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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT
Mav 15, 1933
SAFEKOTE STRATEX BUILDII\G PAPER Vaterproof - Airtight - Veatherproof FOR ALL SHEATHING PURPOSES Under eiding, ttucco' shingles, etc. fJnder Floors to prevent warping; around window frames, and many other uses.
A PROFITABLE LINE FOR THE DEALER Small investment-No deterioration-Clean-Easy to handleEstablished resale prices-Prompt service from seven points on the Pacific Coast.
Ask your nearest Distributor for Samples and Detailed Infotmation
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ITH the manufacture of pre-fabricated agricultural products, The Pacific Lurnber Cornpany introduces what is ahnost a revolutionary step in the retailing of lurnber. We propose' through a definite sales policy, to make this step one of far-reaching benefits to the dealer: We will at all tirnes rnaintain established prices on
Palco Redwood pre-fabricated products, which will assure merchandising control and a fair profit. We will institute a definite consurner sales c&rrlp"igr" for each Palco Redwood pre-fabricated
product as it is ready for the market.
We will guarantee all Palco Redwood pre-fabricated product3 against stmctural and rnaterial defeets, thereby assuring consurner satisfaction.
Radical? Liberal? Both, perhaps. It is our contribution toward the solution of a problern in the lurnber retail trade of which rre are keenly aware. There has long been a dernand for agrieultural stmctures which are econornical, durable and sirnple to erect. Palco Redwood pre-fabricated products will fill this need. As idbntified products, they will lend thernselves readily to selling and ease of handling. They have behind thern the sound engineering design and'construction of Max Cook.
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Our firet Palco Redwood pre-fabricated product is the septic tank. The sides, ends and bottorn are rnade fuorn lft ineh lurnber; the top frorn 2 inch lurnber. Irrigation grade and better ie used throughout specially selected for its strength and durability. This stock is eurfaced and has a tongrre and groove joint to afford tight construction. The sectional panels are prefabricated and have interlocking features, rnaking for sirnplicity of aseernbly. Except for the ends, which have the inlet and outlet features incorporated, they are interchangeable. Easy to handle-the heaviest piece weighs only 42 pounds. Write for prices and rnore complete detail.
THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT
J. E. MARTIN Malaging Edltr
M. ADAMS Circulation Manager
May 15, 1933
THE CALIFOR}IIA LUMBERMERCHANT JackDionne,fultdlru J. c. Dimne,
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LOS ANCELES, CAL., MAY I5, 1933
on Application
How Lumber Looks New busines booked at the lumber mills during the week ended April 29 was not only heavier than any previous week of 1933 but was greater dran any week of 1932 except two in September, this record being shared by both hardwciods and coftwoods, according to telegraphic reports to the Nationd Lumber Manufacturers Association from regional associations covering the operations of 647 leading softwood and hardwood mille. Lumber shipments were the highest of any 1933 wer:k and softwood production also exceeded its previous 1933
record. Al[ production totalled ltTrrtTrOOO feet; orders 186r#7rOGo feet; shipments 1631678ro0o feet. All regions showed excess of orders over output, sofgwood orders being 54 pet cent above cut and hardwood orders more than twice the
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Douglas Fir-A total of 252 down and operating mills which reported to the Vest Coast Lumberments Association for the week ended April 29 produced 67rt69,97t board feet of lum. ber. This was an increase of lr64lr3E7 feet or 2.5Vo over theit cut in the preceding week. The average weekts ptoduction of this group of sawmills in 1933 has been 58rt87r26 feet; during was 66,14491860 the same period oL l9r2, their weekly ^vetage feet.
The new business reported by 179 mills for the same week was 8118391639 board feet against a production of. 61,851,537 feet and shipments of 79r794ro48 feet. -- Shipments were over producion by 29.O4Vo and current sales were over production by 32.5/6. ---The ordets booked for the week by this group of identical mills were more than their ordets of the preceding week by 18,039,477 feet, or zE.tEo. Details of orders a,nd shipments at these 179 mills were as
follows: Orders-Rail 2714211569 feet; Domestic Cargo.28r-
CHANGE OF OFFICE The Pasadena Lumbermen's Club have moved their offices to 1203 Fair Oaks Ave., South Pasadena, Calif. Their headquarters were formerly at 529 East Colorado, Pasadena.
JOHN OLSON BACK FROM NORTHWEST John Olson has returned to Los Angeles following a month's combined business and pleasure trip in the Puget Sound district.
167,668 feet; Export l9r8l7rl2l feet; Local 6fi31r?Sl feet, Shipments-Rail 25r361r5E2 feti Domestic Cargo 2grtttrlz2 feet; Export 1816681063 feet; Local 6{3lr2El fet. _:F**
The Southetn Pine Association for the wee& ended April 29 reported new business from 96 mills et 38rV8rq)O feet; chipments 3117111000 feet; and production 2l,6615rOOO Leet. Orders werc76 per cent above production and 2O pet cent above ehipments. Shipments were 46 per cent above production. The Vestern Pine Association for the week reported new business from 109 mills as 41r985rq)O feet; shipments 7lr535r(X)0 feet, and production 22r983r00/J f,eet. Orders were E3 pet
cent above production and,37 per cent above shipments. Shipments were 37 pet cent above productiotr. 256 hardwood mills fo'r the same week give new business os 2014861000 feet, or 115 per cent above production, and rhipments 17rl19r(X)0 feet ot 79 pet cent above production. Production was 9,541,(X)0 feet
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The California lumber situatiotr looks more encoumging and during the past week considerable boyi.g was reported. The retail demand is betten Prices in all lines of building nrate. rials have advanced. Evidence of building activity is apparent and is refected in the upward swing in the building totalc of many cities in the state during the past month. LJnsold stocks on the public doc&s at San Pedro toteled 4r295rOOO feet on May 10, as compared to 7r962rOCN feet the previous week. Cargo arivals at San Pedro for the week ended |vlay 6 amounted to 7rO74r0N feet which included 9 cargoes of Fit carying 615851000 feet and I cargo of Redwood with 489,000 feet. 48 lumbe,r vessels in the coastwice ttade were opetating on May 6; 58 vessels were laid up.
