MAHOGANY 'BATAAN ORION

For intcrior trin end clbinct work it can'not bc rur' pared-Inrurcl bcautn pcrmlneDce, and durability4ortl vcry littlc morc than roft woodr-V/a own and opentc our nillr in the Philippinc lrlendr ofrering thc dealcr a dcpcndeble rupply.

the 4ight of the Concat. The Snark promised a big surprlse.

Mr. Metzler then took the meeting, and after some'well chosen remarks introduced the efficiency expert of the Southern California Telephone Company.

This gentleman, after introducing a young lady with a wonderful soprano voice who sang two songs, mide quite a talk on the r,r'orkings of a telephone system, in a hrge city. He had provided a large display of working models of telephones, which were explained by one of thJlady instructors of the company. After this demonstration, six employees of the company, gave a humorous sketch, showing some of the abuses given a phone, and some oft the wrong practises indulged in by an irate phone user. This made quite a hit.

.The meetinig rvas closed by the Snark, who again urged all nrembers to turn out for the big aft.air, the night of the 14th.

w. B, WARD VTSTTS CALTFORNTA TRADE

W. B. Ward, of the Ward-Lewis Lumber Co., Portland, Oregon, is spending a few weeks in the San Francisco District on business. He is accompanying Bill Russell, the well known San Francisco wholesaler and representative of the Ward-Lewis Lumber Co. in Northern California, in calling on the trade of the Bay District and Peninsula territories. Mr. Ward states that lumber conditions are verv good in the Northwest; he says that there has been considerable demand for railroad material recently; that the manufacturers are looking fonvard for a large Japan business, and-that the lumbermen are all optimistic ind looking forward for a good demand during 1924.

Accurate Matching Means llloney Io You

You can't ,fit poorly side and end matched flooring with a crowbar, no matter how much you force it. -

The - importance of perfectly matched flooring is recognized,.in,,Sruce._,manufacture. That's why tists are made, right at the machine, by expert w6rkmeri every few minutes-without exaggeration from twelve to twenty tjmes every working hour.

It costs money to_ make perfect flooring, but your customers are saved money when they 1ay it, -and your reput4tion .for handling only the best oak flooring is worth money to you. Your customer6,' floor-layers and conttactors have found by experience. $1!_ !1uce Oak Flooring -.LAYS EASILY."

Frequent inrpcction ir the tccret of accurate Bnrcc natching

Our. service alepartment v/ill co-operate with you in preparing sales letteis and Iterature, and ln provldlngi cuts, ads, movl€ sliales and other materlal. Write for special sales plan.

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R. C. Heiner a San Francisco Visitor

R. C, Heiner, of Los Angeles,,Engineer in^charge of Construction, for Chas. R. McCormick & Co.. was a recent visitor at the San Francisco offices of the cornpany, where he discussed business matters with Chas. h.. ivicCormick, president of Chas. R. McCormick & Co.

Mr. Heiner has been in the Northwest for about three weeks where he has been engaged in making a complete construction plan of the large- m-ill and shipping- operations of Chai. R. McCormick & Co., at St. , i{eitt.-, Oregon. While in the Northwest, he visiied 'the new milioperations of the Long-Bell Lumber Co', at Longl-iew, Washington, and -the new-operations of the Origon-American Lumber Co., at Vernonia, Oregon. "

Mr. Heiner was en route to Los Angeles, where he will spend some time looking after the coTpany-'s new constiuction work at their Southern California Terminal, at Wilmington. He said that work was progressing rapidly at the Wilmington pl:rnt and that work has alieady blen started in laying Tracks No. 17 and 18. Their new modern lighting system is alrbady operating, and work on theii new lumber storage.-.shed, whiih will be 400 feet long and 138 feet wide, will soon be under construction. Mr. Heiner stated that the Chas. R. McCormick & Co. operations at Wilmington consisted of 30 acres of ground, and that the 6nal development of this plant would provide storage space for iOO cars on tracks and the daily loading on cars of 1,000,000 feet of lumber.

Asa L. White, of White Brothers, Dies

Asa L. White, one of the best known lumbermen on the Pacific Coast, and a national figure in the hardwood business, died early Thursday morning, December 6, af his Los Gatos ranch after an illness of several months' At the time of .his death, Mr. White u'as president of the large hardlvood concern, White Brothers, of Sart Francisco' Asa L. White lvas born in New Brunswick eighty-one years ago and came to California in 1868. Four years later, with his brother the late Peter White, who had settled in California in 1850, he organized the firm of White Brothers' Mr. White was a member of the San Francisco Commercial club and prominent in Episcopal Church work' He was a trustee of St. Luke's Hospital and was active in charities. Until a few months ago, when he moved to his Los Gatos ranch, he resided at Sixth Avenue and East Seventeenth Street, East Oakland.

Mrs. Asa L. White died two years ago' Surviving are a son, William Thornton White, of Oakland, and a daughter, Mrs. Moses W. Faitonte, of Newark, N' J' Funeral services were held at 582 Thirteenth Street, Oakland, on Saturdav afternoon, December 8.

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WE ARE PANEL HEADQUARTERS FON SOUTflERIY CALIFORNIA

We carry thc largcot etock of rtandard paneh in thie tcrritory, and havc an cnviablc reputation for prompt tervicc. Bataan mahogany ii our spccialty.