The California Lumber Merchant - December 1929

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How Lumber Looks

Thc rerults of Prerident Hoover'r conferencer on hir proSram of buriness rtimulation are greeted with enthuciarm by the lumba indurtry. The leaderc of financer'tranrportation and manufacturing have indicated the tremendour rize of their construction prograru, involving billionr of dollarr, that will be carried out duing the coming year. Lumber will rhare on a large scale in thir pro.gram.

DoWtas Fir.rAlt marketr rhqri' decrearing'orden due to the rcaron of the year. Stockr in the handr of the dealerr and industriec throughout the United Stater are low and buying is being done for immediate replacement of depleted items or for direct ure. Buying in the export market continuer erlatic.

The California market rhowr very little change and pricee remain about the rame. Many inquirier are being offered for January dehtvery. .A large number of the fir millr arc not interested in quoting on Jarruary cutting burinels due to the heavy curtailrrcnt of production that will start December 14. Unrold docks lt San Pedro on December 11 totded 1411631000 feel practicdly the rame ar two weeks ago. 4O veas€ls are laid up with 3 veesels operat- i-g off-rhore" 2 rnote vesrelr hre going to tie-up at the completion of their prerent trip.

Douglas fir cargo arrinds at San Pedro for the month of November totaled 74,08O'OOO feet. Redwood cargo arrivalr at trhir port for November totaled 5'657'OOO feet.

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The current'relationrhip of rhipmentr and orderr tg production for the firtrt 48 weeks of 1929, bared on reports from tte regional anociationr to the National Lurober Manufacturers Aclociation, is as followr:

.West Coast Lumbermen's ArrociatielProduction, 8,428,060 M feet; Shipmentr, 8,312,662 M feet; Ordem' 8,349'915 M feet.Cdifonria White and Sugar Pine Aclocilti1n -p1e{qq- tion, 1,353,333 M feet; Shipmenh, 1,267,126 M feet; Orders, 1,252'829 M feet.

California Redwood ArrociationProduction, 366r' 514 M feet; Shipments, 3611652 M feet; Orders, 374,974 M feet.

Soutlrern Pine Associatiep -ploduction, 3r2O3r1O4 M feet; Shipmentr, 312091813 M feet; Orderr' 3'178'866 M feet.

Total Hardwoodrp16dqs1ion, 2142O'608 M feet; Shipments, 2'332,635 M feet; Orden, 2,314,780 M feet.

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Vagabond Editorials

By Jack Dionne

I've said this same thing in these columns innumerable times, but Arthur Brisbane says it in a way that drives it home in a recent editorial: "Prosperity for the next few months depends on the mental attitude of the people and their private talking. No Presidenj, no collection of hundred million dollar men, no promises to spend billions, can wipe out the bad effects of a nationally pessimistic mood".

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I think things are going to be very much all right. These financial experts make their deductions in a difrerent wrl, but one of the pillars of my thought is the fact that even since the break in the market the American people have paid tens of millions of dollars to see football games. That doesn't indicate pessimism, or tight money. A lot of football games have taken in as high as a quarter of a million dollars each at the gate. Find a better indication of the national mental attitude tlrai thit.

The smoke will clear away fast after the holidays. Things will brighten up and business will pick up very fast. Donlt doubt it. Get ready for it. Help bring it about by knowing it's going to happen. In retrospect the stock market crash that caused all our present troubles will be seen as an absolute necessity. It had to happen. And it will be all for the best. When a whole nation gets into a craP game and all of them seem to be winning, you'll never break up the game. The route we are taking is the only way out.

And those employees of yours ! Listen, mill men ! Right here at this Christmas period is a terrible time to close the mills and take away from those working men and their wives and children, their hope of a decent Christmas. I wouldn't do it. It isn't fair. Just becaus€ you haven't intestinal fortitude enough to cut up lumber without rushing out into the highways and by-ways and giving it away to the first person you see, is not the fault of the men who make that lumber for you. I believe in sensible curtailment' properly done, but there is a humanitarian problem here that ranks higher than the lumber market. If you want to help create prosperity and help get things back into shape for the new year, keep as many men employed aF you can. If you need a guardian to keep you from giving away your lumber-hire one. But give these thousands of men and their families a chance at Christmas time.

Itls been interesting to watch the antics of the lumber industry during the past thirty days. Down through a long

sequence of years, by experience after experience that left never the slightest room for doubt, there has been driven home to the mentality of the lumber iqdustry, these unanimously admitted facts: First, when something happens to bring depression, and the lumber market starts to slip, cutting prices invariably serves to accelerate the depression, and instead of inducing people to buy, it scares them out of the market entirely; second, they rush in and buy always on a climbing market, and the faster it climbs, the more insistent the U"**9.

Every lumberman, north, east, south and west, will admit the truth of those two statements. Price cutting on a depressed market always kills the detnand entirely. Price climbing brings them in. And yet, when the stock market crashed and the demand for lumber-and for everything else-became temporarily patalyzed, these same lumbermen who know all these things, who have the same experience over and over again since lumber history began, went right out, just as they did twenty-five years ago, and began slashing prices, trying to revive a demand which took price into consideration not at all. And, as it has always done, this action simply scared every prospective buyer into a hole from which he is never going to emerge until the market starts the other way. Aren't they funny folks, these sawmill men? Men who would declaim to you in normal times the truths just stated, rushed right out to prove that they are just as foolish as ever-have learned nothing by experienge.

LUMBER BUYING WILL BEGIN WHEN LUMBER PRICE CUTTING STOPS ! Is that plain enough for you unwise ones who insist on elaylg this game backwards?

John Hill, well known lumber dealer and philosopher of the Texas Panhandle, told the lumbermen of New Mexico the other day that in operating a retail lumber business they should be Cautious, Courteous, Candid, Cheerful, Constant, and Courageous. And he said that the three prime requisites of success are Capital, Competency, and Character. In the old days we dwelt on the three 'W's, Wim, Wigor, and Witatity, and on the three I's, Industry, fntelligence, and Intestines'

Southern Yellow Pine, which incorporated into its grading rules during the last year the moisture content of the wood, is laying great stress on the greater value of dry

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lumber. A display of the Southern Pine Association at some of the retail lumber conventions shows a bucket of water, labelled as the costliest thing you can buy in lumber, further illustrating their point with charts showing that Long Leaf Pine is practically twice as strong as the same wood green, and that dry Short Leaf is about 80 per cent stfonger than the green.

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Here is an opinion of the lumber business that will bear sorne close thought. It was uttered by Harry T. Kendall ot Kansas City, one of the most respected and useful men selling lumber in the whole country, and is an excerpt from a speech he made to the Hoo-Hoo convention in Amarillo. He said: "Somebody-I do4't know who it was-played Pandora for the lumber industry, and opened the box and let out a whole multitude of troubles. Every branch of the industry is surrounded by a cloud of trouble. The manufacturer thinks the commission man and the wholesaler and retailer have united against him, and the retailer thinks the

commission man aqd the wholesaler have united against him. THE WHOLE LUMBER INDUSTRY SEEMS TO HAVE A CASE OF NERVES". As the slang phrase goes' "That last line got'em". For that splendidly describes the situation.

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No longer is it true that profits are merely the difference between cost and selling price. Those days are gone forever. Profits are the difference between service and worse service; between new ideas and old ones; between new equipment and out-of-date equipment; between old fashioned waiting and new fashioned selling.

Every time someo"" ";": "Lr,g *irt, a new idea that startles the world, men rise up everywhere who thought / of it long before. The difference is that they only thought I it. The big question is not who first discovered a worth \ while thing, but who introduced it to the world and put it to work.

Los Angeles Hoo Hoo Open Offices in California Christmas Party

The Los Angeles Hoo Hoo Club are planning to add some Christmas cheer to the children of the Olive View Sanatorium at San Fernando, Calif., on Monday afternoon, December 23.

President Harry V. IJanson has appointed the following to act as the arrangements committee: Floyd Dernier, Chairman; A. W. Koehl, W. B. Wickersham, B. W. Byrne, T. B. Lawrence, Frank Curran, A. I-. Hoover, Curtis Merryman, Herman Rosenberg, Clint Laughlin, Cliff Estes and Ed. IVlartin.

Iv\/. R. SPALDING VISITS BAY

W. R. Spalding, of the W. R. Spalding Lumber Co.., Visalia, was a visitor to the San Francisco Bay district at the end of November.

The Port Orford Cedar Products Co. have opened offices at 606 Petroleum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles, and. 4O7 Call Building, San. Francisco. Thomas W. Dant, California representative, will make his headquarters at the company's Los Angeles office. R. C. Turner, in charge of the San Francisco office, will look after the company's intet'ests in the Northern California territory. The California sales in Port Orford cedar lumber and box shook will be handled through these offi.ces. B. R. Williamson is also connected with the company's Los Angeles office specializing in spruce veneers and box shook. The H. B. Maris Panel Co., San Francisco, and the California Panel & Veneer Co., Los Angeles, are the exclusive California sales representatives for the Port Orford Cedar Products Co. for their plywood and veneer products.

We tahe this opportunity to erpress our appreciation f or the business we have enjoyed in the past year. May you enjoy a real Merry Chrislmcs, and may success uoDn gour efforts in the New Year.

President Carpenter Reports on Hoover's Conference With Building Industries

Washington, Nov. 23.-8. L. Carpenter of Minneapolis, president of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, after attending the conference of the building industries with President Hoover, yesterday, today issued the following statement to the lumber industry:

At President Hoover's invitation, and in company with Mr. F. W. Reimers and Mr. Wilson Compton,'I attended yesterday at the White House a conference of leading men in the construction and building material industries and financial groups interested in building. '

The President has made knorvn his'wish that construction activity be continued as a vital means of maintaining national prosperity. The construction groups have assured him of their interest and co-operation. In behalf of the

lumber manufacturing industry I have assured the President that all of its facilities will be available to aid in carrying out such constructive program for the stimulation of building and other business activities as may develop from the series of conferences lvhich he is now holding and from the surveys which he is having instituted through the Department of Commerce with the aid of the United States Chamber of Commerce.

I am sure that the entire lumber industry will concur in this action and that it will co-operate with the movement undertaken by our government to sustain present levels of industrial and commercial activity and to reinforce our national prosperity. I am sure that to do so is in the interest of the progress of the lumber industry.

Advertising Novelty Big Hardwood Order

An advertising novelty which attracted the attention of lumbermen at the recen,t annual convention of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association was a match book given away by The McCloud River Lumber Company, advertising trade and grade-marked lumber and containing matches made of WOOD, instead of paper. These match books are manufactured by the Coast Book Match Company, Tacoma, Wash.

George C. Cornitius, head of the hardwood importing firm of George C. Cornitius Hardwood Co., Inc., San Francisco, returned to headquarters, December 7,lrom a week's business trip to Los Angeles.

Asked regarding business, Mr. Cornitius replied that sales volume is keeping up in good shape with his firm, and reported the sale on his trip of a shipment of 250,000 feet of Philippine ,hardwood to one customer.

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H. H. Spaulding To Lead "Modernizing Creating New r Citrus Belt Club

II U. g. Spaulding, Hemet, California, has been elected /president of the Citrus Belt Hoo Hoo Club. IIe succeeds /ifoy Sandefur of Arlington. C. E. Peterson of Riverside . / has been elected vice-president and A. R. It{ills of San BerY nardino secretary-treasurer.

The C,lub' hai recommended Fred A. Chapin of the Chapin Lumber Co., San Bernardino, for viceget'ent snarkChailes Adims, Adams Lumber Co., San Bernardino, served as vicegerent snark of the district during the pas-t year.

\il. C. Whitney Elected Director

The Yates-American Machine Company directors, at a special meeting held Wednesday, elected William C. Whitniy, of Winchondon, Mass., a director t9 fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George W. Pearson.

Mr. Whitney is president of Baxter D. Whitney & Son, Inc., manufacturers of woodworking machinery. The Yates Company is the exclusive sales agent of the Whitney line'

The directors further decided that while the earnings reported for the first four months of their fiscal year were substantial, that until the outlook for the next few months is more clearly defined they would not at this time start payment on the accumulated dividends on the participating preference stock, but would defer any such action until a later date.