SALES MANAGER MAKES VALLEY TRIP Harold P. Plummer, general sales manager Union Lumber Co., San Francisco, recently made a business trip through the San Joaquin Valley and Coast Counties with Fred Burgers, salesman in that territory.
BACK FROM SOIITHERN CALIFORNIA J. W. "Jack" Williams, secretary of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco, returned recently from a 10-day field trip to the Los Angeles district.
rHE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT
May 15, 1933
Appointed Inspector o[ Forest Refuses Rehearing in Receivership Camp Work in So. California Case George H. Cecil, executive se,cretary of the Los Angeles County Conservation Association, has been appointed special inspector of forestry projects to be carried on from the fifty-seven Civilian Conservation Corps camps in the na-
tional forests of Southern California according to the announcement of Regional Forester S. B. Show, chief of the
California Region, U. S. Forest Service and regional coordinator for the emergency conservation program.
NORTHWEST LUMBERMAN VISITS LOS ANGELES A. A. Dimmick, A. A. Dimmick Lumber Co., Marshfield, Ore., spent a week in Los Angeles around the first of the month visiting his brother, V. A. Dimmick, Los Angeles wholesale lumberman.
MOVES OFFICE TO LOS ANGELES E. A. Wright has moved his office from Long Beach to Room 631, Petroleum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles. He represents the Washington Veneer Co. of Olympia, Wash., in the Southern California territory. BUYS HAYWARD YARD - King Lumber Co., Bakersfield, recently purchased the yard of the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. at Corcoran. (Jntreated and Creosoted Piling . Poles ' Ties and Posts - Lumber - Plywood - Lath and Shingles
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Our customers throughout the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys are Profiting by direct shipments from McCormick North-
west mills on McCormickts own shiPs sailing to
the port of Stockton.
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117 West 9th Street Loc Angelec, Calif. Phone TRinity 5241
Judge Merrill E. Otis overruled a motion on April 24 lor a rehearing in the Long-Bell Lumber Company re,ceivership action brought in the federal court at Kansas City, Mo., by W. G. Hutson, Jr., of Lawrence, Kans., and W. Verdner
Carson, of Quincy, Ill. On October 15, 1932, Judge Otis dismissed bills of complaint brought by the defendants. In the Long-Bell ,case, Judge Otis said he desired to give additional opinion to that already ,cited, although he pointed out that it is not the practice of the court to hand down opinions in refusing motions for rehearing and motions for new trials. In the additional opinion, he stated: "It would not be fair to say that as the cases have gone forward the plaintiffs have changed positions and have advanced first one and then another.theory; but it is quite fair to say that there have been such changes in emphasis as have made it difficult to lay hold of what, in view of counsel for the plaintiffs, really are the vital issues. "In the two opinions filed, I have stated the grounds on
which I have thought a receivership for the Long-Bell Lumber Company should be denied. In the preparation of those opinions I interpreted the cases as primarily seeking a receivership.
"Upon that was placed all the emphasis in the pleadings, briefs and oral arguments prior to the entry of the decree. But in the petitions for rehearing and in the written and oral arguments supporting them, the matter of receivership is subordinated and characterized as merely incidental to other relief now said to be what primarily is sought by the plaintiffs. "From this viewpoint I have gone through the testimony in these cases once more. I have carefully considered the enlarged argument of council and -additional authorities they have cited. But I have not been convinced that a re' hearing should be granted." MAKES AIRPLANE TRIP SOUTH FROM NORTHWEST
T. B. Lawrence, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, returned from Portland, Ore., on Sunday, April 30, by airplane following word that Mrs. Lawren,ce was seriously ill with pneumonia. He reached Los Angeles at 6:30 P. M. that evening. He was in Aberdeen, Wash., when informed of his wife's illness, and left for Portland by rail where he took a plane South. Mrs. Lawrence is now showing steady improvement. Mr. Lawrence was in the Northwest on a.business trip with A. W. Hart, of Los Angeles, who is associated with the Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co. and W. H. Wood, of the Hart-Wood Lumber Co., San Francisco. ROTARIANS HEAR ABOUT REDWOOD Max E. Cook, farmstead engineer, The Pacific Lumber Co., San Fran'cisco, recently spoke before the Rotary club of Cloverdale on the subject of f'Redwood and its Adaptation to the Needs of the Farmer."
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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT
May 15, 1933
Complete line and shirt-sleeve prices make today's 4-squane
merchandising program L series of practical, simple, direct operations designed to do just one thing-help get more business for 4-squenr Dealers
under today's conditions, by buitding a steady trade.
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4-squanr now qualifies for virtually *ny lumber sale. Every picce easier to usc. Trimmed to exact lengths. Square on the ends. Seasoned stock. Clean. Good looking. Dimension stock chamfered on edges. Upper grades packaged for protection. All grades trademarked. Every piece guaranteed.
That's 4-squann for L933-made and priced to create repeat business for the 4-squanr Dealer-a line that deserves and will get every ounce ofpromotion the dealer can give it for eaery sale from a 2-board jag to a $4o,0oo house. Qualified leading lumber retailers are invited to give this 4-squanr program critical inspection.
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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT
V.sabond Editoriafs Bv Jack Dionne "What should we do with confessed kidnapers?" is the headline of a newspaper editorial. That's simple. What should we do with mad dogs? The same answer, brother the same answer. And if we don't stamp -identically them out like we would mad dogs, we deserve kidnaping.
