CO) UP AND DOWN THE STATE co.'

Abel H. Jackson, manager of the Los Angeles office of Union Lumber Co., spent a few days at the company's mill at Fort Bragg, Calif., last week. He made the round trip to San Francisco by air.

Paul Orban, Orban Lumber Co., Pasadena, is back from a trip to San Francisco and Portland.

Leon Gillespie, Northridge Lumber Co., Northridge, Calif., recently made a business trip to San Francisco and Fort Bragg, Calif.

Fred R. Lamon of Lamon-Bonnington Co., San Francisco, left March /7 to spend two weeks in the Northwest, where he will call on his firm's sawmill connections.

Robert T. Evju, sales manager for James L. H,all, San Francisco wholesale firm, has been in the Pacific Northwest for the past two weeks, visiting the sawmills.

John H. Tyson, Wholesale Lumber Distributors, Inc., Oakland, is spending three weeks in the Pacific Northwest on business for his firm.

. Bovard Shibley, salesman for Union Lumber Co., San Francisco, recently underwent an operation in a San Francisco hospital and is now recovering at his home.

A. L. (Gus) Hoover, Los Angeles representative of The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, spent last week visiting the company's mill at Scotia, Calif.

Clyde W. Osborne, manager of the creosoting department, Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division, Portland, was a recent visitor to San Francisco and Los Angeles. While in San Francisco he attended the OPA wood preserving industry ceiling meeting, March 18 and 19.

Lloyd D. Milne, Signal Lumber & Materials Co., Long Beach, has returned from a business trip to San Francisco and the Pacific Northwest.

H. F. Vincent, vice-president and general manager, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned recently from a trip to Oregon and Washington. He visited Portland, Seattle, and the company's mill at Reedsport, Ore. This mill has operated throughout the winter without interruption.

Lieut. J. C. Snead was a recent visitor to San Francisco and Fresno, while on leave from his Army'duties at Walla Walla, Wash. Before going into the Army he was with Wandling-Nathan Company, San Francisco.

' Carl W. Bahr, manager of California Redwood Distributors, fnc., Chicago, eastern sales agents for The Pacific Lumber Co., and Hammond Lumber Co. visited the mills last week at Scotia and Samoa, Calif.

, Bill Meredith, with before he went into furlough.

Bauer Lumber Co., Carlsbad, Calif., the Navy, was recently home on

Stanley C. Moore, manager of Fir-Tex of Southern California, Los Angeles, attended a convention in San Francisco early this month.

R. E. Barto of Barto-Smith Lumber Co., Los Angeles wholesale concern, is back from a trip to Portland.

' Percy'Winsor, well known among the old timers in the lumber business in Los Angeles, is now connected with American Hardwood Co.

Ed Biggs, now in the sawmill business in Colorado, was in Los Angeles around the middle of March, and while there called on a number of his old friends in the lumber business.

" Walter Koll, A. J. Koll Planing Mill Ltd., Los Angeles, has returned from a business trip to the Northwest.

George Lounsberry, Lounsberry & Harris, Los Angeles, is spending a few days in Eureka.

' Viney-Milliken Lumber Co., Covina, has purchased the Earl Dotson millwork plant at El Monte.