RAIL and CARGO
California Lumber Representatives
Southern Calilornia
Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleyr
Ralph P. Duncan
P. O. Box 603 MERCED, CALIF. Phone 1114)
Carl Davies (Douglas Fir)
W. H. Sharp (Port Orford Cedar)
1515 Eart Seventh Street LOS ANGELES Phone TRlnity 6zsz
San Francigco Bay Dirtrict Peninrula, and Coagt Countieg
Seth L. Butler
7 Front Street SAN FRANCISCO Phone SUtter 8854
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A meeting betrveen Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady and representatives of the Shiporvners'-Association of'the Pacihc and the Masters, Mates and Pilots' IJnion at San Francisco, November 28, broke up rvithout any agreement being reached.
Insistence of the operators that unions rvithdraw men from oicket lines and return masters to strike-bound vessels ciused the break-up. Disbandment of prckets and return of masters was neaessary before operators would discuss a proposed agreement.
The Shipowners' Association and the Marine Cooks and Stewards'-Union reached an agreement on November 27 which was the first successful peace conference since the strike was called on October 29. The schooner operators granted the cooks and stewards preferential hiring and the eight-hour day. They previously reached an accord on wage demands. Agreements with six of the seven unions involved were reached by the schooner operators prior to the coastwide walkout-the exception being the masters, mates and pilots.
The Shipowners' Association operates over 70 schooners in coastwise shipping, and represents 25 per cent of the ernployers. Deep sea operators own 150 of the 221 ships now tied-up in Pacific Coast ports. Ships operated by the Shioowners' Association carry on most of the coastwise lumber trade on the West Coast.
With other strikes adding to the business paralysis, industrial reports reflect the further slowing down of West Coast activity because of labor troubles.
The San Francisco chamber of commerce research department said the maritime strike is preventing the movement of $7,000,000 worth of goods daily on the Pacific Coast and that $5O,000,000 worth of goods was tied-up in strike-closed lvarehouses.
Washington and Oregon cargo lumber mills estimated
the;r loss at $2,000,000 since the strike started. Fuel oil companies reported a $2,000,000 business loss. Canning companies have laid off more than a thousand clerks because of the tie-up.
14,000,000 feet of lumber is strike-bound at Los Angeles harbor aboard eighteen idle lumber ships. With the exception of less than a million feet, all this lumber is sold.
The lumber terminals at Los Angeles harbor are being picketed to prevent nonunion truck drivers from hauling lumber unloaded before the strike from the harbor area. Union truck drivers continue to haul loads .ivithout interference. This has not interrupted the movement of lumber at the harbor, and as far as stocks permit, truck deliveries are going out as usual.
Consumption of lumber in California is heavy and building operations are active. Building permits issued in Los Angeles for the first twenty-four days of November, 1936, totaled $3,843,583 as compared with 91,848,1'17 for the same period in 1935.
With lumber cargo shipments from the tidewater mills in Washington and Oregon suspended, there is considerable lumber moving into both Northern and Southern California by rail. Fir common dimenslon and boards are coming mostly from points in Oregon, Portland and south. Some uppers and shingles have been shipped in from as far north as Puget Sound. Prices have advanced from $1.50 to $2.0O on Fir common grades.
The demand for Ponderosa Pine is good with prices firm; No. 3 clear and all shop items are reported scarce. The Sugar Pine market is strong and prices viry firm; mill stocks are broken.
The Redwood market is active and prices are firm. The mills report a scarcity of dry uppers.
October shattered all Northern California records for new homes financed under government insured mortgaged loans according to D. C. McGinness, Federal Housing Administration. San Francisco.
During October construction was started on 346 new homes in Northern California financed by FHA insured mortgages, aggregating $1,7I4,W. The next highest record was set in the previous month of September, Mr. McGinness stated, and third on the list was August, "indicative of the steady and substantial increase in government insured mortgages for home construction as the public becomes better acquainted with this economical, safe and convenient form of financing."
It was pointed out that the Federal Housing Administration has helped 11,600 Northern California families acquire homes of their own by insuring mortgages aggregating $49,4OO,000.
George W. Gorman, general manager of Trans-Pacific Lumber Co., Port Orford, Ore., announces that the company has chartered the steamer Cottoneva, which has recently been re,conditioned and is ready to sail as soon as the strike is settled.
The Cottoneva has a capacity of approximately 1,000,000 feet of lumber. A regular two weeks' service will be established between Port Orford and California oorts.
The Celotex Corporation, through Harold Knapp, general sales manager, has just announced C-X Texbord, a new interior finish of genuine wood veneer with a Celotex backing. This new attractive interior finish is available in Mahogany, Avodire and Walnut. C-X Texbord brings these finishes within the range of the average family budget.
C-X Texbord is /4" thick, and comes in units g',9",12" wide and 8' and 1O' long. It is easily applied to the wall without showing nails or any need for special moulding. This application is made possible by a special patented joint treatment. Because this new wood finish is only r/4" thick,. it can be used for both old and new construction. New literature and descriptive material is available from The Celotex Corporation, 919 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago.
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The showing of the California Redwood Association's. sound film, "California Giants" at the weekly luncheon of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club, held at the Engineers' Club, November 23, was enjoyed by a capacity attendance.
Louis Ehling, of the California Redwood Association, who exhibited the picture, was introduced by President C. C. Stibich.
The luncheon is held every Monday at 12:15 P. M., and all lumbermen are welcome.
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There's an old story about the doctor who told his patient to take a tablet after each meal, followed by a little whiskey. The doc asked the patient's wife one day if the prescription was being followed, and she said her husband was a few meals behind on the tablets, but a month ahead on the whiskey.
It's the same way -ri ;". of the loans the Goverilment has been making. There is one definite and shining exception to the rule-the R. F. C. situation. Jesse H. Jones has loaned a little over six billions of dollars to the banks, railroads, and insurance companies, and has a'lready collected more than four billions of it, the remainder being all in mighty good shape and will probably all be collected. Something of a record.
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The boy who started life hustling lumber in a retail yard at Dallas, Texas, knows more about finance than most of the other financiers put together. A natural trader who loves to trade, he has had the fun of his life meeting the smart guys who went to Washington for money, and outtrading them in the name of the Government. His worst enemies admit that he has made a marvelous success of his R. F. C. job, and probably actually saved the Government of the United States a billion dollars., And a billion dollars is MONEY.
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Every now and then in all lines of human endeavor there arises a man who is properly called a "natural." ff ever there was a "natural" fo,r a job, it was Jesse H. Jones for the R. F. C. job. President Hoover went down into solid Democratic Texas and lifted Jesse Jones into the newly created R. F. C. Jones went to Washington with one aim
in view; to head R. F. C. Soon he succeeded the original Chairman of that Corporation, and began showing how good he was. President Roosevelt never hesitated about reappointing him.
Jesse Jones has lots of "stuff" besides financial brains. He has courage in abundance; he has lived a life that has required that type of intestinal fortitude. He is a natural gambler. His mind works like a combination between a Corliss engine and a steel trap. The biggest "bust" written about him was by Raymond Moley in his magazine "Today." He said Jesse Jones cared nothing for gambling. On the contrary, he gambled from the day he was born. That's the secret of his success. He can beat almost anybody playing anything; he always has, anything from bridge to high finance. And he'Il play anybody for anything. He's a stout fella, that Jesse Jones. As stated before, he's probably made a billion dollars for this country gambling for R. F. C.
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They opened the new San Francisco-Oakland suspension bridge the other day. That was a world event. It was a conspicuous lumber event, and cement event, and paint event. There are thirty million feet of lumber in that steel bridge, moeity used for railroad ties and timbers. And this lumber is fireproofed.
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That bridge contains 1,300,000 barrels of cement; 1,000,000 cubic yards of concrete; 200,000 gallons of paint; 200,000 tpns o{ steel; 77,800 miles of cable wire. It is eight and 'iine-half miles long, the piers go 242 feet below the water and 519 feet above the water' rt cost $77,000'000 to build' The R. F. C. furnished the cash to build it, and the auto
traffic across pays 65 cents per car toll for crossing each time, and the toll will continue until the bridge is paid for.