Trade Commission Act, and the Clayton Act, permit price Exing, wage regulation, production determination, etc., and the self-organization of industry through recognized and licensed trade associations. This would probably meet with the approval of the large majority of industry.
Business improves t t*r" *Jgi" *orA" thrill us a little more every day as we toil slowly back up the hill. Yesbusiness DOES improve. No doubt about it. But unfortunately the way UP the hill will be strewn with the wrecks of those who hadn't enough vitality and stamina left to make the climb.
The National Associati; ; J"""facturers representing 94 industries and 66,000 manufacturing plants met at Washington the other day to consider the various plans and measures affecting industry that are now being considered at Washington, various departments of the lumber industry being represented at the meeting, and they protested very vigorously against direct and detailed federal r said in this column ,i. lJ that all r wanted was a control of industry, but indorsed indirect control through chance to pay my debts with dollars about the same size some such means as a war industries board, taking the they were when I contracted the debts. I didn't want to shackles from the hands and feet of industry, and furnishpay 25 cent cotton price debts with 6 cent cotton price ing its first opportunity at self-regulation. ++{< dollars. And my friend, President Roosevelt, got on the Anv effort at Governmental control of industry that is radio the other night and declared that that is exactly what he is trying to bring about; the opportunity for people to of a bureaucratic nature, would be regrettable. Any plan pay off with dollars relatively the size they were when the that necessitates placing in the field a great army of federal agents for purposes of regulation and enforcement, debts accumulated. *** will be self-destroying. I believe President Roosevelt is Go to it, Mr. President ! This radio idea of yours is the wise enough in industrial and commercial lore to know smartest of all the smart things you've thought of. -You that the quickest, safest, and most satisfactory way tb accan do things that never would have been possible at any complish the purposes he has in view with regard to inprevious time in this nation's history, because after doing dustry, is to take the shackles from industry, and assist it them you can sit down and talk to all this nation as neigh- in practical fashion to help itself, without hampering it by bor to neighbor, and tell them just what it's all about. And any sort of bureaucratic compulsion. f believe he underGod pity the man that tries any monkey business to frus- stands that fact, and will develop it and place it in operatrate you. You could destroy him forever with one radio tion. blast.
The amazing silence ; sorrie of the biggest, silliest mouths in our Congress can be attributed-ln my opinion nothing less than fear of what might be said about -to them over the radio in these heart-to-heart, President-tocitizen talks. Which is just another thing we have to thank God for at this time. Is there some way we could make such silence permanent?
i"rla lorr"ia"r"a at washington various plans are ""* and the reduction of unemployindustry, for the relief of ment. One plan is to merge complete control of industry through a federal board similar to the war industries board of 1918. It would set aside the anti-trust laws, the Federal
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He said in his talk on May 7th: "The so-called anti-trust laws were intended to prevent the creation of rnonopolies and to forbid unreasonable profits to those monopolies. That purpose of the anti-trust laws must be continued, but these laws were never intended to encourage the kind of unfair competition that results in long hours, starvation wages, and overproduction." Right, Mr. President ! They never WERE so intended. But THAT has been their result from the day they were created. Cut-throat and destructive competition have been the unnatural children of the anti-trust laws almost from the beginning. The anti-trust laws for the past decade have been absolutely and utterly destructive to industry; labor has been crucified upon them; corunerce has been wrecked by them.
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May 15, 1933
For the most part we have tried to conduct civilized business under rules and regulations that were made for savages. And the result has been very, very bad.
agree to stop child labor, would agree to Prevent an overproduction that would result in unsalable surpluses. But what good is such an agreement if the other 10 per cent of cotton manufacturers pay starvation wages' require long
msn-lr'trq couldn't posDon't put an army of ;;ti sibly operate buliness as well as its owners can do, in charge of industry. There is no call for any such action. Just take the hand-cuffs and the shackles off of industry. Call upon industry to organize as it did in war time. Create a partnership between business and Government, and let them work together to solve these vital problems.
hours, employ children in their mills and turn out bur' densome surpluses? Here is where government comes in. Government ought to have the right and will have the right, after surveying and planning for an industry, to prevent, with the assistance of the overwhelming majority of that industry, unfair practice, and to enforce this agreement with the authority of government."
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That, I believe, is what President Roosevelt intends, for note another excerpt from his speech of May 7th: "It is wholty wrong to call the measures that we have taken government control of farming, control of industry, and control of transpo,rtation. It is rather a partnership between government and farming and industry and transportation, not partnership in profits, for the profits would still go to the citizens, but rather a partnership in planning and partnership to see that the p,lans are carried ouL" And he illustrates his point as follows: *d<*
"It is probably true that 90 per cent of the cotton goods manufacturers would agree to eliminate starvation wages' would agree to stop long hours of employment, would
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Henry Miller: "What is that lumber there ?"
Foreman: "That is an old box we
would strongly advise that you remodel your ideas on the subject, and say "Amen" also. For there is righteousness in it, and it will meet with the approval of the thinkers of the nation, and of the workers of the nation, and it will unquestionablyprevail. * * * And under such a partnership this lumber industry will get well. And who is there so intelligently optimistic as to say that it will ever get well without some such helpfulness? Personally, I feel that the most hopeful thing that has been said at Washington with regard to industry of late, is the suggestion of a governmental partnership such as Mr. Roosevelt suggests above, a lessening of unintelligent restrictions against industry, a sanctioning of such righteous working agreements between men in the same line of business as will enable them to operate their business at a profit, under reasonable and fair conditions to employees, and a removal of the fear of the anti-trust laws which at present forbids intelligent and proper cooperation between business men. These things we must
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had to take out because it was rotting."
Henry Miller: "Stop and let me see it." (After looking it over) "Just what I thought; they should use Redtttood under ground. It will last foreaer. Such stupidity costs me lots of money."
