UP AND DOWN THB STATE

NATIONAL MANUFACTURINC CO., DETROIT, OPENS OFFICE IN L. A.-MEILSTBUP IN CEAR,GE

The National Manufacturing Company, manufacturers and wholesalers of hard.wood and pine lumber, with headquarters at Detroit, Mich., have opened offices at 73L H. W. Hellman Building, Les Angeles, and. will specialize in Michigan, 'Wisconsin and Southerr hardwoods, aII hardwood. flooring and California white and sugar pine.

CarI F. Meilstrup, formerly eonnected with R. Hanson & Son, well-known Michigan lumber manufacturers and for the last two years with the Fred Golding Irumber Company, of Log Angeles, will have charge of the l-.los Angeles ofrice and look after the business on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Meilstrup has a wide acquaintance among the Iumbermen and his many friends wish him and his new connections all kinds of- success.

NEW BUSINESS A,T R,EDWOOD ITilLLS NEAR, R,ECOBD _CUT AND SIilPMENTS ALSO UP

Orders totaling 10,378,000 feet for fourteen mills make the week ended, August 19 the third largest in point of new business since the first of the year, accord.ing to reports of the California Redwood Association. The two periods when this volume was exceed.ed were the previous week ended August 12, and the week ended May.27, when new business totaled 10,397,000, and 10,717,000 respeetively.

Shipments for the week ended. August 19 by fifteen mills, increased. 2,000,000 feet over the previous week, or 7,885,000 feet, while production went up to 9,554,000 feet at the same mills.

BOTTS AND MoCOI{NELL ON BUYING TRIP

Among recent visitors to California were R,. C. McConnell of Philadelphia and Minor E. Botts of the Botts-DeSall l-rumber Company, Chicago. They eame to the Coast to buy lumber and. to get away from the comparatively hot weather of the East. Mr. McConnell returned home via the Northwest, while Mr. Botts stopped in Los Angeles and. other Southern California points.

Tie Boring Machine At Wilmington

The Southern Pacific has installed. a new boring and per- forating machine for treatment of railroad ties at its creosoting plant at Wilmington. The installation was made by D. W. Edwards, representing Greenlee Bros. &.Co. of Rockford, ql. It is the second of its kincl to be installed on the Coast, the other being at the plant of the Charles R. McCormick Lumber Company at St. Helens, Oregon.

PATTEN RETUN,NS FROM NOR,TEWEST

I{enry S. Patten, of the big Los Angeles firm of Patten & J)avies, has returned from a trip through the Northwest. Mr. Patten made the northbound trip by boat, shipping his car with him. He returned. by naehine all the way, stopping at various points of interest in British Columbia, 'Washingt?n, -Oregon, and northern California. He called on many of his friends in San Francisco on the way down.

IBA E. BBINT, MERCEANDISING ENTEUSIAST, . ON SW|ING.AR,OUND CIRCLE

Ira E. Brink, the enterprising manager of the Diamond Match Company's yard at Woodland, has just returned from a trip through the Midclle"West and South. He stopped at Los Angelep and San Francisco on his way home.

Mr. Brink is of the opinion that the average California yard is much more progressive and much more alive to the requirements of modern merchandising than the average yard that he observed on his travels.

Mr. Brink himself is an advertising and merchandising cnthusiast, and has installed many up-to-d.ate trade-getting ideas in his store at 'Woodland. In fact the Diamond Match Company thinks so well of his genius along this line that they have appointed him inspector of their big string of retail yards in northern California.

}IAR,MION ON NOR,TEERN TBIP

'W. F. Marm'ion, secretary and treasurer of the San Gabriel Yalley Ilumter Co., San Gabriel, has been visiting in San Francisco and vicinity for the last week or ten days. It is a combined. business and pleasure trip. Ife is inquiring into market conditions in the Bay dstrict.

OIJVE LU}IBER CO. IS IIEW CONCERN

The Olive Lumber Company is the name of the newest retail lumber enterprise at Olive, Orange county. The firm began business there some time ago under the name of Witwer & Gardner.

SACRAMENTO EAS GOOD BI'ILDING YEAR, Builcling records at Sacramento show that the present year is one of the qbst active in recent history. Permits for June, JuIy and August were greater than in the corresponding months last year. Aggregate value of new buildings this year to date approximate $4,000,000

OAIJFOBMA SIZES MAY NOT BE AFTECTED IITEOOVER, STANDARDIZATION PROGBAM

California lumbermen naturally are interested in the present movement, organizecl by Secretary Hoover of the Department of Commerce, to standardize sizes in lumber, for it is important to know whether the California sizes will be maintained or not.

Robert B. Allen, secretary-manager of the West Coast I.,umbermen's Association, who has been acting for the I)ouglas fir industry in the standardization conferences, advises THE CALIFORNIA ITIIMBER MERCHANT that thecluestion of sizes seems to have made less progress in the standardizdtion program than some of the others. He writes:

The simplification of nomenclature, equalization of grades and the grade marking of lumber are working out fairly well, but no such record has been made for sizes.

"Naturally the California trade will be most interestetl in a 13-16-inch board and a quarter off on two-inch dimension. What will ultimately be done with these sizes it is impossible to forecast at this time. "