DANT & RUSSELLTINC.

Portland, Oregon

Port Orford Cedar

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.

McCormick Production in 1935 \(/ithin New Trans-Paciftc Air Line \(/ill Use 20 Per Cent of Peak Redwood in Refrigeration Plants

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.

MAKE.S NORTHWEST TRIP

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.

Fire Destroys Lumber Schooner

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.

Joins Sales Staff of Wendling-Nathan Co.

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.

ROY BLEECKER S. F. VISITOR

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.

New Building Material Firm

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.

1937 Redwood Calendars Ready

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.

CALLS ON L. A. TRADE

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.