HENRY KNEW WHAT HE W^LS TALKING ABOUT!
Union Lumber Company Calif orn ia
lp:r,iot r stoutly shoutTo that splendidly ".nl""J"u AMEN ! And to any of you lumbermen who may have in your minds the thought of saying something other than "Amen" to that expressed opinion of our President, f
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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT
May 15, 1933
Bv Jack Dionne
Ag" not guaranteed---Some I have told lor 20 years---Soma less
Politicaf Propaganda . An Irish truck driver and his helper were making a delivery in New York City. He rounded a corner at a
indignantly demanded. "Didn't you see that sign back there at the corner?" "What sign?" asked the Irishman. "That sign that reads 'Men. at work'," said the signal
fast clip, and came within inches of running right into an excavation in the middle of the road, when a signal man with a flag shouted and waved at him just in time to prevent a catastrophe. "What the Hell is the matter with you?" the signal man
suppose I know Democratic propaganda when f see it?',
West Coast Stockholders Meet
Appointed Secretary of Inland
at Tacoma
Empire Institute
A meeting of the stockholders of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association rvas held at the Winthrop Hotel, Tacoma, Wash., on April 14. E. W. Demarest, president of the Association, presided at the meeting.
Paul M. Parsons has been appointed secretary of the retail lumber dealers' group, the Inland Empire Institute, with headquarters at San Bernardino, Calif. Mr. Parsons has been connected with the Institute for s.ome time, and succeeds W. S. Elton rvho rvas recently appointed sec-' retary of the Building Material Dealers' Club of Ventura
Among the important matters discussed by the officials were: the decision of the Stipreme Court of the United States on "Appalacl-rian Coals, Incorporated,,' dealing with cooperation rvithin an industry and the possibilities it opens for lumber manufactnrers; holv the industry can take advantage of the splendid showing made by lumber construction in the recent Southern California earthquake; the excise tax ancl the lumber tarifi; market prospects for 1933; lumber freight rates, and the proposed Federal 6hour law regarding the hours of employment in industry. A resolution was unanimonsly adoptecl expressing appreciation for the position taken by President Roosevelt in his message to Congress recommending legislation to protect the small-home owners of the country from mortgage foreclosrlres. The resolution follows : WHEREAS, The President of the United States yesterday addressed to Congress a message recommending legislation designed to protect the small-home owners of the country from "inequitable enforced liquidation, in a time of general distress," and WHEREAS, The lumber industry of the United States, one of the chief suppliers of the materials used in the building and repairing of American homes since Revolutionary times, has 'rvatched tvith grave concern the recent movement in mortgage liquidation of homes, and has seen. in the serious losses taken by families throughout the nation, a menace to future home orvnership and to familv stability; therefore be it
man,
"Don't be silly," replied Pat, disgustedly. .,Don't you
County.
Governor Signs Mortgage Moratorium Bill A moratorium on sales of property under mortgages and deeds of trust until January 1,1934, went into effect on May 9 r,vhen Governor Rolph signed a bill introduced by Assem-
blyman John T. Rawls of San Pedro. The moratorium applies only to cases where the default is on payment of principal orved under mortgages and deeds of trust on property improved with a single family dwelling. Interest and taxes must be paid during the moratorium period.
RESOLVED, That rve express to Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, our appreciation for the position he has taken regarding home mortgage protection, both urban and rural, as we judge the legislation so proposed to be in the best interests of both the home orvner and the mortgage holder in this situation, and be
it further
RESOLVED, That the secretary-manager of the association be directed to telegraph a copy of this resolution to the President of the United States, and that copies be sent to all Oregon and Washington representatives and Senators at Washington.
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May 15, 1933
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May 15, 1933
Vagabond Editorials Continued from Page 11) gether, plan, think, work,,dig out your own 6'alvation, and make such arrangements regarding production, prices, etc., as will enable you to employ as many people as possible
at fair wages for fair hours; and your freedom from restriction, and your partnership with government, will continue just so long as you live up to our conception of fair play for all concernsd"-1hsn business will get well very rapidly, men will go back to work by the hundreds of thousands, the buying power of the nation will swing back toward normalcy, and the sun will shine again. {<:F*
I am unalterably opposed to government in business; but I see no safe way out of the present dilemma excepting through some such partnership as Mr. Roosevelt suggests, whereby government will relieve buslness from onerous and oppressive regulations and restrictions, and GEORGE GRANT VISITS LOS ANGELES George Grant, San Francisco, sales manager of the Coos Bay Lumber C,o., spent a ferv days in Los Angeles the first of the month on company business. He u,as also a visitor at Wilmington and Long Beach.
in return business will meet government half way in its conceptions of the necessities of the situation with regard
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Prosperity will not return, can not return, until millions upon millions of men now unemployed go back to work at fair wages and under fair conditions. Employers cannot put men back on their payrolls until their business shows
the touch of returning health. And they can know no business health until a loosening of credit conditions develop, and until active cash be substituted in some fashion for frozen assets. These are the problems, arrayed in.a vicious and hard-to-break circle, which President Roosevelt is struggling with. How to break the circle is the big problem. He needs the understanding cooperation of every citizen in his herculean tasks. NORTHWEST LUMBERMAN VISITS SOUTHLAND Roy T. Sharp, manager of the Mountain Lumber Co., Tacoma, Wash., left for the Northwest on May 7 alter spending a week in Los Angeles. While in the Southland, he made his headquarters at the offices of the Tacoma Lurnber Sales Agen.cy where he conferred with Art Penberthv.
Wish lt Came Every We"k We are enclosing herewith a check covering a year's subscription to the Lumber Merchant. We cannot get along without the pep it gives and sometimes rvish it came every rveek. Carl D. Hagge, Superior Lumber & Fuel Co. Sacramento, California.