On October 31 the position of the Company was excellent, with current assets totalling over $4,054,000 against current liabilities of $524,000. Cash alone was in excess of all current liabilities. Net current assets equal $26 a share on the 135,000 shares of participating preference stock outstanding. This is after purchasing on open market for retirement $125,0CD of the company's bonds durin$ the last five months.

Lumber Shed Proves Saving For Railroad

Derby, Me., Dec. 15.-A closed shed for maintaining stored lumber, at a moisture content of 12 per cent, proves an economical investment for the Bangor and Aroostook shops here. Lumber taken from a kiln drying down to 12 per cent is placed in the shed and later used in the construction of single and double-sheathed freight cars. After being in service eight years and longer, no complaint of shrinkage of lumber kept in this shed has been made. The railroad finds that the additional cost of lining its old sheds and putting in steam pipes did not exceed $1500. The shed is built of matched boards and lined on the inside rvith waterproof paper. The entrance from the alleys of the shed are all enclosed with large sliding doors, also similarly lined. In addition to this, steam pipes pass 'through the shed and keep a constant temperature during fall, rvinter, and spring months of about 65 to 70 degrees of heat.

Values" Says Architect

Washington, D. C., Dec. l5.-Faculty members and students of architecture at Howard University, Washington, 'D. C., were addressed by Richard G. Kembell, Architectural and Building Code Advisor, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, on November 21, who drew for them a sharp distinction between modernizing and remodeling. He pointed out that remodeling means any change or addition necessary to meet current needs ' a sun parlor, a sleeping porch, a new pantry, a bathroom, as the case may bein order to give to the building the appearance or convenience temporarily requilqd; whereas modernizing recreates a building without diverging from the original character and basic style of architecture.

"Remodeling is objective; modernizing is subjective", said the speaker, "and the good architect should approach his subject with the end in view of securing good architectural efforts, without waste of money. If this end is realized then additional new values have been created out of what might otherwise be just an average piece of property. Values far in excess of what would be realized in mere remodeling, within the limitations set by the character of the building, may be established by a restrained architectural code of modernizing." Mr. Kimbell used the Association's film, "The'Transformation," for visual demonstration in developing his subject.

Stockton Hoo Hoo Club

The regular dinner meeting of the Stockton Hoo Hoo Club, No. 62, was held at Wilson's Confectaurant, Stockton, on Monday evening, November 25, at 6:30 p. m. Fifty members and guests were present.

Speakers of the evening were Loys Newton, of the Consolidated Title Insurance Company, who gave an interesting talk on real estate titles and title insurance, and J. E. Mackie, building code engineer of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, who addressed the gathering on the relative merits of wood and steel sash, Uniform Building Code, and legislation against rvood.

Plans were discussed for a Concatenation to be held in February, 1930.

J. U. Gartin, Stanislaus Lumber Co., Modesto, is president of the club; Chas. C. Moorehead, Moorehead Lumber Co., Escalon, is vice-president and C. U. Utterback, Stockton. is secretary-treasurer.

Seattle Will Have New Lumbermen's Buildin$

Construction of a 2l-story building in Seattle to be known as the Washington Building, and planned as a headquarters for lumbermen, lvill start about December 15' Of the 3100 members, 10 per cent of the resident members and 20 per cent of the out-of-town members are lumbermen.

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TYater roof Jobs Wtthout a Single Failure

Seven hundred homes, without a single unsatisfactofy job or one that required patching, is the nine-year record of one builder using Monolith Wa,tetproof Port' iand CJment. The tomplete satisfaction of the material, the saleability of the finished homes have coniinced this man that it is the best and most economical material to use.

Not only for plaster work, but for all waterproof concreter from hu_ge reservoirs to pureiy ornamental decorative pieces, Monolith Vaterproof Portland Cement haJproved its worth to contractors and builders. Get the facts about Monolith-the original \tratefProof Portland Cement. Ve have the statements of dozens of contractors, builders and owners who have found by experience that it is a superior product, as well as an economical material

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Cup Awarded Pickering Exhibit At State Fair

Reproduced here is a picture of the silver cup awarded to Tuolumne County at the California State Fair held in Sacramento in September, for the most attractive display of a County product, which in this case was the exhibit of Pickerine Lumber'Comoanv's lumber oroducts. The in- Pickering Lumber'Company's lumber products. The inscription reads, "Awarded to Tuolumne of Pickering Lumber Products."

County-for exhibit

Moore's 1930 Calendar Ready For Lumber Industry

The Moore Dry Kiln Company's "darkey" calendar for 1930 is now ready for distribution to the lumber industry, according to an announcement just made by company officials.

The Moore calendar, portraying darkey life as personified by old "IJncle 'Neas" has become a tradition in the lumber industry. Yearly hundreds of lumbermen look forward to receiving this interesting and unique calendar, and requests for copies are received from November until June.

For the past six or seven years the darkey pictures which l-rave appeared on the Moore Dry Kiln Company's calendar have been drawn by Jim Alley, famous as the creator of "Hambone's Meditations" which appears in the daily newspapers. Mr. Alley has made a picture of more than ordinary interest for the 1930 calendar as it treats a subject with which every lumberman is conversant.

In the 1930 calendar old Uncle 'Neas is shown as the proprietor and operator of a "one-hoss" loggin' outfit. As usual, I-Incle 'Neas encounters difficulties. and from these come the title of the picture: "One Hundred Per Cent Circulation".

The Moore Dry Kiln Company has for distribution about 18,000 calendars and copies may be had by writing the company either at North Portland, Oregon, or Jacksonville, Florida.

When you find your volume fallin', And your profits slippin' tooJust remember Ken Smith's *slogan..PLAY WITH THOSE WHO PLAY WITH YOU!''

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UILT entirely of Victor Portland Cement and Victor Hydro-Plastic, this new Safeway dock represents the highest achievement in modern industrial construction, and-permanent economy.

tVictor Portland Cement construction is economical in first cost. Eventual cost is absolute minimum because of enduring serviceability, long life and extremely low upkeep.

Before you build, investigate Victor products.

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605 H.W..Hellman Bldg. Los Angeles, Calif.

Safeway Stores'new fruit dock, one of the finest in the world, recently completed at Los Angeles, Wm. Mellema. Architect and Manager of Construc- t1"". J* Wadsworth & Son, Plastering Uontractor.

State Association Directors and District Secretaries Meet at Fresno

Directors of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association and district secretaries of the Northern District met at the Hotel Californian, Fresno, Saturday, December 7.

A breakfast meeting was held by the directors at 8 a. m., district secretaries r,r'ho attended this meeting being guests of the association.

The San Joaquin Valley Lumbermen's Club was host to both directors and secretaries at luncheon, there being, however, no meeting of the club.

President Harry A. Lake presided at both meetings, the principal business being discussion of plans for the association's activities in 1930.

C. D. LeMaster, Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club, presided at both sessions of the secretaries' meeting, at which it was decided to form a Northern Secretaries' Association. Mr. LeMaster was appointed secretary of the new association.

The following directors were present: Elmer Ellis, Palo Alto Lumber Co., Palo Alto; Earl Johnson, Johnson Lumber Co., Pasadena; Chas. P. Curran, Curran Bros., Pomona; J. Frank Wright. Brey-Wright Lumber Co., Porterville; Paul Hallingby, Hammond Lumber Co., Los Angeles; A. L. Hubbard, Hubbard & Carmi,chael Bros., San Jose; C. W. Pinkerton, Whittier Lumber Co., Whittier; Jo H. Shepard, Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento; E. T.

ARTHUR B. GRISWOLD RECOVERS FROM PNEUMONIA ATTACK

Arthur B. Griswold, manager of the San Francisco office of the C. D. Johnson Lumber Company, is norv well on the way to recovery from an attack of bronchial pneumonia which has kep.t him away from the office since November 23.

Mr. Griswold lvas taken to the hospital November 29. and was for a time a pretty sick man, but was able to be removed to his home December 6.

FRED YOST BACK FROM NEBRASKA

Fred Yost of the Yost-Linn Lumber Company, Los Angeles, returned the first part of the month from a three weeks' business trip to Nebraska. I

Robie, Auburn Lumber Co., Auburn; H. A. Lake, Garden Grove Lumber Co., Garden Grove; F. Dean Prescott, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno; Elmore King, King Lumber Co., Bakersfield; A. E. Fickling, Fickling Lnmber Co., Long Beach"; M. A. Harris, Van Arsdale-Ifarris Lumber Co., San Francisco, and Ralph Duncan, Merced l.umber Co., Merced.

Also present were: Dee C. Essley, manager, and Paul Overend, San Francisco, Northern field representative of the association; Max E. Cook, California Redrvood Association, San Francisco; Fred V. Holmes, Holmes-Eureka Lumber Co., San Francisco; O. A. Baker, Merced Lu,mber Co., Merced; T. A. Work, Jr., The Work Lumber Co., Monterey; R. O. Deacon, Deacon Lumber Co., Lemoore, and Z. T. Thorning, Gray-Thorning Lumber Co., Redwood City.

Secretaries who attended were M. D. Bishop, Coast Counties Lumbermen's Association, \Matsonville; Elmer Steffenson, Orange County Lumbermen's Club, Santa Ana; F. J. Waterman, Hanford-Lemoore District; E. H. Galpin, Peninsula Lumbermen's Club, Palo Alto; Ed Larson, San Jose Lumbermen's Club. San Jose; A. M. Stoodlel', Santa Cruz; R. P. Davison, Salinas Lumbermen's Club; C. D. LeMaster, Northern Counties Lumbermen's Club; S. J. Hauge, Sacramento Lumbermen's Credit Association, and Fred A. Witmer, Monterey.

W. P. FRAMBES ON EASTERN TRIP

W. P. Frambes, Fletcher & Frambes, Los Angeles, has returned from business trip to Chicago rvhgre he .conferred rvith officials of the Masonite Corporation. He also visited the company's operations at Laurel, Miss. Fletcher & Frambes are distributors of Masonite in Southern California, Arizona and Western Texas. Before returning to Los Angeles, Mr. Frambes visited at Atlanta, Georgia, and Phoenix, Arizona.

\v. D. MARTIN WILL SPEND WINTER IN CALIFORNIA

W. D. Martin, sales manager for the Stange Lumber Co., Merrill. Wisconsin, has arrived in California and will spend the winter at Santa Monica. The Stange Lumber Co. are hardwood manufacturers.

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If it's built of Port Orford Cedar it uuill LAST

No matter where Port Orford Cedar is used, it will last! Its natural preservative oils prorecr it from decay, damp ness and clestrucilve lnsects.

Railroad and mining engineers-hiehway commissioners-specify Port OifordCedar for Eeauy srrucrural purposes tb arr6id replacement costs.

Untreated, Port Orford Cedar ties, trestle and tunnel timbers have greatly reduced railroad maintenance cosrs. Port Orford C6dar piles, exposed for nearly half a cenrury to the alternate wetting and drying action of ocean tides, are perfectly sound to{^y. Cr6ani-*hite in color, of a smooth, eyen grain, Port Orford Cedar is preferred by architects for interior finish because of its ease bf working, its non-walpi"g quality, and its susceptibility to the finest porcelain-like enamel finish.

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California representarives are Thos. W. Dant, 407 Call Bldg., San Franiisco, and R. C. Turner, 606 Petroleum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles.

Learn more about this fine specialty wood. Let us send you literature describing irs usEs. tvtiil the cgupon below to our sales agenrs, Danr & Russell, Inc., ll05-B Porter Bldg., Portland, Oregon.

PORT ORFORD CEDAR PRODUCTS COMPANY

MARSHFIELD, OREGON

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Port Orford Ccdar plywood is ideal for oaneling, {or cabinet wbik and many othcr'uscs. PortOrford CedarPlywood repres-enrativcs are:

P. Y*': l19e I Company, 735 Third St., San F."r"ii"",cair.-{"ii}7,}'liliilrii;#i;c.i., 955 So. Alameda Srecr- Los Anseles.

Thit sawill fouilatittt of Port Ailnil Ccdar tikt and hctl ctpt udt placid in t884 at'Empirc, Ocgon. Afh 4q yas thir fondetionuat fo*ndso 7crlco that ancumilluas ncacdtpon it.

