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In accord with thd usual seasonat decliner lumber produc' tion during the week ended November 12 was less than dut' itg .rry week of the preceding four months and was lowest, except for the Fourth of Juty week, since early March, ac' cording to rePorts to the National Lumbet Manufactuters As' sociation from regional associations covering the opetations of 702 lading softwood and hardwoo'd mills. New business was lowest since July and shipments showed a decided drop from the record of recent weeks.
Cocrpated with the corresponding week of last year, soft' wood production was down 15 Per cent; hardwood production 55 per cent; softwood orders wete 24 Per cent less than last year; hardwood orders wete 17 Per cent below. The hard' wood cut was less than in recent weeks and orders were heavier than those of the pteceding three weeks.
During the week ended November 12, production of all rc' porting mills was IO5'7O2rOOO feet ot 2l per cent of capacity. New business was 24 per cent of capacity, the same as during thepreviousweek.
Douglas Fir-A total of 322 mills teporting to the 'West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended Novem' ber 12 operated at 2O.V Per cent of capacity, as compated to 23.O pet cent of capacity for the previous week. During the werek 2O2 of these plants were reported as down and 120 as operating.
217 rorrills rcporting for the same week produced 5110221968 feet or 21.4 pet cent of t{reir weekly capacity. Orders were 5ilrg25rg8, feet or O.l9 per cent under productiotr and 21.4 p€f, cent of their weekly capacity. Shipments for the week was 52r&r505 f.eet or 2.8 Per cent over production.
New export businecs teceived at these 217 mills for the week increased 614761000 feet over the previous week. New domestic ca,rgo orders werc 513362000 feet under the previous week'o business, while t'he new tail business showed an incease of 203rfl)O feet Unflted otders decreased 2r39OrO00 feet from the previous week, and the local trade showed a decrease of 211801000 feet.
fnventories, ac reported by 144 mills decreaeed 3'32E Ofi) feet from the weck ending November 5r and are 27.4 Per cent lesc than at this time laet year.
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The Southern Pine Associetion for the week ended Novem' bet 12 teported new business for 114 mills as 19156,OOO f.eet, shipments 24r7Og,OOO feet, and production 23r8r4,OO0 feet. Ot' ders were 17 per ccnt below production and 20 per cent below shipments. Shipments were 4 Per cent above ptoduction.
The Vestern Pine Association for the week reported new business for 105 mills as 31,646,000 feet; shipments 25r544rO0{J feet, and production 2lr879r000 f.eet. Orders wete 45 lter cent above production and 24 Per cent above shipments. Ship' ments were 17 per cent above production.
259 hardwood mills fot the same week teported new busi' ness as 11610T41000 feet, or 98 per cent above production, and shipments l5f26r000 feet, or 91 Production was Er123r000 feet.
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The California Redwood Association for the month of Oc' tobe4 1932, reports ordets received for 11 mills as 13'4111000 feet; ordets on hand 19'834rq)0 feet; shipments 13'603'000 feet, and production 916581000 feet.
Details of otders and shipments for the month follow: Or' ders ReceivedNorthern California, 418581000 feet; South' ern Californiar 2r0TgrOOO feet; \ffestern' 120'000 feet; Eastern, 5,6041000 feet; Foreignn 750,000 feet. Shipments-Northern Califocnia, 4'908'OOO feet; Southern Califotnia, 3r35lrOOO fect; Western, 21-2rOOO feet; Eastern, 4r393rNO feet; Foreign, 7397' ooofeet' * * * ,F
LJnsold stocks on the public docks at San Pedro on No' vember 23 totaled 216f,6r000 feet, as compared to 212561000 feet for the previous week. Cargo arrivals at San Pedro for the week ended November 19 totaled 9'785'000 feet, which in' cluded 12 cargoes of Fir amounting to 8r72OrOOO feet, and 2 cargoes of Redwood with 110651000 feet. 54 vessels were oP' erating in the California lumber service on Novembet 19, and 54 vessels were laid up.
The Cdifornia lumber gituation showed no improve' ment during the past two weeks, and the demand continucs light. Mill prices are firm. The shingle and lath markets are reported not as strong as a few weeks ago. Repocs from. the Northwest indicate that inquiries for export and the At' lantic coast have shown considemble inclease.
Bill Chantland, Los Angeles, is now connected with Schafer Bros., Lumber & Shingle Co. and calling on the Southern California retail lumber trade. He is widely known by the Southern California trade and was formerly associated with the Los Angeles sales force of the Chas. R. M,cCormick Lumber Co., representing this company for the past nine years. He took over his new duties the middle of November.
Before coming to California he followed the retail lumber business, operating a retail yard in the Mississippi Valley for the St. Hilaire Lumber Co. which was owned by the Shevlin interests, and later spent several years operating retail yards in the Dakotas and Idaho for Chas. E. Merrill & Associates of Salt Lake City.
On leaving the McCormick organization, the members of the company's Los Angeles office presented him with a beautiful gold Masonic watch charm. Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co. are large lumber shippers into the California market and operate mills at Montesano and Aberdeen, Wash. Their Los Angeles offices are in the Petroleum Securities Building.
Sacramento, November 21.-Appointment of I. L. Swearingen, Los Angeles, to the position of District Supervisor for the State Bureau of Contractors' Registration in the Southern California District, embracing thirteen counties, was announ,ced here today by Col. Carlos W. Huntington, Registrar of Contractors.
Swearingen, who has been actively engaged in the contracting business in Los Angeles for more than 10 years, r,r'ill suc,ceed the late Hal G. Stiles. who recentlv died.
Chicago, November ZS.-Alter a period of gradual decrease of business difficulties reported to the "Lumbermen's'Blue Book," repotts received during the month of October indicate an increase.
The following is a comparative record of lumber business difficulties reported during the month and compared to October, 1931:
tr , of the rapid progtess Canec Struc- D9CAUS9 tural rnsulati,on-is making . because an ever-increasing number of alert architects and builders are demanding this attractive, serviceable structural insulation, here are some questions you will be asked about
.l Vhat is Canec? Canec is a rigid, structural insulation I ffiilffi in standard building sizes and in thisknesses of full /2 inch, t/a inch and one inch. No laminations or layers are present in any of these thicknesses. Other Canec products are lath for plaster base, tile, and industrial and roof insulation.
O What is the Canec dual surface? Canec has two dis2 tinct surfaces-one side satin-smooth, the other a burlap texture. Both sutfaces arro attractive in their natural color, but may be easily and economically decorated.
? How strong is Canec? Canec has high tensile and \t breaking strength. This strength has been obtained without sacrificing maximum insulation values. Canec Yz inch boatd weighs on the ^verage only 650 pounds per thousand square feet.
,l Will Canec sand up? Canec will last indefinitely. It
attacked by vermin.
!: Vhat about the ptice? Despite its improved features, J ffithan ordinary structural insulation board. All C-.n" ptoducts come well packed in bundles of convenient size. Ample warehouse stocLs are maintained in principal Coast cities for service in carloads to dealers.
