From the Ten Years Files of The California Ago Today Lumber Merchant, March 15,1926

The Southern California lumbermen held a golf tournament at the San Gabriel Country Club on March 5. Frank Burnaby was chairman of the golf committee. Frank 01son, Olson Lumber Company, Alhambra, was the winner of the Joe Chapman Cup, and Gus Hoover was awarded the Jack Dionne Trophy. Herman Rosenberg was toastmaster at the evening meeting.

The Peoples Lumber Company at Ventura have installed an attractive new disPlay room. ***

The Loop Lumber & Mill Co., Alameda, recently completed construction of their new ofifice building and planing mill'

E. S. McBride, Davis Lumber Co., Davis, and E. T' Robie, Auburn Lumber Co., Auburn, have purchased the West Valley Lumber Company yards at Dixon and Woodland.

National ForestReceiptsGain

Receipts of the National Forests during the first half of the present fiscal year (July 1 to Dec. 31, 1935) showed an increase of more than $155,000 over receipts in the same period last year. Total net receipts for this period were $1,@2,695, the U. S. Forest Service said today.

More than two-thirds of the National Forest receipts in the six months period was from the sale of timber, totaling $1,097,485. Timber sold from the National Forests is marked by Forest offi.cers and ,cut under Forest Service regulations'

Next to timber sales, fees received from grazing permits accounted for the greatest part of the half-year income. Grazing permits for sheep and goats brought $180,460, an increase of more than $29,000 over the same period last year. Permit fees lor grazing of cattle and horses amounted to $179,497, a decrease of approximately $10,000. Income from rentals by summer home sites and other spe'cial uses amounted to $109,946.

Twenty-five per cent of the total net receipts from the National Forests is turned over to the individual States, to be apportioned to the counties in which the National Forests are located. These funds paid in lieu of taxes are used for road and school purposes by the counties. Also, an additional 1O per cent of the receipts is used by the Forest Service for road building in the National Forests; in this way, a total of 35 per cent of the National Forest receipts returns directly to the benefit of the local National Forest communities.

A. M. Baxter, J. H. Baxter & Co., San Francisco, on his return from a trip to New York pleasantly surprised his many friends and clubmates at the Olympic Club of his marriage to Miss Rose Parker of San Francisco.

Frank R. Close, formerly manager of the Shasta Lumber Company, will open a retail tl*l"r yard at Sutter.

The Mill Valley Lumber Co., Mill Valley, have been making some improvements at their plant and are now occupying their new office building.***

C. J. (Clint) Laughlin is wearing a big smile, the occasion being the arrival ot "*Ol baby girl at his house.

The Progress Lumber Co, of Redwood City have completed the construction of their new office building, and are now building a mill on their new site.

Built [or load sizes ranging Irorn 36'x36" to 6d'x94" any lcngth o[ load. Also spccial types for special nccds.