LUMBER CAREERS Herb Klass

The subject of this sketch, Herb Klass, completed in mid-July of this year a total of 3O years' service with The Pacific Lumber Company, the great Redwood manufacturing concern of which he is general sales manager.

Last April he entered the fortysecond year of his experience, gained in practically every branch of the lumber industry. As is the case with many successful men, he has made his work his hobby, so it is not surprising that for many years he has been recognized as one of the foremost authorities on Redwood. A member of the executive committee of the California Redwood Association, his keen judgment and practical knowledge of the industry is a great asset to that body in the work of solving their many problems.

Born in Oconto, 'Wis., on New Year's day, 1876, he attended school there, and after three years in high school left to enter the lumber business in April, 1891, when just over 15 years of age.

After working in a lumber yard and in the rvoods for about a year he left and decided to become a druggist, and right here the lumber industry nearly lost a good man. For this young fellow of 16 tackled the job seriously, as he has tackled all his jobs throughout his career, and he Iearned a good deal about the drug business in the two years he spent at it. However, the long hours in the drug store and the inside r'vork didn't appeal to him, and he re-

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Frank Bell, of the recent business visitor panied by Mrs. Bell.

SAN FRANCISCO

Clovis Lumber Co., to San Francisco. Clovis, was a He was accom- entered the lumber business in 1894 with the conviction that this was the business for him.

For the next ten years he worked in sawmills, in lumber yards, in the woods, and in planing mills, gaining as varied an experien.ce as he could, in Northern Wisconsin, Northern Michigan and Northern Minnesota, and in 1904 when working in Duluth he made up his mind to quit his job and come to California.

He came direct to San Francisco and went to work for The Pacific Lumber Company in July, 1904, in their yard at 6th and Channel Streets, first as clerk and later as stevedore boss. In l9O7 he was transferred to the company's Oakland yard as yard foreman. He was promoted to superintendent and remained there until July, 1915, when he went to Scotia to be factory superintendent.

His next promotion brought Mr. Klass to the highly responsible position of superintendent of production at the big Scotia plant, which he held until April, 1929, when he was called to the main oflice in San Francisco to be assistant to the general sales manager, the late Peter I\fcNevin. At Mr. McNevin's death he became general sales manager.

In 1902, when he was living in Duluth, Minn., Mr. Klass was married and he is the proud father of two boys and two girls. llis son, John, is a member of the sales staff of the Bark department of The Pacific Lumber Company.

He lives in Oakland. And while not an enthusiast, he plays an occasional round of golf.

His private office on the 24th floor of the Shell Building ir, San Francisco is beautifully paneled in Redwood, a fine example of the use for interior decoration of the wood, to the manufacture and sale of which he has devoted such a large portion of his business life.

SPEND VACATION IN L. A.

Or'ven L. Gibson, secretarv of White Brothers, San Francisco, with Mrs. Gibson. have been on vacation in Los Angeles, wl-rich was Mrs. Gibson's birthplace.

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