There are still a few Canec dealershipc available. Ve ruggert that you immediately write to uc so that we can have one of our representativec see you if you are interested in what iq without doub't, the best all-around Etruchrral insulation board on the marlet lfere are the high lights of the Canec Distribution Poliry: 1. No overcrowding of territoriec. 2. Salec to selected dealerc in carloads. t. Retail pricee maintained by selected dealerr with fair profit for pict up dealere. 4. fntensive eales promotion which brings actual pror. pects to dealers. 5. Local advertieing. 6. Elf,cient field perronnel.
The volume of business placed for collection with the "Blue Book" increased materially over the same month of last year, with returns in about the same proportion.
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Forbes says: "Fair price is a price fair to both buyer and seller; price chiseling isn't the way to reduce manufacturing costs." Righto !
A well known thinking man who does the purchasing for a great corporation deplores the efforts of many purchasing agents to pit salesmen against one another to induce them to sell at the lowest possible price. He says such purchasers should be prosecuted "for contributing to the delinquency of salesme4." ***
"The power of vacuum" is a title I saw in a technical magazine. I passed it up. Probably something about the United States Senate.
William Allen White in his Emporia Gazette, recently published a picture of Hoover with Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt for a background. A lady scathingly wrote and asked him "why he did not also include a picture of tae Lord?" Whereat the sage of Emporia wrote her that if she would furnish a recent photo they would be glad to reproduce it.
Reminds me of the time Will Rogers took Arthur Brisbane to task for discussing Russian affairs without having been over there to investigate. Brisbane replied that one Leonardo painted a famous picture of the Lord's last supper, and so far as could be discovered was neither present nor invited. Will didn't even try to answer that one. He had sense enough to know he'd been outclassed in that debate.
Which reminds me of one debate that Will Rogers won. His wife always criticizes him for saying "ain't." One day he pulled that bust when they had guests, and she "called" him. Whereat he replied, "\ll/ell, we're eatin', ain't $re?" "\f,fhat has that to do with it?" his wife asked. "Well," said Rogers, "there's a whole lot of folks that ain't sayin' ain't that ain't eatin'. 'We're eatin' and sayin' ain't." Which convinced.me that he should confine his debates to his home circle, and let guys like Brisbane alone.
William Randolph Hearst is dead set that we should recognize the Soviet Government. HE would ! I imagine
Blustering Bill wants us to cut France off our calling list, and substitute Russia. France gave him the bum's rush when he went calling over therg if I remember rightly. Wonder wlich of the tenet's of Communism it is that appeals so to Mr. Hearst?
I see by the paper that George Bernard Shaw is coming a-visiting. FIe also, I imagine, will sing the praises of those dear Soviets he loves so well. Oh, welt ! After what we've been going through in this country the past three years even George Bernard and his whisker-strained monkey talk won't faze us much. We're sorta numb.
Thank God, Politics leave the center of the stage again. I asked an old East Texan who he was supporting for President and he said, "Oh, I think Bryan's done all right, and I don't see no use to change." And in California a wild Roosevelt enthusiast declared that "I'm supporting Roosevelt, he made us a good President when he was in before, and I think we should give him another chance." That's politics.
I'm glad the election was so very one-sided. If twothirds of the people of this nation believe that a change will help us-it WILL for that very reason.
And now the welkin rings with the cry "beer near" instead of "near beer." It will be fun to watch the antics that are coming. This nation of extremists-always swinging to extremes-is getting ready to tear its shirt and howl. Yes, it will be fun to watch. ***
Some people certainly get all the breaks. Poor old Hoover, in being elected President four years ago, was placed "on the spot" as certainly as ever a gangster victim could have been. Neither Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln or Franklin, occupying the President's chair the last four years, could have prevented a terrible panic. All four of them put together couldn't have done it. And it was into this whirlwind of fate that Hoover was thrust. ***
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absolutely certain to catch prosperity on the rebound. By the time he takes ofEce things will be definitely on the up and up and nothing he can do will start or stop it. And the tide of prosperity that should follow through the most of his term of ofEce will be placed to his credit. What a break ! No wonder Hoover was bitter during the closing days of the campaign. No wonder Al Smith is embittered. Al would be President almost by acclamation this tirne if it were not for his religion. Anyone running on the Democratic ticket was a cinch for election; and Smith is tlc m^st nnnrrlar rna_n nersonally in the nation today.
In the meantime the most vital and important thing we can do is get men back to work. Yet, while uncounted thousands of willing men are eagerly seeking employment, worlds of men have become unemployable. The other day a ship loaded with lumber pulled into the docks at San Francisco to unload. It so happened that there were no longshoremen immediately available, and the captain was in a great hurry. He went bver to the "jungles" a few blocks away, one of the biggest of its kind in the whole country, where there were several thousand men living and begging. He asked for twelve men to work six hours at eighty-five cents an hour. The word was passed through the entire "army". Do you know how many men he got? NOT ONE! And those devils who won't work demand that the public feed them. ***
Remember this: The low consumption of lumber during the last three years cannot be attributed to the inroads of so-called "substitutes." Not at all. The other building materials have fallen off fully as much as lumber. The entire trouble has been lack of building. That's all. And when building volume returns, lumber consumption will return. We now have a vacuum of more than five years behind the lumber industry, for lumber consumption had been dying fast for two years before the stock market crash of 1929. ***
Lots of people say "California did not feel the depression until long after the rest of the country did." Wrong. All wrong. California had been gradually going down hill in a business way since the boom of 1922 and 1923. Check the build'ng permits and see. Building has been steadily
and continually dropping-particularly in Southern California-since 1924. It was not a case of the depression getting to California LATE. It got here EARLY. Business was very, very slow in California in 1928 and 1929, when the rest of the country was enjoying a fuenzy of apparent prosperity. California did NOT feel the first gery eral crash like the rest of the country, but it was because she had been gradually slumping for a long time before that.
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California is entitled to a greater and more definite backswing for that very reason, than any other part of the country. And she will unquestionably get it. When the general swing of the pendulum upward becomes definite, California should lead in the come-back. Eight years of slipping justifies the prediction of a marvelous back-swing.
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Long-Bell now announces what it refers to as "the greatest achievement in building construction in a century of progress," Enterlocking Fabricated Building Lumber, patented. Read about it. There is much to think about in its application to the building situation. The originator and patentee of the idea is a retail lumberman who has been trying for twenty years to get someone to see the possibilities in his plan. Many who listened to him thought he was a little "touched." Long-Bell finally looked and. decided that he WAS touched-by genius. So they are making and marketing this Enterlocking Fabricated Lumberthrough the retail lumber trade.
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The story is a long one, but if it does nothing more than eliminate "jerry building" and the possibility of mistakes in using improper sizes and grades of lumber for specific uses, it will be a blessing. There IS a big thought in this thing.
Was just reading a letter written by a well known physician in Los Banos, C-alifornia, to The Pacific Lumber Company. FIe was telling what Redwood bark fiber had done as an insulator in his home in that town. He testifies that when the temperature was 105 outside, last summer, the temperature in his living room was 82, and, in some other parts of the house 79, without the aid of fans or air conditioning of any sort. He says he never used the cooling sys-
tem he had installed at all. Now THERE'S something in wood products to brag about.
