Stahl -eailel, eornTznry, !oi,'EADDRESS T\TENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The California Lumber Merchant April 1,1931

Interviews rvith various lumltermeir and others reported in this issue all express the opinion that the depression is practicall;. over, and business is inprovir-rg. (They only missed their guess by 5 to 8 years.)

C'onfession: THE CALIFORNIA LUX'IBER MERCHANT editorials mad,e the same mistakc, trying to chcer ttf its rcuders. It adztised the lu.m,ber and building industr\ to qct ready for a great reaiztal of building, ad not to be lilee the Dodo Bird, which, is ertinct because he always flezu baclewards, di,dn't giae a cuss zulrcre he was goi,ng, but loz.,ed to looh bacle at u,here lt,e'd. becn.

The official opening of the nerv offices of the California Redwood Association, March 11, in the Financial Center Building, 405 1\Iontgomery Street, San Francisco, was a big event, attended by hundreds of lumbermen. Flowers from a rnultitude of friends filled the rooms. Fred V. Holmes is president, and A. S. Murphy is vice-president.

John F. Mullin, pioneer lumber dealer, died at his home in Los Angeles, NIarch 16 at the age of 71. He was president of several lumber concerns in adclition to the Burbank Lumber Company and the Nfullin I-umber Company, o[ Los Angeles, rvhich are operated by his sons, Wayne F.

Nlullin and Russell B. Mullin. He has another son, Jc;hn S. N{ullin, and one daughter. His wife survives him. He was retired from active business at the time of his death.

The b'.rilding material dealers of Ventura County, California, have organized a nerv association called the Building N{aterial Dealers Club of Ventura County, with Walter Riley, Oxnard, Dresident, and O. D. Ad:rms, secretary.

Max E. Cook, head of the Redrvood Farm Structures Bureau, San Francisco, has been appointed by the Federal government to the position of Farmstead Engineer with the Bureau of Reclamation, in a consulting capacity. He has also been appointed chairman of the Committee of the American Society of Agricultural En.g'ineers, working on standardization of farm irrigation structures.

W. D. "Bill" Dunning, formerly sales manager for the Little River Redrvood Company, has been transferred to Los Angeles, where he has opened a sales office for the Hammond & Little River Redwood Company, Ltd.

The San Joaquin Valley Lumbermen's Club has been reorganized and changed from a social to a business organization. This rvas done on the suggestion of a special committee. George C. Burnett of Tulare is the first president of the nerv organization.