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CALIFORNIA AGENTS: CASE PEERLESS BRAND CEDAR SHINGLES AND PACIFIC SPRUCE CORPORATION.

WOODEN 'PIPE LINE' OF OLD PORTLAND SYSTEM UNEARTHED

PORTLAND.-Recollections of earlier days, when Portland was nothing but a village, were brought to the minds of some of the city's older residents, when excavators unearthed a portion of an old wooden water main which the city once used.

The "pipe line," buried 15 feet underground, consisted of une ven lengths of fir logs through which a two-inch hole had bored. Through this came Portland's water suppl;, some 60 years the water coming from a creek o n the edge of the village.

It was recalled that in the original syste'ff1 were used , that line was dug up and the fir tree line subst ituted

Established in 1888

APPOINTMENT IN SOUTHERN PINE ASSN.

NEW ORLEANS.-Appointment of Albert S. Boisfontaine, who has been assi s tant to the manager o f the Southern Pine Association since last June, as Assistant Secretary, was announced Saturday by H. C. Berckes, SecretaryManager of the Association. Mr. Boisfontaine has been with the Southern Pine Association, servi ng in a number of capacities, s ince 1917.

HERE'S A HOT ONE

Jack:

Howinhell could we afford t o be withi:mt this paper so full of snap, pep a'C.d ambish? Can't be done. "Red" m1anager.

Kerckhoff-Cuz ner Lumber Co., Pasadena.

Peterman Manufacturing Co. TACOMA, WASH.

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