The California Lumber Merchant - September 1936

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ADDED SALES with THIKBUT Strip Shingles'

l- Added Lifedouble layers of asphalt and mineral surfacing on front -' pu"t of shingle.

2. laa.a Beauty-deeper shadow lines and richer colors'

$,. Added W.eight-65T2.9f.the weisht of the shingles is on the exposedaxea, the tabs, where it is needed most

4. laaea Thickness-giving exha protection and smoother laying.

$. Added.Economy-8O Thikbut Strip Shingles cover one sguare of roof area, wrtn less laDor ano lewer nalF.

This new THIKBUT Strip Shinqle with its Five Added Featu.tes, will mean Added Sa/es to those dealers who offer it now. Its outstanding_value will help promote sales and qives assurance of satisfied customers. Be sure to keepL good stock on hand at all times.

Oamphell-Moore Lumber Oo.

Longshor€men Vote on Arbitration lssue Pacific Promotional Campaign Under \(/ay

The question as to whether disputed issues in the deadlocked negotiations between the Waterfront Employers' Association and the International Longshoremen's Association will be submitted to arbitration is to be decided by a referendum vote of the members of the Longshoremen's Association, Pacific Coast district. Balloting began on September 10 and the votes will be counted September 17.

The main cause of the deadlock between the two bodies was the refusal of the longshoremen to submit disputed points to arbitration.

fssues which have not been settled by negotiations include conflicting demands on wag'es, control of hiring and other modifications of the 1934 award.

The compromise agreement of September 10, settling the crew strike which tied up the Dollar liner President Hoover for five days at San Francisco, also provided that the employers agree to resume negotiations with the Sailors Union of the Pacific towards a modification of the 1934 agreement, which expires September 30.

The Pacific Lumber Company has had reprints in the shape of a broadside made of its 2-color double spread advertisement that appeared in the September 1 issue of "The California Lumber Merchant," and they have been mailed to every architect, every home builder and contractor in California. In addition, production is under way to print t.he broadside ,in suitable form for dealers to mail out to horne building prospects and others interested in insulation.

The mailing of the broadside to architects and builders is the first step in an intensive advertising program stressing Palco Bark for house insulation against summer heat as well as for fue'l savings. In their promotional campaign, the lumber yard is stressed as the place to buy Palco Bark and dealers are urged to cash in on the advertising by tying up with it.

The installation of new machinery at the Scotia plant for further refining Palco Bark is nearing completion, and the company reports constant progress in developing a product that is both cleaner and lighter in weight.

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*Advertisementt .pp6r in alternate irue-

Aberdeen Plywood Co.

Acne Spring Sarh Bslance Co, The ------.,21

Anerican Lurrber & Treating Co. ----------O.F.C.

Angier Co'nporation -------------------19

Anglo California Lumber Co. - ---- ----------------15

Baxter & Co., J. H. -------------------r9

Booth.Kelly Lumber Co. Brookmire, Inc. --------------- ----------25

Cadwallader-Gibcon Co, Inc. --------------- ----------l.t

California Builderc Sttpply Co. ---- -------- -- -- ----- 23

California Panel & Veneer Co. ----------------------19

Cdifornia Redwood Association -------------------- 6

Campbell-Moore Lumber Co. ---------------- ------,---, Carr & Co., L. J. ----------------------.21

€elotex C,orporation, The ---------------- -- - ---- 9

Chanrberlain & Co., \ff. R.

Commonwealth Steel & Supply Corp. ------------ 't

Dant & Russell, Inc. ---------------.--

Bwauna Box Company

HaIl, Jemec L. .-.-------------------,---,-----------17

Hammond & Little River Redwood Co.--------- '

HilI & Morton, Inc. --------------- -- - ----------------------22

Hemmingr, E. W. --------Flogan fuinber Co. floover,A.L. - --- -- ----------------lE

Johnron Lumbet Corporation, C. D. -----------.21

Koehl & Son, Inc., Jno. V. Kuhl Lumber Co.' Carl H. -----------------------------2,

Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co. ---------.------

Lumbermen'c Credit Asrociation -------------------*

MacDonald & Bergotrom, Inc. .------,------ - ----2o

MacDonald & Harrington, Ltd. --------------------14 Moore Mill & Lumber Co.

Pacific Lumber Co., The ---O.B.C.

Patten.Blinn Lumber Co. -- -- -

Philippine Mahogany Manufacturerat fmport Asin., fnc.

Pioneer-Flintkote Co. --------------- 2

Pyramid Lumber Sales Co. -----------------------------23

Santa Fe Lumber Co.

Schafer Btor. Lumber & Shingle Co. -------------24

Shevlin Pinc Salec Co. -- ----- ------ ---------------------22

Smith Wood-Product, Inc. -----*-------------------..17

South Sound Lumber Sdeq Inc. -------------------11

Stanton & Son, B. J. Strable Hardwood Co.

Sudden & €hrietenron ------------.2O

Tacoma Lunber Saler

Trane-Pacif,c Lumber Co. ---------------- ----------------12

Union Lumber Company

United Stater Gypcum Company --------------------13

United Statee Plywood Co., fnc.

Wendling-Nathan Co.

\Vectern Door & Sarh Co.

Veyerhaeurer Saler Company ------------------------ 5

Wheeler Ocgood Salec Corp.

Vhite BrotherE

Willamette.Hyster Comp.ny -------- -------------------25

Vood Convetdon Company

Vood Lumber Co., E. K.

Ziel 6c Co.

THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

JackDionne,ptblishw

LOS ANIGELES, CAL, SEPTEMBER 15, 1936

Vagabond Editorials

By Jack Dionne

It's a lie ! Dry ice will NOT keep the inside of your car as cool as an air-conditioned room as you drive through the Arizona and California desert in summer. I make this statement because I had been told that it WOULD. And I loaded my family into my Ford with every expectation of driving along the Salton Sea with my windows closed and a light overcoat on to keep me warm. But, as the sl.ang song puts it, "Tain't so, my honey, Tain't so."

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But don't mistake me to say that dry ice doesn't help in that summer desert crossing. It's like the fellow who admitted drinking fifteen cups of strong coffee daily. "Goodnessr" said someone, "doesn't it keep you awake?" "Wellr" said the cofiee drinker, "it helps some." So does dry ice. ***

I hadn't driven across the desert in midsummer for several years. It used to be perfectly devilish. From Tucson to Indio-some four hundred miles-you can look at the thermometer in the shade of any gasoline station and one hundred and ten will be about the lowest you'll find. Generally higher than that. And what it is in the sun outside that shade, the Lord in His infinite mercy only knows ! A hundred and twenty-five is a modest guess. Let that sort of air blow into your car and it fairly cooks your lungs.

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Dry ice makes the crossing of the desert in summer bearable. And that's something. They sell it to you, that smoky, grey colored ice that isn't wet and takes the skin off your hands if you try and touch it for more than the fewest seconds, for ten cents a pound. You put it somewhere in the front of your car, uncovered. The more air hits it the cooler you get. You open the front of the car and also a rear window very slightly to create air circulation. And as the air hits this strange stufr (which is more

than a hundred below zero, so cold that it actually burns your skin ofr) a white smoke rises from it. No smell. No fumes. Nothing unpleasant. Nothing that can harm you.

Trouble with dry "" ,. .nJ "ir.. It takes fu[y twentyfive pounds to do much good in a sedan, and that much will last all day. Fifty pounds will do that much more good, if you have the five bucks to pay for the day's reduced temperature. Twenty-five pounds reduced the temperature in our car to about ninety-five; about thirty degrees below the outside heat. And since your car is closed you are likewise preserved from that terrific hot wind, and from the dust and dirt. It makes the trip bearable; not cool. But, as I said before, (remembering how terrific it is driving the desert with open windows) that's something.

I must mention one thing that always makes me mad, because it is so utterly futile and impractical. Just as you cross the river into California you are stopped by California officers, who go through your luggage. fn that white heat you haul out your grips and your bags and a courteous gentleman in uniform takes a peek through them. I wonder if any tourists into California ever made that stop for inspection without taking time out to curse the silliness of it.

I said to the courteous ,lrnl".Jr, "Tell me, I crossed this same line just a short time ago on the train, and had with me these same bags. No one searched them then, when searching would have been comfortable and forgivable if there was any reason for so doing. But they were not touched. They never are. Then why search these same bags? I'm the same man, carrying the same sort of lug-

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and they stay sold after finding out on the iob how this Precision Gut [umber gives better construction at no increase in cost.

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LESS WASTE. These two backetr actually hold all the accumulated wa rte after eheathing a five-room house with 4-Square end-matched lumber, an important 4-Square iten.

SOUARE ENDS. Veyerhaeuser 4-Square lumber comes exactly squared. Both ends of every piece of 4-Square are fetrimmed at the nill so as to be ready for the finest construction.