The bridge is double-decked, and is the longest ever built over a navigable body of water. It makes all other great bridges look like play-toys by comparison. It covers four and one-half miles of water, and four miles of approaches. It took fifteen years to build Brooklyn Bridge, the next greatest suspension bridge on earth, and the San Francisco.Oakland Brtdge was completed in three years. Yet you can take Brooklyn Bridge, George Washington Bridge, Queensboro Bridge, Delaware River Bridge, the Quebec Bridge, and the Ambassador Bridge, all famous in their time, apd put them end to end, and they will fall short of the new colossus of the West.
There is no foot traffic over this bridge, and autos must move not less than 45 miles per hour to keep traf;Ec clear. No slowing down or stopping is allowed. Keep moving and moving fast in every lane is the rule of the new bridge. Sad to relate, twenty-three men were killd in its construction. ***
The maritime strike is spreading and enlarging, costing five million dollars a day on the Pacific Coast alone. It is a major catastrophe just as things were beginning to look so much better throughout the West. As this is written there is not the slightest indication that the end is in sight.
Innumerable sawmills and logging camps on the Pacific Coast are shut down. From San Diego to Seattle thousands o{ workers in all lines have been laid off because of the strike paralysis. A foreign radical in San Francisco seems entirely to control the sitgation.
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It's an ill wind that blows nobody good. While the water-located lumber mills are shut out of practically all their markets on the Pacific Cotrst, their competitors are reaping something of a harvest. Much lumber is being consumed in California. Usually most of it comes in by water. Now there is no water-borne lumber corning in, but inland mills are doing a land office business to California and Arizona territory. And mills ftom other territories will soon be reaping a harvest on the Atlantic seaboard where waterborne lumber from the Pacific Coast has been enjoying a splendid business. Likewise other hardwoods will soon be profiting by the inability of the importers of Philippine Mahogany to bring in their products while the strike is in progress. There is no present shortage of Philippine because the importers were getting ready fof several months. But the stocks won't last long. *,F
In the meantime the building industry is having a fine time throughout the country. Small buildings such as homes, etc., goes on at high speed. Which is "duck soup"
for the retail lumber yard business. Big buildings, except Government stuff, still lags. If it takes a notion to pick up and join the small building trade, there won't be lumber enough anywhere to supply the demand.
The motor car industry booms, and leads the business parade. The nation is at present spending as much for automobiles as it is for food; and getting ready to spend more with the auto shows displaying their wares everywhere. One big reaso,n is-VALUE- You can get five times as good an automobile today as you could ten years ago, for one-fourth the price.
And the same improvement shows in motor fuel-gasoline. Gasoline with an octane rating (power and efficiency) thirty per cent higher than that of the gasoline of 1920, sells for 60 per cent less per gallon than it did then. The price the buyer lays down is NOT 60 per cent less, because
E. G. (Dave) Davis, Coos Bay Lumber Company, Los Angeles, is rvearing a big smile and handing out the cigars to his lumbermen friends. Dave became the father of a baby boy born at the Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, on November 24. He reports that Mrs. Davis and the new arrival are "doing nicely."
NOW !rre, have to add huge taxes to the price of gasoline. But the price of the fuel itself IS way down. The miracle is that the scientific world has been able to scientifically get the cost of gasoline down far enough to make amends for the huge tax additions. In most places in this country the tax the consumer pays on his gasoline is about one-third of the price of the gasoline itself ; in some places it is ONEHALF the price of the gasoline.
Did you know, you reader who hears and reads much of taxes lately, that petroleum today pays 11 per cent of ALL TAXES collected by ALL GOVERNMENT in this country, federal, state, and local? Fact. Did you know that the average barrel of crude oil produced in this country' costing an average of 97 cents at the well, carries a tax load of approximately $1.14 before it reaches the public? Gasoline alone produced $800,000,000 in taxes in 1935, and will produce a heap more in 1936.
Find herewith my check, amount $2.@, and again I say-"Please send me one more year of PLEASURE READXNG."
Fred L. Jones, Fred L. Jones Lumber & Salvage Yard, 8,1 Verano. California.
The corner of Fifth and Brannan Strebts, San Francisco, since the opening of the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge, which reaches the street level at Fifth and Bryant Streets, just a block away, has become one of the busiest in the city in volume of traffic.
The firms of White Brothers, hardwood dealers, and Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., located for many years at this corner, should be benefited by the greatly in,creased number of people who now pass this point.
White Brothers have a new sign, half a block long with letters five feet eight inches high, on the front of their building, that can be seen by the many thousands of people who pass over the bridge daily into San Francisco.
W. T. White, president of White Brothers, remarked recently that he had never expected to see an officer directing traffic at Fifth and Brannan Streets, but that actually happened during the first few days after the opening of the bridge when a traffic ofificer was very busy handling the congestion of automobiles at that intersection. It is likely that automatic signals will soon be installed there. All the streets in the vicinity have been widened and improved, and modern lighting has further improved the district.
Bruce Clark, vice-president and general manag'er of the Elliott Bay Mill Co., Seattle, was a recent California visitor. Ife conferred with Lloyd Harris of the Elliott Bay Sales Co., Oakland, and with Dee Essley, Southern California representative, Los Angeles.
Announcement is made by the Hogan Lumber Co., Oakland, of the addition to their staff of Thomas W. Pugh, who is now in their estimating and full mill bid department.
Mr. Pugh is one of the best known men in the millwork business, with a total of 35 years' experience in the San Francisco Bay District. He was with the Charles Nelson interests for 18 years of this time.
Dallas, Texas: Arthur B. Shelby, of San Francisco, accompanied by Mrs, Shelby, is spending two weeks visiting with old friends and relatives in Dallas and vicinity. Mr. Shelby was for many years a very popular cement man of this city. Ife now lives in San Francisco, California, where he is president of the Calaveras Cement Company, one of the very large and progressive institutions making and distributing cement in California territory.
P. R. "Bob" Kahn, general manager of Forsyth Hardwood Co., San .Francisco, returned recently from a five weeks' business trip to the hardwood producing centers of the South.
Mr. Kahn made the trip by automobile, driving a total distance of 7,3N miles. He found business booming at the hardwood mills, and the manufacturers very optimistic about the future.
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Chicago, Nov. 20-Talking about "The Position of American Lumber in Foreign Trade," Wilson Compton, \Ai ashington, D. C., secretary and manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, said today before the Annual Meeting of the National Foreign Trade Convention here, that the position taken by the lumber industry with regard to the trade agreement with Canada in 1935 was the "starting point from u'hich we direct our drive for the restoration of American lurnber and timber products to a rightful place in the sun of a rising international commerce." The position taken by the industry, while it frankly criti,cized the lumber provisions of the Canadian agreement, said that the industry recognized and respected the ag'reement as constituting the deliberate conclusion of the President. Accepting the responsibility placed upon it by reason of the further difficulty then added to an already difficult situation, the industry asked the Government's aici in restoring foreign markets. Dr. Compton explained that lumber manufacturers resented rvhat seemed to them a needless further exposure of their domestic markets to the hazards of Russian lumber competition, which had done such havoc in the more accessible lumber markets of Europe. But, he said, they especially resented the opening ol American markets to Canadian lumber whilst leaving the Canadian lumber industry in "unchallenged possession" of preferential advantages rvhich have gradually obliterated American lumber from great 'lvorld markets, for which it had been for decades the principal source of supply."
The speaker said that although that resentment continues, it is tempered by the belief that if the reciprocal trade agreements program is constrmmated on a world-wide basis and the reasonable cooperation of other nations is attained through the restoration of international commerce, the industry, rvhich so far has had little but the bitter taste of foreign competition in its already saturated domestic rnarkets, may also have the sweeter taste of larger opportunities for equal competition in ',vorld markets. While statistically America's foreign lttmber trade looks less than ten per cent of our total lumber production, it is very important in the export areas of the industry.
Our forests contain many species and our sawmills produce many grades ancl items of lumber for which there is no adequate domesti,c market. The present alternatives to the waste of these othern'ise nonmarketable produ,cts are either foreign markets,or abandonment in the woods. The loss of export markets has added seriously to the waste of timber in recent years, especially in the Pacific Northwest. Although the manufacturers have made diligent efforts to stop this u'aste, the U. S. Forest Service has estirirated the lvastage of rarv material of lumber size in Oregon ancl Washington logging operrations in 1930 as equivaler-rt to one-sixth of the entire annual lumber production.
Because of virtttal exclusion from certain export markets cluring the past six years, rvastage is greater today than it n'as in 1930. Dr. Compton emphasized that the solution of this problem of rvastage u'as largely in the restoration of the exDort ontlets for this material.
