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Southern California Retail Lumber Deders Vith Their Complete Lumber Requirements
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Bob Osgood, sales manag'er, Cadwallader-Gibson Co', Inc. of Los Angeles, is on an extended business trip to the Eastern, Southern, and Middlewest lumber consuming centers where he is calling on the trade.
The Harbor Veneer Co. recently incorporated by A. T' Pederson and L. V. DeForest of Raymond, Wash., and Plas Hensler of South Bend, Wash., has purchased the veneer plant of the Pacific Fruit Package Co. at Raymond. The plant which has been down for some time will reopen soon.
The S. S. Daisy Gray which is operated by the S' S' Freeman Steamship Co. of San Francisco, sailed for California ports the early part of August from North Bend, Ore., after loading a cargo of lumber at the Eel Lake Timber Co. sawmill. The mill was down for a long period and this was the first lumber cargo shipped since resuming operations.
S.S. Lawrence Philips
Jim Farley, assistant \Mestern sales manager, The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, returned recently from a week's business trip to Portland.
Mrs. John A. Johnson, wife of John A. Johnson, Phoenix, Ariz., wholesale lumberman, and daughter, Jean, are vacationing at Santa Monica.
Frank H. Little River a six weeks' States.
White, mill sales manag'er for Hammond & Lumber Co. at Samoa, Calif., left August 7 for business trip to the Middle West and Eastern
George D. Hauptman, Los Angeles, lumber and shipping official, will leave on September 3 for Cambridge, Mass., to attend the Harvard University Tercentenary, on September 16-17-18. He will be a delegate from the Harvard Club of Southern California.
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Lumber orders were in excess of producdotr in the weet ended August 15, the first time in four months ttat such has been the case, according to the National Lumber Manu. facturers Ass&iation..- Production was clooe to the to,p weeks of 1936, totaling 254,333,OOO feet. Shipments were 2LOJ66rOOO feet, and orders 255,492IOOO tf t_"r the week.
200 dorvn and operating mills in Vashington and Oregon reporting to the Vest Coast Lumberments Association for the week ended August 15 produced 1O9AO8r4l2 fect. - The iirdustry produced 66.5 per cent of its average weekly cut dur. ing 1926-1929. New business taken during the'week by these mills was 114,9861251 feet, and shipments wete 97,O07,332 feet. The unfilled order file at these mills stood at 369,717,124 feet.
The Asgociation rqrorts during the. week a slight incr€rue in the volume of orders received in the rail and domestic cargo markets was somewhat ofrset by decreases in the export and local markets, the net irrcrease being only approximately one and one-half million feet in exceos of the prior week. Vith the approach of tfie fall buying season some further improvement in new business sh'ould be experiencod during coming weeks. Production is at about the level of the past few weeks'
The Vestern Pine Association for the week ended August 15, lt? mills reporting, gave orders as 75242rOO0 feet; ship. ments 611479100o feet, and production 76r851rfi)0 feet; Orders rr.ere 2.O per -cent below production, and 22.3 pet cent above shipnients. Shipments were 20.0 per cent below production. Unfilled orders on hand at the end of the week totaled,242,730,OO0 feet.
The Califorrri. R"d*oJ.elro].eon for the wcek ended August 8 reported production of 13 mills as 9,506,000 feet;
shipments 7r954r0OO feeq and ordets 6r334,WO feet. Week end orders on hand were 3Er189r0(X) feeL New business was 1 per cent greater, and productiotr 16 lrer aent greater than for the same week last year. * * *
The Sout{rern Pine Association, 117 mills reporting, gave grden as 4Or484rO0O feet; shipments 34r595rOOO feet, and production 35rO82rOOO f.eet. Orders were 15.4 per cent a6ove production, and 17.O2 per cent above shipments. Shipments were 1.39 per cent below production. Orders on hand at the end cf the week at these mills totaled 79,298,000 feet, equivalent to 3,776'cats.
Building operations in California are active. The retailers report t{rat business slowed up some during August, which is seasonal, but estimating for the fall business has commenccd to pick up much sooner than in former yeare.
Fir common, No. 1 alad 2, are in good demand and prices have advanced about f1.00. The market on Fir uppere is about the same. No. I Red Cedar shingles are scarce and the
prices are very'firm, and going prices 6rm.
The Redwood market is active, stocks at the mills are low.
Ponderosa and Sugar Pine prices are firm and mill stocks are broken. A pick-up in the demand from all markets is expected after the Labor Day holidays, and the mills are looking forward to a good fall business
Cargo lumber arrivals at Los Angeles harbor for the week ended August 15 totaled 1010601000 feet, as compared with 19r617rq)O feet the previous week.
Negotiations between the Vaterfront Employerst Association and the fnternational Longshorements Union for a new working agreement are now being held in San Francisco. The prment working agreement expires on September 30.
Russell Castell is now a member of the sales staff of the R.J. M. Company, Los Angeles, and is calling on the retail lumber and building material dealers in the San Fernando Valley, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, and Glendale. He was formerly associated with his father, A. J. Castell, who operates the California Lumber Company, I\[ontebello.
Howard Ryan, who represented the company in the above territory, is now covering the territory from Pasadena east into the Imperial Valley, and Northern Orange County. The company reports that they are increasing their lines and are finding business very good. They are strictly 10O/o iobbers.
The Anglo California Lumber Co., Inc., has opened a wholesale lumber yard at 6420 Avalon Blvd., Los Angeles. The company will carry on a wholesale business in Ponderosa and Sugar Pine, Redwood, Wallboards, Panels, Hardwoods and Mouldings. Henry M. Luellwitz is president of the company.
Phil Gosslin, sa,lesman for James L. Hall, San Francisco, was appointed official representative by the Governor of Oregon at the ground breaking ceremony for San Francisco's 1939 Exposition, held at Yerba Buena shoals, August 21.
R. W. Dalton, Los Angeles, has been appointed district representative for the West Coast Plywood Company for California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico. Mr. Dalton has been connected with the lumber business for the past twenty years, and was formerly with PattenBlinn Lumber Co. of Los Angeles. His office is at 705 Pacific National Bldg., 315 West 9th Street, Los Angeles. The telephone number is VAndike 0616.
