Bonnelt-Wclrd & Knopp New 5. F. Wholescllers

A new lumber wholesale firm of Bonnell-Ward & Knapp was recently organized in San Francisco, and is now doing business at 2808 Russ Building, 235 Montgomery St., San Francisco. The telephone there is GArfield l-1842 and the teletype number is TWX-SF-I5.

J. E. Knapp, long time San Francisco businessman, has entered the wholesale lumber business with two other well known West Coast lumbermen. The partnership of Bonnell-Ward & Knapp, officially opened for business on February l, 1954, and will work with Northern California and Oregon mills handling douglas fir, redwood and pine. Direct mill shipments will be hanclled by raii and truck to yards primarily throughout Central and Northern California.

Bill Bonnell is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Forestry, and was a bomber pilot in the Air Corps during World War II. After the War, he went to work in a retail lumber yard in Seattle and later, for two years' was a buyer of West Coast lumber products for a Mid-Western line yard. He then spent one year with the Corps of Engineers in the lumber procurement branch, and then went with Clay Brown & Company in their San Francisco office. Prior to the present partnership, he had been with Middleton & Beirne Lumber Company, having established their San Francisco Peninsula offrce.

Ben Ward is a graduate of Oregon State College School of Forestry, class of 1937. His experience includes more than a year as a rigging logger in California and Oregon; two years in a sawmill at various jobs : a four year hitch in the Navy as a Lieutenant; three years with United Lumber Yards at Modesto, California; six years with E. K. Wood Lumber Company at Los Angeles and Portland, in retail and wholesaie positions, and during the latter three years gaining valuable experience as a buyer, calling on Oregon mills. Prior to entering the partnership, Ben had been a limited partner at Lamon Lumber Company, wholesale lumber, San Francisco, for two yeafs.

James Knapp has a long successful business career dating back to the turn of the century. At that time, he worked for the Hazel Gold Mining Company in Shasta County, California, and at the same time operated a small sawrnill cutting mining timbers. He then entered the Joshua Hendy Iron Works at San Francisco, and becamg vice president of that firm, which is now Westinghouse at Sunnyvale. Mr. Knapp then organized the J. E. Knapp Company, San Francisco, and was president of that concern. He later became president of the Western I{napp Engineering Company, San Francisco, and then president of the Pacific Brewing and Malting Company, headquarters in San Francisco, and plant at San Jose, California. President of the Spruce Creek Mining Company, Yukon Territory, was his next business venture and prior to his retirement, Mr. Knapp had been president of the Calso Water Cornpany of San Francisco. His re-entry into the lumber business in this partnership marks a complete cycle started fifty years ago.

Ship Arrivols in Los Angeles Horbor lncreqse

The Maritime Excl.range reports that ship arrivals at Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors for 1953, were the highest in a decade. During the year 5,907 ships with net tonnaS;e of 25,027,822 arrived in this harbor.

The report shows that 299 lumber carriers plied tlieir trade coastwise to and from this harbor, and that they registered 1,667, arrivals during the year.

Twenty-three foreign countries sent 2,157 ships into Los Angeles ancl Long Beach Harbors during 1953, the British Empire leading with 385 ships, Norway 380 and Japan 365, an increase of 130 over 1952 and indicative of the growth of Japanese shipping. Panamanian registered ships totaled 220, Sweden 160, Uberia 96, Denmark 77, Gteece 76, France 69, Italy 69, Netherlands 68, Mexico 65, Honduras 35, Philippines 28, Chile 17, Costa Rica 13, China and Germany 11 each;I-ire 5, Finalnd 4, and one each for Morocco, Peru and Argentina.

Wirh G. P. Henry & to.

Tom NIabin has joined the sales staff of C. P. Henry & Co., Los Angeles. 'l'om has been associated with the wholesale lumber business in Southern California for a long period and is well known to the lumber trade.

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