IVeekly sailings via our own vessels from Puget Sound and Columbia River to San Francisco and San Pedro.
Mills-Toledo, Oregon. Capacity 47 M pet hour, largest in Oregonn of combined kiln-dried and green lumben Over 50 yean' supply virgin timbet.
Cargo and Rail Shipments-Veekly sailings to California ports-Packaged lumbet, stowed even lengtfu and widths -Shipments made as promised.
V holesale trade solicited-Let us ha,oe your inquiries.
fmmediate teletype service between branch ofices, head ofice and mills available at all times pettaining to customerst orders and shipments.
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T. P. Hogan, Jr., Hogan Lumber Company, Oakland, returned September 16 from a business trip to Portland, Tacoma and Seattle. He was accompanied on the trip by George Eidemiller, the firm's wholesale salesman.
W. B. Wood, vice president and general manager, E. K. Wood Lumber Company, Los Angeles, returned recently from a five weeks' business and vacation trip to Bellingham, Wash., and vicinity.
Ilcor1taat d un&r thc trawr od Caltlorda J. C. DidD, Prea and Tnaa; J. E. Martnr, Vice-Prer. Publbh.d tbc lrt rnd l5th of cac.h moih at 3l<-t Cotnl Bull.tnS, l|! W.rt Slxtb Stnd, Lot Angalcr, oal, Tctcrimc. VAd&c ata6 Entcnd er Sccod-cb|f nrttcr Scntmbc A, Dd" at rh. pct-o6ld at La Aqplcr, C.ltromL, urdr Act of Marth t f!zr.
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The week ended Sepember 14 was the record week for lumber production this year, being 10 per cent higher than for the preceding week, according to reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association from-regional associations covering the operations of leading softwood- and hardwood mitts.
Repoms-from 579 mills for the week showed production 24lr9561000 feet, shipments 25,4481000 feet, and orders 2llr l40,000feet.
The Vest Coast Lumbertrrents Association reported for 2O2 American mills new business 94r581rq)O feet, shipments l15r0O3r00O feet, and production 1OErOl2,00O feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week amounted to !641827rOO0 feet. The 2O2 identical mills reported a gain in production ol 27 per cent, and a gain in new business of 22 per cent compared with the same week a yeer ago.
Stocks of Redwood dry uppers at the mills are being replenished. The volume of business, both California and Easterar is holding up well.
Unsold stocks on the public docks at Los Angeles Ffarbor totaled 510201000 feet on September 25. Catgo arrivals at Los Angeles Harbor for the week ended September 23 toteld l7r6441000 feet, which included 17 cargoes of Fir canying 16r. 69r,000 feet and 2 cargoes of Redwood with 951,00O feet. 66 vessels were operating in the Coastwfue lumber service on Sep. tember 25 and.3o vesseb were laid up.
The Western Pine
,Joorr.O for 116 milts for the same week new business 63,572.000 feet, shipments 5519811000 feet, and production 7417671000 f.ea. Orders on hand at end of week tTrr%2rC/IlO feec The gain in production fo,r the $/eek w1157-per cerrt, and in new business was 5l per cent, compared with the same week ^ ,. r*"? *
The California Redwood Association repofted production for the week ended September 14, from l2-mills as 7,946000 feet, shipments 6,6O51000 feet, and new businecs 51538O00 feet Orders on hand at end of week totaled 2E,226,NO f,et. pro. duction *f l? Irer cent gEeatet and new business 13 per cent less than for the same wee& last year.
Reports from the t"r;; L.o,rr"*.ers rnstitute of Memphis, tenn, from 93 mills shoryed production as ll,gr4r000 feet, shipments Er898r0O0 feet, and new btrsineEs Er56lr000 feet. Orders on hand at end of week at 192 mills were 60r5151000 feet. The 93 identical mills reported productiotr 6i per cent gteallt and new business 85 per-cent gieater than for the same weet< last year. * * r
Kiln dried Rough Douglas Fir Clears, atl widths and thick. nessea are scarce and prices_ have advanced. Vertical grain foodng is_ scalce 1nd pricer firm. Upper grades of Sprud are scarce-and plcee-have advanced $z.oo to-$5.0o po iul.
Btrnrrg in Califo-rnia lras been heavy during the l"st 3O dayc on account of the fear of a strike by the Marine unions. C".g" space has been at a prcmium.
. Red Cedar shingles are more plentiful due to increased pro duction, and the market is firm.
Atthough prospect. ,"" . ,ltJr*nt of the San Francisco waterfront tie-up appeared Septembet 3O, new dieputes arooe between employem and union oftcialg which prevented the re. sumption of normal operations at the waterfront, according to newa dispetches. 3O vessels are tied up at the San Francisco waterfront due to the tthott' cargo labot controversy. Federal Arbitrator M. C. Sloos has ruled that the longshoremen ane obligated under the 1934 at$itration award to handle all ship cargoG.
Portland, Oregon, September 16th-The attention and interest which the Western Pine Association motion picture is receiving is evidenced by many favorable ,comments reaching the Association offices.
The following letter from one Company is typical of the reaction of exhibitors in all localities where the film has been shown:
"Your film 'Harvesting the Western Pines was shown change cellent
before a joint meeting of the Kiwanis and Exmembers in our yard. The weather was exand we had a fine crowd. and the with sound effects, could not have been better. We ,certainly appreciate your having shipped same as you did, as our meeting would have been lacking this fine showing had you been unable to accommodate us."
The Western Pine Association has several 16 millimeter prints of the film routed among interested organizations in different sections of the country. It loaned without charge. Bookings are handled out of the Association's
Portland, Oregon, offices the Yeon Building.
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Redwood is a specialty wood, adaptable to the uses where resistance to decay and exposure are essential.
Redwoodcommands all the factors esseirtial . for interior trim and finish, combining 405 Montgomery St., San Francirco utility and economy with beauty.
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'oDurable wood is essential in the vital spots of every home. Satisfy yo ur customers and sell Noyo Redwood."
There's plenty of horse sense left in this country, but the horses seem to have a monopoly on it.
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Personally I'rn perfectly neutral with regard to Mussolini; I don't care who licks him.
well! well! Some of ltJ; Democratic newspapers have finally taken time out to read the new potato control law passed by the recent congress, and have discovered to their horror that the law makes a bootlegger, not only of the farmer who sells them, but also out of every housewife who buys potatoes not properly packaged and stamped.
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Proverbs say: "fle that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread; but he that followeth vain persons shall be void of understanding."
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Someone once asked the late John McGraw, famous leader of the New York Giants for many years, what was the chief difference between a big leaguer and a bush leaguer. John said: "The big leaguer steps forward to meet the ball, and the bush leaguer waits for the ball to get to him." That's pretty much the difference between the big and the bush leaguer in every human activity. It isn't confined to baseball.
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I remarked in these columns about ten years ago that the only improvement the railroads have made in their service or equipment in a generation was the slot in the wash room to drop old safety razor blades through. I'll have to take that back, now. These railroad folks are really doing something for themselves-and the public.
Air conditioning "ro"u l"lo"*" -o"a radical and amazing change. It isn't alone keeping cool and comfortable even in the desert in mid summer. The improvement goes much farther than that. The cleanliness, the comfort, the protection of the clothing of the rail traveler, the saving in cleaning and pressing bills, are important items.
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Add to that the intelligent rate reductions that have been placed in effect, and you have two good reasons why people are riding trains again. Now, if the railroad folks will see the wisdom of making these just the starting-rather than the stopping points-of this metamorphosis, and keep
right on hiring people with brains to work out plans for improving their service, they will easily build their way back to popularity and prosperity. There is plenty of necessity in this country for every line of transportation service; a sufficiency for all, if they will alt use their brains and consider the subject continually from the standpoint of Mr. John Citizen.
