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the iliscussion. which was unfinished at the luncheon adjournment.

President Lake appointed the following committee on resolutions: Chas. G.- Bird, chairman, Jo IL Shepard, W. W. Wheatley, and M. D. Bishop.

Thursday Afternoon

C. W. Pinkerton, Whittier Lumber Co., Whittier, presided at the afternoon session.

F. Dean'Prescott, continuing on the subject of "Cement" led the discussion with a synopsis of the cement situation in the Northern district. Mr. Prescott has been chairman of this committe for man;r years, and has given his time and spent his money unstintingly in the effort to get this business of distributing cement on a paying basis for the dealer. His story was listenecl to with intense interest, and the discussion occupied a large part of the afternoon, those participating being: C. H. Griffin, Jr., Santa Cruz ; dent of the Millwork Institute of California, regretting his inability to be present, and promising the fullest cooperation of his organization with the retail lumber dealers.

Friday Morning

Vice-president E. T. Robie presided. The first subjects for discussion were i'Grade Marking", "American Lumber Standarcl Sizes", and "Segregated Grades."

A. C. Horner, manag'er of the Western Division of the National Lumber Manufacturers Ass'ociation. led this discussion.

C. W. Pinkerton, Whittier, asked why it takes so long to get grade-marked lumber shipped from the mills.

Cdl. W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Associati'on, answered Mr. Pinkerton, by saying that many mills in the Northwest are now in shape to make prompt shipment of grade-marked and trade-marked lumber, and that all that is needed now

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M. D. Bishop, Watsonville; B. J. Boorman, Oakland; Elmore King, King Lumber Co., Bakersfield; S. P. Ross, Central Lumber Co., Ilanford; E. T. Robie, Auburn; H. A. Lake, Garden Grove, and A. E. Owen, Camm & Hedges, Petaluma.

Dudley Chandler, Building Material Dealers' Credit Association, Los Angeles, spoke on "Credit Stabilization", answering in clear cut fashion all the questions listed under this heading on the program.

C. W. Pinkerton, chairman of the association's legislative c,ommittee, urged m€mbers to get personally acquainted with their representatives in the Legislature, and to take more interest in legislative matters.

J. U. Gartin, Stanislaus Lumber Co., Modesto; C. E. Garrison, Two Rock, and B. J. Boorman, joined in this discussion.

Vice-president E. T. Robie, chairman of the Northern roofing committee and Chas. P. Curran, chairman of the Southern roofing committee told members of the progress made in the past year and answered questions.

Mr. Lake read a telegram from A. W. Bernhauer, presi-

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to establish grade- and trade-marked lumber and segregated grades is dealer demand.

B. W. Lakin, general manager of the McCloud River Lumber Co., urged dealers to demand grade-marked lumber, and said the result of such demand will be better manufactured lumber and evener grades. flis company has had splendid success in marketing grade-m'arked lumber, and all of the lumber they sell in California is grademarked, and all of their output is grade-marked except in the case of an occasional shipment to the East. Each and every board should be gra.de-marked, said the speaker, and such marking lqill put the whole lumber businsss on a higher plane.

Paul Hallingby, Hammond Lumber Co., Los Angeles, also spoke on this subject, telling of the surprising change of attitude of Los Angeles dealers toward grade-marked lumber.

"Better Farm Buildings" was the title of a discussion by J. P. Fairbank, extension specialist of the Divisioi

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