The California Lumber Merchant - September 1935

THECALIFORNIA MBERMERCffiT

SUDDEN

F, S. PALMER, Mgr California Ponderosa Pine California Sugar Pine

We specialire in all productr of Fir, Pine, and Red Cedar. Our ctandardr of quality and gervice are a Generation old.

The F'astest Selling ttl{ew" Lumher ltems

T""*" may not be anything unueual about a building material item that sells faet when conetruction is mounting rapidly.

But there ie apt to be eomething eeneational about lumber iteme that sell so faet ae to swamp the producing mill departmentE, if thie ehould happen in a low-conetruction period like the Summer of 1934.

This is exactly what happened with 4-Sguare Endlees lumber shortly after it was introduced nationally in the early Summer of 1934. During 1933 similar surprising salee reeulted in etates near the mille where Endleee luttther was being ofrered and tested locally.

4-Square Endlees lumber items were the fasteet selling "new" lumber iteme during the last half of 1934. They have maintained this record during 1935.

The 4-Sguare millg have more than trebled their Endlees lurnber making msqhinsly and output in order to keep up with ealee. ltt

r 4-Sguare Endlees lumber ig an old idea in ftrmber making applied in new, practical waye. Endlees lumber mesheg on ende and edgee and toweldeot in conetruction to fonn toendlesg boardeo'. As the ende of Endlees lumber interlock, it is not necesBary to join them over Btructural memberg when applying eheathingo roof-boarding or eubflooring. Thus lumber, which has always been the moet flefile of all builfing materialso steps further ahead in this reepect. It makes possible bettero more economical, and speedier construction at a time when the hrrnher and conetruction induetriee are challenged to produce better houeing at lower coet.

I 4-Sguare Endlees hrmhep [eqefits all who make, specifyo eell, buy, and uee it.

See uhat it accotnplishes;

Endleee lumber permite the manufacturer to place on the market more of the tree in the form of lumber than possibly any other lumber development. Short lengths, which

heretofore have been a drug on the market, when in the form of Endleee lumb€r, become prized Iike the traditional long lengths. For the retail lumber dealer it makee extra profits by reducing handling costs, by cutting down on etock inveetment, and by attracting customers.

The contractor benefits because he can eave time, labor, and material. He can deliver a better job that looks just ae good "under the ekin" as on the surface. IIie reputation ie enhanced by the atrength and rigidity of the structuree he builds. Becauge his houeee will be tight, weather-proof and sturdyr his reputation for eound construction will spread.

The earpenter will like to work with Endlesg lL."her, and thoee he works for will like hie jobs. IIe can do a better job with lesg effort and waete of time than he can with traditional materials and methods.

The architect can specify Endless lumber and be aeeured of a first-class job with lees than usual supervieion.

The public will benefit indirectly through forest coneervation and more efrcient lumber utilization. Directly-in the form of better, guicker construction; tighter, eturdier buildinge; greater comfort; also lower upkeep, and operating cogt''rrrr

r 4-Square Endleea lumber is made in five species for eheathing, subflooring, flooring, roof-boarding, drop eiding, partitioning, Iining and for concrete forms. It ie eold only to and by 4-Square lumber dealers.

Endlees lumber ie but one of the many advancee in precieion lumbdr making sponsored by Veyerhaeuser 4-Square nills. ft indicatee why the 4-Square franchiee ie valuable to lumber dealeis throughout the country. There are still eome towns and citiee in which the Weyerhaeuser 4-Square fianchiee ie available to lumber dealers. If you arc intereeted in stepping ahead with this progrerelve lunber and construcqiou movement, talk to the Veyerhaeuser reprosentativ€ or write us at the addrese ehown below.

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MAKE REDWOOD EMPIRE AIR TRIP

H. B. "Chad" Chadbourne, Salinas Lumber Company, Salinas, flew from San Francisco to Samoa and return over last week-end as a guest of George W. Gorman, sales manag'er of the Hammond L,umber Company, San Francisco, in a three-place Fairchild cabin monoplane. They. made the journey in about 2/z hours each way. The round trip distance by road is approximately 600 miles. "Chad" describes the trip as having been most enjoyable, in fact, one of the most delightful experiences of his life.

While at Samoa George took Leonard Hammond and Guy Post, superintendent of production, for an air survey of the company's timber and logging operations.

VACATIONS IN MENDOCINO COUNTY

Bill Cuzner of the Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Co.. Los Angeles, has been spending his vacation in Mendocino County.

VISITS SOUTHLAND

L. C. Ster,r'art, vice president, Sudden & Christenson, San Francisco, recently spent a few days in Los Angeles on business.

ts for PERFECT PANELING AND ECONOMY COME WRAPPED IN CELLOPHANE_

LUMBERMEN VISIT NORTHWE,ST

H. Sewall Morton, Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland, returned August 22 f.rom a trip to the Northwest where he visited the firm's sawmill connections. He was accompanied on the trip, made by automobile, by Jo Shepard, Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento, Joe Rogers, Square Deal Lumber Co., Salinas, and Harry Terrell, Sacramento, salesman for the company in the Sacramento Valley.

VISITS LOS ANGELES OFFICE

E. L. Green, sales manag'er of the Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, was a visitor at the company's Los Angeles offi,ce the latter part of August.

RETURNS FROM NORTHWEST TRIP

M. W. Crook of Los.Angeles, representing the Tacoma Lumber Sales, is back from a combined business and pleaspre trip to the Northwest.

BACK FROM VACATION

Tom Walker of the Pacifi,c Wood Products Corp., Los Angeles, is back at his desk following a two weeks' vacation.

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LOS ANGELES, CAL, SEPTEMBER I, I935

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Grays Harbor Strike Ended---Fir Production Up

The sawmill strite ended at Gray$ Harbor August 15, when members of the Sarvmill & Timber Vorkers'Union voted 105t to 25) to accept a propocd of 11 major opcetors of the dictrict. The proposal riras along similar lines to thooe already adopted in many ot{rer Northwest communities. Five mills opened August 19, and sevetal others within a weel< or so. All Grays Flar6or mills are opemting now that were running before the strike except thtee, and two of these will staf,t ar roon e3 they complete repairo they are making.

The new 72-cent rate on lumbet rhipmentr by rail from Pacific Coast points to dietinatioru east of thc lllin<ir-fndiana state line and nonrh of the Ohio Rivct became cfiecive August

Forest Service Selects New Director lot Southwe3t€rn Experiment Station

Arthur T. IJpson, Trade Promotion Manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, has resigned to accept the position of Director of the Southwestern Forest and Range Experiment Station of the U. S. Forest Service, with headquarters at Tu'cson, Ariz.

Mr. Ups,on went to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association from the Forest Service in 1924, after having served as Forest Assistant, Forest Examiner, Deputy Forest Supervisor and Forest Supervisor in a number of the National Forests in Colorado; Chief of Operation in.the Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis., and finally as Chief of its Section of Industrial Investigation.

Mr. Upsorr was first engaged by the National Lumber. Manufacturers Association as lumber standards advisor and wood technologist. He 'conducted investigations in the standardization of the grading of softwood and hardwood lumber and timber. His was the major responsibility ih the preparation of the American Lumber Standards and for their adoption, incorporation in Regional Association rules, and commercial grading at sawmills ln 1927, 1928 and l9D he was manager of the eastern division of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association with headquarters in New York-City, and also served as Executive Secretary of the Central.Committee on Lumber Standards. Since April , 1929, he has been in the {ashington offi,ce, first as assistant and later as Trade Prqirotion Manager, in charge of lumbef tiade eltensigi.end rl$e11h activities.

24. It is ectimated that the amount of \Vest Coast lumbet movirrg by rail into the territory afiected will be increased by .17rq)O cats annually.

The Vest Coast Lumbements Aasociation reported in Seattle recendy that thc total loss€E from tfie lumber strike are eetimated at not less than S25rfi)Or(XXl, and payroll lo$€s are placed at t7p0or000. The Association rqrc'rted an increase in pro. duction for the weeL ended August 17 of 8r000rfiX) feec New busine$ totaled 101r3r1rE60, and shipmentr l07r7$3rl35 Laet.

Dougla! Fir mills arc ctill oversoid on uppers, particulady vertical gmiri fooring. No. 2 and, No. f stocls are low and pnactically all mills are out of these items. Prices are f,r:m. Thete ir rtill a scatcity of lath, and prices are firm. The markot on Red Cedar shingles ir rtrong. A good many shirryle milla ranain down.

A meetirrg of rales maneger! handling East Coast Fir. raler war held in Seatde on August 22 when it was decided to adopt Price Lirt No. 32, which ir an advance ranging from 50 to 7J cents on dimcnsion and timbers on Adantic Coart busin6r. Redwood millg are endeavoring to build up dry stockr a! fast ac pouible. Priccs continue firm. Redwood ohingle mills are b.r"y.