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Of course we must perforce admit that not too much credit can be given the railroads in this matter, because they waited until the last dog was hung; until their hides were literally hanging on the branches of the trees, before they awoke to the understanding that they were NOT keeping up with the march of progress, and that the sign-boards all read: "GET UP OR GET OUT."
They were in the "-.; ; J, .n" dog the fellow was talking about, who was chased by the bear, and finding that the bear was gaining on him no matter how fast he ran, he just ran up a tree and escaped. "But," said a listener, "a dog can't climb a tree." "Can't flell," said the narrator. "This dog HAD TO climb a tree." ***
Men who have to, frequently do things they never knew they could. Much of the real progress of this world comes about that way. Necessity is truly the mother of invention. And desperation is often the daddy.
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Now I would like to see the railroads go ahead and work out their own salvation, and their salvation lies along the line of pleasing the public with new, improved, perhaps unheard-of service. Nothing could be more perfectly ridiculous than to suppose that because the truck has come the railroads must go; or that if the railroads are to survive it must be through the destruction of the truck. Ridiculous ! The world and this fast-growing nation has need of both. They need be no more deadly competitors than bacon and coffee" Both are prominent on the breakfast menu, but they serve different purposes. So will ultimately the truck and the railroad.
Already that proble- i"".,"i"n long strides toward a comprehensive development. What was it Longfellow said: "As unto the bow the cord is. so unto the man is woman; though she bends him, she obeys him, though she
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M. A. llarris, president of Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Company, San Francisco, returnetl to his office recently from a vacation spent at Lake Tahoe. In the course of his trip he traveled about 1,200 miles in Northern California by automobile, and reports that he was pleasantly surprised at the amount of home building he saw in progress, both in the small towns and in the larger cities he passed through.
Jim Farley, assistaut Western sales manager of The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, recently spent several days in Hollyrvoocl or.r business connected with the production of the neu' movie film for the Redwood industry. The film will be released in the near future.
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B. B. Barber has been appointed secretary of the San Joaquin Lumbermen's Club, Fresno, succeeding Harold J. Ford, rvho recently resigned to become sales manager of the Yosemite Sugar Pine Company, N{erced Falls. Mr. Barber was formerly with The Diamond Match Company as wholesale salesman.
J. C. Stark, former manager of the Hammond Lumber Company's Pasadena yard, and later connected with the company's credit department in Los Angeles, was a recent business visitor to the San Francisco Bay district. Mr. Stark rvas at one time in charge of the retail yards of the Tilden Lumber & Mill Company, Oakland.
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leads him still she follows; useless each without the other." If they use their brains it will be that way in time with the truck and the railroad, each filling the spot for which it is best fitted in solving our transportation problems, "useless each without the other." Why not? t**
Lots of nice letters from sound men came in reply to my declaration in this column last issue that from now on business men must get into politics, because now business IS politics. All approving, and agreeing; agreeing that we're going to have to organize and defend our jobs, our businesses, and our rights. Shaking a pink-eyed bulldog loose from his grip is a picnic compared with shaking a gang of little men loose from big jobs.
GUESS wHo SAID ilr l, uo not want to tive under a Philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the Government either directly or through any instruments by which the Government is acting. I will not live under trustees if I can help it, no matter how wise, how patriotic those trustees may be. I have never heard of any group of men in whose hands I am willing to lodge the liberties of America in trust."
No, it wasn't Herbert ;"";"r:or Chairman Ftetcher, or any of them durned Republicans. It was Woodrow Wilson, war time President of these United States, who uttered that remark. A more general distribution of that sentiment right now wouldn't do any harm.
Paint is definitely a recognized factor in fire prevention. The National Board of Fire Underwriters, in its official publication, "Safeguarding America Against F'ire," has published an article entitled "Protecting Property With Paint," in rvhich it emphasizes the value of the Clean Up and Paint Up Campaign in fire prevention with the following statement:
"The fire insurance industry is particularly interested in the value of paint from the fire protection standpoint. Unprotected rvood has a tendency to weather and dry out until it becomes like tinder. Paint, however, keeps wood in good condition, so that a wooden building, painted, is less likely to take fire than one that is unpainted. Another important point is, that in order to paint, it is first necessary to clean up, thus eliminating the hazard of accumulated refuse."
AND GUESS WHO SAID THIS: "I accuse the present administration of being the greatest spending administration in peace times, in all our history, one that has piled bureaus on bureaus, commission on commission, and has failed to anticipate the dire needs of reduced earning power of the people." Another knocker of the Roosevelt administration, you think? Nay, nay, Pauline! It was said by Franklin Roosevelt himself when he -was running for office in 1932.
Reminds me of during the World was presented by
good story that was told so much g soldier leaving for France with a small picture of herself, and he that come what promised while saying farewell always carry her picture right c it tenderly in his the and the lady was y she 3sksfl-"find where is my it?" "Did I keep it? I'll say I did !" said ng man. And he began digging into finally in his rear hip pocket, well wrapped in paper and trimmed down so as to occupy the least possible roorn, he found the picture and brought it proudly forth. "See?" he said, triumphantly. "Didn't I tell you I'd keep it?" "Yes," said the girl, noticing where he carried it, "You kept ir, all right. But YOU'VE CERTAINLY HAD A CHANGE OF HEART.''
A large attendance is hoped for at the Calaveras Big Tree Grove October 6, to honor the memory of Parson Simpkin. Programs containing a route map have been sent by the committee to more than 600 lumbermen. The Grove is 79 miles from Stockton.
The memorial service will be held at 2:00 p.m., Sundar-. October 6.
"Keep on sending the paper. I read it from cover to cover, and can't get along without it. Next after Jack Dionners 'Vagabond Editorials' I like best 'Ten Years Ago."'
Earle E. Johnson, Livermore, Calif.In the period of six months since its establishment, The R. J. M. Company, Los Angeles, distributors to dealers of standard building commodities, has made a steady growth and is now an important factor in the wholesale building material trade in Southern California.
The principals are well known men rvith long experience in the business. Wm. L. "Bi11" Rawn is president, R. Clyde Johnston is vi,ce president, and H. T. Moon is manager.
Mr. Rawn gained a thorough knowledge of the sash, door, plywood and lumber business in the Pacific Northwest, and held several important positions there, and later came to Caliiornia as vice president in charge of sales for the H'awaiian Cane Products Company, San Francisco, manufacturers of Canec Insulation Board. He resigned this position to become the "R" in The R.J.M. Company.
Mr. Johnston was f.or 12 years with the Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles, in charge of the hardware, roofing and building material departments, and for the last two years also had charge of the sash and door department.
Mr. Moon lvas salesman and assistant to Mr. Johnston over the same period of time.
The R.J.M. Company sells only to dealers. They carry a complete stock of commodity merchandise, most of the hardware and building material items that lumber dealers handle, including nails, stucco and poultry netting, fen,cing, hardware cloth, screen wire, rough and finish hardware, metal lath, roofing and felt, roof coating, insulation board, wall board, plaster board, insulation lath, etc.
In their warehouse at 2436 East 8th Street, I-os Angeles, just off Santa Fe Avenue, they have 72,W square feet of floor space all on one floor, and are particularly well equipped to give speedy loading servi.ce to dealers when their trucks come to pick up a load.
n. lt. Morriss, president of the American Lumber & Treating Company, Chicago, r,r'as in Los Angeles and San Francisco for a week recently conferring with branch man-' agers of the company on the business of formulating a sales policy for Wolmanized Douglas Fir.
The distribution of the costs of material and labor in the construction of a small dwelling of the four or five room type has been analyzed by Ralph Baker, prominent in material supply circles in Southern California, and official of the Hayward Lumber Co., in a report to the Federal Housing Administration.
The cost of materials for this type of dwelling is estimated to be about 50 per cent of the total cost of the job; Iumber, 2A per cent; plumbing equipment, lO per cent; hardware,3 per cent; plaster,8 per cent; roofing,3 per cent; and paint, 3 per cent; foundation materials, 3 per cent. The remaining cost is for skilled and unskilled servlCeS.