In the second place, Dr. Compton pointed out that much of the best United States timber is remote from the principal domestic lumber consuming markets, the result being that scores of mills are unable economi'cally to market their products in competition with others more favorably situated, except by the use of water transportation. Foreign markets are indispensable to those mills which can profitably deliver lumber to distant foreign markets by rvater at transportation costs substantially less than by rail to much nearer domestic markets. Then again it was noted that many domestic lumber markets, principally dependent upon the building industries, are subject to rvide seasonal variation-a situation which is returned to a balance rvhen foreign markets supplement domestic markets.
Another advantage of dependable foreign markets is the substantial encouragement they give to reforestation, commercial tree growing dependent upon the revenues derived from the produ,cts of forestry. An important thing to rernember, the speaker said in this connection, is that timber is the only basic natural resource which is continuously renewable. There is no need, norv or ever, for exhaustion of our national timber resources if the markets for forest produ,cts are maintained. Timber is the only "crop" available for five hundred million acres of land, sub-marginal for ordinary agriculture and permauently useful, if useful at all, only for forest growing. It was remarked that 5@ million acres is more than the area now devoted to annual agriculture.
Dr. Compton stated that the present annual drain upon American forests for lumber is 3.9 billion cubic feet, for other forest products, 3.9 billion cubic feet, for fire and rratural losses 1.8 billions cubic feet; a total drain o{ 9.6 billion cubic feet. As against this drain there is a present annual timber growth estimated at 9 billion cubic feet with a possible annual growth under favorable 'conditions calculated at 19.1 billion cubic feet. If the present fire loss were reduced by one-half, timber growth and timber drain would now be in balance, to say nothing of the reserve of present saw timber, estimated at over 16 hundred million board feet-equivalent, at the present rate of utllization, to 74 years' supply.
Referring to loud lamentatior.rs over "forest destruction" and to gloomy predictions of a treeless land, Dr. Compton said that the present problem rvas-rather one of encouragement of forestry through wider markets for its products than one of literal conservation-rather forest renewal thall forest parsimony. There is and will be no such thing as a timber famine.
"Whatever the merits of the debate over the lumber traffic," the speaker concluded, "and horvever important the continuance of such measure of protection as will at least a.r,oid necessity of reducing wage scales toward the lorver levels of principal foreign competitors, it is true that a rcstored and healthy export trade will benefit the lumber industry as a whole more than the present vacillating protection in the domestic markets."
Los Angeles 'continues to hold second place in building among the cities of the nation a'ccording to statistics compiled by Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.
In the twenty leading cities showing the largest buildingpermit valuation for the first ten months of. 1936, Los Angeles ranks se,cond, San Francisco is eighth and Oakland is eighteenth. The figures for 1936 with comparative figures for 1935 follow : Ten Months
The Lumbermen's Annual Hi-Jinks, sponsored by Lumbermen's Post No. 4O3, American Legion, will be held at the Los Angeles Press Club, 1106 South Broadway, Los Angeles, Friday evening, December 11, 1936.
There will be tu'o hours'of entertainrnent. This will be the biggest and best show ever put on by the Post and there will be a bevy of pretty girls on the program.
The committee arranging for the party includes: Milton Taenzer, Ameri,can Hardrvoocl Co.; Russell Gheen, C. D' Johnson Lumber Corporation; Ed Biggs, IJnion Lumber Company; Maurice Alexander, Paramount Studio; and !'red Morehouse, Anglo California Lumber Co., Inc. Dinner will be served at 6:30 P. M. Tickets are $1.75 each and can be obtained from the members o{ the committee.
The Lumbermen's Hi-Jinks is always looked forward to by the lumber fraternity and there will be a big turnout. Make your reservations for tickets as soon as possible, and be on hand early to get a good seat for the entertainment. All lumbermen are invited to attend.
The Riverside Cement Company, Los Angeles, announces the following appointments: Warren H. Leonard, sales manager to the ofifrce of general manager; John C. Allen, assistant sales m,anager to the office of sales manager; Holton C. Dickson to the office of assistant sales manager.
is opened by this incomparably rich decorative wood for home owners appreciative of its rare beauty-6or restaurant and ofice owners-storekeepers, business and professional people generally-*1to recognize thar attractiveness and distinction in fittings and furnishings creare a favorable first impression which is a decided business advantage.
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My friend Bob Alexander sends me a couple of very good yarns about the modern druggist. He says a young man in his town desired to be a druggist, so he studied for two years with zeal and, fervor. Finally he decided he had mas-
Fred Morehouse has joined the sales force of the Anglo California Lumber Co., Inc., Los Angeles, and is calling on the retail trade in Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, and part of the Los Angeles territory.
Fred is well known in Southern California lumber circles where he has been connected with the wholesale lumber business for a long period. He was formerly with MacDonald & Harrington, Ltd., and prior to that was with the Hammond Lumber Company.
William Swindells and Mrs. Swindells of Dallas, Ore., were recent visitors to the San Francisco Bay district. They attended the California-Stanford big game at Berkeley, November 21. Mr. Swindells is secretary of. the Willamette Valley Lumber Company.
Dick Loveday, owner of the Loveday North Ford Boulevard, Los Angeles, is home in the Mayfair tract, Alhambra.
Damage estimated at swept the yard of the November 23.
tered the course, and so took his examination in pharmacy. He failed. Yes sir, flunked out on "Club Sandwich."
The other is about the small town druggist who cut his finger severely making a fruit salad. They had to drive sixty miles to the nearest big city to get him some iodine.
The feature of the regular dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club held at the Athens Athletic Club on Monday evening, November 16, was the showing of the Californ:a Redwood Association's motion picture with sound, "California Giants."
The film, which was exhibited by Louis Ehling of the Association, records the entire manufacturing process of Redwood from the virgin forest to the finished product.
There rvas also a discussion of the Corporation Surplus Tax.
Miland R. Grant, \Mestern Door & Sash Co., Oakland, president of the club, presided.
Walter Decker has bought the interests of his partner, C. H. Garner, in the Colton Lumber Co. at Colton, Calif. The business will continue to be operated as the Colton Lumber Co.
Lumber Co., 500 building a new
$15,000 was caused by a fire that Perry Lumber Company, Vallejo,
A., L. "Gus" Ifoover, Los Angeles, Southern California representative of The Pacific Lumber Company and Wendling-Nathan Company, recently made a business trip to San Francisco, and while there attended the CaliforniaStanford big game at Berkeley, November 21.
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Washington, Nov. l7---The fall meetings of the Executive and Trade Promotion Committees of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association will be held De,cember 7, 8 and 9, at the Hotel Loraine, Madison, Wisconsin. Part of the meetings of both the Trade Promotion and Executive Committees will be held in the building of the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory.
The Trade Promotion Committee, meeting jointly with the Advisory Committee, December 7, will make an annual round-up of National Trade Promotion activities and plans f.or 1937. Of special interest will be the presentation of a program of cooperation with FHA in launching a nationwide campaign to stimulate small home building through the building of 1,00O demonstration small homes units throughout the tlnited States.
On December 8 the Executive Committee will rneet to consider policy matters, the annual budget, and additional' frrnds for trade promotion work. The program lists such m.atters as present and prospective legislation, among them being the Robinson-Patman Act, Social Security Act and Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act. The Committee also will give consideration to further actions on export, import or customs matters; to plans to secure funds for research and promotion activity through the American Forest Products lndustries; and to the oossibility' of reconvening the National Forest Conservation Conference.
On December 9 a joint meeting of the Executive Committee, Trade Promotion Committee and Advisory Committee will be held with officials of the Forest Products Laboratory. This is the first time the National Association has held its meetings at the foremost forest products laboratory of the world, and lumbermen in attendance are given an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the advances in forest products research being made through the Forest Produ,cts Laboratory. The Director of the Laboratory is cooperating with the Chairman of the Trade Promotion Committee in arrangements to give those who attend these meetings an opportunity to see the research rvork of the Laboratory and discuss it with Laboratorv heads.
Preliminary to these meetings, a meeting separately will be held of the Advisory Committee composed of Regional Association Secretary-Managers. A meeting also wili be held of the Board of Directors of the Timber Engineering Company.
The Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers' Import Association, fn'c., reports that imports of Philippine Mahogany and Philippine Hardwoods into the United States, consigned to the various ports, for the month of O,ctober, 1936, amounted to 2,962,0ffi board feet, one per cent of which was logs. Total imports for the first ten months of the year are 29,154c[/U^ board leet, 2.7 per cent of which was Iogs.