The Vcrtern Pine Asrociation reported new business for t{re week ended August 17 totaling 4662E,000. This war 12 per cent below t{re previous week. Shipmentr were 55r5(X)rfi[ feet and productioin 72r136'fiD fcee

Pacific Cmst longlhoremen have.voted in favor of renewal of exirting work agreernents with shipowners and water front employers. With only a few locals uncounted on August 26, the vote in five coast portc-San Francircol Loo Angeles, Satr Pedro, Portland and Tacoma, stood 83EE for renswing r:he agreemelrt, and 1319 against. The shipovmers had already announced their willingness to renew the agreement. The prdent agreement which'expira on September 3O was made e ye t ago as tfie climax of the longshorements strike along the Pacific Coast.

Unsold stocks on the public docks.at Los Angeles hartor on August 19 totaled 3,6131000 feet. C"rgo ardvals at Los Angeles harbor for the npek ended August 19 totaled 1422O;aW feet, which included 13 cargoes of Fir with l3r84lrOOO feet and one cargo of Redwood with rTgrOO0 feet. 61 vessels were olrerating in the coait.wise lumber service on August l9i 35 vesselg were laid up.

I.OS ANGELES VISITOR

Earl Bowen of Visalia was a Los Angeles visitor last month. Mr. Bowen was formerly connected with the retail :lumber business in Inglewood. He is now interested in l.dnching and building, operations in the Visalia q9f:. ,

Will Represent Paramino Lumber Co. Box Manufacturers and Distributors Southern California Meet at San Francisco tn

Announcement is made by the Paramino Lumber Company, San Francisco, that Dee C. Essley, Southern California representative of Elliott Bay Sales Company, with o{fices in the Petroleum Securities Building, Los Angeles, will represent them in all of the Southern California territory.

The Paramino Lumber Company have started running their two boats, Dorothy Wintermote and Lake Francis to Southern California. These steamers, each with a capacity of 1,800,000 feet of lumber, operate between Puget Sound and California.

VENEER PLANT IN PARTIAL OPERATION

Repair work made necessary by the recent fire in the veneer plant of Wheeler Osgood Sales Corp., Tacoma, is proceeding as fast as possible. The veneer plant is in operation on a limited basis, but will be hampered for a few weeks on account of the serious damage to one drier, necessitating complete dismantling and rebuilding.

The door factory has not ceased operation, and will continue to operate at normal capacity.

C. D. Hudson, 'Washington, D. C., manager of the Natiopal Wooden Box Association, addressed a gathering of box.mAnufacturers and distributors at a luncheon meeting held at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, San Francisco, on August 7. C. A. Webster, president of the Pacific Division, presided at the meeting.

Rex H. Morehouse, secretary of the Pacific Division, submitted his resignation to become effective September 1, which was accepted by the Executive Committee. Manager J. H. Dobbin was elected secretary to succeed Mr. Morehouse.

THE DIAMO,ND MATCH CO. BUYS TWO YARDS

The Diamond Match Company recently purchased the yards owned by Earle E. Johnson at Livermore and Pleasanton.

SPENDS VACATION AT EL PASO

Ed Biggs of the Union Lumber Company, Los Angeles, is back on his territory after spending his vacation in El Paso. Texas.

lOVo of Federal Housing Administration business in United States is credited to Soutrhern California.

RED\TOOD FOR BETTER FARM STRUCTURES

Dealers recommend California Redwood for exterior and interior finish in Farm Houses, Barns, Milk Houses, Garages, Implement Sheds, Poultry Houses, Brooders, FIog F{ouses, Cribs and Granaries, Hay and Shelter Sheds and for all Outhouses, Farm Building Equipment and Barn Yard Accessories. I \

We hat,e bulletins coaering uses of "Redzaood on the Farrn." t Vou mny hazte thenr, f o,r tke askin.g. I

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Vagabond Editorials

By Jack Dionne

So far as business folks are concerned, regardless of location, vocation, or political faith, cuss and discuss have become synonymous terms as applied to the New Deal.

I knew how it was in *, r"**r stomping grounds. I knew the savage things the cotton, oil, lumber folks say about it. But I just got back from visiting six states f am not so well acquainted with, and the farther I went the 'worse it got. I often ask myself-"Is there really a New Deal business man any place?"

***

Johnson, our best known American explorer, left for the jungles of Africa the other day, and told the newspapersand they told the world-before he left that he was glad to go to the jungles to get away from the "cock-eyed New Deal." Lucky Johnson ! A vast majority of the business men of this country would just love to go with you.

one of my pet n"ro""**J" i ,urro* they used to telt about who worked and worried himself into his grave, trying to solve a certain elusive problem which intrigued him so that he devoted his life in vain to unraveling it. He said that sometimes in his endeavors he felt that he was very, very close to the answer; but always it faded away and eluded him. The problem was-lVHY ARE THERE MORE MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN IN A CITY OF LARGE POPULATION THAN THERE ARE IN A SMALL TO\VN? For the past yeaf I've regretted that man's passing. What an addition he would have been to AAA !

rve been reading " ,* lr"lr, Jn" ""*r"-" heat in washington this sumrner and how it has been afrecting those poor old boys in Congress, but I never had any idea how bad it must have been until I read the new Tax-the-Rich bill.

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Then some of those funny ones they passed last winter must have been the cold !

r read where trrey cauel J ;. Morgenthau, the Secretary of the Treasury, and asked him to say something to sorta daddy the new Tax thing: I gather from what I read it took several strong men to hold him in the room.

Says Walter Lippma"", *rrd"* in many newspapers

throughout the land with regard to the new Federal Income and Inheritance Tax Measure: "Rarely has a measure of comparable importance been railroaded into law so casually, so carelessly, so hastily, so superficially." Well, all I've got to say is, that's talking mighty nice about it.

Next thing we know *"nU l" n"* Dealing the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, and the Lord's Prayer; and when they get through we'll have to start learning our Bible all over again.***

The other day we passed a law forbidding holders of U. S. gold bonds from suing the Government for repudiating its promise to pay in gold. At about the same time, and almost certainly timed in that fashion to give the rest of the world something to think about, poor, despised Russia announced that she would pay her 1943 gold bonds AT ANY TIME IN GOLD OF A FIXED WEIGHT AND FINE. NESS.

News reports say uoyl ;;" wants to borrow some New Deal ideas. I'll bet I know who put that story out.

Wouldn't it be grand ,, ta *"r" really true, and we could transfer hirn all our rights to the cotton program that is destroying the American cotton industry, and the live-stock program that made vegetarians out of this once meat-loving nation?

The cotton industry or;" *ra t the world burgeons and blooms as ours fades and dies.. And, the American housewife groans at the price of meat, while this nation that killed and suborned millions of food animals, imports meat.

The cotton men of an" ,""an, many of whom are right smart and know all about cotton, say the Government program is destroying the American cotton industry. Postal rules and regulations prevent my quoting just what they do say. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace says it ain't so.

Mr. Wallace is from ,"ir. ,i t",n. daddy of the don'traise-cotton program. They didn't raise cotton in Ioway so he naturally figured it wasn't a good idea any place. (Ioway's chief crop is hogs, so they killed off all the other hog supply).

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Building-Loan Associations Can Now Malce Modernization Loans

W. G. Bingham, Associate Director, Southern California District, FHA, announces that under the provisions of Assembly Bill No. 1300 passed by the re,cent California state legislature, building and loan associations are now permitted to make loans for the purpose of financing alterations, repairs and improvements pursuant to Title I of the National Housing Act, upon real property securing a loan now held by such an association.

Title I of the National Housing Act was designed to protect property values from the destructive efiect of long continued neglect; to provide employment for workers in the building and allied trades, and to provide adequate credit for property owners with income, but whose liquid assets have become depleted.

Provision is made for FHA insurance of loans for this purpose up to $2,000 in amount, for single residences, and up to $50,00O in amount for property improved by or to be converted into apartments, hotels, office, business or other commer'cial buildings, hospitals, orphanages, colleges, schools, or manufacturing or industrial plants.

Prior to May, 1935, building and loan associations were required by state law to secure such modernization loans by mortgage, but under the Assembly Bill passed, such associattons which have qualified as approved lending institutions by the Federal Housing Administration may now make such loans without the necessity of mortgage ,collateral. In other words, building and loan associations may handle modernization loans the same as banks and other approved lending institutions, providing the loan is made to their present customers.

Many building and loan associations have already qualified as approved lending institutions which simplifies the procedure for their own customers in securing loans for the purpose of modernization, repair and alteration of their properties.

Under this same Bill, the law has also been amended to permit building and loan associations to make Title II. NHA insured loans.

Title II of the National Housing Act was designated "to encourage improvement in housing standards and conditions, and to provide a system of mutual mortgage insuran,ce". It seeks to reestablish the security and stability of mortgage investments and real-estate values.