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-BIG TIMBBI3lllallboard u)ill be one of )rour best and nxost profrtable sellers this fall. It's real Lumber, strong, light, easily worked.
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The first industrial motion picture to be made with an all-star cast, "The Houre o{ the Wooden Soldier," produced b-r' the Red Ceclar Shingle Bureau, and made by the Freernan Lang Studios. of Hollyu,'ood, under the direction of llruce Mitchell, rvell knorvn Hollywood motion picture <lirector, r,vho has hacl 25 years' experien'ce, is now nearing completion at the studio.
This picture, in the opinion of experts r.vho saw the first "rushes" in the Freeman Lang Studios on September 20. u'ill undoullteclly revolutionize the making of industrial pictures, ancl rvill mark a milestone in their progress, as did I). W. Griffith's classic "Birth of a Nation" in the realm of <lramatic pictttres. This u'ill be the first picture with a story rvritten around anf industry that has all the elements of a major feature picture. It rvas treated exactly in every particular as if it was a feature production.
The storv and dialogue are by William W. Woodbridge, manager of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau. The productior-r. distribution and fnnction of the Certigrade Red Cedar shingle, the "Wooden Soldier" who protects the home from tl-re rigors of the elements, l-rat'e bcen successfully dramatized. \\Iith just the right proportion of comedy relief the picture will keep aucliences entertained, and at the same tirne rvill carrv out its mission of education and instruction, and those w'ho shoulcl know predict that it will achieve its l)rlrpose of creating a new and greater demand for the article that is the silent actor in the piece.
Charlie N[urra1', screen and stage star comedian, affectionatell' knou,n the u,orld over, has the part of the experienced carpenter; Lee Shnmrvay, well knor,vn 'Universal Pictures actor. has the role of the attorney ; Tom Post is the
successful lumber dealer; Lila Lee, famous screen star, is the attorney's wife, and Jack Ivey takes the part of "Happy", son and assistant of Charlie.
The company and crew were on location in the Northwest for four weeks. Shots of the woods, mills ancl docks were taken at every important shingle producing center, making a composite picture of the industry. Trvo rveeks rvere used to complete shooting in the studio and in Southern California.
The office scenes were photographecl in the offices of the Hollyrvood yard of I-ounsberry & Harris. Tl-ris n'ork rvas facilitated by the fact that these offices are treated with Celotex sound deadening material.
The most modern sound equipment was used by Freeman Lang Studios in making the picture, and lighting for the shots taken in the shingle mills rT,'as exactll' the same as used in the Studios.
Each member of the productiorr crew 1\ras an expert in his line. Henry Kruse was the cameraman; Herbert Meeks, chief electrician; J. G. Westrnorland, sound technician; Wm. Faye, assistant director, ar.rd Frank W. Purkett' supervisor.
"The Home of the Wooden Soldier" will have its premiere at San Diego on November 8, at the annual convention of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association. After the first of next year the picture, rvhich will run about 45 minutes, will be shorvn throughout the country in leading rnotion picture theaters, as rvell as in smaller size at group gatherings of lumber dealers and their prospective customers. It is expected that it will be shown at lumbermen's conventions in the Unitecl States next year.
'I'he home is the basis of all progress and prosperity. In l2 nronths millions of visitors have attended 527 Expositicrrrs publicizing the benefits of modernization and con. struction of homes through the sponsorship of the Feclelal Housing Administtolo"; * *
The property standards set-up by the trHA before the governnrent 'ivill insure building loans, marks the passing of the unscrupulons "shodcly" builder ancl assures the borrol\rer of permanent safetv tl nf investment.
Due to the high level of building requirments insisted on by FHA, the present day buyer is looking for and finding secure property rvith durability and lasting quality the paramount consideration instead of the returns to be had as a motive for buying.
F. Dean Prescott, Valley Lurnl;er Company, l.'resno, and Mrs. Prescott arrived home September 21 from an automobile tour rvhich took them {rom Tijuana, Nlexico to Canacla and back. They were gone just over five rveeks. They first visited the San Diego Fair, then crossed the border into Nlexico, and visited in turn the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Zion National Park and Salt Lake Cit,r'. Then they drove on to Yellor,vstone Park and Glacier Park, and north into Canada rvhere they visited Calgary, Banff and Lake Louise in Alberta. Frorn here thel' 11au.1"d West to Vancouver and Victoria. B. C.. then south to Seattle ancl Portland.
From Portland the trip home u'as made over the Roosevelt Highu'ay and Redrvood Highwal'. 'l'hey enjoyed splendid weather all the way and report having had a perfect trip. The mileage cor-ered rvas 6,150.
*+ through construction is not only daily becorning more ancl rnore in the Federal Housing Administration. ***
That economic recovery possible but probable is apparent tci those actir,e
The Modernization Work that is crying to be done in the United States corrstitntes a greater volume of work than rvas recluired to restore n.ar-clevastated regions of FranceandBelgium. * * * * *
Califtirnia's real ancl potential contribution to FHA builcling activit,v totals 270,000,000,000 feet o{ r'irgin timt)er I
I\Ir. and Mrs. Lew Blinn, of flhe Pacific Lumber Company, are back from a three rveeks' r'acation'trip to Alaska, n,hich they tl.roroughly enjoyed. While on this tour they rvent through the experience of being 1i3 hours aground at Sitka on the S.S. Aleutian.
Jim Gibson, Arizona representative of the Chas. R. Cormick ]-umber Cornpanl'. \\'as a recent r-isitor to Angeles. Mr. Gibson was accolnpaniecl b,r' his rvife.
A mysterious stranger had appeared away back in the mountain canyon in the Ozarks, and was occupying a lonely hut, keeping to himself, and telling "nobody nuthin'." Naturally he became the object of intense curiosity and considerable suspicion. On Saturday night when the old "he coons" of the rnountain side gathered'round the stove in the local grocery store, the mysterious stranger was the gib subject of conversation.
"I'll tell you what I think," said one. "I think he's a hoss thief, an' we better watch our stock."
D. R. Philips, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Company, Los Angeles, left September 28 on a vacation trip to the Eastern states. He will visit Chicago and Washington, D. C., and will spend a week in New York City, and some time at various places in the New E,ngland states.
Mr. Philips, who is accompanied by Mrs. Philips, will re. turn to Los Angeles by boat through the Panama Canal, reaching home early in November.
The board of dire,ctors of the Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers' Import Association met in San Francisco, September 17, to discuss the future policy of the Association in regard to a program of trade promotion and educational work to be carried on by them.
Walter G. Scrim, of Los Angeles, president of the Association, presided.
A special meeting of members of the Association was held in Los Angeles, September 4, for the purpose of amending the by-laws. The meeting was well attended.
L. W. MacDonald, lVfacDonald & Bergstrom, Los Angeles, was at his desk September 16 after a two weeks' trip to the Northwest. Mr. MacDonald visited the firrn's mill connections at Portland. Coos Bay and Willamette Valley points.
R. S. "Bob" Osgood, sales manager, Cadwallader-Gibson Company, Los Angeles, is on an extended business trip to the Eastern states. He expects to be back in Los Angeles by Thanksgiving Day.
Said a second: "I believe he maybe kilt someone back whar he come from, an' he's hidin' out."
A third had another opinion: "I'm afeard he's a revenuer an' maybe he's spyin' on us."
But the fourth speaker had still another idea: "I bin watchin' him and checkin' up on him," he said, "an' I'll tell you just exactly what I think. I think he's a Republican.t'
"Oh, no," they all cried at once. "lle can't be that bad!"
'!f ain't so sure 'bout that," declared the fourth, with much confidence. "The gol durned scoundrel can READ."
