PAUL BUNYAN SAYS:
"Buyera used to swamp out trails through the woodr to cabinr where mousetraps were made.
"Now dayr the moucetrap maker must furnigh the cheese and buy the miee."
Sell specialties to create NEW BUSINESS.
Buy small quantities, often at C^ARLOAD PRICES.
Keep fresh, clean stocks in all lines on a LOW INVENTORY.
Eliminate the higher urit cost-and handling from SMALL LOT BUYING.
Make every dollar of capital WORK OVERTIME.
LUMBER ITEMS, MOULDINGS, SASH, DOORS and SCREENS, PLYWOOD PANEIJ, Color Finished, Knotty Pine and other special styles.
LOG CABIN SIDING and LOG CABIN DOORS. Bright, clean, attractive CALIFORNIA PINE thoroughly seasonedA TRIAL CAR TODAY WILL CONVINCE YOU.
Our equipment for detail milling has again been enlarged. Close attention to quality of work and prompt, efficient service have made us many friends.
To buy trimor specialties kiln dried and milled by STANTON is your assurance of high quality and satisfaction.
Bookstaver-Burns Lumber Co.
Bootb-Kelly Lumber Co. ... .....34
Brown, Geo. C., Co. ...,.,....,..22
California Moulding Co.
California Panel & Veneer Co.
California Redwood Association
Celotex Company, The ..
Chamberlin & Co., W. R. '..25
Cooper Lumber Co., W. E. '., .26
'Creo.Dipt Company, Inc. .:..
Dall,as Machine & Locomotive Works. *
The lumber marker generally looks like it might take a definite turn for the better any day now.
Unsold stocks at the public docks at San Pedro reported last issue totaled 9r579rOOO f.eet. As this issue goes to priss the total is reduced to 811391000. Sixty-six vessels in the California service are laid up. The largest lumber carying California vessel, the Missoula, is in the Atlantic Coast trade for the time being.
Los Angeles building permits up to August 22nd, total f2r749r441. The total permits for July wete $317511072.
The last cargo arfival reports in this column were for the week ended August 8th. For the week ended August 15th the cargo arrivals in San Pedro were: 1O cargoes of Fir, 8r358rOOO Leet;2 cargoes Redwood, 8451000 feet; total for week was 9r 2O3rO00. For the week ended August 22nd, the totals were: 10 cargoes of Fir, 616811000 feet; 1 cargo Redwood, 400,000 feet; total 7,0E1,000 feet.
For the entire united States lumber producing industry lumber orders have forged slightly in the lead of production, due entirely to the gre dy decreased production.
The last report of the Vest Coast Lumberments Association at Seattle showed their mills to be operating 38.O2/s of capacity as compared with an avetage of 4l.3lVo of capacity
In the August news letter of the National City Bank, of New York, the following on cost of distribution is splendidly stated, and of interest to all distributors:
"Mu'ch comment upon distribution cost is made by persons who are fully acquainted with the conditions and risks involved, and who take the view that an unnecessary share of it is a kind of predatory toll exacted from the pioducer and consumer. The fact is that a rising cost of distribution is not. necessarily a measure of inefficiency of_ distribution agen,cies in any way, but may be simply an indication of the .increasing complexitv of the business and social organlzauon.
for the first seven months of this yeat, and with 59.80/s of capacity for the first seven months of 1930. This last report showed new business for the week to be about one per cent under production, with shipments 4/s above. For the entire year orders ate t.5/s above production, and shipmenb are 4.2/s above.
The last week reported by the Southern Pine Association showed orders 37/s above ptoduction, and shipments 39/s above. Yellow Pine production is now 54.44Vo below their tlreeye t a"vefage.
The Vestern Pine Manufacturers last weekly report showo sales and shipments both considerably below'prbduction
The California Vhite & Sugar Pine Manufacturers Association reports orders and shipments slighdy below production.
The Northern Pine Manufacturers Association, of Minneapolis, reports orders and shipments in excess of production.
The Flardwood Manufacturers Institute, of Memphis, sho-ns both otders and shipments to be far above production. So does the Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manufacturers Association 1f oshkosh' visconsin'
Continually decreasing production marks the entiie lumber industry. No price improvements are reported in any district or from any species. Price improvements would, of coufse, follow fast on the heels of any definite increase in volume of consumption of lumber, since lumber stocks are at a very low ebb in ihe hands of distributors the country over.
"In the handcraft days when communities produced most of the things they used, the cost of distribution was negligible, but in the most efficient specialized' organization, which adds to the general wealth by increasing the quantity and variety of production, an involved interchange of goods is necessitated. Varied raw materials are brought together from distant points and redistributed in finished form over a greater area and the service of more labor and capital is required."
Gentlemen:
That the entire lumber businerc frour manufachner to distributor needs asrirtance is an acknowledged facL ttUre Wood" her be€n and should be our battle cry, but here ir an rmusual fa"rhion of helping one lurnber EaDU: factwer-not by the use of wood, but by tte use of a certain brand of coal-that may appeel to you.
Central Coat & Coke Company ("4C") otwn raw millr in Oregon and Texar and coal minee in the Rock Spring IXdrict, Wyoming.
. In addition to their lumber, we are also rnarketing theh "PEACOCK" CoaL
If you are rtocki4g coalr-may we not have yorr orderr?
If you or your employeec rre using coalr won't you speciflr "PEAC@K" brand and urge your local ooal dealer to bandle ttir excellent coal-grnranteed to be ar dedrable in ite line I h "4C" lumber. By doing !o you are indirectly helping the hmbcr burines and the [.ord knorw thrt it necdr iL
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S^A.NTA FE LT,'MBER COMPANY, By A. J. Rurcell' lilalager.
Incorporated Feb. 14, 1908
A. J. ttGurtt Russellts Outfit
E:clurive Rail Reprerentativce in California and Arizona for Central Cral & Coke Co.
Oregon-American Lumber Co., Vernonia, Ore.
Exclueive Rail Reprcrentativer in Northern California for Creo'Dipt Company, Inc.
- North Tonawanda, N. Y.
So. Calif. Officc
LOS ANGELES
809 Pacific Electric Bldg.
Brrrce L Brrlingeme
Phme TUcker 2!19
General O6cc SAN FRANCISCO
St. Clair Btdg.
16 California St.
Bv Jack Dionne
Some philosopher of the present school is credited with the remark that "you can't be true to all your friends." He was speaking politically. He might well have said the same for editorial writers who really try to be helpful. Looks like you're always on someone's toes. The only way to escape it is to climb up high on top of the fence, and stay there, making noises like a resounding vacuum-every utterance predicated on policy.
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Somehow I have always entertained the deepest disrespect for that guy who "bends the suppliant knee where favor follows fawning." I'm afraid I'll never get mine that way. I don't subscribe in full to the old editorial adage of "Hew to the line, let the chips fall where they will;" nor to the philosophy of Emerson who said, "Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradicts what you said today." But I pity the man who, with an arsenal of ideas before him, and a conviction of good to be accomplished by placing truth on parade-fears to speak freely. If you don't like frank utterance on the lumber industry, DON'T read Vagabond Editorials. They try to speak true, and they try to speak fair-but they WILL speak.
The famous Southern *"t""*a Sam Jones liked to tell about the fellow who kept a bushel over his light until his light went out. Along came Sam and kicked over the bushel, and the man discovered his light out, and blamed Sam for putting itout. The light had been out all the time but the fellow didn't know it until Sam kicked the buShel over. ***
A friend of mine has a colored employe. He also has a sense of humor. The other day the colored brother was talking to his boss and he mentioned "the depression." My friend looked puzzled. "What depression?" he asked. The colored one stared at him in amazement. "Why boss," he said "h'it's heah now." {< :t t<
A lot of lumbermen have asked if this depression hasn't dammed up a huge volume of prospective building that must come later. No doubt on earth about it. But the way the depression has dammed building is nothing compared with the way the lumbermen have damned the depression. I've seen some that take all their exercise that way.
More and more frequently, as this cloud through which we have been fighting our way extends itself, I utter that prayer that I have voiced in this space before-"Oh Lord, give rne a sense of humor." Every day I need it morehave tried to use it more.* * *
Not long since I wrote an editorial that I egotistically thought was really a delicious piece of humor. So many people told me it was. And then I got a letter from a man I have never met but whose delightful correspondence I have long enjoyed, and he jurnped all over me with hobnailed boots, for that editorial. So now I'm wondering, has he an undeveloped sense of humor, or must I start branding rny intendea nlmo;ou; remarks?
Oh Lord ! Give us all a sense of humor for this trying period. Help us to meet our daily problems smilingly. For truly a sense of humor is the front and rear bumpers, the balloon tires, and the shock absorbers on the motor car of life. Without it we would shake to pieces in times like these' * * *
Old Father Time, whiskers and cycle and all, is the blX I am betting my money on at present. For Time is the great healer. He heals human woes, human troubles, human ills of all sorts-including panics and depressions. If we can stick to our jobs, do the best we can to keql our little end of the world moving, keep grinning, and keep believing, Father Time will do the rest. Every day he is bringing us nearer to the end of this business cloud., We don't any of us know when it will come, but we DO know that it WILL come-and we believe that it won't be long. ***
The eloquent advice of the late Robert J. Burdette fits well into these days. He advised all men to "think and do and journey but one day at a time-TODAY. Any trnan," he says, "can fight the battles of today. Any woman can carry the burdens of just one day. O friend, it is only when to the burdens and cares of today carefully measured out to us by the Infinite Wisdom and l{iSht that gives with them the promise,'As thy day so shall thy strength be,'we wilfully add the burdens of those two awful eternitiesyesterday and tomorrow-such burdens as only the Mighty God can sustain-that we break down. It isn't the experience of today that drives men mad. It is the remorse for something that happened yesterday, the dread of what tomorrow may disclose. These are God's days. Leave them to Him."
