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Redwood Weathering

We're delighted with The Merchant's March issue on redwood, particularly your generous use of color. This is one of our major retail promotion projects for the year, and we're extremely pleased with how it turned out. We've already received congratulatory letters on this issue from several CRA member mills.

One small error got through on page 23 in the first paragraph under the subhead; "Coating and Caring", in the [CRA-furnished] article on handling, nailing and finishing. Due to our typo, the sentence reads, "Weather wears off on 1-% inch of unfinished wood in 100 years". It should read, "Weather we:us off only one-quarterinch..."

We rely on The Merchant as one of our test sources for quality and accurate handling of redwood news and information.

Marianne Lagerquist

California Redwood Association

I Lombard St. San Francisco. Ca. 941 1 I

Millwork Manual Cost

We notice in the March issue under "New Literature" you have listed the Woodwork Institute's "Manual of Millwork." We thank you for the announcement; however, it is not free as indicated. It costs $15 plus 90d sales tax.

Sincerely yours, Bernard B. Barber. Jr.

Executive Secretary

Woodwork Institute of California

P.O. Box I1428 Fresno, Ca.93773

More On Hammond

Gage McKinney

Contributing Editor

The Merchant Magazine

4500 Campus Dr. Newport Beach, Ca. 92660

Dear Mr. McKinney:

I enjoyed your article on A. B. Hammond and the Hammond Lumber Company in the March issue.

As Alfred D. Bell, Jr. can tell you, I have done extensive research myself on A. B. Hammond, Hammond Lumber Co., and its predecessors and successors, particularly here in the Redwood Empire.

A few minor corrections you might be interested in, regarding your article, are (l) It was Collis P. Huntington

TheMerchant Magazine who was one of the "Big Four" and a founder of Hammond Lumber Co. He died in 1900, and his nephew, Henry E. Huntington, and his wife then inherited his Hammond Lumber Co. stock. (2) Hammond Lumber Co. was originally incorporated in February, 1900. A. B. Hammond bought the John Vance Mill & Lumber Co. effective September I, 1900, then incorporated Vance Redwood Lumber Co., which operated the redwood plant until December 31, l9l I , when it was merged into Hammond Lumber Co. Hammond Lumber Co. was incorporated twice, first in New Jersey, then in Delaware (in 1908.) The New Jersey company acquired the stock in Vance Redwood Lumber Co. about 1903-4. The New Jersey company was merged into the Delaware company in 1916. (3) Plant Two, in Eureka, shown in the picture on Page 57, was closed by Georgia-Pacific in 196 I, and burned to the ground while being demolished in 1963. The remanufacturing plant was converted into an industrial plant, then later purchased by George Schmidbauer and his wife, who built the small log sawmill of Schmidbauer Lumber. Inc. on the site. The former Hammond millsite West of the railroad tracks is now used for log exporting.

Best regards,

Lowell S. Mengel, II

P.O. Box 5246 Eureka. Ca. 95501

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