J. S. Schirm Company, San Diego, announces that due to recent expansion of the Holmes Lime and Cement Company, T. L Stephens and E. B. MacNab will be transferred to San Francisco. Mr. Stephens will be sales manager and Mr. MacNab will be manager of the northern company, and will continue his interest in the J. S. Schirm Company as vice-president. W. W. Wheatiy r,vill remain in San Diego as general manager of J. S. Schirm Company, with CrandaU M. Covert and George tr. Scheffler as his assistants.
J. A. Privett, assistant manager, E. K. lrVood Lumber Company, Los Angeles, left September 17 on a two rveeks' trip to the Redwood mills.
The Roscoe Lumber Company, at Roscoe, are building an addition to their office. White pine is being used for this structure.
'We now have a complete stock of doors, panels and wallboard, rcady f.ot immediate shipment.
\D7ise dealers are placing their orders NOr07 to take care of improving business.
An interesting exhibit of The Red River Lumber Company at the California State Fair at Sacramento, August 31 to September 9, 1935, attracted mttch attention.
The Red River Lumber Cornpany furnished the design and materials for the cabin rvhich rvas erected by Lassen County as their principal display. For the exterior they used Incense Cedar Log Cabin Siding in the "Hewed Log" pattern, with extension log-ends for the corners; for the interior, California Pine Log Cabin Siding in the round pattern. California Knotty Pine Plywood Panels were used for the doors ar.rd the recessed panel over the fire place' Through the rear windows the County Agricultural exhibits rvere displayed with a painted cyclorama ba'ckground.
The guns and clock on the mantel, as shorvn in the illustration of the interior of the cabin. were relics of covered
\\'agon days from Lassen Couuty's historical collection. The picture of "Paul Bttnyan" lvas an oil painting by W. R. Laughead of The Red River Lumber Company. For this exhibit the follorving awards were received:
Silver cup for best feature exhibit
Silver cup for Lrest new installation
Gold medal {or Pine Pattern lumber
Gold medal for Veneering
Gold medal ior Ponderosa Pine
Gold X'tledal for Sugar Pine
Gold Nleclal for \\rhite Fir
A large volume of inquiries are being received rvhich came through mailing cards provided for visitors. These inquiries are being placed with local dealers.
By Jock Dionne
When thel' tolcl nre the other day that the Philippine XIahogan,v folks, under the trade grouping known as the Philippine \Iahogany Manufacturers Import Asso'ciation. l-rad clecided to stage a trade promotion program to counteract and offset certain insidious recent campaigns of propaganda that have been set adrift in the land by their inherent enemies, the so-called "true Mahogany" folks as n'ell as others who cannot come uncler that categorv-I u'as pleased and interestecl.
AS A MAN WH'O H.\S WRITTI,N AND PUBLISHED DURING THE LAST TEN YEARS TEN TINIES AS MANY EDITORIALS PUBLICIZING. BOOSTING. AND DEFENDING PHILIPPINE MAHOGAN\: AS HAS ANY OTHER TRADE JOURNATI'DITOR I AM NATURALL\: I)EEPI.Y INTERESTIiI) IN SET'ING THESE MARVELOUS WOODS DO SOMETTIING DEFINITE iN THEIR OWN BEHALF.
I recall that rvhen the great fight that the Philippine folks macle before the Interstate Commerce Commission an<l the courts u'as at its height, Walter Scrim, of Los Angeles. then President of the Philippine Mahogany Association, searched the files of THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT for editorials and articles that might be use<l in behalf of Philippine Mahogany, and was surprised to find SEVERAL HUNDRED of that character.
The fact is that rvhen the fight against Philippine Mahogany started in 1927, I was so deeply impressed with rvhat I ,considered the injustice and unfairness of the attack, that I pulled off both my coat and my gloves and jumpecl into the battle editorially, and for several years fired a continual bombarclment into the anti-Philippine ranks. In a life among lumbermen I have found that they are sometimes very, very short-memoried, but I think all the Philippine Mahogany folks in California will recall the help this journal gave in the tough years from 1927 to 1931. Reprints of our editorials were frequently used, and when the second series of hearings-the re-hearings they were-were held in California in 1930, I was invited and urged by the attorneys for the Philippine Mahogany side of the case to testifv before the Commission.
But I think the biggest "kick" I got out of my conne.ction rvith that four year battle had to do with the discovery-never before heard of and printed exclusively in THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT in the summer and fall of 1928-that there A,RE growing in the Philippines commercial hardwoods that DO belong botanically to the
great tree family "\IEI.IACE.\8,", rvhich, bc it known to ,r'ou all, is the Mahogany farnily tree. Yorr see, one of the original condemnations brought against tire Philippine u.oocls rvas that \,fahogany mlrst come from the tree famill. X'Ieliaceae. So I consulted a bunch of Philippine authorities and dis,covered that there are at least ONE HUNDREI) branches of that great tree family growing in the Phiiippine Islands, so that the claim that Philippine u,oods are NOT Mahogany ltecatise they do not come from that family, dicl not hold rvater. Understancl, I don't mean that the commonly used Philippine rvoods that we call "Philippine Mahogan1." are from that famili'. They are NOT. But there are plenty of comnrercial trees on the Islands that ARE. But the "kick" I got out of it lr'as that as soon as I published those articles the Commission rnade further announ,cenent on the subject, to rvit, that not only must a true Mahoganv come from the NIelia'ceae family tree. but it must liker,vise come from the Srvietenia Branch of that farnily. That last one laid us a complete st1'mie. We've got the Meliaceae ir-r the Philippines-in fact the ordinarl' Philippine cigar box is made from Kalantas which is of the Meliaceae family and therefore a Mahogany-l-iut we haven't ar.ry of the Slvietenia.
As I have just stated, the Philippine Nlahoganr- folks never claimed and do not claim that the rvoods thev shipped into this country under the trade name of "Philippirre Mahogany" are so-called "true NIahoganies". Not at all ! There has never been any misreDresentation of that matter.
At the first hearing of the Philippine Mahogany case in August, 1927, the big chief witness for the prosecution was an Eastern college professor and botany sharp. He testified that there were no Mahoganv trees in the Philippines. Much of the prosecution was based on his testimony. Afterwards I got hold of a book this same old boy had rvritten on tropical forests, and Lo and Behold ! in this book I found under the title-"1\,Ieliaceae, The Mahogany Family",among other woods listed wsls-"1hq Calantas and other excellent timbers of the Philippines." I'll never forget how rve dan'ced a jig in our office when rve read those lines. As I said, we published tl-ris and a long list of other of these "excellent timbers of the Philippines" that. according to the Professor's own book, are Nlahoganies. Anyway, as I stated before, they soon plugged this hole b1' slipping the Swietenia branch in on us. But we had given them something to think about.
You should have seen the nastr' letter the Professor
wrote me I And you should likewise have seen the one I wrote the Professor !
Anyway, I cheerfully recommend to those who will spread the name and fame of Philippine Mahogany the articles on that subject that I published in several issues in September and O,ctober ol 1928.
Perhaps a little review made irom the files of The MERCHANT of the Philippine Mahogany fight may be interesting to our readers. Time flies so fast, and man's memorv is short. In August, 1927, alter a short hearing, The Federal Trade Commission issued a Cease and Desist Order forbidding the use of the name "Mahogany" to be applied to Philippine hardwoods "unless such wood or lumber or the vr.oocl from which such products are made is derived from the trees of the Mahogany or lleliaceae Family." This order rvas issued August l6th, 1927. That was rvhere I caught them in the articles mentioned above.
In the October l, 1927, issue of the C. L. M. was pttblished in full a statement to the public and trade made b1' the Philippine Mahogany Association, stating their side of the controversy, outlining particularly the fact that they had never sold their wood as botanical Mahogany; that a large percentage of all the Nlahoganies marketed in the United States are NOT botanicallv Mahoganies; that there is no public interest at stake in this matter ; that no sign of fraud has ever been practiced in selling these beautiful and useful Philippine woods as "Mahogany" ; etc.
