AIJBERT A. KEIJI.IEY A Medford Gorporation Representative

2' intervals, each piece of lumber that interrupts the beams is automatically tallied according to its length. It has been checked over a period of time against a regular tallyman and whenever there was a slight difference, the machine was always right. There is no chance for the normal small percentage of human error that develops under the old methods. Inasmuch as the machine is completely automatic, it replaces a man on a very difficult job and releases him for other work around the plant.

This concentration yard and planing mill at Phoenix, Oregon, is operated by the Ed Fountain Lumber Co., a partnership consisting of Ed Fountain, Doyle Bader, Dale Burns, Carl Myers and Allan Young. Most of the company's business consists of buying from sawmills with surfacing facilities, and selling to lumber dealers in Southern California. The salesmen handling this work are Frank Bader, Dick Lloyd, Rex Warkentine and Bob Garvin. The company deals only in Western softwoods.

Ruhlow Now Wirh South Boy

W. R. "Bob" Ruhlow, for the past eight years representing the C. P. Henry Co., Los Angeles, is now covering a sales territory for the South Bay Lumber Co., Hawthorne, California. According to Harold Frodsham, president of the firm, Bob has been assigned a territory in Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside and Imperial counties. He will be contacting the dealers in that area, where he is well acquainted, it was said. South Bay is a distributor of redwood exclusively, and also offers a custom-milling service to the retail lumber dealers, LCL or in-transit.