Provision is made for FHA insurance of loans for this purpose up to 80 per cent of the FHA appraised value of the completed property, up to $16,000 in amount, for the construction of nell' horqes, for the pur'chase of existing houses, and for the refinancing or refunding of existing mortgages on such properties.

Building and loan associations throughout the state are showing interest and are generally considering all reasonable applications under Titles I and II of the National Housing Act.

BACK FROM NORTHWEST TRIP

A. T. Pelton, Pelton Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has returned from a business trip to the Northwest.

Interest and Inguranc€ Rates Reduced Bv FHA

Interest on insured refinanced mortgages has been reduced by the Federal Housing Administration lrom Sf/o to 5/o; thus making a uniform interest rate for the classifications of mortages eligible for FHA insurance.

While the interest rate formerly has been 5/o insofar as new construction and acquisition of property is concerned, the rate on mortgages or trust deeds which involved refunding or refinancing up to this date has been 5l/o. This new rate, so far as refinancing and refunding of mortgages is ,concerned, gives the benefit of the low interest rate, made originally by proclamation of the President of the United States, to the present home owner who desires to refinance under the FHA terms, ac'cording to F. W. Marlow, District Director, Southern California.

The successful operation of the FHA has also brought a reduction ol I of. l/o in insurance rates insofar as refunding of mortgages is concerned, and thereby materially reducing the cost of insurance under FH;A terms. This rl of 1/o reduction is retroactive and will apply to all loans insured up to date by FHA; the rate now being I of. l/o on all loarrs. It is the purpose of the NHA to give to the home owner, mortgage insurance at the lowest possible rate consistent rvith the operation of the insurance plan, and also to give to the home owner the lowest possible interest rate that is consistent with good lending by Finan'cial institutions.

The regulations have been changed also in respect to mortgage companies, now making possible approved mortgages of mortgage companies that have a ,capital of $100,000 or more.

A simplified form of application blank has also been received and is pronounced by lending institutions as meeting with their approval. Lending institutions may charge a maximum service fee of , l/o on the mortgage on existing construction; 2%% on new construction, and the mortgagor shall not be obliged to pay any further charges except as approved by the FHA.

In view of the liberalization of the Housing Act, I am expecting an additional flow of appli,cations through lending institutions and this office. We will reach the $10,000,000 mark in applications received before July lst; approximately 50/o of. which are for new construction; 25% for the pur,chase or acquisition o{ property, and 25/o f.or the refunding and refinancing of mortgages on existing construction, states Mr. Marlow.

The cooperation of the public and lending institutions, so far as the FHA is concerned, is very gratifying to the District Director and the Staff.

"Previous to this date up to 2l days was needed for the purpose of processing a loan through this institution due to the very heavy demands; the office is now staffed so that this time is reduced to 14 days with the possibility that it will be further redu'ced to ten davs." said Mr. Marlow.

GEO. MELVILLE

George Melville, manager of Puget Sound Associated Mills, San Fran,cisco.

VISITS S. F.

the Los Angeles recently paid a office of visit to

Vagabond Editorials

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Mr. Wallace knows little or nothing about cotton. And, when folks who know a lot about cotton try to tell him, he doesn't seem to lrear so good. His sending outfit works swell, but his receiving set seems to be on the Fritz all the time' - ,k ,N *

It is a fact that the rest of the world is buying less and less of our cotton, raising more and more of their own, finding more arld rnore substitutes for cotton. It is likewise true that the great cotton industry of the South is rapidly disintegrating. Firms are breaking up, their employes are hunting jobs, and there is left today only a skeleton of the great industry that has been engaged in marketing American cotton to the world. ***

Such newspapers as the Dallas (Texas) News, located in the center of the world's greatest cotton raising area, is thundering against the cotton program as purely political and utterly destructive. But the little man from Ioway just snaps his fingers. They don't see things from the Ioway viewpoint.

w. L. clayton, tt " "ottir, ;"; n".""rsing one of the finest rhentalities in America and knowing more about the world's cotton business than any other man (likewise a

man whose character is high and whose integrity is golden) says our Governmental cotton plan has doomed to destruction the American cotton industry.

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But the word of the big man who knows (and whose opinion is backed by a mountain of physical evidence) goes unheeded; while the word of the little man who doesn't know -remains the law.

The employ", or "ottorJo;" ," the South one hundred thousand strong, have organized in defense of their jobs and of the industry that feeds them. They have a militant organization whose sole object is to keep the Government cotton program from wiping out their means of livelihood. They are trying to help the Government fight unemployment by fighting the Government in defense of their own jobs. Funny situation, isn't it? Only these cotton workers can't quite see the joke.

r have been declari"g ; irr""orrr-r, for the past two years that these double-damned tax-free securities have been an absolute blight on the economic and industrial situation. They have done more to increase unemployment and extend depression than any other one cause. Seeking the safe harbor of tax-free security and Government guarantee of repayment, untold millions have been withdrawn from industry, commerce, and every other active channel that keeps this nation economically ang financially alive. Business has been drained white by the withdrawal of funds to buy this typq of bonds. Whoever conceived the idea of selling billions of dollars worth of tax-free securities in an effort to revive staggering business, should have been tapped for the simples in the first place.

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How to Obtain Fcderal Housing Loans

By Col. \ilm. H. Evans

i Supervisor FHA, Southern California District

FHA Modernization Loans under Title I, may be secured by application DIRECT to any FHA approved bank, building and loan association, department store, contractor or building supply house. The application form is sh,ort and simple. fn most cases as no title search or escrow are involved rapid servi'ce may be expected. Fun'ds derived from Modernization Loans may be used to finance additions and alterations, and the purchase of household appliances.

Title II Loans are of a different ,character, altogether. These funds are advanced by lending institutions for use in the pur,chase, construction, and refinance of one to fourfamily dwellings. The quickest and simplest method of getting a Title II Loan is to apply directly to your bank, building and Loan association or mortgage company. When the application blanks are filled in, the applicant must also submit the following: (1) Four prints of one photo of front of property; four prints of one photo which shows adjoining neighborhood; (2) tax bill, also data concerning assessments,if. any; (3) cashier's che,ck, made payable to the FHA, at the rate of three dollars per thousand of loan arriount; (4) in the case of new constru,ction, three sets of plans, and three sets of specifications; (4-b) in the case of proposed alterations, three sets each of plans and specifications of contemplated 'changes. Upon the approval of the application the FHA will issue to the lending institution mortgage insurance under whi,ch the lender is fully insured against loss.

Buys Lumber Operations in Arizona

The Cady Lumber Corporation of McNary, Ariz., and its subsidiaries, were sold at a public sale to James G. McNary by Chandler Wood, receiver, at Flagstaff on July 31. The purchase price was a little over $800,000.

The properties bought by Mr. McNary included the Cady Lumber Corporation, the Apache Railway Co., Standard Lumber Mills, Inc. and Southwest Lumber Sales Corporation. The Cady Lumber Corporation plant at McNary has been operating while the company was in receivership. Mr. McNary has been with the Cady Lumber Corporation since they started operating in Arizona, and before that was associated with the late W. M. Cadv in the Cadv Lumber Co. at McNarv. La.

Council Mcets in San Francisco

California Lumbermen's Council held its resular monthly meeting at the Commercial Club, San Francisco, August 24. George Ley, president of the Council, presided, and there was a good attendance of members. Harry A. Lake, Garden Grove, president of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, came from Southern California to attend the meeting.

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\(/ill Rosers

By Jack Dionne

I have been reading almost tons of things that have been written about the life, doings, and sayings of Will Rogers. I have found a peculiar enjoyment in reading everything that came my way about him.

And the foremost thought that the whole unbelievable tragedy leaves ineffaceably in my mind and, like Banquo's ghost, "will not down," is the age-old philosophy that "the ways of Providence are past our human understanding." Think of Will Rogers being gone, and of all the countless human lice that remain behind !

That isn't the right way to think of the matter. I realize that. It isn't the way Will Rogers would have thought-or at least spoken-had he been thinking about some other good man gone before. But I can't help it. It's the way I instinctively feel about it, and it is the thought that sticks in the front of my head. Will Rogers, with his sweetness, his cleanness, his helpfulness, his usefulness, his lovableness, his infallible ability to make other people happieris gone ! And the Longs, the Coughlins, and all the others of that ilk remain behind. It is all past our human understanding that such a thing could be. '

I hate to see them referring to him continually as a "wit." To call that gentle soul a wit is purest slander. Wit cuts. Wit hurts. Wit carries with it the sting of the lash. Even when used with the most ,consummate dexterity, it almost always leaves a wound. Will Rogers never said anything to hurt anyone. He leaned far over the other way.