In the October lfth, 1927 issue, in a full page black-face editorial I discussed this matter. I quoted General Leonar<l Wood, then head of the Philippine Government, as saying to the President of the Philippine Mahogany Association : "Keep up the good fight; we have justice on our side ancl I'll back you to the limit." I further said: "The fact is, as I have stated before, there is no public interest in this matter. It is purely and simply a commer'cial fight in rvhich a coterie which has enjoyed one of the tightest rnorropolies that the lumber industry has ever knor'vn, is feeling its grip looseued by the rapidly developing popularitrof these beautiful Philippine r'voocls, at their reasonable and economical prices. We do not believe that the Federal Trade Commission had any ltusiness trying the case until it irad been shown that that it rvas public welfare that rvas at stake. That the rvelfare of the prrblic is being rvell serverl b1- the inroads of Philippine N{ahoganv into the cabinet rvood nrarkets of the United States, is easily proven. It has put rvithin reach of our citizens at modest prices, rvoods of a texture, beauty, and value. that used to be considered attainable only by those of larger means and financial abilit]'. TI{E
WOOD, or its particular tree derivation. What he rvants to knorv is, is it beautiful, is it serviceable, is it valuable, and is it rvithin his means ? Philippine \'Iahogany has put rvonderful ca-binet rvoods n'ithin the price reach of rnillions of people tr,r u'hom the older Mahogany lvas unattainable, and in so doing has served a large public interest." And much more of the same sort, in this and many other editorials on the same subject while the fight went on.
In another editorial I said : "It is a case where woods
grown in foreign lands would strangle the competition of valuable and worthy woods grown under the Stars and Stripes, owned by Americans, manufactnred in American mills, imported by Americans, distributed by Ameiicans in upright and worthy fashion, and sold to the public without deception or falsehood, direct or indirect."
On October 14th, 7927, the Philippine Mahoganl' folks appealed from the decision of the Federal Trade Commission to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. The Court sustained the FTC. But much public opinion hacl been aroused in the matter. As a result of the rvicle advertising the case gave them, the Philippine Mahogany people found their business actually grorving in the face of the litigation. And a number of large users and distributors of Philippine hardwoods requested the FTC to bring nerv charges against new defendants, re-open the case, and give it a real hearing. This thel' dirl, and the new hearings began in Los Angeles in June, 1930, and continued througl-r the summer of that year.
On July lst, 1931. the Federal Trade Commission announced its decision IN FAVOR of the defendants. the Philippine Mahogany people, thus eliminating any legal restriction against using the term Philippine \{ahoganf in the sale and distribution of Philippine hardwoods. Ancl so the matter still stands. Philippine hardwoods were enormously advertised and greatly helped by the trial of the controversy. They made many demonstrations at the final hearings proving the real qualitv anrl beauty of their woods, and showing beyond doubt that even experts l.rar.e rnuch.difficulty in telling them from true \'[ahog?n1, rn'1.r.t't they are properly finished.
But the old gang that started the trouble irr the first place are never 'contented. Philippine Mahoganl' continues to find a firm and growing place in the minds of the American public, and these other folks just don't like it, and that's all there is to it. African Mahogany has no more botanical right to the name Mahoganv than l.ras the Luan and the Tanguile of the Philippines. Ilut at every chance they throw a rock at Philippine windorvs, and so do the old importers of Tobasco and other Central American hardu'oods.
The Philippine Mahoganl' folks are getting tired of it, and they are now preparing to take time and opportunitr. b-r' the forelock and do a little bragging about their products. And the Lord knows they have much to ltrag about. One of my editorials in July, 1928, said:
"Philippine Mahogany. regardless of what 1'ou may call it, is a beautiful, useful, practical, economical r,vood of manv varieties, colors and grains, and it surel1- is a 'comer.' You can't keep a good wood dou,n. These Philippine u'oods have come into popular demand because of rvhat they -\RE, not because of their trade name. And their progress rvill continue, regardless of names. Recently a hardn'ood man from Memphis visited Los Angeles, and he looked with uncon,cealed arnazement and admiration at great piles of Philippine 'sqLrares' without a knot or defect in a carload. 'I did not know there rvas such a supply of clear cabinet wood on earth,' he is reported as savir1g."
A Scotchman got into an argument with the conductor of a train about his fare. The Scot said he had paid it, and the conductor said he had not. Finally the conductor got angry and, picking up the Scotchman's suitcase, threw it out the window, just as they were going over a bridge.
"Villain," screamed the Scot, "it's bed enow to try and rob me by makin' me pay twice, but ye hae no richt to drown my little boy."
I will leave the dust of the city street, And the noise of the busy town, For the windy moor and the high hill And the peat-stream flowing down. I will keep my watch by the campfires, Where the white cliffs lean to the sea, And dawn shall wake me with golden hands And the rain shall walk with me.
"we rearn ",, .",,::,::*"-:: strange adventures of individuals and races. But out of it all does there not arise a vision of human achievement-heroic actions, inspired thoughts, designs of beauty, and slow unraveling of nature's secrets? Take what view you will of the past or the future direction of the human race, this heaped-up treasure, this non-material wealth alone speaks eloquently to me of what is man, and strengthens my belief in the significance of his future." (By
Dr. James B. Conant, President of Harvard.)A lady had advertised for a girl for general house work, and was showing an applicant ov€r the house. She had been very liberal in her promises of privileges-afternoons off, evenings out, and so qn-snd it looked as though the two were about to come to some agreement when the girl suddenly asked:
"Do you do your own stretchin'?"
"Do we do our own what?" the lady asked.
"Stretchin'," repeated the new girl.
"I don't understand."
"Stretchin'," repeated the girl, the second time. ,,Do you put all the food on the table at dinner and stretch for it, or do I have to shuffle it around?"
Gertie: "I refused to marry Bob last month and he's been drunk ever since."
Babe: "Seems to me that's carrying a celebration too fat."
I will seek the places where gypsies roam, And strange, wild songs are sung. I will find once more the magic paths, I knew when the world was young. And the stars will give me comradeship, And the wind will be my friend, And I will send you the fairy gold, That lies at the rainbow's end.
Stretch not your hands, nor bid me stay, I hear the white road's call; The sun hath kissed the buds from sleep, And I am one with them all. But I will send you a golden cloak, And a pair of silver shoon, And a dream that the fairies spin from stars On the other side of the moon.
By Pauline Slender.Woodrow Wilson, war President of the United States, said: "f do not want to live under a Philanthropl, I do not want to be taken care of by the Government either directly or by any instruments through which the Government is acting, I want only to have right and justice prevail so far as I am concerned. Give me right and justice and f will undertake to take care of myself. I will not live under trustees if I can help it. I do not care how wise, how patriotic the trustees may be. I have never heard of any group of men in whose hands I am willing to lodge the liberties of America in trust."
"What is a budget?"
"A budget is a method of worrying before you spend instead'of afterwards."
"The turn in the burilding industry is definitely upward," declarecl E. H. Batchelder, Jr., vice president in charge of sales of the Insulite Company, at a fecent sales conference held in the company's sales offices in Minneapolis.
"The farm market of the great Northwest is a striking illustration of the favorable outlook ahead of us," Mr. llatchelder continued, "and we as a company were never in a better position to take advantage of these sales op-
portunities presented by the upward trend in business. With a complete line of insulation products and an increased sales staff we are prepared to help Insulite dealers get their full measure of the available business."
The speaker pointed out that residential building in 37 Eastern states in Tune set a dl months' record.
H. H. Barg, o{ the Barg Lumber Company, San Francis.co, returned recently from a two weeks' business and vacation trip to Southern California. Aacompanied by Mrs. Barg, he visited the California Pacifi,c International Exposition at San Diego, and spent some time tuna fishing off the Coronados Islands.