H. Bruce Wiscomb, sales manager of the West Coast Plywood Company, with headquarters in Chicago, Ill', recently spent a few days in Los Angeles, where he conferred with Mr. Dalton and called on old friends. Mr.'Wiscomb was associated with the plywood business in Los Angeles before going East. He was enroute !o Chicago, following a visit to the company's new ,mill at Aberdeen, Wash. He reports that since starting the mill on June 18, the plant has been running to capacity.
W. D. (Bill) Dunning, Los Angeles, Southern California representative of L. J. Carr & Co., San Francisco, recently spent a fer4' days in San Francisco and Northern California, and while there paid a visit in company with L. J. Can to the Sacramento Box & Lumbe/ Company's mill at Kyburz.
He also conferred with Frank W. Trower of Trower Lumber Co., San Francisco, which firm he also represents in the Southern territory.
"Corn prices highest in a decade due to drought scarcity," say newspaper headlines. And we have paid our farmers fabulous sums NOT to raise it. Back in the old Bible days God told His children to build great storehouses and in years of plenty to raise all the food possible and store it against the lean years to come. THAT scheme worked. But, of course, He was just an old-fashioned God, even pre-dated the "horse-and-buggy" days. That sort of advice would hardly be acceptable now.
"TIME" magazine,"fa"i f"lrff blasting a poor tittte siily movie woman by printing almost unbelievable excerpts from her diary, remarked that the destruction of diaries had become a sudden epidemic in Hollywood. Not really?
I knew that since the talkies came in an army of teachers had been laboriously drilling the art of speaking English into most of those alleged actors and actresses, but I had no idea that many of them had learned to write, too. Anyway, we know one who wishes she hadn't.
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"There are things in the breast of mankind Which are best in darkness and decency hid, For you never can tell When you've opened a hell How soon you can put back the lid." (Kipling)
"ADVERTISING AGJ' .lo."l .n", lumbermen do a lot of worrying over disparaging remarks concerning lumber in the advertising copy of other folks, and suggests that lumber do some advertising itself, instead of worrying about what other people say. "Why not come into the park instead of looking through knot-holes?" asks the editor.
The question IS a reasonable one, and the suggestion pertinent. Of course lumber won't do it. Lumber is not COHESM enough to become COHERENT. I used to fuss and worry about it for many years, but not any more. Lumber SHOULD advertise, they say. On the face of it that seems a fact. But who is going to do it, and how? If you don't think that's a tough question, try and answer it.
Antilumber or anti-wr"U "U""*tsing is invariably done by some one or some group which is in a position to talk about a definite product and to market it wherever the advertising is read. fn lumber the various species are all directly competitive; none of them sells nationally with the possible exception of Red Cedar Shingles, and to group them all together and talk about "just wood" is a plain waste of money. "Lumber should advertise." O. K. But I'll admit I could never figure just how it can be done generally or nationally.
of course I've had an"*ruJrrarl.l experience in my own publications that "ADVERTISING AGE" speaks about. I've had people who didn't spend a dime a year with me raise unshirted Hades because some advertiser-without whose business I would have to suspend publication, perhaps-used some copy apparently reflecting on the nonadvertising protestant. With deep chortles of mirth I have had to remark to the protestor: "Mister, I'm sorry, but I am one of those weak humans who has to eat and, while you are furnishing me no grub, the other fellow is, so I not only stand for his copy-I am grateful for the opportunity of running it."
If I had devoted tfru "l-J "lo.rn, of time, effort, and
space to boosting some other kinds of roofing that I spent years ago boosting wooden shingle roofs' I would be rich and retired today, I verily believe. That isn't just a guess. I've been talked business to lots of times.
Next subject-Stories t i J"nL of years ago I got a perfectly grand story from a rancher in deep West Texas. I believe it was entirely original with him, and that I was the first to have the privilege of telling it. I told it on the radio soon after. It was grabbed by radio folks from coast to coast, and was nationally popular within thirty days time. It came back to me from everywhere. But like the gal in the old melodrama who came back "without any wedding ring," the story came back without any quotation marks. That didn't worry me. I've seen my stuff come back that way all my life.
But the other night I went to a movie, a very good one' "Rhythm on the Range," featuring Bing Crosby and Bob Burns. And the biggest laugh in the show comes when Bob Burns leans over to the lady in the dining car, whose coffee was too hot to drink, and says: "Take my coffee, lady. It's been saucered and blowed, both." For "Saucered and Blowed" is the story I'm just telling you about that got so popular a couple of years ago. It's printed in my book "LOTSA" FUN, and I printed it before that in my "Favorite Story" department in this journal.
Folks nowadays don't use many quotation marks. Some of them do, however, and when you meet them it makes you feel a little better toward the human race. Thomas Dreier, famous publicity man of Melvin Village, New Hampshire, edits and publishes a number of the highest types of house organs for important business corporations and groups throughout the East. He frequently uses my stuff-always with my name and address. The other day two of his magazines came in, "The High Road," and "The Howard Way." One of them used an editorial from this journal, the other a darky story. Both gave full credit. But there aren't many Tom Dreier's, unfortunately. I use plenty of stuff myself that I catch on the bounce, clip, find enclosed with letters from friends, which I have no means of identifying, and therefore do not attempt to identify it. But whenever I use anything whose author I am certain of, I am delighted to give him credit. Lack of copywriting makes no difference, and shouldn't make any. It's a matter of common honestY. ***
Figures show that the Townsend Weekly has made a net profit of $75,000 at last report. I suggest to my fellow publishers of trade journals that they do not ionsider that fact too seriously. I don't want to be responsible for
any suicides. But I'll say this: we're in the wrong business, boys, we're in the wrong business.
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"\Moman are healthier now than they ever were before,,' declares a headline on a woman's page. Oh, yeah? The Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company is spending $gas,000 this year for advertising. See if you can make those two statements jibe.
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Talk about your "substitutes for lumber." Definite and no doubt correct figures show that we now have 250,000 American families living in trailer-automobile homes. And the figures I have read of late concerning the present growth of that trend of home-seeking are almost too staggering for belief. There is no possible doubt, however, that the trailer making business has become one of the best and most active lines of industry in the land today, and that we now have a very, very large ..foating" population, living on wheels.
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They own no real estate, pay no direct taxes but the gasoline and oil taxes, go and come as they please, shift according to the seasons and their own desires for variety, and live a nomadic life that unquestionably has its attractions. The big national magazines are giving much atten-
tion to t'his new and interesting subject. Poor old building industry ! Just about the tirne we decide that the homebuilding era is due to take on great power, a lot of the sort of people to whom we would expect to sell homes, buy themselves a trailer-home and start drifting.