In fact I well recall that the only times I ever seriously disagreed with anything he said was on one or two occasions when he sprang to the defense of someone who seemed to me to be indefensible. I realize now that it was the very nature of the man to hasten to the defense of someone whose dog was being kicked around; that the very fact that the fellow might deserve very little consideration, would make Rogers all the more anxious to speak a word in his defense. He tried to find some good in every one. He said himself that he'd never met a man he didn't like. He even found something nice to say about George Bernard Shaw; which proves that his tolerance had no limits.

Will Rogers was a HUMORIST. Ife was a humorist of the purest ray serene. He took men, and their words, and their works, and he distorted them in fun-loving fashion until they made men laugh. He had the amazing ability to make men laugh at themselves, Wit never accomplishes that. Only humor can make a .man really enjoy a joke of which he himself, is the butt. Simple things were his

joy and delight. His fun and humor had simplicity and terseness as their 'chief appeal. He murdered the King's English, and people who would have turned up their nose at anyone else on this earth who "ainted" them as he did, laughed with him and at him until their sides ached with merriment.

Everyone on earth who gets things printed is taking a turn at eulogizing. Will Rogers. I think the most genuine interview about him was the remark of Aviator Crosson who flew the bodies back from the Arctic. When the newspapers at Los Angeles asked him about his friend, tears filled his eyes and he answered: "I can't speak about my personal feelings."

I think most of the people of this country felt like Crosson did. It was something too utterly stunning to vocalize. Irvin Cobb wrote ponderously about the departed. But before he got through he said one splendid thing. He admitted that in his own mind he had never entirely settled the question of immortality, but that while it might be that other people ended with the grave, it was impossible to even imagine su,ch a termination for Wilt Rogers; ,that he believed the humorist was going right along on his way. "ft wouldn't be right," said Cobb, "to give Will Rogers to just one world and chebt some other world out of all the kindliness and fun, all that sweetness and humility and ripe philosophy and precious wit." Plenty of folks will agree with that.

I think by far the finest tribute to Rogers I have read was that of another of his old friends, Harry Carr of the Los Angeles Times. "f have always thought of him," says Carr, "as the most typical of all Americans. He was America. He was the prairie wind and the pulse and throb of America. A square shooter, faithful to his family, to his friends, and to his ideals, Bill went to his last ride like the Chevalier Bayard-without fear and without reproach. The Indians say that it is not important how long a man lives; it is only important what he did while he was living. And most to be desired of any gift that can come to man is that his release from the world shall be one of honor and glory-that he go out on the crest of the wave-that when the ship goes down it shall be with the marine guard standing at Present Arms and the band playing-'The Star Spangled Banner.' And so did 'my friend go out, loaded with honors and with the friendship and affection of men. Vaya con Dios, Will. Go with God."

Many of his most'famous remarks are being printed and reprinted. I read and heard most everything he ever said. And I think the remark most typical of the man, and to me one of the finest bits of humor ever uttered, was when he said that a man who had a blue suit and a brown suit could dress splendidly for any occasion.

That was Will all over.

GOING and COMING

RAY BIELE VISITS PACIFI,C COAST

Ray Biele, vice president and general manag'er, Morrison-Merrill & Company, Salt Lake City, recently visited the Pacifi,c Northwest, and drove from Portland to San Francis,co over the Redwood Highway, calling on The Pacific Lumber Company's operations at S,cotia on the way. After spending a few days in San Fran.cisco Mr. Biele returned home by way of Southern California where he visited Los Angeles and the California Pacifi,c International Exposition at San Diego. He was accompanied on the trip by his wife.

VACATIONS IN SACRAMENTO VALLEY

L. S. Turnbull, Los Angeles, Southern California and Arizona representative for the Shevlin Pine Sales Company, vacationed at Fairoaks for a few days during August where he visited relatives. He also was a caller at the company's San Francisco office.

ARIZONA LUMBERMAN VISITS SOUTHLAND

A. E. Halstead of the Halstead Lumber Co., Phoenix, Ariz., has been visiting his father, J. D. Halstead, at the company's Los Angeles yard.

SPENDS VACATION AT HUNTINGTON LAKE

E. Steffensen, Santa Ana, Secretary of the Orange County Lumbermen's Club, is back at his desk following a two weeks' outing at Huntington Lake.

RETURNS FROM NORTHWEST TRIP

Roy Sandefur, general manager of the Dill Lumber Company, Arlington, accompanied by his family, has returned from a two weeks' vacation trip in the. Northwest.

BACK FROM EAST

C. L. Thompson, director of research, The Pacifi,c Lumber Company, San Francisco, returned August 19 from an extended tour of the East.

, VISITS BRITISH COLUMBIA

Russell Castel, California Lumber Co., Montebello, has returned from a two weeks'vacation at Vancouver. B. C.

Dr. Austin Cary Retires From U. S. Forest Service

Retirement of Dr. Austin Cary after a half-century of forestry activities including 25 years of continuous employment by the Forest Service was announced by the Forest S.ervice, U. S. Department of Agri,culture, today. Doctor Cary, who ranked as senior'logging engineer of the Forest Service, was the recipient of many letters of appreciation, including a letter from Chief For,ester F. A. Silcox. He was born in Maine and has gone back to spend his retirement at Brunswick in that State. In 4ecent years much of his time was spent in national forests of the East and at headquarters of the Forest Service in Washington.

A graduate of Bowdoin College, Do,ctor Cary took graduate work at Johns Hopkins and Princetofl, and taught forestry in the Yale Forest School and at Harvard. He also served in private forestry. As forester for the Berlin Mills Company, now the Brown Company of Berlin, New Hampshire, he was the first American to hold such a position. The Berlin Mills Company was one of the first lumber companies to plan for reforestation as it cut the timber crop from its properties. Before the U. S. Forest Service was created in 1905, Doctor Cary had also served in State forestry in Maine and in New York.

Hundreds of private foresters in the New England States and the South give him credit for having started them in the hitherto untried field of scientific forestry. He also was active throughout his career with the Forest Service in building up improved woods practice in the turpentine producing areas of the South. Besides making numerous contributions to technical and trade journals, Doctor Cary is author of the "Manual for Northern 'Woodsmen."

Joins McCormick's Sales Staff

Ray Canady is now a member of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., Los Angeles sales stafi, and is calling on the retail lumber trade in the San Fernando Valley and West Los Angeles including the Beaches. Mr. Canady has been connected with the ,company's lumber department for the past eight years and was in their San Francisco office until a year ago when he was transferred to the Los Angel'es office. He is well known in California lumber circles.

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MY FAVORITE STORIES

By Jock Dionne

Ag" not guaranteed---Some I have told lor 20 years---Some less Perlectly Safe

An American importer of fine goods from the East had purchased a considerable amount of tapestries, rugs, etc., in the interior of Turkey, and was transporting them to the nearest port for. shipment. When night-time came he stopped at a wayside inn and was told he could have accommodations. But he found no place where he could lock up his truck load of precious goods.

So he said to the keeper of the inn:

"Where can I store my goods for the night?"

Will Dedicate New Port Labor Day

Oregon's new port at Port Orford will be dedi,cated on Lab,or Day. Gov. Martin and other state officials together with many Oregon business leaders will attend the dedication. Port Orford is located 6O miles south of Marshfield. The new dock whi'ch was built by the Hauser Construction Co. is 100 feet wide and 500 feet l,ong.

The Trans-Pacific Sales Corp. will make the first lumber shipment from the new dock and the S. S. Shasta will leave on Labor Day for Southern California with a full cargo of lumber. The company's Southern California representative is MacDonald & Bergstrom, Inc., of Los Angeles. L. W. MacDonald of MacDonald & Bergstrom, Inc. will attend the opening of the port. The S. S. Shasta will make regular runs between Port Orford and Los Angeles harbor making the round trip every 14 days.

NEW REDWOOD SHINGLE MILL

M. B. Emery recently started operation of a Redwood shingle mill near Laytonville, Calif. He has become a member of the Redwood Shingle Bureau.

The House of Friendly Seruice

The inn-keeper said:

"Leave them outside where they are, my friend. It never rains here at this season, and they will not be damaged."

"But," said the American in ilismay, "they might be stolen in the night."

The Mohammedan inn-keeper laughed long and heartily.

"They are entirely safe, my friend," he said. "Nothing is ever stolen around here. THERE ISN'T A CHRISTIAN WITHIN A HUNDRED MILES.''

Redwood Calendar lot 19?6

Samples of the 1936 Redwood Calendar are now ready and may be obtained on application to the publisher, James D. McClure, 1401 Santa Clara Ave., Alameda, Calif.

Many retail lumber dealers have found the Redwood ,calendar to be the most suitable one they can get for their business, and there is a steady increase in the number of dealers ordering a yearly supply of these calendars for distribution to their customers.

The publisher says the 1936 edition will be if possible more beautiful than its predecessors, and the pictures will include home scenes as well as timber s'cenes.