EXACT LENGTHS. Every piece of !?eyerhaeuser 4-Square lumber is cut to exact length at the mill. This saves cutting time on the job and reduces q/aste.

SMOOTH ENDS. Compare ordinary lurnber with 4-Square lumbert You can cee inrtantly how 4Square lumber does away with retrimming on the job.

TIGHT JOINTS. This is tLe kind of joint you get with 4-Square lumber. They're hardly noticeable. And no trimming has been done.

FUtL BEARING. The cquare, cmooth ends of 4-Square lumber assure full bearing of members. A more rigid construction job results,

Vagabond Editorials

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gage. Why make my trip a nightmare this way?" He just shrugged his shoulders, and said: "Don't ask me."

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They say that they are searching for fresh vegetables or fruits that are forbidden to be imported into California. But why should a man be suspected and searched when he travels in a car, and not when he travels by train? A train traveler can carry fruits, fowers, vegetables, or anything he likes, and it's O.K. If there is someone who can explain this thing to make it look a little less futile and unfair, I'd really like to learn the answer. The border search makes most folks mad enough to turn round and go back (if it were not so far).

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And do you know what most of the employers and industrialists I call on in California tell me today? That it's hard to get help. There are something like half a million people on all sorts of relief in Los Angeles County, they tell me, yet it's hard to get help. Today I sat in the

office of a manufacturer I know. He pointed to a freight car out on the siding near his office. "I've been trying all day to get men to unload that car, my gang being unusually busy, and I can't get them. I've phoned the relief organizations for laborers who want to work. Haven't got a man so far"t

One large employer said something to me yesterday that impressed me. He was talking about the difficulty he and others are experiencing in getting satisfactory help, and he said: "The trouble is that for five years we have all been working with skeleton organizations, and WE HAVE NOT BEEN BUILDING MEN TO FIT OUR NEEDS. WE HAVE GOT TO START ALL OVER, BUILDING MEN.''

I think he has hit the nail on the head. In the old days every institution that employed many people was a deliberate school for the education of their own men. They

What Makes a Good SidingS

Perhaps it is durability, eoen under conditions faoorable to decay. If so,this quality must be unimpaired by sawing and boring. Natural durability would be more desirable than artif cial preseroatioes.

Other features may be desirable, such as freedom from warp and check, lou shrinkage . both with and across the grain, and ability to hold paint.

Resistance to insect attach and fire may be necessary, and in addition the material should be easily worked and able to stay in place without extra protection or repairs.

Beauty in both natural and painted fnishes; @hether placed oertically or horizontally. Careful manufacture.

CALIFORNIA REDX/OOD lays no claim to exclusive possession of any of these characteristics. It is practically unique, however, in having all of them in exceptionally high degree. Whatever the need, there is an appropriate grade of Redwood which may be specified with the assurance that it will do the job and do it well.

were eternally training men in every department to handle their particular work. For years they have done nothing of the sort. And now, when they go to fill in their organizations they find many men willing but unfitted to do their work as they used to get it done, and want it done now. ***

Big and little, great and small, business and industry must give some very definite attention from this day on to building men to fit their organization needs. They must build their own skilled men, their own foremen, their own future executives. The supply, ready to serve, is no longer available. Five years of heavy unemployment has changed the face of things.

A friend vouches ,o, Jn*-.alry as true. Four young men here share a modest apartment. They are unemployed musicians, and on the Federal vocational relief rolls they get eighty-odd dollars a month, each. They have time on their hands so they do lots of practicing on their band instruments, sometimes at awkward hours. One night they were making a lot of noise on their instruments when a knock came at the door. and the man who lived across the hall addressed them.

He said, "Young men, I must ask you to make less noise.

You are so noisy I cannot sleep. And it is necessary that I sleep. I have work that I must do tomorrow, and I can't do it unless I get my rest. And it is necessary that I work tomorrow. I must work for two reasons. First, I must work to support my family. Second, I must work to help the rest of the workers support YOU."

Just read some figure, :" ;":"mber of motor cars per capita in the United States today. Have you any idea what they are? There is now one motor car for every 4.8 persons in this entire coulrtry. Think of that ! And the per capita consumption of cars steadily goes UP. In Europe the ratio is one car to every 76.4 persons.

The low ratio in ""-; ; ;", of course, to the huge percentage of poor. You'll see no acres of cars where workers gather in Europe. They don't get pay enough to buy them in the first place, and'if someone gave them cars they couldn't operate them. The lowest priced gasoline in Europe is in England where it is between thirty and forty cents a gallon. In France and Germany it costs above fifty cents a gallon, and in Italy it costs a dollar. Some places it costs even more.

I shall positively take my bicycle when I tour Europe.

KNOTTY PINE

"Paul Bunyan's" knotty pine is selected for first-class installations by discriminating architects.

CALIFORNIA PINE (soft ponderosa), selected knotty pine commons, standard item in the Red River price list. Run to pattern, strandard or special Western Pine Association K. P. patterns may be ordered by number

LUMBER MOULDING PLYWOOD PANELS

Truck delivery, wholesale only from Los Angeles warehouse Phone CEntury 29O71

Opportunity Knocks But Once

Bv Jack Dionne

"Opportunity knocks but ONCE," said the old-time sage; thereby proving that he was OLD TIMEY.

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the food leads on to fortuner" said Bill Shakespeare. And he prcceeded further to declare that the man who overlooked that critical and pregnant opportunity would be a t'has-been" frcm then on.

As a writer we've got our lid ofi to Bill. Ffe was, is, and prcbably will always b", h a class by himself literarily (if there is such a word). And it may be that his philosophy as above quoted was filled with wisdom as applying to HIS times. Things moved mighty slow in Bill's day. That was long before the days of radio, wir.eless, motor cars and aeronautics.

But that line of dop", if followed nowadays, would never get a man into the big league at all. Bill didn't know that OPPORTUNITY is just a fancy name for HARD WORK, and that the chance to do pr.oductive HARD WORK is like the poor-it's ALIVAYS WITH US.

No sir! If old Bill Shakespeare knew the number of human failures that have been caused by taking that opportunity advice of his too seriously, he would not only turn ove.r in his grav* as perplexed departed spirits are alleged to do-but would likewise turrr a few back handsprings.

For the Devil never handed a bigger lie to the poor faltering man to keep him from trying to get somewhere and do something, than old Bill Shakespeare's "opportunity" philosophy. We have always been under the impression that the Dwil's printing presses have been continudly and tirelessly busy ever since Shakespeare died, reprinting Bill's line of opportunity bunk for general distribution and follow-up sewice on this old earth; and that he had the whole dad-blamed line-up of human creation on his mailing list.

To the man who can THINK and WORK and has burning and insatiable desire to DO BOTH, that "Tide which taken at the food leads on to fortuner" is fooding constantly; has never ebbed, and never will.

Sam Hayward Elected Chairman o[ Lumber and Allied Products Institute

The new Board of Trustees of the Lumber & Allied Products Institute, of Los Angeles, is composed of O. H. Barr, F'rank Fox, Sam T. Hayward, T. O. H. Herzog, Thomas H. Hudson, Allan O. Huff, Ben J. Levy, Olaf Olson, Grey M. Skidmore, and Dave Woodhead. They elected Sam T. Hayrvard Chairman of the Board, ar.rd re-elected Henry S. Patten Treasurer. Mr. Patten has been both Chairrnan and Treasurer for the past three years.

An executive co.mmittee was elected composed of paul Hallingby, Sam T. Hayward, Allan O. Huff, George Lounslrerry, Ray Melin, Henry S. Patten, and J. A. Privett.

In electing Sam T. Hayward Charrman of the Board for thc ensuing year the Institute gave due recognition to one of the youthful stalwarts in retail lumber circles in Los Angeles who for years past has stamped himself indelibly as a fine. cooperator and has given numerous evidences of leadership ability. He should be a worthy successor to one of the stoutest and most devoted men who has ever devoted himself to the betterment of the lumber business in Los Angeles territory, Henry S. Petten, who retires at his own insistence after three years of continuous and unselfish service.

For three years Mr. Patten has given freely and continuously of his time and his genius to a job that calls for much personal sacrifice. The men rvho have worked with him during these years have marveled at the devotion which prompted this very busy man to place himself wholeheartedly at the service of a job that made endless demands upon his time, his efforts. and his patience; for verily, association iobs are very thankless ones.

The lumber industry honors Henry Patten for three years of worth-while devotion. No man could have done the iob better.

Chris Totten lssues Manifesto Commemorating Labor Day

"To the Members of the Arizona Retail Lumber and Builders Supply Association :

"For you who accept and shoulder life's responsibilities, and who are wearied from toil in a sincere effort to accomplish the task of life that is laid before you, and who are unwilling to accept that whi,ch you did not earn, Monday, September 7th, 1936, to you, is a day of rest and recreation.