The Growthof the Philippine Industry

According to the Annual Report of the Philippine Bureau 'of Forestry for the year ending December 31, L928, Philippine mahogany and other hardwoods'gained material'ly -in popularity both in the local and foreign markets. The statistics compiled by the Bureau of Forestry, Manila, P. I., show that the total quantity cut from the public forests amounted to 535,723,000 board feet as against n4,969,W board feet lor 1927, or an increase of about 19 per cent. This increase in production during 1928 was made possible at least in part through the opening up of 21 new sawmills in various parts of the islands; a few' of the larger mills increased their output in order to take care of their constantly increasing orders from all parts of the world. The total number of mills now operating in the Philippines is ry. Other new large sarvmills are now in process of erectton.

The total exports of Philippine rvoods for 1928 amounted to 85,597,736 board feet as against 72,054,632 board feet for 1927, or an increase of 13,543,104 board feet. This is conclusive proof, says the editor of the "Com'merce and Industry Journal" for September, l9D, that Philippine lumber has not only created a great demand in the lumber market of the world. but also that the demand is continuous and may be expected to grow bigger every year. The in-

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creasing demand for Philippine woods in the foreign markets is shown in the following table of exports covering the period from 1919 to 1928 inclusive:

According to the Bureau's figures the exports during the decade ending December 3I, l9?8, have increased about 1200 per cent. Approximately one-half of all the lumber exported, or 41,75i,864 board feet, were shipped to the United States; of the balance about 20,000,000 feet went to Japan, 12,000,000 feet to China, 6,000,000 feet to the United Kingdom and the rest to Australia, Hongkong, Italy, Netherlands, Africa, etc.

Annual Shingle Congress Install Improvements January 16

E. U. Wheelock has been in Eureka looking over the remodeled plant of the Humboldt Redwood Company, whose sales his company is now handling exclusively in Southern California.

Among the many improvements Mr. Wheglock finds a large addition to the drying facilities and yaid storage, a new and complete re-manufacturing plant and a remodeled planing mill rvith several new modern machines added. An ample supply of Humboldt County's soft textured timber will insure the continued operation for many years of this modern electrically driven plant ideally located on tidewater and completely equipped for shipments either by rail or water.

The Red Cedar Shingle Bureau announce that the Annual Shingle Congress will be hetrd on Thursday, January l6th, 19301 at the Olympic Hotel, Seattle, Washington. A cordial invitation to be present is extended to every shingle manufacturer and to all allied interests.

The sessionS of the meeting will be confined to one day, and a program is now being prepared which will take,up the various pioblems confronting the Industry today. Special reports of accomplishments of the past year and of work under way at present will be given.

The annual party will be held in the evening at the Olympic Hotel. This is the only social meeting of the shingle people in the year, and it is eagerly anticipated.

WHITE PINESUGAR PINEWHITE CEDARSPRUCE-

2500 dealers can't be wrong!

Their loyalty testifies to the quality of Palco products and Palco Service, in this day of strenuous Competition.

WE THANK THEM ALL FOR THEIR PATRONAGE DURING 1929, WHILE WE LOOK FORWARD TO SERVING THEM BETTER IN 1930.

TO THOSE WHOM WE HAVE NOT YET SERVED, MAY WE NOT SUGGEST THAT YOU TRY US OUT NEXT YEAR.

lVaher G. Scrim, , President

Philippine Mahogany Association, Inc. Hold First Annual Meetin$

The first annual meeting of the members of the Philippine Mahogany $ssociatio-n, Inc.', was held in the office of ihe Associitioir..Suite 2VL7i Grund' Central Terminal, New Yort City, on [it. Znd d,ay of Decembet, L9Z9,9t 2 P. M' At this meeting the follqwing members were elected to the Board of Directors:-

Walter G. Scrim, Los Angeles; Howard R' Black' New York City; Herbert L., Black, New York City; Roy Barto, Los AngLles;.Clayton D. Mell, Irlew York City.

Imme-diately foliowing this meeting the Board of Directors held a biief sessiori during whic-h they voted that the officers of the Association, who were elected at a special meeting on September 26th, were to continue in office during thJ ensuing year. The officers of the Association are as follows:-

Walter' G. Scrim, President; Howard R' Black, VicePresident; Clayton D. Mell, Secretary; Herbert L. Black, Treasurer.

California Pine Mills Put "Statement of Contents" In Each Car

Practically every member of the California White & Sugar Pine Manufacturers'Associatiqn is now issuing under serial number a "Shipper's Statement of Car Contentsfl in a sealed envelope in each car.'fhe envelope and all stationery used in connection with this is printed in the California colors, blue and gold. This "Shipper's Statement" is similar to the "Shipper's Certificate of Car Contents" used by the West Coast Lumbeimen's Association and the Western Pine l\fanufacturers' Association. It declares that the lumber hap been graded and tallied under California White and Sugar Pine Manufacturers' Association rules, and that the grades produced are regularly supervised and checked by experienced lumber inspectors of the Associat10n.

New Species Of Spruce Discovered

Washington, D. C,, Dec. 15.--The National Lumber Manufacturers Association has received word of the discovery of an entirely distinct species of spruce. According to the U. S. Forest Service, specimens of spruce, recently collected on the Sandia Rim by Dr. Long, were submitted to the Forester for identification. One specimen proved to be typical Engelmann. The other possesses none of the distinguishing characteristics similar to any spruce known, either in New Mexico or the entire Rocky Mountain region. It has been turned over to the Bureau of Plant Industry for further study.

East BayRetail Concern East Bay Hoo Hoo to Entertain Changes Name

The name of the Stege Lumber and Hardware Company has been changed to the'Hill Lumber and Hardware Company.

-, A. P. Hill, managler of tlra'*goncern, which has retail ya'rds in Berkeley and RighFond, announces that there will 6e tto change either ln the policy or personnel of the company.

AL NOLAN VISITS ARIZONA

A. J. Nolan, manager of Western sales for The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, will return to San Francisco December -15, from a two lveeks' trip to points in Arizona and Southern California.

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Orphans December 2l

East Bay Hoo Hoo Club will stage a Christmas party at 12:@ p.m. noon, December 2I, at the Leamington Hotel; Oakland, when they will entertain 50 orphans.

Vice-president Hugo Sommarstrom, C. I. Gilbert and Rod Hendrickson are in charge of arrangements. Features of the party will be a Christmas Tree with presents for each of the children, and a good show will be put on by the entertainment com.mittee.

Tickets are $2.00 which includes lunch. These can be obtained from any director or from Secretary Carl Moore, Neighbor Lumber Yard. I

President Bert Bryan hopes that all lumbermen whir are unable to be present will buy a ticket.

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I traztel light at Christmas timeI drop nty heazty load

And just go singin' noemi,ly Along a sunlit road,. And ezterybody that I meet Sure gets a smi,Ie from me; No inhibltions hold rne back At Christrnas titne, you see.

I'm friendly nozu zsith eaeryoneMeat eater, Elk, or Iew; I even think I'd say "Hello," If we should. rneet, to you.

I pass no human brother by With scorn upon my brow, The diferences that chafe our souls Seem not to matter now.

So all my enzty,. hate, and scorn, Intolerance, prid,e, and greed,, I lay aside a.t Christrnas tbne, And it is fine indeed To walk right out without the load That racks me thru the year, And chirp a"Merry Christmas, Bo," In tones of friendly cheer.

Noza this year ruhen I threu aside That voass of superstition, And. noted' its moth-eaten Parts, Its size and comPosition, I aowed ovow that from tltis tinr'e I'd leave it where it .lay, And free fro*n its corroding blight I'd, walk my sunlit way.

I zaill not hide myself away Within dank walls of Pride; What matter race, and.birth, and creed"

To one zuho walks outsid'e?

And so I left my burden thereA zuoeful, sordid sight, AntI from this thne I'm telling Yoa I'tn gonna traael light.

N. L. M. A. Secures Services Of

Dr.

Paul \M. Ivey

Washington, Nov. 25.-As its contribution toward the success. of forthcoming retail association conventions, the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association has secured the services of Dr. Paul W. Ivey, noted lecturer on salesmanship. for six weeks, January 13 to February 24 next.

Dr. Ivey, who has distinguished himself nationally as lecturer and author while developing salesmanship programs for several gr'eat industries, will address as many associa{ion groups as possible between these dates.

The subject of Dr. Ivey's address will be "Modern Methods of Selling Lumber." Tender of his services to retail associations through W. F. Shaw, Trade Extension Manager, already has the enthusiastic acceptance of fifteen associations. Whenever possible, after concluding his scheduled addresses, Dr. Ivey rvill be available for smaller group conferences with retailers who have special problems they wish to hear discussed. His program is also-being so arranged that dealers in sections where associations have alr'eady met or will not meet until a later date will be able to hear him through local rallies in leading cities in these sections. The first meeting of this character has been scheduled for Birmingham, Alabama.

Considerable attention will be given to establishing in several cities Salesmen's Courses which will in turn act as nuclei for organization of similar courses elsewhere.

Retail associations now included in Dr. Ivey's program are: The Retail Lumber Dealers' Association of Indlana, Mountain States Lumber Dealers' Association. Northwestern Lumbermen's Association, Pennsylvania Lumbermen,s Association, Northeastern Retail Llmbermen's Association, Ohio Association of Retail Lumber Dealers, Retail Lumber Dealers' Association of Western Pennsvlvania. Southwestern Lumbermen's Association, Iowa Lumber anci Material Dealers' Association, I\4ichigan Retail Lumber Dealers' Association, Illinois Lumber and Material Dealers' Association, Southwestern Iowa Retail Lumbermen's Association, Virginia Lumber and Builders' Supply Dealers' Association,'Wisconsin Retail Lumbermen's Association and the Nebraska Lumber Merchants' Association.

The National Lumber Manufacturers' Association was fortunate in procuring Dr. Ivey's services over such a long period qf time. He is recognized as a leader in the field ol intensive salesmanship instruction and in the devising of modern methods for approaching modern sales problems. Pesides conducting his own institute of salesminship in Los Angeles, he is in constant demand by the sales forces and executives of such groups as the Du Ponts, Frigidaire, Parker Pen, John B. Stetson, Swift & Co., Marshall Field, Bank of Italy, Standard Oil, Utility Securities and National Life Insurance Company. His book on the principles of salesmanship is conceded the leading standard work, ind his lecture courses have been considered events in such cities as Akron, Buffalo, Chicago, Columbus, Denver, Des Moines, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Minneapo- lis, Omaha, Philadelphia, San Francisco and St. Louis.-

Those who will hear Dr. Ivey at the retail association meetings are in for an unusual treat. He has the habit of studying thoroughly his subject and has surprised leaders in va-riogs industrial fields by his startling familiarity with the details of the problems they are facing.

_ Dgr_ing the period Dr. Ivey is serving the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association his time will be assigned as _compJetely as possible. The Association will be glad to hear from lumber groups in cities interested in having a vital salesmanship message brought to a large numbeiof lumbermen

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to".s fost in this new empire.The Fogeol fucto'ryrFogeol truck ond Fogeol sofety cooch hove long been o reolity.

L H. Bill, the founder of the Fogeol A{otors Componyrhodfoith in theVesL

J'le sow o wettern truckrbuilt by o western orgonizotion... moving olong highwoyt yet unbuilt Hevilioned the spreod of greot foctories where the Colifornio sun wormed o virgin soil. + The distont hum of o future commerce wos moving on to the Pqcific...mountoins of eqrth were to be stirredrliftedrond moved for

the foundotionl of the greotVert to be. oBillu built products corrythe sign of "Fogeol" throughout the eleven western stotes... speeding olodg the highwoyt ond crowling over unchorted roodl, gliding intothe londt of the orchord ond hurrying through the hot sond dunes... dorting in ond outof congerted citytroffic ond woding ocross quietrivers.

And th.r" "Bill-Built" trucks ond sofety cooches never folter. They ore truly"westcrn,,...hordy os wos o forty-niner...eoch with the Bill Principle built through ond through.

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A. C. Horner to Represent Lurfber on Industrial Economical Committee

San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 1S.-Upon the recommetldation of Weslev O. Ash. director of the San Francisco office, U. S. Depariment of Commerce, A. C. Horner, Trade Extension staff of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, rvas appointed a member of the Industrial Economic Committee of the California Economic Research Council. Although the organization has existed for some time, the committee has not been active fog over a year. The purpose of the council is to coordinate all economic research work done in California. It operates under the sponsorship of the California State Chamber of Commerce and that organization assigns more than half of the time of its staff men to activities of the council.