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thehome owner points with justifiable pride to his new oak floors he sees only their finished beauty. But behind the home-building scene must be both good workmanship in laying the dealer, the builder and the owner, for it sells and stays sold.
Efcctitc dcaler selling aids in oar seroice inclade literatare in lYe utoild like for you lo see for loarself bou zsefal tbey utould
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R. A. LONG BUILDING
color, slides and dealer cats. he to you-jzst uf;tc fol tbern.
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
since t875 Lambermen
bng-Bcll oak dooring bcrtr, in addition to itr own aamc, thc cm. blem-SOFI-thcbnodof South. crn Oak Floorin3 Induetricc' an asgociation to lromotc f.nc llooring through ad. verti6ing, reccatch rnd co-operationwithietail , lumbcrdcalerc. archi. : ' tect8, contractora ; ' andindividurl i,,. ' buildcrr.
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A famous lawyer used to say that the best way on earth to beat a tough lawsuit was to laugh it out of court. That's the way to handle this business depression. A recent issue of the Saturday Evening Post had a leading article by a famous New York stage comedian discussing present business conditions. He laughed them out of courl That's good medicine. It has a thousand times the effect of a serious discussion and diagnosis of the situation.
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.I think the movies have done some good work in this line also. No business in the country has been hit harder than the movie industry. But recently a number of good comedies have been made, exaggerating business conditions so that you roar aloud at seeing and hearing them.. There's no better way to cure this condition. Laugh at it, and we lose our fear of it. ***
For THIS is by far the rnost psychological of all the business depressions this country has known. In business depressions of the past money was scarce, and the necessities of life were scarcer. Today the banks overflow with money, and the necessities and luxuries of life exist in such
great quantities that they are generally credited-or c[rarged-with causing the depression. We've got everything on earth we need-and more. We have simply quit trading with each other. That's all. When we find that out, and start trading again,.the cloud will disappear in a hurry. That's why laughing at this situation can be effective. Because it's silly, anyway. * * *
I have before me a note from a distinguished lumberman. He ends up: "We have the sheriff on one side of us, and the Governmer-lt on the other. It's Hell if we do, and it's Hell if we dontt." * * {3
Correct. And we don't know which way to turn. 'We're in the fix of the countryman in the old days, who used to drive his team of oxen to town every Saturilay, get drrmk, and let the oxen pull him home sorne time in the night. One night he lay drunk in the bottom of the wagon, and the oxen after topping the rise to a down-hill haul for home, started to run. The wagon swayed wildly from one side of the road to the other. The jostling waked the farmer, who came to a sitting position, and shouted to his oxen: "Hey you Sam! H"y you Buck! Ge+if an5rthing."
1010001000 feet stocks of LJnceated and Creosoted LumberPiling-Ties--Cedar Poles and Postsare maintained
trade; the same in Wilmington and San Diego to adequately serve buyers in the region south of the Tehachapi.
Northern California Agents for Fir-Tex, the famous Pacific Coast-made Super fnsulating Board
Nails feel at home in the close fibre and fine texture of SHEVLIN PINE. They readily Pene' trate this wood, even at tlre very edge, without spliaing. The fibre closes in, grips hard and the nails stay put.
SHEVLIN CALIFORNIA PONDEROSA PINE AND SUGAR PINE IS MADE BYTHE McCLOUDRIVERLUMBER CO., McCLOUD, CALIF.
SHEVLIN PONDEROSA PINE IS MADE BYTHE SHEVTIN - HIXON CO., BEND, ORE.
WHERE TO BUY SHEVLIN PINE_
Shevlin, Carpenter & Clarke Company
900 First National-Soo Line Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota New York Sales Ofrce: Toronto, Ontario, Sales Ofice: Chicago Sales Office:
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VESTERN SALES OFFICE: 1030 Monadnock Bldg, San Francisco, Calif.
W. G. Kahman, Sales Mgr. - W. H. Nigh, Asst. Sales Mgr.
SOUTHERN CALIF. AND ARIZONA L. S. Turnbull,327 Petroleum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles, Calif.
TEXAS REPRESENTATIVES:
R. C. Callaway
- 506 First National Bank_BldgrTort'Worth, Texas
Continental Importing and Exporting Co. (El Paso and Vicinity) Mills Bldg., El Paso, Texas
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Charles R. McCormick, Chairman of the Board of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company, San Francisco, was born in Saginaw, Mich., which in the 80's was the home of the White Pine industry. with 90 sawmills located 91 the Saginaw River. His father located in the Saginaw district in 1850, where he was engaged in lumber manufacturing and the timber business foi a period of 40 years.
After attending the public schools young Charles made up his mind to learn the lumber business, and got his first experience by working in the sawmills in Saginaw. From here he moved to Ontonagon, on Lake Superior, Upper Michigan, where he went to work for The Diimond Maich Company, which owned all the mills there, and spent five winters scaling logs in the woods. In the summeri of each year he worked as a lumber inspector, loading boats for ports on the Great Lakes.
Having now obtained a pretty thorough knowledge of lumber manufacturing and of the timber business, he moved to Menominee, Mich., where he opened an office under the name of Chas. R. M,cCormick & Company and engaged in_the buying and selling of lumber. After Jpend- ing some time here he decided to go West, as he fel[ that with the fast rate at whi,ch the timber was disappearing in Michigan and Wisconsin, a much greater future should await him on the Pacific Coast. Ife moved to San Francisco in- 19O1, and became identified with the sales depart- ment of the Hammond Lumber Company, remaining with this concern for two years.
In 1903, with Sidney M. Hauptman he organized the firm of Chas. R. McCormick & Company on a niodest scale. Business expanded rapidly until it became necessary to enter_the steamship business, and these energetic young men leased the Bendixen yard at Eureka and built theii first steamer, the Cascade, in 1904. In the next few years the_.company built 25 wooden steamers, motor shipj and sailing vessels, and operated them successfully
As lumber and general cargo business increased in volume, $'ooden boats were superseded by all steel vessels, and today the McCormick Steamship Company operates 35 steel steamers. Operating Gulf -and Carribbean services, intercoastal, east coast of South America and coastwise vessels, the McCormick lines for the sixth consecutive vear !ay9 ha{ the largest number of ships sailing through the Golden Gate.
From a concern operating coastwise ships in 1920, the McCormick lines have grown until in 1930 their ships'car- r_\! 1.!6!,221 tons of general cargo and approximately 500,m0,000 feet of lumber.
The company has grown in other directions so that today they have four large sawmills with a capacity of 1,500,000 feet per-day, four logging camps with i capacity of. 25O,q90,000 feet per year, a large crebsoting plant at Si. Helens, Ore.; large interests in paper mills ind insulating board factories, broom handle plants, and extensive biomage glognds where an immense stock of piling and poles is ca1- ried. Lumber sales through the diiferent sales offices of the company reach the enormous total between 600 and 700 million feet of lumber a year.
In California the company maintains wholesale lumber yard terminals in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego, and steamship terminals at Seattle, Tacoma and Portland.
The Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company of Delaware was organized in 1925, consolidating all the subsidiary companies, steamship, lumber and other interests.
Mr. McCormick married Miss Florence Cole, of San Francisco, in 1906, and they have twq children, Florence and Charles R., Jr. Florence iecently graduated from the Castilleja School in Palo Alto, and Charles R. Jr., has just graduated from Yale, and will soon start to learn the lumber business from the bottom up, as his father did before him.
Mr. McCormick lives in Menlo Park. He plays golf occasionally, and is very fond of walking for exercise. He is a member of numerous clubs.
One of his recent promotional activities is a new lumber terminal on Islais Creek, San-Francisco. which when completed will be one of the most modern ind up to date terminals on the Pacific Coast, where the laigest lumber steamers will be unloaded at the rate of 1,000,0m feet a day.
Mr. McCormick has had.the h"ppy faculty throughout his successful career of selecting able associates, and he modestly attributes a great part of the success'of this vast enterprise which bears his name to the loyal efiorts of his co-workers.
INSULITE SALES PLANS for1e31 and1932 are all designed for the benefiit of the LUMBER DEALER!
POOKLETS, lolders . . numerous direct mail u campaigns. . . national magazine advertising. -. the full co - operation of an up - to - the - minute Engineering Department, supplying you with facts you should know about Acoustile, about Roof Insulation,Free Plans and Building Specifications Cuts that will help you sell more Insulite . motion picture slides . . booklets on "lncreasing Home Enjoyment," "Garage Problems," and "How to Brili " Comfo*able and Economical Summer Cottage"with hee building plans for each "Building Faim Profits," showing the uses and economies o[ lnsulite on the farm, etc.
All these and more. ' are covered in the Insulite Dealer Service. Not a hit-or-miss or slip-shod method, but a thoroughly complete dealer cooperation plan that gives you the infomation and help you want when You want it'
Let this wealth o[ power behind Insulite be the power of co-operation that builds more profitable ,.1", fo, you. V/rite today for our liberal dealer plan'
19OO Builders Exchange, DePt.66 | MinneaPolis, Minnesot'a OFFICES IN ALL PRINCICPAL CITIES
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Every 4-Squenr Dealer from @ast to coast knows some thing of the power of modern merchandising. He knows the sales-building advantages of 4-Squenr improved, Packaged Finishingltems. And he wants these same advantages working for him in the sale of items which represent an
even gfeatef percentage of total sales.
