WEST ORDGOTI IUMBIR CO.

Portland, Oregron

Manufacturers of Old Growth Douglas Fir Rail and Caqgro Shippers

Los Angelee Scles Office

427-128 Petroleun Securitiee Bldg. Tclephooe Rlcbnond 028I

Four Steam Schooners Diverted J. M. West, Richest Lumberman, Dies

San Francisco, August l9.-Four more steam schooners have been diverted from coastwise service and placed into national defense routes, according to the Shipowners Association of the Pacific Coast.

These vessels are the James Griffiths, going to the Canal Zone; the Cynthis Olson and Lumberlady to the Hawaiian Islands, and the Morlen going to Alaska.

Fifty-fve steam schooners are operating on the coast and t9 are operating offshore.

Sales Office Moved To Quincy

The new sales and mill offices of the Meadow Valley lumber Company, located opposite the company's new plant in American Valley, were occupied early in August. The sawmill is located at Spanish Ranch and the lumber is trucked to the yard at Quincy.

PINE IiATT-T- INCREASES PRODUCTION

B. & B. Lumber Company, Quincy, recently installed two new boilers. Production will be increased to 150,000 feet in two shifts.

L. J. Carr & Company, Sacramento and Los Angeles, are sales agents for this mill.

Army Camp Approved For Santa Maria

Immediate construction of. a $24,250,000 cantonment at Santa Maria, Calif., was recently authorized by the War Department.

It will be located on a site of 90,000 acres, and will be the largest of four new cantonment projects.