The California Lumber Merchant - November 1929

THECALIFORNI.A MBERMERCNT Bru,UTTTUL I4TALLS

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Wall Board Corporation

said Paul Bunyan to the Watch Peddler

"Why should I buy a watch? The only time I need to know is Daylight and Dark or Winter and Summer." Later on Big Ole made Paul a watch usingsome wheels and gears out of an old mowing machine. Paul soon tired of carrying it and hooked it up to furnish power for the grindstone. Paul himself works three eight-hour shifts a day with two hours overtime each shift.

Year Round Production

YOU will find Red River can save you money and time with Red River Mixed Car Deliverv that covers a wide ranse of items'

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Ilardwood Trim Aids Sales

The use of hardwood trim and paneling in a house or an apartment insures rcady sale or profitable rental. The reason is simple. People want the homelike appeal of wood trimmed rooms.

Hardwood trim is not expensive. 'It is the best investment the builder can make. The cost is a smafl factor in the increased value of the building.

To sell this idea to your homebuilders and contractors will pay. You will have satisfied customers and an atcactive profit. Let us help you to more and better hardwood business.

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The Pioneer Hardwood Yaril Lor

THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

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How Lumber Looks

Douglar pi1;-ff,g trend of lumber production, which during the lart week in Septernber grd the 6ret trro weekr in October declined eharply, took an upward tun during the week ending October l9r'according to reportr received by the Wert Coart Lumbermen's A*ociation from 219 mills in Oregon, Warhington and Britirh Columbia.

Production for the week war about l7rOOOr0(X) feet greatcr than war reported druing the previour wec&, brt conriderably below the notrnal production for thir dmc of the year. Orderr received for the week ending October 19 were 14.69 per cent under tte output. New burinerc received for the rail market war almort 6'(X)OTOOO feet greater than that received during tte previous week. The domectic cargo and local rnarketr shorved a decreare in orderr.

The California demand continues lighl Clears continue to rhow rtrength. There has been finther reductionr in the unrold *ockr at San Pedro; rmrold rtockr at thir port on October 3O totded l3rSOOrOOO feet, a reduction of narly two million feet drring the past two weekr. There are 39 vecrelc laid up and 2 veerelr are op€rating ofr rhore. Cargo receiptr at San Pedro for the week endi-g October 26 totaled 13r178,(X)O feet, which ia extremely low. lt ir reported tbat further drartic curtailment at tfie millr, particularly on tte part of the largcr openaton, ir being contemplated.

Califonia White and Sugar Pine pricer are 6rm and there ir a good volume of busine*. The Redwood market rhorvr a good average bueiners with prices holding up weIL i?**satr*igsa

The current relationrhip of rhipmentr and orderr to prodnction for the fitst 42 weekr of 1929, according to the rcport of the National Lurnber Manufac{urcrc Asociationt baled on reportr from the regional asrociation, ig at follorur:

West Coart Lumbermcntr Agociatioa-Produc{ion, 7r378,433 M feet; Shipmente, 7,412,8A5 M feet; Orderr, 7,455,638 M feet.

Cdifornia White and SWar Pine Auociafisll-p;q{sstiori, 1,166,270M feei; Shiprnents, 111311213 M feet; Orderr, 1r14or(Xl M feet.

Cdifornia Redwood Agociation-Production, 31 4'E31 M fea; Shipmentr, 318r51O M feet; Orderq 3321213 M feet.

Southejn Pine Arrociation-Production, 2r826rffig NI feet; Shipmentr, 2,849,549 M feet; Orderc, 2r832rl70 tet.

Total Hardwoodr-Production, 211431966 M feet; Shipmentr, 2,088,630 M feet; Orden, 2,087,193 M feet.

New Rail Rate on Hardwood Shipments Into California From Three Southwestern States

A reduction of ten cents a hundred pounds has been granted to mills in three Southwestern stafes on rail shipments of Southern hardwoods into California. under a decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The new rate will go into efiect on November 15.

The new rate will be TO.cents and covers shipments from all Texas, all Louisiana west of the Mississippi River and

New Orleans, and a few western points in Arkansas. The present rate is 80 cents.

These producing points are embraced in the territory known as the Southwestern Group. They applied for a reduction to 621 cents to give them the sarne rate as freight moving east from California. As a compromise, the 70 cent rate was fixed. The rate on water shioments out of the sam.e territory is 45 cents.

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OOIYAN?S Thundering llerd

Eleven Men and a Coach r--Working for You

Here's a hard-hitting aggregation that is bucking the line of architects and builders to nail orders of Cowan Custom-Built-In Cabinets for lumber dealers. Every man on this crack team is a go-getterr-they never stop for quarters or halves. Just give one of them a tip on a prospect. Watch him tuck it under his arm and make the play for you. Footage-yardage-mileage-he'll keep going until he crosses the goal and lands the order on yout desk. IThen Coach Tate firrns loose his "Four Hors.-"1r"-'rggandardized Factory Operations", "Quality Construction", "Interchangeable [,Jnits", and .'Every Feature of Convenience", the opposition tan't stand up. In dazzling plays-"Complete Kitchenstt, ."I0-Room Housest', "Four-Family Flats", and "J0-unit Apartments", they get the orders over the dotted line.

Pick out younrlan in the line-up abotse. Do the prelim.inary uork by rnentioning Cowon Cabinets to your custonr,ers, then turn the tip ooer to this rnon and uatch the results.

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Random Editorial Ramblings

By Jack Dionne

Built-in ironing boards ! Have you ever stopped to think what a mighty important industry the manufacture and distribution of that one original wooden article has become? In the old days the ironing board was balanced between tables and chairs, and stood in the corner or the closet between times. Or, it stood on folding legs. Neither was convenient or very practical.

Today we make ,rror" ln"l a million folding, scientific, built-in ironing boards annually, and the business continues to increase in size. They are ready to be set into the wall of the old home, or the new, the flat or the apartment. There should be at least two in every home for ready use. They are salable to the occupants of every old dwelling of any sort. This has become a great industry, using worlds of shop lumber, makes a fine sideline for the lumber dealer, and a wonderful utility for every dwelling. ***

If you want to help the lumber industry, just seek other building thoughts of this sort. It is THAT sort of seeking that must enliven this industry, if it is to be enlivened. A few new ideas of that sort would do more for the industry than any other sort of trade extension work will ever accomplish. Advertising and pushing just WOOD is both inane and impractical. The consumer is interested only in his own needs. Show him your wood in the shape of something that he NEEDS or WANTS, and he'll buy it. But it's the article, the function, that he pays for, not the material. Boosting the MATERIAL to build things with, doesn't pay-CANNOT pay. Sell him an ARTICLE, an IDEA, and throw in the material.

Let me tetl you tt i, r BJ".J t.,l',uur-"r, interestetl in the welfare of the industry, would do well to boost and assist in every way the merchandising campaigns of the many reliable concerns now manufacturing and merchandising these built-ins of all sorts, made of wood. These things furnish the home and apartment dwellers of the land with newer and better conveniences, they put wood where virood was never used before, and make millions of friends for wooden things. Into every corner of the kitchen, the pantry, the breakfast room, the diniag room, the bathroom, the library, the sleeping rooms and the closets, go these intelligently created and scientifically arranged wooden things to make people n"lntl.. .

They replace bare walls, dust-gathering corners, and wasted space of all sorts, and, by their splendid usefulness they confer untold blessings on mankind. The old-timey

hole-in-the-wall closet becomes the attractive repository of man's possessions, clever drawers, hat-racks, hangers, etc., etc., etc. Boost these things, Mr. Lumber Manufacturer ! And while boosting them, offer a prayer that more thinking men may come along and translate the lumber you try so lumberingly to sell as raw materials, into other shapes a4d forms that help humans to live better and more abundantly, and which they will trade their cash and credit for, as they never will do for boards and planks. The way to get orders for wood, is to develop more and better ways for USING it, and when you sell it, sell the THING it is made into, and not the material. That way lies prosperity.

In the death of Frank Fish, of Chicago, the famous Secretary qf the National Hardwood Association, organized lumber lost one of its most potent and powerful characters. Frank Fish led, drove, herded, and bossed that great industry for many years, with his own power and vision. He was a diplomat, a ring general, an organizer,'and a fighter. And he kept his crowd always lined up, holding his powerful association literally in the hollow of his hand. He and the late John Rhodes, of New Orleans, were easily the two outstanding characters of lumber manufacturing history, and now both have crossed the River.

You California lumbe;"J .J" rugt."ting a useful opportunity in not educating your townspeople, wherever you may be located, concerning your great timber and lumber producing state. I find the business men of California generally interested but almost entirely ignorant of what a great timber and lumber state California is. When you get a chance, talk to your service clubs about it. See that your Iocal newspapers publish your remarks. Most people think California a lumber consuming state, and little more.

It will interest the people of YOUR town to know that California has the greatest reserve of commercial virgin softwood timber of any state except Oregon, and that so much more valuable are our Pines and Redwoods that the California forests are really of greater monetary value even than those of Oregon. Tell them that California has more timber reserves than Washington, and is cutting it only about one-fourth as fast as is Washington. Tell them that contrasted with production, California has a lot more timber than even Oregon. Tell them that California has more valuable commercial standing timber left today than the great lumber producing Southern States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama combined.

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The termite (or white ant) problem is being successfully aaacked through the use of treated lumber for sills, girders and underpi*irg. McCormick's scientific study of the problem, over a period of /€sr places us in a favorable position to help you solve this vexatious problem in your own locality.

The McCormick treating plant at St. Ffelens, Ore., is trhoroughly equipped to take care of :rny cnso-

The Terrnite Problem Solvcd TYtth MeGorrnick Treated Lumber Chas. R. Mecormiek Lurnber Co.

soting requirement. For the past 16 years, this modem plant has been at work developing and improving methods of creosoting lumber and timbers alr a means of giving them added life.

Let us quote you on Eeated timbers. Besides cargo shipments we have connections with all railroads fdr fast rail shipments to all points in California.

California Distributors for Veyerhaeuser Fir Flooring and Valton Veneer Panels

Exclusive Agente for West Fir Flag Poles

f SafES OFFTCES: San Francisco, 215 vratk./- Street, Davenport 35q). Lor Angeler, f foO lt

if Lane Mortgage Bldg., TRinity 5241. Phoenix, C. P. Henry, iepresentative, 42t lieard Btdg. d[

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MILIS: St. Helens, Oregon; Port Ludlow, and Port Gamble, Washington. fnenffNG ?

I PLANT: St. Helens, Oregon. PLANING MILLS: San Diego. DISTRIRUTING YARDS: I

l_ San Diego and Vilmington. _X

IDouglae Flr Gedar Spruce Hentock

Via' of McCornkk's tnodrn Eeating plant at St. Helens, Orcgott.

Random Editorial Ramblings

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Tell then that at the present rate of production and regrowth the forests of California will last forever. Tell ttrem that the forests of California have already produced more than twice as much wealth as have the mines of California, and the mines are'about gone, while the forests are almost untouched. Tell them that California consumes about twice as much lumber as she pro{uces, but imports 90 per cent of her consumption, shipping most of her own lumber outside the state for special uses. Tell them that California consumes more lumber than any other state. Tell them that Cdifornia will be a great lumber producing state in years to come when most of the states of the Union haven't a comrnercial tree.

Gaines D. Whitsitt, of Amarillo, Texas, the new Snark of the lfniverse, of Hoo Hoo, is a typical West Texan, a big, strong' sturdy' gallant gentleman, who thinLs with an honest mind and speaks with a straight tongue. He loves and believes in. Hoo Hoo, and in helping to make his administration a success the lumbermen of the nation will be helping themselves, and helping this rnighty fine old boy from Amarillo.

"People easiest to sell are hardest to collect from," says a business authority. Wrong t It depends, of course, on

CHAS. S. KEITH VISITING OREGON

Chas. S. Keith, president of the Central Coal & Coke Co., Kansas City, recently arrived in Portland to visit the company's western office, and their sawmill operation at Vernonia, Oregon.

C. D. TERWILLIGER ON EASTERN TRIP

C. D. Terwilliger, general manager of the Clover Valley Lumber Co., Loyalton, left on October 22 Lor a business trip to Chicago, where he will visit the companyl5 eastern office.

what you mean by the word "sell". An article is not SOLD until it is paid for. People easiest to deliver goods to may be the hardest to collect from. But that isn't selling. It's justdelivering.

ltleyerhaeuser's Four Square merchandising campaign goee brilliantly on. The lumber is packed so that it is easily identified by the packages, the attractive packages being likewise fine advertising. The lumber yard carries the attractive sign of the Four Square dealer. The consumer learns the merits of the Four Square stock through the consumer advertising they run, and the retail lumberman is educated through the trade press. Thus Four Square be. comes a known quantity in the home and lumber yard both. With generations of timber supply behind their mills' the Weyerhaeuser campaig" t; .*t"ldamentd one.

Business exists to give service. And if it doesn't come up to the mark in that particular, it is a failure, whether or not it makes money for its owners. \)l/e've all seen plenty of cases of business that made money by keeping out com- ,/ petition, yet denied its trade territory the kind of service v those people had i right to expect. Success isn't always measured in dollars, by any means. In fact, that's a mighty poor yard stick, generally speaking.

CHARLES R. McCORMICK LOS ANGELES VISITOR

Charles R. McCormick, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company, San Francisco, recently made a short business trip to the company's Los Angeles office.

HARRY HANSON VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

Harry Hanson, California Panel & Veneer Co., Los Angeles, recently spent a few days in San Francisco on business. While in the Bay District he called on many of his lumbermen friends.

Our Gang

Great volumes are written on business, Filled from cover to cover with hints, Assuring success to the readers, Guaranteeing us incomes like mints. Some advise hiring high-powered salesmen, Whose line would cause Scotchmen to fall; While others have chapters on detail, What mileage will gasoline haul.

Now these points no doubt have their value

In buying and selling our waresBut nailed on the platform of selling We've a plank that is equal to theirs. It isn't on pencils saved daily, Nor is it our "Knock 'em dead"' line; It's just an old-fashioned friendship That we peddle with redwood and pine. This feeling don't start at the door squeak, It's something we carry in stock; It permeates through every worker And even cheers those who would knock.

