Because of the rclatively high lumber yield per acre in the Philippine dipterocarp forests, it has been possible to employ modern methods of logging and milling economically. lfithout the use of present-day methods and machinery, it is improbable that other known hardwoods of tropical origin can be made to compete effectively with PHILIPPINE MAHOGANY either in volume or in market prices.
Economical in cost, PHILIPPINE MAHOGAI{Y at the same time offers the ideal wood for quality boats due tothefactthat among its many other advantages it has unusual resistance to saltwater and marine life.
Philippine ilahoganyilanufacturGrs' lmport Association, Inc.
Trade Promotlon Dlvlston
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"Paul Bunyan's" knotty pine is selected for first-class installations by discriminating architects.
CALIFORNIA PINE (soft ponderosa), selected knotty pine commons, standard item in the Red River price list. Run to pattern, standard or special Western Pine Association K. P. patterns may be ordered by number.
Truck delivery, wholesale only from Los Angeles warehouoe Phone CEntury 29O71
7th Floor, Alaska-Commercial Bldg., AGBNTS
Anerican Mill Co.
Hoquiam Lumber & Shingle Co.
Hulbert Mitl Co.
Willale Herbor Lumber Mille
LOS ANGBLES
630 Boad of Tradc Bldg.
310 Sansome Street, San Francisco STEAMERS
Aberdeen, Varh. Trinidad Hoquiam, Vash. Barbara Cateo
Aberdeen, varh.
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Joseph E. Fifer and Miss Ellie McPhee of San Francisco were married recently at Los Gatos.Ed Dusenbury was groomsman. "Joe" Fifer has been for the past three years manager of Cottoneva Lumber Company's operations at Rockport, Mendocino County. For many years he was connected with the wholesale lumber business in San Francisco, first with Chas. D. Ford and later with Albion Lumber Co. The bride has been with the public school department in San Francisco. The McPhee family is one well known in lumber circles, Mrs. Fifer's brothers, Hugh and Peter, being owners and operators of the American Stevedore Co.
San Francisco Lumbermen's Club now meets on Monday instead of Wednesday at the Engineers' Club, 206 Sansome Street, corner of Pine Street, at 12:15 P' M. All lumbermen are welcome.
*Adve*isements appear in alternate issue.
Aberdeen Plvwood Co.------
Annie Chrirtenron
Edwin Chriatencon'
Catherine G. Suddeu
Eleanor Chrirtenron
Charler Chrirtenrcn
PORTLAND
200 Henry Bldg.
J. Stanley Quinn, who has for some time been with Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., San Francisco, as salesman, has resigned and is now with the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, for whom he will cover the San Francisco Bay district, Peninsula and Coast Counties territory, succeeding D. Norman Cords.
A. J. Koll, Koll Planing Mill Co., Inc., has returned from a trip to the Middlewest. He visited with his brothers, John and Henry Kollin Chicago, and also made an inspection tour through the U. S. Forest Service Laboratory at Madison, Wis. At Detroit he purchased a new Packard automobile. His daughter, Mrs. Marie Wright of Los Angeles, accompanied him on the trip.
Acme Spring Sash Balance Co., The -- - -- 1
American Lumber & Treating Co. -------------'
Angier Corporation -------------- 17
Anglo California Lumber Co. ----------------------15
Baxter & Co., J. H. -------------------19
Booth.Kelly Lumbet Co. ---------------- ----------------2, Brookmire, fnc.
Cadwallader-Gibron Co. Inc. ------------------------18
Johnson Lumber Corporation, C. D.
California Builders Supply C.o. --------------------t
Calaverac Cement Co.
Califo.nia Door Co. '-'--.---
California Panel & Veneer Co. -------------------*
California Redwood Aseociation
Campbell.Moore Lumber Co. - - ---- -
Carr & Co. L. J. - - -- ---- -------------------------18
Celotex Corporation, The Chamberlain & Co., W. R. -----------,-----.-------2L
Commonwealth Steel & Supply Corp. ----'--25
Dant & Russell, fnc. ------------------------------------- 7
Ewauha Box Company -------------11
Fisk & Mason
Forsl'th Hardwood Co. - -
Gorman, George V/. ---- --- * - -
Vancouver Plywood & Veneer Co.
V.endling-Nathan Cq. ------------- 5
West Coaet Plywood Co.
'Western Door & Sash Co. ---------------------------19
Veyerhaeuser Sales Company
Wheeler Osgood Salee Corp. ----------------------,15
Vhite Brothers ------------------ ---------------------------22
Wilkinson and'Buoy
Willamette-Hyster Company
Vood Conversion Company
Wood Lumber Co., E. K. - ---- -----------,--------17
Ziel t*, Co.
San Francisco, Oct. 30.-Seven Pacific Coast maritime unions, representing 37,00O dock and ship workers, early today ordered an immediate general maritime strike.
San Francisco, October 29. The general maritime strike on the Pacific Coast was averted early today for at least twenty-four hours pending further negotiations between employers and unions. The delay in calling a walkout was deCided upon by the joint negotiating committee of seven West Coast unions which had been ernpowered to call a strike last night if agreement on vital issues were not reached by then.
A tentative agreement between Pacific Coast sailors and marine firemen and the Shipowners Association of the Pacific, an independent organization operating steam schooners in coastwise traffic, temporarily halted the strike on the steam schooners, and the negotiating committee of these two unions hoped to confer with the companies operating the larger offshore vessels.
The walkout on both classes of ships had been scheduled for midnight, October 28.
truce on October 14 and that operations continue under thb existing agreement until the negotiations have been completed to which the shipowners acceded. The unions, through their negotiating committee, advised the Commission that the unions conditionally agreed and they were willing to extend the truce from October 15 to October 26.
On October 15, the Pacific Coast maritime unions asked their members to authorize a coast-wide waterfront strike beginning at midnight, October 28, unless the disputes were settled by October 26. The unions' vote on the strike authorization proposal was more than 90 per cent in favor of a walkout, leaders reported.
Rear Admiral H. G. Hamlet of the Federal Maritime Commission and Edward F. McGradv. Assistant Secretary of Labor, have been in San Francisc6 negotiating wittr tttl employers and unions in an effort to avoid a tie-up.
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Employers' Association and the maritirre unions for modification of the 1934 arbitration awards began at San Francisco the latter part of August. Due to the refusal of the longshoremen, to submit disputed questions to arbitration, negotiations became deadlocked. In a referendum vote by the members of the I. L. A. of the Pacific Coast district, the longshoremen voted 96 per cent against arbitration of the working agreements. The three important issues not settled were hiring hall control, six-hour day, and workers' discipline.
On September 30, the expiration date of the 1934 working agreements, the shipowners advised the Federal Maritime Commission they would accept the proposal for extending the agreements fifteen days if the unions would agree to arbitrate before the Commission issues not settled directly in that period. The unions accepted the fiftden days' truce. During the fifteen day period the employers and unions were deadlocked on many disputed questions.
The Commission asked for a further extension of the
Ralph A. Clark, sales manager of Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills, Bellingham, Wash., since 1913 has resigned effective November 1. He has been with the company for the past thirty-three year's. Mr. Clark has not announced his plans for the future.
C. H. Chenoweth, in charge of sales for the company in the Boston district, has been appointed sales manager and will take over his new duties the early part of November.
The members of the Lumber & Allied Produ,cts Institute met at the Elks Club, Los Angeles, October 27. There was a large turnout, 160 being present.
Sam T. Hayward, chairman of the Executive Committee, presided. H. A. Lake, president ofthe California Retail Lumbermen's Association, gave a resume of the program of the State Association's annual meeting held at Del Monte, October 22-23. E. C. Parker, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Lo. Angeles, addressed the meeting on "Taxation and fncreased Cost of Doing Business," the same subject he discussed at the Retailers' annual convention. His address appears in full in this issue.
Frank Fox, Fox-Woodsum Lumber Co., Glendale, read a testimonial of appreciation to Henry S. Patten, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., who served as chairman of the Execuitve Committee the past three years and presented him with a beautiful Atmos clock.Mr. Patten thanked the members, and stated that he was very much interested in the association and was a member of the first association formed in the district thirty-three years ago when there were only six yards in Los Angeles. He asked the members to cooperate to make the Institute a strong organization.
It was voted to hold similar meetings every three months.
Trans-Pacific Lumber Co., Port Orford, Ore., completed construction of its 500-foot treated pilingwharf October 8, and the first cargo of lumber was shipped October 10. There is a depth of 34 feet of water at the wharf.
The sixth Annual reunion at the "Parson" Simpkin Sequoia Memorial at Calaveras State Park was held Sunday, October 11, 1936, just five years to the day since the noble tree and the bronze tablet on granite were dedicated to the memory of Hoo-Hoo's great leader. Again were those present favored with an incomparable Sierran day, in one of the most beautiful bits of California forest scenery.
Community singing was led by Chas. S. Brace of Stockton, accompanied on the piano by Carl R. Moore of San Francisco. The program was opened by Bert Bryan of Oakland, who read "A Litany for Trees," written by Dean Chas. A. Campbell of Rollins College. Solos were rendered by Miss Frances Bowerman of Stockton, accompanied by Prof. Elliott, both these artists being on the faculty of the College of the Pacific. Another welcome guest from that Stockton seat of learning was its renowned President, Dr. Tully C. Knoles, who made the address of the day, stressing the significance of trees in human life and linking up their helpful beauty with the life of the late Supreme Chaplain of the lumber fraternity, Peter A. Simpkin, who was its field officer for nine years.
Tom L. Gardner of Stockton, the 1936 Chairman of the Memorial Committee, who first suggested the plan for dedicating a great Sequoia to "Parson" Simpkin, requested Frank W. Trower to serve as chairman of the day. George
WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE ADDITION TO OUR STAFF OF
W. H. NIGH
D. NORMEN CORDS
AND WE CAN ASSURE THE TRADE THAT THE SAME SERVICE AND CO-OPERATION WHICH WE HAVE GIVEN IN THE PAST WILL BE MAINTAINED IN THE FUTURE.
M. Cornwall was chosen as chairman f.or 1937. A hearty vote of thanks was extended to Charles G. Bird of Stockton for his untiring efiorts in handling the various arrangerr^ents, in which he was assisted by C. D. LeMaster of Sacramento.
Central California Hoo-Hoo Club No. 62 ioined forces to make this affair a success. President J' U. Gartin of Modesto and Secretary Donald G. Bird of Stockton called their Club's October meeting for Saturday night at the Big Trees Hotel, Calaveras Grove. This old-time hostelry was filled to capacity. "Ji-" Gartin presided at the big campfire and low-jinks. Songs and stories provided a very h"ppy evening, to which Park Warden C. M. Traylor contributer with suitable remarks about the State Parks and Calaveras Grove in particular. The Sunday memorial service closed fittingly with the group singing "Auld Lang Syne."
Among those present at this joint meeting were:
Carl R. Moore, Moore Mill & Lbr Co. .... San Francisco
Mrs. C. R. Moore . San Leandro
C. R. Moore, Jr. Stockton Shelton C. Moore San Leandro
B.E. Bryan, Strable Hardwood Co. ' .. Oakland
Mrs. B. E. Bryan Oakland
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Change goes on constantly in the building industry, but dealers can always be sure of a dependable source for their Redwood in
"The difference between a mob and a crowdr" said the old maxim, "is that the crowd isfor you, while the mob is against you."
You hear and read *"ln In"l" days about ..lobbyists.,, Said Senator James Reed one time, when asked what he thought about lobbyists and their activities: ..A man who supports my bill is a loyal patriot; one who opposes it is a designing lobbyist." And THAT is about the proper definition.
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I often wonder what would become of this country if it were not for the so-called "Third House" that accompanies all Legislative and Congressional assemblies. Too many people thinkof the lobbyist as a man who fits about in darkness, conniving through evil ways to coerce and prevent the unsuspecting legislator from doing his plain duty by the "plain Peepul."
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As a matter of fact the genuine lobbyist of this day and age is a straight, upstanding, helpful person, who has acquired a reservoir of definite, dependable, practical information on some particular subject of legislation, and is in position to furnish that information in the most upright and respectable fashion to the often bewildered legislator, in order that the representative of the people may be in position to arrive at legislative decisions in the best interests of all concerned. ***
A qualified, dependable, honorable expert on some specific subject is the high type lobbyist of today. And he is definitely as essential to the well-being of this country as the members of the other two legislative houses who are duly elected as representatives of the people.