A Splendid Publication The Lumber Merchant is a splendid publication. Jack Dionne deserves a bigger niche in the Hall of Fame.
Luke E. Brooks, Brooks Lumber Co., Los Angeles, Calif.
Australia Buys Redwood The shipment of 5@,000 feet of Redwood to Australia by the Union Lumber Company is the first shipment to that country for some time. Australia r,vas formerly a large user of Redwood luml>er, and it is hoped this will be the forerunner of many other large shipments. The accompanying photograph, taken by a special Redwood Empire Association photographer, shorvs the lumber being loaded on the O. & O. freighter, Golden Harvest, at Noyo Harbor,
Aprl 27.
THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT
May 15, 1933
Retail Dealers of Los Angeles District Reorg anize The Lumber and Allied Products Institute of Los Angeles has reorganized and started operations on May 1. Offices of the Institute are in the Fay Building, Los Angeles.
The Board of Trustees includes the following: Hal Baly, Consolidated Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Frank Burnaby, Sun Lumber Companl', Beverly Hills; A. J. Castell, California Lumber Co., Montebello; Frank Curran, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Guy L. Cuzner, Kerchoff-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Co., Los Angeles; T. L. E,ly, San Pedro Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Frank Fox, Fox-Woodsum Lumber Co., Glendale; E. F. Ganahl, C. Ganahl Lumber Co., Los Angeles; George Lounsberry, Lounsberry & Harris, Los Angeles; H. W. Mcleod, llammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles; C. R. Melin, Orvens-Parks Lumber Cqmpany, Los Angeles; -Wayne F. Mullin, Mullin Lumber Co., Los Angeles; F. C. Osgood, Osgood Lumber Co., Bell, and Henry S. Patten, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., I-os Angeles. Henry S. Patten is chairman of the Board. The Institute membership includes the retail yards in Metropolitan Los Angeles. A new retail lumber list "V" has been issued and became efiective on May 1. A new departure from the old procedure in the terms of sales is the institution of a cash discount of 5 per cent on bills paid on or before the tenth of the month following delivery.
Payment-or Prevention of Losses ? Lumber Mutual policy-holders have always found satisfaction in fair adjustments and prompt payment of losses. With that security, we ofier expert fire prevention service. I7e know it means'better protection for your business, your employees and
The following lumber associations in Southern California are affiliated with the Lumber and Allied Products Institute: Pasadena Lumbermen's Club; San Gabriel Valley Lumbermen's Club; Bay District Lumbermen's Institute; San Fernando Valley Lumbermen's Club; Building Material Dealers' Club of Ventura County; Ontario-Upland Lumber Club; Northern San Diego County Lumbermen's Club; Building Material Dealers' Credit Club of Santa Barabara; Compton Lumber Club; Centinela Valley Lumber Club; South Bay Lumbermen's Club; Long Beach Lumbermen's Club; Inland Lumber Institute; Riverside County Lumbermen's Club; Orange County Lumbermen's Club; Antelope Valley Lumbermen's Club; Pomona Valley Lumbermen's Club, and the Building Service Bureau of El Centro.
Kenneth Smith is secretary-manager of the Institute. E. D. Tennant will continue with the Institute in the same capacity as in the last organization.
Former Naval Officer Talks To Service Clubs Ben C. Phillips, sales representative of the Nicolai Door Sales Co., San Francisco, is in demand as a speaker before various service clubs and other organizations in his territory. He has recently been talking to a number of clubs on the subject of "srveeping the North Sea Mine Barrage." He made this talk to the Lions Club, San Anselmo, ott April 4, at the request of Dolf Doherty of the Larkspur Lumber Co., Larkspur, and also spoke at the meeting of the Lions Club, Tracy, April 19, at the invitation of Roy Burnett of the Tracy Lumber Co. His next talk on this subject will be at the meeting of the High Trvelve Club, Stockton, on May 19, invited by Charlie Bird, of the Stockton Lumber Co. Mr. Phillips speaks with authority on this subject. He u'as lieutenant, senior grade, in the Navy during the World War, and immediately after the cessation of hostilities was in command of one of the Navy mine sweepers engaged in removing unexploded mines from the North Sea. He describes this hazardous work in his talk, which is of such an interesting nature that he has received many requests to speak at club meetings all over Northern California.
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AIN'T IT THE TRUTH ? Over the hill trailed a man behind a mule drawing a plow. Said the man to the mule: "Bill, you are a mule, the son of a jackass, and I am a man made in the image of God. Yet, here we work, hitched up together year in and year out. I often wonder if you work for me or if f work for you. Verily, I think it a partnership between a mule and a fool, for surely I work as hard as you, if not harder. Plowing or cultivating we cover the same distance,
but you do it on four legs and I on two. f, therefore, do twice as much work per leg as you do. "Soon, we'll be preparing for a corn crop. When the crop is harvested I give one-third to the landlord for being so kind as to let me use this small speck of God's universe. One-third goes to you and the balance is mine. You consume all of your portion with the exception of the cobs, while I divide rnine among seven children, six hens, two ducks and a banker. If we both need shoes, you get 'em. Bill, you are getting the best of me, and f ask you, is it fair for a mule, the son of a jackass, to swindle a man-
the Lord of Creation-out of his substance ? "Why, you only help to plow and cultivate the ground, and I alone must cut, shock and husk the corn while you look over the pasture fence and hee-haw at me.
