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Lumber Company

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.

Los Angeles Visitor

H. G. Larrick, Solano Beach retailer, was a visitor on August 27.

State Retailers' Annual Convention

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.

Represents McCormick in Valleys

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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