The California Lumber Merchant - October 1929

The supreme test, -actual use

What haRpens when you cut openings in a flush door? Perhaps it will stand up, straight and true. haps it will warp and twist. haps it will go to pieces altogether" The larger the openings the greater the risk.

The "perhaps" is practically eliminated IN

PAUL BUNYAN'S l OO PERCENT DOOR l00vo CALIFORNIA PINE IOO%INTERLOCKED CORE

The PAUL BUNYAN'S fush door illustrated here was picked at random from stock and cut for three glazed openings. Note the size and shape of the openings and the long narrow member left between them. Where this door is installed there is a wide variation in temperature and humidity on opposite sides. After one year in use this door has no warp, distortion or defect of any kind.

The secret of PAUL BUNYAN'S DOOR reliability lies in the design, material and workmanship,-small core units, groove-matched thruout, and united with waterproof glue. California Pine, kiln dried and air seasoned.

Qraftsman-built quality at factory-product price. Trade Mark "Producers of White Pine f or Over Half a Centurg"

NOTE: The -"U bola"' is RED RIVER PICTURE PANEL (sandblast-color prcelg patents pending.)

The past year and a half have seen Redwood Panels advance from the unknown to definite popularity.

are light in weight-free from Pitch-finish Smoothly-Ideal for Sandblasting-use with Redwood or Philippine Trim.

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THE CALIFOR}.IIA 'LUMBERMERCHANT

How Lumber Looks

' p6rrglar Fir:-Production reported to the Wect Coast Lumberrren'r Asrociation by 217 mills in Oregon, Warhington and Brithh Columbia for the week ending Septernber 14 was above the output of theee same milh for the previous week, during which the Labor Day holiday occurred, but war'about 5r(XX)r(XX) feet below tte cut for each of the weeks ending August 24 and Augrrst 31. Stocks are low, for thir time of tte year, with ufilled orderr arnormting to more than 42 p* cent of the inventoriea

The millr are contemplating strongly an additional curtailment before October 15 and anottrer before November 15. This is in addition to tte 25 percent cwtailment on double rhift mills and the 16 2/3 percecrt on ringle rhift millr which is already in effect. The mills reem determined to keep the rituation in hand. It is reported that many of the interior mills that get out their own logr have clored down, and the bisger mills are feelng the rhortage of logs.

The Calitfornia market is quiet and slightly under normal for ttis time of the yer. Pricec on Comrnom are about tfie rarne a! har prewailed for the part two or ttree weekr. The Clear market has developed str€ngth and pricet have advanced owing to heavy buying in South .A'merica and the United Kingdom. The millr report a shortage of clear logs.

Although there is no change in the tmrold lunber situation at San Pedro, there ie very little deeirable stocks on hand at the millr. ff the additional curtailmerrt goes into efrect, as is expected, it will result in tonnage being not able to get cargo at the milb.

Redwood:-The vohune of burinees ir holding up in good rhape and pricer are firrn. There ir a good volume of brniners corning from the eastertr marketr. The Redwood operatorr are optimirtic for a good business in Cdifornia during the fall monttrr

California White and Sugar Pine. Pricec on Comrnon boards are firnring up and ctocks at the millr are getting low. The rnarket on Clears rernainr the same. The California demand during September showed an irnprovement over the summer buriness. There is a good vohune of orders arriving from the eastern marketr. Stocks at the mills are about normal for this time of the year.

According to the report of the National Lumber Manu. factureru Associati,on, the current relationrhip of rhipments and orders to production for the frrst 37 weekr of 1929 ir as follows:

Wert Coast Lumbermen's Asrociation3-p1q,{ustien, 6,485,774 M feet; Shipmentr, 6,5631115 M feet; Orden, 6,6051214 M feet.

California White and Sugar Pine Auociation:-Prod'uction, 1r(X)3r9OG M feet; Shipments, 9981435 M feet; Orderr, l,Ol9,24O M feet.

California Redwood Ascociation 3-p1q{ustien, 27 6,37y^ M feet; Shipments, 279,867 M feet; Orders, 2921932 M feet.

Southern Pine Areocia1iq113-ploduction, 2r484r0l9 M feet; Shipmentq 21511,365 M feet; Orders, 215011599 M feeL

Total Hardwoods3-p1s{sstiqn, 118891297 M feet; Shipmcntr, 118461972 M feet; Orden, 11833,466 M feet.

Hammond to Handle Coos Bay Lumber Co.

Cargo Sales in Southern California

Effective November 1, the Hammond Lumber Co. through their Los Angeles office will handle the Southern California cargo sales of the Coos Bay Lumber Co. The Coos Bay Lumber Co. are large shippers into the Southern California territory, their sales amounting to between 7,000,000 and 8,000,000 feet per month. They are operating two steamers in their California trade-the S. S. Timberman and the S. S. Lumberman. The Coos Bay Lumber Co. have one of the largest Fir operations in the Northwest,

their mill being located at Marshfield, Oregon. Their mill output is 200,000,000 feet per year.

The Coos Bay Lumber Co. will continue to maintain their Los Angeles office but are reducing their staff. J. A. Thomas will continue as Southern California sales manager with Geo. Purchase as his office assistant.

The Coos Bay Lumber Co. will continue to handle their Northern California sales through their San Francisco office.

Subrcription Pricc, $2.|X) pcr Ycar Singlc Copicr, 25 ccntr cech. LOS ANGE'LES, CAL., OCTOBER

66L Sreilt deal of good oornes frorn a good deal for I)ealersee

MERCHANDISING sermon in only J. I twelve '67e1ds-a terse word picture of the value of the Cowan dealer franchise. In the whole building supply business, where is there a better deal than the Cowan Custom, Built,In Cabinet franchise? We measure, esti, mate and plan the cabinets for your customers. We assist you in selling and servicing. You make no investment in stock, take no depre, ciation losses, andhave no delivery expense whatever. Therefore, the good profit that you make on Cowan Cabinets is almost entirely NET. Ask us for full details concerning this profit,making franchise.

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Random Editorial Ramblings

By Jack Dionne

Signs of the times. A well known lumber executive said to me the other day: "We have twelve people in our office fo*e and ten of thern that I know of are buying some bonds or other and paying for them by the month." That doesnlt look like a bad.sign. It means a stout disposition to save rather than waste, and in time those bonds can be used to buy homes.

If we could induce everyone whd is playing the stock market to cut it out and buy good bonds as an invdstment, it wouldn't be long before business generally would improve mightily. It's the millions of people who are playing the market on margin that are retiring completely from all other sorts of investment activities, and making business bad for sound business generally. But how to stop them? That's the qucstion that hasn't been answered yet. In the meantime it's sure hurtin8 *the lumber business.

And, when you talk about business being bad, don't fail to consider the lumbelr journal business. One weekly gone monthly, one weekly gone semi-monthly, one semi-monthly gone monthly, one paper gone out of business entirely, and with the remainder business is thinner than it has ever been in their history. It is a fortunate lumber journal that has 60 per cent of the income it had a few years ago.

And in this case it requires no Sherlock Holmes to ferret out the principal trouble. The trade extension campaign of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association was the punch below the belt that put the lumber journals down for the count. Thrce years ago they put over a million dollar a year budget to be paid by the subscribing mills at ten cents per thousand on production. The campaign is to run five ye{rrs. The men who put it over were honest and earnest. They thought it was a big thing for the lumber in'dustrY'*:r*:fi

The lumber journals helped a lot. It was no easy matter, signing up those mills for that ten cents. In many ,cases they used everything but dynamite. I wrote and talked strenuously and enthusiastically for the proposition. The Good Book says that "Where vision lacketh the people perish". We lacked the vision to see in advance what it was going to do to us. If wdd known we'd have been throwing brickbats instead of bouquets at the proposition; distributing poison rather than propaganda. But we didn't know.

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As soon as the call for funds came a world of mills began looking around to sde where they could save some of this ten celrts. The lumber journals proved to be a large part of the answer. Some mills cut out some of their trade journal advertising, to apply on their National contribu-

tion. Some mills used a broad-ax. IN MY PERSONAL OPINION FULLY ONE HALF OF THE ENTIRE NA. TIONAL TRADE EXTENSION CAMPAIGN FUND IS COMING FROM THE REVENUES AND PROS. PECTIVE REVENUES OF THE TRADE PRESS.

.And that's only half of it. The National started in to advertise wood. They hired a big national advertising agency that knows little of lumber, to handle the campaign. They are buying hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of space from consumer magazt"ir. * * ,r.

Now, a campaign to the consumer would fall far short of success unless it is tied up with the lumber trade itself. To get the lumber dealer who must sell this stock to the consumer, lined up with the campaign, is just as necessary, just as essential as to get to the consumer. So HERE, we optimists told ourselves, is where we get some of our lost revenues back. A small part, at least. The National is going to have to reach the dealer to tie up with its consumer camPaign' :r * * ,k

And it IS. Don't doubt it. Every mail brings to the editorial desks of the trade press reams of propaganda copy about the trade extension campaign. It's all ready for release. We don't have to do a thing but furnish the ink, the type, the paper, the overhead, the postage, to distribute it. Cash? Not a dime! Hundreds of thousands to the consumer magazines that wouldn't give lumber a kind word or a pleasant look. Not a dime to the lumber journals who are furnishing just as important a part of the trade extension car4paign as the consumer magazines. ,t*,t*

Laugh that off, friends of mine! I've tried, but the laugh won't come. Of course, the advertising agency that gets hundreds of dollars commission for writing a consumer magazine ad, and perhaps a five dollar bill for writing a lumber journal ad, doesn't write many of the latter. But wasn't there someone in that deal somewhere to raise the question of a square deal for the*lumber journals?

The lumber journals were the friends of the Trade Extension Campaign when it was in the making. Wise rnen would have preserved that friendship and cooperation. If the rumbles I've heard of late are any indication, the National can ill afford to be wasteful of friends, particularly such potent ones as the lumber press. Which concludes this chapter.

A well known sash, door, and millwork firm of Southern California, has adopted the policy of giving one week's vacation at full pay to all employes, regardless of how

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This service rneans pronrpt deliveries to you

Every other day McCormick boats sail for California pofrs, with cargoes of McCormick lumber to take care of Cdifornia and Atizona needs. In addition to'this service, our rail department is equipped to give fast service into California and Arizona. Whatever your requirements, McCormick facilities are so ananged as to give you prompt, dependable service.

Supplementing our boat and railroad shipments, our gneat disributing yards in Wilmington are

constantly stacked with millions of feet of the finest timber the Northwest produces. J,tst another feature that makes McCormick service so reliable. McCormick ttStraightJine Service" is complete from forest to you. Every opetation is McCormick controlled. Forest, logging camps, raihoads, mills, docks, ships-all one unit grving you fast, dependable lumber service. Ask our representative, or nearest sales office for quotations on straight or mixed cars.

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Random Editorial Ramblings

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small their job, who have been with them continuously for five years. The boss says it pays. The men arc grateful" and show their gratitude in terms of added interest, effort, and loyalty.

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"Are retail lumbermen in business for profit or e:rercise" is the title of a booklet that just came to the editorial desk. f haven't read the booklet yet, but as far as California generally is concerned almost anyone even slightly in touch with the situation can answer the question propounded with a single word. O"1.T 1or! is "exercise."