"All Fall and most of the Winter the whole family, from Granny to the baby, picks cotton to help raise rnoney to pay taxes and buy a new harness and pay the interest on the mortgage on you. And what do you care about the mortgage? Not a damn, you ornery cuss! I even have to do the worrying about the mortgage on your tough ungrateful hide. "About the only time I am your better is on election day, for I can vote and you can't. And after election I realize that I was fully as great a jackass as your papa. Verily, I am prone to wonder if politics were made for men or jackasses, or to make jackasses of men. "And that ain't all, Bill. When you're dead that's supposed to be the end of you. But me? The parson tells me that when I die I gotta go to hell forever. That is, Bill, if I don't do just as he says, and most of what he says keeps me from getting any kick out of life.
"Tell me, Willyum, considering these things, how can you keep a straight face and look so dumb and sqlernnJ"Gyro Bulletin.
May 15, 1933
TIME, THOU GYPSY MAN Tirne, thou Gypsy man, Will you not stay? Put up your caravan, Just for one day. All things I'll give you Will you be my guest, Bells for your jennet,
Of silver the best, Goldsmiths shall beat you
A great golden ring, Peacocks shall bow to you, Little boys sing, Oh, and sweet girls will Festoon you with May, Time, you old Gyp"y,
Why hasten away? Last week in Babylon, Last night in Rome, Morning, and in the crush Under Paul's dome: Under Paul's dial You tighten your rein-
Only a moment, And off once again; Off to some city Now blind in the womb. Off to another 'Ere that's in the tomb. Time, you old Gypsy man, Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day.
-By
Ralph Hodgson.
A CHANGED CONDITION Q3st115-"[h's sure advanced in de las' couple yeahs." Sambone-"Ifow come?" Rastus-"Well, two yeahs ago Ah wuz jes' a no-count lazy bum; now Ah's de misfortunate victim of de unemployment sitcheeyashun."
May 15, 1933
THE CALIFORNTA LUMBER MERCHANT
Bob Osgood Handling Sales For Cadwallader-Gibson
Will Operate Mill ln Fresno
R. S. (Bob) Osgood is back in Los Angeles and is now sales manager for the Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Inc. He represented the Wheeler-Osgood interests in Southern California for a long period, but for the past two years he was connected with the Washington Veneer Co., of Olympia, Wash., with headquarters in Chicago and New York. The Cadwallader-Gibson Co.. Inc.. manufacturers and distributors of Philippine mahogany, report that they have completed their new sawmill at Butauanan in the Philippine Islands and are now ready to operate. The new mill has a .capacity of one and one half million feet per month and on short notice can be increased to three times this capa'city. Thqy have abandoned their old sawmill at Sitaco. Roy Barto, president of the company, who has been in the Philippine Islands since the latter part of February inspecting their new mill and lumber operations there, is expected to return to Los Angeles about the middle of the month. The Pacific Coast headquarters of the company are at 3628 Mines Ave., Los Angeles, Calif.
R. H. Byles and H. B. Jamison are starting a sawmill and logging operation in Fresno,county, which will operate under the name of the Byles and Jamison Lumber Co. Mr. Byles, who was general manag'er of the Sugar Pine Lumber Co., at Pinedale, Calif., announced his resignation effective May 1, however, he will ,continue to look after su,ch business operations the ,company may have for an indefinite time. Mr. Jamison was formerly sales manager of the Sugar Pine Lumber Co. ' The sawmill will be located in the Shaver Lake district, and will supply lumber for a box factory at Fresno which will be operated by the General Box Distributors. The lumber will be transported from the mill to Fresno by truck. Roy Stanley will be the Fresno manager of the General Box Distributors.
Mel Coe Secretary of Compton
County
Fir Exporters Elect Officers
Mel Coe has been appointed secretary of the Compton Group of retail lumber dealers who recently organized. Mel has been ,connected with the lumber business in the Los
E. G. Griggs, St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co., Tacoma, was elected president of the Douglas Fir Exploitation & Export Co., at a meeting of the stockholders recently held at Seattle. J. H. Bloedel, Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Mills, Seattle; Wm. Donovan, Donovan Lumber Co., Aberdeen, and M. C. Woodard. Silver Falls Timber Co., Silverton,
Compton.
Other ofificers elected included: W. A. Whitman, West Waterway Lumber Co., Seattle, treasurer; L. E. Force, general manager, and W. P. Morgan, secretary.
Lumber Group Angeles district for many years, both in the retail and wholesale ends of the business. For the past several years he has been operating the Mel Coe Lumber Co. yard at
Ore., were elected vice presidents.'
ttCullud Fun IT With its wealth of real negro humor, goes - on and on
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May 15, lp33
California Building Permits for April CityLos Angeles . . .. Long Beach
April,
April,
1933
t932
City-
.. .. .$ 1,189,926
$ 1,531,914
1,o73,ffis
2lg,g30
San F'rancisco . .
538,1 12
l,04I,x)6
Beverly Hills . San Diego
286,310
r01,235
Hermosa Beach
194,622
l38,l7l
242,351 122,026
Redlands Los Gatos
t27,729
t94,986
Torrance
*Hollywood Oakland
Sierra Madre Santa Paula .. . . Gardena
April,
April,
1933
1932
7,994 7,793 7,4L8 6,900 6,755 6,500 6,395 6,395 6,335 6,300 5,940
4,49L 9,213
Sacramento
79,037
l,or7,7g7
Santa Monica ..
75]95
82,555
Compton
67,35V
11,004
Glendale Santa Ana
67,060
91,320
San Jose
65,688 65,675
39,469 23,245
Fresno
61,058
49,0gg
Huntington Park
52,518
13,725 10,565
*Van Nuys
Pasadena
49,7ffi 46,94t
lLr,427
Oroville Laguna Beach San Gabriel .... San Bernardino . Modesto Monrovia Seal Beach Arcadia Culver City . Watsonville
42,886
14,963
Corona
Berkeley Alameda
42,794
60,930 29,408 26,300
Monterey Visalia
4,975 4,165 4,053 3,975
Pomona Salinas
3,415 3,395
Monterey Park .