Our impulse to be friendly is easy, And starts off each day with a bang. The reason ? Lean down and I'll whlsper, Our boss is just one of the gang.

E?-ch yard that.sells lumber has off days, When natures like bow strings would iwang; But our strains are lifted and steadied By our boss, who's just one of the gang.

Some days when we're not very busy And we're flirting with jobs saved for rain, Our work seems more like a visit. Though in rushes we work might and main.

Our stenographer's front name is Nita; At Stanislaus four years she's been. When her typing is all up and. finished She matches red pennies with Len.

Our accounting is done by Diana, And she untangles tangles in books. But she claims she missed part of her training, As she untangles cross puzzle crooks.

There's no place for gloom in our office; If there was, there won't be again, For we've annexed a cheer radiator, To the trade and our gang he's just Len.

He eats up the worst jobs we give him, Or out in the yard he'll load trucks. He tackles each customer grinning; His smiie is more fatal than luck. -

Now these are my reasons for thinking That when friendliness comes from within. The customer battle is easy; And-one of our gang is named JIM. _R. L. USTICK, Stanislaus Lumber Co., Modesto. California.

SUGTNE ORE: General Saler Ofice: Failing Bldg., Portlani Orc.

PIO]IE ERS

Forestry Director Hears Forestry Advocates

Washington, C)ct. 22.-The claims of forestry for Federal financial support were convincingly presented by representatives of various forestry groups at a hearing on October 18 before Col. J. Clawson Roop, Director oi the Budget. Every speaker emphasized the vital present need for adequate fire protection, for pushing the foiest taxation inquiry, and forestry research. The session, announced to last forty-five minutes, was extended by Col. Roop considerably over an hour.

Major Barrington Moore. representing the Ecological Soctety of America, who stressed the present importance of the entire forestry program, was followed by Wilson Comp- ton, secretary and manag'er of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, who spoke in behalf of the lumber industry. .Mr. Compton urged the necessity for increased 3qtp-r_opria_tions, as authorized under the Clar[e-McNary and McNary-McSweeney bills. He represented the lumbermen ot the- country as anxious to see the government concentrate itself on a fire protection and research program that will lead to proper forestry operations as a wiole-and thus leave lumbermen intelligently able to care for their own lands. In _this regard Mr. Compton said that g1,000,000 tor research now would do more good than $100,000,000 for the purchase of land fifty years"from now.

.-P.1. Jg_n"__W. _!y--ers, representative in Congress from Walla Walla, Washington, - district and memb"er of the

House Committee on igricultural appropriations, empha- sized the necessity foi adequate fire irotection of all sized the -necessity for- fire irotection classes of forest lands, including National'Forests.. He has recently returned from a visii to 13 National Forests in the West and many large private lumber operations. ., Cgl. Roop q-uoted Chief Forester Stuart as representing the lumber industry as strongly favoring an active forestr! program.

J. D. crLES TO VrSrT CALTFORNTA

_ J. D, Giles, North Tonawanda, New york, vice presi- dent of the Creo-Dipt Company, fnc. will arrive in'Cali- fornia around the fiist of Novlmber. He will visit Los {.ngeles and San Francisco, where he will confer with officials- oi th_e Hipolito Company and the Santa Fe Lumber Co., their California reprejentitives. perry Dame, Kansas 9i!y, Mo., western sales manager, will -accompany Mr. Giles on his trip.

ATTENDS GAME AT PALO ALTO

Howell Baker, California panel & Veneer Co.. geles, attended the Southern California-Stanford game at Palo Alto on Saturday, October 26.

Joseph Hyde Pratt of the Southern Forestry Congress spoke in favor of Federal and State acquisition of land but emphasized particularly the importance of solving the forest taxation problem. Speaking for his own state, North Carolina, he pictured its favorable timber-growing conditions and expressed the opinion that with improved fire protection service and a solution of the tax problemr pr?ctically all timberland owners in the state, and in the South as a whole, would soon find it profitable to go into the cultivation of timber. Speaking for North Carolina, he referred to the constitutional amendment now pending which would permit the segregation of forest lands from other classes of lands and thus set up a system of yield taxes for forest lands.

An increased appropriation was urged under the ClarkeMcNary law, of $452,000, bringing the total for the fiscal year 1930 up to $2,000,000. Supporting a former recommendation of the N.L.M.A. at the time of the McSweeney-McNary Act of t928, that the annual appropriations for forest research be increased 10 per cent each year until the maximum of $3,575,000 was reached, an increase was strongly urged for the fiscal year 1931 to a total of $1,897,00O.

Recommendations were made for an increase of $50,000 in annual appropriations for the work of the U. S. Weather Bureau and of $40,000 a year for the work of the Bureau of Entomology in forest insect research.

The Society of American Foresters rvas represented at the hearing by Arthur C. Ringland; American Tree Association by Tom Gill; Pine Institute of America by C. F. Speh; Society for the Protection of Nerv Hampshire Forests by Philip W. Ayres; American Farm Bureau Federation by W. R. Ogg; National Parks Association by Robert Sterling Yard; American Engineering Council by L. W. Council, and the Forestry Department of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association bv Franklin W. Reed.

A. J. RUSSELL A LOS ANGELES VTSTTOR

A. J. Russell, Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, made a short business trip to Los Angeles the latter part of the month. While in the Southland, he made his headquarters at the company's Los Angeles office where he conferred with Bruce Burlingame, their Southern California representative.

A. B. HAMMOND VISITS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Anfootball

A. B. Hammond, San Francisco, president of the Hammond Lumber Co., recently spent a few days in Los Angeles where he was looking over their Southern California operations. Mr. Hammond made his headquarters :rt the company's Los Angeles plant.

Program

Annual Convention, Cdifornia Retait Lumbermen's Association, Palace Flotel, San Francisco, California, November 7dt, Ath and gth, 1929

Registration of Delegates will begin at.6 o'clock p.m-., November 6, at ?alace Hotel, and again early Thursday morning, November 7'

THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7TH' 1929

8:00 A.M.-BREAKFAST MEETING OF STATE DIRECTORS-Sharon Room-Palace Hotel.

9:45 A.M.-CALL TO ORDER BY PRES. H. A. LAKE-In Rose Room, Palace Hotel.

ADDRESS OF WELCOME BY JAMES ROLF' JR., Mayor of San Francisco.

RESPONSE TO ADDRESS OF WELCOME. HOME MODERNIZING, When is California going to get the benefit of a home modernizing camPaign? Has it proved profitable in other states? Is there much expense connected with it? How much business can be developed by it? CEMENT.

Is it reasonable to ask for 100 per tribution ?

What should the dealer's profit sales ?

cent dealer disbe on carload

Can paving jobs be handled by the small dealer? Does a lack of standard cartage charges from car to job cause price difficulties?

ROOFING.

Can the lumber dealer compete on prices with the mail order houses?

Can the lumber dealer sell the roofing contractor?

What profit shoutd there be on such sales?

Does the lumber dealer push the sale of re-roofing iobs ?

SASH AND DOORS.

Why is the sash and doolindustry almost continuously upset?

How can lumber dealers work with manufacturers for the betterment sash and door of profits?

HARDWOOD FLOORING.

Should smatl yards stock hardwood flooring?

Should they expect to sell floor layers?

How can the credit losses on floor layers be avoided ?

APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES.

THURSDAY NOON, NOVEMBER 7T'l,1929

that sive a cash discount in 30 days, net payment-in 60 days, and refuse further extension of credit if the bill is unpaid after that time?

Is the contractors' association justified in establishing a lumber purchasing agent at Portland?

FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8TH' 1929

9:45 A.M.-GRADE MARKING.

How long are we going to wait for it?

Is there any real obstacle in the way?

AMERICAN LUMBER STANDARD SIZES. y'.:re 2x4 SIE % oft and 2x4 SISIE rl oft ptoper standards if American Lumber Standard sizes are adooted. or woutd it be necessary for cargo lumber io be milled to SISIE 94 ofr.?

Would this be true also of 2x6 and' 2xl2?

Is it reasonable to carry 2xl4 and 2xl6 in stock long enough for them to shrink and then to size them one-edge tl" oft according to American Lumber Standards?

Is there any objection to accepting boards 25l32nds instead of l3/l6th?

SEGREGATED GRADES OF CARGO LUMBER.

Will the new grading rules hasten the elimination of mixed common grades?

FARM BUREAU' (A Demonstration')

What help can the State Farm Bureau at Davis give the lumber dealers?

What help can the lumber dealers give the agricultural industrY?

Can sales of lumber for farm purposes be increased ?

FRIDAY NOON, NOVEMBER ETH, 1929

12:15 P.M.-SECRETARIES' LUNCHEON-in California Room -Palace Hotel.

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 8TH, 1929

1 :30 P.M.-LOCAL ASSOCIATIONS.

Is there anything else so important to a dealer as the making of a reasonable price and profit?

What -is the best_co-operative- plan f-or your community: Central estimating bureau? Registration ' of equal bids? Protection of customers? Division of business? Division of profits?

12:09

P.M.-HOO HOO LUNCHEON-French Room-Palace Hotel-Under the auspices of San Francisco Hoo Hoo Club No. 9.

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 7TH, 1929

l:30 P.M.-CREDIT STABILIZATION.

Would there be injustice to anybody in a law-making.surety bonds co_mpglsory on every job; otherwrse putting mechanics' liens ahead of mortgages?

If ignorant owners were thus compelled to demand a surety bond, wouldn't they thereby be protected against dishonest contractors, rather than be injured?

Wouldn't a barrk or building and loan association improve their present loan position by requiring a surety bond -for completion and payment of liens on every job?

Why can't we at the next session of the legislature put through such an act?

\4rhy was a similar act defeated in the last session?

Explain new amendments to mechanics' lien law.

Explain Contractors' License Law.

Is it reasonable for the contractors' associations to suggest that lumbermen adhere strictly to terms

Nine out of ten yards will join a local association; what can be done about the tenth yard? Should the wholesaler sell that tenth yard?

Can't the wholesalers and retailers work closer together, for the benefit of both?

Can the State Arbitration Larv be used to enforce price aereement on the basis of violators paying into the Association a percentage of cut price sales ?

What associations are using this plan? Is it considered entirely unlawful? Is it effective?

Can local associations by agreement between competitors cut down overhead by limiting donations; calendars and advertising novelties; plan service; solicitors and other expenses?

Can a local association discuss costs of doing business or employ an auditor to work for a more uniform method of accounting to help stabilize prices ?

Can we standardize prices on miscellaneous items, such as hardware?

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION.

Is it possible to get help and suggestions from the Federal Trade Commis'sion on local associations?

Do they confine their work to interstate shipments?

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A bigger murgin? CnRTAII\LY!

Contractors pay more to grve small homes this extra-$1,000-look

VOU\IE something more to sell than l. just another door when you show a contractor Philippine Laminex. Vir. tually you're oftering him a way to givo small jobs an extra-91,000-look!

That elender ribbon grain of Philippine Laminex is the grain of hardwoode that only builders of mansions could heretofore afrord-the grain of mahogany and teak!

But in Philippine Laminex doors antl trim, this aristocratic grain is inexpensiveo even after you've added on an unusually bigmargin.You can price Philippine Lam. inex scarcely higher than doors of com-

gladly

This interesting "modern" d.oor is based on a prize winning design in the Philippine Laminex competition. Weuill makc. it on your order -ask lor De,sign 109 mon domestic hardwoods, and still make far more money on these fine new doors! Contractors ever)'where are getting excited about the new beauty of this wood. They are asking for the handsome new

designs, including the prize-winning modern styles in which Philippine Laminex doore now come. And they are demanding in such doors, the warp-proof qualities of Laminex construction.

Ilere'e a chance to build up a substantial volume on really profitable doorcfour opportunity is largest right todaybefore you've competition on it.

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Cent rul California Lumbermen's Club Meet at Tracy

Constructive talks by President Harry Lake of the State Association, E. T. Robie, vice-president of the Northern district, and, F. Dean Prescott, president of the San Joaquin Valley Lumbermen's Club, characterized the regular monthly meeting of the Central California Lumbermen's Club, held at the Tracy Inn, Tracy, Saturday, October 12.

Lester H. Elliot, Valley Lumber Co., Lodi, president of the club, presided. George Good, Good Lumber Co., Tracy, had charge of arrangements for the meeting, and the arrangements were perfect, down to the Tracy-made ice cream served in the form of log sections at the end of an excellent luncheon.

A short business session during which C. U. Utterback read the minutes of the two previous meetings, and Treasurer Chas. G. Bird read his report, was followed by musical numbers. These were: violin solos by George Hatfield, with Mrs. Rena Cross at the piano, and vocal solos by Mrs. Milnes, accompanied by Miss Sellers.

Harry A. Lake, Garden Grove Lumber Co., who came all the way from Southern California to attend the meeting, said that lumbermen in California are becomirig association-minded, and that practically all of the State is now organized in local groups and associations. The State Association has gained 176 new mernbers since the first of the year, and by the end of this year the tnembership will have been doubled, he said.

Mr. Lake told the gathering that he had attended 110 meetings of lumbermen all over the state in the last year in his efforts to help the retailers to solve some of their problems, and assured them that the State Association is ready at any time to help any local group or individual rvith any particular problem.

After stressing in his own inimitable way the importance of proper co-operation among lumbermen, the speaker said that while a large membership in the State A.ssociation is necessary and will be attained, this in itself is not enough. as constant effort along educational lines is also needed. He concluded with an appeal for a large attendance at the convention in San Francisco, November 7,8 and,9.

E. T. Robie, Auburn Lumber Co., reported progress

made by the cement, roofing, sash and door and hardwood flooring committees of the Northern district of the State Association, and concluded with the statement that the work of the legislative committee alone has already been worth more to each member than the dues paid.

