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..CAPPY'' SLADE FORSAKES LUMBER BUSINESS FOR LOS ANGELES REAL ESTATE

F. M. Slade, well known to the lumber trade of California as "Cappy", after twelve years association with his father in The Slade Lumber Company, of Los Angeles, has quit the lumber game to devote his efforts to a line of business which seems to him to afford splendid opportunities. He has joined the sales forces of the J. P. Ransom Corporation, in the Syndicate Department. This great real estate firm of Los Angeles is developing the East Side, the great new industrial section of the metropolis, and making tremendous strides in this development.

"C"ppy" is thoroughly sold on the wonderful possibilities of this section, and of his new job, and with his large acquaintance and personal popularity has gone enthusiastically into his new game, rvhich looks like a most excellent one.

EAGLE LUMBER COMPANY'S ADDRESS IS UNCHANGED

Through a typographical error in our telephone directory of the wholesale and retail lumber trade of the San Francisco Bay District, the address'of the Eagle Lumber Company was given as 264 California St.

This is incorrect, as this company's office, which is in charge of G. R. Bleecker, Northern California representative of the Eagle Lumber Co. and C. H. Wheeler mills, has been located at 24 Calif.ornia St. for many years.

F. L. HILLYER VISITS CALIFORNIA

F. L. Hillyer, of San Antonio, Texas, one of the most noted lumbermen of the Lone Star State, has returned home after several weeks'visit in Long Beach, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Mr. Hillyer is President of the HillyerDeutsch-Jarratt Company, who manufacture seventy million feet of hardwood lumber yearly at Oakdale, Louisiana. lfe rvas until recently engaged in the retail lumber business in Texas, selling his last yard less than a year ago. Mr. Hillyer is one of the most able lumbermen of the South, and ranks high in the councils of the industry in the Lone Star State.

LOUrS J. STMPSON VTSITS SAN FRANCTSCO.

Louis J. Simpson, president of the Empire'Development Co., Empire, Coos Bay, Oregon, was a recent visitor to San Francisco. He reports that the machinery purchased from the Ferry-Baker Lumber Co., Everett, Wash., is nolv being installed in the sawmill at Empire. When completed the mill will cut 250.000 feet dailv.

It is interesting to note that the Port Orford Cedar foundations and Douglas Fir framing in this mill, built in 1888, and which has not run since 1894, were found to be in as perfect condition as the day they were put in.

The mill will start running in about 60 days fcir the purpose of cutting timbers for dock improvements, and is expected to be ready for full operation by the first of next yeaf.

Mr. Simpson is a son of Captain A. M. Simpson of San Francisco, one of the pioneer lumbermen of the state.

Paul Overend Back From San Joaquin Leaves For Northwest

Paul Overend, field representative of the California Retail L,umbermen's Association, returned to San Francisco recently from a trip through the San Joaquin Valley. He reports business rather quiet in the Bakersfield district, but somewhat improved in the Fresno territory.

Mr. Overend left for a business trio to Seattle immediately after attending the meeting of the Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club, and the Hoo Hoo Concatenation at Chico, September 8.

Fred Burgess Back On Road

Fred Burgess, salesman in the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valley territory for the Union Lumber Co., is back on the road after two weeks' vacation.

Redwood Salesman Off To Europe

E. B. Johnston, in charge of the export department of The Little River Redwood Co., San Francisco, sailed from New York August 31, on a business trip to Europe which will cover a period of about eight weeks.

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Hardwood Dealers Attend Establishes Department of National Convention Inspection and Grades

Pacific Coast Hardwood dealers who will attend the annual convention of the National Hardwood Lumber Association at Memphis, September 27 and 28, include the following: C. H. White, White Bros., San Francisco; Roger Sands, Erlich-Harrison Co., Seattle; D. J. Cahill, 'Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and LeRoy H. Stanton, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles.

Hot discussion is anticipated at this meeting on Proposal "C", embodying the new grading rules, which are being opposed by many of the Pacific Coast dealers.

Voting on this matter was very evenly divided last year.

JOHN R. NEECE, JR. VrSrrS CALTFORNTA

John R. Neece, Jr., of Dallas, Texas, has been a recent California visitor. He is President of the Texas Oak Flooring Co., at Dallas, and also a member of the well known Neece lumber family of Corsicana, Texas, who operate a string of retail lumber yards, and are large manufacturers of brick as well. He visited San Francisco and Los Angeles, and also visited the Pacific Lumber Company Redwood mill at Scotia.