The average law-makeJt" l"LU upon to pass and vote upon legislation covering a wide variety of technical subjects, concerning all of which he could not possibly be informed sufficiently to do justice to the important matters at hand. If he can turn to sorne man in whom he can rightfully repose confidence, and .secure from that man a reservoir of depehdable knowledge concerning some important matter on which he must pass, he is fortunate indeed; and so are the people he serves.
And that's that. A few more days and the turbulence of this always feared "Presidential election year" will be over.
Every man will be grateful. I know I will. And my deepest gratitude will be on account of the fact that frorn then on I will once again be able to tune in on my favorite radio program without hearing the eternal "Blah-blahblah" of politics.
Plenty of people advocate and predict that the time will soon come when trucks, busses, and heavy vehicles will have separate highways of their own, and not be allowed on the highways that are built for lighter traffic. I'm that way about radio. I think we should have at least one great national broadcasting service entirely and forever free from the voices of men with axes to grind, whether they be political or business proclaimers. t:f*
I feel certain that a God of infinite justice and understanding will gladly issue a blanket proclamation of forgiveness to the millions of people who have uttered deep, dark, gutteral oaths in the past several months every time they reached for Bing Crosby and got Bunko Kelly, or for Jack Benny and got Loudmouth Jones. I would say in defense of that sort of cussing what that celebrated patriot and orator, Patrick Henry once said (with slight changes in wording): "If THIS cussing be sinning, then make the most of it."
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Speaking of PatrickHenry (and folks, THERE is a subject), I am reminded that I once heard a certain nationally known orator (who delivered the keynote speech at one of the national political conventions last summer) quote with mighty emphasis the immortal words of Patrick Henry -"Give me liberty, or give me death"-and then to the consternation of all his multitude of listeners, credit them to Henry Clay. Henry Clay was a mighty fine man, but it took a more inspired man than he could ever have been to rise to the heights of immortality to which Patrick Henry rose on several occasions.
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I remember once when my children were in school one of them was called upon to discuss in class their conception of the most interesting and colorful figure in American history. So she came home and asked me to suggest whom she should choose. And I told her to take Patrick llenry, and if she couldn't win that debate with such a subject, she should be ashamed of herself. She did; and she won the debate. If you have a quiet evening at home and
want to spend just one hour thrilling yourself to the very marrow with the brief and outlined story of a man' just read the essay on Patrick }Ienry, in Elbert Hubbard's "Little Journeys."
When Jimmy Walker was first suggested for Mayor of New York, one big NewYork politician asked another: "\Mhat sort of a mayor would Jimmy Walker make?" And the other answered: "Rotten. But, oh boy ! What a candidate !" And when you finish reading Elbert Hubbard's brief but magnificent word picture of Patrick Henry, you will say with equal enthusiasm: "Oh boy ! What an American !"
we need a "Give *",i"ir, *o, *t*r" me death" patriot in this country all the time to thrill and enthuse and protect us. But there never was but one. More's the pity. You read that picture of Patrick Henry that Elbert Hubbard paints; and then you look about you today and feel like you have gone withGulliver-into the land of the Lilliputians. *trF
And while we are reminiscing of great Americans, do you recall the time when Daniel Webster, a Whig' sat in a great assemblage and listened to the suggestion that the Whig party be abolished? And how he reared that mighty form and that Godlike brow of his before that assemblage
of great and near-great, and said to them: "Gentlemen, I am a Whig; a constitutional Whig; a Faneuil Hall Whig; and if you abolish the Whig party-WHERE AM I TO GO?" And those men looked at each other aghast, and wondered how they could abolish that party when it meant so much to Daniel Webster. Can you, by the farthest stretch of the imagination, conceive of any man in this day and age stampeding a great political meeting solely on the grounds that HE belonged to a party and therefore it could not be abolished? Some guy, thatWebster. It must follow the name. The Webster that wrote the dictionary was no slouch.
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Speaking of research; every day, almost, somewhere in this country, a street car line folds up and quits. Obsolete' they say. The bus and the private automobile have cut down its income below the survival line. So I asked a street railway man the other day if the street car folks were justlying down and letting their business go by default, or if they were, by any chance, taking the research route like the railroads have done, to try and stem the tide that fows so stoutly against them. And I was most interested to learn that the street car folks are right now starting a strong fight back. *:r:f
For the past several years, he told me, the street car
The many uses o[ this splendid material include the following:
Boat boards, drain boards, boats, clotheg chests, linen closets, bridge decking, ship declcing, house doors, screen doors, drawers, house flnish, flooring blocks, boat frames, icing platforms, lawn furniture, mine timbers, mouldings, pergolas, boat planking, water tanks, house trim, tunncl timbers, wardrobes, windmills.
California Lumber Representatives
Southern Calilornia
Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleyr Srn
Ralph
P. Duncan
Carl Davies
(Douglas Fir)
\f,/. H. Sharp
(Port Orford Cedar)
1515 Eagt Sevcnth Street
LOS ANGELES
Francigco Bay District
Seth L. Butler
7 Front Street SAN FRANCISCO
people as a group, have been experimenting with the pro,duction of a better sort of street car. And right now there are being built five hundred cars which are the direct result of their efforts and discoveries. Most of these five hundred are go,ing to be tried out in a single city-Chicago.
They are entirely noiseless; no grinding of wheels, no groaning of brakes. Their operation is as soft as the present day street car isharsh. They are builtlow and close to the ground, like the modern auto. They have an accleration like that of a powerful motor car. The seats are new and comfortable. Ventilation has been taken care of. Their makers believe that they have solved the problem, and that these new cars will help bring the street car back to where it was thirty years ago. Interesting, what?
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Speaking of research and what it has done for wood, I want all lumber folks wherever situated to know that there is a man in the town of Kenilworth, New Jersey, to whom the lumber and wood industry olves a debt which it can never repay, and which itwill probably never try to repay. I refer to Ernest F. Hartman, the only living authority so far as I know on the fireproofing of wood; a man who has devoted his life, his fortune, and his genius to experimenta-
tion directed entirely along the line of fireproofing wood; and who is making a truly amazing success of his enterprise and his efforts. :1.
Mr. Hartman knows more about what can be done to fireproof wood than all other individuals combined. With little help and little encouragement he has made a marvelously courageous effort to do two things: first, to discover how to make wood fireproof; second, to prove to the interested authorities on subjects that it can be done.
And now his lifelong efforts seem to be crowned with success. Fire underwriters and insurance people in many places are placing their seal of acceptance on his fireproofing processes. The National Lumber Manufacturers Association has given his tremendously successful efforts their full approval. Through his direct efforts, fireproofed wood is today being accepted for use in places where wood was never dreamed of before.
But the story of what Mr. Hartman has done belongs not in this brief space. You shall hear much of him in the days and years to come, for he is one of the true pioneers of the lumber industry.
An attractively illustrated pamphlet giving up-to-date information on the extent and facilities of the lumber operations of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company, has recently been issued by this concern.
"McCormick production," the pamphlet says, .,in 1935 totaled 250,000,000 board feet, only N per cent lower than the peak production-305,Oo0,00o feet, in 1928. Sales of McCormick and outside mills' lumber amounted, to Z7S,000,000 feet in 1935.
"Over $300,000 has been spent in the last year in addition to $750,000 expended to improve the pacific Coast terminals of the McCormick Steamship Company.
"Modernlogging methods have been adopted. New manufacturing equipment has been purchased. Mills, distribution, and personnel have been consolidated and improved."
Illustrations in the pamphlet include the logging operations, Port Gamble and St. Helens mills. the creosoting plant at St. Helens, McCormick lumber being discharged at New York and Wilmington, Calif. harbors, and a view of the Inner Harbor Terminal Company's yard at Wilmington.
Seth L. Butler, San Francisco and Coast Counties representative of Dant & Russell, fnc., Portland, recently made a triptoPortland. He traveled north by boat, taking his car with him, and after spending several days at the firm's of6ce, drove back to San Francisco, visiting a number of sawmills on the way. He was accompanied by Mrs. Butler.
Crossing the Pacific on the S. S. North Wind, chartered vessel of Pan-American Airways Company, is a cargo of California Redwood destined for use in construction activities at the Midway, Wake and Guam stations of the new trans-Pacific commercial air line.
While not the first shipment of Redwood to these outposts of progress, this cargo will be used in one of the nrost important phases of the project, the construction of three large refrigeration and cooling plants, designed to serve the needs of the air transport company and its traveling guests for years to come.
Structural and clear heart Redwood grades were selected because of their known resistance to termites and decay and Redwood's general ability to stand up under the most severe climatic conditions.
Pan-American Airways Company is building carefully and permanently. fn so doing, its engineers have been required to select materials meeting the demands of permanence, a quality which Redwood has long been known to possess.
The coastwise lumber schooner Santiam, owned by Sudden & Christenson, San Francisco, was destroyed by fire at Aberdeen, Wash., October 15. The estimated value of the ship was $75,000, the value of the cargo of lumber was placed at $15,000 and the amount of lumber was half a million feet. Capt. Ingvald Hellesto, of Oakland, was making his 175th trip on the Santiam.
Announcement is made by Wendling-Nathan Company, San Francisco, of another addition to their sales stafi, D. Normen Cords, who will cover the Bay district, Peninsula and Coast Counties territory.
Mr. Cords has been with the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company for eight years. He spent some time at the McCormick mills, a year and a half at the Pope & Talbot-McCormick retail and wholesale distributing yard in San Francisco, three years in the rail sales department and several years in the cargo department.
He went on the road early in 1933, traveling the Sacramento Valley and Marin, Napa and Sonoma territory, and for the past year and a half has covered the San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose territory, taking in the Coast Counties district since the early part of this year.
G. R. Bleeckdr, vice-president and general manager of the Western Lumber Co., Westfir, Ore., spent a few days in San Francisco last week, calling on many of his old friends in the lumber business. He was accompanied by Mrs. Bleecker.
The Midtown Material Co. at 2485 Fletcher Drive, Los Angeles, was recently started by D. W. Davis and Paul E. Kent. They will carry a complete line of building materials. The office is very attractively arranged and the interior, both walls and ceiling, are finished in Celotex.
Mr. Davis and Mr. Kent are well known in lumber and building material circles in the Los Angeles territory. Both were formerly with Ker'ckhoff-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Co. of Los Angeles.
The 1937 Redwood calendars are ready for delivery, and are more attractive than ever with 12 beautiful and varied views of Redwood scenes, one for each month. Backing these scenes are twelve pages of interesting and instructive material on the many uses of Redwood lumber.
This moderate priced advertising vehicle will keep the dealer's name and the many uses of Redwood lumber before his customers throughout 1937. Dealer's name is imprinted on backing paper. Sample and prices may be had from Pacific Gravure Co.,325 Minna St.. San Francisco.
Martin Johnson, sales manager, Pine Logging Co. of California, Fresno, was a recent Los Angeles visitor where he spent a few days calling on the trade.
We are prepared, to lurnish
It is freely conceded that the annual convention of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association held at Hotel Del Monte, Del Monte, Calif., October 22 and23, set a high mark of excellence from all points of view. There wal a large attendance of retail lumbermen and their ladies, and of manufacturers' and wholesalers' representatives. The business sessions were well attended.
The convention adopted a nerv constitution and by-laws for the Association, the purpose of which, accordingio the preamble, is "to unite the retail dealers engaged inlhe distribution of lumber, and/or lumber products and other building materials, in an association for the mutual benefit of its members." According to the new setup organized groups of retail lumber and/or retail lumber and bu-itding material dealers, as well as individual persons, firms or coiporations who qualify, will be eligible for membership in the Association. The present board of directors will-function for a period of four months, until the new board is elected.
Ge,grge W. LaPointe, of Menomonie, Wis., president of the National Lumber Dealers Association. addressed the convention on the subject of "Trade Associations." Other subjects discussed included taxation and increased costs of doing business, grade-marking, trade promotion, economy in building small homes, Federal Housing Program, and the Robinson-Patman Bill.