I made some critic" t"***" last issue in this column about the senseless and impractical bunk we use so freely and so generally in our business correspondence, and mentioned some of the phrases as examples. Ilere's a prize entry for that list that I forgot to mention: "As of the first." Some fat-head is always doing something "As of the first of January," or some other time. When I write my index expurgatorious for silly phrases, I'll list that one right close to the top.
The entire lumber production of the Philippine Islands at the present time is approximately only about six million feet a month.
This is a sharp contrast to 1928 when the Islands produced 610,000,000 feet of lumber. In 1929 it had fallen to 464,000,000 feet, and has been falling steadily and rapidly since that time.
In l9D the exports of Philippine lumber totaled 104,000,00O feet, most of which came to the United States. Today the entire production of Philippine is less than they used to ship to the United States.
The estimated total stand of merchantable timber left in the Philippines is 485,000,000,000 feet, all hardwoods, which is unquestionably the greatest stand of hardwood timber on earth. At the present rate of cutting it would be an everlasting supply, and even at the highest rate so far attained it would take hundreds of years to consume it.
There is one large new sawmill in the Philippines, that which has just been completed by the Findlay-Millar Timber Company, at Kolambugan. This mill was built to replace one destroyed by fire. It is finished and ready to go, but will not be placed in operation until business conditions improve very materially. It is a double band mill, with every known modern form of equipment for manufacturing and preparing Philippine cabinet woods for market.
The market price of Philippine lumber is about 60 per cent of what it was two years ago.
A new technical bulletin giving a very comprehensive study of the strength and related properties of Redwood has recently been issued by the United States Forest Service. The book is cornpiled by R. F. Luxford, associate engineer, an1 I-. J. Markwardt, senior engineer, Forest Products Laboratory, Branch of Research, U. S. Forest Service.
Copies of this bulletin may be had at l0 cents each from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. Title of bulletin is "The Strength and Related Properties of Redwood".
Up to the first of November the Redwood mills of California inanufactured approximately 115 million feet of Redwood lumber. If November and December continue at the same rate of production the total for the year will be about 138 million feet. This will establish a record of many, many years standing for LOW production of California Redwood.
In 1923 the production of California Redwood totaled 650 million feet. In 1924 it was 602 million. It has been dropping steadily since that time, due to market and building conditions.
Redwood production has been holding steady for the past three months, while sales and shipments have exceeded production during those months. For instance, in July the production of the Redwood Association mills (whi.ch usually total about 87 per cent of the total in the state) was 7,010,000 feet ; shipments were 8,239,00O; sales were 9,388,000. In August production rose to 9,590,000 for these same mills ; shipments 11,190,000; sales 12,171,000. In September this healthy trend continued with production 9,42I,W; shipments 10,371,000; sales 13,803,000. In October production was 9,658,000; shipments 13,603,000; sales 13,411,000.
It will be noted that sales continue to slightly surpass shipments, which shipments,continue substantially ahead of production.
For the Redwood Association mills production for the year up to November first was 100,637,000; shipments 123,93,000; sales 133,970,000. While all volume is low, it will be noted that the relationship between production, shipments, and sales was a very healthy one, and is continuing .so through November.
The building permits. of California for the year 1932 are thus far just about 50 per cent of those of 1931. But Redwood shipments into California for these same ten months arc 70 per cent of what they were in 1931, showing that Redwood is doing a larger share of the available business this year than it did last.
This can be fairly attributed to the fine and direct trade extension work of the California Redwood Association, which has, for the past six months, kept six active field men working the California territory, selling the use and idea of Redwood. That direct results are being obtained from the efforts of these men. there can be no reasonable doubt. Acting under the daily direction of "Chuck" Griffen, the stout lumber retailer whom the Association drafted from his own business to see what ,could be done for Redwood by aggressive and coordinated merchandising methods, the Association work is showing direct results from one end of California to the other. The field men call on everyone who 'could be interested in the use of Redwood, including architects, contractors, engineers, dealers,
builders, and prospective builders. They are also giving their attention to schools and school children, teaching the young idea the facts about this great native California wood.
Six months is a very short time for judging a trade extension campaign, but the men have been well chosen, the field divided, the work prospected and prepared, and the campaign prosecuted with vigor and enthusiasm. A bound book for the information of the members of the Association is made every month, showing work accomplished and results obtained each month by the organization.
My personal opinion is that it is the most practical and should be the most productive effort ever made by any lumber producing association in lumber history, and, if continued in proper manner, might well be expected to fairly rebuild the Redwood industry. With Redwood salesmen, both mill and retail, working in behind these trade extension forces, either one of two things is absolutely and utterly certain; either Redwood use will be tremendously increased, or else Redwood is not the wood that its proponents so enthusiastically declare. When things swing back, and people really begin to build again, Redwood should reap a rich harvest from this tradi: extension work.
I see no reason why an organization of that strength and chara,cter should not be able to entirely change home building styles in California. Why not? Styles of all kinds are created and directed by thinking humans. Why should not a great and intelligent organization, working with a marvelously useful wood, be able to direct the very trend of public opinion ?
I think an inferiority estimate by the Redwood folks themselves of the possible accomplishment of such an effort in California, would be about the only thing that could obstruct its huge success. Laugh that off!
Don't pull those old bromides about people don't use rvood for this and that and the other any more ! People are sheep ! They go where they are led, just as they have always done. Redwood is on the right track. Teach the people of California to use this wonderful wood, and make them buy it. It CAN be done. Only the weakling says no.
The last dinner meeting of the year of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39 will be held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Monday evening, December 12. The speaker of the evening will be the well known Catholic priest, Msgr. J. M. Gleason, of Oakland.
Dinner will be served at 6:@ p.m., eighty-five cents per plate.
E. B. Culnan
E. B. (Ed.) Culnan, since 1926 district sales manager of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. with headquarters in their Los Angeles office has resigned to become general manager of the Western Lumber Company at San Diego, Calif. He will take over his duties on December 5.
He has been connected with the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. for the past twenty-one years. He joined the organization in 191 1 as yard foreman and latdr salesman at their San Pedro yard. In 1913 he supervised the building of the company's yard at Oceanside and acted as manager of the yard for nearly a year, when he was transferred to their Riverside yard where he remained as manager for eight years. He was,called in to the Los Angeles office in 1922, and after four years spent on the road calling on the trade he was appointed district sales manager in 1926.
He has been associated with the lumber industry continuously since I%)7, and prior to his coming to Southern California he followed the business in Wisconsin and the Northwest.
The Western Lumber Company has a large waterfront yard at San Diego and several branch yards in San Diego county. The company is owned by Jerry Sullivan, Sr., president of the company, and his two sons, Jerry Sullivan, Jr., of the Sullivan Hardwood Company of San Diego, and Herbert L. Sullivan of the Western Lumber Company.
