Ten Years Ago Today

From the Luhber Merchant, April 1 5, 1926

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The Tri-annual Convention of the Millwork Institute of California was held at the Lin.coln Hotel, Stockton, on Friday and Saturday, March 26 and 27. It was largely attended.

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The monthly meeting of the Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club was held at the Senator Hotel, Sacramento, on Saturday, March 20. President E. S. McBride presided over the meeting.

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The Central California Lumbermen's Club held its monthly meeting at the Wolf Hotel, Stockton, on Saturday, March 13.

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J. E. (Ted) Higgins, well known San Fran,cisco lumbermen, announced to his many friends the arrival of a fine baby girl, March 2. "Ted" is now the proud daddy of four daughters' ** ,r w. P. Mclntyre, w. p.-rulrrlrr" t Son, manufacturers of the famous "Big Tree Brand" Redwood shingles spent some time in San Francisco looking over business conditions. rf*tf

The A. F. Stevens Lumber Company have just completed construction of a new lumber shed at their Healdsburg yard. They operate yards at Healdsburg, Geyersville and Cloverdale.

The Watsonville LumJ",.a.Lo"ny, Watsonville, have recently completed the constru,ction a nerv warehouse.

H. H. Smith of Daly City is now constru,cting a new office building and lumber shed on Mission Road at Daly City.

J. H. McCallum, pioneer San Francis'co lumber dealer, is prominently mentioned in this issue in an article covering his career and his many activities in the San Francisco distri'ct' rf *. rf

All officers of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company were re.elected for another term at the annual meeting at Eugene, Ore.

1,250,000 feet of California Redwood will go into the trestle across Big Lagoon, ten miles north of Trinidad, Humboldt County, according to R. M. Morton, State H'ighway Engineer.

Jimmy Atkinson is wearing a big smile these days. He is the proud father of a baby girl that arrived March 13.

The Barr Lumber a"-;""; oir"n." Ana has purchased the yard from the Smith Lumber Company at Orange.

Wayne F. Mullin, of the Mullin Lumber Company, Los Angeles, at a Hoo Hoo Club meeting, March 18, told of his six months' trip around the world last year.

The Diamond Match of the Shasta Lumber ter Citv and Honcut.

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Company has purchased the yards Co. at Marysville, Wheatland, Sut-

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The United States Shipping Board has sold to the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company of San Francisco six freighters. The vessels included in the sale are the West Camargo, West Cactus, West Notus, West Conob, West Gambo, and the Hollywood. Under the McCormick house flag the steamers will carry lumber and general cargo to South America. ***

C. McC. Johnson, Reedsport, Ore., has bought 50,000,000 feet of Fir and Spruce timber at the mouth of the Smith River.

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More than 5,000 members of the National Association of Purchasing Agents will attend the annual convention at Los Angeles, June 9-12, inclusive. A. E. Carlson, Purchasing Agent of the Pioneer Paper Company, Los Angetes, is chairman of the Publicitv Committee. 'f**

This issue carries an interesting photograph. It shows seven large trucks of the Patten-Davies Lumber Co. at the Schumacher Wall Board Corp., Los Angeles, loaded with wallboard products and ready for delivery to some of their lumber yards.

Reprerenting in Southern Calilornia: Thc Pacific Lumbcr Company-Wendling-Nrthcn Co.

Douglas Fir Use Book

Seattle, Wash., April15.-A handbook on structural use of Douglas fir that will help lumber dealers regain solne of the sales opportunities they have lost to other materials has been issued by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association.

The Douglas Fir IJse Book, which supplies all the information on Douglas fir an ar,chitect or engineer needs in using it for any construction purPose, is being sold to lumber dealers and designers at $1.0O per copy.

All lumber dealers have lost important sales to steel and concrete because designers have been better supplied with technical information about these materials than about wood. Designers having a copy of the Douglas Fir Use Book will be able to design in Douglas fir as easily and surely as in any other material, the Association believes' Lumber dealers are urged by the Association to obtain a copy of this book and make sure that every architect and engineer in their community knows of its availability. Designers who already have received copies of the handbook have expressed strong appreciation of its usefulness.

The Douglas Fir Use Book contains more than 200 pages of technical information useful to the architect and engineer; covering load design tables for joists and rafters, beams and stringers, columns and studding, plank and laminated floors, structural grades and their uses and other essential design and use information. Architects and engineers wanting to know what size of Douglas fir timber to use in supporting a certain load over a given span, or how large a timber to use for a post or column, can easily find the right answer by referring to one of the tables in the handbook. I{eretofore, designers have had to spend considerable time on each construction job in rvorking out these figures for themselves.

The Douglas Fir Use Book also contains a great deal of information that is of as much interest to lumber dealers as to architects and engineers: an exposition of the development of structural grades, an explanation of the grade marking service offered by West Coast mills, a comprehensive grade-use guide, and information about timber connectors, the invention that makes it possible to increase the strength of bolted joints two or three times. The data is conveniently segregated under 45 different classifications.

RETURNS FROM CANAL ZO.NE TRIP

Fred Dill of the Dill Lumber Co., Arlington, is back froru a boat trip to Panama, Havana and New Orleans. He returned from New Orrleans by rail.

Roy S. Brown Resigns

Roy S. Brown has resigned as secretary-treasurer of the 'Western Retail Lumbermen's Association eftective April r. 1936.

At a meeting of the executive committee, the offices of managing director and secretary w-ere consolidated and W. C. Bell appointed secretary-manager. Harold Ostergren has been appointed treasurer and assistant secretary.

Housing Show Will Start May 1

Arrangements are under way by the Federal Housing Administration and the Building Material Exhibit for a housing show to be held from May 1 to May 17 in the Architects' Building, Los Angeles. Austin L. Bla'ck, western director of the exhibit section of the Federal Housing Administration, will be in charge of the event. The exhibition rvill be free of charge.

TEXANS LIKE "TIMBER GIANTS''

Up to March 28, "Timber Giants," two-reel Warner Brothers short, made in the Redwood E,mpire, was booked for shorving in 700 towns, and notification of the bookings was sent to over 2,000 lumber deale(s by the California Redrvood Association. Out of this number California has only had 2l bookings, whereas Texas has had 57, which might indicate that the Redwood lumber industry is more interesting to the Texas public than to Californians.

California dealers can cash in on the advertising opportunities presented by this picture by getting in touch with their local theaters.

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