Wood Bridge in Service Since 1818

Washington, D. C., Dec. 15.-The durability of rvood is rvell illustrated by a covered bridge at Fish Creek, Fulton County, Nerv York. The bridge is 111 years old and in good state of preservation, it is reported by the Cross Tie Bulletin in a recent issue. The structure was toru down on account of the building of a dam at Conklingville, Saratoga County, a few miles eastlvard. It is 280 feet long and spans the Sacandaga River; rvas built by one Daniel Steu'art and has been used for travel since 1818. The hamlet of Fish House derived its name from a fish house and lrunting lodge built by Sir William Johnson in 1776, who rv4s appointed by Great Britain as chief superintendent of the Indians and rvas given 100,000 acres of land in the Mohalr'k Valley in recognition of his services.

San Francisco Hoo Hoo Will Hold Annual Christmas Party December 23

President Eddie Peggs of tries Club-Hoo Hoo No. 9. San Francisco Lumber Indusnual Christmas Party will Club, 456 Post Street. San

announces that the club's anbe held this year at the Elks Francisco, on Monday noon, December 23.

The club rvill act as host to 250 orphans, and Frank O'Connor rvill act as Santa Claus.

This is always a big event rvith the lumbermen of San Francisco, and it expected that this year's. attendance will beat all previous records.

THAT IS THE REASON FOR GOOD LUtttBER

Lumber Production for 1928 Shown in Government Report

Statistics compiled by the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce, in cooperation with the Forest Service, covering the production of lumber, lath and shingles, by States, have just been released for publication. These figures are supplemental to the preliminary report of September 30, 1929, which was reproduced in detail in our issue of October fifteenth, there being no change in the totals, the present report merely going into detail as to the production of kinds of lumber by States.

The figures show ,a total produrction in 1928 of 34,142,123,000 feet cut by 13,374 mills. Total Yellow Pine Production was 10,610,290,000 feet; Douglas Fir, 8,449,298,W feet. Western Yellow Pine was the next largest softwood item with 2,975,732,W feet; then Hemlock, 2,22I,756,0N feet; White Pine, 1,366,933,000 feet; Spru,ce, 571,917,W feet; Cypress, 50I,422,N0 feet. Other softwoods were under the half billion mark.

Total hardwood production was 5,797,028,0N feet. Oak

P. C. McNEVIN ON EASTERN TRIP

P. C. McNevin, general sales manager of The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, is on a business trip to Chicago and New York. He will return to San Francisco just before'Christmas.

led this division with 1,830,260,000 feet; Red Gum was next with 967,756,000 feet; Maple, 742,642,W feet; Birch,337,550,000 feet; Yellow Poplar, 327,833,Am feet; Tupelo, 316,554.000 feet.

Total production of shingles was 5,603,690,000; and lath, 1,903,887,000.

Mississippi led in Yellow Pine production with 2,053,869,000 feet; Alhambra second with 1,720,80O,000 feet; Louisiana next, I,Q3,216,n0 feet; Texas, \,M,O|7,W feet; the combined cut of these four States representing more than 6O per cent of the total for the country.

Two States contributed more than 95 per cent of the total Douglas Fir cut; Washington with 5,072,651,0@ feet, and Oregon, 2,966,2O7,000 feet. Washington also led in shingles production with 5,019,061,000, being almost 90 per cent of the entire output of the country. Oregon produced 236,641,000 shingles. Washington again led in lath with 584,493,000; Oregon next with 251,093,000; Mississippi, 115,808,000; and Louisiana, 103,775,000.

J. H. PRENTTCE A SAN FRANCTSCO VTSITOR

J. H. Prentice, Los Angeles, Southern California representative for the Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills, was a recent San Francisco visitor where he spent a few day on company business.

Time Honored

,T HE SUGAR PINE pictured in the cut to I the left ctands on a ridge direcdy above the Madera Mill, where, for several decades, it has calmly viewed one of California'c pioneer lumbering operations.

This noble Sugar Pine, which ic over gix feet in diameter and more than two hundred feet high, antedates the discovery of America; the invention of printing by movable type; the burning at the stake of Joan d'Arc; the writing of Villiam Shakespeare's drama; and the use of 6rearms.

ft has been much photographed, and an engraving of it was long ago adopted as the Madera trade-mark, which is recognized the world over as syrnbolic of all that ic best in Service and Quality. As time honored as this tree is the dependability of Madera Sugar Pine.

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Discrimination Against Their Wood Protested by White Fir Producers

Dated September '23, 1929 a bulletin was issued over the signature of the Executive Secretary of the Building & Loan League of the State of Oklahoma which reads as follows:

OKLAHOMA STATE LEAGUE OF BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

..TO. THE LUMBERMEN AND MATERIAL FIRMS ADDRESSED:

"Gentlemen:

"The building and loan associations of Oklahoma through their state organizations, the Oklahoma State Building and Loan League, take this means of notifying all lumber and material firms doing business in Oklahbma that here in the future, building and loan associations in this State will refuse to make loans on any new construction wherein 'WHITE FIR'is used.

"We hope that you will cooperate with us in eliminating such inferior material as 'WHITE FIR' in all new construction here in this State.

"At any time that we can be of service, we hope you will not hesitate to call on us.

Yours very truly."

On account of this blanket discrimination, a letter was addressed to the Executive Secretary by the California White and Sugar Pine Manufacturers Association and subsequent correspondence elicited the fact that the discrimination was not actually aimed at a particular species but at all inferior materials that might go into the construction of homes.

The actual correspondence is quoted:

..OKLAHOMA BUILDING AND LOAN LEAGUE. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

"Mr. B. F. Scott, Acting Secretary-Manager, California White & Sugar Pine Manufacturers Ass'n., 600 Call Building, San Francisco, California.

Dear Sir:

"In reply to yours of recent date, wish to take this means of thanking you for the valuable information that you were kind enough to furnish us. In re of the matter being discussed, wish to advise that the building and .loan associations object to the use of No. 3 Dimensions of 'White Fir' and 'Yellow Pine' and all other inferior materials.

"I wish to advise, at this time, that the building and loan associations of this state are now promulgating a plan whereby all new home construction will be scientifically inspect6d during the course of construction' Rep-orts will be made out as to all this new class of construction' stating the kind and class'of materials used, workmanship, etC. These reports will be placed on file in this office and will be for thelnformation of building and loan associations, and that they may refer to them at anytime in case an.application for a loan is made on any of this new construction.

- "This expert inspection of new construction, not only affords us an excellent re,cord of valuable information for our business, but will be of great help and benefit to the home owner as well. The entire expense and burden of this service will be borne by the building and loan associations. In instituting such service the building and loan associations will issue standard set of specifications on all new home construction. And, of course, all materials of inferior quality, as well as workmanship, will be'taboo'.

"At some future date, the building and loan associations' executives will confer with the general managers and owners of some of the lumber companies of this state as to their advice and recommendations for the final completion of the above mentioned plan.

"We believe this to be a very progressive move-one that will furnish us very valuable information, as well as encouraging and bringing about better constructed homes. I would be glad to receive your comments on this matter. Yours very trirly.

JNO.

..CALIFORNIA

F. MAHR, Executive Secretarv."

WHITE AND SUGAR PINE MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION

600 Call Building, San Francisco, California.

"Mr. Jno. F. Mahr, Executive Sec'y., Oklahoma Building & Loan League, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Dear Mr. Mahr:

"Your letter of November 4th is received.

"It is very gratifying to note that the Building and Loan Associations of your state intend in the future to institute

scientific inspection of home constru'ction during the course of construction.

"In fact, if I may say so, it eliminates to a great extent the'sting' which rvas co'nveyed in the bulletin addressed to lumbermen and material dealers r.vherein you ask their cooperation in eliminating such inferior material as 'White Fir' from use in the state oi Oklahoma. In your letter to me you go a little further, inasmuch as you state that the Building and Loan Associations object to the use of 'No. 3 Dimension of 'White Fir' and yellow pine, and all other inferior materials.'

"Personally, I am glad to see you express this opinion, as in doing so you are in reality merely championing the cause of the reputable lumber manufacturer and putting the blame rvhere it belongs. Ignorance in specifying a grade of lumber suitable for the use to which it is to be put, should not be a,factor in entirely eliminating a material lvhich has received high commendations from the foremost lumber authorities, and from re-reading your letter, I do not think that it is the intention of the Building and Loan Association to do so.

"As I visualize it, they intend, by competent inspection, to see that all inferior materials are barred from use in the construction of buildings upon which loans are made. This rvould not as your bulletin states, refer to White Fir only, but to all lumber regardless of species, and would further embrace every other commodity that is utilized in building constuction.

"This very progressive move would, I knor,v, have the endorsement of the White Fir producers, for they have never advocated the use of a grade 'ivhich is unsuited for the purpose to rvhich it is to be put.

"There are, holever, available in White Fir, grades of real utility and I feel sure that you will agree with me that a 'blanket discrimination' against the species lvould be unwarranted.

"I hope that at no far distant date I may perhaps have the pleasure of rneeting you and discussing the matter at greater length.

Yours very truly, B. F.

SCOTT, Acting Secretary-Manager."

In ,rieru of the fact that the original bulletin must have received wi'de-spread publicity application was made to the Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin, for further detailed information on White Fir and the following paper by Mr. R. P. A. Johnson which appears on page 46 of this issue will be found to be not onlv of interest. but coming from such an authoritative souice, to be educ"tional, as well.

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Considerations in Constructin$ a Poultry House For California.

J. E. Dougherty, Associate Professor of Poultry Husbandry, IJniversity of California

Ttre fundamental purpose of a poultry house is to provide a comfortable and healthful environment for the fot'ls at minimum cost. Design and operation are the chief factors controlling the environment provided and the labor cost of caring ior the birds. Depreciation and cost of upkeep determine the economy of the construction and of the materials used.

A poultry house should be so designed and built that it rvill 6e abli to cope rvith the severest storms likely to occur and remain storm-tight. Can one expect high priced rvinter eggs from chilled, bedraggled hens in a house, the interioi6f which is rain'soaked by every heavy storm ?

It should have a ventilation system that rvill (1) not only Drevent moisture condensation in r'vinter, eliminate drafts, and utilize the heat produced in the house as effectively. as possible in warming the air on cold days, thus increasing ihe comfort of the-birds, (2) but also bring about rapid heat removal and maximum air movement in hot, summer weather. Heating the air increases its drying action, for every 27"-fi' F. rise in temperature d.oubles its moisture .rrrying capacity. Moisture condensation in winter makes for i cold, -uncomfortable environment and produces wet litter which must be replaced. Cold hens do not lay. Too frequent renewal of the floor litter increases the cost of opeiation. In summer, on the other hand, speedy heat removal and maximum air movement during the heat of the day should be the aim. Poor summer ventilation increases the death loss due to heat prostration and lessens prodttction in hot weather'

A poultry house should be so designed and built that it will idmit the maximum amount of winter sunlight. Sunlight convevs warmth and cheer and the beneficial ultraviolet tays which are so valuable in promoting health and the qualiiy production of eggs. lfhe University type poultry house uies a shed roof providing a high, open front.and is- faced south, in order to allorv a maximum of direct sunlight to enter.

Insulation of the roof and even of the side lvalls may prove to be of distinct economic value in making a poultry itoo." warmer in rvinter and cooler in summer to the end that more dollars worth of eggs are produced each year and fewer bifds die. The Divisions of Poultry Husbandry and Agricultural Engineering of the University ofCalifornia i.. no* engaged in a detailed study of the value.of insulation for a poirltry house as a part of extended studies in poultry house design.

A poultry house should be so designed and built for convenience oi operation that every unit of labor will be most efiectively used. A well drained, very smooth surfaced floor requires less labor to clean and keep sanitary than one thaf is rough and poorly drained. The degree of smoothness will-materially influence the labor required in cleaning.

In cJmmercial egg farming a long house has been found more convenient than individual houses because (1) one is rvorking under cover most of the time and (2) a litter carrier catt be used to advantage in cleaning droppings boards, gathering eggs, feeding, etc', (3) rtrnning water

and. electric light can be installed at least cost, (4) operations are moie concentrated, etc. In designing a long poultry house, therefore, these operating conveniences must be considered and their utilization within feasible lim.its taken care of. The roof, for example, must be made strong enough to support a litter carrier load of 500 lbs., the doors prop6rly localed and hung for the most convenient use of a iu.ii"r.- The droppings board and carrier must also be made to work togelhei most efiectively in expediting the cleaning of the droppings.