T. B. Lawrence, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, left for the Northwest on November 17 where he will spend several days calling on the mills. He made the trip north on the S. S. Claremont which will make stops at Coos Bay and Grays Harbor. The S. S. Clari:mont and S. S. Point Loma are operated by the Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co. He will make the trip south by rail, stopping off at San Francisco for a few days, and expects to be back at his desk after the first of the month.
Announcement that the East Bay Hoo Hoo Club will again arrange for the distribution of hundreds of kegs of staple groceries to needy families of the East Bay district at Christmas time was made by President Earle Johnson at the club's monthly dinner meeting held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Monday evening, November 14.
President Johnson appointed Gordon D. Pierce, Boorman Lumber Co., chairman of the committee that will handle the distribution. He will be assisted by Earl Davis, N. E. Nelson, Miland R. Grant, Con Sheehan and Clem Fraser. Gordon Pierce announced that contributions will be accepted from firms and individuals in all branches of the industry.
Will C. Wood, of the Bank of America, Oakland, former State Superintendent of Public Instru,ction and State Superintendent of Banks, delivered an address on "The Outlook for Business", whigh included a statement of the operation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and its effect on general business. Mr. Wood's talk was much appre,ciated by the gathering, which was one of the largest in recent years.
Jack Dionne, publisher of "The California Lumber Merchant", was called upon by the chairman for a brief talk. Jack told some stories in his best style. One or two of these were from his recently published book of Negro stories, "Cullud Fun", and all received the kind of laughter heard all too seldom in these recent days.
Bert Bryan, Supreme Arcanoper of Hoo lloo, urged renewal of membership in fnternational Hoo Hoo by all whose membership has lapsed, pointing out that $5.00 covers renewal and dues for the coming year, and that if this is paid to the secretary of the club, 20 per cent of the dues will go to the club.
Vocal entertainment rvas furnished by the "Cheer Leaders", former NBC entertainers.
Se'cretary Carl Moore requested that all members who send their dues to International Hoo Hoo to give their Hoo Hoo number, or enclose the bill received from headquarters with their remittance.
George E. Geary is now connected with the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States with headquarters at 111 Seventh Street, Los Angeles. Mr. Geary is well known to the lumber fraternity of Southern California, and was formerly associated with E. J. Stanton & Son, of Los Angeles, calling on the retail trade in the "Kite" and Riverside districts.
It was away back in the old days of polygamy in Salt Lake City, and one of the Mormon elders was taking unto himself several wives, all at the same time.
The officiating cl,ergyman was somewhat hard of hearing, and he found the wives to be somewhat timid and backward in giving their responses to several questions asked in the marriage ceremony, which rather nettled him, and ruffled his not-too-good temper.
"Do you take these women to be your laurful wedded
wives?" he asked, and in stentorian tones the bridegroom 3n5$rgggd-"I do."
"And do you take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband?" he asked of the brides.
The answer was low-toned and rather indistinct. The preacher glared.
"Some of you girls in the back row are going to have to speak up louder if you want to get in on this," he remarked, icily.
To meet the urgent need for a wholesalers'organization able to cooperate rvith manufacturers association in consideration of mutual problems now confronting the industry, the Portland Wholesale Lumber association has recently been organized. Organization was completed at a luncheon meeting, after several preliminary meetings, and impromptu meetings between wholesalers and manufacturers. Officers are: E. T. Sturgeon, Morill & Sturgeon Lumber Co., president; Harry P. Edward, Columbia Harbor Lumber Co., vice-president; and W. G. Dalin, Lewis & Dalin (Inc.), secretary-treasurer. The following additional concerns were represented:
Aldrich-Cooper Lumber Co., H. J. Anderson Lumber Co., Wm. H. Anderson Lumber Co., Dant & Russell, Denman Timber Co., Griswold Lumber Co., Edward Hines Pacific Coast Lumber Co., Klickitat Fir Lumber Co., McDonald & Harrington, Mclean Lumber Co., Nordby Lumber & Box Co., Patrick Lumber Co., Pacific Woods Co., F. W. Pettibone Lumber Co., Prendergast Co., J. V. G. Posey & Co., Skookum Logging Co. (Inc.), Elmer I. Stoddard, Sullivan Lumber Co., Herbert T. Templeton Lumber Co., IJnion Lumber Sales Corporation, and E. K. Wood Lumber Co.
C. G. Briggs, who has been a director in the Bridal Veil, Milton Creek and Noyes-Holland lumber companies, has been appointed vice-president and general manager of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. Mr. Briggs will make his headquarters in Eugene, Ore., at the company's home office.
More beautiful than ever, the Redwood Calendar for 1933 is now off the press. Published by James D. McClure, specialist in photographic advertising, San lirancisco, the calendar is l0l inches by 16 inches in size, and consists of 12 magnificent reproductions in rotogravure of scenes in the Redwood Empire. On the reverse side of each picture are illustrations shorving some of the many uses of Redwood.
Sponsored by the California Redwood Association, manv thousands of copies have been ordered by the Association, and by The Pacific Lumber Co., Holmes-Eureka Lumber Co., llnion Lumber Co., and other,concerns for distribution to retailers all over the country.
Many orders are also being received from retailers. The calendar is particularly suitable for the dealer for distribution to his customers as the dealers' imprint atrd calendar occupy only trvo inches at the bottom of e.ach page, so that the pictures are not marred in any way, and can be used for framing. The price is in accord with 1932 conditions. Orders may be sent to James D. McClure,216 Pine Street, San Francisco. Telephone DOuglas 8252.
Chas. R. M,cCormick Lumber Company, San Francisco, announce that they have retired from the retail lumber business in San Francisco, and that they sold their entire retail lumber stock to the Sudden Lumber Company, San Francisco, November 28.
The company will continue as before. to give the utmost in service in its cargo, rail and jobbing departments.
HE customer who wants to buy a LOT for a LITTLE has always been a profit problem. When he buys re-roofing or roofing repairs, he wants the best job he can get for the least amount of money.
Several Flintkote Dealers have found a selling story for this typ. of buyer . one that clicks, and pays a generous profit too! The product is Flintkote Asphalt Emulsion. Here is an item crammed full of more genuine sales advantages than anything of its kind in the entire field!
When you tell yorrr cus-
tomer about its use for roof coatingi1s permanent protection of enduring asphaltits simplicity of COLD applicationits extremely low costyou have offered him more roofing value per dollar than he can buy in any other material!
Flintkote Asphalt Emulsion is priced to give your customer a lot for a little; it is priced to give YOU a substantial profit besides. Build a counter and window display of Flintkote Asphalt Emulsion . . . it will help you make a red margin of profit on your re-roofing material sales!
Vith the first drenching rain, family conferences will be held in hundreds of Western homes. The question before the house will be: What shall be done about the leaky roof? Vater soaked ceilings pans scattered around the house . . . water-marked furnishitgr these will be the important issues.
Mse lumber dealers are going to make sure their names are brought before these family conferences. BEFORE THE RAINS, they are going to let these homeowners know about Pioneer Asphalt Emulsion. They are going to tell them how easily it may b. "p- plied and show them why Pioneer Asphalt Emulsion will give them rugged, water-tight roof protection for only a few dollars of cost.