"And to those who are laggards and refuse to face life's realities, caring only for a bare existence, willing to accept charity from any source; who, like the lilies, toil not neither do they spin; who 1ol1 on the green in the shade dreaming of the fantastic philosophies which espouses a false doctrine of a Utopia, when all wealth will be shared and they will receive a bounteous income that must be spent each month, and which comes from a perpetual spring whose source is God only knor,'i.s where, to him and his kith Monday, September 7th,1936, is just another day.

"Monday is LABOR DAY. Here we rest.

"And let us strive to make this our motto: "'ADVERSIS MAJOR, PAR SECUNDIS."'

A TEADER as Sheathing

Celotex Insulating Shuthing teplaces otdhnry sheathing-adds structural strength and pertnanert in suktioa at ONE material cost!

Celotex Cane Fibte Prcducts are manufactuted under the Fqox Process (paterted) and efectirely rcsist damage by Dry Rot, Fungu.s Gronths, atd Termites (nhite ants). Looh for the brand name. Accept no substitates.

\(est Coast Ass'n lssues Fine Booklet Cooperating With L. A. Grade-Marking Campaign

The grade-marking campaign of the Lumber and Allied Products Institute of Los Angeles, whi,ch has been under way now for just about six months, and which is going great guns and bringing results that surpass even the expectations of its sponsors, has just been stoutly enhanced and assisted by a splendid four-page booklet on the subject of grade-marking, published and issued by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. The Institute is distributing the booklet in Los Angeles territory.

It points out the advantages of using grade-marked lumber, and emphasizes the importance of using the right grade in the right place in home ,constru,ction, and re,commends grades to be used for the most essential purposes. This grade recommendation is supported by a diagram (see cut with this article) showing where various grades should be used in good construction. The lumber dealer and builder will be decidedly interested in this diagram. It will be discovered that no lumber below a No. 2 grade is re'commended for any of the uses shown. This does not mean that lumber of a lower grade has not its place in construction programs, but it does mean that it should not be used for any of the items shorvn.

This Diagram Showt \(/hat Grades of Lumber Should be Used in Good Construction

Kenneth Smith reports that their advertising and mer'chandising ,campaign to exploit the use of grade-marked lumber in Los Angeles territory has borne splendid fruits. About one-half of all the lumber yards in Los Angeles territory stock and sell no Douglas Fir except grade-marked stock, while there are few if any yards in the district who do not carry grade-marked lumber in stock. The result has been the continued elimination of many trade practices that have long reflected against the lumber industry of this territory, su,ch as the substitution of grades, and the use of ,certain items of lumber in places and for purposes not in keeping with sound building practices. What was once the most chaotic retail lumber market in America is fast becoming, largely with the help of this grade-marked lumber campaign, a lumber district of known quantities and uniform and healthful practices.

this campaign with an entire year's Program de'cided upon, and the success they have attained in the first half of their term sends them into the second half with high enthusiasm and determination. Grade-marked lumber now dominates the Los Angeles lumber market, and in the course of time should utterly supply it. No.t ?i LTl6t IDL5II ING LLS r.xTIp-ropTI.IM 6 ero Df,TILDPL AT t5 no.L. 5}IEATIt ING NO.2 DUI LDIN6 PAPLN5I DI NG LXI tR.IOPTI.IM Drxo DLTTLF-

JOIST HO.l. 5UB-rLOOt. tto. z, JOIST NO. l. l.r06lNG NO.Z: PLITL (Mud sill] POSTS AND 6I R"DLLS. NO. 1. fOUNDATION WLST COAST LUMDLR.MLN'S ASSOCIATION. 364 STUAn-l 6ulLDlN<i, SLATtLL. WASI{lN6ro'|-

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Appointed Director of Information

J. Dwight O'Dell, Eureka newspaperman, was named director of information of the California Redwood Association, effective September 1. The appointment was announced by President Carl W. Bahr.

For the past three and a half years Mr. O'Dell has been in close contact with the operations of the Redwood industry and comes to San Francisco to open a new department in the Association.

Arch[E. Nelson

Arch E. Nelson, one of the owners of the Homestead Lumber Company, Sacramento, passed away in Sacramento September 4, after an illness of more than a year.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Louise B. Nelson, 3 sofl, Berens Nelson, three sisters and a brother.

Mr. Nelson had lived in California for 30 years, and in Sacramento since 1913. IIe was born in Minnes'ota 55 years ago.

P. O. CEDAR PLANT ACTIVE AGAIN

The plant of Smith Wo,od-Products, Inc., at Coquille, Ore., manufacturers of Port Orford Cedar, has been in full operation since the termination of the strike which halted operations from about the middle of July to the middle of August.

James L. Hall, Mills Building, San Francisco, is California agent for Smith Wood-Produ,cts, Inc.

Jack Dionne to Speak at S. F. Sept. 16

Jack Dionne, publisher of The California Lumber Mer'chant, will be the speaker at the regular weekly luncheon meeting of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club to be held at the Engineers' Club, 2M Sansome Street, corner of Pine, on Wednesday, September 16 at 12:15.

Redwood Picture Exhibited in San Diego

"California Giants," sound film released by the California Redwood Association, was exhibited nine times from August 31 to September 8 to audiences in the San Diego area. The list of exhibits for the film in San Diego follows: Aug. 3l-Executives' Associatlon and Hammer Club Junior Executives' Association; Sept. Z-Realty Board, including architects, contractors and builders. Retail Lumbermen (evening) ; Sept. 3-North Park Lions Club; Sept. 4-State Highway Division Engrneers; Sept. 5-6-Exposition Grounds; Sept. S-Engineers' Club of San Diego.

JOINS STAPLETON LUMBER CO.

Frank G. Thornton, who was with the Charles Nelson Co. and subsidiary companies for 45 years' has become associated with the Stapleton Lumber Co.. San Francisco.

CALIFORNIA

Geo. T. Gerlinger, president, Co., Dallas, Ore., spent several cently on a business trip.

VISITOR

Willamette Valley Lumber days in San Francisco re- /

REED MILL CO.

We are now ready to ship to the Southern California retail lumber trade our well-known Certigrade Red Cedar Shingles. Manufactured from our fine stands o[ Olympic Peninsula Red Ccdar

MY FAVORITE STORIES

Bv Jack Dionne

Ag" not guarant"ed---Some I have told for 20 years---Some legs

A' Fair Proposition

An old Southern gentleman had an old colored servitor, and they were very much attached to each other, and often sat at the side of the farm house under a Post-oak tree, and talked endlessly about many things. One dajr they got to talking about death, and the life to comg and both expressed the deepest ouriosity as to what they might expect on the other side of the Last River. Finally the old gentleman said:

Club Makes Annual Sierra Trip I

That group of lumbermen known as the Soracity Club V around the San Francisco Bay district re,cently made their annual trip to the High Sierra. Leaving at noon on September 4 the party spent the first night at Aspen Valley Lodge, and early Saturday morning they packed in {rom Harden Lake into the Tuolomne Gorge, where they spent three days. If any lumberman wants to know about the Rainbow trout fishing he can find out from C. I. Gilbert.

From there the party went to Rogers Lake, Neal Lake, and other lakes in the High Sierras, betrveen 11,000 and 12,000 feet up, spending three days there. All report having a splendid time, and pr,omise to keep up their 100 per cent attendance record next year. Tihey arrived home September 12.

Member's of the group are: Clem Fraser, Loop Lumber & Mill Co., Alameda; Jerry Bonnington, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco; C. I. Gilbert, Eureka Mill & I,umber Co., Oakland; Larue Woodson, Wheeler-Osgo,od Sales Corp., San Francisco; Eddie Tietjen, Sudden & Christenson, San Fran,cisco, and Earle Tohnson. Watsonville.

"IJncle Mose, let's you and I make a deal, and promise to keep it. If I die first, I promise that I'll come back and tell you what's on the other side, and if you die first you promise to come back and tell me. What do you say?"

"Suits me fine, Boss," the old gray-haired servitor said. "Hit suits me fine. But lemme ax you jus' one favah, will you, Massa? What Ah wants to ax you is dis! If'n you happens to die fust, WOULD YOU MIND COMIN' BACK IN DE DAY TIME?''

Form California Division

Jas. E. "Jimmy" Atkinson, who recently spent a week in Portland conferring with Mark D. Campbell and Frank Moore, prin,cipals of Campbell-M,oore Lumber Co., announces the formation of a California Division of the company, of which he is manager and J. H. "Jerry" Stutz is secretary.

The office of the Campbell-Moore Lumber Co., California Division, is at 112 Market Street, San Francisco.

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TRANSFER,RED TO LOS ANGELES

t C. B. McElroy, comptroller of E. K. Wood Lumber Company, has been transferred from the San Francis,co office to the Los Angeles office.