A poultry house should be so. designed and built as to make the lirgest return on the investment. In designing the University type poultry house and determining on materials best adapted to its construction, the health and comfort of the hen lvere given first consideration. Then convenience or the saving of time and effort so that more work could be accomplishe-<l per man hour of labor rvas considered and the third consideration was the effect of the construction and of the materials used on both the initial cost and the rate of depreciation.

It has been found to be practicable to reduce the floor space allorved per hen from 3% tq,. ft- _in the case of the light breeds to 2 sq. ft. as the number of birds kept togeth_er in-one unit is increased from 50 or less to 200 or more. In the. case of the dual purpose breeds, one foot more is allowed per bird than for birds like Leghorns because they are larger and require more room.

To illustrate why the floor space per hen must be large in small pens and ian be reduced as the size of the Pen is increased, let us consider a house 14 feet deep and 50 feet long divided into five pens, each contailing 4O. T-eghorns. Thd average floor space per hen in each 10x14 ft. pen-is 3l sq. ft. If trvo of these pens were thrown together by removing a partition, each bird would have,two pens to use instead of one and have twice as much floor space to wander over. If three pens were thrown together, each bird would have three timei as much floor space as it had in the original pen and so on. lt is evident, then, that increasing thJsize bi ttre pen increases the total floor space available to each bird. Because of this fact the average floor space per bird can be reducecl a certain amount rvithout harm to the stock since each bird will have a much larger floor space to exercise in than it had in the smaller pen. While crowding is detrimental, giving birds more house room than they can efiectively use increases investment and operating costs. Reducing the floor.space Per hen by increasing the size of the pen decreases the cost of construction per hen capacity until the minimurn is reached. If this minimum is adhered to there is no saving in enlarging the pen unduly and there may be a loss dtte to increased hazard frcm disease, etc.

It is not enottgh, holtrever, to consider only floor space in determining the hen capacity of a poultry house or pen within that house. Sufficient roosting space must also be provided. For light breeds such as Leghorns eight linear inches is the optimum amount of roosting space per bird. The roosts themselves should be 12 inches on centers, the rear roo-st 9 inches from the wall and the front roost 5 to 6

inches from the front edge of the droppings board. The number of birds will determine the number of roosts re-_ quired and the number of roosts will determine the size of ' droppings board and how convenient it will be to reach across to clean.

The low walls of a poultry house readily lend themselves to placing siding lumber vertically and to the use of short lengths of lumber. When placed vertically and well nailed, vertical siding will support much of the weight of the rooi so that the studding can be spaced farther aplrt than could be done if the siding were placed horizontllly. Surfaced tongue and groove lumber laid vertically is, tlierefore, recommended for the exterior walls of a poultry house.

Tongue an4 groove flooring, for example. that would be unfit to use in building a good floor beiause of the short lengths and such defects aJ slash grain, pitch pockets and small, .tight knots, makes excellent siding foi a p,oultry house if laid vertically s_o that rain will ,ur,"do*r, ttri lointt and not across them. Such low grade flooring whic'h has been sorted out of the better gracl-es as inferioi because of the defects indicated, may sell-for less than common, rough 1x12 inch bo.ar.ds i y_et- the defects in this flooring 'd; ;%a rn any .way_ injure it for use in siding poultry h6uses. It lays up well and makes a tight wall. It is surfaced so that it takes less material_ and libor to paint it than ao ,ough boards. It offers a less favorable 'environment for par?- sites. Floor.in-g of this kind is also less expensive,'as a 1u.le, than shiplap of equal grade and the tongue and groove .;ornt rs tighter than the lap joint.

To increase air circulation in hot weather, openings in the rear wall near the floor have been found'veiy teipfuf. The windows in the rear wall below the droppirig, U'o"ra in the University type house, therefore, ..r". . doible pur- pose. They light the floor under the droppings board Lnd w-hen they are opened on hot, summer days, the circulation of air over the floor and through the house is materially increased. This adds to the coirfbrt of the birds.

The ultra-violet rays in sunlight, as previously pointed out, have been found to possess propertils similai tb those of vitamin D in bringing about i normal utilization of the calcium and phosphorous consumed in the ration. therebv preventing rickets, aiding in the fullest production of eggs of good.shell quality,_and promoting heaith. Sunlight, hJirever, wh.ich passes through ordiniry window gi-ass loses. most of its value in this respect beciuse windoi, glass fil- ters out nearly all of these beneficial ultrajviolet ravs. Clean, loosely -*oven muslin probably trr".-itr-.;;ri;;;- able solar ultra-violet light, for the Kansas Station (1926) found.that 33 per cent of the ultra-violet rays ln sunt;ght passed throu-gh medium weight muslin w[ereas 25 ler cent passed through cel-o-glass and only l0 per cent pasied through glass cloth. The heavier the- muslin used. however, and the more filled the pores of the cloth become with

dust and dirt, the more impervious it undoubtedly is td the ultra-violet rays of the sun. Muslin is also ,,6t .rr.rn dut'able. for it tears and rots when exposed to the weathe'i and must be replaced every two or three years.

These facts have given rise to a widespread demand for a durable substitute for glass- and muslin that would prove effective- over long periods in transmitting the ultra-i,iolet rays, ot the sun rnto a poultry house. There are now on the market q,uite a number of these products which are being more or less extensively used and in the comparative mer-_ its of which poultrymen are keenly interested-.

The U. S. Bureau of Standards and the Iowa Experiment S.tation have completed tests of a number of these ;1;;.-;;i;: strtutes and their findings show that these materEh trarrs- mit the ultra-violet partbf direct sunlight about as follows:

)creen _glass .. . .Approximately I5/o Cel-o-glass Aff roxima tetv ZOm Glass fabric .Approxim "trti SOi.-;h;; ;; Glasscloth ....i. .Apprqximarci;--i% flgxograss . .Abb,.;i;;tiilv z\f. Window glass : .Approxim "t tv tim Cel-o-glass, screen glass and similar proa;.i; ;;; *la"i, coatrng garvanrzed rvindow screen cloth with a cellulosl preparation such as cellulose acetate. Glass cloth, Fil;;: glass, glass fabric dnd similar products consist of a loose_ ly woven muslin coated with a'paraffin preparation. ., Roofing paper is one of the most eclnomical materiars rnar can be used tor a.poultry house roof. If a good grade of. 3 ply pap.er is used.^and i[ is coated every 2-or 3 -v."il wrth a good quality of asphalt- roofing paint co"tal"ing asbestos. it should last indehnitely insof-aias deterioratioi of the p-aper itself is.concerned. :f'tr. .iog"" : ,,Save tho sur_ face- and you save all", applies .u.., rnor.- f"r"ibfy to , ;;|e, roof than it does to lum6er.

!"yils roofing paper up and down the roof so that the strlps ot paper extend across the roofing boards rather than p.arallel to them insures ob-taining u ,rior. solid naiiin;-;i the paper. When the roofing is-laid far"il.i tolil'?";i boards, so many roofing,nails"are driveri "for. tog.tfr., i"io one board throughout the entire length of that i;;;; ;i;;; lr, rs very apt to split and the nails are loosened. A Iap mav atso occur at a crack between boards unless this possibii_ ity is consid,ered and.prevented befo." n"gi""i"giJia"|'il; paper. With the strips of roofing paper ixtend-ine up and dog'n the roof, the lihe of naits iotd^ing """h l;; ."i.;; across the boards and the nails are suffiiiently f"; ,p";-i; each board so,that there is much less risk'of .i!";r;; boards,; The lafii.ithould be laid in -ii" o,...,,on ot the heavlest wrnds; then these winds will not blow against the l?ps and tend to tear the paper loose.

.*Thi: papgr was presented 6efbre the annual convention ot the State Lumbermen's Association at the palace Hotel, San Francisco, November 8, l9D, as a part of the "eri"ulj tural program put on by the University of California.----

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MY FAVORITE STORIES

By Jack Dionne

Age not guaranteed-Some I have told fot 20 years-Some less

Could Have Been Worse

The colored population all turned out to enjoy the funeral of little Rastus Jackson.

Old Mose Jackson had taken his six "chilluns" and his four "houn'dogs" and gone out coon hunting. They treed a coon, and Mose sent young Rastus, who delighted in such efforts, tip the tree to shake the coon off the limb on which it crouched. But the limb proved to be a rotten one, and when Rastus crawled out a ways and then shook it to loosen the hold of the coon, the limb broke, and down came Rastus, coon, and all, and the Rastus was killed by the fall.

CHASE YARD HAS NEW MANAGER

L. A. La Point, formerly rvith the Valley Lumber Company, Fresno, is now manager of O. E' Chase & Son's yard at Pacific Grove.

JACK CAVANAGH VTSITS BAY

Jack Cavanagh, of the Cavanagh Lumber Co., Petaluma, lvas a recent visitor to San Francisco'

When the funeral festivities were at their height, a neighbor said to the father of the departed:

"Mose, suttinly was awful, little Rastus gettin' killecl thataway."

"Sure was," replied Mose, and then added: "but it coulda bin wuss."

"How? asked the other.

"Well," replied Mose, "he could-a fell on one o' the dawgs."

\,t/. S. RUSSELL VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

W. S. Russell, of the rvell known rvholesale and exporting firm of Dant & Russell, Portland, Ore., was in San Francisco recently for a ferv days on a business trip.

/ GEORGE BURNETT BACK FROM EAST

/ George Burnett, Bttrnett Lumber Co., Tulare, has returned frorn'his trip to Nerv York and other Eastern points.

nce again we efrtend our best wishes for a aerA Merry Christmas and that the I\Ieus Year will bring Uou increased Happiness and Prosperitg

California Building-Loan Activities For Coming Year

The move on the part of the Nation's Chief Executive to bring together,during the past two weeks, through group meetings, various industrial and business leaders has focused public attention on the present economic situation. The last of six such conferences has just been held, points out the California Building-Loan League in a survey showing how these home financing institutions will help to sustain business activity in the coming months.

An indication of the tremendous size and sustaining influence of construction programs can be gained from the budgets announced at the various Hoover conferences. Public buildings, road building, by states and municipalities, amounting to about $375,000,000, will be speeded up. Street and highway construction is expected to reach nearly $2,500,000,000, during 1930. New equipment and improvements will cost the railroads about $1,250,000,000. Public utility corporations will spend billions in maintenance and new construction, during the coming year. Unquestionably the conferences called by Hoover were a big factor in bringing many concerns to a definite decision to carry through projects during 1930, which were under consideration.

Home construction is considered an important factor in maintaining prosperous conditions because so many different crafts and lines of business are affected.,, Due to the steady influx of population and the rapid defelopment of natural resources, this State has always taken a leading position in this regard. There is more money available today than ever before to finance home ownership and the efforts of rnoney lenders to find an outlet for their funds should prove a great stimulus to residential activities during 1930.

Building and loan associations of California will loan

Susanville Hoo Hoo Club Elects Officers

Thomas Pheneger, Lassen Lumber & Box Co., Susanville, Calif., was elected president of the Susanville Hoo Hoo Club at a meeting held on November 18. Wiele Vandekamp, Lassen Lumber & Box Co., was elected vicepresident, and Harold F. Goodale, Fruit Growers' Supply Co., was re-elected secretary-treasurer.

Arthur Lund, Lassen Lumber & Box Co., was nominated for vicegerent snark to succeed William C. Graf.

Douglas Fir Bowsprit Placed In "Constitution"

Installation of the Douglas fir borvsprit in "Old Ironsides" was the feature of NavylDay ceremonies held in the Na,oy. Yard ,at Boston, Mass., Rear 'Admiral Phillip Andrdws, commandant at the- Navy Yard, has informed the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. The bowsprit was fashioned from four of the timbers donated to the' Navy by the West Coast lurpber indristry and shipped to Bo'ston last spring. It is 64 feet, long and 32 .inches in diameter.

more than $220,000,000 during the coming year,'the California Building-Loan League estimates. Most of these loans will be for periods of nine to fifteen years and will be made on thb amortizing, or monthly repayment plan. Borrowers will be enabled under this plan to pay for their loans, like rent, out of their regular monthly incomes. About 35,000 individual loans will be made, the League estimates. Figuring four to a family, the homes covered by these loans will house approximately 140,000 people, or an entire city the size of San Diego.