Nevertheless, and ""aJi rira"lrding, home building IS growing apace all over the country. Building figures are rising steadily. There are still many millions of people who are not living in trailers, and who are still interested in the type of home that stands on a firm foundation. If we can sell all of THAT type who could and should own a home, business is going to be grand
Caught a swell phr"""*thJ olt", a"y in one of Westbrook Pegler's syndicated articles. He was telting of the scenery as he traveled through the New England states, and he was impressed with the wealth of white paint he saw everywhere, and commented on it as follows: ..\Mhite paint, the badge of solvency and self-respect throughout the New England states, still gleams against the background of the woods and fields."
Grab that phrase, ,on nlrr,J-it"r" .rra paint merchants !
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The Federal Trade Commission on August 20 announced it had filed charges against six California lumber dealers' associations and organizations charging unfair competition in restraining competiton and enhancing prices.
The respondents, all located in California, are: California Lumbermen's Council, San Francisco; Coast Counties Lumbermen's Club, Watsonville; Northern Counties Lumberdren's Club, Sacramento; Central Valley Lumbermen's Club. Stockton; Peninsula Lumbermen's Club, Redwood City, and San Joaquin Lumbermen's Club, Fresno.
They were given until September 18 to show cause why they should not be compelled to "cease and desist from practices alleged to be in violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act."
The lumber groups will resist the complaint through their attorney, Morgan J. Doyle of San Francisco. Foll'owing are excerpts from a letter by Mr' Doyle to the Building Supply N.ews, Chicago, Ill., regarding the suit:
"With respect to the attitude of the respondents in the matter, they will, of course, resist this proceeding of the Federal Trade Commission because it is unwarranted and unfounded. We do not concede the truth of any of the
assertions and allegations contained in the Commission's complaint. We observe, that even if those assertions and allegations were true, the Government places itself in the anomalous position of today prosecuting and endeavoring to destroy business concerns, for doing the very identical acts and things which a short while ago the Government commanded and compelled them to do in compliance lvith the lumber codes.
"We have no fear as to the outcome of this litigation, but we very much deplore the fact that these legitimate, substantial tax-paying concerns should be subjected to this litigation which rve deem to be wholly unfounded and unwarranted.
"The Commrssion, of course, has not and will not reveal the name of the person or concern, who lodged a complaint against these respondents, but if that fact were disclosed or if and when it is developed in the course of these proceedings, you will find that this is simply another case where some individual or concern has succeeded in inducing the Government to take up and bear the expense of fighting his personal quarrels with these respondents."
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Southern California
Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys
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W. H. Sharp (Port Orford Cedar)
Carl Davies (Douglas Fir)
935 Petroleum Securitier Bldg. LOS ANGELES
Phone PRorpect 1159
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7 Front Street SAN FRANCISCO
Phone SUtter 8854
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Not long since f read an article in a newspaper that interested me tremendously.
ft was the story of a damage suit in court.
A little boy had beetr struck by the broken end of a live wire, which touched one side of his face, burning and paralyzrng it,
fn court, the boy's lawyer asked the little fellow to turn towards the jury and smile.
He tried. One side of his face smiled, but the injured side just pucketed up in a hideous and pitiful contortion.
It took that jury just twenty minutes to give him a verdict for twenty thousand dollars.
Twenty thousand dollars was thus legally certified as the value of a smile.
There's a grand thought there. If a smile is worth twenty thousand after you lose it, it must certainly be worth at least that much while you still have it.
Thon every one of us has a twenty thousand dollar asset that we hadn't so considered.
Are we investing it like it had that much value? Are we making it do that much good?
Let's all put out twenty thousand dollars worth of smiles to work during 19,t6, It will make the world better and brighter, and e'tery pathway smoother.
f mean no discredit to any church that seeks to help mankind; f honor every man who believes in God; but I declare it to be my faith that when f meet a man the smile on whose face advettises the peace and happiness in his heart and the love he feels for all men-I f.eel that I am standittg itt the presence of a priest in the greatest of God's churches-the church of the Brotherhood of Man.
Robert Ingersoll said that "good nature is the cheapest yet most valuable of all commodities, and love is the only thing that retutns IOO/9 to bomower and lender both."
Let's trade smiles in 1936.
George W. Gorman, well known San Francisco wholesale l,umberman, recently became general manager of TransPacific Lumber Company, Port Orford, Ore. The company has a modern sawmill with an eight-hour capacity ol I25,000 feet in operation, and has recently completed construction of a planing mill.
The main cut will be Douglas Fir and Port Orford Cedar, and the mill is equipped to furnish eased edge dimension.
The company is proceeding with construction of a new piling wharf, 500 feet long, to replace the one damaged by high seas last winter. Space will be provided on the dock for storage of 3,00O,@O feet of lumber. The lumber will be hauled from the mill to the dock by 'carriers.
The lumber handling equipment includes two Willamette carriers and a Hyster. One of the carriers is a Willamette Utility carrier with front lift, and the other is a regular type.
Mr. Gorman is maintaining his San Francisco office at 486 California Street, which will handle the Northern California sales for Trans-Pacific Lumber Company.
MacDonald & Bergstrom, Petroleum Securities Building, Los Angeles, will remain as Southern California representatives.
H. G. Larrick, Solano Beach retailer, was a visitor on August 27.
The board of directors of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association. secretaries of the lumbermen's clubs, and dealers met in Santa Barbara Saturday, August 22, and J. O. Handley, M. J. Murphy, Inc., Carmel, was unanimously elected chairman of the Convention Committee with power to act and select his own assistants and sub-committees.
Mr. Handley will name the dates of the annual convention but it was recommended that it be held when the University of Southern California football team plays one of the Northern teams, and be held just before one of these €lames. Mr. Handley will also select a hotel on the Monterey Peninsula where the meeting will be held. The hotel and convention dates will be decided on at an early date.
Fred Amburgey is now covering the Sacramento Valley and San Joaquin Valley territory for the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco. He is making his headquarters in Sacramento'
Mr. Amburgey has been with the firm for 10 years. He had 'considerable retail yard experience in the company's San Diego yard, and for the past few years has been conLos Angeles nected with the sales department in the San Francisco office.
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He was small, and coal black, and just about eight years old, and he was evidently on his way to school for there were unmistakable books under his arm, and he was heading in the proper direction.