Rainy weather profits are ahead! The time to line up these profits is NOV/! Make sure yorrr roofing prospects know about Pioneer Asphalt Emulsion-before the rains arrive!
The greatest achievement in building construction in a century of progress is the invention of Enterlocking Fabricated Building Lumber. It is the climax of many years of coordinated research by architects, engineers, builders and lumbermen. It keeps lumber in the leading place as a building material and puts it far in advance rvith reference to modern attempts to supply better buildings at lower cost.
Since the days of our Colonial forefathers there have been many improvements in building lumber and the methods of putting it into place, but never has there been an achievement so outstanding as the creation of Enterlocking Fabricated Building Lumber.
This new system of wood building construction is designed to reduce costs. It offers economy, quality, flexibility and unusually sturdy construction.
Enterlocking Fabricated Building Lumber comes to the building site ready for the carpenter to put into place in conformity with any desired plan. It should not be confused with ready-cut house construction-it is building parts in harmony with time-tried architectural, building and lunrber practices, and is adapted to use in any type of building. No two homes need be alike in design or size, merely use more or less of the individual parts as the particular building may require.
Through simplification and standardization we have a coordinated system of machined pieces so that more than three-fourths of the lumber entering into all usual construction is ready for use.
Enterlocking Fabricated Building Lumber ofiers advantages to owner, carpenter and lumber dealer:
1. It will reduce the "in place in the building" cost because it eliminates waste lumber and freight paid on waste lumber-the most economical and yet the right grade of lumber for the purpose intended is chosen-to a large extent building is "pre-laid out" as the joist headers, sills and plates are mortised to receive and position the joists and studs exactly on lGinch centers.
2. Makes a stronger and better building because there is but one grade of this material-the right one for the particular use, and properly 5sa56nsd-5trength requirement of each piece is assured by careful selection at factoryjoists, studs and all other parts are sawed to precise length and squareness so that the loads and stresses are equally distributed, assuring rigidity and avoiding structural settling of the building-enterlocking joints (modern and improved mortise and tenon joints) wedge the framing parts together, stiffening the structure, making it positively cer-
tain that the framework of the building will be of sturdy construction.
3. Commands greater loan confidence because of the quality of the lumber and the unusual permanence of the sturdy construction due to the enterlocking joint features.
Carpenters, builders, retail lumber dealers and owners will welcome this new system of building because it eliminates "jerry building" or the possibility of mistakes in using improper sizes and grades of lumber for specific parts, of the building. Through engineering principles the proper sizes and grades for each component part of the building have been determined scientifically and so by using enterlocking lumber, proper sizes and grades are assured.
Special advantages for dealer and carpenter are: Elirnination of a multiplicity of grades-simplifies the ordering of lumber-has sales appeal lacking in ordinary construction lumber, and eventually reduces inventories.
There are only ten basic framing members; only nine lengths of square-end board stock; only six lengths of diagonal-end sheathing-all precision cut and graded for the purpose intended. There is but one grade of this material-the right one for the particular use.
All framing: Joist headers, joists, sills, studs and plates go together rvith a strong enterlocking joint (patented). made possible by a machine-made, wedge-shaped dovetail. The spacing of the mortised members of the enterlocking joints on the headers, sills and plates is on lGinch centers, thus automatically assuring correct centering and positive alignment of all joists and studs. With only nine lengths of floor and ceiling joists, practically any desired width of building may be obtained.
Rafters: Through the use of half-round wall and ridge plates and rafters with curved notches an almost limitless number of pitches and spans are obtained with the nine rafter lengths.
Square-end board stock: In all standard patterns of flooring, siding, ceiling, shiplap and sheathing, comes in nine standard lengths in multiples of 16 inches instead of the present wasteful practice of multiples of 24 inches; ends squarely trimmed, producing close-fitting joints and providing for correct centering on all enterlocking joists, studs and rafters.
Diagonal-end sheathing: (storm-resisting and structural strengthening) cut at 45 degree angle, comes in six lengths, ends truly trimmed producing close-fitting joints and providing for correct centering on all enterlocking joists, studs and rafters.
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Z-inch framing and l-inch board stock-nothing over 2 inches thick; no finish lumber (as finish lumber does not lend itself to ordinary, uniform processing.)
One-inch stock is tied or banded in packages of a convenient size for ready handling. All pieces in each package are of the same kind and length. Two-inch stock is shipped loose, except where it is best to bundle.
Enterlocking Fabricated Building Lumber is manufactured'of Durable Douglas Fir by the Long-Bell Lumber
Sales Corporation at Longview, Washington, under the Laughlin patents, a system of production of standard parts on especially designed machines which give high precision. It is distributed through the regular established channel for distribution of building material-the retail lumber dealer. This new product was first offered to dealers early in November,1932.
A-Joist Headers
B-Stud Plates or Sills
C-Rafter Plate
D-Floor and Ceiling Joists
E-Studs
F-Window and Door Headers
G-Gable and Dormer Studs
H-Rafters
I-Hip Jack Rafters
J-Valley Jack Rafters
K-Biidging
Ll-Fire Stop-Square end
L2-Fire Stop-Mitered end
M-Fillet
N-Square End Board Stock
O-Diagonal End Sheathing
Of all the insidious, temptations invidious Contrived by the Devil for pulling men down, There's none more elusive, seductive, abusiveThan the snare to a man with a wife out of town. He feels such delightfulness, stay-out-all-nightfulness, Shall-I-get-tightfulness; I own it with pain; A bachelor rakishness, what will you takeishness, Next day's headacheishness, none can explain.
His wife may be beautiful" tender and dutiful, 'Tis not that her absence would cause him delight; But the cursed opportunity, baleful immunity Scatters his scruples as day scatters night.
When it shall be said in any country in the world, "My poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisonerS, ffiX streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happinsss"-whsn these things can be said, then may that country boast of its constitution and its government.-Thomas Paine.
The man who makes it the habit of his life to go to bed at nine o'clock, usually gets rich and is always reliable. Of course, going to bed does not make him rich-I merely mean that such a man will in all probability be up early in the morning and do a big day's work, so his weary bones put him to bed early. Rogues do their work at night. Honest men work by day. It's all a matter of habit, and good habits in America make any man rich. Wealth is largely a result of habit.-John
Jacob Astor.A temperance orator was describing how his life had been infuenced by total abstinence.
"You know," he said, "I am now chief of my department. Three years ago there were two men in the office who held positions above mine. One was dismissed through drunkenness. The other was led into crime. He is now serving a long term of imprisonment and all through the influence of strong drink. Now, what f ask is, what has raised me to my present high position?"
"Drink !" was the vociferous reply.Deschutes Pine Echoes.
A cuttin' hoss, I've allus said, was sumpthin' of a scholar, He gits idees into his head that's mighty hard to foller. You show him what you aim to cut, he goes right after that:
He starts it off and moves about, as easy as a cat. And if the critter doesn't run, he takes it nice and slow; He cuts it out and gits it done without no fuss or show,;
But if some critter has a trick an{ thinks that he's a slicker, The cuttinl hoss is jest as slick and mostly somewhat quicker.
