Paul Bunyan's Fire Train

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

Back From Trip To Mill

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.

When You Sell

Booth-Kelly Douglas Fir, the Aseociation grade and trade mark certify to your customers the guality of the stock you handle. Builders quit guessing about what they're buying, and buy where they know what they're getting.

LUMBEE? gO

SUGENE.ORg: u'orking in a series. These pumps can maintain 75 pounds pressure with eight 2l inc}:. hose outlets running. The car on the right carries two 2f-inch monitors, six 2f -inch hose outlets, 15@ feet of hose and tools.

General Sales Ofice: Eugene, Ore. Mills: Wendling, Ore., Springfield, Ore.

The locomotive is a diesel-electric, the first of its type put in service West of New York City, built for Red River in 1926 by General Electric, Allis-Chalmers and American Locomotive Company.

VISITING COMPANY'S PLANT AT LAUREL, MISS.

Forrest Wilson, Seattle, Wash., in charge of sales in the state of Washington for the Masonite Corporation, is on a trip to the company's plant at Laurel, Miss.

\THOLESALE

LUMBER

SASH & DOORS

MILL WORK

BUILDING MATERIAIS

National Lumber Movement

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.

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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.

Position Wanted

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.

Ten Years Aso Today

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

Silvercote Sales Show lncrease

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.

New Wholesale Firm

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.

Opens Yard In Los Angeles

J. L. Ward has opened a lumber yard at 6615 Bth Avenue, Los Angeles. The yard will be known as the Kintzle Lumber Co.