Ten Years Aso Today

From the Files of The California Lumber Merchant, March 1, 1930

LeRoy H. Stanton, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, continues the excellent work he has been carrying on for some time in the direction of discovering and promoting newer and more attractive ways of using wood for interior walls and ceilings.

Forbes lfauptman, four-year-old son of George Hauptman of Los Angeles, christened his own namesake, the SBOGton steamer Forbes Hauptman, a new addition to the intercoastal fleet of the McCormick Steamship Company, at the McCormick terminals, Wilmington, Calif., Saturday afternoon. March 25.

The Forest celebrated, in Serv'ice, U. S. Department of Agriculture, February, its twenty-fifth anniversary.

A photograph shows a shipment of 8O ft. and 85 ft. old growth Redwood piling by the Union Lumber Company at Fort Bragg for use in a California State Highway bridge.

This issue carries an illustrated article of the Century Lumber Company's plant at Long Beach.

E. L. Simpkins, Yuma, Ariz., vicegerent snark of the Yuma Hoo-Hoo district, announced a concatenation rvould be held March B at Algodones, B. CFA, Mexico.

The wood trestle approach to the Washington side of the mammoth Columbia River-Longview bridge, is shown in a photograph. The approaches to the bridge extend for approximately 2615 feet on the Washington side, and 1755 feet on the Oregon side.

Ed Seward, Los Angeles represe.ntative for Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., became a member of the famous Holein-One Club when he registered an "ace" on the 146-yard sixteenth hole at the Hollvwood Countrv Club.

A descriptive, illustrated article of the Building Arts and Crafts Exhibit, Los Angeles, appears in this issue.

F. B. Macomber & Son, wholesale lumber firm, moved its office from San Francisco to Oakland.

A career sketch of Company, Oakland, is

John Todd, Western Door & Sash in this number.