Ten les of The Years Ago Today

From the ti Lumbet Merchant, August 1 5, 1924

California

In an editorial, "National Building Figures Surpass t923," Jack Dionne states that one hundred and sixty-five cities of the country reporting building permits for the first seven months of. 1924 showed an increase of. 6.4 per cent over the same period in 1923. He says the whole country is going to have a brisk building business this fall, and there is room for optimism.

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A new yard, the Community Lumber Company, has been opened at Baldwiir Park, on Covina Blvd. *ri+

The market report says that the California market is much better than it was thirty days ago and the general situation in the lumber business is steadily improving. ***

Frank Trower, in a letter to Jack Dionne, comes out strongly for Ben Woodhead for Hoo-Hoo Snark of the IJniverse. *,t*

Southern California building permits came back strong during the month of July. Los Angeles' permits jumped a nrillion dollars over June, totaling $L|,599,782. ,t ,F ,F

Hoo-Hoo looks for the greatest annual meeting in his' tory at Minneapolis on Septemb*er 8-9 and 10.

The Sunset yard at San Jose has been sold to the Tilden Lumber & Mill Co. of Oakland '

The Los Angeles Hoo-'Hoo baseball team was beaten by the Patten-Davies Lumber Co. team at El Monte on July 26 by a score of 15 to 12.

The Weyerhaeuser rrlbe, lo*nun, purchased 2,692 acres of timber land near Kelso, Wash., according to the County Auditor's offrce, where the transfer was made' 240,000,000 feet of timber was involved in the sale. The company has also purchased 300,000,000 feet of standing timber on the Toutle River. ,1. ,f +

The Whiting Mead Co. has added another feature to their customer service plan. They have installed a large fleet of passenger buses, each with a capacity of about twenty-people, and maintain a regular schedule for the cars running between their downtown Los Angeles store and their Vernon Ave. yard.

To honor the memory of Franklin K. Lane, former Sec' retary of the Interior, a redwood tract at Kettintelbe, Humboldt County, Calif., will be dedicated as the Fianklin K. Lane Memorial Grove*on*August 24.

S. H. Gowdy and Wm. Whitney, both former lumber- men from Kansas City, have started a retail lumber yard at Phoenix, Ariz.

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The O'Malley Lumber their Willcox yard to R. there. ,t

Co., Phoenix, Ariz., has sold G. Lewis, who operates a yard

The Pioneer Paper Company of Los Angeles reports a big increase in their export business. During the first seven months of 1924 they have shipped more than 50,000 rolls of building roofing and mulch papers to foreign countries' * rf*tf

In a letter received by T. B. Lawrence, Hart-Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, he upholds the statements made by Jack Dionne at a recent HooHoo luncheon when he stated that the time was past when lumber or any other product would sell itself and that real sales effort and real service were necessary to market lumber products.

San Francisco officials of the Coos Bay Lumber Co. visit Los Angeles to be present at the arrival of the company's new boat, the "Vulcan."

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The Christenson Lumber Co. oPens a retail yard at Ontario. ***

This issue carries a photograph and sketch of the Good Lumber Company plant at Byron, Calif. ***

W. M. Brown has been appointed Los Angeles manager of the J. R. Hanify Co. He succeeds D. R. Philips, who has joined the Hart-Wood Lumber Co. Los Angeles sales staff.

"And It's the Same Old Story," is an editorial Dionne on the retail merchandising of lumber. by Jack

The program of the Institute of California, Hotel. Santa Cruz, on lished in this issue. ** quarterly meeting of the to be held at the Casa August 22 and 23, 1924, is pub* Santa Cruz on August 23, *

State Hoo-Hoo meeting at promises to be a big event.

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Millwork Del Rey

Announcement was made of the sale of the Oakdale Lumber Co. at Oakdale, Calif., to the Tilden Lumber & Mill Co. of Oakland by A. F. Gilbert and L. D' Gilbert. W. H. Besecker will manage the yard. ***

A photograph shows how they handle large lots of lumber at the Valley Lumber Company yard at Phoenix, Ariz.

Farewell Party for "Frid"y"

Freeland

C. M. "Friday" Freeland, Chas. R .McCormick Lumber Co., was given a farewell luncheon party by his lumbermen friends at the Jonathan Club, Los Angeles, Tuesday, August 7, prior to his departure to San Francisco. "Friday" has been connected with the company's Los Angeles office for a long period, and is widely known by the retail lumber trade in the Southern California and Arizona territories. He has been transferred to the company's San Francisco office where he will be assistant to Guv E. Smith, general sales manager.

New Yard at lone

Ione Lumber Co. recently started operation at lone, Amador County.

The owner of the new yard is Henry Uhlinger, who for some years worked in the accounting department of the Coos Bay Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and was also for some time with one of the large retail yards in Los Angeles. He has been working in San Francisco for the last year, outside of the lumber business.

All of the lumber will be kept under cover, and all stock will be stood on end in the substantial building with concrete floor, 100x175 feet, formerly used as a flour mill, which has been acquired by Ione Lumber Co. A stock of builders' hardware and paints will also be carried.