VISITS LOS ANGELES OF'FICE

Forrest Wilson, who represents the Masonite Corp. in the Southern California territory south of Los Angeles and Yuma, Ariz., with headquarters in San Diego, was a caller at the company's western headquarters in Los Angeles around the middle of August.

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SPENDS VACATION AT TAHOE

Bert E. Bryan, president of Strable Hardwood Company, Oakland, is expected ba,ck at his office September 3 from his vacation, spent at his summer home at Lake Tahoe, where he intended to devote part of his time to the improvement of his golf game.

C. P. HENRY trN NORTHWES(I

Chas. P. Henry, of the Los Angeles office of Chas. R. M,cCormick Lumber Company, was a visitor at the main office in San Francisco August 20 on his way to spend two weeks in the Northwest. He traveled by automobile and was accompanied by his family. While in the Northwest he will call on the company's mills and offi,ces.

BACK FROM IO,OOO-MILE TOUR

John L. Todd, Western Door & Sash Company, Oakland, is back calling on the trade in Northern California after a vacation tour of the Eastern States. Mr. Todd, who was accompanied by Mrs. Todd, was away 11 weeks. They traveled by automobile and covered 10,000 miles since they left Oakland June 8. Most of the time was spent in the New England States, with headquarters at Wellesley Hills, a suburb of Boston, and stops were made in Chicago, in Michigan and in Pennsylvania.

SPENDS VACATION IN NORTHWEST

J. C. McCune, J. H. Baxt<ir & Co., Lbs Angeles, returned to the Southland around the middle of August after spending his vacation in the Northwest. His family accomphnied him on the trip.

ON EASTERN TRIP

Frank Curran of the Frank Curran Lumber Co., Santa Ana and Huntington Beach, is on a month's trip in the East.

LOS ANGELES VISITOR

Knute "Bud" Rinde of the Benson Lumber Company, San Diego, was a Los Angeles visitor on August 15 on business.

VACATIONS ON PUGET SOUND

Bill Hamilton, Ifolmes Eureka Lumber Co., Los Angeles, motored to the Northwest the early part of August to join his family at Burton on Vashon Island in Puget Sound. On the way north he stopped at the company's mill at Eureka for a few days. Accompanied by his family, he made the return trip the latter part of August arriving in Los Angeles on September 1.

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Curtis Me:rryntan

Passe s

A wire from his sons informed The California Lumber Merchant of the death on Saturday, August 17th, of A. C. "Curtis" Merryman, Jr., of Altadena, California, Secretary and Advertising Manager for this journal since its in'ception. His death took place at his old home and the home of his mother in Marinette, Wisconsin. His mother visited him in Altadena last spring, and when she returned to her home he accompanied her. There he was taken suddenly ill, and died six weeks later. His wife, his children, his mother, and other members of his family were at his bedside. Jack Dionne, Publisher of The California Lumber Merchant and a life long friend of Mr. Merryman made a trip to Marinette and spent a week with him there just before his passing

Curtis Merryman was 56 years old. He was born in' Marinette. Twenty-seven years ago he married Miss Perlita Penberthy, of Menominee, Michigan. Mrs. Merryman is a sister of Art and Paul Penberthy, both well known Los Angeles lumbermen. Mr. and Mrs. Merryman have' three children, Mrs. H. R. Rayner, of Long Beach, and twin sons Andrew and Frank Merryman, of Altadena, as well as one grandchild.

Mr. Merryman came from one of the oldest lumber families in America. His father, the late A. C. Merryman, was a member of the famous Hamilton & Merryman Lumber Company, of Marinette, which manufactured lumber on the Menominee River for two generations, was a nationally known.concern, and amassed a great.fortune for its owners. His mother, the present Mrs. A. C. Merryman, Sr., came from an old New England lumber family, her father and grandfather before her having operated sawmills in the New England states. The old family home where Curtis Merryman died is one of the most beautiful estates in Wisconsin, the grand big house ,centering a lovely plot of ground fronting on the Menominee River down which his father brought his logs for many years. It is worthy of note that his father, who lived in Marinette, died in California many years ago while on a visit to this state. The elder Merryman was a great believer in California, and invested a large fortune in this state in Redwood timber, and in Orange orchards. These properties have since been sold by the Merryman heirs. Curtis Merryman moved his

home from Marinette to Pasadena seventeen years ago, and has been assgciated with Jack Dionne and J. E. Martin in The California Lumber Merchant since its in,ception in 1922.

Those who knew him will always remember the gentle, kindly, lovable character that was Curtis Merryman. Yet with all his gentleness he was as stout-hearted a man as ever lived. and he faced the call to cross the Last River with the same smiling courage with which he faced all the problems of life. The writer of this article knew him from earliest boyhood, and rejoices in the fact that so fine, so fair, and so lovable a man as Curtis Merryman knew him and called him friend through all those years. He was noble in living, and nobler in his dying, and he leaves to those who knew him the legacy of a heart that knew no guile, a nature that knew no bitterness, and a soul that was always helpful.

Well might California's poet George Sterling have been thinking of Curtis, when tre wrote:

A voi'ce is mute that had no word of hate, And one gone forth who will not come againA comrade true, a friend compassionate; Tender and brave. a soul without a stain.

Chain Store Tax Petition Filed

San Francisco, Aug. 14.-The first petition for a referendum on the State ,chain'store tax was filed today with C. C. Collins, Registrar of Voters for the city and county of San Francisco.

The petition, filed by J. Robinson, bore signatures of 33,000 San Francis,cans. To call the referendum, 116,487 signatures are necessary, foes of the measure said.

Paciftc Logging Congress

The twenty-sixth Pacific Logging Congress will be held at Vancouver, B. C., from October 23 to 26 inclusive. The annual banquet will be held on Friday evening, October 25, and a golf tournament is scheduled for Saturday, October 26.

FHA Loans in Southern California Continue to Incraase

30,000 modernization loans totaling $11,400,000 under Title I of the Federal Housing Act have been made in Southern California according to a report dated August 17 by the FHA offices at Los Angeles. The total modernization work done amounts to $57,000,000 estimated on a basis of $4.00 being spent for each $1.@ borrowed. The average loan was $370.

Under Title II of the Act, the report states applications received for new construction totaled $5,496,526, applications for existing construction amounted to $7,382,847, making a grand total of fiI2,879,373. Total commitments issued totaled fi9,453,547. The average loan under Title II was $4,122.

Enlarge Offices-lssue New Catalogue

California Builders Supply Company, Oakland, r'ecently issued a new ,catalogue to the trade showing illustrations of doors, cabinets and building specialties, and containing price lists. The new publication, attractively bound in leather, will be found very convenient by the dealers. The company has recently made alterations to their plant to accomrnodate a complete stock of plywood and wallboard. They have also enlarged and remodeled their offices, which are completely finished in Douglas Fir plywood.

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Going Bond fior Contractors

In a recent Association bulletin, Kenneth Smith, Secretary of Lumber and Allied Products Institute, T,os Angeles, in discussing the question of "Going Bond For Contractors", says:

"This question has been raised a number of times lately, and we wish to call your attention to the fact that members are prohibited from going on bonds for ,contractors by Rule 5 on Page 1. We are surprised that this question keeps bobbing up because we thought that long since lumber dealers had learned that a quick way to go broke is to go on bonds for contractors. As a matter of fact, in these situations where any question has ariscn lately and we have made inquiry, we have ascertained that the real reason for the contractor asking the dealer to go on his bond or offering to give him the business if he would go on his bond, was that the bonding ,company would not rvrite him for the usual premium. Since the bonding companies are in that business, it seems rather sure that a lumber company would be paying a lot more for an order than it is worth to take a risk for the profit of one order that the bonding companies would not take for cash monev."

WILL DEVOTE HIS TIME TO THE, CHICKEN BUSINESS

Roy Winter, mill superintendent of the Weber Showcase & Fixture Co., Inc., Los Angeles, has resigned and will devote his time to running his poultry business. His large chicken ranch is located at Norco.

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FREE ENTERPRISE

Today the magic possibilities of industrial regimentation and the so-called planned economy no longer cast the spell of yesterday. Men are becoming increasingly aware that the strongest instrumentality of revival and reconstruction is the existing system of free enterprise.

-Alfred P. Sloan, General Motors.

GOOD NEIGHBORS

I feel quite sure that there will be no perrnanent peace in this world by any other method than by a shifting in the arena of the human heart from the desire to fight, to the desire for neighborliness. The world has not the will to peace at the present hour-and until the world is ready for peace, America had better keep her defenses.

-Dr. Charles Durden.

GOOSE AND GANDER

frss: Wfren you called up my wfie /d,told her that I VftU be detained at the office and *{dnot be home until

Steno: She said, "Can I

PERFECT PATIENTS

A medical student was advised bY an doctor to specialize in skin diseases, because:

"The patients of a skin him i the middle of the night nor do they em at

their homes. They don't country club, and send s to the to the fostadium. Finally, they never get skin ailment. They are also they ne die from a patients."