3,350 3,000 2,870 2,865
*Wilmington ....
Palo Alto Inglewood Alhambra *San Pedro San Marino South Gate . Banning Whittier
,CI,198
40,100
36,sffi
37,5n 35,430
34,N2
25,275 43,725 44,119
Ventura Hawthorne Hayward Fullerton Azusa
28,X)3 23,164
82,783 13,745 6,000
2r,482
3,O87
Santa Rosa Redwood City . Santa Barbara .. Burbank
21,432
4,54O
n,6x)
21,080
20,54A
19,7n
San Rafael Bakersfield Huntington Beach
17,707
254
Newport Beach
17,665 16,999 16,170
64,440 176,129
16,110 12,500 15,166 15,110
20,r91 13,450 3,850
*Harbor City . Lindsay Porterville Albany
46,680
Orange
14,785
21 )?O
13,600 12,972 12,327 11,690
4,350 37,445
10,753 8,985 8,360 8,100
9,473 1,450
Ontario La Verne Covina Emeryville Pacific Grove Palos Verdes ... Exeter Brawley
21,4ffi
Glendora
Stockton
Lynwood Santa Maria .... Petaluma Redondo Beach San Mateo Riverside Claremont Anaheim Santa Cruz Eureka South Pasadena Montebello Burlingame Manhattan Beach
1,996
1,750
8,735 t2,750
Piedmont
1,390
18,185
20,m
t7,754
24,820
Upland Tulare
1,1 10
13,300
33,472
3,906 780
Oceanside
19,435
5,870 4,450
2,lw
r,490
l,2N .. . ...
ro,l25
rz;wr
l,7lo
El Centro
935 3T,785
5,370
El Segundo El Monte
Calexico
435
3,750
5,679 5,130 5,080 5,077
Colton
.2,195
37,sffi 6,28r
l,Ogg 1,000
845 850 675
7,5r5 23,970 20,575 10,600
3,26 L,7t0 36,301
85,465 7,575 1,000
9,497 6,100 27,500 IO,255 325 s85
300 9,100 250 1,295 72,8L2 3,080_
27,990 600 1,570
650
T,647
615 600
7,496 890
49{)
350 325
8,900 3,000 1,485
280
2,350
270
1,680
250 l,+0 100 100
3,?4 2,5N
May 15, 1933
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May 15, 1933
Home Loan Banks Swing Into Action i
; Washington, April 27.-The Federal Home Loan Bahk system is now functioning actively, and it believes that the reported reduction in the rate of residential mortgage foreclosures is partly due to that fact. The Home Loan Banks have now granted applications for about $50,000,000 worth of loans to member institutions and about half that amount has been paid out. It is expected that applications will soon be going,through at the rate of around $20,000,000 a month. The principal reasons given for the long time in which it hi3 taken the Homi: Lban Banks to become an important factor in the loan situation is that thirty states had to pass
ble for any member institution of the Federal Home Loan Bank to convert itself into a Federal Savings and Loan Association. The Home Loan Board is provided with a fund of $250,000 to be used as a prom,otion fund in organizing and developing the new loan associations. An important feature of the proposed act is the repeal of the provision of the original a,ct whi,ch provided for direct loans by the banks to individual home owners. This has been found to be so inconsistent with the ideas of a central bank that it is utterly unworkable It is the view of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association that the adoption of the amendment to the Home Loan act will vastly extend the field and size of the operations of the system and enable it rapidly to approximate the hopes that have been entertained for, it as a tremendous agency in dealing with the home loari mortgage
qualifying acts and every single application for membership required a careful auditing of the affairs of the applicant. There are now approximately a thousand member institutions and thus the frame work has been provided for a rvide distribution of loans. :r:ff The importance of the Home Loan Bank system will be The plan for the creation of new building and loan assogreatly enhan,ced by the adoption of the amendment to the ciations is vital interest of lumber to distributors, because Ifome Loan Bank act now pending in Congress. The prinof their possibilities ih financing new iogstru,ction and it is cipal feature of this measure is the creation of an emergency pointed out that by promoting the formation of su,ch assoloan corporation to be known as the Home Owners' Loan ciations in their communities dealers will be performing an Corporation which is placed under the direction i-nd;E;ftaimportant public service while serving their own practical tion of the Home Loan Board. This corporation rn'.ff{illht'e interests. a'capital of as much as $20O,00O,00O, the stock belng bubscribed for by the Treasury Department, the funds being provided by special authorization to !he. Re'construction Finance Corporation. The ne-w corporatioir is authorized to Secretary issue bonds to the extent of $2,000,000,000, which will put it in a commanding position directly to refinan,ce residential San Fernando Club mortgages through negotiations with mortgagors and mortP. T. Burns has been appointed secretary of the San Fer'$agees when requested. The refinancing is to be in the nando Valley Lirmbermen's Club and took over his new ,corporation bonds for existing mort{orm of exchange of work May 1. Mr. Burns was manager of the Kern on fages and in connection with such exchanges incidentally to County Lumber Co. at Bakersfield, Calif., since 1920, and finance advances in'cash to meet taxes or assessments and prior to that served as secretary of the Stockton retail lumprovide for necessary repairs. It is provided that the face ber group. The San Fernando Club's headquarters are in 'value of the bonds so exchanged plus cash advances shall the Provident Building-Loan Bldg., 6410 Van Nuys Blvd., hot exceed B0 percent of the value of the property involved. Van Nuys, Calif. The corporation further has authority to make loans in cash 4o meet taxes, ass'essments and repairs even though the property is not already encumbered, each such loan being lsecured by a direct mortgage. Financing New Associations , The monthly golf tournament of the Orange County Lumbermen's CIub will be held at the Hacienda Country The Home Loan Board attaches great importance to the Club, Whittier, Wednesday afternoon, May 17, 1933. All novel provision whereby the Home Owners Loan Corporalumbermen are invited to attend. Lunch will be served at "tion is authorized to create Federal Savings and Loan Assothe House. These Club monthly tournaments are popular tiations in communities not already sufificiently served by with lumber the fraternity and a good turnout is expected. Iocal thrift and home .financing institutions. Such associations will automatically become members of the Federal WILL MOVE TO NEW LOCATION Ifome Loan Bank'of the distri,cts in which they are located, or of adjacent districts if that should be more con- The Sterling Lumber Co. yard at Roseville, Calif., will venient. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to move from their present site on Lincoln St. to their new subscribe for as much as $100,000 of the stock of each of location on Vernon St. They have already started to such associations and $100,000,000 is appropriated for that build their new sheds and offi,ce and when completed will purpose. This government investment is to be gradually have a modern plant. At their new yard, they plan to carry retired in favor of private investors. It is Ilso made possi- all their lumber stocks under shed.