Now oolame items have been improved. With the introduction of 4-Squenr Guide-Line Fneurr.ro modern merchandising gets an even gteatet opportunity to become a working paftnet in lumber retailing.
Framing lumber, the bif gest volume item in the yatd,comes forward into the Quality Ater,where it joins 4-Squenr Packaged Finishing Items and other quality products to atttact, quality buyers and turn price buyers into qtrality buyers.
The time is ripe for
this expansion of the 4-Squenr Program- Architects, contfactofs, and financing ot gerizetions are rccognizing the need for assrrance of good, substantial construction to restore the public's faith in home building and bring residential coostnrction up to normal acl;ivity.
Now you, if you are e
4-Squenr Dealer, can step out at the head of this movement, offering yoru cu$omers framing and finishing lumber improved with ptacticil, advantages to assrue greater precision in use and greater cettaiflty of good construction. Now you can rne rclt and i se 6oTo of yoru community's home building lumber requirement s, sell this improved h'mber on its merits for the results 4-Squanr delivers, and rescue the bulk of your lumbervolume from the profitless, price -cutting competition which has been doing its best to ruin the retail lumber business
Are you familiar with all the profit-building advantages of the 4-Squenr Franchise? Ask the V/eyerhaeuser repfesentative or write the nearcst distriA ofrce.
4-SQUARE Guide-Line FRAMING ofrers yorrr customers
Practical Plus Values for Precision Constnrction
1 1 nationallt adaertised retail sales adoartages
I Squared Ends. Ordinary frami.
- lumber is nol squared on the ends, an must be trimmed fu hand oa the iob.
23*^u! Stsndard lpndthr. Ordi-
- n ry framing lumber is seldom exact standard length. Frequently it is overlength,.requiring hand trimming. Too otten lt $ sc2nt.
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- Gulde Ltnes- A revolutionary innovation in lumber are these accurate guides to p,recision.in placing, measuring, cuttmg anc trttrng.
/ Soasorled Sro@E- Ordinarv framinc t lumbet mev or mrv not be sers6ned. Td much of it'is "green"-totally uafit for use ln Sooc constructlon.
|i thgil.f.dlj{ec. The inscant you nanqle a Prece oI 4nquARE rr4mmg you know it is unlike any lumber you ever handled before. No sharp edgi. Easier to handle.
lR BeaaoF Appearance. Never before " have you seen structural lumber that hohs like the 2rccision building material this improved Framinq i"r. Properly surfaced on'four sides afteiseasonidg, it is clean, bright, goodJooking stock.
/ Marked lor Specler. The full.spe-. - cles nahe Pfrnteo on every Prece, Posruve protecuon aga[st suDstrtutron.
1p lt|arkod lor Grade-.The.full grade - name Drmted on every prece $ Dosluvc proof. ihe ,quelity specided and iaid for ts dcllvcrcd.
tll ftode-Marked. Every oiece bears u the nationally advertised Wirerhaeuser 4fCuen3 trade-mark for quick ideotificatioo and protection in buying.
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-" 4-SQUAf,f, l)ederr. The 4.Squenr Fraochise Sign is displaved bv'selected lumber mercf,aots wh6 hive rrbved their reliabiliry,end their knowleige of good lumDet and lts uscs.
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r- Ail thc spccific precision advantases ddmed for 4-Squeri Guid+Line Framins ere verified by the words "Weyerhaeuser Guerentced"'pinted oo cact ficcc. rlrt\
All thesc Plus Velucs havc beco qivco to Weycrheeuscr 4-Squelr Guidelinc Frlming at a ioct much lower than originally cstimitcd. The small additionel pice of this Framing is, coose' queotly, only a nbminal increasc ovi oidinary freming lumber of the semc grde and spccier.
PRECISION LUMBER trOR BETTER CONSTRUCTION
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Portland, Ore., Aug. l4.-Following a meeting of the Board of Directors of the newlv formed Western Pine Association yesterday, President g. W. Lakin announced the appointment of David T. Mason as Manager. Mr. Mason is nationally known in lumbering and forestry circles because of his close association with western lumber manufacturers and federal and state forest officials on forestry matters. He is the senior member of the consulting forest engineering firm of Mason & Stevens with offices in the Terminal Sales Building. Before coming to Portland ten years ago, Mr. Mason was in charge of the timber valuation section of the U. S. Bureau of Internal Revenue, Professor of Forestry at the University of California, and in various capacities was with the U. S. Forest Service in Montana and Idaho. His intimate knowledge of the problems of pine lumber manufacturers and timber owners in the western states peculiarly fits him for the work he will undertake as Manager of the Western Pine Association which is composed of pine lumber manufacturers located in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. The offices of the Association are in the Yeon Building.
President Lakin also announced the appointment of S. V. Fullaway, Jr., formerly Secretary-Manager of the Western Pine Manufacturers' Association, as Secretary of the new organization.
Members of the Board who were present at yesterday's meeting were: B. W. Lakin, McCloud River Lumber Co., McCloud, Calif.; J. P. McGoldrick, McGoldri,ck Lumber Co., Spokane, Wash.; J. P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr., Potlatch Forests, fnc., Lewiston, Idaho; C. L. Isted, Shevlin-Hixon Company, Bend, Ore.; Geo. W. York, George E. Breece Lumber Co., Albuquerque, New Mexico; J. D. Tennant, Long-Bell Lumber Co., Longview, Wash.; W. E. Lamm, Lamm Lumber Co., Modoc Point, Ore.; Chas. H. Ingram. Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Tacoma, Wash.; D. S. Painter, Fruit Growers Supply Co., San Francisco, Calif.; Ralph J. Hines, Edward Hines Lumber Co., Chicago, I11.; Walter Neils, J. Neils Lumber Co., Libby, Mont.; E. H. Polleys, Polleys Lumber Co., Missoula, Mont.; W. M. Leuthold, Deer Park Lumber Co., Deer Park, Wash.; and R. B. White, Forest Lumber Co., Kansas City, Mo., represented by Mr. Giles of Pine Ridge, Oregon. Other members of the Association who attended the meeting were: J. M. White, Long-Bell Lumber Co., Weed, Calif.; W. C. Geddes, Craig Mountain Lumber Co., Winchester, Idaho; T. S. Whitten, Edward Hines Western Pine Co., Hines, Ore.; and Don Lawrence, Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., Spokane, Wash.
In addition to selecting the Manager of the new Association, the meeting was largely devoted to matters pertaining to organization policies and activities.
COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS, WESTERN PINE ASSOCIATION, AUGUST 13, 1931
Grading Co'mmittee
Chairman, Walter Neils, J. Neils Lumber Company.
T. S. Whitten, Edw. Hines Western Pine Company.
R. E. Irwin, Potlatch Forests, Incorporated.
W. G. Kahman, McCloud River Lumber Company.
John W. Stevens, Madera Sugar Pine Company.
George W. York, Geo. E. Breece Lumber Company.
Statisticd and Price List Committee
Chairman, Don Lawrence, Weyerhaeuser Sales Company.
R. H. Bockmier, Blackwell Lumber Company.
F. T. Fair.child, Brooks Scanlon Lumber Company.
Huntington Taylor, Crater Lake Lumber Company.
J. M. White, Long-Bell Lumber Company.
D. S. Painter, Fruit Growers Supply Company.
Advertising, Promotion and Co,nsumer Relations Committee
Chairman, C. L. Isted, Shevlin Hixon Company.
J. F. Coleman, Kinzua Pine Mills Company.
G. T. Morken, 'Winton Lumber Company.
R. B. White, Forest Lumber Company.
Ralph M. Macartney, Weyerhaeuser Timber Company.
John Hemphill, Madera Sugar Pine Company. Research and Products Cocrmittee
Chairman, W. C. Geddes, Craig Mountain Lmbr. Company.
W. C. Lubrecht, Anaconda Copper Mining Company.
Irving E. Kesterson, Kesterson Lumber Compahy.
H. B. Hewes, Clover Valley Lumber Company.
Truman W. Collins, Grande Ronde Pine Company.
A. J. Voye, Big I-akes Box Company.
c. L. Blrin*., nf::H:n.HnTiJ"corporated.
Chairman, D. M. Swobe, McCloud River Railroad Company.
James M. McNary, Cady Lumber Corporation.
C. W. Elornibrook, Ewauna Box Company.
L. J. Roedel, Dalkena Lumber Company.
W. J. Eccles, Oregon Lumber Company.
W. J. Weisman, Weyerhaeuser Sales Company. Mernbership Committee
Chairman, W. E. Lamm, Lamm Lumber Company.
J. M. Brown, Long Lake Lumber Company.
E. N. McDevitt, Somers Lumber Company.
Joseph Stoddard, Stoddard Lumber Company.
C. D. Terwilliger, Clover Valley Lumber Company.
George W. York, George E. Breece Lumber Company. Box Committee
Chairman, J. M. White, Long-Bell Lumber Company.
Robert Ferral, McCloud River Lumber Company.
C. H. Daggett, Ewauna Box Company.
A. H. Iluebner, Cascade Lumber Company.
Otto Leuschel, Potlatch Forests, Incorporated.
Grant Dixon, Western Pine Manufacturing Company. Expo,rt Committee
Chairman, F. K. Weyerhaeuser, Weyerhaeuser Sales Co.