It has been 73 yeqrs since Redwood wcrs first used in a lcrge-scqle irrigqtion system. In those seven decqdes greql proqFess hqs been mqde in selesting the riqhl Redwood lor lhe righl use. The lrrigction Hedii-Redwood you sell todoy is the best, mosl unilormly grcdd inigction Redwood you hcrve ever hqudled. It is selecled, grcded, qnd marked bt officicl Associalion inspectors. Il is cut lrom hecnry, oldqrowlh bees which sevenly yecrs' experience shows give the gre<rlesl resislcmce lo deccry. Every piece is cleculy mc*ed
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Construction of homes which long outlive the mortgage is being stimulated by the nation-wide Better Housing program of the Federal Housing Admiitistration, according to Clifford C. Anglim, district director for Northern California.
One important reason, he said, is because this governmental agency not only encourages better built homes, but demands that houses financed under the insured mortgage system comply with governmental standards of construc: tion. This, it was declared, is a protection to both the buyer and the lending agency financing the building.
"A11 parties .concerned in such a transaction are assured of a well located, soundly constructed house, a safeguard to their investment," declared the Housing director. "This does not mean it must be an expensive house. Our offices have insured mortgages on many new homes in this immediate vicinity which cost well under $3000 to build.
"To illustrate this point, I have in mind a local case in which a house costing $2850 complete was built on a lot worth $400, making a total investment of $3250. The Federa Housing Administration insured a mortgage on this property in the amount of $250O, under the 2Gyear monthly amortization plan. The owner moved in and today is paying himself rent amounting to $18.57 a month, plus ta;es and fire insurance, while his family enjoy all the security, comfort and convenience of living in their own home. ft is, of course, a modest home, but it is a good, well planned, substantial structure, built under government inspection to conform with FHA requirements. Every family paving $25 or more a month should investigate the opportunities for acquiring a home of their own under this convenient pay yourself rent plan."
To assist potential home owners and to acquaint them with the insured mortgage system, the government has prepared an interesting illustrated booklet on 'nHow to Have the Home You Wbnt." It was declared available from local lending institutions, or may be had without charge or obligation by addressing the Federal Housing Administration, 433 California street, San Francisco.
Charles M. Kellogg of Pasadena died suddenly of a heart attack at Hot Springs, Ark., Nowember 20, where he was spending the winter with Mrs. Kellogg. He was 53 years of age.
Mr. Kellogg had been a resident of Pasadena for the past eighteen ypars. He was president of the California Furniture Shops, Ltd., of Los Angeles, and prior to his afiiliation with the furniture business was for several years connected with the wholesale lumber business in Los Angeles. He was a former president of the San Gabriel Country Club, and in 1932 was president of the Southern California Golf Association
He is survived by his wife; a son, Dale Kellogg of Pasadena; a daughter, Mrs. Larry Draper of San Francisco, and four brothers, 'W. W. and R. D. of Monroe, La.; I. P. of Hughes, Ark., and L. D. of Alexandria, La.
Funeral services were held at Pasadena, Monday afternoon, November 23.
A very superior person, coming from a large eastern city to live in a small rvestern town, complains bitterly: "There's no one here who speaks my language."
There's no one rvho speaks your language ?
What a perfectly terrible plight !
Imagine, no conversation
From dawn till all hours of the night ! There's no one who understands you?
Then what may your language be, Some weird and exotic jargon
From an alien land over the sea?
Is your speech too technical, maybe, Or ponderously scientific?
Do your thoughts hop off on solo flights
In utterances beatific?
Is your language so very distinguished, So learned and worldly wise
That no one can grasp your meaning And fashion the proper replies ?
Well then, descend to our level; Let's talk of such every day things
As business, the coming election, Law breakers, captains and kings; You may toss in stray bits of yottr book loreBe sure we shall not run arvay; So forgetting your proud inhibitions, Be one of us just for today.
Perhaps we'll have time to consider
A few of the great and the wise, Who walking with king or rvith pauper See only the man in each guise; Who carry a warm understanding Of others wherever they go; Who never look up to the mighty And never look dorvn on the low.
Come, stand on a par rvith ).our fellows, Forget your superior powers; Yottr language may be unimportant, The question is, can you speak ours?
A. Merriam Conner.F. W. Marlow, district director of the Federal Housing Administration for Southern California, announced on November 2l that Title II loans in Southern California are approaching 11,000 in number with a total valuation of approximately $44,000,000, of which $21,509,280 is for new construction.
The volume of Title I modernization and repair credit loans reported by Southern California lending institutions also continues to increase. Mr. Marlow said.
Cost, 77 million dollars.
Distance over water and tideland, 9t/c rniles, plus three miles of approaches.
Passenger automobiles cross on six-lane upper de,ck; trucks on lower deck where interurban train tracks will later be laid.
Speed limit, 45 miles per hour.
Height above water 1'aries lrom 192 feet on Oakland side to 216 feet on San Francisco side-enough clearance for the largest vessels.
The magnitude of the San Fran,cis,co-Oakland bay bridge is shown from the following list of materials used and work done:
Structural steel, 152,00O tons.
Reinforcing steel, 30,000 tons.
Cable wire, 18,500 tons.
Concrete, 1,000,000 cubic yards.
Cement, 1,300,000 barrels.
Lumber, 30,000,000 board feet.
Timber piles, 800,00O linear feet.
Asphalt, 4600 tons.
Paint, 200,000 gallons.
Rock wall, 317,000 tons.
Dredging, 4,678,W cubic yards.
Excavation, 1,360,000 cubic yards.
Shevlin, Carpenter & Clarke Company announces that J. P. Hennessy has been appointed general manager of The M.cCloud River Lumber Company and will make his headquarters at McCloud, California. He will also continue as vice-president of the Company in charge of western operations.
F. W. Coan has been appointed executive vice-president of Shevlin Pine Sales Company with headquarters at Minneapolis.
L. O. Taylor, a vice-president of Shevlin Pine Sales Company, has been appointed general manager of that company with headquarters at Minneapolis.
In the November 15 issue we reported that "C^ppy" Slade had made a hole-in-one at the Griffith Park golf ,course and was now tied with Ed Seward for lumbermen's honors, each having three to their credit.
Ed Seward calls up to advise that he doesn't like to disappoint "C^ppy" but he still has 1 up on him. Ed has made a hole-in-one four times ; twi"ce on the 16th hole and once on the 8th hole at the Hollywood Country Club, and once on the 13th hole at the Wilshire Country Club.
"Cappy" rvill no doubt be out there trying to land another one to catch up with Ed. Both Ed and "Cappy" play a swell game and rank high among the Southern California lumbermen golfers.
The Corona Lumber Co., Corona, Calif., has remodeled the interior of its office and store and it is very attractive in appearance.
The office and store is 24x32 feet. The rear side is clear Redwood from floor to ceiling, 8 to 10 inch, run to pattern No. 792 and applied vertically.
One side of the office is paneled with Knotty Pine to a height of 4 feet, the balance being finished with Celotex as is also the ceiling. Part of the Celotex shows the smooth face in full size while in betrveen are narrower pieces showing the rough side and contrasting darker color, and where the panels come together they are grooved out and a decorative wood moulding is inlaid; the horizontal joints are treated the same way. The Celotex installation was designed by C. W. Comegys of The Celotex Corporation.
On the other side of the office, the paint shelves come to a height of 7 feet. A local artist has made a beautiful oil painting on the wall space above the shelves, 3x32 feet, portraying his idea of lumber from the forest to the home.
Chicago, Nov. ll.-Bror G. Dahlberg, president of The Celotex Corporation, Chicago, and C. G. Munch, vice-president in charge of production sailed on the S. S. Normandie today for London, England, to complete arrangements for the construction of a new plant there to manufacture various Celotex products.
Announcing this proposed addition to the manufacturing facilities of the ,corporation, Mr. Dahlberg said: "This is another step in our expansion program necessitated by the growing demand for structural insulation and the corresponding increase in our business both in this country and in England. Because our present f'acilities rvere being overtaxed Mr. Muench spent some time in England last summer making a c,omplete survey of manufacturing conditions, and residential construction situation, to determine the advisability of building a plant there.