It isn't really surprising that the climate that produces

James R. Neylan

The passing of James Robert "Bert" Neylan, California sales manager for the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, Eugene, Ore., came as a shock to the lumber fraternity in the San Francisco Bay district, of which he was a popular member.

Mr. Neylan's death took place suddenly in his office in San Francisco, on September 18, and rvas pronounced due to heart trouble. He was born in Oakland 57 years ago, and lived all his life in the Bay cities. His first job in the lumber business was with the Hogan Lumber Company of Oakland, and at the time of his death he hacl completed 18 years' service .n'ith the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company.

He was one of the oldest members of the Hoo Hoo order in the San Francisco Bay district, his number being 13,897, and was a member of both the San Francisco and East Bay Hoo Hoo Clubs. He was also a member of the Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club, the Central California Lumbermen's Club, and the Douglas Fir Club of San Francisco.

Mr. Neylan is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Hogan Neylan, two children, Robert and Mary Catherine Neylan, a brother, John, and two sisters, Miss Ellen H. Neylan and Mrs. Fred Saunders.

champion athletes of every sort, great teachers, preachers, authors, musicians, etc., should also produce great scrappers. The trouble is that scrapping and business don't go well together,,and we takc our scrapping activities into our lumber yards instead of into the prize ring, where they might make us somemon€y.

I have been thinking and believing that 1930 was going to be a big and prosperous year in the building and lumber game in California. While Irm still clinging to my thought, I'll have to admit that so far I haven't much of a physical character in the way of indications, to base my opinion on. Yet, you can't tell.

California Pine Name Case Set for Octob er 4

The date for the hearing of the Federal Trade Commission's complaint against manufacturers of Pine in Southwestern territory has been set for October 4, at Washington, D. C.

Allan Matthew. of the well-known law firm of McCutcheon, Olney, Mannon & Greene, San Francisco, will act as defense counsel at the hearing for a group of CaliforniaPine manufacturers representing about 90 per cent of thetotal production.

Pickering Lumber Co. Gets Awards at State Fair

The Pickering Lumber Co. received the Gold Medal Award at the California State Fair, held recently at Sacramento, for White Pine, Pattern Lumber, White Fir, Sugar Pine and Millwork.

Tuolumne County was awarded the silver cup given for the most attractive display of a special County prod- uct. The inscription on the cup reads as follows: "Awarded to Tuolumne County for exhibit of Pickering Lumber Company's products, lumber, sash and doors."

IIAMNIONI| for IIABDWOODS

Nearly Bvery Yariety of fmported and llornestie Hardwoods Carried in Harnmond Stoeks

White Pine Boards

Intefior Trim

Blach Walnut

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Philippine Hardwood,s

Ooh Thresholds

Oah Beoel Sills

Oah Stepping

Red Cedar Closet Lining (Bundles)

Imported and Domestic Hardwoods

Hammondhardwood stocks are always complete. They represent nearly every variety of imported and domestic woods in a wide range of grades and sizes. These stocks include the Hardwoods oftfie Centraland Eastern States as well as the more expensive woods imported frorn Central America, Australia and other foreign lands.

ThisHardwood Service is of real value to t{re retail yard. It means a variety of stocks backed by prompt shipment . . . both important factors to the retailer.

BALSA: Imported bv Hammond's direct from South ^A.merica. Every retail yard should carry a stock of this wood which is finding widespread use for aeroplane construction by ttre boy-amateur.

Southern California Lumbermen Play Golf

"Pick" Maule, Pacific Door & Sash Company, Los An- npany, .f\nize "The Frank

Igeles was the winner of the low Curran Cup." and Paul Hill. Loun es tne wrnner low gross prlze l ne _r ranK rran Hill, Lounsberry & Harris, Los Angeles, was awarded the low net prize "The Roy Stanton Cup" at the Lumbermen's Golf Tournament held at the Fox Hills Country Club, Los Angeles, on Friday afternoon, September 27.

The winners of the Flight Events were as follows : First Flight, first prize, Roy Stanton-second prize, Gus Hoover; Second Flight, first prize, G. V. Learned-second prize, M. B. Jordan; Third Flight, first prize, R. C. McIntosh-second prize, Art Penberthy; Fourth Flight, first prize, Ed. Houghton-second prize, Dave Woodhead.

Over ninety golfers entered the tournament representing practically all sections of Southern California. Following the tournament, dinner was served at the Club House at 6:30 P. M. which was attended by seventy-five after which the winners of the tournament were announced and the prizes awarded.

Following is the list tice, A. E. Muller, A. Callum, Jack Thomas,

of entries: Don Philips, J. H. PrenIngvoldstad, Dick Loveday, D. McS. C. Smith. G. H. Nicholson. Ted

George Robinson to Cover All Northern Territory

Geo. W. Robinson, salesman for Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, will also cover the territory formerly worked by Mr. Neylan until new arrangements are made by the head office.

KALAMA SHINGLE MILL BURNS

Fire caused a loss estimated at $70,000 when the mill, dry kilns and stock of between three and four million shingles of the Barr Shingle Co., Kalama, Wash., burned September 4.

Sweet. Walter Rilev. Max Landram. Russell Gheen. L. A. Beckstrom. Cliff Bergstrom. R. H. Meyers, J. R. Henderson, Art Penberthy, Clint Laughlin, Frank Connelly, Ed. Houghton, E. Stephenson, D. E. Liggett, Curtis Merryman, J. W. Graham, C. B. Lyons, Frank Neimeyer, G. O. Fogleman, S. J. Hathaway, Bruce Wiscomb, Harvey Bowles, Earl Jamis.on, A. P. Youst, G. V. Learned, Bill Hamilton, Dave Woodhead, "Friday" Freeland, W. B. Wickersham, E. L. Cooper, Max Price, Henry Pries, Jas. Cline, Ray Cope, A.,C. Baker, E. A. Nicholson, M. B. Jordan, M. R. Gill, Fred Golding, LeRoy Stanton, Paul Hill, Frank lfarris, Geo. Lockrvood, Geo. Melville, Ed. Gould, Earl McCormick, Ed. Culnan, John Olson, Frank Park, C. F. Reeder, Leo Rosenberg, Walter Best, Paul Masters, "Pick" Maule, "Cappy" Slade, Francis Boyd, Ed. Seward, E. G. Betts, A. K. Condee, H. O. Warde, Geo. Evans, Bill Vanderwood, C. A. Suiter, P. I. Meritherv, Kenneth Smith, Lew B. Train, Paul Thompson, Bill Sampson, R. C. McIntosh, Gene DeArmond, Andy Donovan, Earl Stuart, Earl Johnson, W. B. Jones, J. H. Ivlills, Nate Dodds, S. G. McDonald, Frank Burnaby, Gus Hoover, Ifarry Graham, A. E. Holliver, Frank Connolly and Henry Swafford.

Gaines D. Whitsitt New Snark of Universe

At the 38th annual convention of the Concatenated Order of Ifoo Hoo International, held at Amarillo, Texas, on September 25, 26 and 27, the following were elected to serve on the Supreme Nine for the coming year:

Snark of lJniverse .....Gaines D. Whitsitt, Amarillo, Texas

Senior Hoo Hoo......A. Beaudette, Montreal, Que., Cbnada

Junior Hoo Hoo. Franklin Hofheins, Buffalo, New York

Bojun ....W. G. Smith, Akron, Ohio

Scrivenoter ...Ben Springer, Milwaukee, Wis.

Jabberwock .Tom Spaulding, Missoula, V,qnt.

/Custocatian .......N. E. Boucher, Minneapolis, Minn

/Arcanoper ......A. A. Frost, San Diego, Calif.

Gurdorr .J. Wats Martin, Norfork, Va.

"Pick" Maule Wins Low Gross Prize-Paul Hil,l Low Net Prize Winner

Califo rn ia's First Farm Conference Voted Great Success

With an attendance of about 100, California's first Farm Building Conference, held under the auspic-es of the Sacramento Vattey Lumbermen's Club and the University of California, Division of Agricultural Engineering,-at the University Farm, Davis, on Saturday, September-21, can be described as most successful and very much worth while.

The idea of a farm building conference was first suggested by Max E. Cook, Farmitead Eng-ineer of the Caliiornia Redwood Association, and this first meeting was made possible by his efiorts and those of Professor H. B' Walker, head of the Division of Agricultural Engineering' University Farm, Davis, together with,the co-operation of the Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club.

Thd meeting proved that the retail lumbermen and the officials of the-Division have a mutual problem-that of developing better farm buildings, and it will no doubt be the foierunner of other and bigger conferences along similar lines in the future.

President Harry A. Lake, of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, who traveled all the rvay from his home in Garden Grove 'to attend, stated in his speech that it is his intention to try to arrange a similar program {or the State Convention of retail lumbermen on November 7, 8 and 9 in San Francisco.

Among those lumbermen who traveled considerable distances to be present were the following: O. A. B-ak-e-r and Ralph DunCan. Merced Lumber Co., Merced; 'C. H. Grifien, ^Jr., Homer T. Hayward Lumber Co., Salinas; George l\{eissner, Valley Lumber Co., Lodi; Lester H' Elliot, Valley Lumber Co., Lodi; Warren S. Tillson, The Modesto Lumber Co., Modesto; and Frank F. Fisher, Fisher Bros. Lumber & Mill Co., Stockton.

The morning session was held in the Agricultural Engineering Auditorium. This opened promptly at 10 a. m'' wittr proiessor lI. B. Walker presiding. In his opening remarks. Professor Walker said that farm structures had to be designed to give service, and in speaking of materials said that lumber linds itself icleally to the construction of farm buildings as it permits easy alteration.

"Milking Barns for California," was the first subject. Prof. W. M. Regan, Animal Husbandry Division, dealt with the requirements for milking barns, and H. L. Belton, Farm Building Technician, spoke on the structural features, illustra[ing his talk with slides. Discussion followed, those takiig part being E. S. McBride, Davis Lttmber Co., Davis; Warren S. Tillson, Modesto; H. W. Ifaves, Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento; and Joe Holmes, Woodland Lumber Co., Woodland.

Prof. J. E. Dougherty, Poultry Husbandry Division, spoke on "Requirements for Poultry }fouses," and Mr. Belton talked on the structural features, again using lan-

tern slides. In describing the University type of poultry house, Prof. Dougherty itressed the point that it is designed to use short lengths of lumber. In the discussion that followed Mr. Belton answered the questions of Harry A. Lake, George Meissner, and others.

J. D. Long, Junior Agricultural Engineer, A. E. Division, took as his subject, "Farm Structures Investigations at University Farm", covering in the course of his talk, hog houses, sheep equipment, poultry houses, adobe construction, fence posts and grain and forage storage.

Max E. Cook, Farmstead Engineer, California Redrvood Association, delivered an address on "Ready-Built Equipment for Farmers." This address is printed in full on another page of this issue.

Luncheon was served in the California Inn on the campus, when all present were guests of the Sacramento Valliy Lumbermen's Club. Ira E. Brink, president- of the ciub, presided, and immediately after lunch following a few remarks in which he expressed the appreciation of club members for the invitation to hold their meeting at Davis, introduced Dr. W. L. Ifoward, Director of the University Farm, who gave the address of welcome. Dr. Howard said the University Farm operated 1100 acres of land, with a staff of 150, and that the budget for the year ended June, 1928, was $1,115,000. He also said that 450 students from 15 states and 18 foreign countries were enrolled.