LIMERICK

There was a young fellow named Mbnn, Who wrote limericks that never would scan, He said I'll admit, My meter don't fit, (fast) But I always try to get as many words in the last lin+

(slowly) As I can.

QUIT

Nothing will place of he determination of the youngster with the pair of shin new skates. Every effort to skate ended in a hard fall. was particularly slow at price in bruises of body learning and was paying a and Pride. Sympathetic watched the struggle' and finally someone said:

"Buddy, you're getting Why don't you quit for awhile, and watch the others

"Say !" said the boy, , "I didn't buy these skates to quit with-I 'em to learn with."

COUNTING THE COST

To make one little golden grain, Requires the sunshine and the 9 The hoarded richness 9f the qrdAnd God.

To form and tint one fragile flower, That blooms to bless one fleeting hour, Doth need the skies, the clouds aboveAnd love.

To rnake one life that's white and good, Fit for this human Srotherhood, Demands the toil of weary yearsAnd tears.

CHEAPER TO STOP

A Scot applied for a raise i PAY, boss that he was thinking of getting the raise.

A few days later he met

"I suppose you've se married life by this time," said the manager.

"I'm no married," replied

"Not married," said the ager in surprise. "Why we said you were thinking of gave you a rarse getting married."

"O, ayer" said the "but I stopped thinking."

72-Cent Rail Rate on Lumber Shipments to Atfantic Coast Ellective Aug. 24

The 7Z-cent freight rate on all rail shipments of lumber from the West Coast and Inland Empire regions to destinations in the Trurrk Line, Central Freight Association and New England territories was ordered by the Interstate Commerce Commission on August 19 to become effe,ctiv.e August 24. The new rate applies to all points east of the Illinois-Indiana State line and north of the Ohio River where freight rates have been from 821 to 9O cents a hundred pounds. The new rate is on lumber not further advanced in manufacture than preliminary milling.

The transcontinental railroads announced that the 72cent freight rate for destinations east of Chicago would go into effect June 10 for a trial period of a year but due to the protest of lumbermen in the other lumber producing regions and railroads serving them, also from water carriers, the Commission suspended the application of the 72cent freight rate on June 8 until January 10, 1936, and a hearing on the proposed freight rate reductions was, held by the Interstate Commerce Commission in Chicago last June. The new ruling. by the Commission supersedes the suspension order.

Miss Ann Sherrill Baird

Miss Anne Sherrill Baird died at Paducah, Kentucky on August 2, 1935. She was a sister of the late James H. Baird of Nashville, Tenn. who was the editor of The Southern Lumberman and Supreme Scrivenoter of the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo for many years. Miss Baird was a gifted writer and politi,cal ,commentator, for a long period writing a popular column for the Southern Lumberman under th€ title "What's going on in the W,orld." Old-time Hoo-Hoo members will recall with keen pleasure her column in the Hoo-Hoo Bulletin headed "Wayside N,otes." She contributed to other publications and wrote many fine articles for the daily "Nashville Banner."

This charming and ,cultured lady of the S,outh hacl of late years resided at Paducah with her sister, Mrs. Luke Russell, whose husband is a veteran retail Jumberman of that city.

Talks on Redwood Shingles

jim Farley, assistant Western sales manager, The Pacific Lumber Company, talked on the subject of Redwood shingles to the members of the Redwood Empire Lumberrnen's Club at Santa Rosa, August 20. Mr. Farley is chairman of the shingle committee of the California Redwood Association.

Plays in Northwest Golf Tournament

W. G. Wright of the Wright Lumber Co., Stockton, has been vacationing in the Northwest. Mr. Wright, who is one of the leading golfers in the Valley, played in the golf tournament at Seaside, Oregon, and also visited the Oregon lumber mills.

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Balance of Production and Consumption Restorcd in the Lumber Industry

Washington, D. C.; August 11.-For the first time in its four years of existence the Special Lumber Survey Committee does not recommend a reduction of lumber stocks. The Committee's quarterly report to the Department of Commerce for the third quarter of 1935 finds that a reasonable balance of production and consumption of lumber has been substantially restored.

Lumber consumption for the first half of 1935 is estimated at 8,0O2,000,000 as against 7,884,000,000 in the first half of 1934. Production in the first half of 1935 was 2 per cent higher than in the corr,esponding period of. L934 in the operating mills, but total produ,ction is indicated to be about 18 per,cent less. This falling off is largely due to the closing of many small mills which were operating a year ago. Ifowever, the belief is expressed that total production for the year will be about the same as last year.

Pri,ces of lumber have been comparatively stable, with a 2-point increase in the June price index. Southern pine prices averaged ff23.23 in June, which was 15.5 per cent less than the average in June, 1934, and,1O.6 per cent higher than in February, which was the low for the year. West coast prices advanced from $15.30 in February to $18.25 in June, due partly to the effect of the persistent

labor difficulties in that region, which have reduced output. Ponderosa pine prices were in June about 6 per cent higher than in February, but 6 per cent less than in June, 1934.

The Committee notes that residential .construction, including reported modernization and repair projects was 74 per cent higher the first half of 1935 than it was in that petiod of.1934, as measured in floor space. Similarly measured, residential building in June was the highest for any month since O'ctober, 1931.

Lumber imports during the half year were the heaviest for any such period since 1933 and exports were 13 per cent higher this half of the year than in the first six months oI 1934. Douglas fir imports were particularly large in May and June because of the strikes in the Douglas fir region. So far this year there have been no lumber imports from Russia. The volume of orders recorded at the July midwest furniture show was the largest sin'ce 1929, pointing to substantially increased buying of hardwoods during the rest of the year.

July reports indicate slight stock in,creases, but total stocks July 1, 1935, are estimated at 750,000,000 feet less than on January 1.

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W. R. Ghrnbcrlln & Co .,....Se1 Fnncbco rnd Lol An3rlo Donoval Lurobcr 6. .........,Se1 Fnncbco end Lor Antslo Eutcn & lltartcra Lumbcr Co.................,.,..Port|end and San Fnndro

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A. B. Johnroa Lmbcr Co. .....Sln Frucis

Alvln N. Idgrcn ........Sen Fruclp

Mecllmld & Hmlagtm ....,Su Frociro rnd Lc An3clc

A. F. Mrhot Lunbcr Co. ....,.Su Fnndm

Chrc. R. McGomtc} Lunbc Co ....,....,,....Se1 Frmclrco rnd Lc Anlclo

McCmlck Sroply Co, .,......San FIucis md llr Angelcr

W. J. Mulllgu & Cq ....,................,.....San Fnnieo and Lc Angclcr

Chrrlcr Nclrm Co. Su Fnnclre ud Lo An3dc

Prmino Lmba Cq ..........San Frencbo

Santa Fc Lunbcr Co. .Su Fnndlo and Lo Angclcr

Scbafer Brc. Lumbcr & Shinglc CG ..... ......Su Fruclro and Lc An3clc

Suddcn & Chrbtcmon ........Su Fnacbco rnd Lc An3clo

Trcwsr Lumbcr Co. SrnFrancis

Wadllat-Nrthen Co. .......,.....,.............ttrl Fnndrcc ud Lc An3dr

R. O. Wllroa & Son .......,. .,. Su Fnnchco

E. K. W6d Lunbcr Co. ...,.SraFmcLcomdlcAnjclc

\THOLE SALE LUMBER-!tln"o

BT]YBBS9 GT]IIDE SAIT FBANCISOO

LUMBER

Cbenberlin & Co, W. R., Ith Floor, Flfc Bldg. ............DOug|lr 5170

Dolber & Canm llnbcr Cc, ?tr Marchaltr Exchengc Bldg.......SUtt* ta5l

HaIl, Jus L, ...,........... 106 Milk Bldg. ...................Sutter 13t5

Hmmd lt Littlc Rtvcr Rcdwmd bo., 310 Smc St. ....................DOugIr lttt

Holnec Eurek Lumbor Co. 1505 Finucial Centcr Bldg.......GArfield lt2l

Lmp Lmbcr Cmpeuy, Ft. ot l0th St...........,.........Exbrook |t3r

MacDonald & Harbgtm Ltd., la Callfmb St@t.,....,.........GArfie|d t3e3

McGomick, Char. R., Lunbcr Co., {|l Mu}et Sb,eet..................DOuglas 2561

Mm Mlll & Lunber Co, 52li Markct Strut ................EXbrok ll?3

LUMBER

Prific Imbcr Co The rO Bu3h Strcci....................GArfietd lltr

Red Rivc Lumbcr Co, tr5 Mma&rock B|ds.....,.........GArfre|d C22

Sarta Fc Lunbcr Co, rC Crlifmtr Stre.t............KEany 2071

Scbafer 'ru. Lunbcr & Shtngle Co.l l20t Fifo 81ds.........,.............SUttcr l7ll

Shevlin Pire SaIs Co., r0:tr Momdnck BldC. .,.........KEmy ?lXl

Sudden & Chrlstcren, !10 Suc@a Str6t.,,,,...,....,..,GArfietd 2SlC

Trcwc Lumb* Co., ll0 Mar&et StrGGt.......,.......,....SUttcr Ol2l

Unlon Lumber Co., Clockcr Building ...,................SU$cr lua

Wmdling-Nath.n Cc, Ua Mlrlct Strr.t .............,....SUtter 5it@

E. K. Wood L'-bcr co- I Drm Street.................,,.KEamy 3?10

LUMBER

Hlll & Muton, lnc., Danion St. Whrrf ............ANdm l0l?

