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KERCKHOFF.CUZNER MILL & LUMBER COMPANY WILL MOVE GENERAL OFFICES TONEW BUILDING

The well known wholesale and retail lumber firm, the Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Company, of Los Angeles, are erecting a new and attractive- ol-frce building at theirbig r'etail yard at Macey and Alameda streets, and will move into the ne'iv quarters about the middle of September. They have always been located in the Kerckhoff Building, Sixth and Main; but are moving to get away from the heavy traffic of the congested district. All their general offices rvill be in the nerv building.

California Hardwood Men Will Attend National Meeting In Memphis

The annual convention of the National Hardwood Lumber Association will be held in the Peabody Hotel, Memphis, Tennessee, September 27th and 28th. It is understood that quite a number of California hardwood men will attend the conference. In Southern California, D. J. Cahill, President of the Western Hardwood Lumber Company, and Roy Stanton, President of the Pacific Coast Hardwood Association, have announced their intention of going, and there will probably be others from the South, as well as a North Texas delegation.

- CALIFORNIA TAKES 22.5 PER CENT OF WASHINGTON AND OREGON LUMBER

hccording to the Bureau of Railway Economics the states of Washington and Oregon shipped out 11,46O,05O,000 feet of lumber in 1926, of which 22,5 per cent went to California1. 12.5 per cent went to New York.

McCORMICK STEAMSHIP OFFICIAL VISITS SOUTH AMERICA

When the McCormick Pacific-Argentine-Brazil liner West Camargo sails from San Francisco, Tuesday, August 7th, on the first lap of her voyage to the East Coast of South America, she will have aboard as passengers Mr. R. W. Bybee, Manager of the Company's Foreign Department, and Mrs. Bybee. The vessel completely circles South America, proceeding direct to Buenos Aires via the West Coast of South America, through the Straits of Magellan, and from Buenos Aires to Montevideo, Santos, Bahia, Para, Puerto Columbia, returning through the Panama Canal.

Mr. Bybee u'ill interest himself particularly in the further development of Pacific Coast trade with the countries of Argentina, IJruguay, Brazil and Colombia, and for the last three weeks has been conferring Pacific Coast marketing associations, chambers of commerce importers and exporters, in regard to the investigations he will make.

REPORT EXPANSION OF' PHILIPPINE HARDWOOD DEPARTMENT

The Philippine Hardwood department of the Wheeler, Osgood Co. is showing a fine healthy increase in volume of business, according to Larue Woodson, San Francisco, Northern California representative of this firm. Considerable new equipment has had to be added recently in this department of the big Tacoma plant, to take care of the new business which is coming through the increasing popularity of Philippine Hardwoods for interior trim, doors, furniture making, etc.

B. W.CADWALLADER RETURNS FROM SEATTLE TRIP

B. W. Cadwallader, of Los Angeles, head of CadwalladerGibson Company, manufacturers and importers of Philippine Mahogany and other Philippine hardwoods, has returned from a business trip to Seattle.

George Ream On Vacation

George Ream, Manager of the Jobbing Department of the Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Company, of Los Angeles, is enjoying his vacation and will return to work September 1st.

R. L. REEDY IN PHILIPPINES

R. L. Reedy, sales manager of the Wheeler, Osgood Tacoma, left early in August for a business trip to Philippine Islands, which will occupy between three four months.

Homer Maris Snares The Wily Trout

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Up in the Feather River and at Lake Almanor, Homer Maris, the well known San Francisco'hardwood specialist, recently spent three weeks on a high mountain fishing trip. He sent a flock of big ones back to his office in San Francisco to sho.w that as an, angler he has lost none of his cunning, and brought back with him fish stories enough to last him until next season.