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Pfywood Mills Vrlue 1939 Output at $38,878 ,932

Mills engaged in the manufacture of plywood during 1939 valued their output for the year at $38,878,932, or 10.9 per cent higher than the L937 total of $35,042,553, according to a preliminary report on the Census of Manufacturers for 1939. The number of mills increased f.rom 77 to 86.

In addition, it is estimated that $12,000,000 worth of plywood was made as a secondary product in other industries.

Utility plywood for boxes, construction, etc., accounted f.or $34,32L,662 in 1939, agai,nst 930,017,643 in 1937. Plain and fancy plywood for decorative uses had a fabtory value of $14,953,232 in 1939, compared with 915,494,477 in 1937.

Of the utility plywood, $?6,379,198 represents the value of 848,888 thousands of squard feet of Douglas fir, and $7,942,4& the value of other woods.

Plywood mills also produced in 1939 $I,534,D7 worth of goods classified in other industries, such as candy sticks and skewers, prin,ting blocks, theater seats, table tops, etc. Plywood produced and consumed in further manufacture in the same establishment is not included in the report.

Although value of products rose 10.9 per cent, cost of materials, supplies, fuel, purchased electric energy, and contract work increased by only 5.8 per cent, from $I7,323,819 to $18,324,679.

The number of salaried personnel went up 10.4 per cent from 594 to 656, with their salary total growing 12.1 per cent from $I,472,784 to $1,650,801.

Wages rose by 9 per cent from $9,124,25I to $9,g42,g74. Wage earners increased by 2.1 per cent f.rom9,ffiZ to 9,805. The latter figure, however, does not include wage earners doing construction or distribution work. When these are added in the final report, the gain will probably be greater. All figures for 1939 are preliminary and subject to revision.

TILDEN LUMBER CO. MOVES

Tilden Lumber Company will move from its site at the foot of lfniversity Avenue, Berkeley, to the old SheehanBallard plant at 1020 Parker Street, corner of 9th Street, Berkeley, about November 1. The move was made necessary by the fact that a further portion of their property was sold to the State for highway improvement.

V. J. Herrrnan is president and O. W. Weibel is secretary=treasurer of Tilden Lumber Company.

Going and Coming

T. H. Hudson, Hudson-Bonney Lumber Company, Glendale, is back from a trip to Salt Lake City.

Amos Geib, Geib and his father, are

Lumber Company, Huntington Park, visiting in Minnesota.

A. A. Frost, Frost Hardwood Lumber Company, San Diego, and his son, A. A. Frost, Jr., left October 1O for a three months' trip through Central and South America.

Lyman Taft, Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles, has been calling on the pine mills.

C. G. Price, general manager of The California Door Company, Diamond Springs, was a Los Angeles visitor around the middle of the month. He took in the Sash and Door Wholesalers' golf tournament on October 17.

H..W. Koll, H. W. Koll Lumber Co., Los Angeles, recently spent three weeks calling on the pine mills in Northern California and Oregon.

Perry A. Dame, sales manager of Vancouver Plywood & Veneer Co., Vancouver, Wash., made a business trip to San Francisco Bay district and Los Angeles last week.

Geo. R. Kendrick, manager of California Sales Division of Pope & Talbot, fnc., San Francisco, has returned from a two weeks' trip to the firm's mills and offices in the Northwest.

Rody Mulholland of California Angeles, is back from a lGday number of mills. He made the manager, Loop Lumber Co., San Franweek from a month's trip to New York

Ed Brush, sales cisco, returned last and Florida.

Panel & Veneer Co., Los Eastern trip to call on a round trip by plane.

Dud Else of Sudden & Christenson, San Francisco, is back from a two weeks' vacation trip, accompanied by Mrs. Else, to Death Valley and Los Angeles.