Hogan Lunbcr Cmpany' trd & Alie Strc.t!........,....Gl:rurt |tll

E. K. Wood Lunbcr Cc. Frcdaic.k & Kinr St ...,.........Fruitva|c lll2

LUMBER

Bookrtavcr-Bunr Lunber Co.'

HARDWOODS

LUMBER

Weyrrf,emr Salee Ct- fO Cdiforni! Strect............,..GArfreld tt?{

HARDW(X)DS .A,ND PANELS

Fonyth Hardrrood Co355 Baphorc Blvd. ....:..........ATmter ll5l

SASH-DOORI'-PLYWOOD

Bucldcy Lmbcr Dcalen' Supply Cmpann Ul Sutts ButldlD8................,.SUtter OaC

Niolai Dq Sahr Co., 3015 l9th Str.Gt ....................Mteg|oo Zt2a

Orego-\f,fuhingtm Plyvood Co, 55 Nev MotSoncry Street.,.....GArficld ?00S

WLelc-Orgpod Salcr Ccpmtion, 3045 rfth SL ......................VA|enc|a Z?ll

CREOSOTIED LUMBER-POLES_PILING. TTES

Hall, Jm* L., ....,..........

l02d Mllc BIds. ...................SUtter 13ti

McCmick-Chu. R., Lmbc Co, $l Market Strftt....,.............DOug|ar 25tl

PANELS-DOORS-SASH

Elllott Bay Salcr Co., llZ Bndway ..,.Hlgatc Zt?

Cdifmla Buil&rs Supply Co, 50r rtb Avum ..................ANdwr ffSS

Wcrtqn Dc & Suh Ca. 5th & Cyprcs SG ..............LAkci& Sa00

Strablc Hardwood Goo 537 Fint Strtst............... ..TlEnplebar 55tl

LOS ANGELDS

5fl! Chmbcr of Cmmere Bldg...PRGpect 02:tl

Chuberlin & Cc. W. R..

.31! lf,'ctt NiDib St......'.... "....TUcker llSl

Dolbccr & Canon Lumber Co.,

,129 Shcll Building.............,....VAndike 8'tt2

LUMBER

Pattar-Bllnn Imber Co., 52f E. sth St. .........,..........VAndike 2321

Rcd Rlvo L.-ber Co, ?@ E. Sluro .CEntury D0?l

Suta Fs L'mber Cq, tll Fri.icial Coter Bldg.......VAndike 44?l

Hmmmd & Little River Redwood Co' ---i-cii--s--s-'o"d*v ...............pft"or"ct os t**[ ifl*r]"a"T,Lt i]o[*..*:r*brty {zzr

Henmingr, E. TlI, 3ssr -s; Hlll st ...............,Rlchnmd zl5t

Holms Eurels l-rmber Co., Ar-42 AEhltcct Blds. ..........MUtual 9ltl

Hown A. L.

76 -Sc I:'Brra Avc. ,YOrk 1f6f

bwene-Phllipc Lumbcr Co.,.

63 Pctroleun S*uritiee Bldg...PRGFd f2,

MacDoald & Bcrgrtrm, Inc.,

Tilit Petrolm Scoritica Bldgr...PRcpect Tltl

MlcDoald & Hmintto!, Ltd.,

5{7 Petnlclr Smriticr Bldg....PRspcct 5C8f

McCmlck, Ca8r. R., Lumbcr Co..

ll? \ilcrt ttb SL ,...........,.,...TRiniV 5Ar

Prciflc Lmber Co., Ttc

?O Sc Lr Brca Avc. .,.............,Yffi ff|t

Shevlin Plne Saler Co., 32t Petrclem Smritiet Bldg. PRcpect O6ts

Suddcn & Chrbtcm, 630 Bard of Tnde Bldg. ........TRinity tt{1

Unio Lunbcr Co gtt W. M. Glr'Lrd Bld8.........,.TRirity 22tz

Wodling-Nathen Co., 70 So La Brca Ave. ..,..,........YOrk fl3t

E. K. Wood Lunber Co.,

l7O Suta Fc Avc. ..............JEfrcm 3Ul

WcJrerbaeusr Sdcs Ca.,

tO Pcbdeu Sccuitia AHr...PR6Fct 55t0

CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLES.PILING.

TIES

McCmick, Chu. R., Lmber Co., llt \llst tth St. ................TRintty 52{l

Rcilly Tar & Chmical Corp. tl3 W. Fifth Strcct................Mutud t{33

HARDWOODS

StrntG, E. J., & Sm, 2050 Eat tEtb StEt............CEntury 2t2lt

SASH_DOORS-MILLWORK

PANEI.S AND PLYWOOD

Buckley Lunba Dealerr'Supply Co.,

53C Petroleum Securitie! Bldg..,.PRolpect 5t5l

Califomta Paml & Veur Co. 155 So Alareda St.................TRiDity al37

Elllott Bay Sals Co.

EOl Petrclem Seoritier Bldg..,PRcpect t668

Kchl, Jno. lV.. & So., a5i2 So, Mycn St. ........,....,..ANgclu tlgl

Oega-llfarhingtol Plywod Co., 3lt W.Et Ninth Strcte ...,........,TUcLcr l,ltl

P*ific Mutud Dc Cq, CApltol ?tX Il20 W.rtnbrtrr Arc. (Alhubn)

Red Riwr Lubcr Co., 7@ E. Sluro ..CEDturt 2tttt

Wheler-Orgood Stalo Ccpcation, a$t Samneato SL .............,.TUckar OGI

Ten Files of The

Years California Ago Today

From the Lumber Merchant, Septemb er 1 , 1925

W. B. Wickersham, Chas. R. McCormick lrumber Co., was elected president of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club at its meeting on August 27. ***

The Finkbine Lumber Company of Jackson, Miss., veteran manufacturers of Southern Pine, has purchased over a billion feet of Redwood timber in Mendocino County, Calif., from the Cottoneva Lumber Company.

The subject of "d,r.rtiril* l"O " large place on the day's program of the meeting of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association on July 31.

Phil B. Hart of "Ttr. Cliilrr,l I-u*r.r Merchant" rvas recommended for appointment as \ricegerent Snark of the Los Angeles District by the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club on August 27. Herman Rosenberg, Hipolito Company, was recommended for the position of State Counselor.

Jack Dionne, Publisher .t lt* California Lumber Merchant" was the principal speaker at the August 19 meet: ing of the San Francisco Advertising Club. In the course of his talk, he introduced A. J. Russell, San Francisco lumberman and inspiration of Peter B. Kyne for his famous story character, "Augustus J. Riddell." {< :t t<

The Wagner Lumber & Mill Company has opened a yard at Santa Bar,bara. {< * *

A $250,000 construction program which includes the erection of a new plant on a 3f-acre site at E. 14th Street and 58th Ave., Oakland, is announced by the Eureka Mill & Lumber Co. of Oakland.

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The San Francisco Bay District Hoo-Hoo held a picnic at'Kendall Dell on Sunday, August 16. Over 400 attendecl the outing which included lumbermen from practically all sections of N,orthern California.

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In the August 15th issue, an editorial titled "California Retail Lumbermen's Association Want I-umber GradeMarked" told of a statement made b)' President C. W. Pinkerton that the Association, at the next fall meeting, is going to start a campaign to bring about the grade-marking of lumber entering the state. The article caught the eye of E. T. Robie of ihe Auburn Lumber Company, Auburn, who wrote in that they have been having their lumber grade-marked for the past trvo or three months, ancl his c,ompany hopes that grade-marking will become general in the very near future.

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James Wisnom, manager of the Wisnom Lumber Company, San Mateo, is on a four weeks' vacation. He rvill

spend the first two weeks at Bartlett Springs ar-rd u'ill then leave for the Northwest where he will visit the rnills of Oregon and Washington.

The leadership in trr" nlavJ""J "ob,t.,,1' Contest, at this writing, is being hotly contested for by Frecl Burgers of the Union Lumber Company and Ed Seward of DolbeerCarson Lumber Co. According to Fred Holmes of the Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., more interest is lrcing shown each week by the dealers as.lvell as the salesmen. 'f**

Fred H'amilton l,vas host to five hundred of his fellow Sciots at a noon day meeting at San Diego on August 14. Lunch was served on one of the giant log rafts at the Benson Lumber Co. Frank Lyflch, president of the Benson Lumber Co., and Jack Dionne, Publisher of "The California Lumber Merchant" addressed the gathering.