E. T. Robie, Northern vice-president of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, responded on behalf of the club.

G. H. Hecke, Director of Agricdlture for the State of California, was the next speaker. Mr. Hecke in the short time at his disposal gave an outline of the work of his department, and particularly stressed the importance-of getting the co-operation of everybody in the State in fighting pests.

"Livestock Housing" was the topic of Dr. G. L. Hart, head of the Animal Husbandry Division'

Harry A. Lake, president of the California Retail Lumbermen'i Association, addressed the gathering on "The Lumbermen's Responsibility to Agriculture," and in the course of his talk urged lumbermen to help to sell memberships in County Farm Bureaus, stating that in his opinion if lumbermen all over the State had the proper idea of co-operation there would be immediate results noticed. Much more contact is needed, he said, between the farmer and the business man'

Professor Walker's talk on "Mutual Interests" concluded the speaking program. This meeting, he said, was in the natuie of an experiment to test out whether the

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Ira F. Brink President Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club.

Our 27'I'ear Reeord SPEAKS FOR ITSETF

For 27years,discriminating, forward-looking lumber merchants all over the country have sold and reconrmended our

And we are being constantly told by these dealers that they find it a TRADE BUILDER. This, we consider a very practical testimonial, but we also stress these points:

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Imperial Valley Dealers Start Strong Home Building and Modernizing Campaign

One of the keenest efforts at co-operative and co-ordinated promotion of buildings and building improvements ever attempted in a rural district of California, has just been launched in the Imperia.l Valley. It starts out like a winner, and should certainly give the builders and building prospects of the famous Valley something interesting to think and talk about right along with regard to their buildings and their homes.

The campaign has been in the m,aking for several months. It is sponsored, financed and directed by the Building Service Bureau, an association of the lumber and building material merchants of the Imperial Valley, and they are all in it and enthused over it. The idea originated with and the campaign was promoted by a very virile and thinking building official, Mr. W. W. Wheatley, Secretary of the Association, at El Centro.

The campaign consists, in short, of a two page spread of ads, editorials, news, etc., on the subject of building, published in The Imperial Valley Press, .and to appear once every week beginning with the initial issue of September l6th.

All the well known merchants of the Valley interested in building are represented on the two pages by separate advertisements. There are lumber dealers, building and loan associations, refrigerator dealers, electric refrigerator

TEXAS LUMBERMEN VISIT CALIFORNIA

Among the visiting lumbermen seen on the streets of Los Angeles during the past two weeks were E. R. Wicks and Frank 'Womack, of Houston, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Womack were making their first visit to California, while Mr. Wicks has been here frequently. Mr. Wicks is head of The Vaughan Lumber Company, the world's biggest wholesale lumber concern, and Mr. Womack is head of The Foster Lumber Company and the Trinity River Lumber Company, both Texas sawmilling concerns.

systems, the gas company, building insurance people, title guaranty people, contractors of various sorts ofiering t9 do building and repairing, furniture dealers, roofing dealefs, etc.

The educational features of the two pages consist of an attractive house plan and picture, a column of hints for home-builders, a list of building permits and prospects, a_n interesting story on what modernizing means and how it can be accomplished, and a well written three column ad from the Bureau itself high lighting new conveniences for the home. In the first issue a built-in breakfast nook was featured. This will be changed every issue. Also in the first issue on the editorial page of the newspaper there appeared a very complimentary editorial concerning the building department.

It's greal stuff, and very well done, indeed. In a letter to The California l-umber Merchant Mr. \\rheatley says: "It goes to show what can be done by co-operative effort in a small local group, for our association sold the idea to the paper; we sponsor it; our Bureau provides the copy, the weekly plan, the building statistics, and through our Bureau w-e handle the 'Question Box,' and the 'Hints for Homebuilders'."

The progress of this splendid local effort should be watched with keen interest bv the lumbermen of the state.

E. H. BIGGS BACK FROM ARIZONA

E. I{. "Ed" Biggs of the Union Lumber Company, Los Angeles, has recently returned from a ten day business trip to Arizona.

BACK FROM SUNNY SOUTH

Steuart Bothwell, of the sales department of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, is back from spending two weeks' vacation with his parents in San Diego.

To All Lumbermen-

rJfe feel gratified that our policy of grade marking, as well as trade marking, our California \07hite and Sugar Pine, has so well received your approval. It is our goal to grade mark all shipments 100%.

To those of you who are still "on the fence", we invite you to consider the advantages in merchandising trade and grade marked material over unbranded lumber. !(/e yill appreciate your request for grade marked McCloud California Pine on your next carload,

The following is an example of our grade marks:

The McCloud River Lumber Co.

THE McCL0UD RMR TUMBER C0.

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WESTERN SALES OFFICE:

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W. G. KAHMAN, Sales Mgr. 7o4r

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SOUTHERN CALIF. AND ARIZONA REPRESENTATIVE:

L. S. TURNBULL, 635 PETROLEUM SECURITIES BLDG., LOS ANGELES, CALIF.

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California's First Farm Fir-Tex Insulating Co. Conference to Build $2,500,000 Plant

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retail lumbermen and the Division of Agriculture Engineering have mutual interests, and he felt that the expeli- ment warrants further co-operation between them, as the meeting proved they have a mutual problem. He also said that mutual confidence between the groups was nec€ssary, and he believed that this will be-deviloped, and that the Division should think of the lumbermen as coworkers in their big job of providing better structures for housing livestock.

A short business session of the Sacramento Vallev Lumbermen's Club followed.

C. D. LeMaster referred to the deaths of two club members, Joseph Fyfe of Stockton, and J. R. (Bert) Ney-

Addressed Meeting

Construction of a $2,500,000 plant at St. Helens on the Columbia River, for the manufacture of an insulating and building board and also a pressed wood, will start early in October, it was announced recently by officials of the Fir-Tex Insulating Board Co. It is planned to have the plant in operation early in the spring.

The raw materials to be used will consist of Fir, Spruce and Hemlock bark, edgings and slabs obtained from large Columbia River sawmills, and it is estimated that "FirTex," the copyrighted name of the product, can be manufactured more cheaply than similar products.

It is estimated that there is a potential market for about 30,000,000 feet a day of insulating and building board in the United States and other countries, and that less than 2,000,0m a day is being manufactured.

The list of directors follows: Charles E. Dant, of Dant & Russell, Inc., Portland, chairman of the board; Herbert Fleishhacker, president Anglo-London Paris National Bank, San Francisco; Lee A. Phillips, executive vice-president, Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company, Los Angeles; John S. Baker, president, Fidelity Trust Company, Tacoma; Kenneth D. Dawson, president States Steamship Company, Portland; J. A. Jevne, president, H. Jevne Company, Los Angeles; Paul H. Helms, chairman executive committee, First National Corporation, Beverly Hills, Cal.; Stanley S. Anderson, investments, Beverly Hills; E. B. King, president, King Lumber Company, San Francisco; Franklin T. Griffith, president, Portland Electric Power Company, Portland; H. F. McCormick, chairman of the board, St. Helens Pulp and Paper Company, St. Helens; Charles A. Shea, J. F. Shea Company, Portland; William B. Dean, general manag'er, Diamond Match Company, Chico, Cal.; A. F. Millington, vice-president and general manag'er, Fir-Tex Insulating Board Company, Portland.

lan of San Francisco, and asked all present to stand for a few moments in silent tribute to the memory of the deceased.

A tour of the University Farm followed, starting with inspection of the Poultry Houses, and inspection of the IJniversity Farm buildings: Animal Science, Agricultural Engineering, Dairy Industry and Horticulture. An automobile trip through the farm.concluded a very interesting day, the meeting being adjourned at 3:45 p. m.

Martin ez, High School

A. Ingvoldstad Joins Golfers Hole-in-One Club

' A. Ingvoldstad, Lennox Lumber & Supply Co., Inglewood, Calif., got a hole-in-one on a 235-yard hole at the Ventura County Country Club on Wednesday, Sept€fnber 11. He was playing the course with, Walter Riley, manager of the Peoples Lumber Co. at Oxnard, when he performed this unusual golfing feat.

Dedicates Athletic Fieldi E. H. Wheat New Secretary-

The Tracy High School and Alhambra High School, ,Tr _ a . ?tr I

of Martinez,-football teams met at Nlartinez in Friday I fgasUfef AflZOnA UIUD

afternoon', September 20. The Tracy "Bulldogs" were

victorious, winning 13-0. A feature of the occasion was Robert V. Baker, secretary of the Lumbermen's Club the dedication of the new football field which was in of Arizona, has resigned and-is now an active partner in charge of the Martinez American Legion. A. J. Russell, the Calvert-Baker Lime Co. at Phoenix, Arizona. E. H. Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, who with Peter B. Wheat has succeeded Mr. Baker as secretary-treasurer of Kyne and Stanley Dollar are godfathers of the Tracy High the Lumbermen's Club. The Lumbermen's Club of AriSchool team, attended the game. zona have their headquarters at Phoenix.

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Big Southern Firm to Develop New Mexico Timber

The Lutcher & Moore Lumber Company of Orange, Texas, large lumber manufacturers of the South, and New Mexico inine operators, have secured frcim the McGaffey Company, the contract for approximately a billion feet of Arizona pine situated on about 150,000 acres of the Defiance plateau northwest of Gallup, N. Mex., considered one of the most attractive logging and lumbering propositions in the country. This company, through W.-H. Slark, of Orange, had previously entered the development of New Mexico resources in a large way in the Hagen Coal mines, Hagen Power & Electric Company, and the Rio Grande Eastern Railroad, near Albuquerque. The devolopment of the timber tract will involve, it is understood, the installation of a large modern sawmill, planing mill, box factory, and possibly a sash and door factory in Gallup, or other suitable site, to which logging railroad lines are being surveyed by the company's engineer, C. P. Stevens of Hagen. The A. B. McGaffey Company will continue to opeiate their mills at McGaffev. N. Mex.

National Forest Revenues Grow

The net revenue received by the Federal government from the 18 national forests in the California District (California and southwestern Nevada) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, was $1,419,140, according to report of the United States Forest Service in San Francisco. This is an increase of $62,410 over the receipts for the previous fiscal year, and the largest return ever received from the national forests in this State.

The sale of over-ripe and mature timber from the forests netted $958,560; fees-from the grazing of cattle and sheep, $198,794; special recreational and commercial uses, $133,539; and water power, $74,325.

Under act of Congress, the States of California and Nevada will receive one-quarter of this total revenue, or approximately $350,000, for distribution to counties in which the national forests are located, for roads and schools. An additional 10 per cent of the receipts will also be spent by the Forest Service in these counties on roads and trails, making a total of nearly $500,000 returned to the States in lieu of taxes on Federal forest lands.

Lumberman Dies at Fire

James W. Fowler, vice-president ahd general superintendent of the Eastern & Western Lumber Co., Portland, died on September 7 oi a heart attack while looking over a forest fire in the company's holdings near Molalla, Ore. Mr. Fowler was 59 years old, and came to the Eastern & Western Lumber Co. as general superintendent in 1906. He is survived by his widow, a son and a daughter.

