UP AND DOWN THE STATE

LLOYD EILLMAN LUMBER, CO. SUCCEEDS CABSTENS & EARLES IN LIIMBER AND SEINGLES SALES

The Lloyd Hillman I.lumber company with a capital stock of $250,000, has succeeded Carstens & Earles, Inc., at Seattle, one of the most important shingle wholesaling coneerns in the Northwest, and one of the leading factors in distribution of red cedar shingles in California. Carstens & Earles wiII continue in the investment banking business.

The new company is represented in California by the Andrew F. Mahoney I-rumber company at San Francisco and by Fletcher & Frambes in Los Angeles, and will continue to market the well-known line of "Faultless," "Favorite," t'Famous" and "Foremost" shingles through those two conneetions. The "Foremost" is 6/2 Clear shingle and was created by Carstens & Earles a few years ago to meet requirements of the California market. It is shippecl both rail and water.

Lloyd L. Hillman, president of the new company' was one of the principal owners of Carstens & Earles, Inc., and is one of the best known wholesale lumber and shingle operat.ors in the Northwest.. He has been in the lumber business since 1896. Associated with him in the new enterprise will be Miss E. M. Flagg, secretary and treasurer; Dan V. O'Brien, manager shingle department ; E. H. Cameron, manager foreign and domestic lumber department; E. A' Angliu, manager traffic department.

CAIJFORMA TIFTII IN LUMBER, PRODUCTION

Washington is now, and with the exception of 1914 has been since 1905, the leading lumber producing state. Oregon stands next, then come Louisiana, Mississippi, California, Arkansas, Alabama, Texas, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Florida, each of which produce more than a billion feet of lumber a year. It will be notised that the premier lumbering states of former years, such as Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York, do not appear in the first 11 states at all.

T. P. IIOGAN FOBMS NEW OPERATING COMPANS

Thomas P. Hogan now is the sole owner of the Hogan l,umber company's property in the Oakland district, and has leased this property to a new' company he recently formed-the Hogan Lumber & MiIl Conr,pany. The deal involves the wharf property and miII properties in Oakland, the Bruce Lumber company of Berkeley and the Elmhurst I.lumber company of Elmhurst.

Iyiiss Brey Eas Creat Vacation By Visitinc Eumboldt County Redwood Mills

When it comes to combining business with pleasure and turning a vacation trip into a successful quest for first-hand praetical information, you have to give first consideration to Miss Alberta Ruth Brey, the youthful but forceful vicepresident of the Brey-Wright Lumber Company at Porterville.

fnstead of going to a seashore resort or to a,fancy hotel in the mountains for her vacation, Miss Brey went to Humbolt county and spent her time among the big redwood operations. She visited'some of the most important mills and also took a trip into the woods and saw the fallers and buekers converting the giant trees into logs, ready for the mill. While she already was thoroughly familiar with the finished redwood. lumber and its particular uses, she became fully acquainted., on this vacation trip, with the red-

EOLLYWOOD LUMBER CO. GETS PUBIICITY

A leading article in a recent issue of the Hollywood News was devoted to the afrairs of the Hollywood I-rumber company, designated as the oldest lumber company in the Cahuenga valley. The firm's modern office and planning mill are described and a high tribute is paid to the character of the service performed. The officers of the company are: President, W. F. Montgomery; vice president, J. F. Mullin; secretary, Ward W. Montgomery; treasurer, J. D. Mahaffey. All have been active in the business life of Hollywood. The company's mill and offiee are at 6609 Santa Monica boulevard.

SPALDINGS START ON WORLD TOI'B

W. R. Spalding, well known and popular retailer of Yisalia, accompanied by Mrs. Spalding, sailed from San Francisco Saturday, Septemb'er 16, on the steamer Columbia for a tour around the world. They went through the Panama canal and stopped at New York before starting across the Atlantic. They expect to be gone three or four months and to visit most of the important points of interest in Europe and Asia.

woods in their native state, how they are logged and how the lumber is manufactured.

"And I never had sueh a wonderful time," she comments. Miss Brey was accomtrianied on the trip by Miss Joanna Stamm of Fresno.