F. Dean Prescott, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno, who also made a special trip to Tracy to be present, told what had been accomplished by the cement and roofing committees of the association, and made a plea against cutting roofing prices. Mr. Prescott impressed his hearers with the fact that sustained effort by the members of the roofing and cement committees over a long period of years had been necessary to accomplish what had been done, and asked for the full co-operation of individual retailers with these hard working committees in their efforts to better conditions for the dealer.

W. H. Falconbury, San Joaquin Lumber Co., Stockton; J. U. Gartin, Stanislaus Lumber Co., Modesto, and Warren S. Tillson; .Modesto Lumber Co., took part in the discussion arising from the various talks.

Members and guests present were: W. H. Falconbury, San Joaquin Lumber Co., Stockton; F. Dean Prescott, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno; J. U. Gartin, Stanislaus Lumber Co., Modesto; R. L. Ustick, Stanislaus Lumber Co., Modesto; R. F. Wells, Turlock; Warren S. Tillson, The Modesto Lumber Co., Modesto; Paul E. Overend, The California Retail Lumbermen's Association, San Francisco; O. D. Ruse, Ruse-Blair Lumber Co., Stockton; H. M. Isenhower, Holmes-Eureka Lumber Co., Sacramento; A. R. Martin, Hales & Symons, Sonora; F. C. Heggie, The Diamond Match Co., Oakdale; Chas. C. Moorehead and A. J. Field, Moorehead l-umber Co., Escalon; A. A. Kelley, Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco; W. M. Casey, Redwood Manufacturers Co., Pittsburg; Earl E. Johnson, Independent Lumber Co., Livermore; George A. Good, Good Lumber Co., Tracy; Chas. G. Bird, Stockton Lumber Co., Stockton; H. A. Lake, Garden Grove Lumber Co., Garden Grove; E. T. Robie, Auburn Lumber Co., Auburn;.L. H. Elliot, Valley Lumber Co., Lodi; C. U. Utterback, Millwork Institute, Stockton, and W. T. Black, "The California Lumber Merchant." San Francisco.

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Annual Convention, Cdifornia Retail Lumbennen's Association

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SATURDAY MORNTNG, NOVEMBER gTH, 1929

REPORT BY PRESIDENT.

REPORT BY FIELD MANAGER.

REPORT OF TELLERS' COMMITTEE..I , SATURDAY NOON, NOVEMBER gTH, 1929

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FRTDAv AFrER-NooN AND^EvENrNc, NoVEMBER 8rH, CONVENTIONLocal Associations. Credit. tezv I-egislation, Cement, Roofing, Hardwood Floor- l:45 P.M.-THEATER pARTy FOR LADIES. ing, etc.

/The Pacific Lumber Co.

r/ Jnlarge Kiln Facilities

The Pacific Lumber Company, Scotia, California, is building a new battery of reversible cross circulation kilns at their Mill "A" to satisfy the increasing demand for kiln dried Redwood lumber. This will makJa second battery of kilns to be installed as they now have twenty in opera- tion at Mill "8".

In kiln drying their lumber the Pacific Lumber Company use a maxtmum temperature of 150o, which enables them to dry their stock with a minimum of degrade due to col- lapseandsplit.- :.' ' :

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W. E. Cooper Lumber Co. Report Strange Coincident

The W..E..Cooper Lumber Co. of Los Angeles report a strange coincident in that the same car, C. & NW. 104980, has arrived at their yard twice during the present year.

On January 14, 1929, the Wisconsin-Land & Lumber Co., Hermansville, Mich., shipped the car, C. & NW. 104980, and was unloaded on January 28, l9D. On September 18, 19D, the same company billed them the same car which was unloaded at their yard on September 28.

The new kilns will be of Moore's reversible cross circu- 1...t]9llyp.. IhI"S of them will have a holding capacity of 140,000 feet of l-inch lumber each and trvo if tfrem i'iil

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140,(XJ0 of each and trvo of them ivill hav,e a holding capacity of 70,000 feet of l-inch lumber each. The PicifiC Lumber, Company will staLk twelve crane units on each truck load. These-kiln truck loads rvill be built up using unit packages, which will be stacked on the loa_ds at the green end by means of a monorail car, and unstacked at the dry end by crane 130 feet long which also serves the unstacker, dry chain and dry sorting chain.

Another important feaiure of these new kilns-is that each room will be equipped with dual dry bulb automatic temperature control.

The kiln buildings will be of all concrete construction 19d the kilns are expected to be ready for operation by the 15th of January, 1930.

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_, In both instances, the car was rbuted via C. & NW. and Uhion Pacific and was loaded with IXL maple floorins. Secretary Roy E. James of the W. E. Cooper Lumber C6. states "this is something we do not think will happen again in many moons, as this car must have traveled minv t[ou- sands of miles during the intervening eight montlis."

B. E. BRYAN BACK FROM EAST

B. E. Bryan, general manager of the Strable Hardwoo<l Company, Oakland, returned on October 23 from a business trip to the Eastern states, tvhich occupied about three weeks.

While in the East Mr. Bryan visited the plant of the pptol Co. at I akeport, N. Y., and a numbir of Maple Flooring mills in Northern Michigan. He also attended a meltjng of the Maple Flooring Manufacturers' Association at Chicago.- an_d visited Shrevlport, La., on his way back to the Pacific Coast.

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Northern Counties and Sacramento Valley Clubs Meet

Meetings of the recently organized Northern Counties Lumbermen's Club and the Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club were held at the Hotel Senator. Sacrarnento, on Saturday, October 19.

Northern Counties Club Meeting

The Northern Counties Club held an execirtive meeting at 10 a.m., at which the following officers were elected: President, E. T. Robie, Auburn Lumber Co., Auburn; vice-president, I. E. Brink, The Diamond Match Co., Chico; Secretary, C. D. LeMaster, Sacramento; Treasurer, James Tully, General Supply Co., Fair Oaks.

The executive committee consists of the president. vicepresident and treasurer and the following members: Rayqond Spencer, Spencer Lumber Co., Walnut Creek; J. B. Hazelton, Ifazelton Lumber Co., Orland; Isador Cheim, Union Lumber Co., Marysville; E. S. McBride, Davis Lumber Co., Davis; Noah Adams, Noah Adams Lumber Co., Oakland, and Frank Duttle, Sterling Lumber Co., Oakland.

At the members' meeting of tl-re club held after the'adjournment of the Sacramento Valley Club, there was much discussion of routine business. President Rob:e presided.

The following chairmen of committees were appointed and instructed to appoint on their committees a member from each district: Legislative. A. E. Courtney, Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento; Roofing, E. T. Robie; Doors and Windows, Noah Adams; Ifardwood Flooring. F. G. Duttle; Millwork, E. S. McBride; Brick and Tile, T. F. Holmes; Inter-Club Relations, Ira E. Brink; ResearcL, Jas. Tully; Membership, C. D. LeN[aster; Conciliation, E. T. Robie.

Sacramento Valley Club Meeting

President Ira E. Brink presided, and in his opening remarks referred to the clult's last meeting on the campus of the University Farm at Davis. which he saicl was in effect a short university course for lumbermen, and expressed the hope that this was the forerunner of a lnore comprehensive short course later on. The president also referied to the coming convention of the State Association at San Francisco on November 7,8, and 9, and urged all members to attend.

E. S. McBRIDE FLIES TO GAME

E. S. McBride, of the Davis Lumber Co., Davis, made a fast trip to San Jose Octob er 12 to see the football game between California Aggies and San Jose State Teachers' College. The trip to Oakland rvas made in a Boeing air mail plane which made a special trip to Davis on that day, and the journey from Okland to San Jose was made in the regular mail plane. Mr. McBride likes to travel that way and is quite sold on the advantages of air transportation.

After a short busin€ss session short talks were given by Victor De Marais, Yosemite Portland Cement Co., Sacramento; A. N. Lofgren, MacDonald & Harrington, San Francisco; R. M. Beede, Antioch Lumber Co., Antioch; E. T. Robie, Auburn; Joe H. Shepard, Sacramento, and Robert R. Leishman, Redwood Manufacturers Co., Pittsburg.

Raymond Spencer, Spencer Lumber Co., Walnut Creek, gave a snappy five rninute talk on modern merchandising.

L. B. Baisden, assistant superintendent of public schools, Sacramento, addressed the meeting on the subject of "What Is The Object of Education", and also gave an interesting account of his work in connection with establishing a model school system in the city of Longview, Wash.

Harry S. Stronach, of the Stronach Nail Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., inventor of the famous Stronach Non-Splitting Nail, and himself a lumberman, was the next speaker. Mr. Stronach stressed the imDortance of the retail dealer "keeping up with the parade", by handling every line necessary to make his place an up-to-date building material store, ancl making the point that it is logical that nails and other builders' hardware should be sold through the retail lumberman. He stated that the Stronach Nail is being distributed and sold entirely through lumbermen all over the country.

Members and guests present at the luncheon in addition to those already mentioned rvere: J. P. Brewer, Redwood Manufacturers Co., Pittsburgh; Homer Derr, J. M. Derr I-umber Co., Elk Grove; H. M. Isenhower, Holmes-Eureka I-umber Co., Sacramento; W. B. Dearborn, Loomis Lumber Co., Loomis; A. NL Larsen ancl J. P. Sullivan, Sullivan-Lars;en I-umber Co., Rio Vista; Newton E. Isaac, Corrring Lumber Co.. CorninC; O. I{. Miller, Knox Lumber Co., Sacramento; 1\I. 1\{. Daul>in, Sterling Lumber Co., Roseville; I\{. E. Coulter, Henry Cor,vell l.ime & Cement Co., Sacraurento; Harry Terrell, Hill & Morton, Inc,, Sacramento; D. J. Drummond. Henry Cowell Lime & Cement Co.. San liranci-qco; S. J. Hague, Lumbermen's Credit Bureau, Sacramento: Walter N. Baker, Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento, and W. T. Black, "The California Lumber NIerchant". San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO HAS MANY TALL BUILDINGS

San Francisco has 105 buildings of 10 to 20 stories, 19 of which are from 15 to 20 stories, and there are eight other buildings 21 stories or more in height, according to Charles W. Smith, executive secretary of the Building Owners' and l\fanagers' Association, who recently sent this information to the Literary Digest and other Eastern magazines which printed a story giving the number of San Francisco's buildings 10 stories or more in height as only 53.

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Austin L. Black, formerly advertising manager of the California White & Sugar Pine Manufacturers' Association, San Francisco, has been appointed advertising manager of the General Paint Corporation, San Francisco, a consolidation of nine successful paint manufacturing companies, which includes the following California concerns: HillHubbell & Co., and Magner Bros. Paint Co., San Francisco; California Paint Co., Oakland; Brininstool Paint Co., Technical Oil & Paint Co,, and the Bradley-Wise Paint Co., Los Angeles.

Nils J. Blagen

Nils J. Blagen, prominent Northwest lumberman, builder and contractor, died in Portland on October 16, after an illness of several months.

Mr. Blagen was born in Dehmark in 185O, and came to the United States in 1870. After engaging in the building and contracting business for many years he purchase4 a controlling interest in the Grays Harbor Lurnber Co., Hoquiam, in 1905, and later took over the Davies-Johnson Lumber Co. at Calpine, California.

Retiring from business about ten years ago, Mr. Blagen remained-president of the two lumber companiet, -yh!g!t are operated by his three sons, Clarence G. and H. W. Blagen, manager and sales manag'€r, respectively, of .the Hoquiam mill, and F. N.'Blagen, in charge-of operations at Calpine. Three daughters also survive, Mrs. Florence Staigei, Portland; Mrs. Emma Blackburn,. Bullin-game, Calii. and Mrs. Celeste Westenhaver, Riverside, Calif.

Installs Additional Dry Kilns

The Western Plywoods Company, Martinez, California, are making considerable improvements in connection with their Redwood plywood operation. The increased demand for high grade Ridwood panels has made it necessary for them to install additional veneer drying capacity, also woodworking machinery. Two Moore's Cross Circulation Veneer KilnJ are now being constructed' These driers are difierent from the usual type of veneer drier in that they employ relatively low temperatures.and fast air circulation for'drvine the veneer. The wide sheets of veneer will be stacked oi iacklift sleds and by employing special stacking system wide sheets of veneer can be dried uniformly without checking and sPlitting.

The marklets for-Redwood panels are being extended to many foreign countries where Redwood is used for interior trim.

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Supply-Hammond lumber is manufactured from the select timber stands of the West Douglas Fir by our Mill City and Garibaldi mills in Oregon; Redwood by our Samoa mill in Humboldt County, Northern California. These mills have a combined daily capacity of over one million feet and a distinction for modern methods of manufacture.

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Large StocksAnd back of these features are the Hammond lumber-stock facilities that provide an immediate source of supply for the retail dealer. The Hammond distributing yard at Terminal Island carries a stock at all times of approximately 60 million feet of lumber in all grades and sizes . that is real insurance for the hurry-up order.

San Joaquin Valley

Lumbermen's Club

A general discussion on the subject of trade conditions in the Valley was the principal feature of the meeting of the San Joaquin Valley Lumbermen's Club, held at the Hotel Californian, Fresno, on Saturday, October 5. It seemed to be the opinion of the majority that conditions are somewhat improved.

James Clifford, the new manager of the Sugar Pine Lumber Company, Pinedale, was unanimously elected to membership in the club.

A motion was passed to the effect that all members of the club attending the annual convention of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, to be held in San Francisco, November 7,8 and 9, will be allowed the sum of $15 toward defraying the expenses of the trip.

F. Dean Prescott, president of the club, presided.

The list of members and guests who attended is as follows:

James Clifiord, Sugar Pine Lumber Co.

Erwin Frane, Frane & Son

Walter Hardwick, Dinuba

W. R. Spalding, W. R. Spalding Lumber

L. L. Walker, Valley Lumber Co.

M. C. R. Nelson, Valley Lumber Co.

J. A. Triscuit, Pacific Portland Cement Co.

O. H. Carter, Fresno Lumber Co,

R. O. Deacon, R. O. Deacon Lumber Co.

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Geo, Kennedy, Mountain Pine Sales Agency

W. K. Kendrick, Valley Lumber Co. ....-...-........ --.Fresno

Dan C. Desmond, Mountain Pine Sales Agency ..........-.-.....-...Fresno

Earl E. White, Little River Redwood Lumber Co. -.....-.-.-..--.Madera

C, L. Burnett, Burnett-Carr Lumber Co. -....-..-.----------------..----..--Exeter

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Ralph Duncan, Merced Lumber Co.

