C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation Organized

Of special interest to the lumber world and to the people of Oregon is the announcement by the newly organized C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation of the termination of the Receivership of the C. D. Johnson Lumber Company and its parent institution, the Pacific Spru'ce Corporation, and the taking over by the C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation of all the properties and business of these well known institutions as of December 1, 1935.

The management of the new corporation will be: C. D. Johnson, President; Dean Johnson, 1st Vice President and General Manager; E. E. Johnson. 2nd Vice President and Secretary-Treasurer; and J. F. Markham, Assistant Secretary. Its Board of Directors will consist of H. B. Ifewes, Jeanerette, Louisiana; E. James Kock, New Orleans, Louisiana; Henry F. Chaney, Portland, Oregon; Mansell P. Griffiths, Seattle, Washington; G. R. Birkelund, Chicago, Illinois; C. D. Johnson, Portland, Oregon and Dean Johnson. Toledo. Oregon.

The C. D. Johnson Ltumber Corporation will have the largest rated capacity of any combination rail and cargo mill in the State of Oregon and, in fact, is one of the largest lumbering operations in the Northwest.

One of the outstanding accomplishm,ents of this fight against depression is that during the several years of Receivership, resulting in a constructively planned reorganization of the properties, that the properties have been in continuous operation and have been maintained and improved, its trained personnel kept intact and its leadership in the constant improvement of its products and service carried on.

Mr. C. D. Johnson states that one of the principal objectives during the years of ,planning, in which lumber sales were at their lowest ebb, rvas to maintain employment for approximately one thousand men on its payrolls and to maintain and improve its service to its customers.

The formation of the C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation will insure continued employment for its personnel, with prospects of increase as the building industry revives.

It will also insure a continuous supply of its well known products manufactured from one of the largest and finest forests of Olld Growth Yellow Douglas Fir, Sitka Spruce and Hemlock in the United States.

In taking over the properties there will be no interruption in production or in shipments and all lumber orders of the old company (which will be dissolved) will be executed by the new corporation.

The C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation will maintain its head office at 1330 American Bank Building, Portland, Oregon; with branch sales offices at 26O Californid Street, San Francisco and at 6O1 Petroleum Se,curities Building. Los Angeles, California. In the United States and in the United Kingdom it will retain the same sales connections as were maintained by the old company.

The C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation will have ample cash working capital and will have no bonded indebtedness. None of its securities will be offered to the public and no financing will be needed. The transfer to the C. D.

Johnson Lumber Corporation insures one of the most soundly financed low cost lumber manufacturing concerns in the Northwest, backed by over a fifty-year supply of virgin timber, and equipped with every facility for the manufacture and refinement of seasoned Fir and Spruce lumber.

The management states it is now producing at the rate of 120,000 M feet per annum and stands ready to go into its maximum production of 180,000 M feet per annum as the building industry revives, pledging itself at all times to maintain the high quality of its produ,cts and service and to improve same as new methods for betterment are found.

They have always spe'cialized in the California water market and will be continuously in that market so far as their water shipments are concerned. Their lumber shipments to California to date this year total over 6O million feet, both rail and .cargo, from their own mill.

Col. Wm. P. Gray

Colonel Wm. P. Gray died November 9, 1935 at the St. Lukes Hospital in San Francisco, following an illness of ten weeks. He was born September 22, 1870, in Round Bottom, Marshall County, West Virginia.

He came to Palo Alto in Mry, 1897. It was here he started in the hardware and lumber business with his cousin, J. F. Parkinson. In 1900, Col. Gray, with his brother, G. F. Gray of Moundsville, West Virginia, Jormed what was known as the Virginia Timber and Lumber Company, with a mill located on Kings Mountain. This was continued until the fall of 1906. From 1906 to 1910 he was with the Pacific Hardware and Steel Company in San Francisco. In November, 1.910, Col. Gray and Z. T. Thorning bought out the interest of his brother, G. F. Gray, and K. H. List, in the Redwood City Lumber Company, and formed the Gray-Thorning.Lumber Co.

He leaves a widow, Mrs. Isabelle Gray of Palo Alto, a son, Lindsey T. Gray of Redwood City, a daughter, Mrs. Richard Moule of San Francis'co, a brother, G. F. Gray, and two sisters, Mrs. Annie Gatts and Miss Mary Gray of Moundsville, West Virginia.

Lumber Industry's Only Movie Star

Arthur Trvohy of the Twohy Lttmber Co., Los Angeles, is the lumber industry's only moving picture star. He recently completed three weeks' work at the 20th CenturyFox studio in the picture which Jane Withers is to star, and based on Booth Tarkington's story of Indiana, "Gentle Julia." He also appears in "Broadway Melody of 1936," and "Ah ! Wilderness." Arthur's hobby is collecting antique automobiles of which he has a large number. Whenever the movies want to use old autos, they have to call on Arthur.

TAKE LARGER OI',FICES

Ziel & Company, importers of hardwoods, of 16 California Street, San Francisco, recently moved to larger quarters in the same building.