M. B. Nelson, Long-Bell Lumber Company.
J. P. Hennessy, Shevlin, Carpenter & Clarke Company.
Geo. E. Breece, Geo. E,. Breece Lumber Company. Forestry and Economics Committee
Chairman, J. P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr., Potlatch Forests, Inc.
J. P. McGoldrick, McGoldrick Lumber Company.
H. K. Brooks, Brooks Scanlon Lumber Company.
Swift Berry, Michigan-California Lumber Company.
George R. Hicks, Bowman Hicks Lumber Company.
J. D. Tennant, Long-Bell Lumber Company. Moulding and Millwork Committee
Chairman, W. R. Sayre, W. R. Sayre Lumber Company.
R. L. Wilson, Deer Park Lumb€r Company.
W. G. Kahman, McCloud River Lumber Company.
A. M. Aston, Biles-Coleman Lumber Company.
W. A. Constans, Weyerhaeuser Timber Company. Horace Richards, Brooks Scanlon Lumber Company.
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A. C. Dixon, president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, presided at the meeting of the board of directors of the association held at Longview, Friday, August 7.
Matters discussed included the 15 per cent railroad rate increase application; the report of the recommendations of the Timber Conservation Board special lumber survey committee; the status of Russian lumber competition, and general business of the National association.
W. F. Shaw, manager o{ the trade extension department of the association presented his department's plan for making lumber promotion permanent.
Wilson Compton, secretary-manager of the National Association, and a member of the lumber survey committee of the United States Timber Conservation Board, made a report of the findings of this committee to the executive committee.
Resolutions of sympathy with the relatives of the following lumbermen who died during the present year were drawn and passed: J. H. Forestnan, of the Long-Bell Lumber Co.; R. G. Chisholm, of Shevlin, Carpenter & Clarke Co., and A. W. Laird, Potlach Lumber Co.
The trustees of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association met on the previous day for the transaction of important business, which included discussion of the report of the United States Timber Conservation Board.
R. A. Long, of Kansas City, head of the Long-Bell Lumber Co., addressed the meeting.
A dinner was given to the members of the executive and staff of the National association in the evening, by the West Coast association.
The Tacoma team consisting of J. J. Dempsey, Corydon 'Wagner, Everett Griggs, II, and E. N. Eisenhaeur defeated Everett to win the four-man district team championship at the 1lth annual Northwest Lumbermen's Golf Championship, sponsored by the Tacoma Lumbermen's Club, held at the Tacoma Golf & Country Club, Tacoma, July 31.
Dewey Wilson, Aberdeen, Wash., won the Northwest T umbermen's championship for the Lumbermen's Club challenge cup and the Phil Garland permanent cup with a gross score of 77. C. A. Cruickshank, Everett, 'Wash., was second.
A. E. Maclntosh, Everett, won the handicap championship for the J. H. Bloedel challenge cup with a net score of.66. L. E. Oakley, Portland, was runner-up with 67.
- Corydon Wagner won the president's cup in the West Coast Lumbermen's Association event, and A. E. Maclntosh won the vice-president's cup.
Phil Garland won the booby prize. A. K. Martin was in charge of the entertainment. About 125 golfers took part in the tournament.
James A. Tyrrell, who formerly worked out of the Los Angeles office of MacDonald & Harrington, is now covering the Coast Counties territory for this firm, making his headquarters in Monterey.
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The Insulite Company, through its General Sales Manager, Tom V. Sawyer, announces the appointment, July lst, 1931, of Richard P. Dodds as Manager of Sales Promotion and Advertising.
Mr. Dodds has had many years' experience in this line of work, having spent the last three years in sales promotional work with one of the country's largest quasi-public utilities organizations.
In coming with the Insulite Company, Mr. Dodds brings with him a basic understanding of the problems affecting today's scheme of merchandising and in keeping with the avowed Insulite Company policy.of Retail Lumber Dealer tie.up, said on a recent occasion, "I am a firm believer in systematic dealer cooperation. In our business the Retail Lumber Dealer is the verv back-bone of the Industrv and in working with him faithfully and consistently is iound the true essence of success. To back up his effort with a sound program of hard-hitting, continuous and sensible advertising, using those publications whose pages strike into the very dead center of our insulation potential-to prepare and place at the disposal of the dealgrs and their sales organizations, as many mailing pieces and other direct contact and sales promotion material as is indicated for him to do a successful job of selling, are all integral cogs in the wheels of Insulite sales success".
We extend our best wishes to Mr. Dodds for complete and lasting success in his new work.
v L. A. Ganahl, of the Ganahl Lumber Co., Santa Barbara, recently returned from an automobile trip to Oregon and Washington. Mr. Ganahl, who was accompanied by his wife, made this trip in a Ford car which has now traveled 100,000 miles and which he has driven in every state. Prior to this trip he had visited every state with this car except Oregon and Washington, and left a perfectly good Packard at home in order to complete his record of driving the Ford in all of the states.
Henry Faull, sales manager of the Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco, accompanied by Mrs. Faull left for a vacation trip to the Pacific Northwest immediately after the meeting of the Redwood Relationship Committee, with the Lumber Committee of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association at Scotia. They will be gone two weeks, and will visit various points in Oregon and Washington, and also Victoria, B. C.
The first big log raft of the season from the Northwest arrived in San Diego the other day.It belongs to the Benson Lumber Company, who operate a modern sawmill there. The log raft, containing five million feet of Fir logs that average 100 feet in length, was towed down from the Columbia River, and required 21 days for the voyage.
The Powell Lumber Company, of Fontana, is a California corporation filing papers this month. Capital stock is $50,000, the business of the corporation is to deal in building materials, and the owners are S. A. Powell, Margaret Powell, Gilbert H. Laurie, and Eva Laurie. No stock in this corporation can be transferred without the consent of the board of directors.
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The most hopeless hope in the is when hope leads a man to turn away from facts.
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Emerson said: "With consistency soul has simply nothing to do. Speak what you today in words as hard as cannon balls. and tomor speak what tomorrow it contradicts every- thinks in hard words again t thing you said today."
Once upon a time there was a MAN who built a SAWMILL and after he got it going he came to the conclusion that if he would put in live rolls he could increase the capacity of his plant ten per cent.
So he put in live rolls, and th4t necessitated another trimmer saw.
So he put that in and then lt' decided that if he had a bigger edger he would put T(E CANTS through and he could increase the capacity-dnother twenty per cent.
So he bought another. edger and then found that he
didn't have enough power-so he bought a bigger engine and it was so big he couldn't keep up steam.
So he bought another boiler and by that was cutting so much lumber that he c logs.
time the mill not keep it in
So he bought another skidder and he had so many logs his pond was too small.
So he bought a scraper and
ns had set in and washed
But along in the summer the a young lake. went dry so he built a mile and a half of flume another creek into it and by that time the fall the dam out.
And the governor bro and the new engine ran away and the fly wheel bu and cut off a steam pipe and was asleep in the sawdust bin scalded the engineer w but they got everythi fixed up again and the engineer sued him for
TEN THOUSA DOLLARS DAMAGES but he did he had been in the sawmill business not mind that all his life. And thing got to running srnoothly, but by this time he cut out all his timber and he c6uldn't buy any more
So he sold mill to the junk man and got himself a job as whistJe punk in a laundry.
So if a bt of these fellows who build sawmills would put in mote time running them the way they were ofiginally built and less time trying to increase their capacity there wouldn't be so many of them going broke.
A backwoods mountaineer one day found a mirror which a tourist had lost.
"Well, ifit ain't my old dad," he said as he looked at the reflection. "I never knowed he had his picture took."
He took the picture home and stole up in the attic to hide it, but his actions did not escape his wife. That night while he slept she crept up to the attic and f6und the mirror.
"So," said she, "that's the old hag he's been chasin'."
UGGED days those-and rugged men, whose surroundings were in keeping with their mode of life. Thus sturdy Oak raftered Royalty's castles and floored the vast areas of their halls and chambers. Forerunner of Oak's supremacy today as the premier fooring material, its consistent use since the days of early England has firmly established the incomparable durability inherent in every oak tree.
And in Royal OakFlooring, this natural superiority of oakis refined through skiltful manufacture to a finished product, Royal in its handsome aPPearance and Royal in the enduring service it renders. (Royal Oak Flooring is available in straight cars or mixed with Arkansas Soft Pine and Southern Hardwoods.)
Rapid as has been the progress of general manufacturing in Los Angeles County, the lines concerned with the building industry have been notable for their volume and the diversity of their products. During the year 1930, over 635 manufacturers were engaged in making products going into construction. The value of their product was in excess of $90,500,000. Nearly 18,000 workers were engaged, and they were paid in salaries and wages, over $26,000,000. This tremendous payroll was a powerful influence on business conditions throughout the West, since it was spent for food and other products contributed by many states. Your own business was favorably influenced because of this huge payroll in Los Angeles County.
Five manufacturing groups engaged in the construction 'material field, each produced more than nine million dollars worth of products. Largest among these was the mill work industry, whose plants produced over $18,000,000 worth of doors, sash fixtures and similar products. Three thousand employees were engaged, and received nearly four million dollars in wages. With Los Angeles Harbor the largest lumber port in the world, the mills in Los Angeles County have available the wood products from the forests of every country. The result is that many mill products are made here, and shipped to the principal cities of the nation. Hardwood doors and trim, special partitions and sash are among the items which are widely distributed from this section.