Mr. McElroy has been with the company for about 25 years. He is a licensed attorney-at-1aw.

SPEND VACATION AT TAHOE

Floyd Elliott, Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., San Fran,cis'co, and his family recentlv spent a week at Lake Tahoe.

The Sampson Company Enjoying \Tonderful Business Season

Right in the midst of the early part of the depression "Bill" Sampson left Hipolito Company, went over to Pasadena and rented a vacant factory building and started manufacturing screell doors and lvindows. He orrly needed a small corner of the room he rented.

Today he has between thirty and forty men working at high speed turning out Sampson products, and his business today is growing so continually that in spite of the fact that they have taken advantage of every inch of floor space of the big building they occupy, they have had to build an adjoining plant for one of their products-ironing boards. Just goes to show that some folks can climb the hill in spite of conditions.

Today their plant is working at top speed to filI orders, with little time for running stock stuff. The plant is equipped with the most modern machinery, even to,a nailing machine which obiviates the danger of hammer marks on their products, and their products are quality products in every sense of the word. They use only Sugar Pine for their doors and windows, use only brass tacks and nails, and when "Bill" Sampson says "Sampson Quality"-fig means something. They make a specialty of Sivon Ironing Boards that work on a swivel. as well as a line of standard ironing boards. And his list of wonderful Southern California homes in which Sampson products have been installed reads like a roster of the rich and great in this part of the world.

State Retailers to Meet October 22-23

The annual meeting of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association will be held at the Hotel Del Monte on the Monterey Peninsula, October 22 and 23, 1936. J. O. Handley, M. J. Murphy, Inc., Carmel, is chairman of the Convention Committee.

BACK FROM BUSINESS TRIP

Fred Johnsen, West Coast Screen Co., Los Angeles, recently returned from a business trip to the Northwest. He leports that W. P. Fuller & Co. are now distributors in Seattle, Tacoma and Portland for their well known Hollvwood combination screen door.

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Pre. decorated Surface Saves on Cost of Interiors

! Home owners throughout the country ara enlhueiagtic about the rich beauty, the distinction, the economy oI Wood Graiaed SheetrocL And ao wondEr l It givee them all the richness oI real wood paueling al wall board prices. Stock it, Tale advantage o{ ihie wideapread demand. Caah in on lhe great natiouwide magazine campaign now beiug run to create new customera lor you.

MANY BIG SELLING POINTS

Wood Grained Sheeirock hae many other big talling pointa. It is fireproolwill uot bura or support combugtion. It is ideal lor easy remodeling as well as lor new construction. Quickly, easily installed. Does not warp or buckle. Is avail. able in lour beautiful realistic wood linishes. Mail UcS the coupoo nowlorlullparticularsand freesanple.

California Associations Deny Allegations

Complete denials of guilt w;th regard to all the allegations made against them in the ,complaint recently filed by The Federal Trade Commission, has already been made by the six California retail lumber organizations named as defendants in said complaint. The answer of the defendants was made through their attorney, Morgan J. Doyle, of San Francisco. They were allowed until September 18th to file such answer, but did so immediately without waiting for the time limit.

The defendants and officers named in the complaint were as follows:

California Lumbermen's Council, George N. Ley, president; Charles G. Bird, vice-president; George C. Burnett, treasurer; L L. Walker, secretary and manager, and Ley, Bird, Burnett, J. H. Kirk, Warren Tillson, S. P. Ross, I. E. Horton, A. S. Hatch, E. S. M'cBride, and James Tully, councilmen.

Coast Counties Lumbermen's Club, Wiley Masengill, president; W. H. Enlow, vice-president; J' H. Kirk, treasurer; and C. S. Tripler, secretary and manager.

Central Valley Lumbermen's Club, C. C, Morehead, president; W. O. Mashek, vice-president; Charles G' Bird, treasurer. and Thomas L. Gardner, secretary and manager'

Northern Counties Lumbermen's Club, George K' Adams, president; E. S. McBride, vice-president; and C. D' LeMaster, secretary and manager.

San Joaquin Lumbermen's Club' George C. Burnett, president; F. Dean Prescott, vice-president; Ralph P. Duncan, treasurer; and Bernard B' Barber, secretary and manager.

Ofifrcers of the r:espondent Peninsula I umbermen's Club, also defendants, were not listed in the complaint.

The next move in the matter will be the setting of a date for a hearing of the matter, whi'ch hearing will presumably result either in the dismissal of the charges or the issuance of a "Cease and Desist" order by the Commission.

The complaint ,charges that the respondents have entered into an agreement among themselves to p'romote their volume of business ancl profits, and for the purpose of making their program effective have engaged in various practices which include: Compelling manufacturers and

producers to refrain from selling lumber or building materials to so-called "illegitimate" dealers who are not members of the respondent organizations and association, and to force such "illegitimate" dealers to purchase their requirements exclusively from or through the respondent members on terms of sale whi'ch will ac'cord a profit to such respondents; inducing manufacturers and produ,cers to discontinue selling to "illegitimate" dealers and to limit their sales to the respondents; denying membership in the organizations to dealers who refuse to abide by the respondents' program, and; fixing schedules of uniform prices, the prices thus established being enhanced beyond those that would prevail under normal competition and in the absence of price agreements.

The ,complaint further charges that the respondents, for the purpose of making their program efie'ctive, exact promises from the members of the respondent organizations and from manufacturers and producers that they will adhere to the program; use effective ,coer,cive action and threats of boycott to require manufacturers and dealers to sttpport the program; inform manufacturers and producers of the respondents' determination to insist that they distribute their products exclusively through the medium of the respondents, and deny or revoke membership in the respondent associations to dealers who fail to abide by the program.

The complaint further charges that as a result of the respondents' alleged conspiracy to control and influence trade in lumber and building materials, the cost of such products is enhanced to pur,chasers with a resultant incr'ease in the cost of construction, repair -and maintenance of homes, buildings, highways, and all kinds of construction and building work; that employment in the building and construction industry is restricted and the purchasing power of users of lumber and building materials reduced; that competitors, not members of the respondent organizations, are discriminated against and eliminated from the field, and that trade is diverted from them to the respondents.

The above is a definite outline of the charges as stated in a press bulletin on the subject issued by the Federal Trade Commission, and these charges have been denied in toto by the respondents.

Pressure-Treated Lumber

By Jack

Twenty years ago, and more, I was making serious but ineffectual efforts to find some practical manner and means for getting pressure-treated lumber to the average consumer through the retail lumber dealer.

I talked and wrote, and wrote and talked both to the lumber dealer and to the operators of treating plants, trying to get them together on some common ground' I loaded my editorial columns with discussions on the subject.

I got nowhere. Which didn't please me in the least, and I've been grumbling about it ever since. I knew then and know now that there is a big field for treated lumber. I knew then and I know now that a mighty boost can be given lumber if we can secure a proper and practical distribution of treated lumber for use where it is, and has always been, badly needed.

My thought was and is that worlds of lumber is used for purposes where treated lumber would be ten times more useful and satisfactory. Treated lumber used in proper places would long since have headed off the use of substitutes, increased the consumption of lumber, and saved wood many a black eye.

Twenty years ago pressure-treated lumber meant creosoted lumber treated under pressure at a creosoting plant. The creosoting plants were always busy selling, and treat-

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ing the kind of materials they had always been accustomed to, timbers, poles, piling, and heavy stuff for heavy use. They were willing and eager to sell more stuff, and to sell the smaller stuff if they knew how, but they didn't. The retailer of lumber was willing to sell treated stuff also, but could think of no practical ways and means for stocking, seliing, and delivering it.

Today there is a great change, and it is going on everyrvhere. In the first place, we NEED more attention to the subject because in this modern day of shoddy we are manufacturing and selling and allowing to be used lots of shoddy lumber that desperately needs the applied'alliance of pressure-treatment in order to help it withstand the ravages of time and weather. In the second place, new thoughts and new things have come into the lumber treating world that make distributing and use of pressure-treated lumber more practical than iu years gone by.

The very important thing that has happened is the development of preservatives other than creosote for use in pressure-treating lumber, such as Wolman Salts and Chromated Zinc Chloride, which leave the lumber clean, odorless, paintable, with no objectionable conditions or features, yet which protect against the ravages of decay and of insects.

A determination has arisen to overcome the obstacles

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One of World's Greatest Dty Kiln Instalfations

Wilf Dty ?aul Bunyan" Pine at Westwood Calif.

When the installation now being completed by the Moore lry Kiln Company at the mammoth lumber minufacturing plant of The Red River Lumber Company, at Westwood-, California, is in full operation, one of the mightiest batteries of dry kilns ever seen on earth will be the result. First they build seven of these big 25 by 120-foot double track Moore Cross Circulation kilns. Then they added four more. And before the four had been completed The Red River Lumber Company gave them an order for four more, making fffteen in all that are now close to completion. Something like four hundred thousand feet of perfectly kiln dried lumber daily will be the capacity of these fifteen kilns. Some lumber, eh ?