The white gentleman standing on the corner saw his dusky face and expression, and there was something in his wide eyes that said he was not entirely happy. So he said:
"Boy, wfuat's your name?"
"I{'it's Sar;rmy, Cap'n."
Import of Philippine Mahogany and Philippine Hardwoods into the United Stateg, consigned to the various ports, for the months of June and July were as follows : June, 1,981,00O board feet; July, 3,857,000 board feet.
Total imports for the year to date, seven months amounted to 20,911,000 board feet,3 per cent of which was logs For the same period last year, January to July inclusive, imports amounted to 71,729,0ffi board feet, indicating an increase of 9,182,000 board feet, or 77 per cent for this year thus far.
Emil F. Swanson, Eagle Rock Lumber Co., Eagle Rock, was among the many lumbermen who ushered in the deer hunting season, and reports he is still tired out from lugging in a two-point buck from the vicinity of Mt. Gleason. Before the season closes, Emil says, he will no doubt go out and look for the other one.
"And where are you going now?"
"Gwine t' school."
"Fine. And Sammy, do you like to go to school?"
He was curious to see whether the dusky youngster would tell the truth in reply to so hard a question. But there wasn't the least hesitation.
"Yassuh, Cap'n," he said. "Ah likes t' go t' school. Yassuh ! An' Ah likes t' come home FUM school. Yassuh ! But h'it's dat time IN BETWEEN whut Ah nachally hates !"
In the news item in August 15th issue telling about the growth of the business of W. P. Mclntyre & Son, Fortuna, manufacturers of Redwood shingles, shakes and split products, it was erroneously stated that the Mclntyre family has been making shingles since 1928. This should have read "since 1898."
Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co. will move their L,os Angeles office on September 1 to 90i Fidelity Bldg., 548 South Spring Street. Their telephone number remains the same, VAndike 8792.
The Mount Whitney Lumber Co. was recently incorporated by Walter S. Johnson, San Francisco, C. A. Webster, Stockton, and W. E. Arblaster, Los Angeles, and they will erect a sawmill on the Dyer-Rucker timber tract east of Porterville, Calif. They will cut Sugar and Ponderosa Pine, and the lumber will be marketed in Los Angeles.
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Carl Davies is now Douglas fir representative for Dant & Russell, Inc., in Southern California. His office is at 935 Petrolettm Securities Bldg.; the telephone number is PRos' pect 1159. He has been associated with the lumber business in Los Angeles and Southern California for a long period. I
Mr. Davies recently retttrned from a visit to the company's Portland office, and rvhile in the Northr,vest he visited the mills in the Portland, Puget Sound, Grays Har' bor. and Columbia River districts.
R. S. (Bob) Grant is now with Lannom Bros. Manufacturing Co. of Oakland as outside representative. Bob has been associated with the millwork industry in the San Francisco Bay District for a long period, and was formerly with the National Mill & Lumber Co. in San Francisco.
Mr. Gampher, of the Monger-Gampher Lumber Co., Elkhart, Ind., wholesale lumber dealers and representatives of Harnmond Lumber Co. in that territory, recently sailed from San Francisco for Honolulu on the Lurline. He will pay a visit to the Hammond operations at Samoa, Calif., on his return from the Islands.
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"The Living Church," Episcopal publication published in Milwaukee, says that if George Washington were living and in his prime today, he could not be elected President of the United States, because he would be opposed by:
"The American Legion, the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Liberty League because he was of known radical revolutionary tendencies;
"By William Randolph Hearst for the above reasons and also because he was born an Englishman i
"By President Roosevelt and the New Dealers because he believed in the Constitution and in rugged individualism;
"By Bishop Cannon and the Methodist Board of Prohibition, Temperance, and Public Morals, because he believed in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and kept the best wine cellar in Virginia;
"By the Roman Catholics and Missouri Synod Lutherans because he was a Mason:
"By the Athiest society because he was a churchman;
"By the negroes and Civil Liberties Union because he kept slaves;
"By the Communists and other radicals because he was a capitalist and an aristograt;
"By the aristocrats and capitalists because he believed in democracy and the rights of the common man;
"By the League of Nations Association because he warned of entangling alliances;
"By the isolationists and hundred-percenters because .he entered into a treaty of alliance with France, and welcomed Lafayette, Von Steuben, and Kosciusko as his allies;
"By the conservationists and the Amalgamated Fruit Growers of America, because he cut down the cherry tree."
"Some folks uses big words de same as a turkey spread his tail feathers," says Uncle Eben. "Dey makes an elegant impression but dey don't represent no real 6gsf."Bruce.
Do not make poverty too interesting, too appealing. too rewarding, too honorable. Do not put a premium on continuance in being poor. In other words, we somehow today, are giving a lot of reward to those who do not seem to be anxious to take care of themselves.-Clipped.
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And considerable self-control, And much determination
If you teant to reach the goal; ft takes a deal of striving
And a firm and stern-set chin, No matter what the battle ff you're really out to win.
We strive until the goal is gained
Then look for one still unattained; Our records point the course we take, So greater records we can make; For hope springs not from what we've done But from the work we've just begun.
Judge: "What charge do you want to bring against your husband, Madam?"
She: "Free love, Your ff onor. He ain't supported me in ten years."
When earth's last picture is painted
And the tubes are twisted and dried. When the oldest colours have faded. And the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and faith; We shall need itLie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of all good workmen Shall put us to work anew.
And those that are good shall be happy; They shall sit in a golden chair; They shall splash at a ten league canvas With brushes oJ golden hair; They shall find real saints to draw fromMagdalene, Peter, and Paul; They shall work for an age at a sitting And never be tired at all.
And only the Master shall pr4ise us; And only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, And no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, And each, in his separate star, Shall draw the ThinE as he sees ft. For the God of Things as thev are.
-Rudyard Kiplinrr.
Ray Shannon, who for the past 14 years has been with the Union Lumber Company, San Fran'clsco, is leaving to start in the commission lumber business for himself on September 1. He will make his headquarters in San Fran.cisco and will represent the Union Lumber Company in the San Fran'cisco Bay area and in the Sonoma Valley and Peninsula territories.
Ray Shannon shingles, will also be territory named.