Members of the "Soracity Club" report having had a fine time on their annual trek to the High Sierras, and statistics relating to their daily catch appear to be truthful. The club is composed of four past presidents of the East Bay Hoo Hoo Club, C. I. Gilbert, Clem Fraser, Earle Johnson and Larue Woodson, witl, the active president, Jerry Bonnington, and Eddie Tietjen, secretary of the San Francisco Hoo Hoo Club.
On this year's trip the party packed into Pate Valley from Aspen Valley Lodge in Yosemite National Park, September 7, and stayed until the 1Zth. Although fishing was not as good as in previous years on account of high waters, a limit of fish was the usual day's catch for all hands. The weather was ideal, they say, and in the higher altitudes around 10,000 feet there rvere wild florvers in profusion and rvild grouse were abundant. The camp at Pate Valley rvas raided several nights by bear but nothing of value was destroyed.
During the time they were in the mountains Eddie Tietjen, Jerry Bonnington and Clem Fraser packed up -into the mountains about 12 miles farther to Rogers' Lake, where they all got nice limits of 12 to 14 inch trout.
The trip was made under the arrangement of Bob Bright of Aspen Valley Lodge. ivho personally supervised everything.
R. C. "Dick" Jones, of Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Company, San Francisco, is back from his vacation. Mr. Jones, accompanied by Mrs. Jones, flew to Los Angeles on the United Air Lines direct plane, which makes the journey in just over two hours, and went on .to San Diego to visit the Fair. They returned to San Francisco by the steamer Yale.
Booth-Kclly Douglae Fir, thc Areociation gradc and trade mark certifu to your customcrr thc quality of the etock you handle. Builderr quit gueecing about what thcy're buying, and buy whcrc thcy hnow what they're getting.
California Builders Supply Company, Oakland, distributors of -Big Timber- plywood and wallboard, recently took on extra warehouse space of 10,000 square feet to enable them to handle additional wallboard stock.
Piloting the three-place Fairchild cabin plane which he flies regularly. George W. Gorman, sales manager, Hdmmond Lumber Company, took "Gene" Rutledge, Eastern sales manager for the company, and E. E. "Abe" Abrahamson, assistant sales manager at San Francisco, for ttreir first airplane ride, September 21. George flew them over the Golden Gate and the entire San Francisco Bay district, giving them the opportunity of inspecting the trvo Bay bridges from above. Both saicl they enjoyed their new experience very much.
California Lumbermen's Council held its monthly meeting at the Commercial Club, San Francisco, September 20, with President George Ley, Santa Cruz Lumber Company, Santa Cruz, in the chair.
The Council's offices are at 1107 Merchants Exchange Building, San Francisco. I. L. Walker is secretary-manag'er.
W. E. "Gene" Rutledge, Eastern sales manager for the Hammond Lumber Company, with headquaite.s in New York City, and George Knab, sales manager for the company at Chicago, were recently at the head office in San Francisco for a sales conference. Both spent a few days at the mill at Samoa, Humboldt Countv.
H. B. "Chad" Chadbourne, of the Salinas Lumber Company, Salinas, has purchased a Curtiss-Wright Travelair plane, and is taking instructions to become a pilot. He expects to be flying solo very soon.
Mr. Chadbourne had his first experience in flying just a few weeks ago when he flew from Alameda to San Luis Obispo, and later from Alameda to the lfammond mill at Samoa and return with George Gorman, sales manager, Hammond Lumber Company, San Francisco.
G. A. Kramer, salesman for The Pacific Lumber Company in the Sacramento Valley, spent the last two weeks at the main office in San Francisco, pinch-hitting during the absence of various members of the sales organjzation.
GEO. KENDRICK VISITS L. A.
George R. Kendrick, district sales manager of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company, San Fran,cisco, returned September 23 from a business trip to Los Angeles.
Nature's heart rejoicing, Birds in plumage gay, Rosy dawnlight smiling Through rifted clouds of grey; Golden poppies waking At the sun's behest, And this is California Our homeland of the west.
\A'inds of dour November,
Dead leaves swirling by, Copious showers falling From a lowering sky; Green grass softly creeping Over earth's brown breast. And this, my lads and lassies, Is winter in the west.
Tapestries of color
Over hill and dorvn, Wilful breezes playing All about the town; Trees in fairy raiment, Wild geese on the wing, And this, my lads and lassies, Is California spring.
Poppy fields and forests, Lakes and babbling streams; Realms rvhere romance lingers, Trails where memory dreams; Shores of rnagic beauty, Towering, snow crowned crest. And this is California, Our homeland of the west.
-A. MERRIAM CONNER.According to figures released by the United States Department of Labor, the second quarter of 1935, compared with the same period in 1934, shorvs a 15O per cent increase in residential building. a 3O per cent increase in non-residential building, and a D per cent increase in alterations, additions and repairs in the field of construction activity. This improvement, the Department reports, is chiefly the result of Better Housing campaigns sponsored throughout the nation by the Federal Housing Administration in conjunction rvith the credit facilities offered by the National Housing Act.
LUMBER
Chanberlin & C^, W. R., tth Floa. Fifc Bldg. ..'..'...'..DOuglas 5'l?0
Dolbs & Cmo Imbcr Co, 73f Machiltt Exchangc Bldg.......SUtter 7t156
Hall, Jane I-, ............... r'026 Milk Eldc. ...................Suttcr 1385
Hmond & Littb River Redwood Cc, 3lO SaMa St. ....................DOu'Ia. tstl
Holmer Eure&r l.lrnber Co. 1505 Finandet C4Dter dldg.....,.GArfield lt2l
C. D. Johm L'nbr Cc, 260 Califmb Strut.,. ...GArfield @5ll
Lop Lmber Cmpny, Ft. of ffth St.....................Exbrook a!3r
MacDonald & Hmingtd Ltd., ft Califcmb Strcct...... :.........GArfield ||ittt
Mc€mtck, Chu. R,, Lumb* Co, ,lll Mukat StrcGt..............,...DOugla! 2!i31
Mm Mill & Lumbcr Co. 5?5 Markct Strut ................EXbrok lr?it
LUMBER
Pacific Lunber Co Ttc r|p Buch Streei....................GArfie|d lltl
Red Rivcr Lunber Co, tr5 Mofrak Bl&........,...,..GArfield 0t22
Sant Fc Lmber Cq, fC Califonit Stret.....,......KEany 2e7l
Schafer Bro. Lmbcr & Shhtlc Co., tm Fife 81dg..............,...,....Sutt€r l7ll
Shevlin Pire Sales Co, f080 Mm&ock Bldg. .........,.KEmy TOll
Sudden & Chrictcnson, tlO Salrm. Strcct.......,,..,....GArfie|d 2tlt
Twr Lubcr Co, ll0 Merket Stret.........,.,........Suttcr aaA
Unio Lmbcr Co., Chockcr Buildh3 ..Sutter O?a
Wcndling-Nathrr Co, U0 M.rk.t Strcct ....,..,..........SUttcr 5il|!
E. K. Wod Lunbcr Ca, I Dm Strut......,.............KErmy !?ll
LUMBER
Hill & Mcton' lnc., Dmicon St. Wharf .,..,.......ANdcvs l0?