Walter Mink, Cross Lumber Co,

F. Dean Prescott, Valley Lumber Co.

Frarik F. Minard. C. S. Pierce Lumber Co.

Chas. Schafier, Citizens Lumber Co.

J. F. Wrisht, Brey-Wright Lumber Co. ---.......----.....----..-....Porterville

A. P. Wedel, Western Lumber Co. --.-......-..-..- .....Reedley

P. G. Galle, Western Lumber Co; .--..-.--..-.--.- ......Reedley

T. J. Bone, Valley Lumber Co. ..Fresno

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Memorandum on Japanese Lumber Tariff

By V. B. Greley, Secreary-Manager, Association.

It is well established by authentic reports that the recent Japanese lumber tariff is designed to discriminate a-gainst lumber imports from the United States in favor of competing woods impo4ted from the Russian Maritime Province. - This has been accomplished by a schedule of duties b4sed upon botanical species. The duties are very low on woods of the genus Abies (true firs or balsams), the genus Picea (spruce), the genus Pinus (all pines)' and the genus Larix (larches and tamaracks). On the other hand, the tariff schedules run very much heavier on woods of "other" botanical genera, including Douglas fir, hemlock and red and white cedar. In effect, therefore, there is a very heavy discrimination against the woods comprising the great bulk of the exports to Japan from the West Coast.

During the last five years, lumber and logs from the Russian Maritime Province has been imported into Japan in increasing quantities. In 1928 these imports reached a total of approximately 2lL million board feet, of which Kedar represented 75 per cent. This timber is cut intcr flitches, baby squares, boards and panels, and competes directly with Douglas fir, hemlock and the cedars from the West Coast of North America.

Available information indicates that 54 per cent of the Russian Maritime Province contains merchantable timber, to a total estimated at 1680 billion board feet. This includes 246 billion feet of Kedar, 741 billion feet of Yezo pine, Zffi billion feet of larch, and 433 billion feet of oak and walnut.

It is also authentically established that large Japanese commercial interests have secured very extensive concessions in the most favorable locations of the Russian Maritime Province for cutting and exporting timber; and that extensive plans are under way for greatly increasing the importation of these woods into Japan.

fn connection with the securing of these concessions, the plans under way for their development, and the adoption of the recent tariff,' it is noteworthy that a folder bearing the title "This Is the Kedar Ag"," was printed by Japanese lumber interests and distributed late in 1928 to the lumber dealers in Japan. This is a trade promotion publication, obviously designed to extend the use of Kedar ls a substitute for American lumber. For example, one of the subtitles in the leaflet is "From American Lumber to Kedar from the Mariti.me Province". The text under this sub-title asserts that Japan can obtain lumber from the West Coast of North America only for a few years before the supply will be exhausted. A iecond sub-tiile runs. "The Mari'time Province Kedar is the only Substitute for American Lumber"._ Th-e following text claims superior qualities for the woods of the Russian Maritime Province and develoos the large {uantities available. It asserts that Kedar cin be sup^plied at the rate of 600 million feet per year.

Other--paragraphs set forth the supeiioriiy of Kedar for pra_ctically all wood con-struction pu its cheapness I/rduLrcarry arr wooq purposes, tts and. a.iailability. The final paragraph is' headed ',,Use Kedar."

Kedar, being a wobd of the pine g'enus, has preferential duties under the new tariff; and the same is true of all the other woods comprising the vast forests of the Russian Maritime Province.

It is thus very evident that the,West Qoast lumber industry is up against a strongly organized plan, with powerful commercial interests behind it, to permanently destroy, or greatly reduce, American lumber and timber exports to Japan by substituting Asiatic woods; and that this program has been given tremendous impetus through the discrimination in the tariff schedules lately adopted by the Japanese government. That this plan will be successful is indicated by recent trade reports. During the first six months of L928, Kedar imports into Japan amounted to 11,847,000 board feet. During the first six months of l9D they amounted to 3OO59,000 board feet. The forecast for all of 19D, considering the usually heavy imports in the later part of the season, is l8O million board feet of Kedar.

This whole question has been recently discussed with men thoroughly informed both as to the situation in Japan and as to the attitude of the United States government. Diplomatic efforts have recently been renewed with the government of Japan for removing the discriminatory features of the present lumber tariff, on the ground that the present set-up by levying schedules on the basis of botanical species rather than commercial use is in fact discriminatory against the lumber products of the United States.

Paragraph 317 of. the present Tariff Act of the United States (Act of 1922) aathorizes the President, acting upon the recommendations and advice of the Tariff Commission. to deal with such situations. In efiect, it gives the President power to impose retaliatory duties on the products of foreign countries whose own tariffs discriminate against products of the United States.

Whether or not the State Department may be disposed, on its own initiative, to recommend action under thii section of the tariff law, in the event that diplomatic negotiations fail to remove the discriminatory features of the j^p^nese tariff, it is my belief that the West Coast lumber industry should actively assert its interest in this matter.

Resolution on Japanese Lumber Tariff Adopted at Tacoma, Washington, October 18, l92g

WHEREAS the tariff recently adopted by the Japanese government discriminates against lumber imports from the United States in favor of competing woods from the Russian Maritime Province by imposing' much heavier duties upon woods of the botanical species chiefly manufactured on the Pacific Coast than upon woods of the species produced in Maritime Russia: and

WHEREAS it appears beyond doubt that such discrimination in duties is designed to largelv promote the importa- tion into Japan of lumber manr-rfattured in the Russian

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West Coast Lumbermen's

OF QUALITY

THE MILLWORK INSTI. TUTE OF CALIFORNIA HAS PLACED ITS ENDORSE. MENT UPON THE QUATITY OF OUR PRODUCTS AFTER COMPLETE INVESTIGATIOI.I, AND AUTHORTZED THE USE OF THIS MARK ON OUR PRODUCTS.

There IS a difference You knon'-

CHICAGO LUr[BEB COUPANT

OF WASHINGTON

OAK FLOORING like this has beautiful texture

The texture and pattern of "Perfection" Brand Oak fooring make poesible a finish that is seldom found on any other fooring. You can depend upon "Perfection". In modern plants operated by skilled lumbermen, only the finest oak is gelected. After prompt seasoning and kiln-drying, it is perfectly milled and matched so that it lays emooth and stays smooth. It is graded and handled so carefully that upon arrival anywhere, it is always in perfect condition. l,eading lumber dealers gladly feature this nationally advertised brand.

ARKANSAS OAK,FLOORING CO. PINE BLUFF, ARI(ANSAII Brand

Oak Flooring

Brud Oak Floring, Blocka ud Planks, my be obtained chemically tmted by the *CELLizing prees.

Tkere's a cize a*il grad,e for evxy type of structure, nm or old, Ash gour architect or b*ikling cofltractor lor an estiilate.

PIONEER ROCI

Combining The Beauty and Pro

A wonderful roofing value for the home owner...these tapered, thick-butted Pioneer Roc-Wood Shingles, mad e permanently beautiful and weather-proof with asphalt and non-fading crushed rock.

That's why they'll become one of the fastest selling items lumber dealers have ever handled...they sell with little or no effort...they repeat...and each month the demand increases!

Stock Pioneer Roc-Wood Shin$les...then you're all set for some easy sales with a nice marAin for you. Samples and full details await you at the nearest Pioneer branch office.

ooD SHINGLES

n of Rock and Asphalt On Wood!

PIONEER ROC.WOOD

SHINGLES are l8-inch strictly "cleat" wood shingles, coated with asphalt and surfaced with non-fading crushed rock. They come in random widths, tapered and more than t/z inch thick at the butts. Approximate weight 275 lbs. per square. Colors: Red, Green, Blue - Black, Golden Brown, Tile R ed and varie$ated blends.

gg8$WlisSg!fliirgli;H!:i:ill3, bctwecn the buttr of 12 and 12 ordinary wood rhiuglcl photo.

Hoo Hoo Supreme Nine ,Meet at Chicago

' Goines D. Whitsitt

The Supreme Nine, at a meeting at the Palmer House, Chicago, October 20 and 2l,laid out a proglam that Pr-qm- ir.. to- make 1929-30 an epochal year in the history of Hoo Hoo.

The employment of field men to help Hoo Hoo Clubs and local eroubs bf th. Order in carrying out constructive pro*t"-"] intinsification of forestry and wood promotional acai.riti.., extension of the Order's support to the other lumber associations and the establishment of a quota of 2000 new members this year, were high lights of the -meeting-.-

Snark of the lJniverse Gaines D' Whitsitt of Amarillo, Texas, presided. The other members were: Adelard Beaudette,'Ifrontreal, Senior Hoo Hoo; Franklin A. Hofheins, Nortir Tonawanda, N. Y., Junior Hoo Hoo; William G. Smith, Akron, Ohio, Bojum; Benjamin F. Sprin-g-er, Milwaukee, Scrivenoter; Thomas G. Spaulding, Missoula, Mont., Jabberwock; Norman p. -B-guc!r-er, 1\{inneapolis, Custocafian; J. Watts Martin, Norfolk, Va., Gurdon; and Secretary-Treisurer Henry R. Isherwood. A. A. Frost, San Diego, Calif., Supreme Arcanope_r, was. unable to attend. Adootion of policies for the Order in the ensuing year was the outstaniding action of the meeting. These policies are as follows:

Unity of the Lurnber IndustrY

l.-To encourage the closer unification of the lumber industry by furnishing the opportunity for the various branches and groups to work together along a definite line for the common welfare of the industry and its products.

Wood Promotion Program

2.---To infensify the activities of the local Hoo Hoo groups in support of the lumber industry's program for promoting the increased use of wood and defending forest products against unfair attacks and discriminatory legislation'

Field Men

3.-To employ capable field men whose work will be to

'advise and assist in the promotion of constructive local Hoo Hoo activities, through the medium of frequent personal contact with local officers of the Order and members of all branches of the industry.

Hoo Hoo Club Activities

4.-To encourage and assist existing Hoo Hoo Clubs to carry out constructive programs, and to create additional clubs for similar activities.

Supporting Association Activities

S.*More actively to co-operate with all associations of the lumber industry in furthering their respective programs, and to impress on all lumbermen the importance of loyally supporting the associations.

Friends of the Forests

6.-To work out, in co-operation with the United States and Canadian forest services and other interested groups, a plan for the establishment of "Friends of the Forests Week," an annual occasion for disseminating constructive information to the public concerning the forest and its vital service to the human family.

To Encourage Support for Hoo Hoo

7.---To demonstrate to the lumberman at every opportunity the fact that the program of Hoo lloo concerns the welfare and perpetuation of the industry from which he derives his livelihood, and that the order therefore merits his active support.

Increasing Membership

8.-To intensify and to co-ordinate more closely the work of all officers of Hoo Hoo, with the object of adding 2000 new members to the order before September 9, 1930, each of the nine international jurisdictions and each local district of the United States and Canada to be assigned a definite ouota.

(Continued on Page 37)

Memorandum on Japanese Lumber Tariff

(Continued from Page 24)

I\{aritime Province by Japanese interest which have acquired concessions therein; and

WHEREAS the effect of the recent tariff has alreadv materially reduced the exports of timber and lumber from the Pacific Coast to Japan; and

WHEREAS the Japanese trade represents one of the most_important export markets for logs and lumber produced from the Pacific Coast;

NOW THEREFORE be it resolved by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association and the Pacihc Coast loggers and lumber manufacturers co-operating therewith that we earnestly request the State Department of the United States Government:

First, that it exert its utmost efforts through diplomatic channels to secure removal of the discriminalbry features of the Japanese tariff against American woods i and

Second, in the event of failure to secure the removal of the discriminatory features of the tariff by diplomatic negotations, that it recommend to the United States Tarifi Commission that this question be investigated under the sections of the present tariff law of the Uniled States which authorize changes or adjustments in existing tariff schedules on products originating in countries whose own tarifis discriminate against the products of the United States, with a view of determining and recommending such changes as should be made in tariffs applying to imports from japan, by .reason of the discrimination in the Japanese - tlriff against lumber imports from the United States.

Japanese Lumber Tariff Passed by the Japanese Diet

March 23, 1929

The duty in this tariff is as follows: (Duty in Dollars per MBM (thousand board feet) exchange at par value)

Douglas Fir and Other Manufactured Lumber-

RE-ROOFING SALES AREAT THEIR PEAKI

No*. Right r"o*l is the tirne ro get after re-roofing business. The first rains have "l*"ys sho*r. ,rp l."Ls fot ho-e o'"ners . "rrd "W'ear.t-I{"oty Shirrglee are the chingles ro help yo, "los. tbe greatest number of s"l.s. It di"idu"l patterns *hi"h l"rrd the-selves to "t y styl. of "t.hitecture Pef-

rnanently beautiful .olors that defy time and weather. and a poli"y d."l"t of honest and straightfo"*aoJ support "ll help to overco-e s"l"s resistance. Befier "he"k your stocks anJ get your otd.ts in as ."tly ae possible.

P. C. McNEVIN IN LOS ANGELES

P. C. "Pete" McNevin and C. L. Reynolds of the Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco,'were in Los Angeles the latter part of the month conferring with the company's Southern California representative, A. L. n'Gus" lloover.

WEAVER-HENRY CORPORATION

3275 East Slauson Ave. Los Angeles,

Sun Lumber Company at Ventura Holds Open House

The office of the Sun Lumber Company, Ventura, California, is no longer simply the part of the yard where the carpenter goes to place his order for a 2x4 or 1x12, but is nolv a building material store where the housewife of today can go and see just how any item she would want for her new home will look after it is installed.

The office is a decided departure from "the old days," having on display a most modern and complete line of built-ln kitchen cabinets, breakfast room furniture, china cabinets, bookcases, dressing tables, ironing boards, medicine cabinets, bathroom cabinets, lawn furniture, trellis work and many other items of interest to the housewife, all in the latest modern designs and decorated in pleasing colors.