Polson Lumber & Shingle Company, Hnquiam, Wash., producers of old growth Douglas Fir, West Coast Hemlock and Red Cedar represented by Mr. Shannon in the
Mr. Shannon gained an all-round lumber experience in his 14 years with the Union Lumber Company, including experience in the manufacturing end of the business at Fort Bragg:, and in the sales end traveling the Middle Western States out of the Chicago office, and covering the Northern California territory for a number of years. For the last three years he has been in the sales department in the San Francisco office. He has a large acquaintance among the retail lumbermen of Northern California, and his many friends will wish him success in his new venture.
F. M. "Cappy" Slade has joined the sales staff of Don Doud, Los Angeles mill representative, and will cover Santa Barbara, Ventura, and part of the Los Angeles metropolitan district. "Cappy" has been associated with the wholesale lumber business in Los Angeles for a number of years and is lvell known in lumber circles throughout the Southland.
The California Redwood Associat-on's sound moving picture, "California Giants," continues to be in big demand by service clubs and other groups in Southern California.
Monday evening, July 27, it was seen by a large,crowd at the Consolidated Lumber Co., Wilmrngton, which included company employees and guests.
Tuesday evening, July B, the picture was shown at the Mullin Lumber Co., Los Angeles, the employees, their wives and guests being present. A bufiet supper was served by the company, followed by an open discussion, and talks were made by Carroll Morton. California Redwood Association, and Wayne Mullin, Mullin Lumber Co.
Members of the Building Contractors' Association of Los Angeles viewed the picture at the Times auditorium, Los Angeles, Wednesday evening, August 19. It was exhibited at the Stockton Fair during the week of August 23, and will be shown to several groups in San Diego the week of September 1.
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Follorn'ing a preliminary meeting on August 24, negotiations between the International Longshoremen's Association and the Wateriront Employers' Association leading to n'rodification of the 193.1 arbitration awarcl were opened in San Francisco, A,ugust 25.
Daily ancl nightly sessions were agreed upon to expedite proceeclings. At the end of the first day's session the question as to rvJ-rether arbitration rvill be the last resort in the event of a deadlock at the end of the negotiation period remained unansr.vered.
The contention of the I. L. A. as explained by their spokesman, Henry Melnikolv of the Pacific Coast Labor Bureau, is that arbitration should be a last resort instead of a first resort.
As chairman of the Coast committee representing shipowner enrployers of dock workers, Thomas G. Plant insisted that the I. L. A. place itself definitely on record as agreeing to arbitration if mutual cliscussions fail to bring agreement.
Five changes ir.r the n orking agreement being sought by the I. L. A. are:
l-Wage increases of five cents an hour in straight time and ten cents in overtime.
2-A uniform differential penalty for the entire coast.
3-A coastrvide preferential employment agreement where I. L. A. members are available.
4-Overtime for all t:me betrveen the hours of 3 p.-. and 8 a.m., and for Sundays and holidays.
S-Uniform working rules for the entire ,coast.
In addition the I. L. A. submitted a list of specifically worded suggestecl cl.ranges in the .current agreements as an amplification of their five point program.
Recommendations of the employers were as follows :
l.-Establishment of penalties on both sicles for violations of the agreement ultimately reached "to discourage violations of the award."
2-Operation of hiring halls by the Joint Labor Relations Committee for each port ancl the substitution of "neutral persons" to operate them, in accorclan,ce with the terms of the awards, "in place of the union ofificials and representatives who now administer them."
3-All questions "arising under the award," in,cluding the imposition of penalties, shall be "administered by the appropriate Joint Labor Relations Committee, or, if necessary, by an arbitrator," and that there be compliance with the decisions.
4-Incorporation in the new agreement of the provisions of the arbitrator's decisions of 1935. (These inclucled the necessity of working "hot cargo" pending a de'cision in dispute and of not quitting work l>efore settlement of an issue.)
S-Unwillingness of the employers to consider requested wage in,creases unless efficiency of work is improved, because, "since the awarcl was renderecl efficiency has been deliberately redu,ced."
6-Establishment of "spread work" hours in fact by distribution of longshoremen into shifts, instead of using the six-hour day as a basis o{ earning overtime pa-v.
7-'[here should be no interference with work "as orclered by the employers" under terms of the arvards.
B-Elimination of "travel time" and "transportation" for men reporting to work or returning from it "in the community at or near which they reside."
It was made clear by the employers that they will not continue relations undel the current au'ard and agreements beyond September 30.
DICK HAMMATT VISITS S. F.
R. F. (Dick) Hammatt, assistant to F. A. Silcox, chief of the United States Forest Service, was a recent visitor to San Francisco where he greeted many old friends.
Mr. Hammatt was formerly secretary-manager of the California Redwood Association.
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At a preliminary conference of representatives of lumber manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers, held in New York City, August 11, it was evident that much confusion exists relative to the application of the provisions of the PatmanRobinson Act to the various branches of the lumber industry. All of the provisions of the new Act with respect to its application to the lumber industry were discussed by those present. It was the sense of this group that in view of the uncertainty, not only in the lumber industry but in others, and in the absence of any formal interpretation from the Federal Trade Commission, further study of the bill should be made and the matter referred to the Lumber Industry Conference on Trade Relations, with the suggestion that an early meeting be called for the purpose of interpreting for the benefit of manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers the application of this law, and its efiects upon distribution practices in the lumber industry. While it is recognized that the provisions of this Act are not designed primarily to apply to the lumber industry, its terms are so broad in scope that unquestionably it merits the full consideration of this industry. The groups represented at this preliminary conference will continue their study of the act in the light of the questions raised and opinions expressed at the meeting, and their suggestions will be reported to the meeting of the Lumber Industry Conference on Trade Relations. Pending this meeting, manufacturers, rvholesalers or retailers who have questions to ask as to the application of the Act to specific cases should submit these to their trade associations for submission to the conference.