The second group in point of production volume is made up of the manufacturers of architectural iron work and metal building specialties. Sixty-one firms produced ten million dollars worth of products, and employed over two thousand people. Included in the many diverse lines were fire escapes, grilles, spandrels, built-in metal specialties, such as mail-boxes, iron receptacles, milk receivers, and many others. The use of metal in residence and small store construction is increasing rapidly, and many innovations in the construction field are the work of Los Angeles County firms.
Close behind the metal manufa,cturers is the clay products industry. Probably the oldest of the building trades, yet. this group has shown a progressive spirit which is responsible for many new architecrtural and engineering
]lt'ORE thsn 5,000,000 cople. IVI of the booklets, pl*ured and decrlbed ln the catalof,, "Lumbetr 5016 Llteratur€," have helped lumbermen ln every ffeld Eet new busln6s.
To promote your lumber srles, the Assoclatlon mak€a thts materlal avalleble for le.s than the cost of prlntIn8,! A @py of thc cat loe and eamplca of thls lltcttture wlll be sent you free on requ6t. Wrlte todsy.
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forms and uses. Architectural terra cotta, face brick, slab brick, hollow tile, flag tile and decorative tile are all made and distributed from Los Angeles County. Particularly in the manufacture of decorative tile has this county developed as the acknowledged leader. New forms are constantly being developed, with the result that tile manufacture has in the past few years increased by leaps and bounds. During 1930, clay products manufactured in Los Angeles County amounted to $9,718,000 with 48 plants employing 3,00o people.
Four large plants produced over nine million dollars worth of cement during 1930. In addition, there werc 75 plants making such concrete products as pipe, cast stone, building tile, etc., valued at $3,500,000. The total payroll in the cement and concrete industry was in excess of $3,400,m0, with about 3,00O employees.
Paint manufacture exceeded nine million dollars in value last year. A complete line of paint products is made in Los Angeles County. Particular leadership has been est6blished in such lines as stucco paints and colors, cement colorings and wood preservative paints. Fifty-eight plants are in operation.
Roofing material manufacturers produced nearly fivC mil-
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lion dollars worth of rolled roofing, composition shingles and similar products, many of which are being sold in the principal markets of the country. Plumbers' supplies also approached five millions in value, and included gates, valves, fittings, and a very extensive line of enameled and vitreous china plumbing fixtures. Nine plants, with 1,100 employees, were so engaged.
Among other important groups are the following:
Sheet metal products, with an annual production of over four millions.
Sand and gravel, valued at nearly five millions.
Wall plaster, plasterboard, etc., valued at two and threequarter millions.
Metal doors and sash, valued at three millions.
Also, awnings, lime, marble and granite, s.creens and other items helping to make up the total of over ninety millions, representing one of the largest industrial productions concentrated in a single group any place in the country.
This tremendous manufacturing activity is turned out from the most modern factories in the countrv. Due to the fact that industrial growth in Los Angeles County has been fairly recent, most of the manufacturing plants are new, and are equipped with the latest in economical machinery. The result is that the building products you buy here are made correctly and sold to you at low prices.
Distribution of building specialties from Los Angeles County has already extended to the principal cities of the ' United States, and to many foreign markets. New products are constantly being developed. It will pay you to keep in touch with this great central market, in order that your business may have the benefit of a wide selection and the opportunity which comes from close contact with a progressive manufacturing center.
(From the California Plasterer.)
H. Sewall Morton, of Hill & Morton, Inc., well known Oakland wholesale lumber dealers, returned August 24 from a trip to Eugene, Ore., where he concluded arrangements by which his firm rvill represent the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company in Northern California.
In making this announcement Mr. Morton said it gave him great satisfaction to act as sales representative for Booth-Kelly Douglas Fir lumber, which is manufactured according to the best practice from some of the finest timber that grows, in the company's two modern mills at Wendling and Springfield, Ore.
George W. Robinson, who has up to now been sales agent for Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. in Northern and Central California, will continue to act as sales representative for Central California, making his headquarters as before in Stockton.
Plaster€r€ liko thig tough, waterproof paper becauee it go€s on eo fast and without tearr or holee. Architeas and o\f,n€rs like its lasting protection against wind and rain
EALERS find a ready rnarket for Siealkraft l-l -t}.s all-purpoee paper. Exery etucco job neede iu Every conerete floor, walko drive and curb ie madebetter by its euringandprotection
There are a score of profitable markete for Siealkraft. Our dealer policy juetifies active interest in thie product and our ealee promotion helps have demonetrated their valu-e. If vou are not getting your ehare of Sisalkraft businees, write for eamplee and our dealer propoeition today.
Spread overnewly laid concrete aa soon as it can be walked on, Siealkraflkeeps in the mixing water and thereby makee it poeeible for every particle of cement to harden. In addition to thie curing, Siaalkraft at fhe eame tirne is protecting the eurface from dripping cement, oil staine, plaster, ets, without any additional labor or cxpenas
With the installation of display rooms at each of its two plants in San Francisco, H. S. Thompson, In,c., well known 'retail lumber and mill concern, has initiated an aggressive merchandising campaign to sell articles made of wood.
Both stores are situated on Mission Street, a great main artery of traffic traveled by many thousands daily.
The door of the office and display room at the main yard at 3650 Mission Street is a Philippine Laminex entrance door, and a number of other fine front doors of the Laminex line are prominently displayed. This door exhibit includes an ufiusual modernistic front door of mahogany and maple.
A main feature of the display is a complete Peerless kitchen unit. Other units of the Peerless Built-In Furniture line shown are telephone cabinets, wall tables, mirrored medicine cabinets, a corhbination ironing board and table, and a combination telephone nook and seat.
The front of the counter is used for the display of panels of gum, oak, Philippine and Douglas fir.
Red River Log Cabin Siding in various width and patterns has a prominent place, and a sample of Anzac Redwood Siding is displayed.
The display at 1775 Mission Street is also a very attractive one. Here also Laminex front and interior doors are featured, and built-in fixtures of all kinds made in the firm's own manufacturing plant at this address take up the majority of the display space. This display includes various kinds of medicine cabinets, kitchen fixtures, telephone cabinets. etc.
Redwood Cbreboard, manufactured by the Hammond Lumber Co., is one of the lines recommended and sold by this firm.
A specialty which will be manufactured at this plant is a miniature hot house, which although not yet produced in quantity, has proved to be a popular line. Sand boxes for children are also manufactured and displayed.
H. S. Thompson, Inc., has made arrang'ements with the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company to carry a stock of their famous 4SQUARE line of improved precision lumber, and will be the first authorized 4-SQUARE Dealer in the Bay Counties. They are now building a new model shed 23 f.eet high by 96 feet long to accommodate the initial stock which will be on hand by September 5.
The large party of retail lumbermen who made the threeday trip into the Redwood Empire to attend the meeting with the Redwood Relationship Committee at Scotia on August 21, and, to take part in the eritertainment program provided by the Redwood mills on the two following days, report having had a most enjoyable time.
The meeting with the Lumber Committee of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association was held at 8 a.m., Friday, immediately after breakfast which was served on arrival of the Redwood special train from San Francisco. Some of the matters discussed at the meeting were the results of laboratory tests of Redwood crib walls, ways and means for bettei control of lower grades of Redwood, proper nailing of siding and rgstic, cooperation of manufacturer and distributor, and the business outlook for the rest of the year.
The party visited the mill and factory of The Pacific Lumber Company after the meeting and had luncheon at Hotel Mowatoc.
The golf tournament for the J. H. Holmes cup was held in the afternoon. George Malm, of Malm & Angle, Dos Palos, won first place with a net score of 73, and H. H. Watkins, of the Holmes-Eureka Lumber Co., was runner up with a net score of.77. IJnconfirmed reports say that Elmore King got los't on the course, and that Harry Cahalan, of Burlingame, lost so many balls that a special messenger had to be sent to Eureka for a fresh supply before he could continue. A rumor, also unconfirmed, says that Ralph Duncan called a meeting to decide something or other in connection with the game, right on the course.
There is a story, too, that Clark Griffith's score was away up in the late 9Os, but this has received no confi_rmation either.
On Saturday the party was taken foratripto the logging operations of the Hammond Lumber Co. Luncheon was served at the camp cookhouse,. and the variety and excellence of the fare provided was an eye-opener to many of the visitors.
Irr the afternoon those who desired were taken on a drive from Crannell to Crescent City and returned to Eureka in time for dinner at Eureka Inn, where the visitors were presented with the key to the city of Eureka, and golf trophies were presented to the tourrlament winners.
On Sunday another drive had been arranged for those who wanted to enjoy the gorgeous scenery. This was an auto trip south to Eel River Valley, Van Duzen Grove, Grizzly Creek Grove, and back to Strongs Station Redwoods. Luncheon was served in the Redwoods, and the party motored back to Eureka Inn late in the afternoon, and left for San Francisco by N.W.P. train at 8:10 p.m.
All officers of the Tom A. McCann Hoo-Hoo Club, McCloud, Cal., were re-elected at a meeting at Pig Creek, August 3.
M. C. Gerlicher is president, Ray Hathaway, vice president, and L. E. McGonagle, secretary-treasurer. The directors are C. B. Daveney, W. H. Fishburn, John Kennedy, H. C. Braden and William Ponto.