Thus The Red River Lumber Company, makers of that world famous "Paul Bunyan" Pine, prepare themselves to season their lumber for market in a volume perhaps never attempted before, and in that state of dried perfection which the modern Moore Cross Circulation kilns give. The offi-

cials of the company confidently figure that so great will be their advantage in supplying their trade that the greatness of their operation at Westrvood may well be dated from the completion of those kilns.

The Westwood plant is one of the biggest and best in Ameri,ca. Four head rigs and trvo horizontal resaws f,orm the log-cutting equipment of the sarvmill. A mighty remanufacturing plant is a very important part of the institqt!o,q, the plywood factorv alone having a present capacity of 2@,@0 square feet daily on a three-ply basis.

The officials of The Red River Lumber Companv are: Archie D. Walker, President; Clinton I-. Walker,- VicePresident; Willis J. Walker, Chairman of the Board and Vice-President; Fletcher L. Walker, Vice-President and Treasurer; Theodore S. Walker, Vice-President and Manager; R. F. Pray, Assistant l\4anager in charge of Manufacture and Sales; Leo J. Opsahl, Sales Manager; W. B. Laughead, Advertising Manager.

Clcse up ol some ol the new kilns that will be useil to enhance reputation ol "Paul Bunyan" Pine.

A panoramic uieu ol the plant ol The Red Riaer Lumber Co., where new kilns are being ins:alled,

Pressure-Treated Lumber

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that in the past prevented the lumber dealer from handling and profiting from pressure-treated lumber. And this determination is .evidencing itself in practical efiorts in this territory to get pressure-treated lumber to the small builder in a manner satisfactory and profitable to all concerned. Up to a very short time ago a lumber dealer who wanted .to sell treated lumber for the under part of homes and other buildings, hardly knew how to go about it. Today he can do it with no more trouble than to get and sell shingles and shiptap. Any lumber dealer can now buy stock items of pressure-treated lumber, any quantity desired, in mixed cars with untreated lumber, or in lesser quantities by itself.

What the dealer is interested in is to have treated lumber available without too great an investment. The average dealer often finds himself on the defensive when a prospective home-builder wants treated lumber for the under parts of his house, and the dealer hasn't it, and hasn't discovered how easily, and economically, and profitably he can carry such stock today. And all too frequently Mr' Dealer, wanting to satisfy the customer and play his own hand at the same time, suggests that wood preservatives for the under part of the house can be applied with a brush. And so plenty of buildings have been erected with the underneath lumber so "treated," but with a minimum of protection.

Creosoting men told me years ago, and ever since, that to put Creosote on with a brush or a tank dip was a sinful waste of material. To be of service, the preservative must be injected through the fiber of the wood in the first place; and in the second place, it must be really preservative, and very, very few real preservatives of wood have been discovered.

I think the time has come when every live dealer should make an intelligent survey of his own territory, decide what items in treated lumber he can create a market for, and then stock a modest quantity of these items and have them ready. That it is much easier to sell treated lumber right off the shelf than having to order after you sell, there can be little doubt. Lumber and wood have lost lots of territory in the past ten or fifteen years. The lumber dealer can help get some of this lost advantage back by intelligently stocking and selling pressure-treated lumber. When a builder can protect his home by putting pressure-treated lumber in the foundations at a cost of from l/o to 1t/r/6 of the lumber bill, he cannot well afford to go without that protection.

I believe the use of pressure-treated lumber in home and other small building construction will grow so fast that it will be a stalwart aid of the lumber industry in its effort to regain lost ground in the building field.

VACATIONS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Douglas Huntington, in charge of the statistical departrnent of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Seattle, was recently in Southern California on two weeks' vacation. He made the round trip by boat.

Altho this wood is not widely adveftised INDUSTRIALS

All Over the World Pay lJavy Freight Costs to get

Port Orford0edar

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Factory Floors, Mine and Tunnel Timbers, Irrigation '!fork,' Shipbuilding, Wharf Construction, Chemical Tanks, Exptsed Wilks, Floots and Seats on Tops of Buildings' rcin' Platforms

se of its

Acid, Impact, Warp and Rot Resistance

Technical and particular wood users' you will find, are much interested in it.

Smith \(/ood-Products, Inc.

Largest Producers Band Sawn Port Orford Cedar Also Mfgrs. of Douglae Fir coQUrLLE, OREGON California Sales Agents

JAMES L.

NOT TOO PROUD

The officer brought Andrew Jackson Hollanby into justice court for about the tenth time since the first of the year, and the judge gazed, upon his black face with stern determination.

"Andrew Jackson," he said coldly, "aren't you ashamed to be here again?"

"Nossuh, Jedger" replied Andrew Jackson Hollanby, with a most ingratiating smile. "Ah ain't 'shamed t' be heah. Case Ah sez to mahse'f Ah sez 'whut's good enuff fo' de Jedge, is good enuff fo' me.' Yassuh !"

TETHER

Time has been gentle with us foolish folk, Has let us wander through unharried days; So it has been since the young Eve awoke, To infant knowledge and to milder amaze. Life has her tether, and the hand of One Holds us in pastures of our own desire, Until the greenness of the field be gone And we must in ourselves htrnt grasses higher.

But could we as wild cattle run the hills Wild with our wisdom, breaking down the trees

Of doubt, with our sharp horns of wills?

Could we run wild and free, as free as these?

But we would feed on bitter weeds I know, Should God's hand cut the curbing tether so.

-Gladys Horn.

THE RICH AND THE POOR

There is an old saying that the rich have money and the poor have children. As for the rich having mon€/r that of course is obvious. And as for the poor having childrenwell, read the story yourself.

Jim Scott, a poverty-stricken back-woodsman, had become the father of his twelfth child. The cradle in which the child lay had served the same purpose for eleven preceding children and its rockers were so far gone, there was no more rock in them.

"Guess we gotter git a new cradle, Jim," the wife said with a plaintive sigh. "This one's erbout all used up." Jim looked over the dilapidated crib that was ready to fall apart.

"I guess yo'u're right, Salr" he drawled. "I guess we gotter git a new one. Next time you go to town, git one at the store. But this time git one that will last."

THE HALO OF THE YEARS

Why grieve that time's fine etching round the eyes, Thus marks the field where mirth has vanquished fears, Or mourn, since silver hair but glorifies, A head that boasts the halo of the years?

-M"ry Laidley Rudasill.

YOU'D THINK THIS WAS SCOTCH

The following epitaph (likewise an advertisement) was found in a cemetery in Paris z

RECOGNIZED HIM

The doctor was visiting Rastus' wife to deli er her twelfth off-spring. Riding along with Rastus he saw a duck in the road. The Docto'r asked:

"Whose. duck is that?"

"At ain't no duck, Doctuh," said Rastus. "At's a stork wid his legs wo'e off."

"Here lies Pierre Victor Fournier, inventor of the Everlasting Lamp, which consumes only one centime worth of oil in an hour. He was a good father, son, and husband. His inconsolable widow continues his business in the Rue aux Trois. Goods sent to all parts of the city."

FIFTY.FIFTY

fle-"Where have you been keeping yourself, Beautiful." She-"Wrong the first time; right the second. I AM beautiful; but I HAVEN'T been keeping myself."

in Southern California: The Pcciftc Lumber Comprny-Wendling-Nathan Co.

Publishes Two Attractive Brochures

Portland, Oregon, September 1.-The nation-wide popularity of Knotty Pine paneling has stimulated an active demand for pra.ctical information on all phases of its application in new construction and remodeling. To meet this growing interest in wood paneling, the Western Pine Association has published two attractive brochures-PANELING OLD OR NEW INTERIORS WITH REAL PINE aNd BEAUTIFUL PANELED WALLS OF GENUINE WHITE PINE. The first deals with Ponderosa Pine and the second with Idaho White Pine.

Both booklets are profusely illustrated with photographs of actual installations ranging from those in small, low-cost homes and cottages to those in the finest and most modern homes, shops, hotels and offrces in the country. The subject is discussed in the foreword of each brochure by an architect-in the one instance by Walter E. Church of Whitehouse and Church; and the other by Margaret Goodin Frits,ch, both of Portland, Oregon. One has only to glance through the twenty pages of each brochure to pick up practical ideas and suggestions on design, grade-types, finishing treatments and harmonious color schemes for furnishings in Knotty Pine rooms, and drawings of popular pine paneling patterns.

Single copies will be furnished free on application to the Western Pine Association, Yeon Building, Portland, Oregon.

LOS ANGELES VISITOR

J. F. Slater, sales manager, Dant & Russell, Inc., Portland, Ore., spent a few days at the company's Los Angeles office the latter part of. August. He traveled both ways by airplane.