The following attended the meeting:
MANUFACTURERS-4. S. Boisfontaine, assistant secretafy, and John C. White, counsel, Southern Pine Association; R. T. Titus and Mr. Frederickson, West Coast Lumbermen's Association; Gene Rutledge and Frank White, California Redwood Association; J. F. Wigginton, Southern Cypress Manufacturers' Association; Ralph Hill, secretary, and L. M. Harris, Jr., National Oak Flooring Manufacturers' Association; A. Klammt, W. M. Ritter Lumber Company; G. C. Wathen and H. R. Northrup, National Lumber Manufacturers Association. WHOLESALERSJohn I. Coulbourn, first vice-president, and R. C. Pepper, second vice-president, National-American Wholesale Lumber Association; William H. Schuette, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Dwight Hinckley, Cincinnati, Ohio; J. A. Currey, New York, N. Y.; E. R. Plunkett, New Rochelle, N. Y.; William Schuette, Jr., New York, N. Y.; D. Theo. Kelly, Howard B. Harte, and Sid L. Darling, National-American Wholesale Lumber Association. RETAILERS-Geo. W. LaPointe, Jr., president, Frank Carnahan, secretary, Spencer D. Baldwin and L. P. Lewin, National Lumber Dealers Association; Paul Collier, secretary, Northeastern Retail Lumbermen's Association; J. F. Martin, secretary, Middle Atlantic Lumbermen's Association; G. E. DeNike, secretary, New Jersey Lumbermen's Association, and Findley
M. Torrence, secretary, Ohio Association of Retail Lumber Dealers.
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"Northwestern Observations-No 2" is an interesting article by Jack Dionne, who is on a trip to the Northwest.
Jimmy Atkinson, rvho has been covering the Peninsula, Coast Counties, Marin and Sonoma Counties for Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., has been assigned to the company's San Francisco office where he will be in charge of their rail department.
C. Harry White, White Brothers, San Francisco, and Mrs. White, have returned from a two months' European tour where they visited England, France, Switzerland, Scotland and Italy.
Fred Palmer, San pr.,rli.Jo, 1l", l"it for Mexico where he will be associated with his father-in-law, Hiram C. Smith, as general manager of the Durango Lumber Company at El Salto. Mr. Smith and his associates have owned a large tract of pine timber in the Durango region for many Years'
"Speaking of Self Made Lumbermen, Meet C. D. John-.on of Portland, Oregon," is an interesting article on the lrrrnber career of C. D. Johnson, the Pacific Spruce Cor-
poration mill at Toledo, Oregon, and the C. D. Johnson Lumber Company of Portland.
The Byron Times nr, ;1r.J,.J"ed the Byron Times Development Edition, their tenth special number. Among the Iumber firms having articles in this issue are the Good I-umber Co., Stockton Lumber Co., Brentwood Lumber Co., Electric Planing Mill, Redu'ood Manufacturers Co., and Tracy Lumber Co.
A fire destroyed a large part of the Coos Bay Lumber Conrpany yard at Bay Point, Calif., on July 16.
Guy F. Campbell .f F;r;, Iul". ,.p..sentative in the San Joaquin Valley for Paraffine Companies, Inc., of San Francisco, sends in some observations on the live wire manager of the King Lumber Company yard at Wasco, Calif., which are published in this issue. Stanley W. Root is the gentleman in question, who believes in changing the old school of lumber yards into the more modern Building Material Stores.
Kenneth Smith, the big, hearty, good looking boy with
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the booming laugh, so well known in California through his long association with the Long-Bell Lumber Company, has come back to the Golden State, and is now associated. with the E. K. Wood Lumber Company in Los Angeles as sales manager for the Southern California division. He left California about a year ago to take charge of the Long-Bell Lumber Company office at Philadelphia.
w. H. (Bitl) Morrt..J oi.rl c. D. Johnson Lumber Company has been transferred to the company's Los Angeles office where he is connected with the sales division.
The Geo. M. Huff Lumber Company, Los Angeles, is opening a new yard at 116th and Main Streets. The new plant will be their main y:.rd. *
Otto Frese. well known San Francisco lumberman, has opened an office in San Francisco where he will carry on a wholesale business in lumber and building materials.
IlIembers of the Northwestern Lumbermen's Association who recently toured the Pacific Coast were given a dinner at the Eureka Inn, Eureka, by the California Redwood Association on Sunday, August 9.
Carl Bahr, president of the Association, presided. Professdr Emanuel Fritz gave an interesting talk on Redwood. The party visited the mills and logging operations on Monday, August 10.
The lumbermen spent August 11 and 12 in San Francisco, and visited Los Angeles August 14 and 15, traveling by the Daylight train from San Franciscq August 13.
L. W. (Lew) Blinn, salesman for The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francis,co, recently attracted considerable attention to himself as a Redwood shingle salesman when he won the prize of a $50.00 suit of clothes ofiered by the California Redwood Association for the Redwood salesman selling the greatest number of squares of Redwood shingles during the month of June.
C. W. Buckner, California representative of Harbor Plywood Corporation, Hoquiam, Wash., has mqyed to larger offices at 712 Underwood Building, San Francisco. His telephone number is the same, GArfield 8529.
Carl Freyer, manager of the Wagner Lumber Co., Santa Barbara has returned from a two week's vacation spent visiting some of the points of interest in Southern California.
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The Department of Commerce has received a report from the Special Lumber Survey Committee on Lumber Consumption, Lumber Stocks and on anticipated Consumption during the third quarter of 1936. This is the 21st quarterly report of the Committee.
The Committee finds that national lumber stocks on July l, 1936, of approximately 7 billion feet were one per cent in excess of stocks on April l, 1936, and 3.2 per cent below stocks on January 1. The gain in lumber consumption in the second quarter was slightly above the usual seasonal increase. The third quarter will probably hold to the same level.
The present volume of stocks is itself not excessive. The danger is rather in the continuing though moderate current excess of production over sales in important species. The outlook is favorable for an increasing lumber demand. The Committee, however, finds no present indication of a "boom" either in building or industrial uses.
Improvement of product in manufacture, seasoning, grading and grade-marking; fireproofing and other research; small house design and prefabrication are enumerated by the Committee as current steps which should be encouraged, to improve the competitive position of lumber and timber products. It again points out that opportunity to regain most important foreign markets depends upon elimination of discriminatory foreign tariffs and believes that greater attention to foreign trade agreements on the part of lumbermen generally will further their interests.
The Lumber Survey Committee appointed on July 9, 1931, consists of Thomas S. Holden, vice president, F. W. Dodge Corporation, New York; M. W. Stark, economist, Columbus, Ohio; Calvin Fentress, chairman of the board, Baker, Fentress & Company, Chicago, Illinois; Phillips A.
Hayward, chief, Forest Products Division, Department of Commerce; and Wilson Compton, secretary and manager, National Lumber Manufacturers Association.
The Frank Graves Sash, Door organized and is now operating Graves Co.
The Crockett Lumber Co. is yard at 1664 East Florence Ave.,
& Mill Co. has been reunder the name of the operating a retail lumber Los Angeles.
