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Cooper Visits Big Hardwood Centers And Finds Business Good

\ I. E. Cooper, head of the W. E. Cooper Lumber Company, prominent Los Angeles hardwood distributors, has jus,t returned from an extended trip through ,the principal hardwood producing districts of the South and Middle West. He also visited a number of his yards in Wis,consin, where he was engaged in the re,tail lumber business before com,ing to Southern California a few years ago.

Mr. Cooper reports business conditions very good in all that part of the country that he visi,ted. He stopped at Memphis and other southern hardwood centers and placed orders for oak, gum and other woods produced in ,that section, and in several points in Michigan where he arranged for delivery of maple, birch and beech.

He also visited the sawmill recently established a,t fron Mountain, Mich., by Henry Ford and pronounces it the most m'odern and marvetrous sawmill he ever saw anywhere.

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