W. B. Greeley, Secretary-Manager of The \Mest Coast Lumbermen's Association, told the Interstate Commerce Commission the following facts recently, rvith regard to the shrinkage of the lumber industry of the Northwest:
For the first six months of 1931, as compared with the first six months of 1929, lumber production in the Fir districts of Washington and Oregon shrunk 42-28 per cent; lumber sales shrunk 43.53 per cent; the average price shrunk 42.16 per cent; the average cost shrunk 17.71 per cent; the average logging labor cost shrunk 35.52 per cent; the average sawmill labor cost shrunk 24.73 per cent; railshipments shrunk €.80 per cent; cargo shipments shrunk 33.6O per cent; inventories increased 23.78 per cent.
The loss in production in 30 months is 4,600,00O,00O feet in that territory. The loss of logging and sawmill labor wages in 30 months is $48,760,000.
On August l, L929, the Fir industry of Washington and Oregon employed 95,000 common laborers at an average day wage of $3.75. On August l, 1930, they employed 55,000 at an average day wage of $3.4O. On August 1, 1931, they employed 37,ffi0, some of them part time at an average day wage of $2.90.
In order to supply what they believed to be a long felt want among their dealer friends the Nicolai Door Sales Co., San Francisco, has prepared and issued to the dealers an attractive file folder containing a number of designs of fancy Philippine and Fir front doors.
Each page of the new folder describes in detail one door. giving the various sizes and list price of each size. The dealer will undoubtedly find this folder very handy for reference, and a real help in creating the desire among his prospects for distinctive and architecturally correct front doors.
Any dealer who may not have received a copy can get one by writing to Nicolai Door Sales Co., 3045 19th Street, San Francisco.
Members of the Central Valley Lumbermen's Club heard a talk by Otto Hartwig, of the National Lumber Manufacturers'Association, Washington, D. C., at the first general meeting of their club, held at the Hotel Clark, Stockton, August 15.
"Rural Retail Merchandising" was the subject of Mr. Hartwig's address, which proved to be both interesting and instructive to the membership.
President Chas. G. Bird presided, and short talks were given by Fred Holmes, president of the California Redwood Association. and Geo. M. Cornwall.
A Mexican bandit held up a watchman and went through the safe of a retail lumber yard in Southern California the other night. It was a bad selection. There was nothing to steal. All he got was the watchman's gun.
It is reported from Santa Barbara that the Macco Lumber Company has sold to Frank Harrison its lumber and furniture business at LaPatera.
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In the old logging camp days one of the favorite stories was that of the French cook who was just opening a big bag of Navy beans. "What do you do with all those beans?" asked the visitor. 'Huhl" snorted the cook, surprlsdat such ignorance, "Dem little white beans mak fine pea soup ! Anybody don't lak dem-it's a dam lie."
And then came the much told story of the butcher who wanted to sell some lean pork to the restaurant keeper.
Along about 8:25 o'clock on the morning of August 22 in Merritt Hospital, Oakland, Red Grimes finally got a good reason for prying Redwood orders out of the dealers in Central California. Seven pounds of boy arrived and rumors are rife thaf eventually he will be at least auburn haired, although as yet the hair is noticeable only by its
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"I'll guarantee you," he said earnestly, "that this pork will make as fine chicken salad as.any veil you ever used."
And now comes the Irishman who saw a heap of cranberries in the store, and asked the storekeeper what they were. "Thim is cranberries," said the Irish storekeeper. "Are they fit to eat?" asked Pat. "Fit to eat?" repeated the storekeeper. "Why whin thim cranberries is stewed they make better apple sauce than any prunes you iver saw.t'
absence. Anyway, it said he is red.
The brand new father insists that Red, Jr., will be a radio tenor in order to capitalize on his abilities right off the bat. Later he may be a halfback or even a Redwood peddler.
Mrs. Grimes is doing fine, but Red will never be the same. He is still bragging about the way he fills orders.
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The office building recently built by Charles W. Buckner on the second floor of the Building Material & Machinery Exhibit Building, 557 Market Street, San Francisco, to demonstrate the-use of Harbord Plywood, for which he is Northern California representative, is now completed. Pictures of the exterior and interior of the building are shown on this page.
The sjzJof the building is 10 feet by 16 feet, with 7 feet 6 inches ceiling. The interior is construqted entire!>1 of plywood. ThJ walls and ceiling are of Harbord Wallboard, and the floor is made from /a-inch, 5-ply plywood. The sheathing on the outside of the walls as well as the roof sheathing is of plywood.
The interio"r walls'and ceiling were decorated by I. F. Laucks, Inc., with their Laux Wall Texture. The Wall Texture on the ceiling was glazed over to make it waterproof and then tinted with dark ivory coloring. The walls -were treated similarly and tinted with different, coloring. The decorating was done by E. B. Barrymore, San Francisco.
The siding on the building was furnished by.manuf-".tgters of various species of lumber. The end shown in the picture is California Pine Log Cabin Siding, furnished by McCloud River Lumber Co. the other end is Western Red Cedar Bungalow Siding furnished by E' C. Miller Cedar Lumber eo., Aberdeen, Wash., represented in San Francisco and Los Angeles by S. E. Slade Lumber Co. The siding on the side shown in the picture is lO-inch Anzac Redwood Siding, furnished by The Pacific Lumber Co. and the opposite sidl is covered with 3x8 Red Cedar L-og Cabin Siding furnished by E. C. Milter Cedar Lumber Co., Aberdeen.
The plywood floor, the doors and the exterior and interior trim -were finished with Inwood by E' D. Wolbert of the Inwood Products Co., San Francisco. This one coat finish shows the beautiful grain of the Douglas Fir to an exceptional degree.
The roof is made of Forestile, manufactured by Street & Co. of Aberdeen, Wash. This new roofing material is sawn from ,clear vertical grain Red Cedar in the shape of clay roofing tile. Mr. Buckner is the California distributor for Forestile.
The interior of the building is an exceptionally fine demonstration of the possibilities of Harbord Wallboard. This board is a real lumber produ,ct made of three-ply Douglas Fir veneer, sanded to /a-inch net thickness in all widths. It is obtainable in all widths up to € inches and lengths of 144 inches and under as desired.
Being situated in the Building Material & Machinery P*hibit Building this plywood building is naturally attracting a great deal bf attention among contractors, home builderJ and others interested in building materials. Mr. Buckner has established his sales headquarters .in this building and extends a welcome to everyone interested in up-to-theminute building materials.
Tommy 'Work, general manager of the Work Lumber Co., Monterey, hai returned from two weeks' vacatbn spent at Lake Tahoe.
At this time, when loggers, lumbermen, retailers and legislators are devoting thought to the sirbject of reforestation and conservation of the nation's timber supplies, attention is being directed to the activities of the Clearwater Timber Company of Lewistown, fdaho, which has inaugurated a selective logging plan governing the cutting of trees in its immense timber holdings.
Under this selective logging plan, trees will be gro!\rn and harvested as crops. In lieu of there being annual crop cycles however, the Clearwater Timber Company's plans provide for the cutting of timber in 3G35 year crop periods, involving 3-crop rotation in lOGyear cycles, and for centuries to come the company's timber lands will provide what may be termed a perpetual supply of high-grade western woods. Mr. Ben Bush, Chief Forester for the State of Idaho, has ta'ken deep interest in the plan which he declares goes far beyond state or federal regulations to conserve the national timber supply.
The Clearwater Timber Company's plan is also being watched with keen interest by leaders among the loggers and lumber manufacturers, and, proving successful, it is obvious that American forest administration and logging practices will undergo revolutionary changes. With the selective logging method general adopted, it is safe to assume that American forests will forever furnish sufficient high-grade timber to meet every requirement of industry and building, especially if the desired cooperation is forthcoming from federal and state governments.
Leaders in the industry will quickly recognize that the Clearwater Timber Company in placing its timber operations on a selective logging basis is making an experiment. of gigantic proportions, for the company is the first among America's big lumber manufacturers to apply the selective method to its logging operations. In fact, it has been termed a courageous undertaking, in that it contemplates century periods rather than the usual annual periods of
industrial plant operation, with the success of a $9,00O,000 plant at stake. It is not possible to foresee what the decades to come will bring forth in timber crops, any more than a farmer can tell how his annual crops rvill mature. The officers of the Clearwater Timber Company do not know with a certainty whether the second and third timber crops will be ready for harvesting in accordance with the contemplated schedule. Futhermore, there are natural and economic hazards far beyond the ken of anyone to now discern. Among these are fire, tree disease and windfall, to say nothing of depressed economic conditions.
In spite of the fact that it is impossible to foresee what the future will develop, the officers of the company feel that the big odds are with them and that scientific forestry and man's ingenuity will enable the company to meet and solve such problems as may arise from time to time. Its 225,000 acres of timber are now being cut under very definite crop
Forest fires are a dread and ineradicable menace to the forest of the future. The sight ol "burning rnountains" is ar outesome thing ottd indelibly impresses u\on one that the Clearwater Timber Companfs crop-rotation plan embracing 100-year periods is indeed o courageous undertahin,g, and fire is but one ol the futzards that menace a Prograrn whose time scoPe is so far flung.
rotation plans. More than half of the timber in its holdings is white pine of the species Pinus Monticola, which is identical in every way with the famous Pinus Strobus of the east. Thus selective logging enables the Clearwater Timber Company to establish a perpetual source for genuine white pine.
Briefly, the Clearwater selective logging plan limits cutting to trees of specific diameter, cutting only such species as can be marketed at a profit, clean-cutting of mature stands, fostering young growth by care in cutting, keeping the forest floor clean and destroying weed and insect life, which are responsible for tree diseases.