California Panel & Veneer Company Enter Airplane Supply Business in Large Way

Howell Baker

A couple of years ago The California Panel & Veneer Company, of Los Angeles, of which Howell Baker is the very efficient head, became interested in the airplane business by furnishing veneers and panels for the interior finishing and decorating of some of the larger passenger planes being built in Southern California.

Today they have gone into the airplane supply business in so big a rvay that it already plays a leading role in their entire business, and because of the rapid growth of this particular department they are planning to greatly enlarge their already several times enlarged plant on South Alameda Street. Plans for their new warehouses are developing, and are only awaiting the determination of the city on the proposed widening of that very busy business thoroughfare. The land for the new plant, in the rear of the present plant, is already secured, and will permit any amount of development their needs may requrre.

When they got to selling interior finish for big passenger planes, they found that there was a growing demand for veneers for many other purposes on airplanes. For instance, on the rvings, the fuselage, and the. spars, much very high type rvood veneering is used. So they went into this line, stocking in considerable quantity the various sorts of big veneer sheets used for these purposes. They have one warehouse now filled with airplane veneers. For the covering of the wings of the planei, great quantities of Spguce and Port Orford Cedar veneers are nbw used. These veneers are especially built for this purpose, the wood being sliced vertical grained, and then the grain o,f the several plys being spliced, as it were, giving [hese thin sheets of wood enormous strength by the crossing of the grain of the various plys.

They found veneers were used in various other places, and they stocked these also. For instance, they calry in stock sheets of veneer made of genuine Mahogany, 22 leet long and 16 inches wide, sliced vertical and the grain being crossed in each ply to give the sheet great strength. This makes great red ribbons of wood that are pliable yet very porverful. These strips are used full length on the

spars of the planes. Veneers are also used in various smaller ways in plane construction.

Port Orford Cedar has come into greatest popularity for sheeting the wings of planes, and Spruce enjoys the greatest popularity for innumerable other uses in plane construction. However, they are also carrying in stock sheets of airplane veneer made of Birch and Poplar, which are used in some places by certain manufacturers.

But they have not confined themselves to going into the supplying of veneers and panels for planes. This just opened up other channels, and they are doing a very large business today in the stocking and selling of many kinds of plane building hardware. For instance, they are exclusive agents for the Pacific Coast for the Summerill Tubing Company, of Bridgeport, Pa., and some idea of their work in this direction may be obtained from the fact that this big factory recently shipped them a consignment of airplane tubing which they declare in their wires and letters to Mr. Baker to be the largest single shipment of airplane tubing ever made.

They also represent the Haskelite Manufacturing Corporation, of Chicago, and the Ohio Seamless Tube Company, of Shelby, Ohio.

Their heavy lines, in addition to those already mentioned, are : Chrome Molybdenum Tubing; Chrome Metal Strip Tubing; aircraft iontrol wheels; -.bta rolled strip steel; cement coated and brassed barbed nails; airplane bolts and nuts; Haskelite Waterproof Plywood; Haskelite Spar Panels; Haskelite Blood Albumen Glue Plywood; Coreco Casein Glue Plywood; shock cord; Rusco Airo Rings; Rusco Safety Belts; Airplane Cloth; Plymetl.

Mr. Roderick Mulholland is manager of the airplane supply department of the California Panel & Veneer Company, and predicts that at the rate of airplane development this department of their business will soon lead all the older departrnents.

This line has caused them to take up the airplane sup- ply game with great alertness, for the business of plane building is changing so fast and .developing so rapidly as to make it a most attractive business.

Pacific Lumber Co. Officials Lumber Salesman Driving His Seventh Buick on Fishing Trip

P. C. McNevin,-general -sales manageri E. E. Yoder, / There must be some very good repsons why so many .dent manager; W. M. Nelson, comptroller; and John \lu*be. salesmen drive Buick automobiles. Al l(ellev- Sac_

ramento Valley salesman fr for the Santa Fe Lumber Com- Company, and T. Ready, San Francisco, re-

Tliict:; y' M' Ngfsot:.loltPttol]ery,and Jo.ld \l,t*b"rsalesmen Buickautomobiles. Al *elley, Sac- .a"'--:^French, employment manager; officials of The Pacific Lumber Comoanv. and r. F. Readv. San Francisco re-

cently compleled'i ten days'fishing'trip on Blue Cieek, P&nI, San Francisco, started driving his seventh Buick on a tributarybf the Klamath-River, in'Def Norte and Hum- September 16th, a Master Six, Four-passenger Coupe. boldt counties, California. They reported some fine Al, by the way, completed his seventeenth year of service catches of steelhead trout. with "Gus Russell's Outfit" on September 6.

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Calling on the Retail Dealers

By Dee Essley, Manager California Retail Lumbennen's Association.

Well friends $re are leaving Gilroy for the Apple city, Watsonville, to visit with the General Secretary M. D. Bishop of the Coast Counties Association and before we return I think you will agree with me that this body- of lumbermen havl founded a spirit of co-operation, serving one another, unselfishly, and it should inspire any layman the great results obtained by an active organization.

BeJore we g'o I will drive into one of the line stations who service Northern California and fill the tank with ghsoline. The operator knew we wanted gasoline b-ecau.se ive drove up and stopped by the gasoline pumps' and while the gasoline was flowing into the tank you noticed he had chec-ked the oil, water and also cleaned the windshield without our permission. "May I check your tires," ask-ed the salesmanl "you know more damage is done by. un-de1 inflation than over inflation. Thank you. Call Again."

Of course it is folly to even mention the service extended the motorist by the serviqe stations, because they have competition and they are driven to spend time and money tryirig to get the motorists to stop at their stations. In thi lumbei business the customer knows just what he wants and anyway we haven't time for the minor details which take up so much of our time.

Good morning, Mr. Bishop, sorry we were late but we just had to stop our car at the summit of the pass, to- view ihe beautiful cbuntry in and around Watsonville. Nature was certainly kind to this beautiful valley.

Mr. Bishop just what are those binders or books you have on youi desk? You see gentlemen we have six districts in the Coast Counties, covering some sixty-four lumber yards, reaching from Morgan Hill north to Santa Barbara south, and those books you see are price guides. Each district is under the guidance of a local secretary. Each dealer has a price guide of each district, and the base price is established at the water front so for each district we have listed the prices plus the freight. We find these guides very completl and helpful, many mistakes are eliminated. It is not only a great labor saving but it enables the customer to always receive a uniform and fair price and furthermore the dealer does not have to resort to guess work.

- We have here in Watsonville three members of the Coast Counties Association, all are splendid merchants, and they are serving Watsonville with the best material possible. We will go down and meet them personally. The firms are as follows: 'Watsonville Lumber Co., Mr. 'Herman Herwig; Hammond Lumber Co., Mr. Harrison Enlowand;

The Homer T. Hayward Lumber Co., Mr. Glenn Bronson, manager.

Now we are entering Salinas and our first visit will be to the Hqmer T. Hayward Lumber Co. Did you notice the display of the items to make the home comfortable. You see the prospective customer can see just how the built-in fixtures are going to look in the home. All the down stairs is devoted to making the home comfortable and beautiful. We will go up stairs and meet Mr. Arthur Hayward the general manager.

GOOD LORD, BISHOP, COME QUICK, HURRY, FIRE, FIRE ! Get some water, someone is on fire. "DON'T WORRY," shouts Chuck Griffen who is superintendent of the Haywards yard. "It's nothing, only Art's shirt and tie. He's not burning, just getting warmed up for the Annual ' Rodeo to be held next week.t' Chuck's father, Mr. C. H. Griffen of Artesia being one of my very best friends down south, stated that if I ever needed a friend for me to call upon Chuck, so that being the case it did not take long for him to convince me that Art's red Rodeo shirt was not going to endanger the lumber yard by fire. You know I im very interested in helping any lumber yard that is threatened with fire, on account of the splendid support given our Association by the Northwestern Mutual Fire Insurance Association. You know this firm has spent many, many dollars helping the lumbermen of California to become Association minded.

To the writer Salinas is one of the most aggressive towns in Northern California. All the lumbermen are awake and on their toes, up and coming as the saying goes. There are four yards; Homer T. Hayrvard Lumler eo., Sam Moore Manager, also Arthur Hayward makes his headquarters there. Salinas Lumber Co., H. B. C-hadbourne, Manager. Chad, as I will call him is one of the local secretaries of the Coast Counties Association, and was formerly a salesman for E. K. Wood Lumber Co., working out of San Francisco. He is one of those boys who is up on his toes, you know what I mean. I shouldn't say thosi good things about him, because when, I sang him my song he accused the writer of being a book agent, so you see I am off of him for life. We also have the Steiling Lumber Co., C. L. Frederick, Manag_er, and the Tynan-Lgmber Co., T. G. Ryan, Manager. Mike Tynan, the big boss of the Tynan Lumber Yards, also makes his headquarters in Salinas, so you see with this array of lumber executives, things have to PoP.

Our next trip will take us to Santa Cruz and San Jose.

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Modest Advertising by Lumber Industry

Publicity Expenses of Many Individual Concerns Exceeds Appropriation of the Nationd and Regional Associations, Plus Manufacturers' Outlay.

It is estimated that the entire lumber manufacturing industry spends less than $2,000,000 a year in advertising. This includes the advertising appropriation of the National Association, the Regional Associations and individual manufacturers.

One soap company spends more than twice that amount advertising, its wares, chewing gum publicity (one brand) costs nearly the sum expended by lumbermen, while the advertising budget of the great lumber industry is exceeded by many individual corporations.

Of the 100 leading advertisers who spent $70,594,905 in 37 magazines last year, as classified by the Curtis Publishing Company, 89 of them spent $78,589,000 in newspapers in the same year, reports the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspapers Publishers' Association. A comparative list follows:

Conipany

Newspapers

Hawaiian Pineapple

Hupp Motor Co..

Hudson Motor Car...

International Harvester Co.

fnternational Silver Co.. .

Johns-Manville Corp.

Johnson & Johnson

Johnson, S. C. & Son...

Kroehler Mfg. Co.

Kraft-Phoenix Ch. Co..

Kotex Co. ..

Kellogg Co.

Lambert Pharmacal.

Laundryowners Natl. Assn..

Lever Bros. Co.

Lehn & Fink, Inc.

Marmon Motor Co..

Mennen Co.

Met. Life Ins. Co.

Maxwell House Prod..

Nash Motors Co.

Oakland Motor Car...

Oneida Com. Ltd.

Olds Motor Works.

Pinaud, Inc.

Parker Pen Co.

Ponds Extract Co..

Packard Motor Co..

Peosodent Co.

Paimolive-Peet Co.

Postum Co.

Procter & Gamble

Quaker Oats Co.

Reid". Murdock & Co..

Royal Baking Powder.

Reynolds, R, J..

Reo Motor Car Co.

Radio Coro. of America

Swltt it Uo....

Squibb, E. R. & Sons. Simmons Co.

Sun-Ilaid Raisin Gr.. Sherwin-Williams Co.

Sheaffer, W. A. Pen... Selby Shoe Co.. Timken Roller Bearing.

Co. .. United Carbide & Carb.

S. Rubber Co.

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Dealer Opinion Indicates Slightly Inc reased Lumber Demand in Latter Part of L929

Limited Stock Survey Shows Decrease May I from January l,1929' Yard Inventodes.

.WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.-Two interesting surveys, neither complete, but one somewhat represeptativeof lumber yard stock conditions in certain territories -on May I, 1929,- and the other probably representative in some territories of dealer opinion respecting the expected lumber demand for the latter half of. 1929, have just been issued by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. The firsl indicates that vard stocks, in the territories included, as a whole, werd, on May l, 1929, slightly below those shown by inventory at the beginning of the year. The second indicates a slight prospective increased demand of from 0.2 to 2.5 per cent during the latter part of the year over the sales of lur4ber through retail yards during the first six modths of the year.

The first comprises a survey of yard stocks made during the early summer by field representatives of the National Assoiiation. and covers inventories of about 260 yards distributed through Ohio, New Jersev, Indiana,- ^Illi- nois, Oklahoma and ealifornia as of January l, 1928, January t, t929, and May t, L929, respectively. A group of.233 yards in these states showed no substantial change between the first two dates, but a decrease of 2 per cent in stocks as of May 1; a second group of.252 mills showed an inventory incriase of 1 per cent on January l, 1929, over the same date a year previous, but a decrease of 6 per cent in the inventory four months later; a third group of Z0l mills did not give comparative percentages for the first two dates, but showed a decrease of 6 per cent in stocks during the first four months of this year; while a fourth group of. 253 mills, giving only annual inventory

figures, tho*ed a decrease of. 2 per cent in stocks during 1928. In the first three sroups Oklahoma shows a sub- groups L926, In wKlanoma snows suustantial increase in stocks on May I and Ohio shows an increase around 3 per cent, while in the third group an increase of 5 per cent is recorded for Illinois. In the first two groups Illinois shows a minus 2 per cent. Only those in th1 fiist sroup save footage of lumber sold during Ciglp g..ave. footag"-^gf. ^ryTl^"r. 1928. These-233- mills bought 603,108,830 feet and sold 603,669,467 feet during the year.

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Lumbelr Requirements

The second survey comprisis reports from 1,713 dealers scattered in all states on the estimated lumber requirements in their respective localities during the latter half of 1929 as compared by percentage with requirements during the first half of the year. It was made largely by diiect mail and through the co-operation of the various retail associations. This dealers' opinion consensus is given on two bases: The first, the opinions of those dealers who reported volume handled during the previous year and who quoted edtimates on the lumber volume likely to be moved in their localities during the latter half of the year as compared to the first half ; the second adds to this first consensus the opinions of those who made forecasts without stipulating volumes.

Following are the totals by geographic areas: Decrease or Increase in Lumber Demand During Latter Half 1929 in Percentage Relation to Demand During First }Jalf, 1929

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Central California Club Meets

Lester H. Elliott, president of the Central California Lumbermen's Club, presided at the club's first fall meeting held at Stockton on September 14. Claud B. Clawson, of the Diamond Match Co., Stockton, was chairman of the day, and the principal. speaker rvas Mr. Fleming, attorney of Stockton, who spoke on the California Lien Law, and the Contractors' Registration Act.

The next meeting of the club will be held at Tracy on Saturdav. October 12.

Redwood Association Bstablishes Grading and Inspection Bureau

A Grading and Inspection Bureau has been established by the California Redwood Associ4tion. Selwyn J. Sharp is in charge, and Guy F. Pease is chief inspector.

Oscar E. Chase

Oscar E. Chase, owner of Chase's Lumber Yard, Pacific Grove died at Pacific Grove. Sundav. September 8. Mr. Chase had a wide circle of friends, in'the ^lumber business and outside of it, and his passing is deeply regretted. Mr. Chase was a brother of Hal Chase, formei base6all star with the New York Yankees.

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Philippine Mahogany Imports

The importation of Philippine lumber into the United States during April was 3,858,052 bd. ft., May 3,3&[,361 bd' ft. and for June 3;948,315 bd. ft., so that the total t999iP!: during the iecond quarter of. 1929 aggregated to ll,l{),728 bd. ft. exclusive ol 2,584,529 superficial feet of plywood. The average monthly receipts for the second quarter of the current year amounted to 3,730,0m bd. ft. as against 2,400,000 6a. it. for the first quarter, which represent an increase of approximately 5O per cent. The average monthly receipts duiing the second quarter represent an increase of about 24 pet cent over the monthly rating estahlished by the Philippine shippers during January and also about 24 per cent bver the monthly average for 1928.

- The lumber imports from the Philippines during the second quarter of. 1929, as compiled from the Custom House records in Manila, Iloilo, Le Gaspi, Zamboanga and Cebu, were as follows:

LUMBERMEN VISIT NORTHWEST

Ralph P. Duncan, of the Merced Lumber Co., _Mer_ced, and Wlrren S. Tillson, of the Modesto Lumber Co., Modesto, returned recently from an automobile trip to Portland. They traveled North by the Redwood Highway, calling on a number of Redwood mills, and returned by the Pacific Highway after having visited some of the Willamette Valley mills.

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" " Total ..II,19O,728 bd. ft.

It is of interest tr "oil'irr;i'e,iiodzd ia. t. were entered through the Pacific coast ports and, 2,459,749 bd. ft., or aboat 22 per cent of the total, which consisted only of the dark and light mahoganies, through the Atlantic coast ports. All the lesser-known kinds were entered on the Pacific coast.

The following' quantities of plywood ing the second quarter ol 1929: were imported dur-

There was approxirirately l0 per cent more plywood received during the second quarter of. 1929 than during the first quarter. All plywood stocks which consisted of tanguile; red lauan, palosapis, apitong, manicnic and banate, were entered through the Pacific coast ports.

The total quantity of Philippine lumber received during the first half of L9A by United States importers amounted to 18,336,233 bd. ft. and of plywood 4,9n,2W superficial feet.

CLEAR LAKE MILL TO START SOON

The Clear Lake sawmill at Clear Lake, Wash., will start up again within the next two months, it is announced by its new owners, the Puget Sound Pulp & Timber Co., and will employ between 4O0 and 500 men in the woods and in the sawmill. This mill, which has been shut down for four years, is one of the largest inland sawmills in Washington.

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Ready Built Equipment For Farms

By Max Cook, Fannstead Engineer, Cdifornia Redwood Association.

(Adress at First Calif ornia Farm Buitd,ing Conf erence held Septernbcr 2I, Ign, under auspices Sacramento Valley Lunr,berrnenis Club ond, Unipersity of California at Uni,aersity Form, Dntis, Californio. (Introductory to inspocti,ng, erhibit of Ready-Built Equipment and discussing construction features of d,ernonstration firtures rnade by H. L. Belton. Division of Agricultural Engi,neering, of Redwood, Pine and Fir furnished, by Daais Lurnber Co.)

Most of us listen more or less patiently to those who tell us HOW to do a thing, but we^prefer io be SHOWN. This is particularly true of the farmer. Most good farmers as well as lumbermen have to be shown-they are "from Missouri."

Exhibiting ready-built farm building equipment at the yard and elsewhere is worth many times the cost and effort, if only to bring such .uggesiionr to the farmer's attention to remind him of his needs and identifv vou as one catering to his wants. This has been amply [e-on- strated and almost invariably wherever tried his stirred the farmer to action in purchasing much needed equip- ment either ready-built or ready-cul, as well as additionil material.for him to cut and for use otherwise.

Ready-built equipment on exhibit arouses interest and prompts inquiries, not only for the particular type of equipm-ent d_isplayed but for other bullding sugglstions as .well. It is -to you, his local retailer of building materials, more than all other agencies combined, that the farmer more often than otherwise looks for counsel and suggestions in solving his building problems. He logic- ally expects this co-operation from you-modern merchandising demands it. That you are awake to this obligation is evidenced by your attendance here in such good numbers.

I could cite you dozens of dealers who have, bv building and displaying farm building equipment and iccessories, not only rendered a real service to their farm trade bu,t have kept their yard clear of a "bone-pi1e"-have developed. outlets for.sl.ow.moving itenrs-found opportunity to use "shorts" and random lengths-kept yard men occu- pied to best advantage-and made good profits while at the same time enabling- the farmer to make a highly profit- able investment in useful and much needed equ-ipri-rent.

As__typical of results, Fran_k Wells, until recently manager, West Turlock Lumber Company (now Merced Lumber Co.) built three or four types of Redwood mash feeders and lgpp.rc from Bulletins included in our Agricultural Series. He built them primarily for display but he had an order the..fi-rst-.day for*five ready-built. The next night someone "lifted" one. Demand was thus convincingly-indicated and Frank told me two days ago that he has-sold literally hundreds of these and similar poultry feeders.

The Modesto Lumber C_ompany's yard at Keyes, in charge of Charles Sloane, who has perfected construciion details of a mash feeder of Redwood, can't make therh fast enough to keep up with orders from his poultrymen customers. In the past two years Sloane's sales on this type'of

equipment alone amounts to over $1200.00. He received an order the day I called for twenty-two feeders. I saw three on display in the main yard at Modesto anil two in the Turlock yard. All were sold awaiting delivery.

A Santa Rosa dealer built demonstration fixtures and sold three carloads of Redwood (principally "shorts") in the spring of the year to fill orders for equipment on display. A Bakersfield dealer sold 78 Redwood septic tanks utilizing over 30 M BM the first six months of last year. He made these available with ready-built ends and readycut sides, top and bottom. He always has at least one made up and ready to load-a staple item with him.

Between 40 and 50 dealers in the State (subscribers to our Agricultural Service) have secured similar results. The price received for ready-built equipment is many times the cost of the material and often $1.00 is received for a nail-

Rabbit hutches ofrer great undez.teloped possibilities for dealers. ing up job that a high school boy would be glad to do f.or 25c.

There is nothing new in the idea of making available ready-built equipment for the farmer. Half the dealers in Nebraska build and sell ready-built equipment such as brooder houses, hog houses, feeders, etc. Last year, according to estimate by Ivan D: Wood, Agricultural Engineer, Nebraska College of Agriculture, not less than 15,000 individual hog houses were marketed in Nebraska, consuming 3,375,W0 board feet of lumber and representing a gross income of $225,000 for this item alone. Dealers in

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MY FAVORITE STORIES

By Jack Dionne

Age not guaranteed-Some I have told for 2O years-Some less

He Sold Himself

The casc of the advertising man who said his home wls littered with useless articles that he rushed out and purchased after reading about them in his orrn ads, is well indorsed in the story of the oil man.

This oil man died and werrt to heavenu Just how that happened is not explained in the story. But anyway, hc got there, and SL Peter said to him: "Your credentials are O. K. but you are out of lucl because the oil division is entirely filled, every s€at takeri, there is no place to put you, so I can't let you in, and I'tn sorr5r".

"Where is this oil division?" asked the new comer.

"Right over there", said St. Peter, pointing to a part that

H. J. LEAF FRACTURES ARM

H. J. Leaf, vice-president of the Coos Bay Lumber Co., Marshfield, Ore., recently broke his left arm wheh he fell on a flight of steps leading to his office.

was jammed wittr peoplc.

"\ll/atch me move them", said the oil man- So he wal&ed over, cupped his mouth with his hands, and belloured: "They've struck oil in Hell!"

Instantly the oil crowd left their seats and rushed pellmell for the door. The new comer looked at the rnany vacant seats waiting for him, then at the rushing crowd, and then started following the crowd.

"'W'here are you going?" asked St. Peter.