Praise was heard on all sides for the perfection of the convention arrangements. Chief credit mult be accorded to J. O. Handley, M. J. Murphy, Inc., Carmel, general chairman, and to his first lieutenant, Fred A. Witmer, secretary, Monterey Peninsula Lumbermen's Club. Other contributois to the outstanding success of the convention included Chas. G. Bird, Stockton Lumber Co., Stockton, chairman of exhibits committee; F. Dean Prescott, Vallev Lumber Co.. Fresno, chairman of program committee; Harold Prince, Tynan Lumber Co., Monterey, chairman of hotel and banquet ,committee; James A. Greenelsh, ITomer T. Hayward Lumber Co., Pacific Grove, chairman of entertainmeni committee, and George A. Good, Pacific Grove, chairman of registration committee.
Everything possible was done for the comfort and entertainment of convention visitors, and many of them expressed their appreciation of the beautiful setting of HotCl Del Monte and its fine service. It is safe to sav that all who attended will have pleasant memories of ttre 1936 convention.
_ First gq the program was the breakfast meeting of the Redwood Relations Committee at 8:00 a. m. Toint chairmen atthis conference were W. K. Kendrick. Vallev Lumber Co., Fresno, and Fred V. Holmes, Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., San Francisco. Subiects discussed were Redwood trade promotion, grade mirking. structural material and shingles. The attendance of 4O included Carl Bahr, president of the California Redwood Association. retailers-from all parts of the State and representatives of all the Redwood manufacturers.
There was a large entry for the golf tournament which got under way at 1:30 p. m. on the Del Monte course. In the tournament, a blind bogev one. Ed Green, IJnion Lumber Co., San Francisco: Charlie Wilson. American Lumber & Treating Co., San Francisco; H. S. Cheney, fnsulite Co., San Francisco, and Ed Seward, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., Los Angeles, tied for first place. After drawing lots the prizes were awarded as follows: 1st. Ed Seward: 2nd. Ed Green; 3rd, Charlie Wilson; 4th, H. S. Cheney.
In the draw for the winner of the J. H. Holmes cup, Ed Seward won from Ed Green.
_ T!t_" low gross score of 74 was made by Ernie Pieper, McElroy-Cheim Lumber Co., San Jose.
In the Calcutta pool based on the tournament the winners were Al Nolan, The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco; Francis Boyd, Boyd Lumber & Mill Co., Santa Barbara;
J. A. Harris, Jr., Monteiey Bay Redwood Co., Santa Cruz, and George W. LaPointe, Jr., Menomonie, Wis.
_ "Chuck" Griffen, Monterey Bay Redwood Co., Santa Cruz, chairman of the golf committee was in charge of the tournament.
_ There was a big attendance at the stag dinner for members and registered guests. The entertainment in charge of Steve Sheppard, magicibn, and master of ceremonies,-was first class.
-President Harry Lake presided at the breakfast meeting of the directors. The board unanimously approved the new constitution and by-laws of the Association.
The secretaries of the various local retail lumber organizations also held a breakfast meeting.
The convention was called to order by President Harrv A. Lake, with Paul Hallingby, Hammond Lumber Co., Los Angeles, presiding.
Kenneth Smith, Lumber & Allied Products Institute, Los Angeles, led the discussion on "Grade Marking," with a most interesting talk on the success of the Institute's grademarking program. This talk will be printed in full in the next issue. Joining in the discussion were Frank N. Gibbs, Gibbs Lumber Co., Anaheim; B. J. Boorman, Boorman Lumber Co., Oakland; Paul Hallingby, Los Angeles; Earl Johnson, Pasadena, E. C. Parker, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles; T. C. Combs, West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Los Angeles; A. E. Fickling, Fickling Lumber Co., Long Beach, and F. Dean Prescott, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno.
Robert Stanton, architect, of Monterey, spoke on "Building Help Through Architectural Service," concluding his talk with the remark that "the service of the architect should include drawing a floor plan that will enable the housewife to keep house witha minimum of work.l' He also strongly recommended the use of grade-marked lumber.
"Economy in Building Small Homes," .\Mas the subject assigned to-T. C. Combs, field engineer, 'West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Los Angeles. The speaker said that it is definitely predictable that lumber will continue to be the chief material used for the small home, but pointed out
that much effort must be made to keep it so. He gave in detail the items pertaining to lumber which can result in lower cost of individually built dwellings, and enhance the enviable position now held by lumber in this huge market.
In the discussion on this subject, W. K. Kendrick said that lumbermen should encourage research into the question of lowering the cost of small homes. B. J. Boorman and A. E. Fickling also joined in the discussion
Mr. Combs recommended that formation by the Association of a committee to investigate this matter, and suggested that a small home be built for study from the plans of the Forest Products Laboratory.
Warren Tillson, Modesto Lumber Co., Modesto, chairman of the reorganization committee of the State Association on new constitution and by-laws, presented the committee's report. Copies of the new constitution and bylaws were distributed, and after considerable discussion and the addition of some amendments, these were adopted unanimously by the convention. Those who contributed to the discussion included Ira E. Brink, The Diamond Match Co., Chico; F. Dean Prescott, Fresno; Geo. L. Meissner, Valley Lumber Co. of Lodi; John Hauge, Redwood Empire Lumbermen's Club, Santa Rosa; Fritz Dettmann, Allen & Dettmann Lumber Co., San Francisco; G. E. Cavin, N. San Diego Lumbermen's Club, Oceanside, and Earl Johnson, Johnson Lumber Co., Pasadena.
Copies of the new constitution and byJaws were ordered to be printed for distribution.
The new constitution provides that the present board of directors will function for the next four months. after which the new board will be elected.
All registered members and guests attended a luncheon at which the entertainment was in charge of J. O. Handley, general chairman of convention committees.
Chas. G. Bird, Stockton Lumber Co., Stockton, presided at the afternoon session.
D. C. McGuiness, San Francisco, discussed the "Federal Housing Program," reviewing the history of the FHA from its inception up to the present date, and urging the members to work for its continuance.
George W. LaPointe, Jr., of Menomonie, Wis., president of the National Lumber Dealers' Association, who came to the convention as the guest of the organized groups of California retailers, was introduced by F. Dean Prescott, Fresno, member of the executive committee of the National Association, and took as his subject, "Trade Associations."
Mr. LaPointe said he brought greetings from the National Association, and wishtd to thank the California Retail Lumbermen's Association for their cooperation.
The National Association's job, he said, is to coordinate the activities of the regional associations.
In speaking of the NRA he said the good points of this were that it stopped cut-throat competition for awhile and got the dealers better acquainted. The bad features of the NRA were that it broke down distribution practices that had been built up over a long period of years, and disrupted many other things that now have to be rebuilt.
Distribution is one of the main problems of the lumber business and always will be. It is primarily the problem of the manufacturers. he said. and the National executive committee has given a lot of time and effort to the solution of this problem. The only way to put building material into the hands of consumers at lowest possible prices is for retailers to get all legitimate retail business.
Mr. LaPointe praised the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau for its policy of marketing shingles through retail lumber dealers exclusively. Hetold of the progress that had been made in working out problems in the distribution of various
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"\Mhat's all that noise I hear in the quarters?" asked the Colonel of his house man, Sleepy Joe.
"Dass a bunch o'nigguhs whut jes got dere bonus money, an's dey's shootin' craps."
"f don't likethat," said the Colonel. "Go down there and break up that game."
"Yassuh," said Sleepy Joe, and disappeared in the direc-
George W. Gorman, general manager, Trans-Pacific Lumber Co., Port Orford, Ore., has bought a new plane which he will use to speed up travel between his office in San Francisco and the sawmill at Port Orford, and also on business trips throughout California.
The plane is a 3-place Fairchild monoplane with a top speed of 135 miles an hour.
Mr. Gorman flew from San Francisco to Del Monte to attend the convention of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, October 22 and 23. He was accompanied on the trip by Merle D. Bishop, Builders Emporium, El Cerrito.
He left on a trip to Port Orford. October 27.
The sawmill of Moore Mill & Lumber Company started operation withina few days of the fire which recently destroyed the cityof Bandon.
Carl R. Moore, manager of the company's San Francisco office, reports that there is a very'active building program in Bandon. Many of those who lost their homes are rebuilding at once, and the W. P. A. housing program is providing temporary housing for many whose homes were burned.
tion of the colored quarters. He didn't come back for two hours, and when he showed up the Colonel jumped him.
"'Where in tarnation have you been, boy? I have been waiting on you?" he wanted to know.
"\Mell, Suh," said the colored one. "Youall tole me to break up dat crap game, an' Ah only had fo' bits to staht wid, so hit tuk me quite a while."
Tom Dant, Dant & Russell, Inc., is on a tour of his firm's sales connections in the Southwestern and Eastern States. Before going East he spent three days with Seth L. Butler calling on the trade in San Francisco Bay district and Coast Counties, and three days with Ralph P. Duncan, representative in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys. He also visited the company's Los Angeles office,
The Diamond Match Company has purchased the yard of the Lodi Lumber Company, Lodi, and took possession on October 19.
P. O. Young, transferred from the company's Red Bluff yard will manage the Lodi yard.
Floyd W. Elliott, manager of the San Francisco office of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., recently made a business trip to Coos Bay and Reedsport, Ore. He was accompanied by Chas. T. Gartin, salesman for the company.
The La Jolla Lumber Co. has purchased the Coast Lumber Co. at La Jolla, Calif.
Continued from Page 11) building materials. He stressed the importance of flghting adverse legislation nationally as well as within the States.
He reviewed the part played by the National Association in bringing the FHA into being and improving it, and urged dealers to support the movement for continuing the FHA, which has sold the dealers the idea of installment selling and changed the whole mortgage system.
In conclusion Mr. LaPointe said in part: "We need trade associations more today than ever in our history. Things don't just happen. They are the result oJ someone's work. Our own problems engage us, but we should back up our trade associations when they call upbn us. I believe it possible to sell the "organized friendship" idea to every dealer who is not now a member of an association. In Wisconsin our State Association has 930 members out of a total of 980 yards. Associations can be the backbone of our business, enabling us to reach our trvo main objectives-to be allowed to run our own business, and to make a reasonable profit.
H. R. Northup, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, San Francisco, was given the topic of "Trade Promotion." He told the convention of the fine work that had been done by the West Coast office of the N.. M. L.A. in preventing laws adverse to the use of lumber, and of some of the present activities of the Association, including the effort to bring back many uses for hardwoods that have been lost. He also spoke of the three experimental low cost homes built by the N. M. L. A., which will put the results of this work in book form for the use of lumber dealers.
A. C. Horner, manager, \Mestern Timber Structures, San Francisco, outlined the proposed activities of his company, the stock of which is owned by 30 of the larger lumber
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manufacturers of the Pacific Northwest. This concern proposes to prefabricate and store such structures as oil derricks, radio towers, roof trusses and tank towers of wood, and merchandise them in direct competition with steel and other products. The policy, he said, is to distribute the products through lumber dealers.
Carl Bahr, president of the California Redwood Association, speaking on the "Redwood Trade Promotion Problem," said the Redwood manufacturers will seek the coooeration of the retail lumber dealer in their trade promotioh work. It will be their jobto help him to sell their product, and their principal approach to the consumer wil be through the retail lumber dealer. Their promotion work will help the dealer to build good.ivill for himself in his community.
He took issue with so much talk about making the cost of houses cheaper, saying that the quality of the lumber used in homes is more important than its cheapness. Redwood lumber costs more;'it is a quality produit and must be sold on the basis of quality.
E. C. Parker, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles, addressed the convention on "Taxation and Increased Cost of Doing Business," and received hearty applause for his splendid talk on this important subject. In response to many requests from those attending the convention Mr. Parker's address is printed in full in this issue.
Kenneth Smith, Lumber & A1lied Products Institute. Los Angeles, was asked to substitute for Morgan J. Doyle, attorney, of San Francisco, in a talk on the "Robinson-Patman Bill." Mr. Smith said this bill undertakes to end discrimination in selling that gives one manufacturer or business man an advantage over another, and is an attempt to establish the old lines of cleavage betlveen the manufactur-
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er, wholesaler and retailer. The whole purpose of the act seemed to him to be to stop the manufacturer or wholesaler from giving one customer a knife to stab his iompetitors with, and he believed the direct effect in the lumber business will be the prohibition of giving a wholesale discount to retailers.
