Retail Association Entertained by Los Angeles Lumber Products Co.

The annual meeting of the Retail Lu,m'ber Dealers Association at Long Beach, on Saturday November 17th was adjourned at the close of the morning sess'ion to permit members to enj,oy a boat ride through Los Angeles Harbor to the Southern California Yacht Club where over 200 were entertained by Fred L. Baker, Erle M. Leaf, Frank L. Buckley, and other officers of the Los Angeles Lumber Products Co'mpany at luncheon

Following the luncheon the entire party proceeded to the new Los Angeles Harbor lumber remanufacturing plant of the Los Angeles Lumber Products Company where every facility was afforded'them to inspect a plant which is reversing the usual order of things by shipping its lumber from the forests for complete sawing and machining at a plant located at the market in which the lumber is to be sold and used.

The Los Angeles concern has secured,the largest available stand in one body of spruce and hemlock in America today, on Graham Islantl. The tim,ber of which nearly fifty percent is virgin growth Sitka spruce, is logged along 140 miles of sho,re line of rinland waterways of Graham Island, ragted to the Company's headquarters sawmills at Buckley Bay, and there converted into squares. The timber squares are loaded on to steel steam lumber schooners of which the Company maintains its own fleet in regular service, and transported i.n lots of around 1,750,0m feet to Los Angeles Harbor. At this nerv plant the Company has installed sawmills havingl a double shift capacity of around 500,000 feet per day, with planing rnills, dry kilns, and box factories. Its facilities are such as to enable it to provide the local market in amounts and sizes as called for w:ith a constant and dependable supply of first grade Graham Island Sitka spruce for construction purposes and to use its lesser grades of spruce and hemlock for shook and boxes, both nailed and wirebound.

The same co'mpany operates at Seattle through a subsidiary, the Puget Sound Lunrber & Box Company, a second com,plete plant having a double shift capacity of 250,000 feet per day.

Following is the unique menu that was served at the luncheon at the Yacht Club.

Menu

BUCKLEY BAY CII.OWDER

.MASSET INLET CELERY SO. CALIFORNIA OLIVES INEARTS OF LE.TTUCE-GRAI{AM I,SLAND DRESSING CRUSTACEAN LOGS

BT]CI(LED AND BROILED. WITH HOO HOO SAUCE POTATOES_OUARTER SAWED AND KILN DRIED SHOOKED

SITKA PEAS SPRI.ICE ROT.LS_BUTTER'CAN'[S' CRATED AIPPLES AND CHEESE'SQUARES' PAUL BUNYON COFFEE

PP IS TIIE FETT(IW THAT PUT US

L{TMBER COMPANIES NOT TO BE

Admitted Into The West Basin At San Pedro

, In a resolution passed by the Board of Directors the San Ped,ro Chamber of Commerce requested the Board.of Harbor Commissioners to deny all applications for wharfage in the west Basin from Lumber Companies or others that do not require 35,feet of water and reserve the frontage for deep draft shipping.

The full resolution follows: l\rhereas, It has been a physical impossibility for the Harbor Commission to keep pace with the dem,ands of commerce for berthing space in either the inner and outer harbors, and

Whereas, A contract has been let fon,dredging the West Basin channels to 35 feet in depth making lthe frontage available, for tankers and other vessels requiring more water than is needed for steam schooners and ships of light draft, therefore, be it

Resolved, That the Directors ,of the Chamber of Commerce of San Pedro request the Harbor Commission to deny all applications for wharfage in the West Basin ftom lum,ber companies or other concerns that do not require 35 feet of water and reserve the frontage for deep draft shipping. And be it further

Resolved, That we recommend for consideration of the

Harbor Commission the adoption of a general policy of, classification of shipping according to depth. of water re-; quired in allocating berths so that the city m'ay be s&ved: lhe expense of unnecessary dredging for light draft vessels.

Here Is The Answer

The Los Angeles Daily Tirnes printed a letter recently, from a subscriber who evidently is paying considerable attention to the anti-wrooden shingle ordinances that are being proposed throughout the country.

In part, this letter said :'

"It would be demanding a great hard'ship'dntl expense on people to force them to replace their shingle roofs with fireproof, I think some ,nther^plan can be suggested.

A few years since I studied out a little plan to protect roofs from sparks caused from, other buildings burning, very sim,ple and inexpensive: Run a water pipe up from the bathroom ,or from the outside of building to cone of roof, fasten a spray pipe to waterpipe, and along cone or cones of roof. In case of fire turn on water ancl keep roof soaked. This is also a wonderful thought to save our forests and fine big red wood trees if pipes and sprays were run up tree rvith sparys out from pipe every twehty-five feet, providing there waswater power to raise the water."

Perhap's this is the answer.