Approximately 1500 announcements were sent out to the ladies of Ventura and the surrounding territory and also to the contractors, sub-contractors, architects, builders and capenters in the district, stating that October L7,l9D, was to be official "open house day" and extending to them an invitation to visit the yard on that day or any other convenient date.

Mrs. A. L. Wyman, culinary writer and cooking school teacher of the Los Angeles Times, acted as hostess and made a talk on topics which were of great interest to every

LODI LUMBERMAN IN HUNTING ACCIDENT

George L. Meissner, well-known lumberman of Lodi, may loie the sight of his right eye as a result of a hunting accident on October 15, when he was struck by a cha'rge of shot on a gaine preserve near Terminous, of which he is part owner.

housewife. The company presented the ladies who attended with many useful household articles.

Producis of the following companies are included in the display: H. \r. Cowan, Inc., Pacific Door & Sash Company, Califoinia Door Company, Paraffine Companies, Inc., Murphy In a Door Bed Company, Los Angeles Brick Comirany, U. S. Gypsum Comfany'and the P1cific Clay Products Company. One of the display rooms is almost entirely filled with products of the millwork department of the Sun Lumber Company.

L. R. Byers, mairaglr of the yard, was on hand to receive the ladies, 600 in number, who-visited the office during the day and to explain to them the various details of the display. He was assisted by E. L. Vehlow, assistant manag€r in<i in charge of sales; ii. L. Clark, ofiice manas_gr; R. L. Watt, in chirge of credits and collections I F. A. Hootman, shipping clerk and in charge of the hardware and paint dtpariinent; Freeman Campbell, yard superintendent, H-. B. -Henderson, in charge of the cabinet department, and J. E. Cain, mill superintendent.

In addition-to the yard at Ventura, the Sun Lumber Company operates a yard at Oxnard, California, qnder th-e-direciion of E. L. Watt and one at Beverlv Hills, California. Frank Burnaby, president of the company, makes his headquarters at the Beverly Hills yard.

WM. G. MUGAN IN NORTHWEST

William G. Mugan, secretary of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co.. San Francisco, is in the Northwest on a vacation trip. Mr. Mugan traveled by way of -the Redwood Highway, looking i.tet the company's mill and new logging railroad on his way north.

Our Sign-ic Highways

In a speeding auto

Upon an autumn day, I rode in ease and comfort

Along the King's highway. Voiceless bells to point me

Where the padres trod, When the trails tvere narrolv. Talking with their God.

Shrines where once they lingered

One no longer sees, Gone the fields of poppies, Gone the towerin! trees.

Vanished are the landmarks, Lost the 'dobe wall

Where the chili peppers

Reddened in the fall.

But our sign-ic highways Are ablaze with light, And our glaring billboards

Glitter thru the night. They tell us where to loiter, What to eat and drink; One who reads their legends Does not have to think.

Here you buy a "Hot Dog'," Here a "Lemonade."

There you'll find a;'sandwich"

Such as mother made. Never mind the landscape

IAs you hurry by; A thousand thousand billboards Will tell you what and why.

-Adeline M. Conner.

Bob Leishman Returns From South American Trip

Robert R. Leishman, manager of the millwork depart- ment of the Redwood Manufacturers Co., pittsb,rrg ,e_ turned on October 8 from a two months, vacation trio" during- which he visited points in Central America, p;;;, and S_o_uth America, and on the way home visited'Cuba and New York.

Mr. Leishman says that business in South America seemed to him to be_just as highly competitive as i" tt;. country, and he found most tradis ire now organized there, even the lumber trade, and that to a South Arierican " *.rrj tleman-'s agreeme_nt is j'1.1 as binding as a signed .onti".t, with the result that trade associatiois *ort -o"t

for all concerned.

.In one of the South American countries Mr. Leishman discovered when asking questions about their li";- i;;;, that while a man can't 6e put out of a house on account of an unpaid lien, there is no law-against taking th;h;;; down around him and selling the-materiat to'saiisfr-ihe

lsry lien.

.H. P. DUT?ON VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

ANNOUNCEIUENT:

the

Lumbermen's Reciprocal .Association

have madb nrrang:emente with a financial concern rc that anyonc can purchare

AUT(Iil(}BITI ilSURAI{CI on t{re

TI()I{THIY BUDGIT PTAN

We believe this arrangement will be of considerable benefit to many of your employees because now no one owning an automobile needs to drive without being fully protected by insurance.

L. R. A. HAS NEVER PAID LESS THAtl2Wo DIVIDENDS TO THEIR AUTOMOBIIE POHCY.HOLDERS

Phone-wire-of write our Nceret Office--

Lumbermen's Reciprocal

Association

Geo. R. Chrhtie, Gen. Mgr. HOUSTON, TEXAtt

H. man,

P. Dutton, well known portland wholesale lumber_ was a visitor to San Francisco on October 16.

E. J. BROCKMAN, PeciGc Coart Managor 425 {Jndcrwood Bldg. San Fraacirco, Californir Phoae Douglar 66&l

R. E. WALKER, Dirtrict Mariagcr 334 H. W. Hcllmaa Bldg. Lor Angclcr, Crliforaie Phonc, FAbcr 3123

J. G. Brennen

Rules for Builders in the Use of Insulation Board

By J. G. Brennen, Manager, Insulation Sdes, E. K. Vood Lumber Co., Los Angeles.

Ultimate success in the use of any product depends on how closely rules pertaining to its usage are followed. Indi'r'iduals or groupl of individuals who invent -or perfect a new product-or plocess learn through years of experimentation what can be done and what cannot be done with the product of their efforts. '

When a new product'is putron the marketl a set of rules formulated by its inventors or sponsors accompanies it. To follow thele rules generally means that the product will do what is claimed for it. To depart from the rules and apply those that may have been successful in the use of some other product, intended for a similar purpose, generally meanJ failure to get the maximum benefit from the product. I

While insulating board is not a new i,nvention, it is a comparatively recent one. Its inventors, and pioneers in the use of it, have learned by experience the best ways of using it. A resum6 of their discoveries are given here as a guide to others so that complaints that have come from those who have not followed the rules may be eradicated.

The first rule to be followed in the use of insulating board is to nail the panels lengthwise of studs, not crosswise. The panels should be centered on the studs and nailed as directed in instructions for use accompanying orders.

Panels should not be forced into place. Enough space should be left for expansion.

Studs should be true and properly spaced, and should be of dry stock. If green'stock is used it will warp and pull away from the panels. The studs and joists should be 16 inch centered. not 24 inch centered.

GEORGE BURNETT TO VISIT EAST

Insulating boards are shipped from the mill bone dry. They are s[acked in piles in the same condition in which they emerge from the kiln and it takes considerable time for the panels to adjust themselves and take on the prevalent air moisture content.

In,rmany instances where complaints were received that the panels buckled between the studs, it has been found that new stock had been immediately nailed and exposed in bottr sides and had taken up the moisture conteirt very quickly and naturally this caused expansion.

It aso has been found that where new stock was used as a plaster base, that the rapid absorption of moisture from the plaster caused a violent expansion of the boards.

Of course, the dealer cannot carry in stock such materials until it has absorbed the prevalent moisture content, nor can the manufacturer anticipate what conditions will be in any certain territory and adjgst the moisture content of the boards to meet such a situation.

So it has been found good practice to wet down insulating b.oards just as kiln dried lath and shingles are wet down in lumber yards. This should be done twenty-four to thirtv-six hours before the boards are to be used and it will be found that the boards will expand to the maximum and when nailed in place will slowly contract. When used as a plaster base the boards will not contract until the plaster has set and then the slight readjustment will be taken care of by the resiliency of the board and with no danger of cracking the plaster.

Those who have followed the foregoing suggestions have met with universal success in the use of insulating boards and insulating lath.

George C. Burnett, of the Burnett Lumber Co., Tulare, will leave November 4 to visit Detroit, Mich., going by way of New Orleans.

C. C. STIBICH BACK AT DESK

C. C. Stibich, of the Pickering Lumber Company, San Francisco, returned to work on October 24 after a week's absence due to a minor operation.

xAs

Next to California itself, Texas is the greatest potential consumer of Western Lumber Products.

With a population over 5,000,000, a mighty domain that constantly develops in lumber consumption with its local lumber production decreasing at a rate as rapid as its Gonsumption increases, the Texas territory extends its hands westward and asks for ttmore lumber.tt

Are you getturg your share?

The GULF COAST

TUMBERMAN

HOUSTON, TEXAS

JACK DIONNE, PUBUSHER

MY FAVORITE STORIES

By Jack Dionne

Age not guaranteed-Some I have told fot 2O years-Some less Caught Him

Reading His Personal Correspondence

They brought the burly colored brother into the judge's office together with the operator in the locd telegraph station, the latter nursing a big black eye.

The negro was arraigned for assault and battery.

"\ll/hy did you strike the telegraph operator?" asked the judge.

"You'd hit him too ef'n you wuz me," replied Mose, swelling with righteous indignation.

BIG PHILIPPINE ORDER

George C. Cornitius of the George C. Cornitius Hardwood do., Inc., San Francisco, returned recently Jrom- a business irip to Los Angeles. While in. Los Angeles Mr' Cornitius soid 350,000 feet of Philippine in one shipment to a single buyer.

"Explain yourself," said the judge. "This man says that you attacked him savagely without even speaking a word to show what you were mad about."

"Why, Judge," said the colored one. "Ah wouldn't let nobuddy do whut he done to me. Ah writes a pussonel telegram to mah sweetie; an' Ah goes in an' hands it ter dis man, and when he ups an' stahts readin' mah private wiah, Ah jest hauls off an' cracks him."

HUGH HANDLEY USES AIR ROUTE

Hugh Handley, of Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Fra4ctisco, pro'uid himself an air-minded lumberman when he flew fiom San Francisco to Portland, October 16 in a West Coast Air Transport tri-motored Fokker plane' He returned to San Francisco October 21.

ASH APITONG

BALSA

BEECH

BrRcH fti:s

BASSVOOD

WHITE CEDAR

YELLOV CEDAR

RED (reme.*) CEDAR

SPANISH CEDAR

CHERRY

RED GUM

HICKORY

IRONBARK

JENTZERO

JUANA COSTA

LIGNUM VITAE

MAHOGANY

MAPLE

MAGNOLIA

QU. oAK. :irj:S

PL. oAK srj:Xi

OAK TIMBERS

OAK (Bot stod<)

OAK DIMENSION

PH. MAHOGANY

SUGAR PINE

WHITE PINE

POPLAR

ROSEWOOD

SPRUCE

SYCAMORE

TEAK

BLACK VALNUT

.EVERYTHING IN HARDVOODS YOU'LL LIKE OUR SERVICE, TOO! ; -

Lumber Dealers Inspect Victorville Cement Plant

The members of the Orange Belt Lumbermen's Club, together with otlrer lumber dealers from various sections of Southern California, were the guests of the Southwestern Portland Cement Co. at their Victorville plant on Saturday, October 12.

During the afternoon the dealers made an inspection tour of the plant where the process of manufacturing cement was explained to them in detail. An excellent turkey dinner was served in one of the company's ware-rooms and during the dinner hour musical selections were rendered by a Los Angeles orchestra.

Following the dinner, Ilarvey Hall, president of the Orange Belt Lumbermen's Club, presided over the meeting. Addresses were made bv R. D. Mundell. Secretarv of the Orange Belt Lumbermen's Club; E. H. Case, Secretary of the Pomona Vallev Lumbermen's Club: Dee Esslev. Man- the Valley Club; Dee Essley, aser. California Retail Lumbermen's Association ag'er, California I Association; and L. V. Robinson, Superintendent of the Southwestern Portland Cement Co., Victorville plant. Ninety-five attended the meeting.

Code Prospectus Ready for Distribution

A complete prospectus on the Uniform, Building Code and the Pacific Coast Building Officials Conference, prepared by J. E. Mackie and A. C. Horner, former secretaries, is now being distributed by Conference headquarters. Copies have already been mailed to the Conference active and subscribing membership as well as to a number of other interested individuals. Professional and associate members are receiving copies with this issue of the "Bulletin."

Answering briefly a set of 21 questions commonly asked of the Conference, this prospectus is designed especially for the use of cities and persons interested in a general history of the Pacific Coast Building Ofticials Conference and the Uniform Building Code. The booklet gives a general idea of the contents of the Code and includes the list of cities which have adopted the Code, together with the names of several organizations having indorsed the document. Additional items given in an appendix include a list of organizations having participated in the development of the Unifrom Building Code, a suggested form of ordinance for adopting the Code, the text of the enabling act which legalizes adoption by reference in the state of California, and the Articles of Association of the Pacific Coast Building Officials Conference.

Copies of the prospectus may be obtained free of charge from Conference headquarters, 19 Pine Avenue, Long Beach. Calif.

Snark Wark Announces Nine

H. A. Wark, Building Material Arcade, San Diego, the new Vicegerent Snark of the San Diego district, announces the following members to serve on the Nine during the coming Hoo Hoo year: Senior Hoo Hoo, Jesse O. Bacon, Klicka Lumber Co.; Junior Hoo Hoo, Chas. D. McFarland, Dixie Lumber & Supply Co.; Bojum, Merle L. Baker, Miller-McDermott Hardwood Co.; Scrivenoter, R. M. Bowen, Herriman Lumber Co.; Jabberwock, John F. Lupton, Sullivan Hardwood Co.; Custocatian, C. L. Roberts, Benson Lumber Co.; Arcanoper, Cy E. Irving, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.; Gurdon, F. S. Mason, San Diego Lumber Co.

Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. Opens New Yard atPheonix

The Hayrvard I-umber & Investment Company formally opened its-new lumber yard and supply warehouse at Phoenix, Arizona, on Thursday, October 3.

The new plant includes 75,000 square feet of yard space, with an office building, a large warehouse, two rough lumber sheds, a finish shed, and several smaller structures. G. P. Brown, rvho will be assistant rnanager, and W. E.

