In and Out of the Yards

Heard Above the Whir of the Planer and the Roar of the Rip Saw.

SAN BERNARDINO FIRE BUG CAUGHT SOUTH AMERICAN LUMBERMAN LIKES THE F. Padilla, a Mexican, has been arrested and charged CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT wit•h murder in connection with a large number of fires The following is an excerp from a letter just received by that he started in various towns in the southern .part of Richard C. Jones, of the Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., the state. Padilla has confesse<l that he lighted: the fire San Francisco, from his good friend Otto W ."?' .. •• ' that burned the Santa Fe lumber yard at San Bernardino Iquitos, Peru. _ / ·, '

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ADDITION TO CHARLES R. McCORMICK LOS ANGELES OFFICES; GUY E. SMITH RETURNS FROM ORIENT

Mr. Guy E. Smith, 'formerly connected with the Charles R. McCormick Company, in California, :and later representi ng the Robert Doll'ar Company in China for several years, has just returned toi this country, and will in the fu•ture be connected with the Southern California offices of the Charles R. McCormi ck Com:pany, in Los Angeles.

New Boat For The Union Lumber Company

The Union Lumber Company has purchased the Steamer "Admiral Goodrich" and wiU put her in lumlber service between Fort Bragg, Mendocino and San Pedro. TheyJ will re-name the new boat the "Noyo." She carries about 1500 thousand feet. 1

The Union Lumber Company will release the "Fort Bragg," which they have had under charter.

"Many thanks for the year's subscription for THE

CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT, it is sure a good and interesting paper and keeps a fellow like me in this far off foreign counitry well posted on what the Boys are doing in my home town."

Otto \V. Frese is well known among the Bay District lumbermen, and is now connected with the American Peruvian Commercial Comp1any, exporters of Peruvian Hardwoods, with headquarters at Iquitos, Peru. Mr. Jones wanted Mr. Frese to keep in touch with lumber conditions in California and a few months ago he sent in his subscripti o n for THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT.

C. I. WHITE MAKES NORTHERN TRIP

Mr. Charles I. White, Los Angeles manager for the McLeod Lumber Company, left Los Angeles Thursday September 20th., for a two weeks trip tha t will take him all through the northern part of the coast. He will stop at San Francisco for a few days, and from there will go to Portland, Seattle, Tacoma and other points.

Mr. white was accompanied by Mrs. Whi te.