Some three months before actual cutting commences, a tract is cruised for the purpose of actually measuring trees and blazing those that are suitable for cutting. This cruising is first carried on in a test plot which is typical of the timber in adjacent areas. The trees in this plot are counted, their diameters measured and estimates made of the cutting size limit that should be established to make logging profitable. In accordance with the limits thus established, each tree to be felled is then blazed, once at breast height rvhere the mark may be seen even if deep snow covers the ground, and again below the stump line. The latter is for the purpose of enabling a check on the cutting to determine whether or not trees other 'than those blazed are being felled.
It is estimated that the cruising-and-marking-cost is approximately 5 cents per thousand board feet. As the work becomes better organized, it is expected that this cost will be reduced to 3 cents. Nevertheless, as the tract contains approximately a quarter-million acres, the immensity of the job and its expense are apparent.
The benefits of selective logging are impressively apparent even to the layman. Tracts where the method has been applied remain thickly g'rown with tall, straight pines, ranging up to 17 inches in diameter. The picture is in de' cided contrast to the old method which leaves onlv a
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stretch of unsightly, bald areas of stumps, snags, brush, slash and weeds. The former is an encouraging view of ample timber supplies for the future, while the latter presents a discouraging picture of denuded land with its attendairt problems of reforestation.
The Clearwater Timber Company's program of selective logging is being carried on under the immediate direction of J. P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr., general manager, C. L. Billings, assistant general manager and E. C. Rettig, chief forester. The plan was adopted for the purpose of conserving and protecting the huge investment represented by the largest genuine white pine plant ever built. The huge sawmill is capable of producing more than 200,000,000 feet a ybar. The Clearwater Timber Company, which is a member of the Weyerhaeuser affiliation, is capitalized at $9,000,000, and its 225,W acres of timber stretch over an area 50 miles long. Tributary to this area are 1,000,000 acres of state and government owned timber lands which also contain a goodly portion of white pine.
As explained by Mr. Weyerhaeuser, the selective logging program originated in the discovery early in the operation of the mill that small logs were too expensive to handle in the woods and in the mill. This was in 1927. The following year forest engineers were employed to recommend a plan of economical operation and administration. At the same time, Assistant General Manager Billings developed a series of mill studies to determine the cost of handling and making lumber from logs of various sizes. These studies led to the conclusion that the mill must be furnished with larger logs and the smaller trees left in the stands for further development. In order that such a plan might be carried out, the timber holdings were divided into old growth areas, where the trees are from 2OO to 400 years oI age; and second growth areas, where the trees are from 80 to 120 years of age. The second division approximates about three-quarters of the total area.
These main divisions were further divided into four groups according to the kinds of timber dominating in a stand, having in view cutting only such timber as can be marketed without loss. These group types based on percentages of the varied woods are: White Pine comprising 70 per gent or more genuine white pine; White Mixed type, 40 to 69 per cent white pine; Mixed White, 10 to 39 per cent white pine; and Mixed type, up to 10 per cent white pine, and the rest fir, larch, spruce, cedar and Pondosa pine.
An important decision of general interest was that to cut old growth timber completely. This was based on the
fact that timber ripens and that after trees mature nothing is to be gained by allowing them to stand. They merely die. This is clearly evidenced by the skeleton-like snags that characterize the old-growth sections-old trees that have died standing. Furthermore, matured trees in their fullness are detrimental to the growth of young trees, causing them to be dwarfed, ragged and sparse. The logical procedure is to cut the old timber clean to permit natural reforestation. However, depending upon conditions, old growth stands are logged with a view to conserving reproduction.
The highest airplane landing field in been opened by the Forest Service. Meadows in the Inyo National Forest, level. It is already in practical use.
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Col. W. B. Greeley, Secretary-Manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, was spokesman for the lumber industry of the Pacific Northwest at a hearing of the Interstate Commerce Commission held in Seattle in August, concerning the proposed 15 per cent increase in railroad freight rates.
"We protest against the proposed increase for three prin- cipal reasons," said Greeley in his opening statement. "They are: The present critical condition of the lumber industry; that an increased freight rate will defeat its own purpose by reducing shipments; and that a horizontal percentage increase pyramids charges against the lumber
There is a steady increase in the demand for Pacific Coast hardwoods, according toa statement by Charles Gilstrap, manager of the Hardwood Products Corporation, of Sedro-Woolley, Wash., to a representative of this paper recently. .This concern operates a band sawmill witha daily capacity of 20M feet, the output consisting of alder, maple, birch and cottonwood. The mill is claimed bv its owners to be the largest and most modern exclusive hardwood operation in the Northwest. All of the equipment in the sawmill and the cut up plant is of the most modern type,
which has to stand the longer haul to the large consuming markets, which condition applies.to the lumber produced in the Pacific northwest."
Greeley covered in elaborate detail the adverse conditions now prevailing in the lumber industry of Washington and Oregon, showing the great losses sustained in the last two years in capital and wages. He also quoted statistics and figures touching on practically all phases of the lumber business, including production, prices, shipments, freight charges, the comparison of water and rail transportation costs and conditions and considerations governing their comparative advantages and disadvantages, back haulage from the Atlantic coast, and other similar matters.
and the battery of three Moore Reversible Cross Circulation Dry Kilns insures efficient drying of the output.
Gus Gilbertson is president of the company. Carl Allen is superintendent, and in charge of dry -kiln operations.
W. R. Chamberlin & Co., San Francisco, represent the Hardwood Products Corporation in Northern California, and the Southern Cali{ornia representative is the American Hardwood Co., Los Angeles.
McElroy-Cheim Lumber Co. have bought the yard formerly operated by the Wilkie Lumber Co., Watsonville.
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A log yielding 10,000 board feet of lumber rvas recently sawed by the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company's mill in St. Helens, Ore. The log was 96 inches in diameter and was so long that part of the mill roof had to be sawed away to permit the log to enter the mill from the pond.
PORTERVILLE LUMBERMAN VISITS S. F.
James L. Venn, manager of the W. R. Spalding Lumber Company's yard at Porterville, recently made a business trip to San Francisco.
Earl Galbraith, Sales Manager for Board Corporation, is enjoying a Santa Cruz Mountains. He will be Los Angeles office shortly after the
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C. H. SMITH LUMBER COMPANY INCORPORATES
Incorporation papers have been filed at Long Beach by the C. H. Smith Lumber Company of that city, showing a capital stock of 10,000 shares. The incorporators are C. H. Smith, Monroe, Iowa; Carl C. Smith and C. Roy Smith, both of Long Beach.
Asked by a representative of this paper as to horv he found business conditions in the Southwest during his re'cent six weeks' trip to Eastern, Middle West and Southwestern points, Ray B. Cox, vice-president and general manager of the Built-in Fixture Co., of Berkeley, said he found conditions best in Texas, very good in New Mexico, and not so good in Oklahoma and Missouri.
Mr. Cox, who is president of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39, spent a half day with Henry Isherwood in Chicago, talking over Hoo Hoo matters.
Berkeley, Calif., August 22.---The Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Building Officials Conference will be held at Berkeley, October 5-10, and a feature of the meeting will be a lumber grading symposium, according to an announcement by Stanley P. Koch, President of the Conference.
Forty .minutes will be devoted on the first day of the meeting to discussion of the fundamental principles of grading lumber and the application to the various species of wood used in construction in the western states. Samples of the species and grades will be exhibited and the factors determining the grade and safe loading capa'city of each piece will be explained. This symposium will be conducted by A. C. Horner, San Francisco, Manager of the Western Office of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, who was formerly secretary-treasurer of the Building Conference. He will be assisted by grades inspectors of thc
Because it is generally conceded to be a "rqllacement" year, Western lumber dealers are reporting a wide sale for Pioneer Asphalt Emulsion in the coating of all types of roofing materials, is the statement made by Mr. J. H. Plunkett, general manager of the Pioneer Paper Company.
'One of the important advantages of the material for roof coating is the fact that it may be applied cold, thus eliminating the elaborate equipment which is essential for the use of other forms of Asphalt. Asphalt Emulsion forms an impervious surface that is unaffected by the elements, and it will not check nor crack, run nor sag, under any climatic temperature. It is suitable for the roofs of residences, business establishments, industrial buildings, warehouses, hotels, office buildings-in fact, for every type of roof.It may be successfully coated on composition .roofs, corru-
West Coast Lumbermen's Association, the California Redwood Association and the California White & Sugar Pine Manuf acturers Association.
Following a discussion of the fa,ctors affecting grades and strength, some 50 pieces of lumber of sizes customarily used in construction will be placed on exhibition near convention headquarters, and building officials will have an opportunity to examine them at their convenience and estimate the grade and strength of each piece. On the last day of the convention the results of these individual estimates will be checked and attention will be especially devoted to a discussion of the grade and strength of those pieces concerning which the most errors are made. Several prizes will be awarded for grading judgment, one of them being a pair of candlesticks made from wood from the old roof of the White House at Washington, which was in place for 112 vears without deterioration.
gated iron, composition shingles, metal tile, asbestos roofs, and wood shingles. Where color is desired red or green Albikote may be used. In the case of metal roofs the matenal effectively seals out moisture, thereby preventing corros10n.
It is pointed out by the manufacturer that every territory in the eleven Western states ofiers possibilities for the lumber dealer, in the sale of Pioneer Asphalt Emulsion, because of its exceedingly wide range of use and the utmost simplicity of application. This fact together with the approaching rainy season affords a timely sales suggestion, to create additional business for Western lumber dealers.