"tr'm going with them", replied the new comsr. "You know, THERE MAY BE SOME TRUTH IN THAT RUMOR'"

RETURNS FROM VACATION

R. E. Caldwell, of The Little River Redwood Company, San Francisco, returned to his desk recently from a short vacation.

Lupbermen Take Sky Route ( to Pismo

Beach Meet

Five air-minded lumbermen from the Monterey Peninsula completed their work on Saturday, September 14, as usual, and late in the afternoon flew from Monterey to San Luis Obispo in the short time of an hour and a hilf to attend the big meeting of the Coast Counties' Lumbermen's Association at Pismo Beach in the evening. It was necessary to land at San f,uis Obispo, as there is no landing field at Pismo Beach.

The trip was made in a 6-passenger Travelair Coupe, and those who made up the party fiere: T. A. Work, Jr., and Stewart Work, of the T. A. Work Lumber Co., Monterey, and J. O. Handley, Franklin Murphy and A. D. Uzzell ol the Murphy Building Materials, Carmel.

Paul Bunyan Club of Westwood Elects

Officers were elected recently at the annual meeting of the Paul Bunyan Club as follows: President, Jess I. Lubin; vice-president, H. J. Hollenbeck; secretary, R. H. Conley; treasurer, F. L. Lauer; director at large, O. P. Roe.

Tacoma Lumberman Dies

Thomas J. Handforth, pioneer Northrvest lumberman, died at his home in Tacoma, August 22. He was secretarytreasurer of the Lindstrom-Handforth Lumber Co.. and came to Tacoma in 1889.

New Trade Marked Hack Saw Blade

A nerv Hack Saw Blade of high quality on the market by the Simonds Saw and Steel Co. of Fitchburg, Mass., the World's Largest Saw Makers. The new blade with -registered trade mark colored Red End and bearing the name -"Red Streak" promises to raise ,the standard of Hack Saw Quality above any other blade in the field.

The development of the new blade has been under the direction of the company's engineers at its plant in Fitchburg for over a year. Research starting at the foundation -the steel-has been made and a highly wear resisting metal has been developed at Simonds own steel mill in Lockport, N. Y. Experiments conducted over a long period have established a tooth shape which has been adopted because of its abili'ty to stand up under severe metal cutting conditions, eliminating the difficulty of the teeth shelling when cutting hard metal. There is no change in the general shape of the blade, but a special method of heattreating brings out more completely the steel quality, edgeholding teeth, and ability to withstand to a greater degree the shock resul,ting from difficult metal cutting.

The Red Streak blades are made for hand and power machine use, and are distinctively marked with a red end, a feature which identifies the Simonds Blade, and makes it possible to select one at a glance. These blades are attractively packed in easily recognized boxes.

Advancing in the same way as the hard and all-hard machine power blades is the Simonds Red Streak high speed steel saw, distinctively marked with a red back edge, an especially desirable hack saw blade for production metal cutting.

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Ready Built Equipment For Farms

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states, throughout the Middle \Mest are doing a big business in ready-built equipment for the farmei.

Mail ordey houses do an immense business in this field, (California so far seems to have escaped their attention.) A survey just made by C. F. Miller, Agricultural Engi- neer, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, discloses that three representative firms in Iowa buy five mil-

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Kansas for a price equal to the local price on the material alone.

This business can just as easily be developed and kept at home by the progressive retail lumber merchant. Why not cast around in your community, study and determine the need-build something, display it at the yard-in your show window or elsewhere-let the farmer see what you

There is an unlimited demand lor simple and inerpensive Dealers can builil this economical septic tonk, and thus enable the larmer and isolated home oa,ner to haue a modern sewage d.is?osal ?lant. lion feet of lumber per year for the manufacture of just such farm equipment and portable farm buildings. One of the most successful of these was in the contracting business a few years ago and started the business by keeping carpenters and helpers engaged in this work to keep them on the pay roll. One firm reported has doubled the business each year they have been in business. Another has reached such a production and so standardized their product that they recently sold a ready-built brooder house in

dry mask feeders, have for him aside from 2x4's and 1x12's and ofier it for sale with a price ready-built, a price ready-cut and bundled, or a bill of material ready to cut with instructions for assembling. What simpler yet more effective way to keep your name before the farmer and convince him that you ire prepared and anxious to serve him?

Note: Dealers interested in obtaining plans for building the equipment illustrated in the above article can obtain these by writing to the Agricultural Department, California Redwood Association.

Every woman wants a Supercedar Closet

Lart year tt,000 homec were equiplnd with thk protection agairut the iavagea of the uoth. Retail lumber dealen rcld not only thJ Sulrcrcedar Ctcet Lining, but studding' eldlngl, don, hardmrc, nalla, quarter round, etc. Yo can sell Superu&r Cletr. Why don't yq?

For circular ond quotatior address C alif ornia distrib*tors :

E. J. STANTON & SON J. E. HTGGINS LBR. CO.

Loe Angeler San Francirco

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DISSATISFACTION

Dissatisfaction with one's lot is the lever with which handicaps may be lifted, the motive power with which horizons may be pushed back, the food on which both mind and soul may grow to undre{ned-of dimensions, reaching even unto the infinite. Few af the dissatisfied people who are not in some measure knlfited by contact with education, with culture, and rel{ement. From contact with thgse comes the wish to make more of life, not in the sense of accumulating mere things, but through appreciation of the high value of things unseen.-Wm. F. Bigelow.

TAKTNG THE SC/TCH CENSUS

"Do you know how thef tTte the census in Scotland?" "ffow?" \ I

"Roll a penny down the\fiiddle of the street."

nr/uarrry

It is not science or iy'ention, but humanity, that holds the world together. It i/not the easy bed, but the easy conscience, that makq nfn happy. And it is our belief that people need to recdg,fize this principle if they expect to give to the world what they owe it, and receive from the world what they believe they have coming.

THE GREEN CHAIN POET

You told me you loved me, and sweetest perfume

Passed by on the wings of night,

From a garden of roses just over the way And your eyes held a tender light. Yet I wondered if you kgf,w the meaning of love, Or if I worthy ever cqfild be;

But time Fis a walof Jeciding such things, She bids us wait tlll lve see.

So we stand once again iri the autumn of life, How swiftly the happy years fled;

And the garden of roses that bloomed o'er the way Has withered long since, and is dead.

Yet you still say you love me, and that is enough, Let the sweetest of flowers all die.

For your voice is at tender as in by-gone days

And the loveJight is bright in your eye.

-Chas. A. Ewing.

ON THE EAST SIDE

English Jg4shss-"Benjy, w}dn T have finished, you may repeat what I have- said, jfi your own words: the cow fast as a horse? No, she cannot run as fast as a horse."

"See the cow. Isn't \he / pretty cow? Can rPn? Yes, the cow cari$tfi. Can she run as

Benjamin-"Lamp de cow. Ain't she a beaut? Kin de cow hustle in wid de hoise? Naw, de cow ain't in it wid de hoise."

THE LADDER OF SUCCESS

r00%-I did.

90%-I drll.

80/o-I can.

7O%-I think I can.

60%-I might.

S0%-I think I might.

40/o-What is it?

30%-I wish I could.

20%-T don't know how.

lO/o-T can't.

O%-I w.on't.

UNDER CHARGED?

The departing guest had been given his bill, and shortly

"You gave the man inrcoty/20 his bill, didn't you?"

"Yes, sirrtt was the rfrl

"I didn't forget to cha(e everything, did I?"

"No, sir."

"Strange, very strange," muttered the manager; "I can still hear him whistling."

MAKING YOUR OWN WORLD

The man who thinks the world is full of good people and kindly blessings iy'much richer than he who thinks the contrary. Eac\$/r largely peoples the world for himself. Some men livV in a world peopled with princes of royal blood; some in a world of paupers and privation. You have your choice. To our moods the world is a looking glass. It smiles back at us if we smile; if we frown, it frowns.

Steel Derrick Rust is Oil Field Problem

Wood Stand Nearly 90,000 Hours That Eats the Life Out of

in the Salt Spray Metal

The manufacturer of a special metal derrick protection preparation makes use of a double page display advertisement in a recent issue of the "Oil and Gas Journal," to exploit the two coatings which,. they say, will protect metals employed in the oil fields against "er.osion, rust and corrosion." In tests, they say, specimens treated with their preparations withstood 1,86O hours of salt spray, while rust resulted after 316 hours in the spray to electrolytic galvanized coating; hot dip galvanized coating withstood 650 hours, and sherardized coating withstood, 367 hours before forming rust. A standard nickel-plated coating was almost entirely eaten away alter 24 hours."

Wood Preserved by Salt Atmosphere

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lVendling - Nathan Co.

Wholcaalcrg of Douglas Fir Redwood

California White & Sugar Pine

If you have never had

R. Y. Hanlon, of the Trade Extension Department, National Lumber Manufacturers Association. whosd functional assignment pertains to heavy timber construction in general, and its use in the oil fields in particular, comments on this advertisement by asking the pertinent question, "\Mhy use steel oil derricks when they are subject to rust?", He adds: "IJpon the assumption that a wood derrick will endure for ten years if constructed of No. I Southern yellow pine or of Douglas fir, a figure of 87,600 hours of endurance for wood could be inserted in the comparison tests. A continuous spray of salt water upon the wood would tend to act as a preservative and prolong the useful life of the lumber indefinitely. As the majority of steel derrick manufacturers use the hot dip process for galvanizing the material, the hours of freedom from rust, according to the statement in the advertisemeht, are only,650. The bulk of new oil being developed upon the Pacific Coast is coming from fields adjacent to the ieashore, to which this data is particularly applicable."

The advertisement referred to makes ihe point that rust, corrosion and erosion annually cost industrv more than fire.

Territory Going Fast

While some excellent territorv is still available. the Watertite Casement Hardware Company reports that deale,rs 3Ie being rapidly appointed for what they describe as the "first and only simple, practical, non-wearing or rustihg,. lhglo-ughly satisfactory casement winilow mounting in building history."

Dealers recently appointed by Wm. F. O'Keeffe, sales manager, include the following: Wood Brothers Co.. Santa Cruz Lumber Co., Hamilton & Church, and Sinkinson's Planing Mill, Santa Cruz; Independent Lumber Co., Livermore; Redwood Manufacturers Co., Pittsburg; Burnett & Son and Sierra Mill, Sacramento; Pacific Coast Lumber Co., Pismo Beach; Pacific Coast Lumber Co., San Luis Obispo; Pacific Coast Lumber Co., Santa Maria; San Diego Planing Mill, Glasseh's Planing Mill, Russ Lumber & Mill Co., Klicka Lumber Co., and Dixie Lumber and Supply Co., San Diego; San Luis Mill & Lumber Co., San Luis Obispo; Salinas Planing Mill, Salinas Lumber Co., and Homer T. Hayward Co., Salinas; Merced Lumber Co., Merced, and Watsonville-Wilkie Lumber Co., Watsonville.

Let us sell you a car. It can be mixed with any other items of Old Growth Yellow Fir worked uppers.

Main Office: A. L Hoover, Agt. San Francisco Los Angeles

| | 0 Market St. Standard Oil Bldg.

Some Board!

The Redwood display board shown in the illustration is a sample board 48 inches wide, 60 inches high and, lrl inches thick, which is furnished to dealers on request by The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco. The board is hand-planed by the dealer and used as. a display board for showing samples of mouldings and similar items.

