Dealer Cooperation Is Redwood Assn's Aim: J. M. Hotchkiss New Head

Ficers Elected By California Redwood Association

President, J. M. Hotchkiss, Hobbs, Wall & Co. \rice-President, Harold A. Plummer, IJnion Lumber Co.

Secretary-Manager, R. F. Hammatt. Directors, J. M. Hotchkiss, Harold A. Plummer, W. S. Burnett, Hammond Lumber Co.; Fred V. Holmes, Holmes-Eureka Lumber Co., and P. C. McN,evin. Pacific Lumbe: Co.

Co-operation with, and support of, the retail dealer; pos' sible expansion of the present "Redwood Service" as a tangible expression of thart co-operation, unanim'ous endoriement of 'the Forest Products Laboratory of the United States Forest Service in the scope and character of its work, and continued active support 'of the National Lumber Manufaoturers' Association, were three of the outstanding features of the annual meeting of the California Redwoot Association in San Francisco on Tuesday of last week.

Donald MacDonald, president during the year just passed, gave a ,comprehensive resume of the Association's activities and accomplishments during the past 12 months and submitted, in a clear and forceful manner, his suggestions for the coming year.

Under the able leadership Lumber Company, who was the stockholders' meeting, outgoing board of directors was unanimously adopted.

of C. R. Johnson of the Union ch,osen temporary chairman of a resolution commending the for its work during the year

Problems involving standardization, traffic and trade extension were stressed; a tentative budget fior 1923 was submitted, discussed, and referred to the incoming board.

Election of the new board of directors was made by the unanimous vote of the stockholding members present.

The new directors met and organized immediately following the stockholders' meeting and selected their new officers. The choice for president fell promptly upon J. IVI. Hotchkiss.

Mr. Hotchkiss is one of the most ac-

FRED-tt'cHoLMEs' tive and progressive lumbermen in the State of California. He has been affiliated with Hobbs-Wall & Co., large redwood operators, for nineteen years and at the present time is Vice-President and Manager of the Company'

He took an active part in defeating the Housing Bill in the last state election, and was a memher of the Executive Committee of the California Lumbermen, who had charge of the campaign against rthe outlawing of shingles.

Mr. Hotchkiss in an alumnus of the University of California.