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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 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

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Write for complimentary cory ol Bulletin 191.

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