Charles R. McCormich

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As lumber and general cargo business increased in volume, $'ooden boats were superseded by all steel vessels, and today the McCormick Steamship Company operates 35 steel steamers.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.

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