The Peninsula Lumbe;.:'.l,rlo n",o a di.ner clance at the Cardinal Hotel, Palo Alto, on Friday evening, August 14. There was a splendid entertainment and dancing was enjoyed until midnight.

The Susanville Hoo-Hol O"O n"O a grancl ancl glorious day of sport and fun at their big picnic and outing held at F. G. S. ,Co. beach, Eagle Lake, on Sunday. August 23.

Prof. E. G. Linsley of Mills College was the speaker at the Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9 luncheon held at the Palace Hotel. San Francisco, August 13.

At the monthly meetinj ", ,n. East Bay Hoo-Hoo Clulr at the Oakland Hotel 'on August 21, Henry L. Todd rvas the speaker of the day. ***

H. W. Aldrich, former sales manager of Brighton Mills Co., Portland, and H. B. Cooper, also connectecl with this firm, have formed a partnership under the nanre of the Aldrich-Cooper Co. with offices in Portland. They will act as Northern representatives for Wendling-Nathan Co.

The Sterling Lumber a:. ;. f.,r.t "."a the I'dependent Lumber Co. at Salinas.

Eddie Peggs, W. R. Chamberlin & Co., San Francisco, has become the proud father of a fine baby daughter. Mel Doane, Southern Lumber Company, San Jose, is also the recipient of many congratulations over the arrival of a baby daughter.

The Pacific Co".t H".l',"Joo*o""r.rs' Associatio' held their semi-annual meeting at Vancouver, B. C., August 11 and 12. The next convention will be held at Coronado.

FHA 'Exhibits at San Diego Exposition Attract Large Crowds'

The California Internatiotral Exposition, San Diego, includes Model Town and Modernization Magic, two features of the Federal Housing Administration's exhibit.

The Model City contains fifty-six houses in miniature with appropriate settings of lawn. shrubbery and trees, and has been pronounced the most beautiful exhibit of its

English, American farm house types, ranch houses and bungalows.

Builders and real estate men have been using Modg! Town for the purpose of acquainting their clients with the different styles of homes .and their,--arrangements, and a number of sales have been made as a result. It acts as a scientifi,c laboratory for the prospective home owner where one can obtain all details regarding the home of his choice from the pamphlets available. Approximately five hundred thousand visitors, or three out of every four who have attended the Exposition, have visited Model Town.

Twenty men are in attendance at all times, day and night, to give information to those interested. Daily reports are kept of all interviews, requests for,m4i!ing, and attendance. A representative of a large Chicago department store recently flew to San Diego for the purpose of visiting the Tiny City. He spent several hours there and returned to Chicago again by air.

kind ever held. In front of each house is a container with folders showing photographs, floor plan, description of the house, and detailed 'cost and carrying charge under FHA loan for periods of ten, fifteen, twenty years. There have been over five thousahd requests for these sets of pamphlets from different visitors at the Fair.

Amongst this group of homes are featured American, Colonial, California Monterey, Spanish, Mediterranean,

Several sets of pamphlets describing the fifty-six homes in Model Town will soon be in the hands of all Housing Committees in California, and those interested in building a new home may obtain one or more of these pamphlets at the Housing Headquarters by request.

Modernization Magic is a platform operated mechanic-' ally, which shows the effect oJ old buildings before and after modernization.

The exhibit at San Diego yas constructed under the direction of Austin Black, Deputy. Regional Director of FHA. Stuart Ripley is manager of the exhibit.

Part ol Model Toun>Federal Housing Administration Exhibit

BUSINESS FOR SALE

Orvner getting old and wants to retire. Two paying small yards for sale. Address Box C-566, California Lumber Merchant.

EXPERIENCED LUMBERMAN WANTS POSITION

Lumberman with successful softwood and hardwood sales record, also experienced as executive and in all lumber office details, wants position. Will go anywhere. Will appreciate an interview. Address Box C-564, care California Lumber Merchant.

J. HAROLD PETERS,ON, JR., STUDIES rN GERMANY

J. Harold Peterson, Jr., son of J. Harold Peterson of the Peterson Lumber & Finance Co., San Diego, spent the summer in Germany studying voice and German, also forestry under Dr. C. A. Scheneck, who was formerly director of the Biltmore Forest School at Biltmore, North Carolina. Mr. Peterson is a student at the University'of California, Los Angeles, where he is studying voice.

J. Harold Peterson, Sr., and H. B. Oakleaf, sales manager of the Peterson Lumber & Finance Co., are both former students of Dr. S'cheneck and are graduates of the Biltmore Forest School.

MAKES GOOD RECOVERY

Tom Hogan, III, son of Thomas P. Hogan, Jr., who broke his leg about six weeks ago while working during his vacation in the yar.d of the Hogan Lumber Company, Oakland, is now able to be around again. Tom returns to the University of California as a sophomore next term.

HOVIIARD ABBOTT BACK ON JOB

Howard J. A'bbott, of the sales department, Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, is now back at his desk after an enforced absence of ab,out a year due to illness. He is looking and feeling fine.

VISITS S. F. LUMBER FRIENDS

Steve Elkins, Mill Valley Lumber Company, Mill Valley, recently visited a number of his friends in the lumber business in San Fran,cisco when returning from his vacation.

WANTED

Management of Retail Yard wanted by experienced lumberman. Age 38, married. Fourteen years experience, eleven as manager. Unde4stand bookkeeping and office details. With same firm seven years. Best of references. Address Box C-561. California Lumber Merchant.

RETAIL LUMBER YARDS FOR SALE

We can offer some atttactive buys in retail lumber yards in Southern California. Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers, 549 Petroleum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 87,f6.

LARUE WOODSON .Vr.FrTS', FArR

Larue Woodson, San Francisco, in charge of sales for Wheeler Osgood Sales Company in California, Arizona and Nevada. was a recent visitor to the California Pacific Internationla Exposition at San Diego. Accompanied by his family he went south by boat and drove back to San Francisco. Larue was impressed with the FHA Model City exhibit of 56 miniature houses, and says it is doing good'work for the industry. The man in charge assured him that he knows of many houses that will be built as a result of the models being seen tty visitors. He was particularly impressed with the ,completeness of the information as to cost, monthly payments, etc., given in the free literature that is being distributed.

HAS SUCCESSFUL FISHING TRIP

E. L. "Bert" Cooper of the'Union Lumber Company, Los Angeles, spent several days at Santa Catalina Island around the middle of August where he tried his luck at deep sea fishing. Bert is an expert angler and likes to go after the big game fish. He brought in several marlin swordfish all 200-pounders, and also made fine catches of yellowtail, white sea bass, albacore and tuna.

SALES EXECUTIVE VISITS CALIFORNIA

J. A. McEvoy, assistant sales manager of the Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills, Seattle, has returned to the Northwest following a business trip to California where he.called at their Los Angeles office. J. H. Prentice, Los Angeles, California sales manager, accompanied Mr. McEvoy to San Francisco where they were visitors at the offices of James L. Hall, the company's Northern California representative.

If the ancient Greetrrs had set up a :Federal Housing Administratio:r, it wouldn't have been riecersary for Diogenea to liy.9 in a tub.

A Atrew Edition of ((CULLUD" FUN

by JACK DIONNE

SAME STYLE.SAME SIZE.SAME STOCK

SAME WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF THOSE FAMOUS DARKEY STORIES AS IN THE ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION. JUST A MORE ECONOMICAL COVER,

U. S.

The first two editionc of cC"llud" Fun have been cold out. This third cdition especially produced to mset the continued dearand for this famous book. Order your copy now. Just f,ll in the couPon' attach your chccL and mail.

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' JACK DIONNE,

3t8 Central Bldg., 108 Wert Sirth St, Lor Angeler, Crlif.

t'Get along Babett says Paul Bunyan to the Big Blue Ox.

there is a Customer waiting for a car of Lumber, Mouldiog, Plywood and whatnot.

If you exlrect to get hay youtll have to deliver.

Remember tfie Customer wants to eat too and he hae to eell lumber before he can buy groceries.

He wants ,iu Ut"a he can rell best so thatts why he comeE to ur for nice old California soft textured pine and Sugar Pine with my picture on it.

"The mill wili saw it, the dry kilns will dry it, the moulding factory and the plywood factory and all the other factories at Westwood will do their stuff. The graders will grade it and the shipping crew will load it, all wrapped up in paper like a Christmas present. Johnny Inkslinger will send 'em a bill, and that's where your hay money comes from."

"Producera of Whitc Pinc for Three Generationr" THE RED RIVER LUMBER COMPAATT

"Every time you're hooked to a log