President Harry Lake thanked J. O. Handley for his fine cooperation in putting over the convention, which was one of the best ever held in California. Looking back he said he was glad he had been given the opportunity of working for the Association during the past six or seven years. It had meant giving a lot of his time, but on the rvhole it was worth it, and he had gained a lot.
Mr. Lake said theaid of the secretaries of the local groups will be invaluable in working out the new setup of the State Association, and that he felt very optimistic about the future of the Association.
Chas. S. Dodge, MacDonald & Harrington, San Francisco, won the drarving for a plan book presented by the E. M. Dernier Service Bureau, Los Angeles.
The convention adjourned, at 5:15 p. m.
The annual banquet, entertainment and dinner clance was held at 7:0O p. m. The entertainment was again handled by Steve Sheppard, magician, and master of ceremonies. More than 350 attended.
The pryes in the bridge game on Thursday evening were yol by Mrs. Seth I Butler, San Francisco, and Mrs.Ralph P. Duncan, Merced.
The ladies were taken on a tour of the Monterey Peninsula on Friday afternoon, and those who wished played tennis and golf. All ladies were invited to the binquet and dinner dance.
The entertainment committee for visiting ladies was composed of Mrs. George A. Good, chairman, Mrs. |ames Greenelsh, Mrs. M. J. Murphy and Mrs. A. H. Griffin.
The exhibitors at the convention were the following: California Redwood Association, California Builders Supfly Co., Pioneer-Flintkote Co., Calaveras Cement Co., Van Arid.leHarris Lumber Co. (Nu-Wood and Balsam Wool), American Lumber & Treating Co., Vancouvef Plywood & Veneer Co., Wendling-Nathan Co., Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., United States Gypsum Co., Monolith Cement Co., The Celbtex Company, Santa Cruz Portland Cement Co., El Rey Products Co., Cowell Portland Ceinent Co., Masonite Company, Elliott Bay Sales Co., California Wire Cloth Co.. Picific Portland Cement Co., Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., The Paraffine Companies, Inc., Certain-teed Products Co., Johns-Mansville Sales Corp., Coast Counties Lumbermen's Club.
Barber, Bernard B., Secretary San Joaquin Lumbermen's Club. Fresno
Chas. G. Biril
Francisco Valley
Oceanside
Monterey .......Salinas
Pacific Grove
Pacific Grove
Monterey Lumber. Watsonville
Dealers' Credit
Santa Barbara
Paul Hallingby
Presid,ed at Business Sessions
Harrison, Frank M., Secretary, Buildins Material Dealers'Credit Club ........ Santa Barbara
Hamilton, Orrie W., Secretary, Lumbermcn's Service Bureau San Diego
Hauge, S. J., Secretary, Redwood Empire Lumberrnen's Club . Santa Rosa
Love, L. A., Secretary, Tres Rios Lumbermen's Club Modesto
Lake, H. A., Garden Grove Lumber Co... .....Garden Grove
_LeMaster, C. D., Western Building Review Sacramento
McKeon, J. B., Secretary, Peninsuia Lumbernren's Club...Redwood
Reenders, C., Secretary, Inland Lumber Institute San Bernardino
Snrith, Kenn_eth, Lumber and Allied Products Institute..Los Angeles
Tripler, C. S., Secretary, Coast Counties Lunroernren's Club Watsonville.
Witnrer, Ffed A,, Secretary, Monterey Peninsula Lumbermen'sClub.. ......:...... pacificGrove
Work, T._A. Jr_.,_The Work Lumber Co. Monterey
Engstrand, R. M., Secretary, Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley Lumbermen's Club ......... So. pasadena
Adanrs, V. V., Secretary, Chamber of Commerce Monterev
Adams, I. N., Noah Adagrs Lumber Co. ... ..Oaktani
Armstrong, W. L., Certain-teed Products Corp ...San Jose
Brennan, Carl, Martin General Agency .............. San Franjisco
Bryson, R.J., Hammond Lumber Co.... .... San Francisco
Brown, H., Wocdhead Lumber Company Los Angeles
Boyd, Francis E., Boyd Lumber and Mill Co. .......Santa Barbara
Buckley, Henry M., Certain-teed Products Corp. ....San Francisco
Burnett, Geo.C.,The Burnett Lumber Co........... Tulare
Puisman,-Ben,_P.acific Retail Lumbermen . portland, Oregon
Bahr, C. W., California Redwood Association San FrancGco
Bird, Charles G., Stockton Lumber Co. . Stockton
Brink, I. E., The Diamond Match Co. Chico
Barr, O. H., Barr Lumber Co. ... ...... Santa Ana
Bryan, B. E., Strable Hardwood Co. .'. ..' Oakland
Butler, Seth S., Dant and Russell, Inc. San Francisco
Cheney, Harry S., 'l'he Insulete Co. ... .'.... San lrancisco
Clotfeiter, Ray, W. G. Spalding Lumber Co. . Visalia
Chapman, C. H. Santa Ana
Cornwall, Geo. M., TheTimberman ...'. San !'rancisco
Chapin, Fred A., Fred A. Chapin Lumber Co. ' San Bernardino
Chapman, H., Certain-teed Products San Francisco
Crain, R. T., The Celotex Corp. . Los Angeles
Carver, H. B., feoples Lumber Co, .. Santa Paula
Cook. Max. 'I'he Pacific Lumber Co. . . San Francisco
Carter, J. E., Salinas Planing Mill. Salinas
Courtney, A. A., Jr., Pacific Portland Cement Co.. San Francisco
Cardiff, Geo. H., Henry Cowell Lumber and Cement Co..Santa Cruz
Cords, D Norman, Wending-Nathan Co. San Francisco
Chapman, Stanley A., Henry Cowell Lime and Cement Co.. 'San Jose
Dodge, Chas. S., MacDonald and Harrington, Ltd. ' San Francisco
Dixon, R. C., Coos Bay Lumber Co. ... '... Oakland
F. L. bettmann, Allen and Dettmann Lumber Co.. San Francisco
Duncan, Ralph P., Dant and Russell Merced
Dernier, Lochlin A., E. M. Dernier Service Bureau Los Angeles
Enlow, \M. H., Hammond Lumber Co. ' '.... Watsonville
Euphrat, M. L. "Duke," Wendling Nathan Co. ' San Francisco
Foi, Fred D., El Rey Products Co. ....San Mateo
Freeman, Wm. S., Weyerhauser Sales Co. San Francisco
Falconbury, N. H., San Joaquin Lumber Co. . Stockton
Fickling,;i. E., Fickling Lumber Co. .'.. ....-Long-Bea.ch
Fisher,lohn W., Fisher-Swartz Lumber Co' . Santa Monica
Felix,'M. P., Pi,oneer-Flintkote Co. .'. San Francisco
Fatzer, Carl,'Monolith Portland Cement Co. San Francisco
Found. Waiter S.. Merced Lumber Co. ' Merced
Ganihl. L. A.. Ganaht Lumber Co. ..... Santa Barbara
Gartin, J. U.,'SthnisliuS Lumber Co. ....'.'.'. Modesto
Graham, Ilarry J., Pioneer-Flintkote Co. ' Los Angeles
Green, E. L., Union Lumber Co. ' . San Francisco
Godard, Lewis A., Hobbs-Wall and Co. San Francisco
Griffen, "Chuck," Monterey Bay Redwood Co. Santa Cruz
Ganahl, Ernest Anaheim
Gartin, Chas T., Schafer Bros. Lumber and Shingle Co. San Francisco
Havward. Sam t., Hayward Lumber and Inv. Co. . Los Angeles
Hansen, H. S., Union Supply Co. . Monterey
Hale, M. P., Sterling Lumber Co. ..-:.. Morgan.Hill
Hiyward, Arthur Cl Homer T. Hayward Lumber Co. Salinas
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llagerman, H., Southern Pacific Milling Co. . Salinas
naiirngby, Paul, Hammond Lumber Co. .'. Los Angeles
Hull, It.-W., Jr., County Roof Service .'..r.. Salinas
Hancock, C. E., Certain-teed Products ..'.. San Francisco
Hackett, L. J.,'The Celotex Corp. '..' Los-Angeles
Hills, Fiorace, Masonite Corp. San Francisco
l{ardwick, W., Dinuba Lumber Co. ..'. Dinuba
Hamilton, W. G., Holmes E,ureka Lumber Co. ........ Los Angeles
Holmes, j. H., Holmes Eureka Lumber Co. ' '. Berkeley
Horton, I-.8., South City Lumber and Supply Co...So. San Francisco
Hexberg, C., Union Lumber Company San Francisco
Holn'res,'T. i<., Calaveras Cement Co. ... '.... San Francisco
Horner. A. C..' Western Timber Structures San Francisco
Hanson, Carl J., Secretary, Bay District Lumbermen's Institute....
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HolmeJ, Fred V., Holmes Eureka Lumber Co. ....... San Francisco
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Hills, R. .E., Wendling-Nathan Co. San Francisco
Harris, Matt, Van Aridale-Harris Lumber Co. ' . San Francisco
Hansen, W. J., S. H. Chasi: Lumber Co. ".... San Jose
Jefferson, W. 8., Greater City Lumber Co. San Francisco
johnsorr,'Earle E., Watsonviile Lumber Co. Watsonville
jefferson, Marlin, Greater City Lumber Co. .....'... San Francisco
Jat.t.s., I., U. S. Gypsum Co. ... .'....r. Sarl Josc
ktlne,'M. E., Urlion Lumber Company ...... Los A,ngeles
Kirk,'Joe, Southern Pacific Milling Co. San Luis Obispo
Kahmin. W. G.. Shevlin Pine Sales Co. . San Francisco
Kerldrick, W. K., Va1ley Lumber Co. Fresno
Liebeskind, O. F., Southern Pacific Milling Co. San Francisco
Lofgren, A. m. . San Francisco
Larn'on,'F. R., Lamon-Bonnington Co. San Francisco
LaPointe, Geo. W., Jr., O. & N. Lumber Co. Menomoqfe, Wisc.
Lawrence, W.". J., Shevlir-r Pine Sales Co. . San Francisco
McCabe, johq C., Wholesale Lumber ..San Francisco
Mueller, A. 9., fhe Paraffine Companies, Inc. ' . San Francisco
Maier. A. W..-Calaveras Cement Co. '.. ""' San Francisco
Mein,'W. W., J.., Calaveras Cement Co' ... San Francisco
Meissner, Ceo.-f-., Valley Lumber Co. , ....... Lodi
McNulty; F. M., McNully Lumber Co. ' San- Bryno
Marsh' Chas' L" Hammond Lumber co' "' Madera
Miller, O. H., Knox Lumber Co., Inc. Sacramento
Merriam, H. R., Calif. Wire Cloth Co. Oakland
Martin, A. R., 'H"1". and Symons Sonora
Nolan,'A. J., The Pacific Lumber Co. ... San Francisco
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NorthqP, !r R., Nat'I. Lumber Manufacturers Assn...San Francisco Holmes, J. H., Holmes Eureka Lumber Co. ........ San Francisco
Nigh' W.!.' Wendling Nathan Co. ... San Francisco Jones, Nelson E., Jones Hardwood Co. ... San Francisco
Prescott, F. Dean,Valley Lumber Co. Fresno Klass, Herb, The-Pacific Lumber Co. San Francisco
Prince, -H. 4., 'l'Vl"q Lumber Co. ... . Monterey LeBreton, D. H., Coos Bay Lumber Co. . Oakland
Peters, Ralph,U.S. GypsumCo.... .. San Francisco Morton,H.S.,Hill&Morion. Inc.... Oakland
Peil, F.{., IlammondLumber Co.... San Francisco Pieper, Ernest,McElroy-Cheim Lumber Co. SanJose
Parker, E-_. C.,_Patten-Blinn Lumber Co, . ..... LosAngeles Stanton, L.H., E.J. Sianton &Son. .. Los Angeles
Prewitt,_Roy E.,.Sou_t!'ern.fac1fi9 Milling Co. ... .. Gonzales Teachouq David, Teachout Co.
Cleveland, O. liie_r!y,Sam.,Johns-Manville Sales Corp. ... San Francisco Wilcox,S.W.,O'MalleyLumberCo....