VISITS SOUTHERN CITIES

Henry M. Hink, sales manager, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, was a business visitor last week in Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara and other Southern California cities.

STEVEDORE COMPANY BUYS TERMINAL

The McCormick Lumber Terminal at Islais Creek, San Francis,co, has been sold to the Anneri'can Stevedore Co., 1200 Third Street, San Francisco. Hugh J. McPhee is manager of this con,cern.

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Exchange eeruic€lealels untreated lunber fq our Chrmated Zirc Chloride stck plus chuge fr treating.

Treating deale/s m lumbernill shipmentg to ry dck or truck lots from dealer's yard.

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Our well assorted stocks, our well known dealer policy and our central location guarantee the kind of SERVICE you demand.

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Window Trims Promote Roofing Sales

to determine the reaction of dealers and retail customers before going ahead rvith the idea on a larger scale.

by the company. Also, wherever necessary, sample boards cf shingles and other materials were furnished to make p<.rssible a complete display of the company's products-roll roofing, asphalt shingles and asphalt emulsion-although in most cases actual rolls and shingles were used in the displays.

The central theme of "Re-Roof Now-Mid-Summer Sale -$2vs" was carried throughout the various pieces of display material so that there was unity to the entire trim. The colors of red, white and blue were used and were arranged to catch the eye of every one coming within seeing distance of the window. The company's salesmen worked with the dealers on the displays-in many cases putting in the entire exhibit.

The dealers were all well pleased with the attention given the windows by the general public and the sizeable number of inquiries that resulted. They report quite a substantial volume of orders resulting directly from the windows. A statement by one of them pretty well expresses the general opinion of them all-"The results of this mid-summer window trim of roofings have certainly convinced me that good displays help move merchandise at all seasons of the year and, believe me, I'm going to make sure to keep displays of roofing throughout the year from now on."

Thomas J. Murray

Thomas J. Murray, proprietor of San Jose Wrecking & Building Supply Co., San Jose, died September 4. The funeral was held in San Francisco on Tuesday, September 8.

Mr. Murray was a native of California. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Alice M. Murray, and a sister, Mrs. Thomas Bulger. He was a member of El Dorado Parlor, No. 52, N. S. G. W., San Francisco; Knights of Columbus, No. 1492, San Jose ; Loyal Order of Moose, San Francisco.

RETURNS FROM NORTHWEST

H. A. Browning, H. A. Browning Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has returned from a month's business trip in the Northwest.

VISIT SAN FRANCISCO

Walter G. Scrim, Findlay Millar Timber Co., and Roy Barto, Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Inc., Los Angeles' spent a few days in San Francisco the first part of the month.

BACKING OUR STATEMENTS

Our only recommendation is tr5z a car of SUGAR or PONDEROSA PINE from Kyburz, Calif.' or Lake' view, Oregon.

C. D. Johnson lumber Corporation

PORTLAND, OREGON

Solt Old GrowthYellow Douglac Flr and tltka SPruce

Mills-Toledo, Oregon. Capacity 47 M per hour, largest in Oregon, of combined kiln'dried and green lumber. Over 50 yeats' supply virgin timber.

Cargo and Rail Shipments-Weekly sailings to California ports-Packaged lumberr stowed even lengths and widths -shipments made as Promised.

Note:

C qtif ornia lumb errnen e s p e ci,ally are inzti't e d to uisi.t our operations 'i'n Toledo and our offices in Portlond when rnotori,ng North tili,s surnwer zti'a the Red'zaood HighwayToledo is iust off the Coast Hi'ghway at Newport, Oreg1on, and in di'rect route to Portiand,. In foledo, go to rnill offi'ce and usk for Dean lohnson or Bob Richardson'

BRANCH SALES OFFICES

Timber fot decades to come... modern facilities. .wide-awake people...that is your source of supPly when you buy from

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Lumber and its Products

Redwood Chest Helpr Sta* \(/orld's Fair

A Redwood chest, sandblasted and bound with wrought iron, played an important role in the ground-breaking exercises for the Golden Gate International Exposition on Aug-

Buena shoals west of the island of the same name, now being used by the Navy as a training base. It is from this island that the great transbay bridge reaches out in both directions to San Francisco and Oakland.

At present about a third of the planned 430 acres of fair site have been raised from the bay floor.

A feature of the exercises, which were attended by such notables as Governor Merriam, George Creel, Mayors Rossi, McCracken, and Ament, was the placement of the ceremonial cornerstone of the Administration building. The novel "cornerstone" was an ingenious Redwood treasure chest, in which were placed documents recording the progress of the fair to date.

Wieldrng a golden spade, Leland W. Cutler, president of the exposition, cleared space in which to place the memorial. Then, surrounded by fifty-eight girls dressed in the native costumes and carrying the flags of as many nations, the "stone" was moved into position. It will guard its contents for the duration of the fair and will afterward be retained by the city as a memorial of the great exposition.

BACK FROM VACATION

LeRoy H. Stanton, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, is back at his desk following a vacation spent in the Northwest.

Shevlin Pine Sales Gompany

ust 21 as 1500 of California's civic leaders gathered on the Yerba Buena fill.

The ceremonies took place on the new land being dredged from the bottom of San Francisco bay to fill the old Yerba

R. M. Morriss Visits California--Wolmanized Lumber is His Successful Hobby

R. M. Morriss, of Chicago, President of the American Lumber & Treating Company, is a California visitor at the present time, dividing a couple of busy weeks between Lo; Angeles and San Francisco.

Mr. Morriss is the drive-wheel of one of the fastest growing industries in the entire United States today-the Wolmanized Lumber industry. All his life a lumberman in the South, Mr. Morriss long ago conceived the idea that a pressure-treatment of lumber that would give the protection against decay and insects that creosote affords, without the attendant disadvantages of handling and smell that comes with creosote, and distributed by and through regular lumber channels, would practically rejuvenate the lumber industry. Ten years ago he secured the American rights to the use of Wolman Salts for lumber preserving under pressure. Then began a fight to secure the assistance and cooperation of the lumber industry in the matter. The lumber industry is notoriously slow to take up new merchandising ideas, and indifferent to innovations that require a change of pace and plan.

So for years Mr. Morriss had an up hill fight. It was only about three years ago that he got his first firm foothold vrhen a progressive lumber manufacturing firm in Arkansas cooperated with him in the building of a plant to Wolmanize lumber. It was an immediate success. The lumber firm operates the plant and sells the products. Another plant in Arkansas soon followed. Then in rapid succession other plants were either built or secured in various parts of the country. Today in addition to the two in Arkansas there is one in Florida, one in Massachusdtts, one in Louisiana, one in Virginia, one in Oregon, and one in California. The Pacific Coast is served by the plants at Wauna, Oregon, and Wilmington, California. The Wauna plant treats only rvith Wolman Salts. The plant at Wilmington, California, treats with both Wolman Salts and creosote.

Following the established national policy of the company these plants aim at one hundred per cent lumber distribution. The plan at Wilmington, for instance, sells the large wholesalers of the territory, and the wholesalers stock the lumber and sell and distribute to the retail yards, who sell it to the trade. The American Lumber & Treating Company, says Mr. Morriss, does not sell the trade at any time. The example of a retail lumber yard in Southern California selling ten thousand railroad ties, pressure-treated, shows how the thing works for the benefit of the dealer in lumber. They consider their plants simply service stations where the iumber industry can secure pressure-treated lumber to furnish their trade.

Mr. Morriss states that his company plans to have pressure-treating plants all over the country where there is a trade to be served, their present eight plants being simply a start on their large program. At Wauna, Oregon, for instance, they have already increased the capacity of their treating plant two and one-half times to meet the growing demand for their Wolmanized Lumber.

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Anglo California Lumber Co. Opens \(/holesale Yard at Los Angeles

The Anglo California Lumber Co. has taken over the large lumber plant at6420 Avalon Boulevard, Los .A.ngeles, where it will carry on a wholesale business in Ponderosa Pine, Sugar Pine, Redwood, mouldings, wallboards, and panels.

The yard covers three acres of ground and is one of the finest in Southern California. The large shed is splendidly equipped with modern facilities for handling lumber and has storage capacity for over a million feet of lumber. A large driveway runs through the center of the shed which has two tiers of lumber bins on ea,ch side; each bin will hold a ,carload of lumber. Railroad tracks run into the yard and along each side of the shed; each bin on both the upper and lower tiers has a door and l,umber can be unloaded directly from the cars into any of the bins. Over two acres of land can be utilized for outside lumber storage. Attractive offices are at the front of the warehouse.

