The McCloud Golf Links

By lVilliam B. Frohwitter

No one has ever charged the McCloud River Lumber ComPany with neglect shorvn their emPloYes. There are too many recreational projects about their plant for that, and golfing is one of them. Three years ago a few lumbermen decided that they wanted to play golf. To- day the most popular place in Mc' Cloud is the McCloud golf links situated one mile south of that city.

It would be difficult to decide which is the most important factor in contributing to the beauty of this golf course; some say man, others nature. There are so many evidences of both that praise should be equaily distributed. Primarily, the purpose of golf is to take man from his work or business and afford him a little exercise. The McCloud links accomplish this purpose, at the same time surrounding him with natural scenic beauty which he cannot fail to appreciate.

If one is a golf enthusiast he will be struck by the appearance of the course as a whole, as it nestles bowl-like below a towering timber line. It is not a lowland, but rather

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You're loohing at it right now, straight ahead. is a gently sloping meadow of about sixty-five acres. It was in this meadow in 1850, that a band of Squaw Valley Indians was massacred for stealing a few horses from the white men of the north. Because of that Indian massacre the meadow is called Squaw Valley, and the.little willow-fringed creek that ripples along its eastern edge is called Squaw Creek.

On. a summer evening, after a drive from Tee 1, the ball soars into a setting of sunset yellow with a background of blue and purple mouhtains thrusting their sharppointed profile up into the paling rose tints of the sky. The golfer follows his little, white globe across soft, verdant fairways. A gentle breeze slips down from Shasta, and the so'ft cool, grass refreshes the tired feet.

At Tee 2 the player might easily forget his golf, for to the south and west he looks upon a bit of inspir- ing scenery. There lies Grizzly Ridge, bathed in an azure haze, its craggy heights towering upward from amid dark forests that

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Chas. R. Wilson, Jr. Feather River Lumber Co. Going to Portland Hosts to Merchants

Chas. R. Wilson, Jr., Sales Engineer of the Chas. R. McCormick I-umber Company, is being transferred from the San Francisco to the Portland office in the caoacitv of assistant to Clyde W. Osborhe, manager of creosoting operations for the company, where he will engage in sales promotion and operation.

Mr. Wilson has been with the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company fourteen years, in the various departments of steamship operation and lumbering and has a thorough knowledge of the business. He has specialized in the past five years in industrial sales around San Francisco Bay and he will undoubtedly be miss9d !y his friends in the engineering profession as well as lumber and industrial circlei.

- Joltt Vander Laan, who has been assisting Mr. Wilson for the past several years, will start calling on the industrial trade in the vicinity of San Francisco Bay.

WHITE PINE PANELS STAND'TEST

Paul Revert, of the Red River Lumber Company, Los Angele.s,- recently acquired one of the firm's white pirie panels which had been in a bad fire and was not daniaged the least bit. The veneer was absolutely fast to the cdre and did not show the slightest tendeniy to bulge or crack, which verifies the fact that the glue they use is absolutely fire and water proof.

L. H. WARNECKE ON VACATION

L. H. Warnecke, sales r4anager of the National Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland has recently been on vacation. Mr. lMarnecke, who is the golfing champion of the California Country Club, took part in the recent California amateur golf championship at Del Monte.

of Portola

/ The Feather River Lumber Company were hosts to the merchants of Portola at a luncheon, on September 3. An attractive menu, decorated with a red feather, was prepared for the occasion designating the various courses served with appropriate lumber terms. The interior of the menu carried the following interesting facts regarding the Feather River Lumber Company.

The Feather River Lumber Company was organized in 1905, starting its first sawmill at Willow Creek; second at Clairville and the third and last mill at oresent location at Delleker.

Specie of lumber cut-White Pine, Sugar Pine, Jeffry Pine, Fir, Spruce and fncense Cedar Lumber to be cut.this year. .40,000,000 feet

Acres logged over to get this stock . ...3,800 acres

Number of employees ,. .325

Payroll for year 1927 .$500,000.00

Payroll for month of August, 1928 ...$50,000.00

Average number of cars shipped per month. .26

Estimated freight deducted from shipments per month. .$35,000.00

Foreign countries shipped to this year...England, Ireland, Scotland,'Wales, Germany, Africa, Mexico, Canada, South America and PORTOLA

Number of states shipped to .. ....4O

Number of grades of lumber shipped ......25

Lumbermen On Northwest Trip

Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Robie, Auburn Lumber Co.. Auburn. and Mr. and Mrs. E. S. McBride, Davis Lumber Co., Davis, left Chico September 9, after attending the lumbermen's meeting there, for an automobile trip to the Northwest. They expect to go as far north as Portland, visiting a number of the Willamette Valley mills on the way.

Fred Aisthorpe Attends Fraternity Convention In San Francisco

Fred Aisthorpe, Griswold Lumber Co., Chico, spent a week in San Francisco recently attending the national corivention of Phi Delta Kappa, held at the St. Francis Hotel.