"Based on his findings and the recommendations of P. R. Layman, manager, Overseas Division, who is now in England, we have furthered negotiations and expect to break ground soon in England for a completely modern structural insulation board plant. This new plant should be in operation early the coming summer, and will help considerably to relieve the Marrero, Louisiana plant which has been running at capacity for several months."
According to Mr. Dahlberg new operations in England are being finan'ced by,combined capital from United States and England.
Eye appeal has been added to steel roofs by the neat, trim and rugged appearance of "Tyl-Lyke" galvanized roofing, which has caused mu,ch favorable comment throughout all sections of the country. It offers greater value than corrugated iron, as it is of sturdy construction' heavily galvanized and costs less to install. In many jobs in California "Tyl-Lyke" sheets have been used for both roofing and siding material.
These sheets are offered with the maker's positive guarantee that they will not leak under any normal roofing conditions, regardless of the pitch, whether they be installed as a sheet roof, used as siding sheets in either horizontal or vertical position, or laid as roofing on a comparatively flat surface. They will turn successfully the hardest and most driving rain, and when properly grounded provide positive protection against lightning.
They are made of open hearth commercial steel (also available in copper bearing steel), having a heavy coating of. zimc applied to their entire surface. They are made in 3-V style only; are furnished in 26,28 and D gauges, and in even foot lengths from five to 12 f.eet inclusive.
The patented non-syphoning drain channel breaks all capillary attraction (syphoning or seepage), thtts assuring a positive leak-proof installation. Due to the heavy co'ating of zinc these sheets are suitably protected against atmospheric corrosion and rust, giving many years of unimpaired and satisfactory service.
"Tyl-Lyke" galvanized roofing is manufactured by Continental Steel Corporation, and distributed exclusively in Southern California by Commonwealth Steel & Supply Corporation, 2l5O Sacramento Street, Los Angeles.
A. P. Bliss, 76 yearc of age, retired lumberman with interests in Arkansas, Florida, Michigan and Washington, died at the Loma Linda Sanitarium, November 19, following a paralytic stroke.
In addition to his lumber interests, Mr. Bliss was a Saginaw, Mich., bank president for many years. ln 1923 he retired and came with his family to live in California, maintaining a ranch home near Riverside and a city home in Los Angeles. Funeral services were held November 2l in the Little Church of the Flowers. Glendale.
He is survived by his wife; two' sons, Abel and George Bliss of Riverside; a daughter, Mrs. Paul J. Howard of Los Angeles; a brother, Frederick L. Bliss of Riverside, and a sister, Mrs. Nancy Dean of Saginaw.
Portland, Oregon, November l9th-Never before have the American people, young and old in all walks of life, been so interested and enthusiastic about taking up hobbies and avocations as they are today. Of the creative arts, wood carving is unquestionably one of the most popular and pleasant avocations for the person who likes to work with wood and tools and has the leisure time to enjoy it. To encourag'e and assist the beginner in this delightful craft, the Western Pine Association has published an elementary manual entitled "Wood Carving for Pleasure." This 24page, illustrated booklet has been prepared by the Association in collaboration with Herbert Rayner, of Portland, Oregon, a professional wood carver for over 34 years. A1though all the Western Pines are of the soft pine group and are highly satisfactory for carving, Sugar Pine, a genuine White Pine, is featured in the Association's latest publication. The text covers the principles to observe when carving in wood, the essential tools required, and the different types of wood carving, beginning with the more simple types of scratch carving or chasing and chip carving then advancing rather rapidly to the more difificult types of low relief carving, bas relief, and sculpturing or carving in the round. Examples of various types are described briefly in a step by step manner to show the tools used and technique employed in executing them. The amateur wood carver will find "Wood Carving for Pleasure" not only a most attractive booklet, profusely illustrated with pt'actice designs and completed carvings, but very practical in its application, and of convenient size (5" x7"). Single copies can be secured without charge from the Western Pine Association, Yeon Bu;lding, Portland, Oregon.
"Deflection Charts for Douglas Fir Plywood," is a new folder issued by the Douglas Fir Plywood Assocration, Tacoma, Wash.
These charts are to assist the engineer, architect and builder in selecting the most economical thickness of Douglas Fir plywood for concrete forms, sub-flooring, sheathing, or other structural use. The charts are based on a comprehensive series of tests conducted recently at the Forest Products Laboratory of the University of Washington. The results are in accord with the theoretical deflections computed as tentatively recommended by the United States Forest Products Laboratory at Madison. Wis.
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Have you ever heard of Gossip Town?
On the shores of Falsehood Bay?
Where old Dame Rumor, with rustling gown' Is going the livelong day? It isn't far to Gossip Town
For people who want to go, The Idleness train will take you down In just an hour or so.
The Thoughtless road is a popular route And most folks start that way, But it's steep down grade; if you don't look out You'll land in Falsehood Bay.
You glide through the valley of Vicious Folk, And into the tunnel of Hate, Then crossing the Add-to-Bridge, you walk Right into the City Gate.
The principal street is called "They Say" And "I've Heard" is the public well; And the breezes that blow from Falsehood Bay Are laden with Don't-You-Tell.
In the midst of the town is Tell-Tale Park. You're never quite safe while there, For its owner is Madarne Suspicious Remark Who lives on the street Don't Care.
Just back of the Park is Slander Row, 'Twas there that Good Name died, Pierced by a dart from Jealousy's bow In the hands of Envious Pride.
From Gossip Town, Peace long since fed, But Trouble, and Grief, and Woe, And Sorrow and Care you'll meet instead If ever you chance to go.
The fond mother was saying goodby to her only son who was joining the navy.
She said: "Now, Son, remember what I've told you. Always be punctual. Get up on time every morning, too, and don't keep the Admiral waiting for his breakfast."
The lady was entertaining the small son of a friend at dinner. Seeing that the youngster was having some trouble with his knife and fork. she asked:
"Are yo'u sure you can cut your meat?"
"Oh, yes Ma'ain," he said. "We often have it this tough at home."
Economic security has come to loom so large among the so-called civilized peoples of the earth, and the evils of the organized system of individualist economics are so dominant in the consciousness of great masses of people, that nations are selling their souls for the proverbial mess of pottage-are bartering away freedom to dictatorship for fatuitous pledges of economic betterment.-Frederick M. Hunter, University of Oregon.
The motorist stopped at the fence corner, and said to the country boy who was sitting on the top rail, chewing meditatively on a straw:
"Son, how far is it to Washington?"
The one on the rail considered the question seriously for a few moments, before he said:
"Well, Sir, I don't rightly know. But you stop at'that shack on the next corner, an' ask Eph. Eph'll know. He's bin all over. Eph's got shoes."
Joe saw the train, but couldn't stop; So they dragged his flivver to a shop. It only took a week or two
To make his Lizzie good as new. But, though they hunted high and low, They found no extra parts for Joe.
Contributed by Frank W. Trower Trower Lumber Co., San Francisco
"I am still at work, with my hand to the plough, and my face to the future," said Sir William Mulock, Chief Justice of Ontario (who is 95 years old), in a recent public utterance. "The shadows of evening lengthen about me, but morning is in my heart. I have lived from the forties of one century to the thirties of the next. I have had varied fields of labor, and full contact with men and things, and I have warmed both hands before the fire of life. The testimony I bear is this: That the Castle of Enchantment is not yet behind me. It is before me still, and daily I catch glimpses of its battlements and towerS. The rich spoils of memory are mine. Mine, too, are the precious things of todaybooks, fowers, pictures, Nature and sport. The first o'f May is still an enchanted day to me. The best thing of all is friends. The best of life is always farther on. Its real lure is hidden from our eyes, somewhere beyond the hills of time.t'
Langford Smith, who has been resident manager for United States Plywood Co., Inc., since he opened the San Francisco branch for that company in 1934, has resigned that position to devote h:s entire time to his own company, United States Wood Products Company.
Back in 1932, when business was at its worst, "Lang" Smith and R. S. (Dick) Pershing started United States Wood Products Co.. who are Northern California distributors of a number of specialties. Principal of these is "FLEXWOOD," the popularity of which has grown to such proportions the past year as to occupy Lang's full time in keeping up with the demand. The rapidity with which "FLEXWOOD" has sprung into popular demand as a medium for paneled walls of the finest woods has aroused the admirat:on of architects and builders throughout California. The large number of beautiful installations in San Francisco, Sacramento, Modesto and Fresno, is a tribute to Lang and Dick and shows what can be done when two good men, with plenty of well directed energ'y, and a good product, get together. The trade wishes Lang the best of luck and good fortune, and a continuation of the stlccess which he has already so rvell established for himself and his company.