Hogu Luber Cmparr" hd & Alie Sttret!.....,.......Gl*nqrt tt6l
E. K. }l|od Lumber CaFre&ric.k & Kilg Sts.............Fruitvale 0ll2
HARDWOODS
LUMBER
Wc;rcrhuu.rer Saler Co r|' Califonia Strui...............GArfie|d t'?r
H.ARDWOODS AND PANELS
Fonyth Hardrrood Cq, 355 Bay:hce Blvd. ...............ATmtq alsl
SAIIH-DOORS_PLYWOOD
Buckhy_Iambgr Dealen' Supply Cmpany, lU Sutta Buildins.........-.........SU{*r O||C
Ni@lat Dc Sals Co. t0a5 ltth Stmt ....................Ml'cio ?tzt
Oregm-Wuhingtm Plywood Co, 55 Ner Motgomcry Strect....,..GArficld il|t
Wbaler-Or3od Salc Corpontion, 30a5 ltttr St. ......................VAlcrcb 2Zl
CREOSOTIED LUMBER-POLES-PTLINGTIES
Hall, Jenc L, ...,.......,... 1021 Mllb BIdg. .,.,.......,.,.....Suttrr ltts
McCm_tcL,- Chu. R., Lurnbcr Co., lO Marltct Strc€t....,...........,,DOuS|ar 2gat
PANEIS-DOORS-SASH
Elliott Bat Salcr Co., ll2,f Bmdmy ....Hlgare 2147
Califmia Buildero Supply Co, $f tth Avque .........,........ANdover lltE
Wertm Do. & Suh Cc, 5th & Cypreac Sti ......,.......LAkesi& t40o
Strable Hardwood Coo 537 Firot StRt,..............,.TEmplebar 55tl
LUMBER
Reilly Tar & Chenical Corp. tr6 W. Fiftt Strcet..........,.....MUtu.I C{33
Bookstavcr-Buna Lunber Co.
- -iio Ch"-b". of Commeru Bldg...PRocpcct 0Zlt
Chuberlin & Cc' W. R., ---iiC Wert NiDth St...'..............TUcker l{31
Dolbeer & Cu:m Lunber Co.'
- - ia srcu BuildiDs..... .....vAndikc t?92
Hamnmd & Little Rivar Redwood Co. l03l So. Broadmy ..'........'..'PRcp.ct qHl
.Hemming:, E. \f,f, 355? 36. Hill St. ,..........'..'.Rlchnmd 2251
Holneg Eurek Lmber Co' ?u-712 Architectr Bld8. ,. .Mutual grtl
Hwr. A. L, ?0 'So h'Brca Ave. '..YOrk ll6E
C. D. Johnu Lumber Coot'l Petrclm Sedritie Bldg....PRGFct 1165
Larene-Philips Lmber Co., Gtit Petrolem Smrities Bl&l...PRcpect 0229
MacDoald & Bergstrm, Inc., ?itrt Petrolem Seqrities Bldg...PRqpect Tlll
MacDoald & Hanilgto, Lrd., 517 Petrcleu Sruities Bldgl....PRoqpect sCtf
McCqmick, Chs. R., Lumber Co.ru w;t tth sL- .........'....TRinity 521r
Paciftc L'*bcr Go., lte 7D lto. Lr Bm Arc. ................YOrk lllt
Patten-Blinn Lunber Co, 521 E. sth St. ....................VAndike 2321
Red Rlven Luber Co70ll E. Slauro .CEntury 2!071
Santa Fc Luber Co., 3ll Flnancial Centcr Bldg..,..,.VAndike {l?l
Schafer Bros. Lunber & Shingle Co., l22e W. M. Garlard Bldg.........TRini$ {a7r
Shevlin Pine Sales Co32t PetrcIeum Securitier Bldg. PR€Fct lt6l5
Sudden & Christcnsm, dlO B6rd of Tnde Bldg. ........TRinity tE41
Union Lu.nber Co. 0A W. M. Gulud Bldg...........TRinity ZrS2
Wendling.Natlu Co., ?m Sc I: Brea Ave. .......,......YOrk llCt
E. K. Wod I nnher ee. 4701 Silta Fc Ave. ..............JEfreruon 3lll
We;mhazusr Sal* Co., tO Pctroleu Securitic Bld3...PRopect 55EC
CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLES.PILINGTIES
McComlck, Char. R., Lumbcr Co, ll7 Wart 9rh St. ................TRin|ty 324r
HARDWOODS
Stantn, E, J., & Sm, Z0t0 Eut SEth Strcct.. .CEntury ,2rf
SAS'H-DOORII-MILLWORK
PANELII AND PLYWOOD
Buckley Lunba Dealers' Supply Co,, 53C Petroleum Securitier Bliig....PRospect 5t53
Cslitmia Parel & Vereer Co., 155 Sc Alaneda St...,........,....TR|tdty eas?
Elliott Bay Sal* Co., 6lll Petrcleum Seorities Bldg.,.PRcpcct 36S6
Kehl, Jnc W.- & Sru, 6li2 So. Myers St. ..,,........,.,.ANgelue tltl
Orego-Washington Plywood Co., 3lE West Ninth Strete .........,,..TUckc l3l
Pasific Mutual Du Co, CApltol ttd ll2c Wahircter Ave. (Alhubn)
Red Rirer Lumber Co., 7112 E. Slaueo ..CEntury 2r?l
Wh*ler-Oqood Saler Corpmtton, 2l$l Sacnrento St. ...,...........TUchor|f3l
Among the many lumbermen who attended the llorse Show at the Sacramento State Fair on Thursday, September 10, was none other than that famous lumber character, "Paul Bunyan" and his Blue Ox.
In an article entitled 'ln. *.,. Are Goo<l EnoughTell Them" is very interestingly told by Sylvester Weaver, president of Weaver Roofing Co., Los Angeles.
C. w. Pinkerton, pr.rial.,t*oi ln. a"t,rornia Retail Lumberman's Association, has announced some of the committees in charge of arrangements for the Annual to be held at Fresno, on October 30 and 31 : F. Dean Prescott, Valley Lumber Company, heads the program committee and Chas. G. Bird, Stockton Lumber Company, the publicity committee.
E. D. Kingslel', presidlrr,*or*,t " w..t Coast Lumbermen's Association, delivered an address, "Facts Concerning the Pacific Northrvest Lumber Industry," before the thirtyfourth annual ,convention of Hoo Hoo, held at Spokane, September 14 to 17.
Chas. G. Bird, manager of the Stockton Lumber Company, Stockton, gives some very pertinent facts rvhich are contained in an article "Bird Boosts Better Shingles" and whi'ch is illustrated by shorving attractive pictures of .a shingle display.
The Geib Lumber a.*0"- 1i", to.rgl,t the San Gabriel yard of the Bettingen Lumber Companv.
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The retailers were victorious in the golf tournament at the Wilshire Club, September 18, sponsored by the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club in which one-half the players were put on the retail team, opposing the remaining half as wholesalers. Team captains were Gus lloover and Frank Burnaby, assisted by Frank Connelly, golf chairman; Ted Lawrence rvas toastmaster at the evening banquet.
Earl Johnson, Johnson Lumber Company, Pasadena, told of his experiences in the Philippine Islands, where he and his father conducted the first mahogany mill ever established there, at a Los Angeles Hoo Hoo Club meeting on September 24.
The Central California i"rloJ-."'s Club met at Stockton on Saturday, September 19. President W. H. Falconbury, Falconbury Lumber Co., presided. R. F. Wells, West Turlock Mill & Lumber Co., Turlock. made a short talk on the activities of the State Association. It was announced the annual state convention rvould be held at Fresno on October 30 and 31.
P. C. Hansen & Co. nlt.*"rJ.r"tl a large new shed at
their Centerville yard. Thev also operate a retail yard at Niles.
At the 34th Annr"ra, a;J.;tion of Hoo-Hoo helcl at Spokane, September L4, 15, 16 and 17, the following u'ere among those registered from California: David Woodhead, R. A. Forsyth, C. D. LeMaster, R. A. Hiscox and Frank W. Trower. {<**
Lloyd Harris, representative of the Holmes-E,ureka Lurnber Co. in the Bay District, Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley territory, was leading by a slight majority in the Redwood Salesmen's Contest.
J. S. Webb, formerly *,,n ,n. Valley Lurnber Co., of Fresno, has been appointed Turlock agent for the Modesto Lumber Co. Mr. Webb has been associated r,r'ith the lrrmber industry for nearly twentl' vears.