Ray Clotfelter, manager of the W. R. Spalding Lumber Co., Visalia, was a recent business visitor to San Francisco.
Hawk Huey, well known lumberman of Phoenix, Arizona, has returned home after three weeks' vacation spent on the ocean beach near Los Angeles.
Henry Swafford, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, was elected president of the Pacific Coast Hardwood Dealers' Association at the seventh annual convention of the association held at the Empress Hotel, Victoria, August 2O to ??
C. H. White, White Brothers, San Francisco, was ree_lected vice president, and Charles M. Cooper, W. E. Cooper Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was elected secretarytreasurer.
All of the directors were re-elected. These are: J. Fyfe Smith, Vancouver, B. C.; E. E. Hall, Portland, Ore.; Geo. H. Brown, Oakland; C. R. Taenzer, Los Angeles; W. T. White, San Francisco, and Jerry Sullivan, lr., San Diego.
Business sessions were held on Thursdav and Fridav mornings.
At the Thursday session the proposed changes in the grading rules of the National Hardwood Lumber Association were thoroughly discussed. The discussion was led by D.J. Cahill, Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and those who took part in the dis,cussion included I_Ig"ty Swafford, Los Angeles; Henry Kirchmann, Jr., Kirchmann Hardwood Co., San Francisco; Jerry Sullivan, Jr., Sullivan Hardwood Lumber Co., San Diego; J. W. Sumrall, J. J. Matthews Hardwood Lumber Co., Seattle; C. H. White, San Francisco, and Roger Sands, Ehrlich-Harrison Co., Seattle.
Roy Barto, Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Inc., gave an interesting talk on the Philippine situation.
Booth-Kclly Douglar Fir, thc Aeaociation gradc and tradc marls certify to your cuctomcrs drc quality of thc etocL you handlc. Buildcrr quit guceeing about what they're buying and buy whcrc thcy know what thcy'rc gctting.
On Friday the principal subject of discussion was a statement and resolution relative to the recent decision of the Federal Trade Commission regarding the use of the name Philippine Mahogany. The statement, and the resolution, which was unanimously adopted are as follows:
The Federal Trade Commission has decided that Philippine Mahogany is a proper name for Philippine hardwood possessing the ,characteristics of mahogany, and which has been for many years so known and sold.
This is consistent with the established facts and the principles of fair dealing. Importers and dealers have both the opportunity and the obligation to apply this ruling so as to obtain great benefit to the public and to the woodmaking trades.
Mahogany woods of difierent origin vary considerably in color, weight, hardness and figure. There are likewise wide variations in these physical qualities within woods of the same origin. Each variety has one or more specific uses for which it is best adapted. For some purposes mahogany wood of soft texture and little if any figure is required and the more expensive hard and figured wood is not desirable. In other cases wood of hard texture and pronounced figure is best. It is essential that those who supply mahogany woods to the wood-working trade recognize these facts and see to it that the lumber sold customers is not only true to name and grade, but is properly selected for those qualities calculated to fill the customer's requirements.
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Philippine Mahogany comprises within its range o-f physical properties all of the qualities *!i9h make mahogany one of the finest cabinet woods. In Philippine Mahogany there occur variations in texture, hardness, figure and color to the same degree as in other mahogany woods. There are uses for whicfi Philippine Mahogany is preferable to all other mahogany woods, and there are other uses where some other mahogany wood may be preferable to Philip' 'pine Mahogany. Intelligent selection and grading will asiure to the uier the quality and satisfaction requisite to complete public service and sound business.
Eich type and kind of mahogany wood should be sold under its- own name and for those uses for which each is best adapted. These are facts which the hardwood industry mus[ recognize ifit is to best serve itself by serving the public best. These are facts known generally to the trada but little understood by the public.
Recognizing the obligation to deal fairly with th9 t-ra-dg and thJ publlc; glateful for the opportunity to be helpful to both; and to the end that both the trade and the" public may be made appreciative of the qualities of each and all of the mahogany woods, the Pacific Coast Hardwood Dealers Association- hereby resolves, and its members individually agree:
1. That each kind or species of mahogany wood, commonly recognized as such, shall be advertised, described and sold under names which clearly indicate their respective origih and distinguish them from each other.
2. That mahogany wood of the Philippine Islands shall be advertised, described, and sold under the name PHILIPPINE MAHOGA1NY so as to clearly indi'cate its origin and distinguish it from other mahogany woods.
3. That only those hardwoods of the Philippine Islands which possess all the characteristics of mahogany wood
shall be advertised. described and sold as PHILIPPINE MAHOGANY, and that the Chief Forester of the Government of the Philippine Islands be invited to cooPerate with the trade in the United States in making this resolution effective.
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4. That methods of grading and selection of stock be formulated to the end that each wood user may obtain the grade and quality of Philippine an4 other mahoganies wfrictr will produce the best results for each specifi'c use.
5. That the cooperation of local retail and wholesale lumber dealers and national and local associations of furniture manufacturers and dealers be obtained to make effective the principles set out in Paragraphs One and Two of (Continued on Page 37)
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these resolutions, to the end that both the trade and the public will be informed and made appreciative of the virtues of each kind of mahogany wood and the uses to which they are best adapted.
Immediately after the business session on Friday the entire party of delegates were entertained at lunch at the 60Gacre estate jointly owned by Henry Swafford, J. E. Higgins, Jr., and LeRoy H. Stanton. This beautiful estate is on Saanich Bay, about 14 miles from Victoria. There are two lakes on the property, and most of the members enjoyed the swimming in Lake Lillian. As it was a stag party many brought themselves back to the ol' swimmin' hole days by going in in the altogether. A splendid luncheon was served in the club house, accompanied by appropriate legal, liquid refreshments. Two Scotch pipers in full regalia supplied a musical accompaniment to the luncheon.
B. C. Nicholas, editor of the "Victoria Daily Colonist", was the principal speaker at the banquet on Thursday evening. J. Fyfe Smith presided, and short talks were given by D. J. Cahill, Chas. M. Cooper, and Ray Anderson, Seattle.
C. H. White, White Brothers, San Francisco, was the speaker of_the evening at the banquet on Friday evening, at which Roger Sands, retiring president, presided. Mi. White read a history of the hardwood business on the Pacific Coast, w!ic! he had prepared frorn information gathered painstakingly from authentic sources. This wai intensely interesting to all the- members, and it will appear in full in a later issue of this paper.
The splendid silver golf trophy was won by D. J. Cahill, and Kenneth Smith won the cup given for runner-up in the association's annual golf tournament.
The wives of the delegates were entertained by trips to the famous Butchart's Gardens and other beauty spofs. Norman Sawers, of Fyfe Smith & Co., Vancouver, B. C., retiring sec_retary-treasurer, lvas in charge of all arrangements for the convention.
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Planing MiLl Machinery fon sale. All modcrn, new 3 years ago. Los Angeles Planing Mill Co., 1E00 Industrial St., Los Angeles, Calif. Phone VAndike 8460.
Young lady experienced in stenography, general office work, estimating, knowledge of bookkeeping, desires posi- tion. Lumber preferred. Will gladly accept position in Los Angeles or out of city. Address Box C-41Q California Lumber Merchant.
An opportunity to buy lumber yard in good location. Business averages over $6000.00 a month, first class stock and planing mill. Stock and accounts receivable will inventory $25,000.00. Will handle Accounts Receivable. Will sell all of business or if I get the right man will retain an interest. Compelled to get out of active business on account of health. For full information address Box C-404, California Lumber Merchant.
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Mrs. E. J. Stanton died at her home in Los Angeles, Sunday, August 23rd, and was buried in Hollywood Cemetery on Tuesday, the 25th. She was born in Detroit, Michigan, nearly 75 years ago and moved to Los Angeles with her farnily 38 years ago. She is survived by one son, Leroy II. Stanton, and two daughters, Mrs. Henry Swafford and Mrs. C. H. Von Breton, all of Los Angeles.
Mrs. Stanton was one of the best loved and honored members of the lumber fraternity of Los Ang'eles for two generations. Her husband, the late E .J. Stanton, was the founder of the firm of E. J. Stanton & Son, and one of the pioneer hardwood lumbermen of Southern California. He iiea in t9tS. Mrs. Stanton was noted for her nobility of 'character and the greatness of her charity.
Moderate sized planing mill in a city of 50,000 desires the services of a young, active, high class estimator. References required. Address C-408, The California Lurnber Merchant.
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Man experienced in lumber-hardware-paint, etc., wishes connection as salesman, bookkeeper, estimator, credits or lineyard manager. Best of references. Address Box C-405, California Lumber Merchant.
Lumber and Mill man of wide experience wants to buy interest and assume management of yard and mill. Best of references. State full particulars. Address Box C-411, California Lumber Merchant.
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Lumber buyer-years of experience in Washington and Oregon-knows the mills, grades, etc. Open for position anywhere. References. Address Box C-409, California Lumber Merchant.
William Wright, Jr., of the Wright Lumber Co., Stockton, and Wright and Prestley, Sacramento, died in Stockton August 15.
Mr. Wright had been in the hospital for more than two months, convalescing from a fall which resulted in a broken hip, and was getting along nicely when he was stricken with the illness which caused his death.
He had been in the lumber business for 30 years, and had a large acquaintance among lumbermen in the San Francisco Bay district and all over Northern California. Prior to going into business for himself he was 14 years with Pope & Talbot, San Francisco, five years with the Sunset Lumber Co., Oakland, and five years with A. S. Carman at Benicia.
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