Los Angeles Harbor Board Reports Lumber Tonnage for Fiscal Year

The Board of Harbor Commissioners of Los Angeles Harbor has rendered an interesting and exhaustive report of the statistics for the harbor for the fiscal year ending luly lst,1927.

The total inbound commerce for the port was 5,33L,218 tons, value $514,596,930.

Total outbound commerce for the port was 19,802,745 tons, value $396,225,259

Grand total all commerce in and out of Los Angeles Harbor for the year was 25,133,963 tohs, value $91Q832,189.

Now for the lumber tonnage figures: Lumber exports are neglible in quantity. The imports were as follows: Lumber-Coastwise Inbound

Piles

Poles

Shakes

Shingles

Shooks

Ties

Timber

Total

...1,171,ffi,694 l,9nJ73

Imports of foreign lumber into Los Angeles Harbor for the year were given in board feet, and listed as follows:

From Australia 1O4,885 lbs.

R. M. GREGG VISITING IN THE EAST

R. M. Gregg R. M. Gregg Lumber Co., Hawthorne, is on a trip east where he is visiting his old home at Des Moines,-Iowa. He will return to Hawthorne about the sixteenth of September.

HARRY B. CORLETT RESIGNS

Harry B. Corlett, for the past five years with the Reinhart Lumber & Planing Mill Company, San Francisco, resigned efiective September 1. Heltaies that his plans for the future are indefinite at the present time. Mr. Corlett represented the Reinhart concern in the San Francisco District where he is well known and has a large acquaintanceship with the lumber trade in the Northern California metropolis.

From Canada, lath 7,016,230lbs; shingles, 4,036,800 lbs.; polos, l8,2t0,2tl6lbs.; ties, 3,878,582 lbs.; lbr., 107,@7,127 lbs.; total, 14O,748,025 lbs.

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From England 95,740 lbs.

From Guatemala 2,79t,859 lbs.

From Honduras 87,450 lbs.

From Hongkong, Teakwood, 79,722 lbs.

From Japan 5,446,663 lbs.

From Netherlands, Hardwood, 2,995 lbs.

From Philippines, Hardwood 69,058,654 lbs.

From Siam 277,227 lbs.

The total of the importations just given is 218,588,235 pounds of foreign lumber imported, or l@,244 tons,

The total lumber importations into Los Angeles Harbor for the year is, therefore:

I,9D,l7 3 tons coastwise.

LW,244 tons foreign.

2,038,417 tons TOTAL.

The total number of commercial vessels in and out of the port during the year was 6,944, of which 1,651 were ' foreign, 1,428 were intercoastal, 3,813 were coastwise, and 52 werc non-contiguous coastwise.

Of this total, 5,831 vessels flew the U. S. flag, 513 were British, 45 were Mexican, 145 were Japanese, 31 were German, 49 were Dutch, 136 were Norwegian, 47 were Swedish, 22 were Dhhish, 2l were ltalians, 60 were French, 10 were Danzig, 31 were Panaman, 1 was Belgian, 1 was Greek, and I Ecuadorian.

The total business of the port for the year 1926-1927 is considerably greater than it was for the preceding year.

C. A. HOOPER & CO. ELECT OFFICERS

At a recent meeting of the board of dire.ctors of C. A. H;;dt & Co., the f6llowing were elected'as officers of the cbmpany: president, Mrs. Wigginton Creed; vice-president, Mi. E. F. Burrell; vice-president and treasurer, Rudolph Bodie; secretary, D. L. Albert and assistant secretary, M. G. Best. Mr. Burrell, Mr. Bodie and Mr. Albert have been connected with the company a good many years. C. A. Hooper & Co., maintain their head office in San Francisco and operate two large lumber yards in southern California. Thev also have ixtensive Redwood timber holdings in Humboldt county.

B. Ir. COOK ON TRIP EAST

B. L. Cook. Southern California retail lumberman, is on a trip east where he is visiting at Zearing, Iowa. Mr. Cook is with the Cook Lumber Co. of Lawndale.