Frost Hardwood Lumber Co. Makes Addition To Yard

Culminating a twenty-five year period of continuous growth, the Frost Hardwood Lumber Company, located on Market at State Street in San Diego, last month completed its new yard addition, an outside lumber drying and ten feet in the rear, has been attained by using random width knotty pine boards, the edges unevenly bandsawn and the ends rounded, and assembled upright with random spacing. Finished in antique,colonial, a final rustic touch is storage yard which adds approximately 20,000 square feet to the plant.

Facing 18O feet on Market Street, State Highway 101 and one of San Diego's industrial thoroughfares,

No. and added by plugging each board with three-quarter inch black walnut. Along both fences run l0O foot signs made up of 42-inch laminated sugar pine letters painted a brilliant orange, which prove an effective advertising medium.

Added safety and convenience is achieved in the new plant by carrying the railroad siding within the yard and extending it nearly the full length of the plot. The present setup makes it possible to reach within 15O feet of every lumber pile in the yard. Twenty-foot alleyways with ample turning space are surfaced with decomposed granite, with water facilities installed for keeping the rolled surfaces packed.

This last addition marks the latest in a long line of improvements since Albert A. Frost, otvner of the Frost Hardwood Lumber Company, set up business a quarter of a century ago at the foot of 9th Street in San Diego. Tn 1923 Mr. Frost moved to his present location and constructed his present office and storage building. Later, an outside shed for drying was built.

Plans now under way indicate that Mr. Frost intends to carry his improvement schedule further with an electric loading crane and facilities to be installed some time next year.

Interior aiew of uarchouse showing one of the two truck lanes. nearly 300 feet toward the Embarcadero, the new addition has facilities for the ready handling of about one million feet of stock piled on concrete-supported bearings. A distin,ctive fencing arrangement, eight feet high in front, and

Wholesaling of hardwood lumber, flooring, plywoods, Sugar and Ponderosa pine is the principal business of the company.

Meryl P. Bennett is manager of the Frost Hardwood Lumber Co.

E. A. Richards

Edmund A. Richards, for eighteen years chief accountant for Paramino Lumber Co., San Francis'co, died in Oakland, August 2, alter an illness of several months. IIe was a native of North Dakota.

His first connection with the lumber industry was with the St. Paul & Ta'coma Lumber Co. about 38 years ago. About 1906, he transferred to the National Lumber & Box Co., Hoquiam, 'Wash., later going to their San Francisco office. In 1910, he was employed with Hi,cks-Hauptman Lumber Co., remaining until they discontinued business in 1913. He was the Receiver''s representative at Burns Mfg. Co. plant at Castella, Calif., and about t9l7 went into the lumber department of Oliver J. Olson Co., San Francisco, of which Frank Paramino was chief. When Paramino Lumber Co. was organized, in 1918, Mr. Richards went with him, remaining until his last illness.

"Eddie" Richards made friends of all those he 'contacted during his many years in the lumber and shipping industry. He was one of the little group, known as "The Three Musketeers", the others being Fred Brose of Chas. R. M,cCormick Lumber Co. and Walter Ball of J. R. Hanify Co., and every Monday found these old friends lunching together in San Francis'co.

He is survived by his mother, two sisters and a brother.

Back From Trip To Mills

E. W. Ilemmings, Los Angeles, was a recent visitor at the mills of the Swayne Lumber Co., Oroville; Feather River Lumber Co., Delleker, and Kesterson Lumber Corporation, Klamath Falls, which firms he represents in Southern California. He reports all the pine mills have good order files, and there is a scarcity of all items except No. 3 and No. 4 common boards.

R, A. FOBES IN NORTHWEST

R. A. Fobes, Alhambra, is on a business trip to the Northwest. He paid a visit this week to his mill, the Olympia \reneer Company, Olympia, Wash., which has recently been modernized and practically rebuilt.

After spending a few days at the plant, Mr. Fobes spent some time at the head office of the Pacific Mutual Door Company.

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Enlarging Office

The Sacramento Roofing and Insulation Service is enlarging its office at the Sa,cramento Lumber Company's yard. E. D. Weyand is in'charge of the omce, and has associated with him. Dick Beanblossom and Arthur Foale.

Opens Office In Seattle

C. I. Courtney, former manager of South Sound Lumber Sales, Seattle, has opened an office in the White-HenryStuart Building, Seattle, where he will condu,ct a wholesale lumber business under the name of the Courtney Lumber Company.