Lumber Industry Bringing Huge Sums Into Madera County

Beprintoitr from the Mail,erd Tribuna, Mailera, Colifomin

The importance of the lumber industry to Madera county can not be realized until a glance is taken at the expenditures annually made by the Madera Sugar Pine Lumber company in this county, which forces the importance,to the county of this industry upon the observer.

Ip an interview with General Manager J. P. Hemphill of the'lumber company the following figurej were secured:

Total sum expended in manufacturing and marketing products, $2,000,000.

Total sum expended in payrolls annually, $1,250,000.

Total sum annually expended in railroad construction, $200,000.

Total number of men employed, 1000.

Lodgings furnished single men, 600.

Dwelling houses provided family men, 150.

Total meals served per day, 1,250.

Children provided with schooling, 75.

Number of beds in company hospital at Sugar Pine,20.

Annual pioduction of lumbir, 50,000,000 feat.

Number of carloads of logs hauled to mountain mill yearly, 10,000.

Number of carloads of lumber shipped out of Madera mill annually, ZS{JI_ to 3000.

New Jersey Lumbermen Visit California

A party of one hundred 'New Jersey lumbermen and their families arrived in San Francisco August 29th f.or a two-day visit as a part of their tour of thi West while enroute home from the National Retail Lumber Dealers' Association convention at Tacoma, Washington. Following their sojourn in San Francisco, they left for Los Angeles. where they spent a few days prior to their departure for the east.

T. W. JACOBS WITH CELOTEX COMPANY

T. W. "Tad" Jacobs, Los Angeles, is now connected with the financial department of the Celotex Company of Chicago and is calling on the Southern California lumber trade. "Tad" has a large acquaintanceship with the lumber trade in the southerrt part of the state and he has always laken an active part in Hoo-Hoo affairs in the Los Angeles District.

A review of the figures given above can not fail to impress one with the importance of the industry to this community. The numbeiof the Madera Sugar itioe co-patty employes equals nearly one-third of the population of the city of Madera. The company in the course of the conduct of its business, must solve all the problems common to such a community, such as light, power, water supply, sanitation, housing, feeding, amusement, and public morals. The operation itself represents an investment of between $5,000,000 and $5,000,000, and there is expended annually in the conduct of its business some $2,000,000.

Of E. H. Cox, president of the company and an outstanding figure in the early history of Madera, a recent issue of the California Lumber Merghant says:

"If any great concern is but the lengthened shadow of a man, as has been said, then surely this concern is the lengthened shadow of Elmer H. Cox. He conceived it, promoted it, for man)r years operated it- directly, and is now its president and guiding genius. It has always made money and has always been successful. Its product is sold in all the markets that know sugar and white pine and everywhere it stands for the besi of quality and satib: faction."

REES BLOW PIPE MANUFACTURING CO. MAKING INSTALLATION AT STOCKTON

The Rees Blow Pipe Manufacturing Co., are installing a new incinerator and also remodeling the blower system for thd California Cedar Products Co., at Stockton. Mr. Hines states that the Ramsey Blow Pipe Co., of Los Angeles, which is a subsidiary of the Rees Blow Pipe Mfg. Co., is quite busy.

J. H. HOLMES RETURNS FROM CANADIAN TRIP

Mr. J. H. Holmes, president of the Holmes-Eureka Lumber Co., San Francisco, with Mrs. .Ifolmes, recently returned froma very interesting trip along the coast of Western Canada. Mr. Holmes states they drove as far north as the roads permitted, which was about 115 miles north of Prince George. He reported excellent fishing and stated that they saw fourteen live moose, a sight that was well worth the trip.