Henry M. "Mac" Luellwitz is president and general manager of the company. He has been c,onnected $'ith the lumber business for many years and until about five years ago was associated with his father, Gus Luellwitz, the well known Los Angeles lumberman and president of the Globe

Lumber Co., who, however, has no interest in the new company. When "Mac" left the Globe Lumber Co., he went to Klamath Falls, Ore., where he was connected with the Ivory Pine Co. He was later interested in the lumber financing business in the Klamath Falls district.

Mr. Luellwitz has an efficient organization which will assist him in the distribution of their products. E. A. Goodricli, popular and widely known Los Angeles lumberman, is vice-president of the company. For many years he has been connected with the Redwood business in the Southern California territoiy, first as Los Angeles manager for the IJnion Lumber Company for a long period, and the last two years as sales representative for Holmes Eureka Lumber Co. "Good" as he is best known to his many lumbermen friends plans to devote the major part of his time to calling on the Southern California lumber trade.

Elmer Shaler is in charge of Los Angeles sales. Mr. Shaler has had wide lumber experience and is well known in lumber circles in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. For fourteen years he was with E. J. Stanton & Son of Los Angeles.

Harvey Koll is sales representative. Mr. Koll has been

Anglo Calilornia Lumber Co. Vholesale Yaril at Los Angeles

associated with the lumber and millwork business in Los Angeles for many years, and was formerly in the plywood and veneer business for himself.

Miss Eleanor Duart is secretary to Mr. Luellwitz. A new building will be started this week for their moulding stocks. Shipments of Pine, Redwood and panels are arriving daily and they now have a well rounded stock of lumber on hand. The company will operate exclusively as u'holesalers.

Council Holds Annual Meeting Sept. 19

The Fifth Annual Meeting and Birthday Party (stag) of the California Lumbermen's Council will be held at the Casa Del Rey Hotel, Santa Cruz, Satur'day, September 19. The program includes : directors' breakfast meeting; golf in the afternoon; banquet at 7 :@ p.m. at which President Geo. C. Burnett will preside, and Jack Dionne, publisher of The California Lumber Merchant, will be the speaker. There will be a fine floor show.

Air Mail Service For Subscribers

Effective August 18, Lumbermen's Credit Association Inc., Chicago, Ill., publishers of the Lumbermen's Red & Blue Book Service, will send Special Reports by air mail to all subscribers located outside the territory in which regular mail is delivered the following day. Subscribers at distant points will be rendered a service equal to the overnight service given to nearby points. This new service means remarkably quick delivery of credit information. It will not be necessary for subscribers to request air mail transmission of reports ordered, as all reports will be sent air mail.

VISIT COMPANY'S PLANT

N. J. Sorenson, of Los Angeles, Pacific Coast manager of the United States Plywood Co., Inc., ahd Langford W. Smith, district manag'er at San Francisco, have returned from a business trip to Seattle, where they visited the company's Douglas Fir plywood plant.

ARIZONA

LUMBERMAN VISITS L. A.

Ambrose Halstead, Phoenix, Ariz., retail lumberman, has bt:en visiting his father, J. D. Halstead, J. D. Halstead Lumber Co., Los Angeles.

BACK FROM NORTHWEST TOUR

Harry F. Vin'cent, general manager of E. K. MrooC Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned recently from a combination business and vacation trip to the Northwest on which he was accompanied by his wife, daughter and little granddaughter.

The trip was made by automobile, going north by way of the Redwood Highway, Oregon and Washington Coast highways, and around the Olympic Peninsula, returning by the Pacifi,c Highway. Cities visited in,cluded Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Aberdeen, Hoquiam, Anacortes and Bellingham

PLAlI YOUR ITIUESTITIE]ITS

To advance sound theories of Planned Investment Programs, as opposed to random security purchases and sales, Brookmire has developed two Planned Investment Programs adaptable to the in. dividual investor.

Both portfolios are selected to secure maximum par. ticipation in current economic developments through diversified investments in common stocks. In one Program hrcome is para-ount, while the other is devoted solely to capital enharrcement.

Write for complimentary cory ol Bulletin 191.

BBOOII.n|IBB

Corporation-Inuestmerrt Counselors and Administrctiue Economists-Founded 1904 551 Fifth Avenue, NewYork

Built for load sizcs ranging from 36'x36" lo 66"x94" any length of load. Also spccial types lor spccial nceds.

RETAIL YARD FOR SALE

Retail lumber yard in Arizona adjoining one of the larger cities. Good lumber sheds, large warehouse and plenty of room for expansion. Yard is located olr main highway and in fast growing community. Good investment. Owner rniants to .devote time to other interests. Address Box C-630, The CaUfornia Lumber Merchant.

RETAIL LUMBERMAN WANTS TO MAKE PERMANENT CONNECTION

Experienced fetail lumberman would like to make permanent connection with reliable Southern California concern. Knows the sash and door business. Has Southern California lumber experience. Can take complete charge of yard. 38 years old, married, and finandially responsible. Address Box C-628, care California Lumber Merchant.

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This issue carries an article on the sawmill operations of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. in the Northwest. With their mills at Port Ludlow and Port Gamble, Wash., and St. Helens, Ore., running double shifts, they will have a daily production of 1,60O,000 feet. li**

W. W. Wilkinson, Los Angeles wholesaler, has been appointed Southern California representative for the Nettleton Lumber Company of Seattle, Wash.

W. F. (Bill) Fahs, who has been connected with the California Panel & Veneer Company for the past several years, has been added to the company's sales force and will call on the Los Angeles trade. *:f*

C. J. (Clint) Laughlin has made a change and is representing the Memphis Hardwood Flooring Co. and Robbins Flooring Co. in Southern California with headquarters in Los Angeles. Clint was with the Long-Bell Lumber Co. for the past sixteen years. He came to California about four years ago and took charge of their Los Angeles office, and a year ago when Kenneth Smith was transferred to Philadelphia, he went to San Francisco to manage their office there.

"Preparation and Merchandising of Fir," an address by

RETAIL.YARD FOR SALE

Small yard in a large city, 2O miles from Los Angeles. Well located, lease site and buildings, investmetrt about $6'000.00. Address box C-631, California Lumber Merchant.

FOR SALE

?-,-8x12-in. twin cylinder Tacoma Donkey Engines. 11,342 feet each lr/a and /s lockcoil tram cable. Sell or trade for lumber.

F'INNELL WRECKING & LUMBER CO., PHOENIX, ARIZ.

RETAIL YARDS FOR SALE

If you want to buy a lumber yard in Southern California, see us. We have a number to offer. Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers, 549 Petroleum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 8746.

recent meeting of the West Coast Lumbermen's Associatiori at Tacoma, Wash., appears in this issue.

A fine likehess of John Leigh, sales manager of the Western Lumber Company, Westfir, Ore., appears in this number. The picture was taken by Mrs. A. J. Russell while on a trip with Mr. Russell to the Northwest.

An illustrated article on the great Redwood manufacturing plant of The Pacific Lumber Company at Scotia, Calif., is in this issue.

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There also appears an interesting article by Jack Dionne on the world's biggest sawmills. Among the mills d.escribed are the Coos Bay Lumber Company, Marshfield, C)re.; Long-Bell Lumber Company, Longview, Wash.; St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company, Tacoma, Wash.; Grays Flarbor Lumber Company, Hoquiam, Wash.; Weyerhauser Timber Company "Mill 8," Everett, Wash.; Central Coal & Coke Company, Vernonia, Ore.; Pacific Spruce Corporation, Toledo, Ore.; Red River Lumber Company, Westwood, Calif. ; McCloud River Lumber Company, McCloud, Calif.; The Pacific Lumber Company, Scotia, Calif.; Union Lumber Company, Fort Bragg, Calif.; Great Southern Lumber Company, Bogalusa, La., and Virginia & Rainy Lake Company, Virginia, Minn.