Three hundrecl ..nptoyi, lr l"tt." & Davies, Los Angeles, gathered at the Alhambra Chamber of Commerce banquet hall, September 19, in celebration of the return of Henry Patten and his family from a four months' tour around the world.
llerman L. Rosenber**or*,nl Hipolito company, Los Angeles, Past Vicegerent of the Los Angeles District has been appointed State Counsellor.
A. w. Koehl, of John ;. ;.;t & So', Los Angeles *'as married to Miss Nevada Adair in Santa Monica, September 17.
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The Little River Redwood Lumber Co. of San Francisco announce that Eric Braham, consul at Panama, is norv acting as their direct representative in the Central American countries.
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Interesting information furnished the public in Mendocino's booth at the Sacramento State fair, lvas the fact that the Union Lumber Company of Fort Bragg, plants each year 1,500,000 redrvood trees propagate<l in its os'n nurser_\'. ***
Harvey Isenhauer, for the past ferv )'ears associated u'ith the lumber business at Sacramento. is noq. rvith the Holmes-Eureka Lumber Companl'.
Members of the s"r, p.Jn"rlaolutt.y Lumbermen's club enjoyed a delightful dinner dance and entertainment at the American Legion Clubhouse on the evening of September 9.
The Hansen Lurnber ;;;, Fontana, will move to their new location on Perris Street.
Washington, D. C., Sept. 16.-Between 80 per cent and 85 per cent of all union building tradesmen in Arizona are employed regularly, and tl,e remaining 15 per cent or 20 per cent are employed part time, a Federal Housing Administration official has been told by the Arizona State Federation of Labor. Employment among carpenters is almost 1@ per cent, particularly in Phoenix. The local union reports that almost all its members have been regularly employdd for some time. A great portion of this employment has come through work developed by the very active Federal Housing Administration programs in progress in Arizona.
Gienn B. Warner, r,vell known and popular sash and door man of the Bay region, for many years connected with the California Door Company, Oakland, joined the sales force of the Nicolai Door Sales Company, San Francisco, September 1.
Glenn's territory with this firm will be the San Francisco Bay region and the Peninsula, including San Jose.
C. B. McElroy, E. K. Wood Lunber Company, San Francisco, was back at his desk September 3O from a rveek's business trip to Los Angeles.
P. A. Dame, West Coast representative of The Upson Company, is back at his Los Angeles headquarters from a trvo months' business trip throughout the Pacific Northw'est.
The buildings, stock of lumber and building materials of the Capital Lumber Company, Sacramento, were entirely destroyed by fire on September 2O. Signar Lindroth and Serverin Johnson, the or'vners, dis,covered the fire raging between piles of lumber and into the walls and bracing of the shed. Every available piece of fire equipment in the city was called into service, but they were not able to save any part of the plant.
Gordon D. Pierce, Boorman Lumber Company, Oakland, rvas elected president of East Bay Hoo Hbo Club No. 39 at the club's annual meeting held at Hotel Coit, Oakland, September 23.
Henry M. Hink, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Company, San Francisco, was elected vice president, and Carl R. Moore, Moore Mill & Lumber Company, San Francisco, was re-elected secretary-treasurer.
The nerv directors are Miland Grant, Western Door & Sash Cbmpany, Oakland; Kenneth Shipp, California Builders' Supply Company, Oakland; Jas. B. Overcast, Strable Hardwood Company, Oakland; J. Ross Kinney, Zenith Mill & I-umber Company, Oakland, and S. C. Forsey, Eureka Mill & Lumber Company, Oakland.
The retiring president, G. F. "Jerry" Bonnington, thanked .the members and directors for their support during the past year, and the new president, Gordon Pierce, expressed the hope that the club will soon rank as one of the best servicc clubs in the city.
Bert Bryan, on behalf of the club, presented Jerry Bonnington with a handsome wrist watch as a token of the club's appreciation of his work as president.
Clem Fraser, on behalf of the past presidepts of the club, presented Secretary' CarI Moore, who is starting his ninth consecutive year as secretary-treasurer, with a very fine pocket watch, in appreciation of his untiring efforts for the good of the organization.
Bert Bryan made a plea for the support of the new International Order of Hoo Hoo, which is paying ofi the debts incurred by the old organization.
Frank W. Trower explained the arrangements for the Parson Simpkin Memorial Service at Calaveras Big Trees on Sunday, October 6.
Harold C. Austin, Oakland real estate operator, was the speaker of the evening. His subject was "Building Our Prosperity."
J. E. Morris, assistant general manager of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company, Tacoma, was recently in Los Angeles on a business trip.
Retail lumber yard for sale in ideal drawing community. First class improvements and one of the best locations in the city. 12 miles from Los Angeles. Will make attractive price. Address Box C-568, California Lumber Merchant.
We can offer some yard sites with sheds, offices and racks, but without stock or equipment, on attractive terms. In addition we have some good buys in going lumber yards. Twohy Lumber Company, 549 Petroleum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 8746.
"Lumber Dealers, and furniture and other woodworking factories, in increasing number have fought their way into a position of good credit standing so that the average risk involved in selling to these lines of trade is gradually growing less. Nevertheless, it would be well for a long time to come, to investigate the ,condition of each customer and prospect with unusual care, as return to good credit standing has not been uniform.
"Furthermore, even customers and prospects who have attained an improved credit standing since the rvorst of the depression, are not necessarily in that condition now, as the'recovery of some of them was not on a firm foundation, and they have now slipped back into a dangerous position. Also, as a number of shoe string ventures are springing up, all new accounts need unusual investigation, and this can best be done with the aid of a modern credit reporting service." Thus writes William Clancy, Jr., Vice-President and General l\{anager of the Ltrmbermen's Credit Association, fnc., publishers of the Lumbermen's Red and Blue Book Credit Reporting and Collection Service, the consolidation of the two former credit rating book services covering lumber dealers, and furniture and otherivoodworking factories.
The Association has just published the 108th edition of the reference book which is the keystone of the service, and those who have not used the service since the consolidation would do well to use it now because of new features and improvements. In this connection, they offer at this time a 30 day approval plan, the details of which are available by addressing them at their home office at 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill., or their eastern headquarters at 99 Wall Street, New York CitY.
Place rvanted by office. Not afraid rounding territory. ber Merchant.
experienced lumberman, either yard or of work-prefer Los Angeles or surAddress Box C-569, California Lum-
Lumberman with 25 years' experience all branches lumber business wants positio,n wholesale or retail. Address Box C-567, California Lumber Merchant.
Are you a lumberman who can handle FHA prospects, close sales and arrange loans? If so address Box C-570 California Lumber Merchant.
Preparations for participation in National Fire Prevention Week, to be held from October 6 to 12, by business, civic, and industrial organizations throughout Southern California were under way today with plans being mapped for a series of daily programs and demonstrations in this annual campaign against fire and its devastations.
National cooperation of radio, press, and poster display facilities during this week are to aid in bringing before the public the needless tragedies caused by the thousands of fires which occur each year throughout the United States with their millions of dollars of costs and the loss of thousands of lives.
Participation by the Federal Housing Administration is to be a special feature because of the direct interest of this agency in the effective and healthful housing of the American people. Added FHA interest in this program results from the clauses of the National Housing Act which encourage high quality construction, with a view to fire prevention, and the replacement of obsolete wiring systems, out-of-date heating equipment, and other fire-causing factors.
The headquarters of the Community Chest at 855 SoHill Street, Los Angeles, present scenes of great activity preparing for the coming 1935 Community Chest Appeal. Among the committee chairmen Stephen M. Griffith is chairman of the Building Material and Construction committee, while Shannon Crandall is general chairman of the Trade Group. lfoward S. Dudley is general campaign chairman.
Twice each month rye are rending out our message of business newt, ideas and good cheer to the lumbermen of California. On every page there are matters of direct and practical interest to every California lumberman.
Isn't this then an ideal medium for thore who have a business story they want to' send to these lumber follc?
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