W. B. Packman, formerly connected with the coppany's Los Angeles office, will be the manager of the Phoenix yard.

- In addition to its regular lumber and building material business, the company operates an investment service devoted to funding the construction of homes and buildings. The Hayrvard Lumber ct Investment Co.. norv operates

Moore, foreman, supervised construction of the plant.

The yard is arranged to permit quick loading. A private spur of the Santa Fe railway enters the yard and is paraltetea by a loading road rvhich permits trucks to load direct from the freight cars. Employment rvill be given approximatelv 15 men. in a<ldition to the olfice force.

Co. Yard. at Phoenir, Arieona.

four yards in Arizona: Phoenix, Yuma, Wellton ancl Somerton. In addition to the Arizona yards, the company also operates 20 yards in California. The main offices of the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. are at Los Angeles, California.

Iloyuortl Lumbar & Intestmot!

Hoo Hoo Supreme Nine Meet at Chicago

(Continued from Page 28)

A Defiqite Plan

9.-To present to each Hoo Hoo Club and to all of the local Hoo Hoo groups, a definite program of activities for the ensuing year, which, if carried out, lvill accomplish all o{ the objectives enumerated in the preceding eight points of this statement of policies f.or l9D-30.

The officers were unanimous in the opinion that the Friends of the Forests movement, originated by Hoo Hoo in 1924, should be carried on with renewed vigor. A committee, composed of Dr. Wilson Compton, secretary-manager, National Lumber Manufacturers' Association; Adelard Beaudette, Montreal, Supreme Senior Hoo Hoo, and Thomas G. Spaulding, Missoula, Montana, Supreme Jab- berwock and head of the forestry department of ttre tlniversity of Montana, was appointed to confer with the Public Relations departments of the United States and Canadian Forest Services on the question of establishing "Friends of the Forests Week," an annual observance for both countries.

The meeting developed not only the aforementioned policies, but also many constructive ideas for local activities. It was agreed that the real purpose of Hoo Hoo is not to initiate activities that concern the business oolicies of the lumber industry, but rather to furnish the iommon meeting ground on which all branches can meet in a friendly spirit and work out the major problems that apply to the whole industry.

Supporting the activities of all associations was one of the major topics. It was agreed that the order should reiterate its pledge to assist all lumber associations in the attainment of their objectives, and take advantage of every opportunity to render such assistance.

Toronto was selected as the scene of the Thirtv-ninth lloo Hoo Annual, to be held next September. Supreme Senior Hoo Hoo Beaudette won the convention for the Canadian city by virtue of a strong argument that supported his invitation extended at the Thirty-eighth Annual, at Amarillo.

Members of the Supreme Nine, Secretary:Treasurer H. R. Isherwood, Past Snarks of the lJniverse E. D. Tennant of Los Angeles, Alton J. Hager, Lansing, Mich., and Arthur A. Hood, Chicago, who were in the city on other business, were guests of the Chicago Hoo Hoo Club at a dinner at Medinah Temple, October 21.

The Chicago Hoo Hoo Club presented to Snark of the Universe Whitsitt, through its president, Hugh K: Taylor, a petition signed by several hundred members inviting the Order to establish headquarters of Hoo Hoo International in Chicago, and offering many attractive inducements for favorable action.

H. B. HEWES ON EASTERN TRIP

H. B. Hewes, president of the Clover Valley Lumber Co., and chairman of the board of the Pacific Spruce Corporation, will leave San Francisco on November 1 for an Eastern trip in the course of which he will visit New York, Chicago and Oshkosh, Wis.

TAT NICHOLSON GOES HUNTING

F. E. "Tat" Nicholson, advertising manager of the Pacific Door & Sash Company, Los Ahgeles, and Clark Fallis, well knorvn Los Angeles contractor, recently made a trip to the Mexican border on a duck hunting trip; the number of ducks they brought back has not yet been Iearned.

ROD DOWELS

SPIR.A,L DOWEIS

..SAFEKOTE'' BUILDING PAPER

UPSON "BLUE CENTER'' WALLBOARD

Sold by Building Material, Retail Lumber and Hardware Stores.

HARIDIlrOOID GOilPANT

OAKLAND

CALIFORNIA

LAKESIDE 5585 lYendling - Nathan

Wholeealers of Douglas Fir

California White & S.rg"" Pine

If you have never had

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

Main

I

THE TELEPHONE GIRL

The telephone girl sits in her chair

And listens to voices from everywhere;

She knows who is hrppy, and who has the blues. She knows all the gossip, she knows all the news. She knonrs all our sorrows, she knows all our joys, She knows all the girls who are chasing the boys. She knows every time we are out with the boys, /n" atro*" the excuses each fell,ow ernploys.

lptre lcrows all our troubles, she knows all our strife, \/She knows every man who is mean to his wife.

- If the telephone girl would tell half that she knows, It would turn all our friends into bitterest foes; She would sow a small wind that would soon be a gale, Engulf us in trouble and land us in jail.

She could start forth a story, which, gaining in force, Would cause half our wives to sue for divorce. She could get all our churches mixed up in a fight, She could turn our day into sorrowing night.

fn fact she could keep the whole town in a stew, If she told just one-tenth of the things that she knemr.

Gee I But don't it make your head just whirl, When you think what you owe to the tel,ephone girl?

-Exchange.

HE MUST HAVE LIKED THIS PREACHER

The guards *uti ti*1tB the electrodes to the body of the doomed man in the qleltric chair. The Chaplain bent over him, ahhough the co\{mned one had been trying to get rid of him for weeks. \

"Any request my poor man?" asked the Chaplain. "Yes", replied the wretch, "It'll comfort me a whole lot if you'll just hold my hand when the switch goes on." tP}dRKING

PENALTY

Jill-How did y-o{ get that red on your lips?

Jack-That's mfilag for parking too long in one place.

THE HAffiR ROUTE

And when you are inclifed to think the world is dealing rather harshly wittr pjf picture the plight of the man whose son is out in thelhrd playing marbles with his glass eye just when he needed it to look for work.

JAMES L. HALL

CONCENTRATED ENERGY

fn our childhood most of us played with a "burning glass," perhaps a simple magnifying lens with which we amused ourselves by burning holes in paper.

In one of the laboratories in Washington there is a leqs of a similar kind which measures three feet in diameter. This huge lens focuses the sun's rays on a small spot a.few feet below. This sinfe spot becomes hotter than a blow torch. The heat profirced is said to be so intense that it will melt steel. l

Simply the pow{hat comes from concentration. The same rays of sunlight\hat fall pleasantly on the.earth, come concentrated through that lens with enormously exaggerated power. Same way with human energy. Scattered, our energies and resources may not amo,unt to much; but concentrated they take on tremetdous energy.

Concentration can be cultivated by persistent and conscientious practice. An ordinary amount of human energy' concentrated into one sizzling hot, infle<ible purpose, has moved mountains, bridged'rivers, severed continents, spanned oceans, and girdled the. earth.

A DUMB MAN'S WAIL

\ilfe were driving together, She and I, through the Cold, dread night, And I Noticed that she seeqled Rather uncomfortabf. Now I am Kind of a slow chaf, but I Know opportunitlfvhen I see It. And so I saidf "Are you Cold, dear?" And she said She was very cold. Then I Asked her what she thought She needed to keep Her warm. And she said she Thought it would take A little oven.

So

Next time, I took along An oil stove. I Wonder why she don't Go out with me any more?

East Bay Hoo Hoo Club to Boost Attendance

Action to increase the membership and the attendance at the meetings was an important f-eature of the regular monthly dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39, held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Monday, October 14.

This move was initiated by H. Servall Morton, of Hill & Morton, Inc., who was chairman of the day, and was in the form of an invitation to each member present to bring one or more individuals from their respective organizations to attend the next meeting. Attendance at this meeting totaled 60, and indications were from pledges made by those present that attendance at the November meeting will reach 100.

Vice-President Hugo Sommarstrom, Clinton Lumber & Mill Co., presided in the absence of President B. E. Bryan.

Rod Hendrickson, chairman of the entertainment committee, introduced the speaker of the evening, Professor Earle G. Linsley, director of Chabot Observatory, and pro-' fessgr of astronomy at Mills College.

Professor Linsley described some of the places he and his family had visited on a seven months' trip around the world on the S.S. Belgenland. 'The talk was illustrated with stereopticon slides, and was so interesting that it is no exag'geration to say the professor could have held the interest of his audience for at least double the time allotted.

B. J. Boorman, Boorman Lumber Co., in a short talk asserted that the East Bay Hoo Hoo Club is now one of the most important service clubs in the city, and announced that Winfield Scott, of the California Forest Protective Association, San Francisco, will be the principal speaker at the next meeting.

Paul Overend, of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, made some announcements regirding the annual convention of the association to be held on November 7. 8 and 9.

Henry Meyer, of Hill & Morton, Inc., chairman of the Benevolence Committee-

Secretary Carl Moore announced that a been sent by the club for the funeral of S,impkins, wife of Parson Simpkins, held at November 14.

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SALES AGENTS FOR

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Improved Roads an Asset to Property Owners

- Improved roads as an asset to property owners is disclosed in a report just released by oifiiiali of the Monolith Portland Cement Company on the cost of operating automobiles on the various-classes of streets and iighwiys.

If lhe average property owner were required to pay an assessment of from $100 to $200 on each parcel of ieal estate he possesses every year for paving, he would object strenuously, the report states, although the cost of operat- ing their own cars over poor or fair roads is from $100 to $zqq.a year more than over paved highways.

"The average saving in operating all classes of automobiles on paved highways is 2.06 cents a mile," according to the cement company's report based on figures obtained by a midwest engineering college. "The cost of operating a light six cylinder car over poor roads is 8.62 cents a mile; over intermediate road, 7.38 cents; paved highways, 6.25 cents. Foi four cylinder cars the operating cost is 7.5 cents, 6.42 and 5.44 cents, respectively."

Thus the motorists who ride on low type roads are pay- ing an average of $10.30 a month more to operate their cars if they drive 500 miles, than they would if driving on paved roads, the report adds.

56 Dealers in 192H17 in 1928 1600 in 1929. Whv?

Why does the list of Supercedar dealers grow so fast? Because Supercedar Closet Lining. guaranteed { per cent or more rcd hcertwoolr_con- taining 100 per cent of the valuable oil of bedar, is better made and sells faster.

For qtotations a*d. litqotrre address California ilistib*torst

E. J. STANTON & SON J. E. HIGGINS LBR. CO. Lor Algcla Sen Frrncirco

Opening of Peoples Lumber Co. New Yard at Oxnard Attracts Many Visitors

Formal opening of .the new, offices and yard of the PeopleS Lumber Company at, Oxnard, one of the finest building material plants in California, was held on Thursday, October 3,'from I to 8 p.m.

Harold Burket, Ventirra' architect, designed the office building and store. Thelwhitle paint€d brick structure, although just completed, alreadv has an aged appearance due to the irregularly laid brick, not a single brick in the building being laid in regular form. The small window panes and Redwood panels, also the copper eave spouts, which because of being pure copper will shortly turn green, further strengthen the aged appearance of the building. The red tile roof completes the true likeness of the ancient Spanish type of architecture

Inside of the office building one finds the lobby most attractive, finished with Redwood beam ceiling and wainscoting, and embossed tile linoleum on the floor.

On the front and side of the office is a Maple top and base counter, with the center of Redwood, etched with up and down lines and relieved with diamond shaped figures, with just a touch of color. This is the work of the Santa Paula Peoples Lumber Company's mill.

A distinctive feature of the lobbv is the modernistic lan-

tern lighting effect. This is used not only in the lobby but throughout the building. The manager's office is panelled in Redwood, with a log cabin Oak floor, very novel in design. The bookkeeping department has a room to itself, and is finished in the same styie. Connected directly with the bookkeeping office is the very large vault, built of solid masonry.

A pleasing arch separates, but in efiect only, the office lpbby from the store adjoining on the west. This is a modern building-material store, with a show case and all modern labor-saving devices. The floor is covered with heavy Pilot roofing.

In front and on the north. side of the office building there are tile walks, green lawns, and shrubbery will be planted later. Back of the lawn and shrubs and screening the yard will be a decorative fence and an artistic sign board. This sign board is 80x17 and is to be a work of art, depicting green woods, mountains and a cosy home, with a single line of advertising, which will read "Peoples Lumber Company. Since 1890."

Adjoining the store is the sash and door warehouse. Then comes the warehouse proper, in which are stored several carloads of nails, netting, wall board and other building material of this sort. The cement warehouse nearby is large enough to store six or seven carloads of cement.

In the lumber shed, which is 140x97 and 30 feet high, the material is stood on end, and partitioned off. Adjoining the railroad track it is possible to unload material from the car to its proper place with one handling only.

In the yard, which with the buildings takes up five acres of space, is a modern incinerator, where sawdust, shavings and refuse will be "incinerated." There are 80,000 square yards of macadam paving on the premises and some cement concrete paving.

The mill proper is 108x60 feet and has wings on each side, providing an ample cabinet shop, also a private office. There is the mill shed and the dry clear shed, where the highest grade lumber is stored with utmost safety.

A distinctive feature of the office and plant is that it was built entirely with local talent and help. The huge sign is the handiwork of George Christenson, local sign painter. The interior stucco was done by J. E. Osborne & Son.

Roy Guyer was in charge of the general construction, Carl Fischer did the electric work, and A. P. Harvey did the painting. J. L. Mitchell installed the mill machinery and did the heavy electrical work.

The Peoples Lumber Company have been operating yards in Ventura county since 1890 and have yards at Veniui'a, O*nard, Santa Paula, Fillmore, Santa Susana, Ojai, Moorpark and Hueneme. Walter S. Riley is manager oI the Oxnard yard.

H. J. BATLEY VTSTTS SAN FRANCTSCO

H. J. "Bill" Bailey, sales manager of the Saginaw Timber Co., Aberdeen, 'Wash., visited San Francisco recently, making the Bay City his first port of call on his annual tour of the company's sales agents throughout the country. While in San Francisco he conferred with the Santa Fe Lumber Co., California agents for Saginaw Brand Red Cedar Shingles.