When he works you find fer sartain it's a job to stay on top, 'Cause he's mighty quick on startin' an' he's jest as quick to stop.
He shore don't do no shirkin' when he starts to move around;
He's got all four corners workin' when he squats an' grabs the ground.
You will find it's mighty nifty, how he moves from left to right,
And he's jest about as shifty as a boxer in a fight. He don't git none fussed or rattled; he can jump and dodge and slide;
For his job is cutti4' cattle, it's the cowboy's job to ride. Ife's a shore enough gegetter, and it sometimes has occurred
That he came out with the critter, and the man stayed in the herd.
So when you start a cuttin' why you want a hoss that's wise,
And a cowboy, too, that's sudden, up between the hair and eyes.
It takes a good clean sitter, and you're never at a loss
If you allus watch the critter and don't try to watch the hoss.
Jes you screw down in your saddle; that old hoss knows what to do,
Fer he sawys cuttin' cattle, good as any buckaroo.
-Bruce Kiskaddon. GOOD ADVICEKicking Customer: "Isn't there any way I can avoid this constant tire trouble?"
Tire Man: "You might buy a motor boat."
Washington, Nov. S.-Lumber prices reached the lowest point in August last since September, 1916, according to the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Labor. And the statisticians of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association are inclined to think that the August low is the low of the present depression. The Bureau's price index for lumber stood at 55.5 in August and 56.3 in September-lO0 being the 1926 price average. Brick prices give indications of having also reached the bottom in August. Other commodities in the building materials group stabilized earlier in the year. Cement hit bottom last December and steel in April.
The N.L.M.A. statisticians have worked up the following table of building material prices: Indices of Building Material Prices, (1926-100)
*December, 1931 ; January, 1932, 75.2.
As compared rvith the dollar in 1926 the September,1932, dollar is worth in purchasing power: in lumber, $1.77 ; in brick, $1.33; in cement, $1.27; in structural steel, $1.22; jn a composite of building material, $1.42.
If the lows of building materials have been passed and the present uplvard trend in prices continues it is believed that the public will soon perceive that the time to build is now-before prices begin to approach the levels of 1926-29.
California Leads in Use of Wood
California uses more softrvoods (pine, fir, redrvood, cedar, etc.) than any other State in the Union, the estimate by the Bureau of Census, based on the 1930 lumber cut, being 2,372,828,000 f.eet. Nerv York is second with nearly two billion feet, followed by Washington, Illinois and Pennsylvania with more than a billion feet each.
Redwood Reforestation Successful
Redwood planting data supplied to the California Forest Experiment Station of the U. S. Forest Service by lumber companies and consulting foresters show that 6,365,000 trees have been planted on 25,500 acres at a cost of $225,000. The costs averaged $10.50 per acre for Mendocino County and $7.32 per acre for Humboldt County. Lumber company records show that the average survival of planted trees to date is 47 per cent. Survival and growth appear to have been best on north, east and west exposures, and on areas that were planted with two years old redwood stock within one year after logging.
Effective November 21st the Schumacher Wall Board Corporation, of Los Angeles, announces a new low price on five-sixteenths Grip lath-their well known brand of quality plaster lath-that has set the trade completely agog. The price is 9 cents a yard F. O. B. car or truck at their Los Angeles plant. This is five and one-half cents a yaqd cheaper than it has ever sold before in the history of the company.
Likewise the Schumacher Wall Board Corporation announces that they are at the same time establishing the pribe which the consuming trade shall pay the dealer, nainely, two and one-half cents above the wholesale price. Inr ll-os Angeles, therefore, where there is no freight to be p"iFt thi- ietail price of Grip lath is eleven and one-half ceflts. Elsewhere the retail price shall be the same with freight added.
Determined to meet competition and keep its factory go-
ing and its employes working, Schumacher takes this very determined step. They fix the retail price in order that the dealer may have a fair profit on the Grip lath business he does, yet is prevented in any case from adding so great a mark-up as to defeat the purpose of the price cut, which is solely to get business and induce people to buy lath and build.
Earl Galbraith, Sales Manager for Schumacher, states that at this nerv low price, a wall can be built of Grip lath for the sa-e co-pieted price as a wall of wooden lath and plaster; a wall that does not buckle, warp, crack, or chip, and is fireproof. He believes that this new low price will have the effect of inducing people to build, and hopes that with the cooperation of the lumber dealers and other legitimate dealers, building work may be thus assisted in getting under way, men returned to work, and the building business in particular, and all business in general, may be thus materially strengthened and aided.
Spokane, Wash., Nov. 2l.-What is said to be the largest lumber deal closed in the vicinity of Spokane in the last three years was announced this week in the purchase by the Long Lake Lumber company of Spokane, of the Inland Empire assets of the Edwards & Bradford Lumber Company of Elk. I't involves the sawmill plant and general store at Elk, a large retail lumber yard at Hillyard and 42,W acres of timber land, logged off lands, and lands sold under contract. The negotiations, extending over some months, were conducted by James M. Brown, president of the Long Lake, with the owners of the Edwards & Bradford property at Chicago. Ed Lundas of Wichita, Kansas, conducted the final negotiations for the latter'interests. All of the bills receivable of the selling company in this territory are included in the sale. The Long Lake company is now in charge of the property.
"While the big mill at Elk will not be operated for the present we intend to keep it intact," said Mr. Brown. "The mercantile business at Elk will be operated by us, as well as the retail yard at Hillyard. We take over the land sold on contract and in addition thousands of acres desirable for settlement. The timber lands are mostly in Stevens and Pend Oreille counties, Washington, and Bonner county, f daho."
The Edrvards & Bradford mill at Elk is a fully equipped plant, which has not been operating in the last few years, since the company began closing out its interest in this territory. The Long Lake Lumber company owns the Phoenix sawmill and a pldning mill and retail and wholesale yards in Spokane.
In an effort to foster a closer relationship between the architect, owner and manufacturer, forty-four leading Los Angeles architects inaugurated a program during the month of November which included half day conferences with clients and building material manufacturers in the Architects Building Material Exhibit, Los Angeles.
Each architect spent a half day during the month in the display rooms to confer with the manufacturers, investigate the latest in materials and devices, and to meet his clients and show them the actual installation of the materials which he planned to specify. According to present plans, the same schedule is to be followed during December and January.
Among the architects who have participated in this activity are: Gordon B. Kaufmann, Roland E. Coate, Reginald D. Johnson, Harold Chambers, Carlton Monroe Winslow, John Byers, H. Roy Kelley, Newton and Murray, Paul Williams, Ralph C. Flewelling, Arthur Kelly and Joe Estep, Palmer Sabin, Witmer and Watson, Heth Wharton, MarshSmith and Powell, Garrett Van Pelt Jr., Gable and Wyant, W. L. Risley, Richard J. Neutra, R. M. Schindler, Hibbard and Gerity, Henry Withey, A. C. Zimmerman, L. A. Parker, Vincent Palmer, William H. Harrison, and Allen Ruoff.
