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As Reported in The California Lumber Merchant

Directors of the Southern California Lumber Code Administrative Authority met in Los Angeles Jan. 23. The Executive committee revealed that the modal overhead cost on lumber for selling and administrative expense was fixed by the NRA at 23/o of cost at the yard plus a handling and delivery cost of $5.60 for the Los Angeles wage area and $5.20 or $4.80 in others. The modal minimum on building materials not sold by the 1,000 foot was fixed at 42/c of cost at the yard John G. Ziel announces that following dissolution of Barg, Ziel & Co. he will organize a new ftrm, Ziel & Co., to carry on in the old offices at 16 California St.. San Francisco. Mr. Ziel has many fine hardwood import connections Harry J. Graham was appointed Pacific Coast sales director for PioneerFlintkote.

Dealers representing their districts at the Jan. 18 meeting in Scotia, Calif., with directors of the Humboldt Split Products Assn. included W. N. Shifflett, Napa Lumber Co.; W. O. Mashek, United Lumber Yards: W. K. Kendrick, Valley Lumber Co., and H. J.

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Ford . . . George A. Pope was elected president of the Chas. R. McCormick I.umber Co., San Francisco Harbor Plywood transferred H. B. Wiscomb to Chicago and added the Southern California area to the sales itinerary of C. W. Buckner, the Northern California man Jack Cooper was named manager of the Crockett (Calif.) Lumber Co. yard.

The'San Joaquin Lumbermen's Club met in Fresno, Jan. 27. Officers are George Burnett, Tulare; S. P. Ross, lfanford, and H. J. Ford, Fresno

The Bohnhoff Lumber Co. moved to its new site at South Alameda and 15 Sts., location formerly occupied by C. W. Bohnhoff, president of the firm. Clarence C. Bohnhoff is vice-president, and Sidney N. Simmons is secretarytreasurer . . P. T. Burns of the Kern County Lumber Co. yard at Bakersfield was named manager of the Vallejo (Calif.) Lumber Co. . . . George Troth, former secretary, was a guest at the Jan. 15 mee(ing of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club 39.

Andrew B. Hammond, lumber industry leader and one of the West's last great business pioneers, died Jan. l5 at his home in San Francisco at the age of 85. He was intensively active in the management of the Hammond Lumber Company properties until his recent illness. At his bedside were his son Leonard C. Hammond, vice-president and general manager of the company, and his daughters Mrs. Frank B. King and Mrs. W. S. Burnett. He also leaves two other daughters, Miss Daisy E. Hammond and Mrs. Florence Whiteside. Private funeral services were held at the family residence. Mr. Hammond was born in New Brunswick in 1848 and went to western Montana at the age of l9 and organized the Missoula Mercantile Co., the First National Bank and the Blackfoot Mill Co. He also built two railroads which went into the N.P.R.R. He became associated in 1895 with Collis P. Huntington and the Mark Hopkins estate in a railroad to the Hammond mills in Oregon. One of his last big mergers was that of the Hammond with the Little River Redwood Co. in 1931. Mr. Hammond is given credit for the modernization of the redwood industry and regarded as its dean-introducing large steel steamers to replace the small wooden lumber carriers, and developing the practice of manufacturing at the mill the highly finished redwood products such as sash. doors. etc. At the time of his death, Hammond Lumber Company included the redwood mills, two fir mills, vast California-Oregon timberlands with railroad equipment and logging systems, the wholesale yard at Terminal Island, distributing and millwork plants in Los Angeles, and numerous retail yards throughout California.

Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, was appointed a distributor by Kesterson Lumber Corp. of Klamath Falls. Frederic S. Palmer manages Santa Fe's pine department . . Spencer E. Slade, pioneer lumberman, died at his Palo Alto home. lan. 26. He started with the late E. i(. Wood in Stanton, Mich. in 1878 and came to the Pacific coast in 1885, forming the Slade Lumber Co. at San Francisco with Mr. Wood. His two sons, Russell and Franklin, are also in the industry . . C. H. Griffen, Jr., resigned as gen- eral manager of the California Redwood Assn., Ian. 15, to join the Monterey Bay Redwood Co. at Santa Cruz. lTe was formerly superintendent of the Homer T. Hayward Lumber Co. retail lineyards.

Members of the Retail Lumber and

Building Material Code Authority attending a meeting in the Palace hotel, San Francisco, Jan. 23, included Chairman Ralph Duncan, Ira E. Brink, Warren Tillson, Mead Clark, C. T. Lund, F. McNulty, Lester Elliott, C. G. Bird, F. Dean Prescott, Elmore King, C. I. Speer, J. H. Kirk, John Tyson, J. H. Shepard, H. F. Vincent, E. T. Robie, Tom Hubbard, F. L. Dettman and D. C. Essley, secretary. Also present were Sterling Truitt, W. K. Kendrick, C. S. Tripler, C. D. LeMaster, C. R. Buchanan, S. J. Hauge, Ifarold Ford, Merle D. Bishop, Ed Larson and Elmer trllis.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Jan. E that Ponderosa pine could not be included in the white pines classification C. R. Johnson, Union Lumber Co., and H. W. Cole, president of the California Redwood Assn., attended a meeting of the Redwood division of the Lumber Code Authority in Washington, Jan. 20 . . . Northern California dealers recently visiting in San Francisco included Carl Hagge, Sacramento; George Good, Pacific Grove; J. O. Handley and M. J. Murphy, Carmel, Chas. Garrison, Two Rock, and Isador Cheim, Marysville R. S. (Bob) Osgood, sales manag'er for the Cadwallader-Gibson Co., left on sales trip to the southern states.

The Betts-Sine Lumber Co. took over the J. K. Sine Lumber Co. in Culver City, Calif., Jan. 24. W. F. Betts, one of the owners ancl formerly manager of the Patten-Blinn yard there, will manage the yarcl . . Floyd Dernier of the Lumbe;:men's Service Assn., Los Angeles, wrotc l-ouis Howe, seiretary to President Roosevelt, urging that Federal Home Loan Banks start functioning . . B. W. Lakin, general manager of the l\{cCloud River Lumber Co., McCloud, Calif.. attended the Code Authority meeting in Washington Henry S. Patten of the PattenBlinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles, returnecl from Code meetings in the capi- tal Frank J. O'Connor, president of the California Wholesale Lumber Assn., and Louis C. Stewart also returned from the Code hearings.

H. H. Barg announces that the partnership with J. G. Ziel in Barg, Ziel & Co. was being liquidated Jan. 1 and he would continue as the Barg Lumber Co. at 16 California St. . The new 1934 calendar of the California Redwood Assn. was called the most beautiful one yet . . . There are two long spe- cial articles in this issue on the workings of the new Lumber Code Authority . . President Alex Masson, Fortuna, and Secretary Warren E. Innes called a meeting of the state's split products manufacturers at Fort Bragg, Jan.14.