California building-loan associations now have combined resources of more than $470,000,000, of which 88 per cent is loaryred on improved real estate. These institutions have shown an average annual growth of more than 30 per cent for the past several years and with thi money made available from the monthly repayments on loans, a vast sum is accumulated each year to aid in financing the construction or purchase of homes.

"California building-loan associations should make a special effort at this time in their advertising to influence prospective home builders to carry out their plans during 1930," according to J. M. Abbott, president, California Building-Loan League. "Viewed from every angle, the time is opportune. Financing is easily available; home sites are probably cheaper than they will be again in years; contractors are in a position to give every job careful supervision ; material prices are fair. In fact, there is every reason to believe that if all the concerns affected by home building, such as material dealers and manufacturers, real estate firms, public utilities and financial institutions, get back of a movement to speed up construction, 1930 should prove to be a most satisfactory year and help in no small way in the stabilization of general business qonditions in line with the purpose of Hoover's conferences."

AVIcCloud Now Has "Talkies"

I( The McCloud Theatre at McCloud, California, has installed the very l4test equipment in RCA photophones and the "talkies" are proving very popular and attracting large crowds. T.he McCloud Theatre is one of the finest theatres in Northern California and rvas built by the McCloud River Lumber Co. as a recreational feature for their employees.

Coast Counties Club Gets Number 89

Vicegerent Paul C)verend of the Monterey District has appointed the following organization committee to proceed rvith the formation of Coast Counties Hoo Hoo Club No.89, charter for rvhich was recently received: M. D. Bishop, chairman; Bert Atkinson, Builders' Supply Co., Gilroy; C. O. Kelly, Gilroy Lumber Co.; F. C. Boock, Gilroy Lumber Co.; Sam Moore, Homer T. Hayrvard Lumber Co., Salinas; H. W. Enlow, Hammond Lumber Co., Watsonville; Herman llerwig, Watsonville Lumber Co., Watsonville, and Chas. Peterson.

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Next to California itself, Texas is the greatest potential consumer of Western Lumber Products.

With a population over 5,000,000, a mighty domain that constantly develops in lumber consumption with its local lumber production decreasing at a rate as rapid as its Gorrsumption increases, the Texas territory extends its hands westward and asks for ttmore lumber.tt

Are you gettrng your share?

The GULF COAST LUMBERMAN

HOUSTON, TEXAS

JACK DIONNE,

PUBUSHER

JOE WAS AWAY OFF

Two Osage Indians took onrtoo much fire water and wound up in twin beds in the fospital.

"How do you feel now?" " {ur"e asked one of them the next morning. I

"Me all right," he said, inrf Joe very sick. Joe he blind. Last night five turkey buz)#ds with plug hats on sit on foot of Joe's bed and Joe no can see um. Joe his eyes very sick".

HOMES T

Some homes are just as bharmingp{a mausoleum, without a mausoleum's privilege of lettin'f you stretch out.\

TEN MARKS OF AN EDUCATED MAN

He keeps his mind open on all questions until the evidence is all in.

He always listens to the man who knows.

He never laughs at new ide

He never despises the opini s of youth.

He knows his stronc-poin and plays it.

He knows when to thil*, nd when to call, in an expert to think for him.

You can't sell him magic.

He lives the fbrward-looking, outward-looking life.

He cultivates a love of the beautiful.

THE SALES QUESTION

Customer-"Are these egg\s[rictly fresh?"

Grocer-"Just laid this mind\d. (To helper) George, are those eggs cool enough to sell yEt?"

EXPERTENCE MAKES CHARACIER

Seldom does one see character w{ittertd the face of youth. Only after the erosion of yea\"y'triving, responsibility, longing, disappointment, pain,-sorrow, losing, do our souls begin to show through in our eyes and faces.

UNDERGROWN

Pat's boss was treating him to a thimble full of his best old pre-war stock, and thinking to impy/Ss him with the great value of the drink, he said: / "Pat, that whisky is seventy yea\ E[a."

"Well", said Pat, "it's dang smaif for it's age, I'll say that."

A GOOD PHILOSOPHY

Get up right in the morninC. Fo to bed right at night. Start your day with joy iq yogf heatt, confidence in your cause, kindness and toleran\e;6r others. If it's a dark day, brighten it up., If it's brightf make it brighter. Distribute your grins, warm grips, and friendly words. If we will just remember that happiness comes from within and not from without we'll start making our own. That thought is a wellspring of joy.

A NATURAL

First Darkey: "Whut's you b_aby's name?"

Second Darkey : "Elecnyl(y."

First Darker: "WhJl {ro" calls him dat?"

Second Darkey: "Catlfe, his mama's name is Dinah, an' mah name is Mose, an' its fum dynamos dat electricity comes, ain't it?"

COOPERATION

Said a wise old bee at the close of day, "This col,ony business doesn't pay. I put my honey in that old hive, That others may live, and eat, and thrive; And I do more work in a day, by gee, Than some of the others do in three. I toil, and worry, and save, and hoard, And all I get is my room and board. ft's me for a hive I can run myself, And me for the s*/6ts of my hard-earned pelf." So the old bee fleufto a meadow lone, And started a fu$ress of his own. He gave no th{rJht to the buzzing clan, But all intent o{ fris selfish plan He lived the life-of a hermit free"Ah, this is great," said the wise old bee. But the summer waned and the days grew drear, And the lone bee wailed as he dropped a tear, For the varmints gobbled his little store, And his wax played out, and his heart was sore. So he winged his way to the old home land, And took his meals at the Helping Hand. For it's all for each, and each for all, United stand or divided fall.

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"The Ship Without a Christmas"

Of all the ships that roam the seas, there rvill be one this year which, beciuse of its position' on the 180th meridian, *itt t. without a Christmas. The SS President Polk, in the round-the-world service of the Dollar l.ine, reaches the 180th meridian on December 24th. The next day will be

December 26th, according to reckoning in her position Westbound between Honolulu and Kobe, JaPan.

December 24th makes her the first in the history of the 'company to bear the title "The Ship Without A Christmas."

globe. However, the

Though she is known this year as "The Ship Without A Christmas", that does not mean that there will be no Yuletide celebration. To be certain that the Yuletide 'spirit will prevail, even though the calendar at her location in the Pacific blots out December 25th, R. Stanley Dollar, president of the Dollar Steamship Lines, has given orders that the Christmas tree shall bloom both December 24th and December 26th. Since the Dollar Steamship Lines went into the passenger service six years ago this coming January, Christmas has found its nineteen ships in various spots of the position of the Piesident Polk on

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As the steamers of the rirund-the-world and likewise the trans-Pacific services leave San Francisco in the season approaching Christ,mas they are stocked with Christmas tiels, decoiations, favorS, souvenirs and supplies particularly associated with Christmas, Unusual entertainments are'given aboard ship in the Christmas season. Christmas carols are sung to orchestral accompaniment on Christmas Eve. Santa Claus doesn't come down the chimney but does emerge from an engine room ventilator, unaccompanied however, by the traditional team of reindeer.

It is said that the sun never sets on the Dollar Line's flrg. This year, Christmas will overspread these ships at a variety of spots round-the-world. A list of the various ships of the Line with their Christmas locations follorvs: The Round-the-World Fleet

President Johnson ... .At Nen' York

Monroe. ..At Marseilles

Wilson. .Between Colombo and Suez

Van Buren '.At SingaPore

Garfield ...At Shanghai

Polk . .....180th Meridian-no Christmas

Adams .... .At San Francisco

lfarrison ...Between Havana and Cristobal

The Trans-Pacific Fleet

President Jefierson ..At San Francisco

Grant ....Between Yokohama and Seattle

Lincoln. Between Honolulu and Yokohama

Cleveland. .....Between Hongkong and Shanghai

Madison. ' '. 'At Manila

Pierce. .At Kobe, JaPan

Taft.. ....At Honolulu

McKinley. ...At Seattle

Jackson. ..Between Seattle and Yokohama

Hayes. ....Between Honolulu and San Francisco

The shore-side employees of the Dollar Line annually have a Christmas celebration aboard one of the President Liners at dock at San Francisco. It will be held aboard the SS President Jefferson this year, on December 24th' Captain Robert Dollar, founder of the Lines bearing his name, always presides at the festivities and despite his 86 years is as young in spirit as any of the office boys.

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R. Stanley Dollar, President Dollar SteamshiP Lines.

Proper Compensation for Wholesalers

At the last convention of the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association, there was considerable discussion on the report of the Committee on Cost of Conducting a Wholesale Lumber Business, which showed that it cost a large number of representative wholesalers 7.83 per cent to conduct their business. This report is accepted as an authoritative showing of actual costs and it has resulted in much discussion at group meetings of both manufacturers and wholesalers. It is realized that the wholesaler's prevailing margin does not adequately cover his costs and provide a reasonable net profit. The matter was further considered at the September meeting of the National-American's Executive Committee, when a further survey among rvholesalers was planned to promote a more serious study of the problem by the industry.

fn commenting upon this situation, Secretary W. W. Schupner says :-"I1 is appreciated that the results of our two National surveys are reported as an average, and that ea,ch wholesaler must consider the relation of his individual costs to the average. One fact stands out clearly, however, and that is, that the wholesaler cannot trade on a 5 percent basis, as he is too frequently expected to do, and steps must be taken to correct such an impression.

"Wholesale lumber distributors perform a vital service to the whole lumber industrv. They are constantlv devoting 100 per cent of their brains, enthusiasm and clpital toward directing our lumber production into channels where best market prices can be obtained. Buyers are being counselled, new fields are being constantly developed. Dealers are being assisted, financed and encouraged in the handling of wood products. It is estimated that nearly 75 per cent of the lumber production is marketed by wholesalers.

"For some time one outstanding problem has confronted the wholesaler-the increased cost of doing business and the difficulty of securing a sales margin to at least meet that expense. In many fields where the manufacturers' price is established and known, the old 5 per cent trade discount still prevails.

"It becomes increasingly apparent that the wholesaler

can only serve his mills on a basis of compensation that will meet his costs and provide a margin of safety. Our interests with the manufacturers are mutual and they should recognize that their sales representatives should enjoy at least a living measure of prosperity. Many mills operating on the sales discount plan have already signified their willingness to ,consider this situation, providing that other mills join in the movement. Naturally, they will look for the highest degree of marketing efficiency and cooperation from wholesalers.

"Our members are now being asked for an expression on such vital questions s5 ;-'l)6 present costs of wholesaling lumber warrant a minimum margin of 8 per cent, based on net f. o. b. mill price?';'If you consider 8 per cent insufficient, what amount do you suggest?'; 'Are you opposed to cutting the sales margin allowed by mills or to other secret rebates to customers?'; and 'Should mills protect wholesalers from direct sales to the trade in territory where mills sell to wholesalers ?'

"The answers to some of these questions may seem obvious, as, for instance, that referring to secret rebates, more commonly called, "split commissions." Wholesalers appreciate such a bad practice must be corrected within their industry and that is a problem in itself. At the same time correction depends upon cooperation with and through manufacturers and fairness to them requires a frank expression from lvholesalers themselves. This whole inquiry is planned with a view of working in the mutual interest of both manufacturers and wholesalers and we believe this situation affects most wholesalers whether they operate on a trade discount or flat price basis. The result of this survey should be helpful in the further negotiations through the joint Manufacturers-Wholesalers Committee, which is studying the question of merchandising relations between these two branches of the industry."

The Special Committee consists of A. E. Lane, Chairman, F. S. Davis, W. B. Eaton, O. N. Shepard, H. J. Strong, G. W. Taylor, and B. L. Tim, New York; J. I. Coulbourn, Philadelphia; R. C. Pepper, Springfield, Mass.; with President C. A. Mauk, Toledo, and Secretary W. W. Schupner.

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Fort Bragg, California Member Calif orttia Redwood Association

Cuts So Smooth That Joints Can Be

Peninsula Club Hears Football Expert

Major R. B. Leland, principal of the San Jose High School, spoke for two hours to a large gathering composed of members of the Peninsula Hoo Hoo Club, San Jose Lumbermen, and delegations from the East Bay Hoo Hoo Club, and various Coast Counties'towns, on the subject of "The History of Football," at the Hotel St. Claire, Monday evening, November 25.