Merrill Robinson is succeeding Langford Smith as branch manager for United States Plywood Co., Inc., at San Francisco. He is u'ell and favorably known to the lumber and fir plywood industries of the Bay District and the Northwest. At their new branch at 119 Kansas Street, where the company's facilities for serving the trade have been enlarged, N{r. Robinson stated the company will continue its policy of carrying a heavy inventory of hardwood panels, Douglas Fir and California Pine plyrvood, for quick delivery, "Because," he said, "we want this branch to have the same reputation for 'fncomparable Service' that is enjoyed by all the other branches of the Company throughout the country."
Anglo California Lumber Company recently added to the lumber handling equipment at their storage yard at 642O Avalon Boulevard, Los Angeles, a new 6Gft. electric crane, and a Willamette Utility Lumber Carrier.
The Forest Products-Better Phint Campaign announces that the name will be changed after January 1. 1937. It will be known as the Lumber Proclncts-Bett€r Paint Campaign. Don Critchfield is managing director of the campargn.
D. S. Watrous, sales manager, Perfection Oak Flooring Co., fnc., Shreveport, La., has been spending a ferv weeks at their Los Angeles office. Perfection Oak Flooring Co., fnc., with mill operations at Shreveport, manufactures the well known "Frostbrand" oak flooring. He reports business very good.
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The Department of Commerce has received a report from the Special Lumber Survey Committee on Lumber Consumption, Lumber Stocks and on anticipated Consumption during the fourth quarter of 1936. This is the ?Znd, quarterly report of the Committee.
The Committee finds that national lumber stocks on October 1, 1936, of approximately 7.4 billion feet were 4 per cent in excess of stocks on July L, L936 and slightly above January 1, contrary to the usual seasonal trend. Estimated lumber consumption in 1936 is approximately 22.4 billion feet including 5.5 billion which is forecast for the last three months of the year. This estimate will, however, be too high if the maritime strike continues during the fourth quarter.
National lumber stocks now on hand are not excessive. The outlook for 1937 is favorable for an increasing lumber demand. Not for over a quarter century has the lumber industry, in the opinion of the Committee, had so advantageous an opportunity, through well directed research.and promotion effort, to improve and extend the public use of its products. To this end the industry should adapt its products to the changing and more exacting requirem,ents of users and improve the efficien,cy and economy of distribution.
The Committee recommends, in the interest of balanced stocks and markets, diligent exploration of the possibilities of larger foreign outlets for the sale of lumber. An essential step in this direction is the restoration to the lumber _and timber products industries, of an opportunity to compete, without discriminations, in the world lumber markets.
The Lumber Survey Committee appointed on July 9, 1931, consists of Thomas S. Holden, vice president, F. W. Dodge Corporation, New York; M. W. Stark, economist, Columbus, Ohio; Calvin Fentress, chairman of the board, Baker, Fentress & Company, Chicago, Illinois; Phillips A. Hayward, chief, Forest Products Division, Department of Commerce; and Wilson Compton, secretary and manager, National Lumber Manufacturers Association.
The Glatts Lumber Co. has opened a yard at 135 N. Daisy Ave., Pasadena. B. R. Glatts is the owner.
What can the California Redwood Association do to help retail dealers increase the demand and use for all grades of Redwood lumber will be the question asked retail dealers in California during the next months by L. L. Witty, shingle and roofing specialist, and Lesley Graham, wood technologist.
Both Mr. Witty and Mr. Graham have spent many years in close contact with retail dealer problems, in sales as well as technical positions in the building industry, in addition to day to day assistance given to dealers by these representatives of the Redwood industry, their findings will aid in determining the future merchandising policies for California Redwood.
At the 1936 convention of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, President Carl W. Bahr, of the California Redwood Association, cited the need for a greater consideration of quality as against cheapness in home buildirg. I{e announced the Redwood industry would reach a new peak in dealer cooperation during 1937, urging dealers to present their problems to the trained representatives who would call upon them.
During the past three months, the California Redwood Association has released its nelv publications on Structural Redwood, Standard Patterns, and the 1936 edition of standard grades and specifications. Two other new publications are in the final stages of preparation, featuring exterior and interior finishes. These will include many beautiful illustrations.
The new Foundation Grade of Redwood. introduced in October, has been received with outstanding enthusiasm by dealers and engineers. It was preparecl specifically to meet the demand for a quality product having high resistance to decay and termites.
J. Harold Peterson, Jr., baritone soloist, is winning many plaudits with his Friday radio programs over KHJ, Los Angeles, which come on the air at 5:45 P. M. He has studied in Germany, and is now a student at the University of California at Los Angeles where he is studying voice.
He is the son of J. Harold Peterson, of the Peterson Lumber & Finance Co., San Diego.
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George W. LaPointe, Jr., Menomonie, 'Wis., president of the National Lumber Dealers Association, advises Kenneth Smith, secretary-manager of the Lumber and Allied Products Institute, Los Angeles, that the success of the campaign to promote the use of grade-marked lumber being carried on by the Institute is the most important development in the industry noted on a recent nationwide tour.
Mr. LaPointe also states:
1'I note on my return to 'Wisconsin that nearly every purchasing department of the federal government is demanding grade-marked lumber and refusing to accept bids on anything else. Because of this and because the success of your pioneering efforts in grade-marked merchandising, I am urging all members of the National Association to study your plan."
California's Redwood industry will be the host during the first week of February to more than 125 members of the Ohio Association of Retail Lumber Dealers and the Union Association of Lumber and Sash and Door Salesmen, who will leave Columbus, Ohio, January 22, on a three lveeks' tour to the Northwest, Redwood and Southern Pine territories.
Members of the tour will arrive in Grants Pass, Oregon, by special train, to be met by representatives of the California Redwood Association and civic leaders of Humboldt county for a 175 mile drive down the beautiful Redwood Highway to Eureka. There, inspection trips are planned to the principal Redwood manufacturing and logging operations and to the beautiful state oarks in the Redwood Empire. Thence, the party will proceed to San Francisco to inspect the Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate bridge before leaving for Los Angeles and the southern states.
This will be the ninth excursion sponsored by the Ohio lumber interests in 16 years, but the first since l9D when the group cruised to the West Indies and Mexico City.
The tour will begin immediately after the final session gf the annual conventions of the two associations in Columbus, Ohio. Findley M. Torrence of Xenia, Ohio, tour director, reports greater interest than ever before, to such an extent that reservations have been necessarily restricted.
Special plans are being made by the California Redwood Association to assure an outstanding welcome to the visitors upon their arrival in the Redwood Empire. Officials of Humboldt county and its county seat, Eureka, are also cooperating in the entertainment plans.
Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co. have had the ceilings in their office suite in the Petroleum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles, finished with Fir-Tex insulation board which is beautifully designed and gives the offices a very attractive appearance. The job was installed by Douglas Acoustics, Inc., of Los Angeles.
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Well, to begin with, I have taken neither myself nor life too seriously. I learned a long time ago that worry rvas largely interest we paid on troubles that never came. That the footsteps of the Man of Galilee were the best to follow. I have strayed often, but that belief has kept me from getting too far afield. That it rvas far better to stop by the side of the road and lend a helping hand to the distressed than to follow a laurel-crowned vi.ctor who has won the success of a day. That the more sunshine you exuded the more you absorbed. That there was more happiness in giving than in taking. That one should never forget how to play. That a good story is many times a life saver. That one should see the humorous side of life as one travels along its highway. That the Golden Rule was the best ever laid down by anyone. That the Cheerful Idiot and the Philosopher walk hand in hand.' That to be a good mixer is an asset always. That the huniblest was the equal of the highest a,ccording to the way he played the game of life, to be slow to judge and generous when you do, and keep on smiling. I could give you many other bits of philosophy-but time's up.
National Forest receipts for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, rose $774,363 over those of the previous year, to a total net of $4,62,963, the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, said today.
Almost half this amount was accounted for by timber sales, which brought a total revenue of. $2,161571-a gain oi 28/o over 1935. Receipts from the sale of miscellaneotts forest products, including such things as reindeer moss, decorative boughs, Christmas trees, pine cones and seeds, and gum (oleoresin for turpentine and rosin) leases added another $32,556 to the income of the National Forests.