BI]YEB9S GT]IIDD SAN FBANCISOO

LU}TBER

Cmpbcll-Mmrc Lmbcr Cc, -- iiz Markct St. ......'...:.'.'......GArfrdd rtr0

Carr & Co. L. J. - tli Croikcr Bt&. "........'.......SUtter t363

Chanbalin & Co. W. R, - ttb Flc, Ffi; Bld3.' ............DOurhr Slta

Dut & Ruru[, Inc., ? Frot St,- :.,...'...............SUttcr ttsl

Dolbccr & Crm Lunbc Gc' 7t Mcchutr E:cblqlc Bldg"""'sUttcr il51

Crcrgc W. Gorrnu ri C.nf-oL St. ..................GArficld l?tz

Hall, Jmer L- ian r'rnr'Bl&. ................'..suttcr l!t5

Hmmod & Llttlq Rlvcr Rcdlood Co. ll? Motr|mcry St .'....'......DOuglag tiltt

HoLno Eurc&r Lmbcr 6. --- l5|5 flirrciel Ccatcr B'fd3.......G4rft.U ftzr t ht'iffii!"3F;,1::.........GArncrd .asr

lf,rcDondd & Hrrinttoo Ltd{ --ia cdt6h stet.....,..,.......GArficld lstl

lloora Mltl & Ltmbcr Co, --izs uitfit strut ..'....'. ;.....'Exbrook'zlt

LUMBER

LUMBER

Prcific lubcr Cc Thr rt Burh Strai....................GAridd lttl

Rcd Rivcr Lumbcr Co.' trt Mona&od: Bldt..'............GArfrsld llZt

Serte Fc Lunbcr Cc' fa Cdiforllr Stf .t....'.......KEtr[t A1a

Schafcr Bn Lunbcr & Shhfb Co.' I Drum st. ......'.....'.....'.'..SUttc u?r

Sbcvlin Pirc Salcc Co, lut0 Moldncl Blds. ...........KEenv Tllt

Suddca & Chrlstcnon, tro sruonc str4t.........,......GArficld 2tla

Trorror Lunbcr Cct u0 MuLrt Str;t...'................Suttcr flzl

Unloa Lubcr Co., Ctodcr Bulldhil ..SUtt6 lr?l

Wmdllu-Nathu Corra f,ld.t Stslca ..................SUttcr $tG

E. K. Wo.d Lunbc Ce- I Dnmn Str.at'.'...............'.KErnt t ll

Wactreura S&r Ca- io clfctr srr.Gi...............GArficld tt?'l

?J.l & C'o., --- fO Ca|lfcrt! Str.ct ........'...'Exbrok Sur

OAITLANI)

Hlll & llctm, bc- "-D;;i;-3t- i+'hrrr ............ANdovc rt?

Huan Lunbcr Goput, "";i -& Alicr Sirictt'......... "..GLcocanrt't'l

Pvnnld Lmbcr Sahl Cq' "' iii-pi#'"--b;tdtt ..-...... "'Glacourt rat

E. X. Wod Lub.r Cc. -' ?;.L;a-r Kt"t sdr......"" "rnlFdc rlll

HARDWOODS

HARDW(X'DS AND PANEIJ

Forryth Hudtcd Co. 155 Bryrhcr BbA .......,.......ATrrtrr lltt

WhitG Brothrn, Fifth rnd Bnr.s Strut! .........SUttGr ttlE

SASH-DOORS_PLYWOOD

Nlotrl Dc Sdir Cq. taaS lrth Strcct ..........,.........Mlsloo ttta

Orc3o-Wuhin3toa Plywod Cc, 55 N.r Mmttmcry StEt.......GArfrH ?lt

Unltcd Strt.. Plywood Co., Inc, lll Kenrar Strcet ...,........,.....MArLet ltSz

Whclcr.O4ood Sdcr Corpondoo, t|i frtb St. ......................V41cnl| Ztf

CREOSOTIED LUMBER-POLEII-PILINGTIES

Amcrlm Lunber & Tmting Co., ll0 Ncw Montgmcry St. ..........Suttcr lZ5

Butcr, J. H. & Co., 3it3 Montgocry St. .,............DOug|a! fSS!

Hall Jancr L., r02l Mlll. Blds. ...................SUrt r tttt

PANEIS-D(X'RTSAIH

Abcr&cn Plyred Co' aot llth Stn ct .GLcncqrt lf?{

Cdltmb Bultd.n SuDDlr CG, 70| fth Avo. ......Hlgatc lll

Wrrtrn Dc t trA Go- tt[ I Cypnr Sri ..........,...LALcidr ltO

Streblc Hrrdlood Crr - 5l? Flrrt Sttlr t'.:..............lErCrfrr gg

Whlte Brcthcrs, '' 50 Hlsh Sinct ....'.............4Ndov.rff

LOS ANGELBS

LUMBEi

Aulo Catifmie Lumbcr Co' *Azo--f;;i;Bdd: :. ". ".....'.THmwall !l4r

q;l"#'$f in t#*L3"1,&.. pRo.D.cr .nlr

Cbmbcrlin & co., W. R., *-iii-''tt:.t lri.iir st ......TU&a lot

onHi' fi*!iii"b'H:Y..1:: ....vAndik!.?'2

Dunnlng, W. D., -*oi Ctr-t"t'of Conncru Bldg"'PRcpcct tf3'

Hrmmmd & Llttle Rlvcr Rcdrood Co- ----ioli S". Brodwrv ....'....'.....PRcFGt rE!

Hcmmlngr, E. W. ---ioa $. Sprlng- St. ..'........'.....TRinitv tEzr

HoLmcr Eurcka Lmbcr Co" '"?iftfi T;Ar-til- br&-.' ..........Mutuat trtr

Hoovcr. A. L.. ----lna'S- Lr Brca Avr. ...,............YOrk ll6t

C. D. Jobnn Lumber CorP.'60l Pctrcl{m Smritler Bldt....PRdFGt U65

Kuht Lumber ComPuS Carl H.' ,l!t Chmber of Cmncnc Bld8.'.PRoF€t tl33

lrme-Phillpr hnber Co-, aS3 Pclrdm Soorltia Bldt...PRdFGt OZll

MacDmald & Bcrgrtm, tne.' Titit Pctrclcun Sccuritto Bldg..'.PRaPrct Tlra

LUr|BER

tlrcDil.ld & Hrrrilstn' Ltd.'

5.o Potrrolcum Sccrrldar Bldr....PRo.DFt lf?

Pectfrc Lrnbor Co- Th. ti !- L Bn'An ................Yffi rral

Prtta-Elhl f{nbc Cor fZr E. ttl St. ......:............;VAndllto Zt2l

Rrd Rlvu Luobcr Cor m E. 3Lu.6 .CEltrrt tt?l

Reltz Co,, E. L' f!3 Parrolcu; Sccrrrltlce Blds. ..PRaFct re

Saatr Fc hnbcr Co.. tfl Filalchl Cmtcr 81d1......'VArdlLc {'l7l

Scbatcr Brc. Lmbcr & Sh|lfb Co.' vn W. M. Garlud Bldr..'....'.TRinlF'l?l

Shcvlin Plne Salet Co.

32E Petrcleum Sceurltler Bldl. PRcFct aars

Sudden & Chrlrtcmo" dtO Bard of Tndc Blds. '.......TRiaitv $|l

Taoma Lumber Srlcs, ,123 Petrclcum Seorltlct Bldg...PRocpect fl0t

Uni,on Luabcr Co.

923 W. M. Grrlud Bl&.'....'....TRinlV zlr2

Wcndltng-Natf,u Co., ?00 Sc t- Bs Aw. ............'.YOrL lrat

E. K. Wood tmbcr Gc, |7n Sutr Fr An ..............JEfiom $ff

Wcyerteew Srhr CG. t20 W. M. Grrlad B1ds......'..Mlchtan |85r

HARDWOODS

Cadwrlledcr-Glbnn Co., lnc., 3Ol Mlncr Avc. .....,............An3chn lll3t

Pcrlcctlon Oak Floorl4 Co., t20 E. t0th St. ,.....................ADrnr l2lt

Starr.o, E. J., & Soo, a5a Ert ltth Strut............CEDtrrr till

SASH-D(X)RS-MILLWORK

PANEI! AND PLYWOOD

Abcrdccn Ptyrood 6.-Do F. 0&r. al| Wc.t Pk:o Sb,.Gt ...,..........Fltroy $al

Cdltm! Pul & Vcscr Cor t53 So. Alencda 3L......,.........TR|ilt' tGt

Kchl, Jro. W.. & Se+ lSil Sc Mym SL ................AN3c|u tttt

Orcgo-Washingto Plywd Co.. 3lt W€t Niltb Sbrtq ......,......TUchrr l,ltl

Red Rlrcr Lmbcr Co.. 70il E. Slaum ..CEntury tlf?l

Utrit€d St to. Plywod Co., Inc., lt30 East lsth St" ...,....,,.,....PRocpcct tolt

Whclcr-Osgood Sales Co4drtioq

2153 Samento SL .......,.......TUcLrr lll

CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLES-PILINGTIES

Ancrlqn Lunber & Trcating Co.,

10:tf So. Bmdway ..............PRo.EGct 555t

Butcr, J. H. & Co., tOl W..t 5th SL ,.. ... ....Mlc.higu Gra

/"wmLGo COOPERATION

Tfo',r.llryNnooD

Dealers find perco more than a dependable, adequate sorrce of supply for their Redwood. Backing up "Redwood at its besti' pAtco offers constructive dealer helps and wholehearted cooperation.

Dealer mats and electros forlocal advertising, folders and other sales promotion material, are furnished to help push sales for PALco dealers.

Most important, however, is the eager attitude reflected throughout the entire pArco family which says, "\$/e pfug for perco dealers."

S(henever you have any ideas or suggestions on how u)e canhelpyou sell more Red, wood...let's have them.

PALGO BR.A]ID REDUOOD