'Cement'. Its sales and advertising organizations are identical, given the new company the full benefit of all

HooHoo News

NEWEST HOO.HOO CLUB

The newest Hoo-Hoo Club in the United States was created on July 2lst at Lubbock, Texas, Seventeen kittens being initiated at the Con-Cat that started the hew Club. Walter Alderson was elected first President.

SAN FRANCISCO HOO HOO CLUB MEETS AUGUST 23

Oscar Johnson, secretary of the San Francisco Hoo Hoo Club, announces that the first luncheon meeting of the club following the vacation season will be held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, August 23.

(The Claring Hourc)
50 TilIE CALIFORNIA LUMBER M,ERCHANT August 15, 1928

G(D(DID 1umber Builds GO(I)ID Profits for:Yorr

St"tING inferior prod'ets, whether lumber or lapp-posts, builds neither confidence nor profils-i1 benefits neither buyer nor seller. Selling low grade lumber for high grade construction is like hitch. ing a one ton mule to a ten t6n l6sfl-neither fits rhe job.

Today, those who build are mindful of the advantages of quality building materials, whether it be in the construction of home, apartment, garage or barn. And on the retail lumber dealer rests the responsibility of supplying building products that will contribute towards perrnanency in build. ing-dti" is specially true in relation to lurnber.

Hamrnond policy is directly allied with quality in every product manufactured or sold under llarnmond super. vision. And back of that policy is a wholesale service that is distinctive in its advantages for the retail lumber yard.

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SK ILSAW

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IT. B. MARIS PANEL COTTPANY PLTrYOOD

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Plans and Progress What Busy California Lumber Here and There Folks Are Talking About

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Up and Down the ^lrt Jtate

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Random ltems-Mill Run

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ATBION LUMBER CO. REDWOOD

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Going and Coming

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Personal Facts

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Douglas Fir EiHitfr Doors

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Grnde-marked doors

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n/tY FAVORITE, STORIES

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Vtctor Hishuay Aduertising

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(r Stayrng theMofM/

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California Leads Lf. S. in Air Transport Development

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Forest Service Figures on Timber Resources of the West

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UNION D EP ENDABLE SERVICE

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Sends Out Trade Practice Agreement For Signature by Millwork Industry

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sales lor Pioneer Dealers! ours r Co., Inc.

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toc -a new worJ /n, ReJwooJ

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The Kitchen

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By the Way, Have You Heard That---j-)

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J. R. HANIFY co.

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Douglas Lumber Co. Has Attractive Yard at Phoenix, Arizona

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Mission Sarr Juarr Capistrano

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acbior What the 4,Square Franchise does for 4,Square Dealers

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YdP Sash Door and Mill Workers E. A. Nicholson

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with the Sash Door and Mitl Workers

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Larrick and His "Timber Tim" / Stores

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PAUL BUNYAI\I'S lOO PERCENT DOOR

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Thomas Barlow Walker, One of the World's Greatest Lumbermen Is Dead

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M AD ERA SUGAR PINE

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Random Editorial Ramblings

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THE CALIFOR}.IIA-'LTTMBER MERCHANT JackDionoe,prblisltu

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