Itobie E. T.,_Auburn Lumber Co. ...
Rogers, Joe, Square Deal Lumber Co,
Beam,^Geo. E, Ker_ckhoff-Cuzner Mill & Lbr. Co.
Ross, S. P., Central Lumber Co.
Rivers, I. G., Pioneer-Flintkote Co.
Strite, Dan, Hammond Lumber Co.
Swanson, Mack L., The Celotex Corp.
Smelser, V, G., Convention Bureau
Statler, Brockwell, Pacific Portland Cement Co.
Schwartz, Mel, California Wire Cloth Co.
Spicer, Walter S., Bay District Lumber Co.......Newport
'1 iilson, Warren S., The Modesto Lumber Co.
Tretten, O. C., Santa Cruz Portland Cement Co. San Francisco
Uldall, Martin, Pacific Portland Cement Co. .. San Francisco
Vincent, Norman, J. H. Baxter & Co. San Francisco
Warner, Glenn B., Nicolai Door Sales Co. San Francisco
Wylie, D. A., The Paraffine Company, Inc. ., San Francisco
Wilson, Chas. R., American Lumber & Treating Co...San Francisco
Warner, W. A., Vancouver Plywood and Veneer Co. . Vancouver
Wright, J. F., Brey-Wright Lumber Co. . Porterville
Wilson, Ward E., Monolith Portland Cement Co. Oakland
Waterman, W. T., U. S. Gypsum Co. ... .. Berkeley
Williamson, Arthur D., California Builders Supply Co. .. ..Oakland
Witty, L. L., Calif. Redwood Association San Francisco
Whittemore, H. E., Benson Lumber Co. San Diego
White, Frank H., Hammond Lumber Co. . San Francisco
Woodson, L, J., Wheeler Osgood Sales Corp. San Francisco
Atkinson, Jas. E., "Jimmy," Campbell-Moore LumberCo....
Boorman, B. J., Boorman Lumber Co. Oakland
Blanchard, Roscoe, Blanchard Lumber Co. North Hollywood
Blanchard, Roscoe, Jr., Blanchard Lbr. Co.........North Hollywood
Ball, Geo. R., Yosemite Sugar Pine Lumber Co. .. .. Merced Falls
Chaster, A. M., Sterling Lumber Co. Oakland
Combs, Theodore C., West Coast Lumbermen's Assn. ..Los Angeles
Farley, J. J., The Pacific Lumber Co. San Francisco
Ford, H. J., Yosemite Sugar Pine Lumber Co. Merced Falls
Freston, Herbert Los Angeles
Gibbs, Frank N., Gibbs Lumber Co.
Hink, Henry M., Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co. San Francisco
Johnson, Earl, Johnson Lumber Co. Pasadena
Kendrick, Geo, R., Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.. San -Francisco
Lounsberry, Geo., Lounsberry and Harris Los Angeles
Matthews, H. W., Yosemite Sugar Pine Lumber Co...Merced Falls
Mashek, W. O., United Lumber Yard Inc.
Minard, Frank F:,. C. S. Pierce Lumbir Co, Pierce, Gordon D., Boorman Lumber Co. . Oakland
Suverkrup, H. F., John Suverkrup Lumber Co. .. San Bernardino
Parsons, Harry, Southern Pacific Milling Co. ... Salinas' Sayre,F.L.,SterlingLumberCo.... Oakland
lwaffor!, llenry M,, E. J. Stanton and Son Los Angeles
Snead, J. C., Wendling-Nathan Co. .'.. Frisno
Seward, R. E., Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co......... Los Angeles
Ambergey, Fred, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. .. San Franiisco
Bernhaeur, A. W., Fresno Planing Mill . Fresno
Bishop, Merle D., Builders' Emporium El Cerrito
Cole, Lloyd, Hammond Redwood Co. Los Ansetes
Davis, E. G., Coos Bay Lumber Co. Los Angeles
Gorman, Geo. W., Trans-Pacific Lumber Co. San Franiisco
Jas. E. Atkinson
M. D. Bishop
Francis E. Boyd
Mrs. R. J, Bryson ....... .... San Francisco
Mrs.SethButler. San Francisco
Mrs. O. H. Barr Santa Ana
Mrs. A. W, Bernhaeur ..... Fresno
Mrs. R. W. Blanchard ..... .. N. Hollywood
Mrs. C. H. Blanchard ., Santi Ana
Mrs. G. E. Cavin Oceanside
Mrs. H. B. Carver Santa paula
Mrs. Fred A. Chapin San Bernardino
Mrs. Robert Cameron Mill Valley
Mrs. C. H. Chaprnan Santa Ani
Mrs. Lloy_d Cole ..... Los Angeles
Mrs. T. C. Combs Los Anleles
Mrs. Ralph P. Duncan MJrced
Miss E. M. Dernier . Los Angeles
Miss Delores Enlow ... Watsonville
MissHelenaEn'low. ............Watsonvilte
Mrs, R. M. Engstrand Pasadena
Mrs. Wm. S. Freeman San Francisco
M... 4.. E.__Fi*ling Long Beach
Mrs. John W. Fisher .. Santa*Monica
Mrs. Fred D. Fox San Mateo
Mrs. Herbert Freston . Los Angeles
Mrs. H. J. Ford Merced Falis
Mrs. Geo. W. Gorman Alameda
Mrs. L. A; Ganahl
Mrs. Ernest Ganahl ....... Anaheim
Mrs. J. A:-Greenelsh Pacific Grove
Mrs. George Good pacific Grove
Mrs. Frank E..Gibbs ......:......r Anaheim
Mrs. J. O. Handley . Carmel
Mrs. W. G. Hamilton Los Angeles
Mrs, Orrie W. Hamilton
.. San Diego
Mrs. Paul Hallingby ... Los Angeles
Mrs. Frank M. Harrison Santa Barbara
Mrs. W. Hardwick Dinuba
Mrs. F. V. Holmes Berkeley
Mrs. S. T. Hayward Los Angeles
Mrs. Minnie Mae Johnson Watsonville
Mrs. Earl Johnson Pasadena
Mrs, Nelson E. Jones San Francisco
Mrs. H. C. Lynn San Bernardino
Mrs. W. K. Kendrick
. Fresno
Mrs. Geo. L. Meissner Lodi
Mrs. Chas. L. Marsh Madera
Mrs. Ernest Pieper . San Jose
Mrs. F. Dean Prescott Fresno
Mrs.GordonD.Pierce
Mrs. E. T. Robie
......Oakland
.. Auburn
Mrs. Joe Rogers Salinas
Mrs. Harold L. Rider
. Los Angeles
Mrs. Watter Spicer . Santa Ana
Mrs. V, Glenn Smelser . Santa Monica
Mrs. Dan strite Los Angeles
Mrs.R.E.Seward
LosAngeles
Mrs. H. F. Suverkrup San Bernardino
Mrs. Kenneth Smith Los Angeles
Mrs, O. C, Tretten . San Francisco
Mrs. C. S. Tripler . Watsonville
Mrs. J. F. Wright Porterville
Mrs. B. J. Booiman Oakland
Mrs. H. W. Matthews
'. Merced Falls
Fred R. Lamon and G. F. "Jerry" Bonnington, of LamonBonnington Co., San Francisco, returned October 14 from the Northwest, where they arranged their rail and cargo mill connections.
While in the Northwest they appointed W. B. Dascomb, well known lumberman, as their Portland representative. Mr. Dascomb's office is in the Terminal Sales Building.
A big crowd was on hand at the regular monthly meeting of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club, held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, on Monday evening, October 19, to hear Doug Montell, Associated Oil Company's sport-caster, tell how he and other football announcers do such a good job of broadcasting the games. Moving pictures of some of this season's games were shown, and the various plays were described by Mr. Montell. He afterwards answered many questions.
President Miland Grant presided, and Gordon Pierce introduced the speaker
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Publishers of newspapers on the American frontier often had many handicaps to overcome in getting out their little weekly journals. Few, however, experienced a more discouraging start than a pioneer Colorado editor who explained his situation to his readers in the first issue of the paper, thus:
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Walter Luft has resigned from the staff of The Red River Lumber Company after 37 years of service and as Chief oI the Westwood Volunteer Fire Department, effective November first. His career in the lumber industry has spanned its development from the ox team and raft to its modern motorized efficiency.
Born in Farnham, Surrey, England in 1870. Mr. Lufi came to this country in 1891, and at once headed for the pine woods of Wisconsin. He must have taken naturally to this new environment for he soon was driving a six-ox team in the woods. In 1894 he was .a scaler drawing one dollar a day, the highest paid man in the camp. From 1895 to 1899 he was employed by the Knapp Stout & Co. Companyx who operated six mills at Cedar Falls and Menominee and rafted their lumber to Iowa points and St. Louis.
In September, 1899, he came to The Red River Lumber Company at Akeley, Minnesota, as a grader, later transfcrring to the office where he was an accountant, later office nlanager. Mr.Luff was the resident manager who closed out the Red River loggittg and milling operations in Minnesota in 1917. Since that time he has been at Westwood, rvhere he was Plant Superintendent until 1933, when he went into the Sales Department.
Walter Luft is most widely known as the Chief of the Westwood Fire Department, which is rated by underwriters as one of the most efficient organizations, paid or volunteer, in Northern California. He had been Chief of the Akeley Fire Department and upon arrival in Westwood was given command of the Westwood forces consisting of 4O men and 2 trucks. Chief Luff has had a major part in the development of this force to its present status of 130 men, six trucks and a Fire Train with a crew of ten.
Chief Luff's leadership has inspired a high degree of loyalty efficiency in this crew of volunteer fire fighters. In 1934 with 39 alarms, the average elapsed time from alarm to out whistle was slightly less than 8minutes. In 1933 vrith .54 alarms the record was 6 minutes. At a recent test run 26 streams were placed in operation. The one phase of his record which Chief Lufi says is the most important is the fact that in eighteen years, which have seen some heavy conflagrations and many dangerous situations, not one man has been injured.
Mr. Luff is to be the guest of honor at a testimonial dinner before his departure for San Jose where he will make his future home.
* Editor: This is not an error, "Knapp Stout & Co. Company" was the official title they insisted upon.
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Address Delivered Before the Annual Convention of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association at Del Monte, October 23,1936
I have been asked by the program committee to read a paper I have prepared on the subject "Taxation and Increased Cost of Doing Business." After listening to the interesting speakers this morning and this afternoon and the excellent address made bv President La Pointe, this afternoon, I will not feel hurt ifro*. oi you decide to "take a walk."
I will first discuss the subject of taxes, not from any theoretical or professional standpoint, but only as they affect you and me as lumbermen trying to make our business pay. California lumbermen, as a class, have been so busy the last four or five years trying to get hold of enough money for payrolls on Saturday night that about the only kind of taxes they knew or cared about were city and county property taxes, a few city license taxes and a few other nuisance taxes. These were about tlre only taxes they paid to the tax collector direct and since the city and county property taxes have, in most instances, actually decreased on the same pieces of property since 1932, the retail lumber dealer was letting the other fellow do the tax worrying.
Conditions in the lumber business have now changed to such an extent that lumbermen are beginning to take notice and see what this tax business is all about.
Governments-City, County, State and Federal-have been sorely pressed in the past four or five years. Conditions have been such that money over and above the ordinary expenditures has had to be spent. Every business man during this period has been obliged to take many steps that he did not want to take, and has had to spend money to protect his interests which he did not want to spend. Those in charge of Governments have had to take steps which they probably didn't want to take and spend money in an endeavor to protect communities and do that which they considered under the circumstances to be for the best interests of the Country.
Hundreds of thousands of people were in destitute circumstances, and relief for them at the time seemed necessary. Other hundreds of thousands needed work, and a great many people thought it best to spend money to make work for them. Other hundreds oI thousands were being foreclosed out of their homes and farms, and a great many people thought it was a good thing to spend money to save them and stop the property deflation. Many other people thought it wise to spend money to build up the purchasing power of farmers and spend money for other such projects with the idea in mind of bringing back recovery.