San Diego Hoo Hoo to Hold Golf Tournament and Dinner Dance

November L6

San Diego Hoo Hoo Club No. 3 held a banquet at the Cabrillo Cafe, San Diego, on Wednesday evening, October 9. Eighty-two members attended the meeting.

For the purpose of promoting an attendance campaign, several days previous to the meeting the membership list was gone over and divided into two groups, designated the Reds and the Blues. L. R. Allen was appointed iaptain of the Reds and C. E. Freeman captain of the Blues. As the members entered the banquet hall, they rvere given a Red or a Blue cap, according to which list their names appeared on, and the Reds and the Blues were seated at separate tables. Both teams got away to an even start as 41 -members were seated at"each table. The attendahce contest will run over a certain period, and at the end of the contest th.e. team hav-ing the largest attendance at the meetings will enjoy a _dinner at the expense of the losing team.

President Meryl Bennett piesided over the mleeting. Al A. Frost, recently elected Aicanoper on the Supreme\ine,

addrssed the meeting. II. A. Wark, vi adclrssed meettng. 11. A. Wark, vicegerent snark of the San Diego districi, outlined tentative plins for the com- plans ing year which will include three Coniatenations to be

held in January, May and September. Mr. Wark announced that one of these dates may be changed to coincide with the proposed visit of Secretary-Treasurer Isherwood. A. A. Jensen had charge of an old-time spelling match, the contestants including eight members from both the Red and Blue teams. After twenty-six selected words had been presented to the contestants only two members of the Red team remained standing and they were declared the winners.

President Bennett then introduced Louis B. Leslie, who made an interesting talk on "International Sore Spots and Their Remedy."

Announcement was made that there wil'l be a Hoo Hoo golf tournament and dinner dance at the La Mesa Country Club on Saturday afternoon and evening, November 16. A large delegation of Los Angeles lumbermen are planning to attend this aftair, and the San Diego Hoo Hoo Club through "The California Lumber Merchant" wishes to extend a cordial invitation to the Los Angeles Hoo Hoo to attend this event. During the dinner hour, prizes will be awarded to the winners of the Bridge and Golf tournaments.

Emil Swanson Holds Annual Farm Building Bettered By Venison Barbecue Increased Wood Knowledge

Emil F. Swanson, owner of the Eagle Rock Lumber Co., Eagle Rock, Calif.; held his third annual venison barbecue at his lumber plant,'Thursday noon, October 22. A total

of forty-one, including his friends, customers and employes, sat down to enjoy the meal.

The venison barbecue is now an annual event with Mr. Swanson but when he returned from his recent trip through the Northern part of the state and Southern Oregon and came home empty handed, it looked as though the 1929 party was off. But Mr. Swanson didn't give up the idea at all. A few days after his return fror4 his northern trip, he decided to try his luck in the hills back from Malibu in the Santa Monica district, and was successful in bringing down a fine big "buck" for himself. So the party was on to the great enjoyment of his many friends. Needless to say, he was highly elated in getting this year's prize almost in his back yard.

The accompanying illustration shows Mr. Swanson and the deer he bagged this year.

CLOSES SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE

The Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. closed their San Francisco office October 31. All inquiries and communications from the Northern California'territory should now be addressed to Geo. W. Robinsoh, 1358 North Pershing Avenue, Stockton, Northein California representative.

'Washington, Oct. 21.-Considerable knowledge of direct value for building on the farm has been gained during the past year or so by technical research in the field of lumber, Frank P. Cartwright, chief engineer of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, yesterday told members of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers who attended the North Atlantic section meeting at Amherst, Mass. While the results of this research will prove beneficial to building generally, much of it will b- especially useful in agricultural sections where lumber construction predominates all other materials.

Mr. Cartwright told how invest-igations looking to improved strength and economy in construction of oil derricks had developed a knowledge of improved methods for the building of towers to support water tanks, windmills, horse forks, and for other popular farm uses. He also explained to the engineers the information that had been gathered on the extent to which wood permits the passage of heat, which is considered important knowledge for calculating material in'the building of modern barn-s, farm dwellingi and other buildings where insulation is an important factor.

One of the most popular topics on whch Mr. Cartwright touched was the information gathered on storm resisting construction methods for frame walls. Anti-hurricane construction has been a problem in those farm and rural communities subject to high wind and even cyclonic storms. Diagonal sheathing, let-in bracing, and plaster over wood lath have been found to offer satisfactory resistance to storm pressures when properly done, he told the agricul- tural engineers. The engineers were shown tables and charts and Mr. Cartwright explained that the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association soon hoped to have the data discussed available in published form.

N. L. M. A. Appoints Kansas City Manager

_ Kansas Ci!y, Mo., October 28.-R. B. White, Exchange Sawmills Sales Company, here, chairman of the Trade Extension.Committee of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, announced today, effective immediately, the apporntment of -Harold S. Crosby, heretofore in chalge of the Pittsburgh fie-ld office of the association, to take cf,arge of the reopened Kansas City office, 1104 Federal Reserie Bank Building.

ARCHnECTVRAL wooDuwoRK

Thousands of visitors from every part of the world have admired these artistical[y carted doors which grace the main entrarlce of the State of California Building in Balboa Park, San Diego. They were built in l9l4 for the Panama-California Exposition and have been in conrinuous use, without repair, ever since. When photographed recently for this illustration they were still in perfect condition. The doors and transoms 6nish 4" thick. They are of 3-ply construction, the exterior face being li" PhiLippine, the core 2r-" Sugar Pine, the interior face li /' Douglas Fir. Right hand door i s equipped with a skilfuily executed insert door. Built by Weldon & Glasson Planing Mill, San Diego, California (now W. J. Glasson Planing Mill). Architects:

Cran, Goodhue & Ferguson, New York City; Superintending Architect, Carleton Monroe \7inslow, Los

Angeles.

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lIillu,orh Instittttt of Cali{ornio

M. I. C. Annual

The annual meeting of the Millwork Institute of California will be held at the Hotel Oakland, Oakland, California, on Friday, November 22. A comprehensive program of new activities will be presented and there will be an exposition and discussion of the changes made in the revised edition of the Standard Sash and Door Schedule (No. 129), also there will be a review of the Accredited Standards.

The Board of Directors will meet in an all-dav session on Thursday, November 2I, the day preceding thi general

PAUL PENBERTHY RETURNS FROM SOUTHERN TRIP

meeting. The election of directors for the ensuing year will be held at the general meeting on Friday.

The Oakland members have appointed the following committees to make the necessary arrang'ements for the meeting: Bill Lannon, General Chairman; Hotel Arrangements, Nat Edwards and Mngy Hollested; Decorations, Irving Gilbert and Verne Graham; Entertainment, Clem .Fraser and Hal Atkinson.

There will be an informal stag dinner on Friday evening at 7 p.m. o

KENNETH WALKER VISITS LOS ANGELES

Kenneth R. Walker of the Red River Lumber Company, Westwood, California, recently spent several days in Los Angeles on business and pleasure.

visited the hardwood Memphis, Tenn., and the hardwood trade. the trip.

Paul Penberthy, sales manager, W. E. Cooper Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has returned from a five *eeks' business trip through the South where he mills. His trip also included stops at New Orleans, La., where he called on Mrs. Penberthy accompanied him on

VALLEY LUMBER CO. OF LODI REPAINTS PLANT

Valley Lumber Co. of Lodi have just completed repainting their entire plant.

COOS BAY LUMBER COMPANY

TRANSFERRED TO SEATTLE OFFICE

Steuart Bothwell of the sales department of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.. San Francisco. has been transferred to the company's Seattle office.

FIRE

San Carlos Lumber October 23. Damage

AT SAN CARLOS Co. had a small fire at their yard on was slight.

Cuts So Snooth That Joints Can Be

HOMER

FRANK B. COLIN SeCy &

H. J. LEAF First Vice-President

C. E. McKINNIE

Asst. SeCy & Treas ffi

SAN FRANCISCO

GEORGE WEIR, LOS ANGFLFS

J. A- THOMAS, Srla MG.

AsL Salcr M3r. EXPORT AGENTS

Dant & Ruuell, Inc., Portland, Oregon

General Otrice and Mills

MARSHFIELD, OREGON

Remanulacturing PIad

BAY POINT, CALIFORNIA

In mrny rhopr bhcrc thc PLANER SA'{V har boen inrtellcd thc ncccuity of planing beforc glucing jointr har bcca clininatcd. Thir ir due to thc rrnooth, fatt cutting of thir raw. The Plancr Saw cror-cutr or ripr on hard or roft wood and docr not burn or.corch. MadeOto2{incher in diameter.

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T. S. Walker Appointed Resi- 'W. F. Baird With The Madera dent Manager of Westwood Operations

The Red River Lumber Co. has announced the appointment of Theodore S. Walker as resident manager of their mill operations at Westwood, California, succeeding his father, Fletcher L. Walker. "Ted" Walker has been connected with the company in an executive capacity since his graduation from Stanford University in 1924. lle was born in Minneapolis, Minn., in 1901, he came to Westwood with his parents in 1913 when the construction of the plant was started. Fletcher L. Walker, vice president and treasurer of the Red River Lumber Co., will continue to' make his home in Westwood and will remain active in the affairs of the company.

Causes of Material Dealers' Losses Surveyed

A recent survey UJ' ttre Building Material Dealers' Credit Association of Los Angeles is reported to have brought replies from 85 member firms in different building material lines as to the reasons assigned for losses incurred during 1928, according to the September 16 issue of Domestic Commerce. The findings of the survey have been summarized as follorvs:

Sugar Pine Co.

W. F. Baird, until recently general sales manager of the Sugar Pine Lumber Co. at Pinedale, Calif., is now connected with the sales department of the Madera Sugar Pine Co. with headquarters in their San Francisco office. Mr. Baird has been associated with the pine industry in California for many years. The mill operations of the Madera Sugar Pine Co. are located at Madera, Calif.

New Lo$ Sawing System Will Increase Lumber Resources

"The bulk of 1,500,000 feet of lumber imported annually into the United States could be supplied from our own resources," says Axel T. Oxholm, director of the National Committee on Wood Utilization of the Department of Commerce, "if the new system of cutting lum6er introduced by our committee were more universally employed here."

This opinion was voiced by Mr. Oxholm in an address at the annual meeting of the wood industries section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, held in Rockford, Illinois, today. The speaker outlined the results of tests of the new system of sarvmilling just completed by the National Committee on Wood Utilization, as a result of which small logs heretofore left on the ground in the woods, may be converted into lumber at a profit.

This system was introduced as a result of investigations made by Mr. Oxholm as a representative of the Department of Commetce, of practices followed by North European mills. The tests of the system were made in a specially constructed mill on the Pacific Coast, and were sponsored by a subcommittee of leading lumber manufacturers, headed by A. Trieschmann, a prclminent lumber manufacturer of Chicago.

"The universal adoption of this new system of sawing logs," said Mr. Oxholm, "will not only increase the value of timber grown in this country, but will also lower the cost of finished products made from wood to the consumer."

Reasons not known

Losses aggregating 1 per cent or more of gross sales were reported t>y 27 firms, 7 of whom reported I per cent; 12 between I andZ per cent;3 between 2 and 3 per cent; and 5 between 3 and 5 per cent. Only 4 firms reported no losses incurred during the year. No report of total percentages of loss was made by 10 firms, and 44 reported less than 1 per cent. The variation among' firms in the same line is indicated by one firm reporting a business of $265,000 with no knolvn losses, while losses totaling 5 per cent of sales were reported by another firm in the same kind of business.

Organized by Herbert Hoover, who as secretary of commerce was its first chairman, the National Committee on Wood Utilization has for its object the elimination of waste in wood by promoting better wood-using practices. Secretary of Commerce R. P. Lamont is the present chairman of the committee.

ATTEND FOOTBALL GAME AT PALO ALTO

Leo and Herman Rosenberg, Hipolito Company, Los Angeles, accompanied by their wives, attended the Southern California-Stanford football game at Palo Alto on Octoher 26.

OF THE WOODS" e) ROUGH AND FINISHED LUMBER MASONITE AND INSO BOARD INSULATION

A Little Early Flistory of The L. W. Blinn Lurnber Co.

Reprinted from the Fiftieth Annivensary Edition of the Tomb,stone Epitaph, Octobet 15,1929.

Early in the year 1880 when Tombstone was rapidly becoming the most noteworthy and talked aboui Mining Camp in America, Mr. C. A. Hooper of San Francisco and several of his brothers planned to open a lumber yard in Tombstone. Mr. L. W. Blinn at that time was living in Sacramento, California, and in the employ of the Sairamento Lumber Company, and Mr. Hooper arranged for Mr. Blinn to go to Tombstone to manige the pioposed

pany considerable Douglas Fir by pope & Talbot from their San Francisco lumbei yard. Also, about this time the Comqany arranged with-sheerer & Ross for the entiie mili cut of their sawmill operating in the Chiricahua Mountains. a wagon haul of about 65 miles to Tombstone. This saw_ mill was built-by Phillip Morse about the year lgZ9, who intended,supplying_the-Tucson market, u -*"gon haul of about 170 miles. In the meantime, he had iold out to

Di.stributing Yqrds and, I4/harves, L. W. Blinn Lum,ber C0., Los Atcgeles Harbor, 14/ilmington, Calif orni.a

new lumber yard, and, as Mr. Blinn u'ould be the man on the ground, call it L. W. Blinn & Company.

Mr. Blinn, on his arrival in Tombstone, purchasecl a yard site for the company on Toughnut and Seconcl Strlets, and, in the meantime, several carloads of California Mountain Pine were shipped to Benson for the opening stock, the Southern Pacific having just completed ihe eitension of their railroad from Tucson to Benson and arrangements having been made for the lumber to be handled by wagons from Benson as soon as the cars arrived thefe. Theselirst three or four carloads of lumber sold so fast directly from the. wagons as they arrived in Tombstone that .r.ty littl. of it was available for building an office, etc., tili other shipments arrived from California, and besides the California Mountain Pine there was also shipped to the Com-

Sheerer & Ross, and with Tombstone coming into such prominence as a lumber market, Tucson never saw much. if any, of that lumber.