The Florence Lumber Co. has moved to a new location at 9301 Central Ave., I-os Angeles.
Booth-Kelly Douglas Fir, the Association grade and trade mark certify to your customers the ' quality of the stock you handle. Builders quit guessing about what trhey're buying, and buy where tirey know what they're getting. General
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Paul Hallingby, Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles, is back at his desk after spending two weeks' vacation at Santa Catalina Island.
George Grant, sales manager of the Coos Bay Lumber Co., Oakland, was a recent Los Angeles visitor where he conferred with Howard Page, manager of the company's l.os Angeles office.
L. S. Turnbull, Los Angeles, Southern California and Arizona representative for the Shevlin Pine Sales Company, has returned from a vacation spent in Northern California. He visited his folks at Fair Oaks, and the McCloud River Lumber Co. plant at McCloud. Mrs. Turnbull accompanied him on the trip. During his absence, Bill Lawrence, resident sales manager at the McCloud River Lumber Co., was in charge of the Los Angeles office.
J. O. Means, John recent San Francisco vacationing.
E Marshall, Inc., visitor where he Los Angeles, was a spent several days
C. B. Walls, Jr., Phoenix, Arizona retailer, with Mrs. Walls, has been spending a vacation in Los Angeles. Mr. Walls called on the wholesale lumber trade.
V. A. Nyman, Aberdeen Wash., was a recent Los ferred with Don M. Oder, fornia representative.
Plywood Companv, Aberdeen, Angeles visitor where he conthe company's Southern Cali-
Bob Williamson of Dallas, Texas, publisher of Lumber Plan Books, and his family, spent a few days in Los Angeles the latter part of August, enroute home after a motor tour of the Northwest.
A. Klass, Hoyt Lumber Co., O'conto, Wis., with Mrs. Klass, has returned east after a visit with his brother, Herb Klass of San Francisco, general sales manager of The Pacific Lumber Company.
W. J. (Jack) Ivey, Pacific Coast field representative for the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, has returned to Seattle after spending a month in Southern California where he was calling on the lumber yards, contractors, and architests making a survey of the red cedar shingle business.
Mr. Ivey showed the Bureau's talking motion picture, "The Home of the Wooden Soldier," featuring Charlie Murray and Lila Lee, before the San Diego Building Contractors' Association; Rotary Club, Whittier; and the employees and their guests of the following lumber firms: Hayward Lumber & Investment Co., Los Angeles; Barr Lumber Company yards at Whittier; Long Beach vards at Long Beach; Inglewood and Compton yards at Inglewood, and the San Pedro Lumber Co. yards at Los Angeles.
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Retail lumber yard in Arizona adjoining one of the larger cities. Good lumber sheds, large warehouse and plenty of room for expansion. Yard is located on main highway and in fast growing community. Good investment. Owner wants to devote time to other interests. Address Box C-630, The California Lumber Merchant.
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Small yard in a large city, 20 miles from Los Angeles. Well located, lease site and buildings, investment about $6,000.00. Address box C-631, California Lumber Merchant.
Experienced and capable man willing to invest limited capital in retail yard or material business. Please give particulars. Address Box C-625, California Lumber Merchant.
New and used Lumber and Building Material business with good volume, showing excellent return on investment, within sixty miles of Los Angeles. Address Box C-632, California Lumber Merchant.
If you want to buy a lumber yard in Southern California, see us. We have a number to offer. Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers, 549 PetrolEum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 8746.
Washington, Aug. l5.-Blister rust infection was recently found on sugar pine in northern California and southern Oregon by J. L. Mielke and W. W. Wagener of the Division of Forest Pathology, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture. This is the first known oc. curren'ce of the disease in California. I{owever, the relative susceptibility of sugar pine had been studied previously by planting young trees in infected areas of British Columbia and northwestern Oregon lvhere it was found that the sugar pine is more susceptible to attack than either eastern white pine or the western white pine, the other two of the American white pines which are especially valuable as forest trees.
Blister rust, a fatal disease of white pines, became established in the Pacific Northwest as a result of diseased white pine planting stock introduced from Europe and planted near Vancouver, B. C., in 1910. Its presence in western British Columbia and western Washington was first discovered in 1921. Since then it has spread through natural means into the commercial western white pine belt
in eastern Washington, northern Idaho and western Montana. It has gradually extended southward towards the sugar pine belt of southern Oregon and northern California.
During the past several years infection on currant and gooseberry plants, the alternate hosts of the rust, has been found at several points within the sugar pine belt of Oregon and rust outbreaks already have appeared on the sugar pine in Oregon.
Control plans have been developed by the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine and ,control work aimed at safeguarding the highly valuable sugar pine stands is already well under way. At the close of the 1935 field season about 375,000 acres of sugar pine forest land had been treated by the removal of the currant and gooseberry plant3 from within and near the pine stands. Approximately 2,500 workers, financed on emergen,cy funds, are at work on the blister rust control in California and Oregon this season.
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LUMBER
Pacific bnbe Ca. Ttr
fO Bu.h Str84......,.............GArfield lltl
Rad Rivcr Lumber Ca' tl3 Mrodna|: 81dt...............GArficld llZl
Sutr Fc Lubcr Cq. f3 Cdlfqdr Slret............KEeny 2071
Scbafcr Brc Lurbcr & SblDft Cr.' I Drumm St. .,..........'..........Sutter ltll
Sbevlia Pire Sales Co., felO Mo&cL BldC. ...........KErray ?0ll
Sudden & Chrktas!'
810 Samc StrcGt.......,...'..'.GArfield 2t{6
Twer Lunbc Cc, U0 Mlrket StRt..................'.SUttcr 042C
Union Lumber Co.' Ciockcr Buildhg
Wodling-Natban Co., u0 Markct Sblct ..................Suttcr 5it03
E. K. Wood Lumb6 Co. I Drum Strcet....................KEamy :}710
Wwerhacur Salca Co. itr catitmir stei............,..GArfie|d t!?{
Ziel & Co.'
16 California Stret ......,.....'Exbr@k sur
LUMBER
Hlll & Morto, Inc.' "-D;;i;;- 3L ivhut ............ANdcc l0t':r
Hogan Luber ComPanY' --:att -c_.ltte Striets-'.... .'. Glaort ltll
Pyramid Lumber Sales Co.