Second largest sour'ce of National receipts was grazing fees-for 'cattle, horses, sheep, and goats-amounting to $1,433,715-a ,combined increase of $290,28O over last year.
Fees from "Special lJses" (rentals from summer home-
sites, hotels, servi,ce stands, and other specialized uses) rvere the third most important income seurce,-receipts t<-rtaling $327,987,.
Receipts on account of timber, grazing, occupancy, and fire trepass, and from permits for water power utilization, accounted for the remainder of the to,tal returns.
Twenty-five per cent of the total net profits from the National Forest is turned over to the individual states. to be apportioned to the counties in which the National liorests are located. These funds, paid in lieu of taxes, are used for road and school purposes by the,counties. Also, an additional 1O per ,cent of the receipts is used by Forest Servi,ce for road-building in the National Forests. Thus, a total of 35 per cent of re'ceipts returns directly to the benefit of local National Forest communities.
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This equipment, with its trained crew, responds to alarms from sources adjacent to railroad tracks. These are emergency 'calls when the fire threatens to get out of control of local forces. In this photograph the Fire Train is standing by while a fire rttns through a cut-over tract.
The two tanks carry 25,Offi gallons of water. The center car is a fire proofed pumping plant carrying two 6o-horse €fas motors direct-connected to two centrifugal pumps
Bill Chantland, Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., Los Angeles, has returned from a two weeks' trip to the company's mill operations at Montesano, Wash.
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Washington, D. C., Nov. 22-The lumber industry during the week ended November 14, 1936, stood as 55 per ccnt of the 7929 weekly average of production and 51 per cent of 1929 shipments. The maritime strike continues to t:estrict lumber shipments and output. 'Reportecl new orders, however, were appreciably above production. National production reported during the r,veek ended November 14, of 4 per 'cent ferver mills rvas 8 per cent below rer-ised production figures of the preceding week; shipments rvere 4 per cent below and new orders were .2 per cent above that lveek, a'ccording to reports to the National Lumller Manufacturers Association from regional associations covering the operations of important hardwood and soft'wood mills. Reported nerv business during the rveek ended November 14 was 9 per cent in excess of production ; shipments were 9 per ,cent below output. Reported nerv business of the previous week u'as 1 per cent above production; shipments were 12 per cent belorv output. Production in the week ended November 14 was sholvn by reporting softrvood mills 6 per cent below the corresponding week of 1935, shipments were 4 per cent below and orders 13 per cent above shipments and orders of the corresponding week last year.
During the week ended November 14,577 mills produced 199,236,W feet of .hardwoods and softrvoods combined; shipped 181,631,000 feet; booked orders of 217.571.M feet. Revised figures for the previous rveek were mills 599; production 215,958,000 feet; shipments 189,639,000 feet; orders 217,2O4,W feet.
All regions except Western Pine, Southern Cypress and Northern Hemlock reported orders ab,ove production in the week ended November 14. Al1 reporting softrvood regions except West Coast and Southern Cypress reported orders above the 1935 week. All regions except West Coast and Southern Cypress reportecl shipments and all West Coast and Northern Hemlock reported production above the corresponding 1935 week.
Lumber orders reported for the week ended November 74, 1936, by 490 softrvood mills totalled 2O2,632,0N feet; or 9 per cent above the production of the same mills. Shipments as reported for the same \^Ieek were 168,571,000 feet, or 9 per cent below production. Production lvas 185,921,00O feet.
Reports from 107 hardwood mills give new business as 14,939,000 feet, or 12 per cent above production. Shipments as reported for the same week were 13,060,000 feet, or 2 per cent below production. Production u'as 13,315,000 feet.
CLASSIFIED
Rrtc--t2.50 Pcr Colunur
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YARD FOR SALE
AN OLD ESTABLISHED RETAIL BUILDING MATERIAL AND LUMBER YARD WITH A MODERN PLANING MILL UNIT IN AN EXCELLENT LOCA. TION IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. OWNER WISHES TO RETIRE. PARTICULARS GIVEN TO BONA FIDE BUYERS. PRINCIPALS ONLY. APPLY BOX 636 CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT.
Lumberman wants position as yard manager, bookkeeper, or estimator. 12 years' retail lumber experience. Good refenences. Go any place. Will appreciate an interview. Carl G. Heitmann, 25 Atlantic Avenue, I-ong Beach, Calif.
RETAIL YARDS FOR SALE
If you want to buy a lumber yard in Southern California, see us. We have a number to offer. Twohy Lumber Co., Lumberr Yard Brokers, 549 Petroleum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 8746.
From the Files of The California Lumbet Merchant, December 1 , 1926
The Quincy Lumber Company has purchased the two mills and timber holdings of the F. S. Murphy Lumber Company. The mills are located at Quincv and Sloat, California.
Thirty-two golfers answered the starting bell at the Santa Barbara golf tournament sponsored by the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club on Novemlxr 12 at the La Cumbre Country Club. Francis Boyd of the Boyd Mill & Lumber Co., Santa Barbara, was the official host and in charge of the arrangements. Frank Burnaby, Sun Lumber Co., Beverly Hills, was toastmaster at the banquet held in the evening'
W. B. Dean, general manager of The Diamond Match Company, Chico, has been appointed Vi'cegerent Snark of the Butte County Hoo-Hoo distri'ct.
Queen Marie of Roumania, touring the ,country in her special train, paid tribute to American city building on her
Sales of building and refrigerator insulation and allied materials by Silvercote Products, Inc., totaled 6,023,000 square feet during the quarter ending Sept. 3Q an increase of 110 per cent over the 2,867W square feet sold in the preceding quarter, according to C. E. Stedman, president of the company.
Sales of the company's principal insulation product, Silvercote fabric, which is used in hdmes, refrigerator cars and trucks and cold storage plan$, totaled 2,87O,m square feet for the third quarter, compared.tg 940,OOO square feet in the second quarter. During the third quarter, the company's sales force was ihcreased from 15 to 47 men.
'r.isit to Longview, Wash. "You certainly do things right over here. You plan a city and then build it." *{<*
The Hansen Company, Fontana, Calif., says: "Judging from the number of comments, bbth oral and 'lvritten, that u'e have received on the write-up that you had about our vard, there can be no doubt The California Lumber Merchant is being widely read throughout the state. We hearcl from salesmen, manufactlrrers and competitors.
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This issue carries an illustrated article on the Fruit Growers Supply Company mill operations at Susanville, Calif.
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A dinner held at the Cardinal Hotel, Palo Alto, Monday evening, November 15, was attended by a large number of Peninsula lumbermen and a delegation from the San Francisco Bay district. Plans were made for the organization of a Hoo-Hoo ,club. Paul M. P. Merner arranged for the dinner and entertainment.
Geo. F. Weis announces the formation of the Geo. F. Weis Company as wholesale distributors of industrial lumber, plywood, dimension stock, hardwoods and softwoods, including Ponderosa and Sugar Pine. The company will specialize in direct mill shipments. Their office is at 2016 West 1lth Street, Los Angeles.
The Security Lumber Company, of which Mr. Weis was a partner, has been dissolved.
J. L. Ward has opened a lumber yard at 6615 Bth Avenue, Los Angeles. The yard will be known as the Kintzle Lumber Co.
LUMBER
Gupbc[-Mrye Lumbcr Ca, --iii lr"ttct st. ...... :..........GArfidd rsr0
Gm&Co.,LJ!r5 Croi&cr Blds. ..........'.......SUttGr st63
Chanberlin & Cc, W. R., tth FlG, Fifc Bld3. .......'....DOushr ta?a
Dut & Ruuf,, lnc.' 7 Fmr 3t. .............,............SUttcr tts,l
Dolbcr ll Canm hmbcr Co. Ztr Mcrchrnt Excbea3r Blds.......SUtt r7l9l
Gomran Lumbcr Co{ro Catifomla St. .... .,.....,......GArfiald l0l{
Hdl, Janc L, ll2l Millr Blds. ...'...............Sutter l3t5
Hammd Redwod Cmpany, al7 MdtrmGry St.,............DOu9|u At$
Holmer Eureke Lumber CL f!C5 Flnarchl Ccntcr Bldr..'....GArfield ll2l
G. D. Jobrm Lunber CorD. 2d0 Califomia Strect.. '. '. '..GArfield i25t
MacDondd & Hanington Ltd.