About a year later the Company's business having grown to such extent it was decided in June, 1881. to inc6rporate under the laws of California as The L. W. Blinn Lumber Company. The_ ilcorporators were C. A. Hooper, George W. Hooper, F. P. Hooper of San Francisco, O. p. Goodhue of Sacramento and L. W. Blinn of Tombstone.

About the same year the N. M. & A. railroad started building from Benson to Quaymas. When this road was completed to Contention the Blinn Lumber Company established a branch there from which lumber was hauled by wagon to Tombstone. Then during the year 1883, the (Continued on Page 49)

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.N. M. & A. extended its railroad to Fairbank and the Lumber Company moved its Contention yard to Fairbank.

_ During this period and a few years following, the Lumber Company established and had in operaiion branch yards at Benson, Contention, Fairbank, Charleston, Bisbee, Willcox, Arizona, Lordsburg, Deming, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. Then about 1887 eitablished and oper- ated branches at Phoenix, Tempe and Casa Grande lnd s-ome years later branches at Mesa and Clifton. During all this period headquarters for the Company's businesi in the Southwest was at their Tombstone office until the latter part of 1888 when the Main Office of the Company was moved to Los Angeles and the Tombstone yard was closed.

Inl9O2, after Mr. E. B. Gage had returned to Tombstone and with Mr. Frank Murphy merged all the old mining properties into Tombstone Consolidated Mines, the E. p. & S. W. R. R. completed building from Fairbank to Tombstone, the Blinn Company donating the right-of-way for the road through their yard site, Tombstone yard wis reopened as a branch and continued in business until the end of the year 1910,,when Tombstone went peacefully to sleep for the second time.

Th_e Company still owns the original yard site on Tough- nut Street. Their original office (built in the year 1880) is still in existence, having been sold many yeirs ago foi a dwelling and moved to Allen below First- Sireet w[ere it now stands.

Los Angeles Hoo Hoo Meet

The first meeting of the Hoo Los Angeles Hoo Hoo Club at Angeles, on Thursday, October Hanson presided.

Abbeys Reglster and Year Book

Wcrtern Lunber lndurtry 1929 Edttlon Now Ready

A nbute ard ucmtc luidc to etr bnnchee of thc Lunbc tndutry ot Wuhlnlto' Ongo, Cilifmia, Id-l'q,r Motrna, Colmdo, Ncveda, Arlzua, N-w- Mcdco, Sggrh De&otl Utrh, lVyolnc, Alarlr, Brtthh Cotrinbi., tb PbtEpplea and Hawall.

_In pq'me! infmito glv6 hcludee Pr.ddGDt, Mugr, Supcrb- tadcnt, SaI6 M'-.gcr, hrchr,CrS Ag.nt and Merter'Mcchuic.- A-Co- pletc-list ot Ci4frEry ard Gquipnent, dally capactty, cpccler of wood swed, c$r embls the Sellr to thc Induitry to slct Salar Prccpccts and Lmber Buyar to phe onderr ud lnquirla- tntcltigcntty.

__.-.Ow_f0,a00 llstinga ln the book wtlcl lnctudc: Saw, Phrhg ed Slbsb Mlib, Woodwclerl__Log_ging Operatimr; Box, Vcneer, pulp.-papcr, Dir, !_a!h,_ CTE Arna, Hr-llg3 ald Frmltrm Muufuture, f,iachLc-Shopq Hotcta Fordfnr !rc,^Gorat Storer, ud esnniraa.ter oecntca ii T+lF .rd.mr._; Canty Cmnbcimcr ln Calfmh, Oregm, Warhi4tod, Idabo, ald r list oa Euten Lumbc Burrcra

Ordc thlr nlul'le refergggg book-today. *Vo d the 6r.m b the prc- vloc editio clihl--t d and 3ti7o new fimr -added.-

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Publirbcd by

The lnductrtal Servlce Go.

Sherlock Bldg., Portlend, Ore.

Hoo year was held by the Commercial Club, 17. President Harry the Los V.

E. D. Tennant, who attended the Hoo Hoo annual convention at Amarillo, Texas, last month gave an interesting talk on matters discussed at the annual meeting. president lfanson appointed the following to act as i nominating committee; Jack Thomas, chairman; W. B. Wickersham, E. D. Tennant and Ed. Martin. The annual election of officers.will be held at the next monthly meeting.

Mrs. Elizabeth Simpkin

Mrs. Elizabeth Simpkin, wife of Parson Simpkin, Hoo Hoo chaplain, died at their home in Dayton, Oregbn, on October 10 after an extended illness. Burial was in- Salt Lake City on October 14. Messages of sympathy from lumbermen all over the country were received:at Dayton and Salt Lake City.

Attends Hardwood Meeting

-Frank Connolly, Lo_s Angeles, assistant secretary of the Western }trardwood Lumber Co., attended a hirdwood Ireetin_g at San Francisco on October 25. dlthough Mr. 9onnolly sprained his ankle just a few days beforJ when he collided rvith a horse at their Los Angeles plant, he was able to make the trip. He also attended the Sbuthern Cali_ fornia-Stanford football game on October 26.

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ELECTBIC HAr[r[ERS

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/, to 2-inch Drilling iap.city.

Veights l0 to 20lbs.

Priced at t10O and up.

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Portable Gr{nderr and Bench Ty?ct

Gmcrcte Surfacem

Strand Fledble thelts and Equlpncnc

Electrlc lland Cawr

Sandcrc . Po[rherc . Bullem

If a job caa be done with an electric tool-ne have it

(Thc Clearing Houn)

This Column of "Wants" and "Don't'Wants" is fon

The Fellow Who Wants to Buy

The Fellow Who Wants to Sell

The Fellow Who Wants to Hire

Rate: t2.s0 pct cotumn dnch The Fellow Who Wants to Be Hired

RETAIL LUMBERMAI! WANTS POSTTTON

Live Texas retail lumberman wants position in West.

Ten Srears'experience as manager and assistant. Have good references. Married and dependable. Want place where ability will be rewarded. Address Box C-279, California Lumber Merchant.

EXPERIENCED LUMBER ESTIMATOR AND SALESMAN DESIRES POSITION

Experienced lumber estimator and salesman wants employment. Have managed line yard and held important position in large city retail yard. Will work 30 days at your price, gratis if you say, to prove my worth-then if satisfactorv at a moderate salary. Address California Lumber Mercliant. Box C-280.

BOOKKiEPER-ACCOUNTANT WANTS POSITION

, Experienced lumber bookkeeper and accountant open for a position. Familiar with all office details. Address Box C-285, care California Lumber Merchant.

STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMElfT, CIRCULATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY TIIE ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST U, 1912, Of Thc California Lumber Mcrchant. publishcd Scmi-monthly et Lor Angeles, Califomia, for October lst, 1929.State of Calilornra I 6ii''i'ti'ot-iii'irigeles. I ""'

Bclorc ne, e Not.ry Public in and for the 9tate and county rforcsaid, pcrsmally appcarcd J. E, Martin, who, having been duly 1ryom according to law, degoser and rayr thet he ie thc IvlanaginS Editor of Thc Califomia Lumber Mcrchant. and that the follo$ina is. to the best of his knowlcdge and belief, i true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, thc circulation), ctc., of thc sforc. aaid publication for thc date shown in the above caption' required by thl Act of Augllt A, 1912, cobodied in ccction 411, Postal Iiws and Rcculationr. orintcd on the revcrre of this form. to wit:

l. fhat thc'nimes and addrerscs of thc oublisher. editor. maaaging cditor. and busincss manasers arc: Publirhcri J. C. Dionne, 318 Ccntral Bldg., Iar Angclcs; Editoi, J. C. Dionnc,3l8-Central Bldg., Los Aageles; Managing Editor, J. E. Martin, 318 Central Bldg., Ios Angeles; Business Managcrs, None,

2, Thrt thi owncr ir: (If owncd by e corporation, its namc and addreaa murt be statcd and also immCdiately thereunder thc namcs end sddreseeg of stocLholdcrg owning or holding one pcr ccnt or morc of totel amount of stock, If not owncd by a corporation, thc aamee aad addrerscs of thc individual ownerg muit bc given. If owncd by a 6rm, company, or other unincorporated concertr, itr name and address, as well as those of cach individual member, must he given.)

J. C. Dionne, 318 Central Bldg., Los Angeles, Calif.

3. That thc knowa boadholderr, mortgegeeE, and othcr rccurity holders owning or holding I pcr cent or morc -of total amount of bondr. mortgagca, or othcr rccurities are: (If therc are none, so statc,) None.

4. That thc two Darasraoh: next abovc. civinr thc namcc of thc owncrs, rtockholderr,- and- sicurity holdcrs,- il ani, contain not only thc lict of rtockholderr and cccurity holders as they aopcar uoon the books of the comDary but algo. i'n caaer whcrc ihe - itockhdldcr or sccgrity holdcr appcair upon thc books of thc company ar trustcc or in any other fiduciary relation, the nemc of thc pcrron or corlofa. tio! for whom auch trostec i! acting, is givcn; alao that thc raid two paragraphr contain statcmcntr cmbrCcing affiant'c full Lnowlcdgc ead belie{ as to the circumstanccs end. conditionr undcr which rtockholdcn and sccurity holdcrs who do not appear upon thc bookr of thc company a! trustcc!. hold rtocl and cecurities in a caoacity other than that ol e bona 6de oiner; and thia afiiant has no reasoh to'believe that any other oeraon. association. or corDorstion has anv interest direct or indirect in ihc said atock. bodds. or 6thcr securities-than as so stated bv him.

5. That thc avcrigc nunber of copies of each irsuc of thig publi. cation sold or distributed, through thc mails or othcrwise. to paid subacribcrr during thc cix monthi preceding thc dete shown abovi ir (fhis iaformatior is rcquircd from daily publicetione oaly.) swom to and subscribcd berorc me lif't;tftlllyi S"?ffif*t#]t"

TSEAL] FREDA R. PAULSON. (lfy commirrion crpire Aug, f8, 1930,)

EXPERIENCED YOUNG SALESMAN WANTS POSITION

Young man 27, experienced estimator and salesman with knowledge of bookkeeping and office work, wishes position with retail concern. Box C-282 California Lumber Merchant,

WHOLESALE SALESMAN WANTS POSITION

Salesman with over ten years' experience selling Douglas Fir, Redwood, White and Sugar Pine in California, wants position. Familiar with the mill end of the busi ness. Knows the California trade, having had experience in both Northern and Southern California. Address Box C-81. Care California Lumber Merchant.

WANTED-EXPERIENCED YOUNG RETAIL SALESMAN

Wanted-Experienced young retail salesman. Prefer one who speaks Spanish. Give complete experience and references first letter. Address Box C-284. care California Lumber Merchant.

POSITION WANTED \VITH WHOLESALE .OR RETAIL CONCERN

Experienced lumberman wants position with retail or wholesale lumber company. Familiar with all branches of the lumber business-both softwoods and hardwoods. Has had experience in manufacturing, inspecting, estimating, and selling-both wholesale and retail. Address Box C-286 care California Lumber Merchant.

MAURTCE JofSS f,ilI8rilP, BURt vlsrr

Maurice Jones and Sid Burt of the Jones Lumber Company, Portland, Oregon, were recent Los Angeles visitors,

THE BUILDING AND LOAN MOVEMENT IN CALIFORNIA SHOWS RAPID GROWTH

"The building and loan movement in California has grown to such proportions that it has established a niche. of its own in the financial world. Begun in 1875, it was not until 1920 that it was very widely recognized. Today these institutions take first place in the encouragement of homeownership and in teaching the value of consistent saving," according to J. M" Abbott, President of the California Building-Loan League.

"California is one of the most rapidly growing building and loan states in the nation. This state has doubled iti asset-s every two and one-half years, while the country as a whole has doubled its assets everv four and one-half years. The average size of associations in California is $1,830,000, as compared with an average of less than $600,000 for the United States.

A DOOR of enhforuoin White Pine .. .

fo, enhforninns

TfiE LOS ANGBLDS LOIIG.BELL

,{nAOXG the reasons why the Los Angeles LongBell Door is gaining steadily in popularity in California:

1. All California White Pine.

2. 3-ply veneered panel.

3. Veneered Stiles (built-up cores) 5l in. wide.

4. T'op rail, 5l in. wide.

5. Bottom rail, l ls/ in. wide.

7. Waterproof glue.

8. Hardwood dowels.

9. Will not warp.

10. Takes paint, enamel and stains perfectly.

11. Costs less to fit, mortise and hang than doors of other woods.

LONG.BELL PRODUCTS

Douglas Fir I-umber, Timbers, Doot and Window Frames, Trimpak; Western Hem. lock, Lumber; Western Red Cedar Siding and Shingles; Southern Pine Lumber aucl Timbers; Southern Hartlwood I-rrmber, Timbers and Trimpak; Oak Flooring, *CELLized Oak Flooring Strips, *CELLized Oak Floor Planks, *CELT,ized Oak Floor Blocks; California White Pine I-umber, Sash and Doors, Box Shooks; Creosoted I-umber, Timbers, Posts, Poles, Ties, Guard-Rail Posts, Piling.

Los .l ugrlts District Oflitc : 627 Petroleum Securities Bldg. Phone, WEstmore 8468

6. Square stuck with corners and edges rounded.

12. Pledged to good service.

Combine with these advantages fnished sturdine ss, beauty and simplicity of design .. ..

Ill tra Modern Structure

Equipp ed wi th IIipoIiIo Screerrs

The Gaylord, fashionable apartment hotel of Los Angeles, uses Hipolito Screens. The designers of this imposing structure asked. "What screens will look the best-stand the most abuse-last longest?" And the answer was Hipolito. S7herever quality is the first thought, the answer is always ths 5arns-flipolito of course!

ljnconditional Guarantee

Back of this universal demand is a guarantee without strings-no concessions or hedge clauses. "Every Hipolito Screen Door and Window Screen is guaranteed to satisfy the ultimate user." Hipolito Screens must be good or their makers could not afford to give such a rigid promise.

Los Angeles, Calif.

Oakland Office: 4216 Holden St., Oaklando Calif.