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C. & O. OFFICIAI.S BACK FR,OU EITJOYABLE EISEINC TBIP IIT EIGE SIERBAS

W. C. Ribenach, president of the California & Oregon Lumber Co., together with W. W. Stout and Edward Tietjen of the s&me company, have returned. from a two weeks' trip in the high Sierras. At Sequoia National Park they were ouL fittecl with saddle horses and. mules to pack the camp outfit and supplies, also a cook to provide the eats; the party went over the John Muir trail.

The highest point crossed was Junction Pass, which has an elevation of over 13,000 feet, thence over Kersage Pass and down the eastern slope to Independence, where the eamping trip ended..

All are sporting a wond.erful tan, and are prononncing the fishing along the headwaters of the high mountain streams excellent.

Tenneseee Cedab Bates To Be Beduced

A 20-per cent reduction in the westbound rates on Tennessee cedar rwill become effective about September 30, under tarifrs just filect with the Interstate Commerce Compissio by the llardwood Trafric Association. Great quantities of't[is cedar are handled in California, and are sold. for closet linings, drawer bottoms, etc. On account of its peculiar aromatic qualities it acts as a preYentive against moths and other destructive insects.

BUSE NEW DI.A,MOND UATCE II]A'NAGEB AT ABTOIS

Roy Bush has been appointed manager of the Diamond Ilfatch. Company's yard at Artois, succeeding -llanager Webster, resigned. Mr. Bush has been with the Diamond organizaiion for several years. Ee was a salesman at the Esparto yard before going to Artois.

W. P. COOPER IJAVES EAMTY OTFICE AT L. A.D. R,. PEILUPS SUCCEEDS EIDI

W. P. Cooper, manager of the Los A-ngeles ofrice of J. R. Hanify & Co" has resigned, effective, Sept-ember l,--to go into the wlolesale lumber business for himself. IIe will oppn arr ofrice under the name of 'Wilfrecl P. Cooper Lunber Company and will setl red.wood, fir and other'Western woods. '

O. n. PhiIUps, who has been in the San Francisco ofrioe of J. R. Hanify & Co. for the Iast three years, succeeds Mr. Cooper. E. Ir. Beitz will continue as salesman in the IJos Anseles ofrice.

E. B. Cooper, brother of 'W. P. Coope-r, who has been manager of the Ilairify ofrice in Portland for several years,- has rJsigned. to beeome assistant sales manager for tle Brighton mill-s in Portland, and is succeeded by Martin Parelius.

HABRY PBOCr VISITS BAY DISTR"ICT

Harry A. Prock of the Harry 4. Prock Lumber Co' of Glenside, Pa., has been in the San X'rancisco clistrict for the last weel, buying lumber and getting acquainlled wit\ -tle trad.e. Tiris is I[r. Prock's first trip to the Coast. Alter completeing his visit in San Francisco he will go north to look'over s6me of the miII operations in Oregon and"Washinston. Mr. Prock is figuring on water shipnents, via the Pa]nama canal, to PhilatlelPhia.

I.I,MBER, IIANDIJNG RECOBD BBOTEN

A lumber handling record was established. at 1es Angeles harbor a few days ago when 1,650,000 feet of lumber was unloaded from the schooner C. A. Smith in exactly 17 hours. The cargo had been shipped from the nills of the Coos Bay I-,runber- Co. at Marshfield, Oregon, and consigned to the company at Los Angeles. The Coos Bay Lumber Co. ties all iis cargo lumber in bundles by means of chains, so when the vessel arrives at destination, it is hoisted out a bund'le at a time, 'so no time is lost in unloading..

A Good Slogan

" The Customer Must Be Satisfied " is the slogan of The Suarise Lumber Company, of Modesto, California, which is used on its stationery, checks, etc. Very good, incleetl.

GILL JOINS McCOBIIIICT STAFF AT S. F.

R. R. Gill, who has had charge of the local sales of the Chas. R. McOormick mill at St. Heleus, Oregon, has joinetl the San Franciseo stafr of the McCormick organization. Ee will call on the trade in the Bay district.

SOUTEER.N CALIFORMA EARDWOOD & ilFG. CO. TAKES CELOTEX AGENCY IN SOUTE

Mr. F. Morris, President of the Southern California Hardwood & Manufacturing Co., of Los Angeles, announaes that his firm has just mad.e a very valuable selling connection of which they are considerably proud. They have taken t4e agency for The Celotex Company, manufacturers of the newesl thing in waII boards, and are covering the territory of Southern California, Arizona, and. Nevada.

Celotex is the name of the product. It is a fibre lumber made from cane fibre in the south, and combines sheathing and insulating qualites. It is claimed for it that it resists the passage of -botU heat and cold' like a heavy w-oolen blanlet; sives fuel, cuts ofr street noise, gives a cool horrse in summer and warm in winter' It is laid directly against the studding, is light in weght, brt great in strength and tlurability.

It wili be sold exclusively by ,the Southern California Ilardwood & Manufacturing Co., in the territory mentioned.

WOODEF,"/AD EXEIBITS AT L. A. nXPOSITION

One of the attractive booths at the 1169 Angeles industrial exposition now in progress at Ex_position-park is-that.of the 'W-oodhead Lumbei company. It contains a splendid display of building ideas and pla1s, and is decorated with Leautiful colored. photographs of homes, hard'wood panels and other ornamental builcling material. A monsteg piece of clear red.wood, six feet wid'e, sixteen feet long and' two inches thick is one of the unique features. The booth is in charge of J. P. Canfield and A. V. Kleiner.