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M.y the hopes and prayers of all be rewarded by the coming of Peace helore next Christmas, and for one and all the anthem ring "Feo""

B. \f. Byrne & Sons Open

New Hardwood Yard

A uew wholesale and retail yard will be opened by B. W. Byrne & Sons, January 7, at 1325 Harbor Avenue, Long Beach 6, Calif. The new yard will carry a stock of all hardwoods, Sugar and Ponderosa pine, spruce and Port Orford cedar. The telephone number is Long Beach 648503.

The principals in the firm are B. W. (Bobby) Byrne and his two sons, George C. and B. W. Byrne, Jr.

Bobby needs no introduction to the lumber trade of Southern California, and is widely known in lumber circles up and down the Pacific Coast and throughout the hardwood producing regions of the South and Middle West. He was with Western Hardwood Lumber Company, Los Angeles, for 33 years, and was secretary of the company for more than 25 years.

George C. Byrne was a salesman for Western Hardwood Lumber Co. for a number of years. B. W. Byrne, Jr. is also experienced in both hardwoods and softwoods, and recently operated a plant manufacturing custom millwork at Hawthorne. Calif.

Adds Box Fcrctory to Plcnt

A box factory has been added to the Jennings Lumber Co. at Safford, Arizona, and will employ 25 to 30 men when it gets operating. It is equipped to produce 129 types of wooden containers, according to Manager Louis Jennings. He has a large backlog of orders from shippers of fruits and vegetables in Arizona and California.

Certified As American Tree Farms

Seattle, Washington.-The lands of 17 Snohomish County (Washington). farmers, all members of the Washington Forest Products Cooperative Association, have been certified as American Tree Farms by the Joint Committee on Forest Conservation of the West Coast Lumbermen's and Pacific Northwest Loggers Associations, E. H. MacDaniels, the Committee's Chief Forester, announced today.

"This action raises a new landmark of industrial forestry," MacDaniels said. "Formed two years ago by the national forest industries to establish specific standards of private forest management and.practice, the American Tree Farms System has been restricted to large units. This is because supervision by technically trained foresters is a basic requirement of Tree Farm membership. The Snohomish County Forest Products Cooperative requires productive forest practices of its members, and they are advised and aided by foresters of the USDA's Soil Conservation Service. So West Coast loggers for happy to welcome the 17 Snohomish County farmers as fully qualified members of the Tree Farms fraternity."

Official Tree Farm signs are being supplied to the new members by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association and the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company at Everett, the announcement said. President M. C. James, Logging Manager Lester Sims, and the Directors of the Cooperative, are planning dedication ceremonies for some time in December, it was added.

Names of the 17 new Tree Farmers, with total ownership of 2,O32 acres of forest land, are: Mayo Ball and John Enselmann, Duncan Barr, William Baylt, Susan Gatherers, George Hjort, M. C. James, W. R. Millard Mrs. euincy Mueller, Luther Orr, R. O. Roesiger, J. E. Saunier, William H. Sheeler, Lester Sims, John Spada, Jasper Storm, S. A. Sween, and John Westin.

Boxes

A ,clarification of the procedure for pricing industrial wooden boxes and box parts-setting the seller,s .,weighted average price" for March, 1942, as the maximum price f.o.b. plant-is sent by the OPA to all regional and district offices.

ReBv W. F. Montgomery

Having a yen to meet some of the old time lumbermen, the writer spent a pleasant and profitable afternoon not long ago calling on the E. K. Wood Lumber Co. and the C. Ganahl Lumber Co., Los Angeles. At the former office I had the pleasure of meeting that old-timer, Al Privett, also Bert McKee of the San Pedro Lumber Co. and Warren Wood, grandson ofE.K. Wood, that brought up old memories.

I had a letter of introduction to Merrick Reynolds, the first manager of the San Pedro Lumber Co., when I arrived in Los Angeles in 1886, and also knew the grandfather of Mr. McKee, John A. Hooper, president of the company, who was a leading figure in the lumber industry in San Francisco for many years. At one time when I was marooned in San Francisco he offered me a job at the Port Costa Lumber Co., which he owned, but I had taken a job with the San Francisco Lumber Co. and declined the offer.

I also knew Mr. E. K. Wood very well and recall the time when I negotiated the sale of the Vawter yard at Santa Monica to him and Robert Dollar with myself as manager, but the deal was not consummated. Mr. Wood and Robert Dollar afterwards started a yard at Redondo with Jas. Schultz as manager, which eventually was acquired by the Montgomery & Mullin Lumber Co. Connie Ganahl showed me a copy of a lumber paper published in Portland with a picture and write-up of his father, C. Ganahl, with whom I had my first job on coming to Los Angeles in 1886. I wrote the publication complimenting them on the article and in reply they asked for my. picture and a short article. I have had a write-up in Dr. Palmer's "History of Hollywood" that cost me $35 without my picture and am now getting both with no expense.

Mr. Privett invited me to be his guest at the Hoo-Hoo nieeting on November 17, which I attended and much enjoyed. I was all primed to give the complete history of the Montgomery & Mullin Lumber Co. and was chagrined when Roy Stanton said he could only give me three minutes, which hardly sufficed.

Some of the higher-ups were attending another meeting and I saw a few of the old-timers but was happy to be seated between Al Privett and Wayne Mullin, the son of my old associate and still holding stock in the Hollywood Lumber Co. Was glad to greet Mr. Martin of The California Lumber Merchant, who has favored me by giving me publicity in the past in his fine publication, and also young Wilfred Cooper of Pasadena, from whom we used to make purchases.

Hoo-Hoo offers an excellent vehicle for lumbermen to get together and cultivate good fellowship, and , perhaps at some future time I may be able to attend and tell more of the history of Montgomery and Mullin.