It also demonstrates the width in which clear Redwood can be obtained, and the fact that wide, .clear Redwood does not warp, check or split when properly cured.

Enough about the board. The good looking young lady in the picture is Miss Mae Thompson, of the staff of The Pacific. Lumber Company, whose sweet singing voice is often heard over KFRC and KTAB. San Francisco.

Orange Belt Hoo Hoo Have January-June 1929 Lumber Active Year Exports Show Increase

The annual meeting of Citrus Belt Hoo Hoo Club No. 44 was held at the Victoria Country Club, Riverside, on Saturday, September 21. During the afternoon, there was a golf tournament over the sporty Victoria Country Club course. The ladies were entertained during the afternoon with bridge. Dinner was served in the Club House in the evening, after which the Citrus Belt Club held a business session. E. D. Tennant, Los Angeles, past snark of the universe, was the guest of the club and addressed the meet1ng.

The Orange Belt District have had an active Hoo Hoo year. A general meeting was held at San Bernardino on December 5, 1928, which was attencled by Parson Simp- kins. A concatenation was held on December 12, 1928, when six kittens were initiated-Parson Simpkin and H. A. Lake, president of the California Retail Lumbermen's Associaticin, were guests at this meeting. On June 15, 1929, nine kittens were initiated at a concatenation held in the San Bernardino mountains.

Chas. C. Adams, Ad:ims Lumber Co., San Bernardino, served as vice-regent snark of the Orange Belt district during the past Hoo Hoo year. Roy Sandefur, Dill Lumber Co., Arlington, has acted as president, and H. G. Wilson, secretary-treasurer, of Citrus Belt Hoo Hoo Club No. zt4.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12;-Wood manufactures led in the increased export of lumber and lumber products during the period January to June, 1929, which exceeded exports for the same period in 1928 by approximately a $4,000,000 greater value, according to the U. S. Department of Commerce reports. Of this increased value wood manufactures, including furniture, accounted for approximately $2,500,000.

- E_urope and Japan proved duller markets, particularly for Southern p:ne and Douglas fir, but increased requirements in Mexico, South America, the West Indies, China and Australia offset these lessened calls. There were marked decreases in cedar logs, cedar sawn timbers and cedar lumber as well as in hemlock lumber exoorts. the situatibn in Japan being largely reflected

A decrease of about 5 per cent in hardwood lumber exports was noted, showing itself particularly in oak, and to a lesser degree in gum, walnut, poplar and hickory. Exports of railroad ties, piling and poles were all in considerable excess of last year's. Substantial increases were shown for cooperage exports and doors. Hardwood flooring, ply- wood, miscellaneous unclassified manufactures, vineers and handles showed worthwhile increases. The value of box shook and pencil slat exports fell off.

Frank Curran Has Entry in. Annual Race at Tucson /

Frank Curran, E. K. Wood Lumber Co', Los Angeles, who is in Arizona on a business trip reports that he has entered a contestant in the annual Horned Toad Race that was scheduled to be run at Tucson, Arizona, orr September 27. He states that 150 entries, which represent practically every section in the country, have been received. A purse of $125.00 goes to the winning toad.

Mr. Curran wanted the lumber industry of Southern California to be represented in this national event, and with the assistance of several experts on horned toads, he was able to pick up a fine specimen which he entered in the race. He put the animal in good hands, and under the tutelage of one of the most proficient trainers that he could find in Arizona, his entry-has already made the course in record time in several trial work outs during the past week' Late reports state that his toad is being picked by the experts as the toad to beat, and betting odds of four to one are being quoted that his entry will be the winner.

As we go to press before the details of the race are available, Mr. Cuiran advises all Southern California lumberman to watch the daily newspaper sporting sections for the results of this event.

Flash ! A report from Tucson, Arizona, just as our last form was being closed, states that Mr. Curran's toad "also tan."

East Bay Hoo Hoo Club

President B. E. Bryan presided at the dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39, held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, on Monday evening, September 16.

Rod Hendrickson. chairman of the entertainment committee, acted as chairman of the evening.

Dr. John H. Scudder was the speaker of the evening, his subject being the present Russian-Chinese situation, and dealing particularly rvith the Chinese Eastern Railway.

Milt Franklyn, of the Grand Lake Theatre, with his right-hand man, "Red," entertained with some snappy musical and vocal numbers, and music was provided during the dinner hour by a string quartet.

The retiring president, H. Sewell Morton, was presented with a gladstone traveling bag as a token of appreciation for the excellent rvork done for Hoo Hoo during the past year.

Secretary Carl R. Moore, Neighbor Lumber Yard, rvas on the job as usual.

Simonds New Catalog

The Simonds Saw and Steel Company have just published a new edition of their Pacific Coast Catalog.

In addition to the regular Simonds line of Saws, Knives, and Files, three new lines have been added-Abrasive Grinding Wheels, Simonds Guaranteed Cutter I{eads, Wappat Electric Hand Saws, Mortisers, and Hand Planes. The addition of these nerv items rriake more complete the Simonds Line of highest quality products for the lumber and metal working industries.

A copy of the new Simonds Catalog may be secured by users and distributors from any Simonds Pacific Coast office located at Portland, Ore., Seattle, Wash., San Francisco, Calif., and Los ,{ngeles, Calif,

Joseph Fyfe

Joseph Fyfe, pioneer retail .lumberman of California, and resident of Stockton for 6O years. died at his residence in Stockton, September 20, irom a heart attack.

Mr. Fyfe was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1850, and came to. Stockton in 1870, where his first job was with Moore Bros. Lumber Co. as bookkeeper. In 1878 he became bookkeeper for Moore & Smith. and in 1884, general manager of the concern. When he retired from business several years ago he was president of the Stockton Lumber Company.

In addition to his activities in the lumber business he was at an early date a director of the Stockton Land, Loan and Building Association, president of the Stockton Street Railway Co., director of the San Joaquin Valley Bank, City Bank, the Alta Insurance Co., and the Stockton Insurance and Real Estate Association. He later became a director of the Stockton Branch of the Bank of Italv. and was for 11 years president of The Valley Bank.

Mr. Fyfe is survived by his son, Joseph Fyfe, Jr., and a daughter, Mrs. Annie Hamilton, and two grandchildren, Bruce Davis Fyfe and Jean Elizabeth Hamilton, all of San Francisco.

A. C. Horner Attends Hoo Hoo Annual and Petroleum Exposition

A. C. Horner, San Francisco, Western manag'sr of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, left San Francisco September 22 to attend the 38th Annual Hoo Ifoo convention at Amarillo, Texas, on September 25, 26 and,27.

Mr. Horner left immediately after the convention for Tulsa, Okla., to meet R. Y. Hatrlon, field engineer of the western office, to help arrange the association's exhibit at the International Petroleum Exposition to be held at Tulsa, October 5 to 12, and to confer with oil production engineers and. rig builders. He expects to return to San Francisco about October 14.

National Will Show M Wood Derrick at Tul Iod SA el

R. Y. Hanlon, field engineer of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, left San Francisco September 2O f.or Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he will erect a model of the standard 122 ft. oil derrick based on engineering principles developed in recent research conducted at the University of California. This model will be exhibited at the International Petroleum Exposition to be held at Tulsa, October 5 to 12. Mr. Hanlon will be in charge of the exhibit.

California Building & Loan Resources Show Gain

Scoring an increase of $105,581 ,677, or 31.26 per cent, during the preceding year, resources of the 241 building and loan associations reached a new high total of $443,288,334, as of June 30, last, according to figures iecently released by the California Building-Loan League. Combined assets increased $57,185,297, or 14.81 per cent, during the first-half of this year and ff20,24I,I48, or 5 per cent, during the second quarter. Resources amounted to fi337,706,657, a year ago; $386,103,037, six months ago; $422,347,1ffi, three months ago; revealing the uniformity of growth during each quarter. Substantial growth was made by every large city during the past year without exception. The gain in resources during the past year is equal to the total figure for the State, as of June 30, 1924. During the five year period, aggregate assets of California associations have increased 308 per cent, states the California Building-Loan League.

The thirty-five Los Angeles associations with resources amounting to $1 14.751,233, continue to lead the assets of the State with 25.9 per cent of the total. San Francisco, with twenty-five associations, holds second place with assets of $55,480,778, or I2.5 per cent of the State total. Pomona with only two associations is fifth in the list, while Pasadena, Santa Barbara and Stockton are practically on a par with resources of about $12,000,000, each.

Herman Rosenberg Returning

Iferman Rosenberg, of The Hipolito Company, Los Angeles, is.on his way home from the east, where he has spent the summer on company business. On his way back he is visiting the Steves Sash & Door Company, at San Antonio, Texas, one of their biggest screen agents.

tUilIBER GOMPA]IY

Art Moderne ofers an unparalleled field of artistic expression for wood. The show windows of the new Capwell Emporium in Oakland, California, one of which is here illustrated, depict the fascinating and inimitable efiects achieved by Nature's own delineations of color and figure. The flush doors are done in selected veneers of Black Walnut, finished natural. All trim is White Cedar, enameled finish. Architectural \trToodwork contract for show windows and store building by The Oakland Planing Mill, Inc., Oakland (Certified Plant No.31). Architects, Ashley, Evers & Flayes, San Francisco.

Milluorh l*st;tute ol Culifornia.

Coast Counties Lumbermen Have Get-Together Meeting r./

The big get-together meeting of the Coast Counties Lumbermen's Association held at Pismo Beach on the evening of September 14 was largely attended by members

of the association and wholesalers. The meeting pulel-y a stag affair, and as its name suggests, wai mainly for the purpose of getting better aiquainted.

was held

Occasional meetings of this kind are necessary in an association which covers such a large area as this one, with its membership spread over five counties, 'Santa Clara, San Benito, Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara.

Dinner was served in the Green Mill Cafe at 7:30 p. m.,

R. F. HAMMATT IN EAST

and everybody had a good time, as there were no formal speeches and no business on the program. Excellent musical and dancing entertainment was provided by a group of professionals from San Francisco, and later in the evening some fine community singing was enjoyed by a ma- jority of those present.

J. H. Kirk, superintendent of retail yards for the Southern Pacific Milling Co., San Luis Obispo, was chairman of the arrangemenls committee.

J. A. Greenelsh, manager of the Pacific Coast Coal Co., San Luis Obispo, was toastmaster, and with him at the head table sat President George N. Ley of Santa Cruz and a number of the club's directors.

BRUCE BURLINGAME SPENDS VACATION IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY

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R. F. Hammatt, secretary-manager of the California Redwood Association. left San Francisco Seotember 17 lor a 30-day trip to the East. Mr. Hammatt will visit his mother at Camp Quansett, Pleasant Bay, South Orleans, Bay, Mass., and while he is mainl lvlass., whrle mainly on a vacation, will visit Washington, D. C., and the Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, \Mis., on business.

S. F. LUMBERMEN VISIT OREGON

Andrew F. Mahoney and John F. McCabe, of the Andrew F. Mahoney Lumber Company, San Francisco, return_ed on September 23 from a business trip to Brookings, Ore. The trip was made by automobile. -

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Officers

HOMER W. BUNKER President

FRANK B. COLTN

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H. J. LEAF First Vice-President

C. E. McKINNIE

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Bruce Burlingame, Los Angeles, Southern California representafive for the Santa Fe Lumber Co., is back on his territory again following a two weeks' vacation spent in Humboldt County, Calif. Mrs. Burlingame and their young daughter, Patricia, who spent the su-mmer in Humboldt County visiting with relatives, returned to Los Angeles with Mr. Burlingame.