Seeley Lumber Co. has opened a new yard on Blackstone Avenue, Fresno. Mr. Seeley, the manager, was formerly manager of the Fresno yard of the Tilden Lumber & Mill Co.
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"Paul Bunyan's" Log Cabin Book, an attractive and useful booklet, containing many dealer helps to sell log cabins, has just been published by The Red River.Lumber Company. The book contains 4O pages with 1'lO illustrations and 22 new plans. New ideas in built-ins, fireplace construction, interior walls, log corners, windows, cabin doors, cabin walls, shutters, windows, exterior color treatments,
what can be done within a given budget which is as far as it is practicable to go into a book for general circulation.
For those about to experience the joys sf cabin building, it states: "Planning is one of the great pleasures of building and owning a home and your cabin is the home of your hours of relaxation. You will visualize your life in a cabin and develop your plan accordingly. You live the vacation days in anticipation and your paper arrangement
is one ol the manv ittustrations appearing in hints for cabin builders, building details, etc., are also dis- will be shifted and changed as discussion brings out details cussed and illustrated. The bright orange colored cover and crystalizes the dream into reality." carries a beautiful photograph on the front cover illustra- This complete guide to planning and building is written ting Paul Bunyan's "Hewed .Cedar" pecky cedar siding, to bring the prospects to the dealer for information and extension log ends and Dutch cabin door. prices. The price of the book to the dealer is 10 cents,
The floor diagrams and sketches in the book are offered postage free, and the dealer's name will be printed on the as suggestions to assist in planning cabins. The costs book without charge. Bookb may be sold or distributed listed are approximate, to give a starting point in deciding free just as the dealer prefers.
Mitch Landis, formerly with the Noah Adams Lumber Co., has been appointed manager of the Tilden Lurnber & Mill'Company's yard at Fresno.
There is rejoi'cing in the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Burns of Bakersfield over the arrival of a son. Mr. Burns is manager of the Kern County Lumber Co., Bakersfield.
Away back in 1883 (some of you lumber youngsters can remember back to that time) the San Diego Lumber Company was operating a lumber yard in San Diego, just as it does today, when in walked a father and son, ranchers, who wanted materials for eleven miles of fencing for their ranch. They ended by buying Redwood posts to build that fence, whi.ch was of barb wire construction.
Within the last month W. E. Gird, the son, visited the office of the San Diego Lumber Company and recalled the time he and his father bought and built that fence. It still stands, he reported, sound and good for many decades to come. The ranch is near Bonsall. which is not far from San Diego.
The folks at the office of the San Diego Lumber Company got quite a kick out of that visit. The fact that the Redwood posts were sound and giving service af.ter 49 years did not surprise them, but the return of the buyer after that length of time was quite an event.
By the way, the San Diego Lumber Company, which belongs to the Dolbeer & Carson interests of San Francisco has been operating in San Diego since 1869, and during all that time has had but four yard managers. Harry McGahey, the present manager, is the fourth in line.
Starting a membership drive and to stimulate interest in Hoo Hoo, B. E. Bryan, of Oakland, Arcanoper on the Supreme Nine, has sent a letter to the California membership. In his letter he says that the Supreme Niire have pledged an economical administration for the coming year, also that a resolution was passed at the last annual meeting allowing all members a year or more in arrears in dues to be reinstated at $5.00 which includes dues for the year.
His letter in part follows:
"Do we need Hoo-Hoo International ? Is the continuance of Hoo-Hoo International of sufiicient moment to us to justify membership and a constru,ctive interest in its affairs? The answer to both of these vital questions is an emphatic YES.
'"The Supreme Nine will pledge an economical administration during the ensuing Hoo-Hoo year. But this alone will not place our Order in its rightful place in the industry -your membership and active interest are imperative.
"I do not like to contemplate the lumber industry without Hoo-Hoo. The good times we have had together-the pleasant contacts made-the opportunity to really know our fellow lumbermen-are some of the things which we will not relinquish.
"Shall we have two or three concatenations in different parts of the State this year, just to renew our acquaintances and friendships ?
"Send your check for membership renewal to Carl R. Moore, local secretary, 142 Beverly, San Leandro, California, for quick, careful attention. Send it now, while you are thinking of how much we need Hoo-Hoo."
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Hart-Wod Lmber Co. .........S4n Froclre
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Conditions and experiences of the past few years have given us ample opportunities to analyze investments and when all forms of securities are considered we can come to but one conclusion and that is, the ownership of a home has no comparison.
Even in the face of unreasonable assessments and taxation this is true, for no one can refer to a single commodity that has not deteriorated to a greater extent and we know of many investments in other fields where the original capital has been entirely lost.
You need only to compare the stock quotations of I9?9 to those of. 1932 to fully agree with us, and while it is true many have lost their homes, in the majority of instances these losses can be traced directly to the home owners themselves. The foolish desires on the part of some families to acquire homes far in excess of their ability to pay or in accepting speculative builders' houses that were 40 per cent over priced, represented the poorest kind of judgment on the part of all concerned. Eventually such transactions could have but one ultimate conclusion, the return of the property to the original seller or money lender.
Yet homes that were carefully planned, constructed of durable materials and competent workmanship and properly financed reflect the best and thriftiest kind of investments, for even though the lot and improvements cannot be sold today for the amount of money they represent, eventually not one dime need be lost and in most instances with the saving in rents credited, the home owning budget would be balanced.
There never has been a time when it is cheaper to rent than to own, for the same amount of money invested in rent receipts will pay for a home. The only question for consideration then is whether you eventually want the title vested in your orvn name or continue buying homes for landlords.
The common expression we hear among renters is that they wish they had built a home and furnished it with some of the money wasted on timely pleasures and questionable securities; these families are the best building prospects today.
Another very important consideration and one which many home owners are accepting is the protection of their present homes through a program of remodeling and modernizing. Homes represent too much of our efforts for us to allow them to deteriorate and grow old-fashioned. Especially is this true when every dollar exchanged for improve-
ments and conveniences will return double value in protection and satisfaction. 'Many families are including home repairs in their budget to provide perpetual money for rejuvenation purposes.
Surely now is the time to build and repair as building matdrials, appliances, conveniences, etc., together with competent labor are more reasonably priced than at any time during the past twenty-five years. Everyone who has the money or ability to borrow should build or start at once bringing their home up to modern-day standards of attractiveness and conveniences.
After all, it is the home owners of America who enforce our moral laws of love and justice and in our own homes is where we find the most worth-while happiness and congenial atmosphere, for these and many other reasons we should be desirous of owning and maintaining modern homes, as everything we do to aid success, even success itself, is a reflection of ideal home surroundings.
When we stop to realize the importance of home ownership, just what it means and stands for, the wonder is that any of us would allow one penny of our savings to be invested in any outside channels until we first become the owner of a home of our own or until our present place reflected and contained the most modern of home improvements.
