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.