Major Leland's address, illustrated by blackboard dia-. grams, was followed with much interest.

Paul Overend, Vicegerent Snark for the Monterey District, announced that he had received the charter for the new Coast Counties' Hoo Hoo Club No. 89. from headquarters in St. Louis, and formally presented this to M. D. Bishop, secretary.manager of the Coast Counties Lumbermen's Association, whom he appointed chairman of the organization committee of the new club.

Bert Bryan, Oakland, president of the East Bay Hoo Hoo Club. welcomed the new club into the fold in behalf of the East Bay Club, which has proved itself to be the most active Hoo Hoo club on the Pacific Coast, and promised to attend meetings of the new club as often as possible. Everybody in the lumber industry, he said, is awakening to the fact that true co-operation with each other is what is needed, and the Hoo Hoo club can play a big part in bringing this about.

H. S. Morton, Vicegerent Snark of the San Francisco Bay District, also spoke on the subject of co-operation.

A. L. Hubbard, Hubbard & Carmichael Bros., San Jose, was chairman of the day, and Fred F. Boes of the same organization presided. Mr. Boes appointed a Sunshine Committee, and a committee to handle the orphans' Christmas tree.

The East Bay club delegation included Vice-President Hugo Sommarstrom, Secretary Carl Moore and Rod Hendrickson.

General Takes Over North Coast Plant

On December First the General Dry Kiln Company took over the North Coast Dry Kiln Company's Manufacturing Plant at Seattle, Washington, and moved its Seattle office f.rom X)4 Securities Building to the plant.

For the past year, the General Dry Kiln Company has acted purely as sales agents of North Coast products, but from now on it will manufacture as well as sell North Coast patented products under licenses.

This change makes it possible for the General to more closely coordinate its engineering, manufacturing and sales departments.

@tle Sesdon' I Greetingg

ln nany rhopr whcrc thc PLANER SAW Ler bccn inrtrllcd thc ncceerity of plening bcforc glucing jointe Lar bccn clia' inatcd. Thir ir duo to thc rmooth, fart cutting of thir nw. Thc Plencr Srw crou-cutr or ripr on htrd or roft wood rnd doc! trot burn orrcorch. MedeOto24ilchcr in diemctcr.

SIMONDS SAW AND STEEL CO.

{n E. TLird Strcct 22E Firrt Strcct

Loa Angclcr Sel Frrncirco

SA\M

We express our thanks and appreciation for the business and courtesies extended to us in the past, and hope the New Year will be a Happy and Prosperous one for all. HtLt

Dennison St. Vharf Oakland Andover lO77-lO7E

The California Lumber Merchant, extends to the Lumber lndustry

its sincere wishes for a Merry Christrnas and a Hoppy Neu, Tear

Prominent in Millwork Activities

At the annual meeting of the Millwork Institute of California held at Oakland, Calif., on November 22, C, W. Lannom and H. Coor-Pender were elected vice-presidents for the coming year. Mr. Lannom is with the Lannom Bros. Manufacturing Co. of Oakland, and Mr. Coor-Pender is

H. Coor-Pender C. W. Lannom connected with the Frank Graves Sash, Door and Mill Co. of Los Angeles. They were also elected to serve on the Institute's board of directors. Both Mr. Lannom and Mr. Coor-Pender take a prominent part in millwork activities in California.

Handi-Ironing Cabinet

The Handi-Ironing Cabinet, a product of the Creo-Dipt Company, Inc., of North Tonawanda, New York, is a new article that is just coming on the market.

The Handi-Ironing Cabinet is an all metal ironing board -an all metal cabinet-is rigidly built and sturdy in construction and has no braces below the board, and in the cabinet itself is an iron receptacle which is convenient and safe. One of the features of the board, especially where economy of space is required, is that it can be placed anywhere in the house without relation to its surroundings as to walls and furniture, also as to light, because it can be pivoted. in .any direction to suit the convenience of the person ironing.

The cabinet is completely assembled at the factory and packed in individual cartons. By driving five nails on each side of the cabinet, the installation is complete, no further work or material being required. It is finished in an attractive pearl grey baked enamel applied under a pressure of 300 degrees of heat. The enamel covers all parts of the cabinet-both inside and out-and the board. is moderatelv priced and is adaptable to even the smallest homes.

The cabinet is being produced and distributed through- out the United States and Canada by the Creo-Dipt Company, Inc., manufacturers of Creo-Dipt Stained Shingles, and stocks are now available in the larger cities in the United States. The cabinet will be sold through the lumber dealers. This product will be advertised through national publicatio_ns and the trade journals. The Hip-olito Com-' pany of Los Angeles are the distributors for the Handifroning Cabinet in the states of California and Arizona.

T. B. LAWRENCE ON NORTHERN TRIP

T. B. "Ted" Lawience of the Hart-Wood Lumber Company, Los Angeles, has been spending thg.lpast few weeks in the Northwest visiting the mills. "tt:'

WHOIESAIE LUMBER

FIR and REDWOOD

SOUTHERN CAIJFORNIA SA,LES AGENTS FOR

CRANNELI, HUMBOLDT CO.

OPERATTNG

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OFFTCES:

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SEATTLE{a! Whit Dld&

White Fir Lurnber For Small House Construction

By R. P. A. Johnson, Engineer in Forest Products, Forest Products Laboratoryl, Forest Service U.

S. Department of Agriculture.

A considerable portion of the cut of white fir lumber goes into small house construction. The species is used largely in the form of dimension and common boards. In some localities the species has proved satisfactory and has established a desirable reputation as a construction material. In other localities satisfactory results have not been obtained and it is regarded as an inferior species, unsuited.for construction purposes. Thus there exists conflicting opinion as to the suitability of the species for small house construction.

The difierences of opinion concerning the merits of white fir for construction purposes are not due to differences in the inherent properties of the wood. Ratlrer they are due to differences in the character and the condition of the lumber as it is received for use. Where dissatisfaction has arisen because of the lumbir, it can generally be traced to wet lumber, substandard sizes, poor storage conditions, or other factors in manufacturing and marketing that may be corrected; they may easily be prohibited by specifications. Some dissatisfaction, for which the tumber apparently has been blamed, has been the result of poor design or poor construction of the house. Such a trouble can hardly be corrected.

The inherent properties of White Fir are fixed, they will be the same next year as they are now, and they are the same in the San Joaquin Valley of California as they are in the Middle West. Hence, comparison of the properties pf white fir with those of a number of species that have been and are being successfully used in house construction will indicate its suitability for small house construction when the lumber is properly manufactured, seasoned, and used.

The properties desired of building material may be divided into t$'o groups,-one containing those properties that tend to insure satisfactory service when the wood is in place, and the other containing those properties that tend to facilitate construction and thus reduce costs. Strength, stiffness, nail-holding power, and small shrinkage are the important properties of the first group; light weight, softness, and ease of working are those of the second. A species can not excel in the properties of both groups, since, for instance, if it has high strength it is comparatively heavy and hard. I'he desirable properties of white fir are those of the second group.

The adequacy of the strength of white fir for structural purposes is shown by a comparison of recommended working stresses for white fir with those for other species; Table l makes such a comparison. The stresses shown in the table are those recommended by the Forest Products Laboratory of the U. S. Forest Service for material meeting the basic requirements of American Lumber Standards for structural materiat of the common grade. They have been approved by the American Railway Engineering Association and are published by the American Society for Testing Materiats.

Table I shows that the working stresses for white fir compare favorably with those for a number of other species. .They are the same throughout as those recommended for eastern hemlock, a wood which for years has been extensively and successfully used for buitding in the Lake States. The working stresses for eastern

spruce do not difier greatly from those for white fir. Eastern s-pruce has for years been a- standard construction material in New England and is stitl regarded as an excellent wood for tha,t purposE. Working stresseq for white fir, eastern hemloch and east-lrn spruce are- all lower than those for Douglas fir (Coast tyqe) and southern yellow pine. The lower working stresses of -white fir, hemlock and the spruces do not mean they are unsuited for structural work but indicate the necessity for larger sizes to obtain strength and stiffness equal to that obtained with strong-er woods. For example, a 2 by 8 inch white fir is stronger and stiffer than a 2 by 6 incir o? a co-pat"ble grade of any species shown in the table. It is evident, therefore, thaf where white fir has given trouble-it was not because adequate strength could not be obtained with the species, for the strength and stiffness of a structure is dependent far more upon the design of the structur€ than upon the species of wood used for lumber.

The nail-holding power is an important requirement of framing. It depends, howevei, more upon the moisture content of the wood at the time the nails are drivin than upon the species used. This comes from the fact that nails driven into wet wood lose holding power as the wood dries.

The nail-holding power of white fir is lower than that of the woods commonly usCd in building. (Table 2.) The difterence in nailholding power of white fir and of other species. however, is small as co-paied to the loss of from 60 to 90 per cent in nail-holdinq pgYe-r that results when nails are driven into wet framing. Even the high nail-holding power of Douglas fir and of southern yellow pine-under unfavorable ionditions will drop below the value for dry white fir.

Well seasoned white fir has sufficient nail-holding power to meet the requirements of house framing. Framing put up when wet will usually resutt in unsatisfactory service. regardless of whether the lumber is white fir or some olher species. The elimination of wet or partly wet lumber will assure good nail-holding power. .Wh-..n ttecissary the difference in nail-holding power between white fir and such species as Dougfas fir can be compensated for by the use of additional or larger nails.

The shrinkage of white fir is intermediate between that of the heavy, strong species, such as Douglas fir and the southern yellow pines, and the light-weight, soft species, such as western yellow ind northern white pine. (Table 3.) Objectional shrinkage, however, is commonly the reiult of the use of green lumber and is not very dependent upon species. Wet wood of any species will cause trouble, evin when it is only partly wet, and regardless of the cause of the lack of dryness.

The decay hazard of framing, subfloors, and sheathing of properly constructed and maintained buildings is comparatively small' Wood kept constantly dry does not decay. Subftoors, sheathing, and framing in houses are normally too dry to permit the growth of wooddestroying fungi. Non-decay resistant species can therefore be used satisfactorily for these items.

The Season's Greetings-

White fir haq a short life under conditions favorable to decay. The hqartwoods of southern yellow pine and Douglas fir are more decay-resistant than that of white fir, while the heartwood of the hemlocks and spruces may be considered as between that of white fir and Dougtas fir in decay resistance.

Sapwood of all species rots quickly under conditions that favor decay. However, it ig unifornly admitted in house construction. The low decay-resistance of white fir cannot therefore be considered a serious handicap to its use in the construction of small houses. This is shown by the fact that the framing, sheathing, subfloors, and siding of srqrng or many oro nouses suil standlng, or houses torn down because of obsolescence, contain a high percentage of sapwood or are old houses still down constructed of species haviing decay resistance no greater than that of white fir.

White fir is similar to a number of the lighter, softer, and weaker species used in construction. The desirable properties of such species are those that facilitate construction. Light weight facilitieJ handling, and softness makes for ease in cutting, sawing, and nailing. Of the woods commonly used in construction only northern while pine is lighter than white fir. White fir has the iame hardness as western yellow qine, is somewhat harder than eastern spruce and northern white pine, and is softer than the other species iommonly used. Table 4 compares the weight and the hardness of white fir with those of other species.

Table l.-Working stresses for common grades of dinrension 4 inches and under in thickness.

(Recommended by Forest Products Laboratory for material con- torming to American Lumber Standardst basic provisions for struc_ tural material used in continuously dry locations..t

coqPres'

cbmpres- Averagel species of wood ,,1:!;',"

_bending to grain shear 1o grain ticity t tmon AII grades Common Common All grades

New Profits

fro* the additional sales

Thc PEERLESS line of built-in furniture gives you an opportunity to make an additional good-sized sale along with the lumber for every house. and the Peerless line carries ^ rcal prcfit for the lumber merchant.

Home Modernizing

tAmerican Lumber: Basic provisions for American Lumber Standards.grades are published by the U. S. Department of Commerce in Simplified Practice Recommendation No. 16. ,,Lumber." Revised _July- l, 1926: specifications for grades conforming to American Lumber Standards are published in the l92Z Siindards of the American Society for Testing Materials, and in American Railay Eng!1e^e^ring Association Bulletin, yol. 27, No. 284, dated February, 1926.