"';G- P;"lfrc btildi"g .......""GLtotqrt tzg3
E. K. W@d Lumbcr Cq. -- ii'.Lii"t C Krnr Sdr...'..-..."'Fruitvrla 'u2
LUMBER
HARDWOODS
HARDWq)DS AND PANEIJ.
Fmyth Hardrod Co155 Bayrhorc 81vd.,,.,...........ATr.tr altt
Whitc Bnthcrc,Fifth ard Bro Strut! ...,.....SUtrcr l!3i
SAT'H-DOORS-PLYWOOD
Niolel Dq Sals Co., 3'as lttb Stret ....................Mlrr|on ?t2l
Orcgo_-Wuhingto Plyrood Co. 55 New Mmtgomcry Stret.......GArfictd 7l|| United qtster Plywood Co., Inc., U9 Kansas Street ..........,.......MArket ltE2
Whelcr-Or-good Saler Corpoetloq 3045 rrth St. ...................'...VAlencia 22|l
CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLES_PTLINGTIES
Americu Lumber & Treating Co., ll8 New Montgomery St. .....Sutter lz2s
Buter, J. H. & Co., :rll Montgmery St. ..............DOuglas 3EE3
Hall, James L., 1026 Mllk Blds. ...Sutrcr ttri
Aberdeen Plywcd Co, 60E l6th Stret .Gl.enc@rt lU{
Celilmia Buil&rr Supply Co. 700 6th Ave. ...,,.Hlgate Ol0
WectGm Doc & Sub Co, 5th ll Cyprcl Sti.,............LA|roi& ttto
Strablc Hardwood Cc. $]? Firt Str.t.................TEmplcbar 35tt
White Brothers' 5t,0 High Strect '.................ANdryc lt.O
Bookrtavcr-Bunr Lumbcr Co.' --i-so Ci"-t.t of Co--"* Blds"'PRGFGt 'alr
rChmberlin & Co., W. R.' --lit- w;.i winit st...'. -.'...'......TUcker lr3l
Dolbecr & Canon Lumbcr Co., -- gor ria"utv Brds. .........'.....'vAndike E792
Dunning, W. D., - --rii--Ctt-ti"'of Comnere Bldg. "PRospect !136
Hammmd & Little River Redwood Cc, -- roir S". Brodwav ...............PRcFct l$l
Hemminga, E. W., - iol s1.- Spring' St. ..TRinitv 9E2l
Holmer Eurcka Lumber Co. "-]iilzri- ii'"r'it*ti gr&.' .'...... MUtual eltl
Hover, A. L.. --Zm So I: Brea Avc. ...,.,....,....'YOrk llGt
C. D. Johnrn Lumber CqP-, 601 Petrcleum Smrities Bldg....PRdpect U65
Kuhl Lumber ComPanY, Carl H.' ,13! Chanber of Commerce Bldgl...PRGFct ,136
brence-Phllips Lumber Co-
|8it Pstrclcm Ssritia Bl&l...PRosD€ct 02,
MacDonald & Bergstm, Inc., ?3it Petroleum Seuriti$ Bldg....PRcpect 7194
LUMBER
MrcDmdd & Haningtoq Lt4'
54? Pctroleum Securltler BHg....PRcpcct !r?
Prciffc lmbcr Co' ltc
tD So. Ir Bra An. ................YO* lrat
Pattcn-Bllnn llnbcr Co52r E. srh st. ................,...vAndike Z!21
Rcd Rlvcr Lunbcr Co.
?O2 E. Shum 'CEnturY 29071
Reitz Co., E. L, 33 Petroleum Securitlec Bldcf. ..PRospect 2369
Sute Fc Luba Co..
3ll Firucial Ciltcr Bldg..'.'.'VArdikc {7r
Schafer Brq. Lumbcr & Shtnsb Co.'
lZ2A W. M. Gryland Bl&.........TRlDlVaZtr
Shevlin Pine Salee Co.'
328 Petrcleum Securlties Bldg. PRGFct 0615
Suddcn & Chrbtensm, GtO Brard of Tn& Bldg. ..'.....TRinitv tt'14
Taoma Lunber Sales,
,123 Petrolem Securities Bldg.'.PRospect UOt
Union Lutber Co.
923 W. M. Garlud Bldr...........TRintV zzt2
\l,f sadling-ff atbu Col 76 Sc t- Bu Ae. '.............YOrk tlCll
E. K. W6d Lmber Co., ,l70l Srntr Fc Arc. ,....,.......'JEfrcnd lUl
Wcyahaw Salcr Co..
920 W. M. Garland Bl&r.'.......Mlchigan 6i154
HARDW(X)DS
Cadwallader.Gibson Co., Inc-, 3@t Mines Ave. ..........,........A,ngelur lll6l
Pcrfctio Oak Florlng Co, t20 E. d|th St. ....,.................ADamr t20t
Stinta, E. J., & Sm, 2050 Eut tEtb Strcet. .... ..CEntury 2ttll
SASH_DOORS-MILLWORK
PANEI.S AND PLYWOOD
Aberdeen Plywood Co-Dm F. Oder, 210{ Weat Pio Stret......,.....,.Flt2oy t524
Calilmla Pul & Veeor Co.. 955 Sc Alame& St.........,.......TRintty |ost
Kehl, Jac W.- & Sru, 65il Se Mycn SL .....,..,.,.,..,ANgclur !l!l
Orego-Wahington Pllmod Co., 3lt W8t Nintb Strctc .............Tuckc l|!t
Red Rlver Lumber Co., 702 E. Slaugm ..CEntury 2lo?t
United Statea Plywod Co., Inc., 1030 East lsth St. ................PRcpcct !013
Wheeler-Osgood Sales Cdpmtloa, 2153 Sacnmeato St. .TUcLcr .o0l
CREOSOTED LUMBER_POLES-PILINGTIES
American Lumber & Treating Co., f03f So. Brodway ,.............PRcp€ct 555t
Baxter, J. H. & Co601 West sth SL ..................Mlchigu t29l
i , Clear all-heartRedwood is specified for tanks , and pipe lines because of its time-tested record t for wiihstanding moisture. Qualities inherent , in heart-Redwood, empower it to resist rot and destruction. Hence, its great value as a building product for all uses where extreme durability is vital.......The Hammond organization has long been a leading factor in the Redwood industry. Vast resources in Redwood timber and large scale mill operations areback of every Hammond representative in.supplying the trade with quality Redwood, prompt delivery and co-operation.
