tD MARTIN Remernbrs

I recalled in my last column something of the great sawmills that were building or preparing to build in the early days of The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT. I hope I slighted nobody in that short report. There were many sawmills of mighty size in the, West in those days. There were mills in California with four or five head-rigs in their equipment. There were many mills of four or five band head-rig equipment in other Western states and in the Inland Empire. To report them all would require a volume. I just mentioned the three real monsters on the Coast.

And recalling' monster lumber installations, I must mention a retail lumber yard that comes under that category. The Hammond Lumber Company yard in Los Angeles was truly a monster. In a state where big yards were plentiful, this one stood out.

Harry Mcleod was g'eneral manager of this yard, and I recall him as one of the finest gentlemen I ever knew in the industry, a mall with a fine mind and a keen sense of humor. To make it short, this yard employed about twelvehundred people in yard, sheds, mill and office. It sold, on the average, half-a-million feet of regular building lumber every weekday. And it had a series of mighty storage sheds in which was stored other materials, such as hardwood lumber, hardwood flooring, and a vast variety of everything that goes into a building in Los Angeles.

I shall never forget my first visit to that great yard. I simply walked about and stared, and could hardly believe my eyes. And Paul Hallingby, who was Harry Mcleod's right-hand man in those days, pointed out all the sights and made the visit very much worth while. And Paul was one of the top men in my lumber history.-Ed Martin.

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