tf Cdiicrir Str.et.'......'.......GArfie|d (le3
ltm Mlll & Lmber Co-
525 Mirkct Stret .......".......Exbmk t?as
LUMBER
Prciffc t.lnba Co laa
L Bq-L SFGGi......,.............GArOrE lrtr
Rcd Riw Luber Go, trg Moa&oct 81t...............GAr6o1d C22
Sratr F. rrhhcr Cc, f3 Cdlforde Str.at.......,....KEirnt 20?a
Schefcr Bra. Lubb.r e Sr,rnrb 6r I Dru St. ..,...............,....SUttc l?l
Shcvlh Pin Sdcs Co., l@ Mordnch Bl&. ...........KEany 70ll
Suddal & Chrletmon, ll0 Sarrac Stn t................GArfic|d 2taa
Unlon Lmbcr Co.. Crd:lcr Bulldhs ..Suttqr 6u0
Wadling-Nathrn Ca, \ ll0 Markct Strect ......,...........SUttsr Stlt
E. K. W@d Lubq Co. I Dnnn Stnat....................KEmy 'l10
Wcycrfaruc Sebr Co.- r|| Cdifmir Strect......,........GArfield ||?{
Zlel & Co., 16 Califcnla Strut .............8xbr8& Stll
LUMBER
Hill & Morto" luc., - Dmniron Su Whut ......'.'.'.ANdnall?
Hogan Lumber ComPanY' ind & Alie Str!cts.............Gl4n@rt aEal
Pvramid Lmber Sale Co., ' ll5 Paclfic Building ..Gl.encilrt t203
E. K. Wod Lumber Co. Fredcrlck & Kinr 36.............Froitvdc lll2
HARDWOODS
Strablc Hardwod Co, 532 Firt gtnt.......,.........TEmplebar 55tl
White Brolhcrt ' 5llo Higb Sircct ..........'.......ANihvcr l0
HARDWOODS AND PANEI.S
Foyth Hrrdnorl Cc. !56 Bryrhm Blrd. .......,.......ATvrtr attt
Whita Brothan. Fifth aad Branma Strut .....,...3Uttcr tlc
SAIIH-DOORII-PLYWOOD
Ntcold Dor Salcr Co, Las ltth Strst,...................M|.|ho ?tta
Orcgm-Wuhington Plywood Co55 Nd Mdtson.rt Str.ct.......GAr6.&l taf
UDtt d Strtr. Plyuood Cc, Ins, lll Kannr Strect .,............,...M.ArLct lttz
YVbclcr-O4ood Salc Corpontloo, $r5 rtth St. ......................VA|cach 2arr
CREOSOTIED LUMBER_POLE$-PUJNGTIES
Arnarlcel Lunber & Trcatlng Co, llt New Mutgomery St. ..........Sutter ItNs
Buter, J. H. & Co., 33il Montgmery St. ...,..........DOugtas !&tt
Hall, Jemec L., 1026 Millr BIdc. ..-...........,.....SUttGr l!$
PANEIJ_DOORS_SASH
Cditmta Buildon Supply Co., 700 lth Ave. ..Hlsate Ole
Westcn Du & Sash Co., 5th & Cyprer Sti ..............LALct& g||
BUILT-IN FIXTURES
Parmunt Built-In Fixture Co., It07 Est lzth St. ... .., ., .ANdover iro{
Anslo Calilmta Luber Co. -crzo Avaton Blvd. ....'...."."'THmwall 3ll4
Eokgtavcr-Bumr Lumber Co.'
550 Chambcr of Commere Bldg...PRdFct aAlf
Chuberlin li Co.. W. R., 3lt Wert Nirib SL. .'... '... ......TUckcr l{31
Dant & Rusrell' Inc.'
rSlS E. ?th lSt ..'...................TRinity f,r57
Dolbeer & Cmm Luber Co., ,01 Ftdality Bld8. ..........,,....v4ndik3 t702
Duming, W. D. {3t Ghambcr of Comerce BIda.' 'PRdDGct 9134
Hanmod Redwood CmPanY, le3l So. Brudvay ...............PRcpcct I53
Hammiags' E. W, ?a{ So. Sprlns St. '. 'TRlnity 9&r
Holner Eurcka Lumber Co., ?ll-7r2 Archltcctr Blds. '.. ' ..Mutud nEr
Hovq. A. L. m Sc L Brca Avc. ................YOrk ll6t
G D. Johron Lumbcr Cqp.' col Petrclcum Securltlec Bldg....PRcpcct UG
Kellv-Smith Co. &r-a22 G&fiald Blds. .,.... Mlchisan t0in
Kuhl Lumber Conpany, Carl H., Ot Chamber of Commerce Bldg...PRcpect 9136
lmne-Phi[pr Lumber Co., |ill Pstrolm Smriticr Btdt...PRorFGt 42, MacDoald & Bergstrm, luc., ?il3 Pctrclem Ssrids Bldg....PRcpect 7l9l
LUMBER
MacDmld & Hanington, Lt&, 5{? Petrolm Scgrltls Blig....PRosFGt tl?
Pacific lubcr Co. Tte ?U Sc Lr Bna Avc. ..,.....,.,...,.YOrL ff$
Pattcn-Bllnn llnber Co. 5a E. sth St. ,...................VAndikc Zt2l
Red Rlvcr Lmbcr Cq, 7@ E. Shuo .CEntury 29Or
Reifz Co., E. L., 3ilil PetrcIem Slcurltle! Bldg. ..PRorpect Atl
Suta Fc Lubcr Co., 3lr Fiudd Cmtcr Bldg....r,,VAndtko l1?l
Schafer Bm. Lumbcr & Shtqb Co, vn W, M. Clrlrld Bld8.,.......TRl!ltya?r
Sbevlin Pine Saleg Co., 32t Petrclem Seorltiec Bld3. PRcpcct 0615
Suddo & Chrlrtoam, Gtr Bard of Tn& Bldg. ........TRiDlV !t4{
Tecma Lumber Saler, ,123 Petrol,eM SeorltLes Bldg...PRospGct ff08
Unio Lulbcr Co.- ttrl W. M. erdlnd Blds...........TRtDlty Ztz
Wcndling-Nathrn Co-, ?O So, Lr Brca Ava. ,.............YOrL lf$
WllHmn and Buq, 3lt W. ttb SL ....,.,..,.......... TUcker l43t
E. K. Wod Lmbcr Co.. a?01 Sutr Fc Avc. ,..........,..JEfiGm llU
Wcycrhacuar Salcr Cl.. ,20 W. M, Garland Blds.........Mlchigan t05a
HARDWOODS
Cadwallader-Gibrcn Co- lnc., 302t East Olympic Blvd. .,......ANgeh8 Ulel Pcrfectio Oak Ftocing Co, t?l E. e0th St. ......................ADams !20t
Stanto, E. J., & Sm, 2050 Eut ltth Stret.........,..CEnrury itfll
SASH-DOORS_MILLWORK
PANEI.S AND PLYWOOD
Aberdcan Plyqood Co-Don F. Oder, 210{ Woct Plo Sfreet ..............F!t2ror fsal
Cnlilmh P.-el & Vcnc Co., t55 So. Alamcda SL................TRhrt' 0t5?
Kehl, Jno. \il.. & Sonr, 652 So. Myaro St. .....,.....,....AN3clutltt
Oregon-Wuhingto Plywod Co., 3lE Wclt Nintb str.te .......,.....TUcL.r l{tl
Rcd Riw Lmbcr Co., Tllil E. Slaum ..CEnhrry lt?r
Unlted Stat€. Plywod Co., Inc.. 1030 Er3t l5th SL ................PRcpGGt!0lt
\f,fhcler-Osgood Sdc Corpcatioo, 2153 Sacrmato SL ...............TUchor roU
CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLES_PILINGTIES
Amiriru Lumber & Treatlng Co., lml So. Bmdmy .,...........,PRosp€ct 55tE
B*ter, J. H. & Co., d)l ll/est sth St. ................Mlch|gao e2il
Two vital reasons inspire the use of Redwood for exteriors. First, all-heart Redwood resists rot and exposure through the years; second, it is worked with ease and takes paint or stain beautifully. Clear all-heart Redwood is ideal for every type of siding, shakes and shingles. Flammond has long been headquarters for quality Redwood. Vast holdings, large scale operations and ideal service organization facilities assures the trade every advantage in meeting their requlrements.
