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CHANGE IN THE QUEEN CITY LUMBER CO.

Mr. Wm. G. McDavitt, formerly a partner in the Queen City Lumber Company, at Los Angeles, has been compelled by ill health to retire ,from the bus.iness, and has sold his interests to his former partner, Mr. C. E. Garrison, who will conduct the business under the name of the Garrison Lumber Company.

Stowell Smith Visits Kalamath Falls Mills

S. Stowell Smith, secretary-rxanafier of the Caiifornia White and Sugar Pine Association, has returned from a two weeks trip visiting the pine mills in the Kalamath Falls District. He reports that the pine mills are running to full c4pacity and that most of the mills are operating two shifts. He states that there is a big demarrd for box lumber at the present time. Mr. Sm'ith advises that the Siskiyou Lumber Co., at Jerome, California, will make extensive improvements at their plant this fall, at which time they will construct a new band saw mill. The Siskiyou Lumber Co., which is operated by the well known California lumberman, R. T. Buzard, are n.ow members of the pine association.

MILTON UPTZT-PN T.TACETTOTTING AT TAHOE

Mr. Milton Metzler, of the Miller Box & Lumber Company,'of Los Angeles' has been spending a most pleasant vacation with his family at Lake Tahoe.

Mr. Metzler has kept his Los Angeles friends informed of the wonders and beauties of this resort, by mrail, and is without a doubt having the time of his life.

Lumber Industries In Mourning Silence

Twenty-Five Hundred Sawrnills Observe Period of Silencc in Mernory of President Harding

Washington, August 1O:-Two-thou,sand-five-hundred of the greatest sawmills of America were silent all or part of today, and 300,000 employees paused in tribute to the memory of President Harding. Some of the mills were closed for the whole, some for half the day, and, at all the others the sirens sounded for a five-minute su,spension of operations at I p. m. central time, as the funeral cortege of the late president set out from the M'arion home for the tomb.

GOLDING LUMBER CO. TO REPRESENT ROBERTSON-HACKETT IN SOUTH

The Fred E. Golding Lumber Company, of Los Angeles, well known wholesalers of all lumber produ.cts have completed arrangements, whereby they will be the exclusive representatives in Southern California for the RobertsonHackett Sawmills Ltd. of Vancouver, B. C.

This company,.one of the largest and best known.mills in British Columbia, is cutting tremendous quantities of British Columbia Fir and Hemlock, and shipping tnto the California market on some of the Canadian Government Merchant Marine boats.

JONES HARDWOOD CO,MPANY LOCATED rN NEW OFFICES

The Jones Hardw,ood Company, formerly located at 16 California Street, San Francisco, are now occupying their new offices at their warehouse located at 485 Beale S'treet, San Francisco. At their warehouse, they carry a complete line of hardwoods, Oregon Pine panels and veneers. and Philipplne mahogany. Nelson E. Jones, president of the company and well known among the hardwood dealers of the state, states that his concern are now offering the trade an excelleht quality of Philippine mahogany and that he plans to carry a large stock of this material at his San Francisco warehouse. A. Schunamm, represen'ts the company, in the Bay District, and W. B. Jones covers the Valley territories.

NEW HART-WOOD BOAT ARRIVES FROM EAST

The Steamer "Pt. Loma," recently .purchased by thc Hart-Wood Lumber Company, ar1!r4ed at San Pedro recently with a cargo of general merchaqdise.

After unloading, she wi.ll be taken to-San Francisco for an entire overhauling, and will be placed in the -Iurnber seivice, running from the mills to Los Angeles Harbor.