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What Live California Lumbermen are Doing

MANUFACTITREB APPEALS TO IIIS FELLOWS tr'OB MORE CONSIDERATION OF RETAILER, tt'We, as manufacturers," says Mr. Mack's analysis of the situation, " should boost the retailers more, as they are our main dependence. When trad.e is dull with them, it is very slow with us, and yet there is a feeling growing up between the two branches of the business that is unhealthy for both and has a tendency to destroy that community of efrort that is so desirable ancl necessary. Their fingers are on the pulse of things; they are a vital part of our national existence; and Herbert lloover, in his progressive plan of standardization of sizes and- grades, is bringing about a better realization of this fact and impressing upon the minds of the manufacturers that they are but one angle of a many sided whole and have no license for any display of the ego. 'We agree heartily with those sentiments, and yet we are helpless when it comes to suggesting the remed.y. "

A plea for more consideration of the retailer and the retailer's viewpoint is contained in the "Monthly Message," of 'W. B. Mack. of the National Lumber & Manufacturing Company at Hoquaim, 'Wash., one of the keenest students of the lumber industry in the business, and a philosopher of rare judgment.

CEICAGO BIGGEST LUMBER, DISTR.IBUTOR,

'While Los Angeles holds the record among American cities for the biggest volume of cargo lumber handled, Chicago still is the biggest lumber distributing center. According to figures publishecl by the American Lumberman the receipts of lumber in Chicago during the 12 months of 1921 were 2,070,593,000 feet. During the first nine months of 1922 the receipts have been 2,133,792,000 feet. Shipments out of Chicago in 1921 were 987,698,000 feet, and for the first nine months of this year, 1,098,682,000 feet. Obviously, most of Chicago's lumber is shippecl by rail.

POR,TLIIND WHOLESALER,S EAVE CLUB

California lumbermen visiting in the Northwest now will have a chance to meet all the wholesalers of Portland at once, for they have organized a lumbermen's club in that city, with meetings on the third Tuesday of each month. Fred Cutler of the Cutler-Dimmick Lumber Company, is presid.ent, and Carl C. Crow, of Crow's Irumber Index, is secretary. As soon as possible the organization will have regular club rooms, where lunch will be served every d.ay.

WILLITPA IIARBOR MILL MANAGER, SAYS DIIttg OF NOBTIIWEST ARE ACTIVE

Al Hart, of Raymond, Washington, manager of the Quinault Lumber Company, operated by the-Hart-Wood Lumber Company, is in San Francisco on a business trip. He reports that business in the Northwest is very good, that all the mills of Willapa Harbor are working to capaeity, and that there is much activity in the lumber industry in the Raymond district.

The Lewis Mill ancl Timber Company, who bought the rnill and timber holdings of the South Bentl MiIl and Timber Company, have dismantled the old urill and are constructing a new mill on the same site. C. A. Doty, formerly of the Chehalis Mills Company at Chehalis, Wash., and associates, are putting up a mill at Raymond.

Al expects to spend about two weeks in the Bay District and is making his headquarters at the Hart-Wood. I-.iumber Company's office.

Oiiioans Cotiing To Tee Coast

A special train party of Ohio lumbermen will visit CaIifornia some time next winter under the auspices of the Ohio Association of Retail Lumber Dealers. The start will be made from Cleveland late in February. After stopping at Chicago they will proceed to Spokane, thence to the Puget Sound country and Portland, San Francisco, Eureka and back to San Francisco, after which they will go to Merced. and. Yosemite National Park and l6s Angeles.