Getting ready for the business revival that will come along one of these days the Hammond Lumber Company has recently established a warehouse in connection with their New Orleans sales office, where they are carrying a stock of Redwood to fill rush orders.
Allard Kaufmann, formerly with the Southland Lumber & Trading Company, New Orleans, is in charge of the offrce and warehouse. J. L. Kemper, technical engineer, who was formerly in charge of the New York office, covers the territory from Texas to Florida. C. J. Quinteau is local salesman. The New Orleans office is in the New Orleans Bank Building.
Harry W. Cole, of the San Francisco office, recently paid a visit to this office on his way back from a trip on which he visited the company's Eastern sales offices.
Essays recently written by the grade school children of the City of Redondo Beach, Calif., have attracted very much interest in lumber circles in Southern California. Following an address on the Redwood industry before the pupils of each of fouq grade schools at Redondo Beach, by R. R. Leishman and E. W. Hemming of Los Angeles, fieldmen for the California Redwood Association, together with moving pictures showing the various operations in the logging and manufacturing operations of the various Redwood products, from this information the children wrote their essays. For the best essay handed in at each of the four schools, the Association awarded a Redwood sandblasted plaque which makes a beautiful home decoration. The children prepared their essays without any assistance during school hours. The children awarded plaques were: Vera Briggs, age 13, Central Departmental School; Catherine Diefenbach, age 10, Beryl Heights School; Franklin Oliver, age 10, Central School, and Margaret Mathewson, age 10, South School.
Messrs. Leishman and Hemming state that this service is available to any of the schools in Southern California, and that the Association will be pleased to cooperate with any lumbermen interested in similar contests.
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The essay written by Miss Vera Briggs follows:
We cross the San Francisco Bay and drive northward to the country of the redwoods, which is in Del Norte, Mendocino and Humboldt counties. The redwoods also grow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Some of these trees were living long before Christ was born, our guide tells us. The Sequoia Gigantia grow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, there is another redwood tree called the Sequoia Sempervirens.
We see a very large redwood but our guide tells us that it is a small tree compared to others. Here is one which we are told is one hundred and twenty feet in circumference or about thirty-four feet in diameter, a tree this size would build about sixty-four modern five room houses. A few of these trees have a road built through them.
Our guide has brought us to an immense tree which the men are felling. They have been rryorking about two weeks on it. A crack is heard, a warning is given and down starts the mighty tree. With a tremendous crash it falls. The ground trembles beneath our feet. After that the tree is cut into logs and loaded on a flat car. We learn that seven little seedlings are planted in the place of every redwood tree cut.
We are granted permission to go through the mill. We follow the clr down the track. When it arrives at the pond the car goes on a side track and the logs are pushed off the car by a "jill poke," The logs hit the water with a mighty splash. We follow our guide into the mill.
The bark is taken from the logs and put into a machine which ,cuts it in different lengths. We are then taken where the bark is shredded. We do not get to see the bark baled, but we are allowed to see the bales when they have come out. They are very much like bales of hay only they are darker in color. The guide tells us that the bark is used for insulation.
After the bark is taken from the log, the log is taken to a saw machine where it is sawed into boards of different lengths. We are taken to where the lumber is sorted and graded. After the lumber is sorted it is taken to huge kilns where it is dried in about thirty days. Our guide tells us that it would take about two years to dry it in the open. When we have seen the lumber put into the kilns we are taken to see the different things manufactured from the redwood lumber. Things which we see manufactured are: shingles, window frames, siding, bannisters and storage tanks.
We learn that the redwood lumber is the best to use because it is insect resistant and also because it does not decay. We are told that the redwood lumber is used in nearly every country of the world. Our guide says that Australia especially uses it extensively.
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California lumberman with executive ability arrd with fifteen years practical experience in the logging, mill, wholesale and retail ends of the business is open for a position with a progressive lumber company where responsibility and initiative is essential. Position must have good future prospects. At present employed and for the past ten years has been manager and sales manager of large metropolitan wholesale and retail yard in California. Extensivi acquaintanceship with lumber executives, manufacturers, wholesalbrs and retailers on the Pacific Coast. Will consider going to Orient, Central or South Amerrcan countries. Address Box C-458, Care California Ltrmber Merchant.
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As we come to the end of our intlresting visit we_ arg told that there are about seventy-five hundred men employed in this industry. There are about thirty-five thousand acres of the California redwoods in the State Parks. Of all the interesting things I have learned I think the most important is that the California redwood is worth more than all the gold in California. I have found a poem which I want you to hear.
Where the Redwoods Grow
I saw the place where the redwoods grow 'Twas a high, high hill and row on row
The redwoods climbed the sloping breast. There were old, old trees each in a dark shawl, There were middle-aged and young ones and tallBut those I loved the very best
Were the wee ones, the baby ones, who keeping oh so still Tagged behind their mothers'backs clear up the hill.
The mill of Dolbeer & Carson, at Eureka, California, is closed for an indefinite period at the present time. It is interesting to note that this is the first time since the civil war that this mill has closed voluntarily for an indefinite shut-down. Previously closings have only b'een on account of fires.
The Kinzua Pine Mills Co., Kinzua, Oregon, are sending out. an attractive piece of publicity to the trade. It consists of a thin piece of kiln dried ponderosa pine, approximately 4fu inches by 3% inches; on one side is a photograph of their mill operations, while the other side carries publicity regarding the[r kiln dried ponderosa pine.
As branch yard manager or assistant manager, by married man 39 years of age, 3 years as bookkeeper in bank, 9 years branch yard manager in middlewest, 6 years local experience, familiar with all office details. Can take material lists from blue prints; good at selling and collecting; always able to get a profit. Local references given. Want to connect with progressive concern. Write Box C-461, California Lumber Merchant.
Might invest in good plant; estimator; 20 years' experience; 10 years superintendent. Can contact architects and contractors; age 37. Address Box C-462, California Lum, ber Merchant.
Tom Dant, Los Angeles, California and Arizona manager of Fir-Tex of Southern California, left for Portland, Oregr:rrr; i-ire iaiirr pari uf iiuvember. iie pians to leave Portland on December 28 on an extended business trip to the Orient in the interests of Dant & Russell, Inc. He will visit Manila, Hongkong, Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama.
Donald H. Doud, sales manager, Defiance Lumber Co., Tacoma, recently visited San Francisco, where he conferred with W. R. Chamberlin & Co., California sales agents for his concern. Mr. Doud made the trip both ways by air, using the tri-motored planes of the United Air Lines for the five hour trip.
Hugh M. Cochran, formerly for many years an executive of the Union Lumber Company, in San Francisco, and well known to most of the lumber industry of California, is now located in Old Point Comfort, Virginia, making his home at the New Chamberlin Hotel. He is now retired and living in the East to be close to his son whose home is there.
Chas. P. Ifenry, Phoenix, Arizona, representative of the Chas. \. McCormick Lumber Co., was a recent visitor at the company's Los Angeles office. He also attended the State Retailers' annual convention.
Howard C. Clark, Rio Linda Lumber Co., Rio Linda, was a Los Angeles visitor during the latter part of November where he spent a few days on business
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