It is probable that any group of men, as heads of government units, would have spent an amount of money which, after it was spent, many of us would have thought was too much. Considering all circumstances, results in my opinion have justified a certain good percentage of the expenditures which have been made by Federal, State and local Governments: but fhe exact line of distinction between what has been wise and sound. and what has been unwise and unsound, I will leave to you to decide. I can assure you that you will be amply assisted in your decision by turning on the radio on any evening from now till November 3rd.
But my subject deals with taxes which we have now and the taxes which are to come, and what, if anything, there is for us as lumbermen to do about it. California's share of the Federal debt, based on Catifornia's population, to the whole. is about $1,773.511,975: while the Stiie;na local debt is $1,057,351,122, or a total debt liability of Californians of about $2,830,863,097. On a per capita basis, this is an increase in three years in Federal debt of $87.93 or 48%, an increase in State debt per capita of $13.07 or 57y'o, and, a decrease in local debt per capita of $12.38 or 9%. The reason, of course, that the per capita State and local debt has increased only 69c is due to the immense sums amounting to about $1,100,000,000 spent in the cities and counties, etc., of this State by the Federal Givernment.
I could go on indefinitely with statistics about increases in Federal, State and local taxes; For instance, California has a population of double what it was in 1917, but \Me spent on the averige in the last six or seven years, over four times as much on our schobls. We will spend in 1936 for State and local government, four times what was spent twenty years ago, although our population has only doubl9d, a1d this is irrespective of the Federal funds which will be spent in this state.
California's share of the Federal, State and local debt, which has to be paid eventually by taxes, is as stated about $2,830,863,097.00, not to mention contingent liabilities, such as State bonds, authorized but unsold, etc., which runs into an immense sum.
Many of us just working in the lumber business do not know what this means. Well, one way to visualize it is to understand that it will take 42.7% of the assessed value of all the land, improvements, and personal property in the state to pay for it. Of course, this debt will be ammortized over a great many years. It is also well to remember in this connection that governments do not look upon debt in the same light as a business man does. A business man $'ants to pay ofi all his debts at the earliest possible moment; whereas, any of you who have read treatises on government debt know that there are many arguments pro and con as to the effect of debt on a nation's monetary policy.
All nations, notably England, in the past few years have compefed with each other to keep their money cheap as regards other nations. But, this nation's policy will be to reduce the debt to a certain point at the earliest p-ossible moment, and we will be called upon to help do it.
Without even considering the accumulated debt, the lumber dealer will be called upon to pay taxes to maintain current expenditures of Government which will be on a high basis. The Federal Government will collect in taxes for the fiscal year 1937 a total of about $5,665,830,000, which is about 50/o more, in dollars, than the yearly average for the past four or five years, included in which figure is about $2,303,363,000 of income tax, which tax is about double the yearly average for the past four or five years, The State and local governments in Calilornia will collect in taxes for the fiscal vears 1937 a total of about $500,000,000 which is about 30/o more, in -dollars, than the yearly average the past four or five years.
There has been a lot of discussion in the papers and on the part 6f all business men about balancing the budget. I think it must be admitted that the heads of all governmentat bodies want to balance the budget. It is my opinion that with increasing business the budget will be balanced. But as a practical matter, we lumbermen are interested in knowing where the budget is to be balanced. It is pretty generally conceded by non-partisan economic wrifers that irrespective of who heads the National Government that the budget will be balanced at a high figure. As long as large sums are to be spent for relief and kindred expenditures, and as long as such powerful blocs as the farmers are to be paid subsidies, and other kindred blocs and programs are to be sustained, then just so long must the budget be at a high level. It is not very encouraging in this regard to note that both National Parties are now promising and proposing to spend liberally for relief and to give more and larger subsidies than ever to farmers.
It is also quite generally admitted that whichever National Party is in power, the total of taxes collected will be more or less the same in amount for several years to come, at least. If total expenditures are drastically reduced, then the policy will be to retire debt and the total collections will likely be the same. Kiplinger, in his Washington letter of August 29th, says, and I quote, "Either man will hold tax reduction for later in his term."
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we as luobermen are going to have included in our expense accounts' an item which will be much larger than heretofore. And how are these taxes to be collected from lumbermen There are two kinds of taxes-those you pay in cash to the tax collector, and those you pay in the price of the goods you buy. First, as to those we pay direct: We are all familiar with City and County property taxes. It is, I think, a fact that they have actually been somewhat reduced. On 170 identical properties the assessment ior 1935-36 was lL.7/o less than L932-33 and the amount paid was 11.3% less. This tax is large, but there is tittle that cdn be said or done about it.It is interesting to note.in this regard that_an agent from the L. A. County assessor was in our office several days ago seeking data on the increase in building material prices, with a view to increasing the next assessment, and if you have read Los Angeles newspapers, you know what is liable to happen to the tax rate. Then we have the city license tax getting higher and higher. In several towns where the license was $10.00, it is now from $50.00 to $100.00.
Direct tax payments to the State will not likely be as large tn proportion as County or Federal taxes to lumbermen. They include the- new personal income tax, equal to one-quarter of the Federal income tax, and the State Franchise tax at the rate of 4Vo ol net income. Then there are the Motor Vehicle License taxes and the new levy of $1.75 per $100.O0 on motor vehicles, and such nuisance taxes to lumbermen as the highway transportation tax, which has made the lumbermen more grey hairs and cost less money than any tax I know of, Then there is the Truck Gross Receipts nuisance tax ol r/a of l/o. One of our best employees spent two days working up the data for the quarter ending September 30th and our full tax was 82c.
Now that there is a hope of profit on the part of lumbermen, the Federal taxes become very important, especially to those of us who are incorporated. The capital stock tax of $1.00 per $1000.00 on your declared value is an ea-sy way for the G6vernment to collect about 90 million dollars. The excess profits tax of 6/o to lZVo on profits over certain percentages of declared value will not $'oJry many lumber dealers this year, and especially in view of the fact that you could make a new declaration on July lst. But the normal income tax and the surtax on undistributed income will give them plenty to worry about. Time will not permit going into any detail relative to the complicated provisions of this tax. To take a simple example of a corporation with a net income of $15,000.00 and which paid out no dividends, the total tax would be $3607.25 or-24.05/o of income. The old rate would have been l3%%. On $15'000.00 net income, where $6705.00 or one-half of adjusted net income was paid out in dividends, the total tax would be $2162.80, of. 14.4%. The old
rate was L39/r%. On $15,000.00 net income where $13,410'00 or all the adjusted net income was paid out in dividends, the total ta)< would be $1590.00 or !0.6/o, whereas the old rate was \Q/{".' Corporationb which have adiusted net incomes under $50,000.00 have certain rate advantages over those having over $50,000.00. The object ot the law is tJ force dividends intd the handi of the stockholders. The stockholders must then pay 4 personal income tax, and, under the new law, dividends are subjecd [o both the normal tax and surtax provisions.
This tax works a detriment on those corporations which have debts which should be paid. In California ii is particularly detrimental to those corporations which, during the depression' acqulrec a surplus deficit, and the State Law says that you cannot in such conditions pay dividends. Any of us lumbermen know that net ln.come is nof cish income. Oui net income is usually in more trucks' more accounts receivable, or more land, and the government wants cash. And if dividends are declared, they certainly should be in cash in order that your stockholders can pay his personal income tax.It is my opinion that this law should be amended so that socalled cushiotts ian be p,rovided to correct some of its unequitable features.
The Capital Gains section of the income tax law should be amended also, so that if you sell a piece of land and lose $10,000.00, you c.an use the full amount on your return, since you have to turn rn the whole $10,000.00, if you make a gain. At the present time the total loss you can tai<e on capital losses, such as land and buildings is $2000.00. '
Then there is the kind of taxes we pay in the price of our goods' These include taxes of all kinds-sellers passing on to us the direct taxes they pay, such as property taxes, income taxes, etc'; and passing on to-ui the multitude of miscellaneous taxes such as sales taxes, gas tax, manufacturers' excise taxes, custom taxes, etc.' et-c. -.
- Nobddy loves a tax, but I am not one of those who believes in indiscriminate condemnation of all taxes. There are two or three mitigating statements that at least can just be said concernilg them. For-instince, there is no question that taxes have raised the price level throughout the United States, and lumber dealers being owners of thirigs, it may be possible that some California lumbermen may feel thit'his invlntories and things have been increased in value for-a long time to come, that the real estate he had to take from customerJ has been stabilized, and that the customer who has owed him money will be better able to pay now that his real estate is increasing in value. Some people say that taxes increase- prices., and thus cut down purchasing- power ind therefore curtails business' Well, that may or may no-t be true, but even so, the lumber dealers
do not. need to worry about high lumber prices reducing building yet awhile, when the records show that ths 1sfeil sates. errerage.the first nine months of 1936 is 5.88 per M less than the 17 year average from l9l9 to 1935, inclusive, and 912.25 per M less than the period of our greatest building prosperity from l9l9 to 1928 inclusive. I will leave it to you to decide these economic questions any way you wish.
Then, too, Governments give individuals certain protection and certain benefits without which this country would be a poor place in which to live. People themselves are persistent in their demands for benefits for their particular group or for their particular locality, but benefits for the other groups or for some other locality are all wrong. Government should spend for protection and for those things which the people as a whole are entitled to. But the taxpayer is entitled to feel and know that the taxes assessed are equal, that .they are fair, and that they are not discriminatory. They are entitled to know that the power to tax in this countiy is not the power to destroy.
Those are principles which it is the duty of the legislative committee of our State association to see that lumbermen get. I think the people as a whole believe in these principles of taxation, and, iI their.elected representatives, by reason of tremendous pressure from certain groups, do not follow these prip_ciples, the people will eventually right the wrong. A good example of this type of tax legisla- tion.-was passed by the California legislature in October, 1935. This was the California Chain Store Tax, by which act the owner of a single store would pay $1.00 a year, and doubling for each store till nine had been reached, and then $500.00 per year for each additional store.
By reason of a referendum petition the bill will be submitted to the voters of the State at the general qlection November 3rd. This tax was not a tax voted primarily for the purpose of revenue, but was a measure which its proponents frankly admit was enacted to put chain stores out of business. The tax would yield only about lVo of the State's budget per year, and the Governoi at the tax conference in February, 1936, said that it related primarily to an economic que,stion ald had so little to do with revenue that they would not even discuss it.
There has been a sentiment against bigness on the part of legisla- tors the past few years, but this tax is not even a tax on bigness. It is not a tax on bigness because it has no relation whatevir to the volume of business done, on the amount of profit made, nor on the amount of money invested; but is based solely on the NOMBER of stores, whether they are colossal stores like the May Company, super markets like Ralphs Grocery Company, or holes in the wall like See's Candy Shops. It is, my friends, admittedly a use of the tax power to drive a certain group out of business. The efiect of the tax is unequal, unfair and discriminatory, and why is it unequal, un- fair and discriminatory? Does it seem equal and fair to you that a large department store on South Broadway in Los Angeles, with 164 separate departments under o'ne roof and doing a Susiness of $27,000,000 per year should pay $1.00 per year, whereas Van de' Kamp's Bakeries, with l2l little shops located throughout Southern California, and doing a business of 92,700,000 pei year should have to pay a total of $56,511.00? Does it seem fair to you that another large department store on Sorith Broadway in Los-Anseles which made a net profit in 1935 of the sum of $1.411.661.00 wilf oav a tax of $15.00, whereas Grandmother See, with her 28 little ,,hole in the wall" candy shops, who made a net profit of $7,500.00, will pav a tax of $10,011.00? Does it strike you as. a discriminatory act thit makes the Western Auto Supply Co., selling tires, tubes,-and auto accessories, pay a tax of $51,511.00, whereas a well known oil company, the name of which is now on the lips of every one of you, with far more stores and which is selling tires and tubes and iuto accessories, will pay nothing at all? Does it make sense to you that
a large chain of 200 bakery shops on wheels calling at your front doot every day, will pay nothing at all, whereas, Van de Kamps, with l2l little bakery shqps anchored to windmills on the corner near your home will pay $56,511.00?
Is this the kind of American tax legislation that you and I as lumbermen are liable to be subject to, to pay the large debts and high budgets which are ahead of us? I do not believe it, and I think the people on November 3rd will swamp this legislation with such a vote that you and I can be assured of fair and equal and American tax legislation.