E. A. CHAMBERLIN BACK IN SAN FRANCISCO

E. A. Chamberlin, of W. R. Chamberlin & Co., San Francisco, returned on September 2l from a 30-day business trip to Los Angeles.

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Safewa:r Builds New Creatnery

In the construction of the new and modern plant of the Lucerne Creamery for the Safeway Stores, Inc., Victor portland and Victor hydroplastic cement were used exclusively.

Nearly fifty thousand square feet of floor was laid entirely in Victor hydro-plastic cement without the use of a single expansion joint to mar the appearance or the utility of the floor. Safety and speed in handling the enormous output of dairy products for the Safeway group of stores were devoiding factors in the choice of Victor cements for this project. The exterior and floors were finished with Victor, hydroplastic while Victor portland cement was used for the supporting columns and way work. Mr. William Mellems rvas architect and manager of construction.

ToRepresentWestCoastAss'n Orange Belt Lumbermen Play In Rate Case Argument

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association has engaged William C. McCulloch, commerce attorney, Portland, Oregon and associated with the firm of Teal, Winfree, McCulloch and Schuler, to represent it in the oral argument before the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington, D. C., October 16, at rvhich time and place the Commission will hear those appearing for and against the suspended 62f rates from the North Pacific Coast to Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas and other points on the Fort Worth and Denver Citv Railrvay.

Golf

One of the features of the Orange Belt concatenation and dinner dance which was held at the Victoria Country Club, Riverside, on Saturday, September 21, was a golf tournament that was held over the Victoria Country Club course. About 20 took part in the tournament.

Ralph Fell and Homer Wilson rvith net scores of 72, ancl Wesley Shrimp with a net score of 73, were the prize 'winners. Prizes were donated by Chas. C. Adams, vicegerent snark of the Orange Belt district; Smith-Grubbs Hardu'ood Flooring Co.; and the California Portland Cement Company.

The Lucerne Creamery recently completed. for the Safeway Stores, Incorporated.

Going and Coming

HENRY HINK BACK FROM SOUTHLAND

Henry M. Hink, sales manager of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned September 23 from a 10-day business trip to Southern California.

R. W. SMITH BACK FROM LOS ANGELES

Reuben W. Smith, of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco, has iust returned to headquarters from a short field trip to Los Angeles and vicinity.

ART GRISWOLD RETURNS FROM TRIP

A. B. Griswold, manager of the San Francisco office of the C. D. Johnson Lumber Company, returned September 30 from a two weeks' business trip to Los Angeles and other Southern California points.

VIC DIMMICK SPENDS T\^|O WEEKS IN BAY DISTRICT

Vic Dimmick, of the Evans Auto Loading Co., Los Angeles, specializing in Port Orford Cedar products, has returned to Los Angeles from a two weeks' business trip to the San Francisco Bay district.

W. R. COATS VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

W. R. Coats, of the A. F. Coats Lumber Company, Tillamook, Ore., has just returned home from a week's visit to San Francisco, where he conferred with A. B. "Gus" Gritzmadrer, Northern Califo,rnia agent for his company. Mr. Coats also called on the retail trade in the Bay district and down the Peninsula.

MASON E. KLINE A LOS ANGELES VISITOR

Mason E. Kline, Union Lumber Co., San Francisco, was a Los Angeles visitor the latter part of the month where he spent a few days on company business. While in the Southland, he made his headquarters at the company's Los Angeles office.

A. W. HOLT RETURNS FROM NORTHERN TRIP

A. W. Holt, Long Beach, Calif., was a recent visitor to Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah, and Pocatello, Idaho, where he called on the lumber dealers. His itinerary also included stops at Bryce Canyon, Utah, Yellowstone National Park, and Crater Lake, Oregon. Harold S. Chamberlin of Long Beach accompanied him on the trip.

E. D. TENNANT ATTENDS HOO HOO ANNUAL

E. D. Tennant, Santa Monica, Calif., attended the Hoo Hoo annual conver,tion at Amarillo, Texas, on September 25,26 and 27. Mr. Tennant is a past snark of the universe. During the past few months he has devoted considerable time to Hoo Hoo activities in Southern California.

JOHN VANDER LAAN RETURNS

John Vander Laan, of the sales department of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, is back at his desk after an absence of three weeks in the Northwest. Two weeks of this time were spent at the plant of the St. Helens Creosoting Co., St. Helens, Ore.," and the balance of the time on a short vacation.

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the productjon of Pacific Trailers have incorporated many new ideas in this new product. The following features identify the Pacific Trailer:

Frame : Ship channel-steel construction. Hot riveted corher angles and gusset plates.

Sprin_gs:. IOO/o Chrome Vanadium steel of full floating type. Spring hangers are constructed of electric steel.

Axles: Chrome nickel steel.

Steering: Pacific True-Trail, non-whipping, Fifth wheel full ball bearing, is of simple design, yet so pirmanent and dependable in operation that it is impossible to make a Pacific Trailer whip at any speed.

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In petsmel infc.mtim-gim lnchrder Praidat, Mmga, Superin- tendent Salcr Muager, Purch&dng Agent ard Master' Mcthaiic.- A -Cm, pl€te list of mehinry and equiprent, dally efqcity, tpeier of wmd swed, etc., enabla t\e Seller to the lndutry io relect -S-abi prcpcctr ..d Lmber Buyce to plc oqdera ud lnquidiej htelligatly.

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C. W. Yonge is sales manager for the lfammond Transportation Company.

A.F. Smith Elected ident of Monolith

ice Presa mpanres V Co

. Announcgment was recently made of the election of Alfred F. Smith as vice president of the Monolith portland Cement Company, the Monolith Portland Midwest Qgmqany, Monolitll Portland Gulf Company and the Mono- lith Corporation. He had been serving-as chairman of the executive committee of the Monolith Portland Cement Company.

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Monolith Announces Judges For Small Home Competition

Announcement has been made by officials of the Monolith Portland Cement Company of California of the selection of judges for the small home competition for architects, architectural draftsmen, students and others who can qualify, the event being staged by the Monolith Portland Midwest Company, an affiliated concern.

Architects who will serve as judges are Arthur A. Fisher, Merrill H. Hoyt, and Donald O. Weese of Denver; Walter E. Ware of Salt Lake City, and Thomas R. Kimball of Omaha. Richard S. Requa of San Diego, is serving as professional advisor. The Monolith officials announced further that the competition is being sponsored by the Denver, C)maha and Salt Lake chapters of the American Institute of Architects, and that hundred from Southern California and the Pacific coast have entered already.

Included among the prizes are extended trips abroad and in this county, cash, and copies of Mr. Requa's book, "Old World Inspiration for American Architecture."

The Midwest and Monolith Portland Cement companies are under the same officers and control, the Midwest concern this year opening a $2,000,00O mill at Laramie, Wyo.

C.L. Cheeseman With Long-Bell Lumber Co.

Chas. L. Cheeseman is now connected with the Los Angeles office of The Long-Bell Lumber Co. Mr. Cheeseman has been associated with the retail and wholesale lumber business. in Los Angeles for several years and is well known to the lumber fraternity of Southern California.

CHANGE OF OFFICE

The Lumbermen's Reciprocal Association announces that their Los Angeles office has been moved to 334 H. W. Hellman Building. Their office was formerly located at 52V Hellman Building. R. E. Walker, district manager, is in charge of their Los Angeles office.

Wants to Lease Lumber Yard

Lumber yard, very desirable location in Los Angeles County, facing Alameda Boulevard. Yard is equipped with rackd and storage shed. Modern mill in connection with yard. Fred J. Theriot, Firestone Park State Bank, Southgate, California.

Mouldin$ Committee Meets at San Francisco

Roland Williams, of the Williams Fir Finish Co., Seattle, presided at a meeting of the joint committee representing Pacific Coast moulding manufacturers, held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, September 6. L. Van Snyders of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association acted as secretary. The meeting was the third of a series held in connection with developing a uniform moulding list, and was attended by representatives of the lumber manufacturing regions served by the \Mestern Pipe Manufacturers' Association, California White & Sugar Pine Manufacturers Association, California Redwood Association and West Coast Lumbermen's Association.

It was decided that after details for a uniform list are worked out, the National Lumber Manufacturers Association will be requested to call a meeting of representatives of the m,anufacturers of all species of mouldings for consideration of the proposed uniform patterns.

DEER PARK LUMBER COMPANY INCREASES KILN CAPACITY

The Deer Park Lumber Company, Deer Park, Washington, have found a way to materially increase their dry kiln capacity without constructing additional kiln buildings. This plan is unusual because it is a common practice to increase capacity by building additional kilns,. storage sheds, etc. llowever, Mr. R. L. Wilson, Manager, has decided to adapt edge to edge stacking and the reversible cross circulation system which eliminates all vertical flues in the loads and thereby increases the holding and drying capac- ity by at least 25 per cent. Nine kilns are being remodeled and changed to Moore's patented Reversible Cross Circulation Internal Fan system which will dry the lumber stacked edge to edge because the circulation is crossways the load. New doors and automatic controllers are also being installed on these kilns. The Deer Park Lumber Company expect to be drying lumber in these new kilns by the early part of October.

JrMMY ATKINSON BACK FROM VACATTON

Jas. E. Atkinson, district manager of the rail department of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company, San Francisco, returned September 24 from his vacation spent at Santa Cruz, with his family.

Tlte Los Angclcs LONG.BELL DOOR -for eahfornia

Retail lumber dealers a r e finding the Los Angeles Long-Bell door-designed by Californians /or Calif ornians popular and profitable product because of its meritorious advantages. More important than its natural beauty is its seraiceabilitya sturdy door that aids the home-maker in maintaining interior beauty through many years. The Los Angeles Long-Bell door has these outstanding advantages:

1.-3-ply veneered panel.

2.-Y eneered Stiles ( builtup cores) , 5f rn. wide

3.-Top Rail, 5l in. wide,

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4.-Bottom Rail, 11% in. rvide.

5.-Square stuck rvith corners and edges rounded.

6.-Waterproof glue.

7.-Hardwood dowels.

8.-Will not warp.

9.-Takes paint, enamel and stains perfectly.

l0.-Costs less to fit, mortise and hang than doors of anv other rvood.

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The first choice is Hipolito. The same unique features that have won Hipolitos a place in smart hotels, exclusive clubs and other high class buildings, have made them the favorite of small home owners. California Sugar P.ne which seldom shrinks or warpst Famous "corners of strength" with hardwood dowels set in waterproof glue ! Matchless workmanship! Fine appearance! These have helped build the famous Hipolito reputation.

Reputation'and Guarantee

As Hipolito dealers, you know and appreciate the value of this fine reputation. It's a reputation that brings you new susfsrnsrsputs rnore dollars in your pockets. It has become an important part of your "stock-;n-trade." And back of it all is the famous Unconditional Guarantee of the Hipolito Company.

One of the famous "corners of strength".

In a recent test one of these cortrers hel<l the Neight of eight men withont breakiDg.