"Factors to be applicd -to A-verage .Modulus of Elaeticity Values: 'I'he values for modulus of elasticity are average for species and not. safe working_ s-tresses. They may be used as given for com- puting average deflection of beams. - When it is desired to pre- vent sag: in beams, values one-half those given should be used. In computing sale loads for long coluruns ialues one-third those given should be used.

Table 2.-The nail-holding power of sonre woods conrmonly used for framing houses; 7-d &ment-coated nails driven io " di'ptf,-"f lft inches and pulled at once. The results of tests tor ttre Foresi Products Laboratory

Species of wood r\roisture ":;:"fr:,liT:x"n??x.T "t into side grai

(Wash.-Ore. type)

lAy9la.se of three species-Silver fir (Abies amabilis) white fir (Abres concolor), and lowland white fir (Abies grandis.)

'Sold also as Pondosa and California white pine.

Table 3.-Comparison of the shrinkage of white fir and of other wgods c.gmmonly used in building, baied on the total st.irL"E"-i" vorunle that occurs between a grgen and an oven-dry condition. The resutts of tests by the Forest products Laboratorv-

(Continued on page 49)

is becoming more popular every day, and usually modernizing begins with the kitchen. Stlle and beaul as well as correct design through years of study of kitchen problems make Peedess Built-In Furniture anecessary line forthe dealer who intends to cash-in on this growing business.

?ctless dealers arcfarzhhed utitb manl practical sclling helps, AsAforfall debils and an estimate of tbe profit utbicb ya canrnakcin tbe ' iletct lcar on tbis cas! selling line-t

BUILT-IN FIXTURE COMPANY

Chas. R. McCormick

Lumber Company

Announce

Change in Sales Dept.

They're Sp so ing L LATH

E. G. Daak

; I. Walter Kelly, district sales manager of the Chas. R. /Mccorntl.k Lum6er Co., San f'rancisco-, an(Iounces that E. ( G. Darris will cqver the territory from San Fraricisco to Monterey, formerly handled by George Kendrick, for both the rail and cargo departments; and will also cover Marin, Sonoma and Napa Counties and part of Alameda county. Mr. pavis has been with the Chas. R. McCormick Co. for the past seven years in various capacities, hqving had retail experience in the company's yard at San Diego, manufagturing experience at one of the companyls Northern mills, and having assisted Jimmy Atkinson in the rail department for the last two years, during which time he has covered part of the territory. Floyd Elliott will continue to look after the San Francisco and East Bay territory, and John Vander Laan will as before devote his time to handling the industrial trade.

Jimmy Atkinson will continue as district manager of the rail department of the Chas. R. McCormick Co. of Oregon.

WHITE FIR LUMBER FOR SMALL HOUSE CONSTRUCTION

(Continued from Page 47)

{rom a green Species

wmd to an oven-dry condition, based m dimension when green

pine............

'Average of two species.

tSold also under the names Pondosa and California white pine. Table 4.-A comparison of the weight and the hardness of white fir and of other woods commonly used in building. The results of tests by the Forest Products Laboratory

Cornmercial whitc firl

Eastern hemlck .,,....,....

Eastern sprucel

Northern white pinc

Western yellow pinC

Douglas lir (Coast type)

I.qngteaf pine

Shottleaf oine,...........

'Average of four species.

'Average of two species.

sAtso sold under the names Pondosa and California white pine. No species has a monopoly of all the properties and characteristics desired of buitding 4Saterial. Selection of species depends on price, grade. finish, sizes and degree of seasoning of the various woods available on the local market.

Too much emphasis is quite often ptaced on the kind of wood td u$e or not to use in building. Satisfactory dwellings can only be obtained by prohibiting the use of tumber insufficientty dry, by eliminating substandard sizes, and by proper design and construc- tion. Good architects and contractors can build good houses of white fir. In fact they can buitd them of any of the commerciat softwoods.

illiltaired at Madison, Wis., in cooperation with the University of Wismsin.

Ve ate increacing the daily profitc of many progrescive building rriaterial dealers who have been progressive enough to stock Truscon Metal Latfr. Contractors ire cpecifyi.g it! Individual buildere want it! Therets a demand : a quick turnover, and oubsequendy a greater proft for the dealer who stocks the complete tine of Truscon Metal Lath. Let us tell you more about this proftable line.

' Btrlletin No. 25:7(X) on re. que8t.

TRUSCON STEEL COMPANY

5,tt0 Eact Slaurcn Ave,, P.'O. -Bix f20C, Arcade Station, Lw Angeler, Califomia Dictrict Officct: San-Frucicco ' Portlud -.Satdc

STNTRON DTOTORLESS ELECTRIC HAIIIIEBS

"OnIy the Piston mdvest'

Yz to 2-inch Drilling Capacity.

$Teights 10 to 20 lbs.

Priced at tl00 and up.

Elcccrtc Drlllr' Alt Slzcr

Poltable Gr{nders and Bench Tnlcc

Goncrete Surtacerc

Strand Fledblc Shaftc and Equlpncnt

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If a job can be done with an electric tool<c have it' II. N. THACKABENBY

3O8 Eagt 3rd St. MUtrreI 7508 llr Anepln TOOLS RENTED

BOOKKEEPER.ACCOUNTANT WANTS POSITION

Eleven years' experience in Lumber Manufacturing, Retail and Wholesale, also Millwork. Good health and habits. A-1 references. Capable of taking full charge. Prepare financial statements, balance sheets, cost reports, tax returns, credits and collections. 30 years of age. Can report at once. Legitimate reason for change. Address Box C-288, California T,umber Merchant.

WANTS CONNECTION WITH SOUTHERN CAI.IFORNIA HARDWOOD CONCERN

Experienced hardwood lumberman thoroughly familiar with sales promotion work, would like to make connection with Southern California hardwood company. Has had experience in the manufacture and sales of all kinds of hardwoods. Will appreciate an intetview. Box C-291 care of California Lumber Merchant.

EXPERIENCED LUMBERMAN WANTS POSITION

Lumberman L7 years' experience rvith largest yards in East. Increases production-;-decreases overhead-mill, yard, w'aterfront, active rvorking superintendent. Age 35

American-Married-Dependable. Address Box C-293, California Lumber Merchant.

ASSOCIATION SECRETARY DESIRES

Association Secretary ten years' experience and handling of Lumbermen's Associations or successfirl-can show results-Address, Box fornia Lumber Merchant.

WILL BUY

POSITION

as organizer Clubs-very C-295, Cali-

Retail Lumber Yarcl. Investment $25,000.00 to $40,000.G-must be going concern. Address Rox C-297, California Lumber Merchant.

JrM CHASE WrTH C. GANAHL LUMBER CO.

Jim Chase has joined the sales departrnent of the C. Ganahl Lumber Co. of Los Angeles and entered on his nerv duties on December first. He formerly represented the Built-In Fixture Co. in Southern California. He is rvell knorvn to the Los Angeles lumber trade where he has lteen associated rvith the lumber business for several years.

A. E. EDGECOMB A CALIFORNIA VISITOR

A. E. Edgecomb, Philadelphia, Pa., president of the Insular LumbEr Co., was a re,cent California visitor where he spent several days on business. The Insular Lumber Co. are large lumber operators in the Philippine Islands. While in Los Angeles, Mr. Edgecomb was a visitor at the offices of the Western Hardwood Lumber Co., their Southern California representitives. F. J. Dunbar of the Robert Dollar Co., San Francisco agents for the Insular Lumber Co., accompanied Mr. Edgecomb on his visit to Los Angeles.

FOR SALE

Retail Yard and Complete Building Material Store, County Seat Town, 11,000, Southern California. Will lease Yard Site on 7 per cent net return on investment but want to sell improvements. Investment necessary in fixed assets not over $15,000. Address Box C-289, California Lumber Merchant.

WANTS POSITION_EXPERIENCED IN SALES PROMOTION WORK

Lumberman s'ishes connection; experienced in sales promotion rvork, plan book service, financing, follow ups, estimating, construction of homes, line yard management. advertising, salesman, sound business ideas. No profit in retailing now at so much per thousand. Box C-DZ, care California Lumber Merchant.

WANTED-A GOOD YARD

Wanted-A good yard in small community, or will consider managing interest in a good live yard in town of 10,000 or less population. Address, Box C-294, California L.pmber Merchant.

OFFICE AND SALES

Experienced bookkeeper-Cashier-Estimator-Salesman-Yard Manager-open for position-go any place. Address. Box C-296. California Lumber Merchant.

W. G. HAMILTON VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

W. G. Hamilton, Los Angeles, Southern California representative for the Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., left for San Francisco on December 15 to attend a confeience of the company's sales organization. He will be away from his office about a week.

GEORGE KENDRICK GOES INTO RETAIL LUMBER BUSINESS

,. George Kendrick, who for the past four years has been fargo salesman for the Chas. R. McCormick I-umber Co. x in the Coast Counties and Peninsula territories, has resigned his position and rvill become associated with the Sunnyvale Supply Co., Sunnyvale, on December 16.

PERRY DAME RETURNS TO CALIFORNIA

Perry Dame, western sales manager of the Creo-Dipt Company, Inc., arrived in San Francisco, December 2, from a two weeks' business trip to the Pacific Northwest, in the course of which he visited Portland, Spokane, Seattle and Vancouver, B. C. While in Seattle he inspected the company's nerv staining plant, rvhich is equipped with the CreoDipt patented pressure staining machines.

Mr. Dame announces that the new plant will be put in operation about December 15. He left San Francisco for Los Angeles December 6, after conferring with the Santa Fe Lumber Co., Northern California representatives.

This column of "wants" #l':ff#|,"fflts,, is fon rhe t"#iyr$tll,Kff {$.?Ko se' The Fellow Who Wants to Hire

The Fellow Who Wants to Be Hired

IDEPENIDABLE IDOORS

Two styles with distinctive fe ature s, made of Long-Bell California \flhite Pine

I-EAnee&es

A one-panel door; square sticking; outside edges and corners rbunded; 3'ply rotary cul.renee" panel; veneered stiles with built up cores. -\7ill not warp. Designed by Californians. Made in Cal-ifornia. For California. Guaranteed.

A distinctive combinatron of style, beauty and durability. Attractive flush moulding. 3-ply rotary cut veneer panel inset firmly in stilei and riils will notwbrk loose and raitle. Veneered stiles with built-up cores. The sryle king of American doors. Guaranteed.

These two doors, made throughout of Long-Bell California 'W'hite Pine, offer the discriminating builder full value for his investment. They are readily adaptable to any finish, will not warp and cost less to fit, mortise and hang than doors of other woods. Available through retail lumber dealers.

THE LONG.BELL LUMBEN COMPANT

R. A. LONG BUILDING Lumbernten since t875 KANSAS CITY' MISSOURI

Douclas Fir Lumber, Timbere, Door and 'Window Fmmes, Trimpak; Westem Himlock Lumberr- \Vestem Red Cedar Siding and Shinglee; Southern Pine Lumber and Timbers; Southem Ilardwood Lumber, Timbers and Trim' oak: Oak Floorine,'*CELLized Oak Floodng Strips, *CELLized Oak - Fioor Plants, *tEl-I-ized Oak Floor Blocks, Califomia White Pine Lumber, Sash and Doors, Box Shooks;-Creoeoted Southern Pine Lumber, Timbers, Posts, Poles, Ties' Guard'Rail Posts, Piling.

RE-ROOFING JOB

when you sell . 'w.^te"-Ireoty Re-Roofing job

yo.r L""e "old a great d".I more th",, just a o.* "oof

-hicL goes on right over the old *ood ,hiogles. you h"re sold .o-fort. .. protection against time and weather .insulation......permanence .beauty.

Yo., h"ve sold your customer the sense of security

*hi"L comes with the certain f.nowl.dg. that Lis ,oof will give hi- y.""s of trouble-free service.

and that's only ooe of the reasoos *hy \Ar."r.rI{.oty Shiogl."

are so easy to sell.

I ON

THERE ARE MORE THINGS THAN SHINGLES THAT GO WITH A .wEA\rER-I{ENRY

"od Yf.""."-I{eory Roofing