Another item of expense, which is now and will become more and more important to lumbermen, has to do with problems of labor. First, let us consider briefly the Social Security legislation and the payroll taxes it will impose. The State of California, by reason of this Act, has passed an Unemployment Reserves Act, by which every employer of over eight people, with certain exceptions such as agricultural labor, must pay to the State in the year 1936, 9/10 of llool its total payroll, and l/10 of. lVo to the Federal Government, a total ol ZVo in 1937, and, a total of 3/o in 1938. After 1941 the employer will be classified in accordance with his actual stabilization of employment experience and if an excess of contributiorls by such employers over benefits paid and charged against him equals various percentages of his average yearly payroll, certain reductions are made, but not to be less than l/o. But that is five years from now, if in fact you can qualify for any reduction at all,
Then, there is the Federal Old Age Insurance. Plan, under which lumbermen will begin to pay lVo on its payroll, except on that portion of employees' salaries over $3000.00, which tax increases %Vo every three years until in 1949 it equals 37o. Time will not permit any discussion of the economic effect and details of the social security acts, For our purpose we are interested only in the fact that in 1937 the State Employment and Federal Old Age Pension Acts will take a 3Vo tax on our payrolls and in 1938 a tax of. 4Vo. There has been some political discussion lately of amendments to the Old Age Pension Plan, but you will note that the suggestion was to include all people over 65 under the plan instead ofl/3to % of them as under the present plan, and that instead of payroll taxes, a system of special income taxes was suggested. Various features of the Act may be amended under either party, but the lumberman can rest assured that he will have substantially the same tax to pay in some form. Payrolls on the average over a period will equal about 25/o of sales, and t}:.e 3qo payroll tax in 1937 .will add aboat fu, ol lVo in per cents to our expenses.
Secondly, let us consider the question of wages in the labor problem, I think that every lumberman is anxious to see labor get a good wage. It helps to make purchasing power and to make the worker more satisfied. Lumber dealers quite generally in Southern California increased wages of yard men firom 257a to 35Vo in June, 1935. This has materially increased our cost of doing business. Labor conditions throughout the country, and Southern California is no exception, are such that it is becoming increasingly more difficult to handle lqmber on an economical basis. For instance, at our Wilmington plant, we, together with other lumber dealers, increased ordermen and laborers on June 5, 1935, about 3l%%. In the first six months of 1936 we assembled and loaded out a much larger volume than in the first six months of 1935, and our calculations, based on a 3lft/s wage increase, showed us fhat the increase per M feet to assemble and load lumber should have cost us about 24/z/o more for labor, but the actual figures are that it cost us 37/z/o more for labor. We increased those in the wharfage and handling crews.3l/o, and in spite of the increased volume, it cost us for labor per M feet 662/3% more for
the first six months of 1936 than for the first six months of 1935.
On June 6, 1936, the lumber dealers in metropolitan Los Angeles increased wages again about 8/o to lUVo and further increased their cost of handling lumber per M. Lurnber dealers are not so concerned with the increase in wages. They want labor to be paid well, but they are concerned with the significance of the fact that wages per hour go up a certain per cent, but that cost per M for labor goes up a still higher per cent in the face of increased volume, We can look forward to increasing costs of labor in the next few years, make no mistake about that.
Other expense items are rapidly increasing. We are paying in our expense items, such as stationery, typewriters, etc., the direct taxes that some one else had to pay. Our incidental or general expense and stationery accounts in 1936 will cost our company right at 50% more than in 1926 or 1927, when our business was about the same. Salaries are being adjusted. Many of your yard men and truck drivers are making more than your office man whom you took out of the yard or off the truck not so many months ago because he was more capable than his co-workers in the yard, and salaries are thus bound to increase. The extravagant services which lumbermen feel it necessary to give to sqll lumber are gradually adding little by little to our expenses and will cOntinue to grow, as there seems to be no place or way to stop it when once begun. The wonderful sales and service advantage of the one yard today becomes the burdensome expense of all yards tomorrow.
Four-fifths of my time has been taken up in talk about the increased expenses our industry will, without any question, be faced with, and one-fifth will be taken up with what to do about it, and, in my opinion, that will be just about the proportion of what will be done about it.
Well, what is there to do about it?If ever there was an industry which needed the help of a strong central trade association, it is the modern lumber dealer selling commodities which are most difficult to properly cost, due to remanufacturing problems, the up- grading and down-grading of stock, and the fact that different priced lots are mixed in a mass and cannot be kept separate. Show me an industry that deals in a commodity which does not have individuality, and I'll show you an industry that will operate on a lower and lbwer gross profit basis unless it has a strong and effective trade association.
Unfortunafely for the lumber dealer, all 2x4's look alike, and every one of us, if we are to do business, must price them grade for grade in accordance with what our neighbor prices them, irrespective of what he knows about his costs. An industry that sells a commodity that does have individuality, such as automobiles, typewriters, chandeliers, or clothes, has a certain leeway in gricing and is not so dependent on what his neighbor does. There isn't one out of ten men in this audience who can tell me whether I paid $40.00 or $65,00 for this suit I have on. Any lumberman who buys nails or corrugated iron knows that the American Iron and Steel Institute is an example of a strong trade association telling an industry handling goods with no individuality when and how to cnarge.
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The lumber industry in California has no uniform system of accounting. If the lumber dealers in this room were asked what items composed their "Cost 6f Goods," there would be at least ten difierent methods and answers. If they were asked what items composed their "Operating Expense," you'd get ten more different methods and answers. What, for instance, is cash discount? Is it an item of expense, or a deduction from sales? What is cartage collection? Is rt a credit to expense, or an addition to sales? What is the cost of milling in your mill? A charge to "Cost of Goods," or a charge to expense? How can any price committee or a manager of a trade associatign make up a proper price list without a knowledge of the industries' costs based on the same method of accounting?
You hear a lot said about the wrongness of indirect and hidden taxes, and that may be right. I do not care to argue the point, but I can say that they are almost a blessing to us rugged individualists of the retail lumber industry, and why? Because when taxes are passed on to us by the seller for our salable goods, our trade association cannot wait to call a meeting to increase our pricesl but let us pay increased income or local taxes and charge them to expense, and due to lack of statistics this fact is so -slow to be realized or anticipated by lumber dealers that the increased expense is not reflected in our prices.
Actual statistics based on the sale of many millions of feet of lumber in the first six months of 1936 show that the average sales price of lumber sold at retail was $1.31 higher than the first six months of 1935, and that the average purchase price of many millions of feet of lumber in the first six months of 1936 was $1.36 'higher than 1935. Irrespective of increased labor costs and other expenses, irrespective of increased tax liability applicable to this year's business, our sales price was increased 5c less than the actual purchase price.
Actual statistics based on an inventory taken June 30, 1936, show that the percentage of gross profit on lumber and commodities for the first six months of this year increased one-half of. l/o in percentage over a 18 year average, and that operating expenses the first six months of 1936 were 24.5 /s greater in percentage than an 18 year average. Do I make myself clear? The gross margin of profit is % of l% more in 1936 than an 18 year average, but operating expenses are 241/o greater than an 18 year average. There is little or nothing you can do about reducing expenses, but this industry simply must throw off the shackle of a low margin complex and get itself on a higher grois profit plane.
With a' good volume of business now upon us, and with every indication of a good volume for two or three years to come, isn't it time for lumber dealers to adopt a "good neighbor policy" and assist each other to make a reasonable profit? Isn't it time that this industry quits "fumbling" with this price problem. Isn't it time that this industry establish an independent or affiliated cost finding department under the head of an expert Cost Accountant? Isn't it time that members of this industry throw aside their "rugged individualism" and cooperate with each other to the end that our investments may be saved and a proper return may be made thereon?
LUMBER
SASH & DOORS
MILL WORK
BUILDING MATERIAIS
California Redwoods and Redwood loggers joined forces October 7-9 in Eureka to serve as hosts to the 27th Annual Pacific Logging Congress, meeting in California for the first time since 1915.
More than 400 delegates and 100 equipment men attended, participating in a full program of indoor and field events.
brought out the huge logs to the mills of the 6O's and 80's. From this pioneer setting they were taken speedily to the operations of the Dolbeer donkey and the high line, thence to the most modern tractor operations, accompanied by mechanical bucking and other devices of the modern era.
By noon the Congress had been transported 4O miles to
Redwood company logging executives and officials of the California Redwood Association took an active part in all phases of the program.
On the second day of the Congress, the delegates were taken by special train to the spectacular logging operations of The Pacific Lumber Company at Freshwater.
Visitors were first taken over the paths circling through tow-ering groves of Redwood where once the oxen had
Scotia. where the California Redwood Association entertained at a beef barbecue in the beautiful park maintained for employes of The Pacific Lumber Company. The visitors were greeted by officials of the Redwood industry, who had made the entertainment possible.
Following the barbecue The Pacific Lumber Company's plant was inspected by several hundred guests.
Again on the third day of the Congress, delegates went
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into the field to witness the selective logging and trucking activities of the Holmes Eureka Lumber Company at Carlotta. Modern forestry practice was exhibited in addition to the rapidly improving modes of truck transportation in tire Redwoods.
At the opening session of the Congress, Carl W. Bahr, president of the California Redwood Association, delivered the official address of welcome, explaining many of the problems of the Redwood industry in their relation to other Iumber species. He cited the great interest being shown in practical logging, approached from a highly professional plane. "These meetings," Mr. Bahr declared, "provide the forum through which the art and science of the modern logging profession will grow and develop."
Emanuel Fritz, forestry advisor to the California Redwood Association, was on hand during the entire Congress, assisting with the field trips and directing an interesting program at the Young Timers' Dinner, the second day of the Congress. More than 200 younger loggers gathered to hear a diversified program featuring modern developments in the industry.
Other speakers from the Redwood industry on the program included Clarence LeBoyteaux, superintendent, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Company, on the "Development of Redwood Logging;" William J. Wrigley, Elk River Mill & Lumber Company, "Starting Tractors in Redwood;" Howard Gray, IJnion Lumber Company, "Ten Years Experience in the Redwoods;" Hugh Bauer, The Pacific Lumber Company, and Kelly McGuire, Caspar Lumber Company, "Falling and Bucking in the Redwoods;" Carl Irwin and Hugh Bauer, The Pacific Lumber Company, "Drag Saws;" Charles Martin, Hobbs, Wall & Co., and George Allen, Holmes Eureka Lumber Company, "Truck Logging."
Gordon Manary, logging superintendent of The Pacific Lumber Company, was general chairman of entertainment and his wife served as official hostess during the three-day conclave.
N. Whitacre, well known Los Angeles retail lumberman and president of N. Whitacre, Inc., passed away suddenly Monday evening, October 19. He was 66 years of age.
Mr. Whitacre was a native of Illinois. Before coming to California he operated lumber yards in Montana. He came to California in 1920 where he entered the retail lumber business and had yards at Los Angeles and El Monte.
He is survived by his widow; three sons, Wilford and James, and Emmett, who was associated with his father at the El Monte yard; and a daughter, Mrs. Gladys Cowgill of New Jersey. Funeral services were held at Monterey Park, Thursday afternoon, October 22.
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Lumber yard for sale in LosAngeles. Improvements $18,000. Good lease. Stock $20,000 or less. Doing $25,000 a month business. Might consider clear unimproved well located Los Angeles real estate ripe for building in exchange. Twohy Lumber Company, 549 Petroleum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles, Telephone PRospect 8746.
