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WEST COAST LUMBER BUREAU TO MOVE HEADQUARTER'S OFFICE TO LONGVIE;W

Seattle, Wash., Sept. 7.-Announcement was made here today by J. D. Tennant, president, that the headquarter's office of the West Coast Lumber Bureau would be moved from Seattle to Longview, October 1. An office will be maintained in Seattle, and a new one will be opened soon in Portland, the announcement stated.

- The-trade promotion bureau has grown so rapidly and its activities are now on such a large scale that the i3oard of Trustees in meeting this week decided on the change of location so that the principal office would be wherd the president, J. D. Tennant, could give matters of importance immediate attention.

"Since the death of Henry Schott, one of our Trustees and the first manager of the Bureau, our headquarter's office has continued to function through a period. of rapid growth and extended activities in a way that has been most pleasing to our Board and membership. A little more !!ry" year ago our Bureau had,67 membefs. Today it has 110 with the promise of many more in the immediate future. Our Board decided to move now because we are on the verge of greater activity and we want to be in a position to- take every advantage of our trade promotionai opportunities. Longview is the geographical center of t6e Douglas fir region and with our headquarter's office located there we can keep in closer touch with Oregon mills. And at Longview, where my offices are located, I can give the Bureau's business immediate attention from dav to dav. This fact, the Trustees believe, will be a great hitp in our rvork of pushing the sale of West Cbast woods."

Trustees of the West Coast Lumber Bureau present at the meeting, in addition to Mr. Tennant, were: George S. !org, vice-president, general manager of Weyerhaeuser Iimber Co., Tacoma; R. W. Vinnedge, treasurer, president North Bend Timber Co., North Bend; Ralph H. Burnside, president ]Vil]apa Lumber Co., Portland; E. G. Griggs, president St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Co., Tacoma; C. D. Johnson, president Pacific Spruce Corporation, Portland; Myron C. Woodard, president Silver Falls Timbet' Co., Silverton.

The West Coast Lumber Bureau was organized in February, 1926, f.or the purpose of furthering the sale of Douglas fir, West Coast hemlock, Western red cedar and Sitka spruce, the four important West Coast woods in the United States and C,anada. It is spending approxim,ately $400,000 a year in field work and national advertising, extending old markets and creating new ones for these West Coast rvoods.

ED. HOUGHTON IN THE NORTHWEST

_ E_{. Houghton, Los Angeles representative for the Chas. R. McCorm,ick Lumber Co., is spending his vacation in the Northwest. On his way north, h-e stopped off at San Francisco for a day where he visited with officials of the San Francisco office. While in the North, he plans to visit the mills in the Portland, Grays Harbor and Puget Sound Districts. He will also visit the company's mill operations at St. Helens, Oregon, and at Port Ludiow and Port Gamble on Puget Sound. He plans to spend a few days at Bellingham, Wash., where he will be the guest of hii brother, who is a prominent contractor in Bellingham. He will return to Los Angeles the latter part of the month.

Max Amelang A Los Angeles Visitor

M1x A1ry9lang, manager of the Miami ,Lumber and Sup- p.lf po., Miami, Arizona, was a Los Angeles visitor during the -latter part of August where he spint a few days at-tending to business matters. He also cilled on many of his lumbermen friends in the Los Angeles District. He-reports conditions in his section as satisfictorv.

J. B. EDWARDS VTSTTS LOS ANGELES-LEADTNG HARDWOOD MANUFACTURER OF LOIUISIANA

J. B. Edwards, of Oakdale, La., was a recent visitor in California, stopping for several days in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Mr. Edwards is' President oi HillverDeutsch-Edwards Company, which concern owns and -operates three modern milling plants in Louisiana, and have built for themselves a nati-onal reputation as manufacturers and merchandisers of Southern hardwoods. His concern enjoys a very excellent business in the state of California. _ Mr. Edwards reports that their business so far this year has been the best in their history, and he looks very- op- timistically at conditions and prospects.

$50!000 BLAZE IN FACTORY

Diamond Match Plant at Marysville Lost in Flames \{arysville (Yuba Co.).-Fire of unknown origin tonight razed the local plant of the Diamohd Match company, with a loss'of $50,000.

Efforts of the fire department were centered chiefly on saving nearby property, and in this they were succeisful. The fire.had gained such headway when discovered at 6:30 o'clock, that it could not be checked.

The entire plant, with all smaller buildings, was wiped out.