Hiscox Leaves Hart-Wood; Forms Western States Co.

Effective October 1, Richard A. Hiscox will sever his aetive connection with the Hart-Wood Lumber Company and open a new wholesale lumber business under the name of the Western States Lumber Company at 605 and 606 Fife Building, San Francisco.

Associated with him in the new enterprise are his son, R. G. Hiscox and C. W. Muller, both of whom have been with him in the Hart-Wood organization. They will handle tlalifornia white and. sugar pine, as well as a full line of Douglas fir, red cedar shingles and other West Coast products.

It is understood that Mr. Hiscox has sold his interests in the wholesale end of the Hart-Wood Lumber Company,to the Hart-Wood people, but that he will retain his interest in the Eart-Wood retail yard in San Francisco and in the Ilart-Wood fleet of boats.

Stockton Lumber and r Simpson-Gray Combine

/ Effective October 1, the Simpson-Gray I.lumber company / and. the Stockton Lumber company, both pioneer retail con- cerns of Stockton, will be consolid.ated under the sole.man- agement of Charles G. Bird, the live-wire manager of the Simpson-Gray yard.

The business will be conducted at the offices of the Stockton Lumber company, 347 South Commerce Street.

Joseph Fyfe, the veteran head of the Stockton I_rumber company's affairs and one of the best known and most high- ly respected lumbermen in Central California, will retire after fifty years of active service. Mr. Fyfe came to Stockton in 1870 and obtained employment, as a bookkeeper, in the office of the firm of which he until now has .been the head. He has been active and. forceful in the d.evelopment of Stockton's civic and commercial affairs. At various times he has been president of the San Joaquin Valley bank and of the Stockton Electric Railway. He has taken a leading part in several fraternal mganizations and has served. several terms as a member of the Stockton city council.

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