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C. G. Bird, Stockton Lumber Co. . .. Stockton
E. T. Robie, Auburn Lumber Co. ..... Auburn
Tully C. Knoles, College of the Pacific ... Stockton
Ray B. Cox, Peerless Built-In Fixture Co. ..... Berkeley
Emma L. Cox BerkeleY
Frank W. Trower, Trower Lumber Co. .. .. San Francisco
John Gilchrist Elliott, College of the Pacific .. Stockton
Frances E. Bowerman, College of the Pacific Stockton
Mrs. Jean Elliott, College of the Pacific Stockton
J. U. Gartin, Stanislaus Lumber Co. .. . Modesto
Mrs. L. A. Love .... . Modesto
Mrs. W. O. Mashek
O. V. Wilson, Central Lumber Co. .. Stockton
.l illian B. Grieve ... New York
Mrs. O. V. Wilson
Mrs. E. T. Robie Auburn
Dr. & Mrs. L. Bowerman .:...... Stockton
John M. La Mar, Stockton Lumber Co. .. Stockton
W. O. Mashek, United Lumber Yards, Inc. .... Modesto
Lew I-ove, Tres Rios Lumbermen's Club .. Modesto
Mrs. H. R. Robbins . Yuba City
Ed. Robbins .... Yuba City
Ina May Robbins .. Yuba City
Donald G. Bird, Stockton Lumber Co. .. .. Stockton
Ruth Brace . Stockton
MildredArata .. Stockton
Mrs. C. S. Brace Stockton
C. S. Brace, Stockton Lumber Co. .. Stockton
Mrs.W.G.Hyberg:i.... ...Stockton
Wm. G. Hyberg Stockton
JackO'Brien.... ...:'. .'..' Stockton
W. H. Falconbury, San Joaquin Lumber Co. .. . Stockton
Mrs. W.H. Falconbury .. .. Stockton
Jean Falconbury ..... Stockton
Mrs. Jack O'Brien ... Stockton
T. L. Gardner, Central Valley Lumb-ermen's Club. Stockton
Mrs. T. L. Gardner ... Stockton
C. D. LeMaster .. . Sacranrento
Traveling South Texas desires White Pine mqulding and White Pine lumber account. Offices and headquarters in Houston, Texas. Excellent references. Address Box C-633, California Lumber Merchant.
LONG BEACH YARD FOR SALE
Retail yard in city of Long Beach. Yard site, equipment and buildings $10,000. Stock at inventory or will sell outside. Address Box C-637, The California Lumber Merchant.
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From the November 1,1926lssueof The California Lumber Merchant
The fifth annual convention of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association was held at Sacramento on October 21,22 and,23. .Paul Hallingby, Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles, was elected president, succeeding C. W' Pinkerton, Whittier Lumber Co., Whittier.
The San Fernando t"rio.l-J"'s Club met at San Fernando on October 13. R. W. Blanchard, president, presided at the meeting. ,r * *
This issue carries an illustrated article on the Union Lumber Company redwood mill and logging operations at Fort Bragg, Mendocino C*otl,t.*
Russell T. Gheen, manager of the C. D. Johnson Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has been transferred to San Francisco, where he will be in charge of the company's office. W' H' Morris will be manager of jn.*tT Angeles office.
A picture of the Hansen Lumber Company yard at Fontana and the ofifrce and yard personnel appears in this number. An insert in the picture shows a reproduction of their slogan, "Dog On" Good L*umter
Miss Elsie Reeder, daughter of C. F. Reeder, was married to Bert Roderick of the Peoples Lumber Company, Fillmore, on October 15.
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Frank Burnaby announces the Los Angeles lumbermen will hold a golf tournament and banquet at Santa Barbara on Friday, November 17. Through Francis Boyd of the Boyd Mill & Lumber Co., Santa Barbara, the club has been extended the privileges of the Le Cumbre course'
LUMBER
Cupbetrl-Mmre Lumber Co, ---ifi il,t;;I;i s;--. .:. ..':... cArnerd rtr0
Can & Co- L. Jtls Crccker Bldg. .................'Sutter &t63
Cbanberlin & Co- W. Rttb Ftd, Ftfc Bld3. .....'......DOurlu 3170
Dut & Rusrcll' Inc., ? Fmt St.- ..........................sutter tt54
Dolber & Canm Lubcr 6., tl Mcrchutr Excbengc Blds.......Suttcr ilst
Crortc W. Gomu $1 Catllornia St. ......,...'.......GArficId 37tz
Hrll. Jams L. iozc Minr alag. ...................sUtbr l!t5
"-.fr-[i"Sf#S' !r*::....... .Doudu !*s
LUMBER
Pacific Lubcr Cc- Thc 16 Bub Stret....................GArficld Utl
Rcd Rivcr Luober Co., 3r5 Mru&cL Bldt...............GArield 0!22
Suta Fc Luba Cq, fa Crllfmtr Stret............I('Eant 20?l
Scbafcr Bu. Lubcr e Shhrlc Co., I Dm St. ..............,........Suttrr t77l
Shcvlil Pire Salag Co..
l0U0 Monednock Blds. ...........KEer4y 70ll
Sud&a & Chrlrtma, 310 Sruoo Str..t...........,....GArfic|d 2tl6
Union Lumbcr Co., Crccka Bulldn3 ..Sutt!r 0l7l
HARDWOODS AIID PANEI.S
Fonyth Hardvod Co355 Bryrhm Blvd. ...........,...ATmtc lttl
White Brothers Fifth and Bnnnan Strett ..... ...Suttar lla3
SASH_DOORS-PLYWOOD
Niolal Dq Salcr Co., 30,15 lrtb Strc.t ....................M!u|oo ?f2l
Oregon-Wuhington Plyvcd Co, 55 N6w Mmtgomcry Strect.,.....GArirld ?lI
Utdted Stat6 Plywood Coj Inc., llt Kanraa Street ........,......,..MArket l$2
Whelcr-Orgod Sdcr Corporatioo, 30|3 rrth SL,.....................VAlcnch 22rl
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Holmer Eurcka Lunbcr Co
F6;;hl ccnta Et&r.......G4rfr.n rtzl
C. D. Johnrcn Lumber CorDr 2.o Celifonia Strut..,............GArfic|d O5!
MrcDonald & Haniryton Ltd.' ra Crlifmb Strut.........'......GArficH tttt
llm Mlll & Lmbcr Cc'
-:SZS lii-tt "t Stot .............'..Exbrook {?15
LUMBER
Wmdllng-Nathaa Co., lla Mfk.t Strrct ......,.....,.....Suttc" $to
E. Kr Wood Lmbc Cc, I Dnr:nrn Stnrt...............,....KErny tllC
Wcycrbrcurcr Sdrr Co.fO CdlfmL Str..t...............GAricll lttl
ZlGl & Ct' 16 Califmla Strut ............,Exbmk Sfaf
Hltl I Morton, Ira' "-D;;t;; 5u Wt tt ....'.....'.ANdil.r ra?
Horan Lumbor CoPuY, '-'r"d e - ll- sr;ts-...........'.Glmrrt r|l
Pvnmid Lumbc Sala Co"'lii rr"in. Buildlng ...........Glacort tzlt
E. K. Wood Lumbcr Cq. ' - F-*e;"L & Kbr Sdr......'.'.."Fnrltvdc ru'
CREOSOTIED LUMBER_POLES-PILINGTTES
Amrlcan Lunber & Treatlng Co, lll New Mmtgonrcry St. ..........Sutter lzs
Buter, J. H. & Co., tll3 Moltgmery St. ...,......,...DOug|ar tttit
HalL Juer Lo lO2l Mllb Bldr. .................,.gutt r |ttr
Abcrdecn Plywood Co, 03 llth Strut .GL.rccrt U?a
Cditmh Buildon Supgly Co. 700 Ctb Avo. ..,. .Hlsatc ill
Wcetcm Doa & Sub Cc. .tth & Cyprcs Sri ....:.........L./urci& ]|.
HARDWOODS
Strablc Hrrdvood Co1
5ii7 Flrrt Str*t,................TEmp|cbrr $al
White Brctheru, r00 H|gb Stnet ...........,......4N.lwGr r|co
LUMBER
Aulo Callfmla Lumber Co. *riizo-^l'Jiii" B-tva- ......''.' "THmwall 3l4r
Eokrtavc-Bunr Lumber Co- ---iso Ct"-t.. ol commcre Bl&r"'PRdFct '231
Gbamb€rlin & Co.'l!Y. 3.'
---iii wl.i Ntntb St...-..............TUckcr lr3l
Dant & Rusell, Inc.,
--tSri p. Ztt !St. ...TRinity 6757
Dolbeer & Cano Lruba Co.' t01 Fidetity Bldg. ...'........'.'.VAndikc E?92
DunnlnS, W. D., - |3l -Chamber'of Comrce Bldg...PRcpect tl36
Hunod Redwood CmPenY'
--- iost So. Brodway .........'.-...PR€Fct ldl
Hemmings, E. W.' ?0{ So. Sprlnc St. .'............'..TRinttv rE2r
Holmec Eureka Lumber Co., ?tl-?12 Archltcctr Bldc. ..........Mutud trtl
Hovcr. A. L.
?D So h'Brea Avc. ......'.....'...YOrk lf6t
C. D. Johnm Lumber CcP., 601 Petrcleqm Seqrities Bldg.'..PR6pect 1165
Kellv-Smith Co., ALAa, Carfield Blds, ...... Mlchisil t02l
Kuhl Lumber Company, Carl H.'
,l3E Chanber of Commerce Bldg...PRorpect 9136
Llwrence-Philips Lumber Co., Ct! Pctrclcum Smrltles Bldg...PRospect 0229
MacDonald & Bergstm, Inc.'
?3il Petroleum Ssrities Bldg....PRcpect Zel
MacDdrl & Haningtm, Ltd",
547 Patrldm Seorltlcr Blds....PRapet lr27
PacCflc lmbcr Ca, lac
?I go L Bm Avo. ....,...........YO* rrat
Pafta-Blhn l.rrnbcr Co.
52r E. sth St. ....................VArdk aa
Rcd Rlvc Lumbcr Co.
7ll2 E. Slauro .CErhrry A0itl
Reit'z Co., E. L, 333 Petrcleu Securldet Bldg. ..PRGpcct 2!@
Suta Fc Lrmba Co., !U F;i.ictrl Cotcr Bldg.......VAndlkc llTl
Scbafcr Bro. Lumber & Shlngb 6, va W. M. Grlud Bl&..,......TRinltyl?r
Shevlin Pine Sales Co-
32t Petrcleum Seorltier Bl&. PRospect 0615
Suddcn & Chrirtcnson, 630 Bcrd of Tnde Blds. ........TRinity tt41
Tacoma Lmber Sales,
,123 Petrolem Securltieg Bldg...PRospat UOt
Union Lurrber Co., ,23 !1t. M. Grlud B1d3...........TR1dV zttz
Wendling-Nathu Co.. 700 Sc I: Brca Avc. ,.............YOrL 1l6t
Wilkimn and Buoy, 316 W. gth SL ...........,..,..... TUcker 1431
E. K. Wood Lmber Co..
l70l Santa Fe Avc. .:............JE,trerrm Slll
Wcyerhaeusc Saler Co., 920 \f,I. M. Garland BIdg.,..,....Mlchigan 6354
HARDWOODS
Cadwallader-Gibrcn Co,, Inc., t028 Eagt Olympic Blvd. ...,....ANselw UlCl Perfectio Oak Florlng Co., t20 E. 60th St. ............,.........ADamr l20l Stanton, E. J., & So, 2050 Eaet lttb Strcet............CEntur7 iltll
SAltH-DOORS_MILLWORK
PANETS AND PLYWOOD
Aberdeen Plvreod Co.-Dm F. Oder, 210,1 Weat Plo Strdct ..............Flt2rq tl21
Calilmia Pul & Verur Ca. t55 3o Alameda SL................TRbrty ||8t
Kchl, Jnc lV.. & So1 t6l Sc Myan St. ....-,..........ANgclu lltl
Oregm-Wuhingtm Plywod Co-
3lE West Nintl Strctc .............TUchcr lltt
Red Rlver Lumbcr Co., 702 E. Slaucm ..CErtury tl0tt
United Stater Plywod Co., Inc., 1930 East 15th St. ...........,....PRopect !0ll
Wheeler-Osgod Saler Corpmtioa, 2153 Sacnmento St. ...,...........TUckcr 4l0l
CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLES_PILTNG -
TTES
Amerio Lmber- & Treating Co. 1031 So, Broidway ......,.......PRoapect 555E
Buter, J. H. & Co.' 601, West Sth St. ., .lllcfirgu @t4
Naarre imbued the huge and powerful Redwoods with a marvelous quality to survive; to span the centuries, enduring through historic eras of time. Science shows that this enduring quality remains in the lumber-the all-heart wood-which explains its record breaking durability, its extreme resistance to rot and destruction.
The Hammond organization, rnaintaining a leading position in the great Redwood indusffy, presents its faci[ities to the trade. You can always depend on Hammond co-operation in keeping well supplied with quality Redwood.
