LUMBER CAREERS Frederic S. Palmer

Frederic Spencer Palmer, manager of the Pine department of the Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco, one of the best known men in the California Pine business, was born in Brockport, in Western New York State.

After leaving school he received his early training in lumber yards in Tonawanda, N. Y., where he accumulated some valuable experience.

Ife came West in 1900. settled in San Francisco, and has been connected with the' lumber business ever since. His first job in San Francisco was in the retail business with the Phoenix Lumber Company, with which concern he spent about eight years. In the latter part of this period there occurred the great fire of 1906, and the financial panic of 1907, strenuous days in San Francisco.

In 1908 he started in the commission business for himself in San Francisco, and remained in this branch of the game for about five years.

He went with the American Trading Company in San

W. L. LEISHMAN WILL REf,URN I-ATTER PART OF MONTH

W. L. Leishman, Crown City Mfg. Co., Pasadena, who left June 27 on a trip around the world, will return the latter part of the month. He will leave Southampton, England, on September 8, arriving at Quebe,c on September 13.

Northwest Lumbermen Visit California

Henry McCleary, president, and Frank McCleary, superintendent, Henry McCleary Timber Co., McCleary, Wash., were recent California visitors where they spent a few days in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Francisco in 1913, and developed their Pacific Coast Pine business. After spending several years with this firm he left in I92O to engage in the wholesale business as exciusive distributor of the products of the Madera Sugar Pine Company, of Madera, Calif., and the Sugar Pine Lumber Company, of Pinedale, Calif.

ln 1926 he went to Mexico to establish a lumber manufacturing plant for the Compania Maderera de Durango at El Salto, in the State of Durango.

Shortly after his return to this country he became associated with the Santa Fe Lumber Company as head of their Pine department.

Mr. Palmer married a daughter of Mr. Hiram C. Smith, one of California's pioneer lumbermen, in 1903.

Until recently he played a good deal of golf in his spare time, scoring consistently in the 70's. It will be recalled that he won the Pine lumbermen's tournament some years ago.

In specializing in the marketing of the California Pines, Mr. Palmer has developed a large acquaintance and a host of friends among lumbermen throughout the country. He sees a bright future for these woods, which, he says, will take up the slack as the Pines of the Lake States and Canada are becoming depleted.

C. M. FREELAND LOS ANGELES VISITOR

C. M. Freeland, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, was a recent Southern California visitor where he spent a few days at the company's Los Angeles office.

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