P. T. Burns Appointsd of Valley
Will Play Golf May'17
May 15, 1933
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Fred Roth and Paul Maier Opcn Retail Yard
Celotex Selling Points Fred Roth and Paul Maier have organized the RothThird thut interest FARMERS Maier Lumber Company and have a yard at 280O
Street. San Fran,cis,co, on the site of the old G. R. Nelson Lumber Co., where they will carry on a retail lumber business. Both are well knorvn to the lumber trade in San Francisco. Mr. Roth has been connected with the retail lumber business in San Francis,co for many yearsr and Mr' Maier has also been associated rvith the contracting and retail lumber business there. In addition to a complete stock of lumber, they rvill carry a full line of building material s.
1932 Lumber Output Washington, May 4.-Lumber production in 1932 was approximately 9,500,000,000 feet as indicated by preliminary report of identical mills just released by the U. S. Census -Bureau. This compares with 36,886,032,000 f.eet in 1929. The reports of 508 identical large mills, representing in l93l 52.2 per ,cent of the lumber production of the country, show produ,ction in 1932 41.4 per cent below that of 1931' Production in 1931 was t6,522,643 M feet, as reported by the Census Bureau. The percentage of decrease 'in 1932 gives production of 9,682,000,000 feet but the Census Bureau calls attention to the fact that it is likely the per cent of decrease in the total production of the country was somewhat larger than shown by the identical mills covered by this report, since probably a larger proportion of the small mills than of the large ones were idle in 1932, also it is probable that their cut declined more.
The National Lumber Manufacturers Association at the beginning of the year forecast this production figure of.9l billion feet, based upon its Barometer reports. These reports for 7932 and 1931 showed decline of 41.3 per cent, within a tenth of one per cent of the Census report. According to the Census figures, the Lake States suffered ,comparatively greater decline in 1932 as compared with a 1931 than did any other section of the country, or 65 per cent. The great lumber-producing statei of Washington and Oregon recorded a decline of 43.6 per cent; the South of 38.6 per cent. Mills in these two se'ctions represented 62 per ,cent of the total number reporting and their cut was 70 per cent of that shown lor 1932. In the two year comparison, the North Carolina Pine region showed decline of 19.5 per cent; California of 28 per cent and the States of Idaho and Montana, 49.5 per'cent' Total produ'ction reported by the 508 mills in L932 was 5,05L,944 M feet; in 1931, 8,621,243 M feet. The Census was prompt in issuing these figures, their last reports being received only two days before the report was sent out. If the lumber schedules were returned to the Bureau more promptly by the mills, these important figures would be available much earlier in the year.
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pieces oi lumber ond some wire mesh. See the Celotet Ranie Shelier Plan in "Poultry House Construction uith
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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT
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May 15, 1933
S. S. Skidmore, Pioneer Lumberman of Southern California, Succumbs Prominent Figure in the Retail Lumber Business for Over Fifty Years Stephen Schuyler Skidmore, pioneer retail lumberman, clied at his home in Downey, Tuesday evening, May 9. He
had been a resident of California for over sixty years. ancl was connected with the retail lumber business in Southern California for over fifty years. He rvas 78 years of age.
Mr. Skidmore was born October 25, 1855, in Cass Coun-
California and Mexico, and a ferv miles east of the sea-
shore, the ranch property still stands where the Skidmore family made their first California home. Seeking to rest up their stock after the hard and tedious trip across the plains, the family moved up into the Cuyamaca Valley where they did their part towards carving history in this pioneer state. Shortly after locating in the Cuyamaca Val-
ley, his father discovered a piece of float quartz which proved to be literally veined with virgin gold, and after considerable exploitation the mother lode was found and named the Stonewall Jackson Mine which later proved to be one of the famous mines of the West. Disposing of their interests, the family came to Los Angeles in 1871 and located in the Los Nietos Valley rvhere they made their home in the communit;r of Downey. Mr. Skidmore followed farming for a time, and later taking a position with the Southern Pacific Railway Company, he was transferred to Casa Grand e, Arizona. It was during that time, 1873, that the town of Downey was subdivided by Governor Downey. Downey was then the terminus of the Southern Pacifi,c railroad.
Mr. Skidmore married Miss Eliza Pautrsell in 1882. She crossed the plains with her parents in the early 7O's from Missouri, locating in Booneville, Mendocino County, Cali; fornia. Later they came south settling in the Los Nietos Valley. They have one son, Grey M. Skidmore, who has been associated with his father in the lumber business at Downey.
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ty, Texas, his father and mother having settled in Texas in the early pioneer days of 1836. In 1857, the family moved to McKinney, Collins County, Texas, and his early school days lvere spent there. Near the close of the Civil War, 1865, the family moved to Waco, Texas. On May 6, 1869, a well equipped wagon train, which was organized by his father left Waco for California. Mr. Skidmore, then a boy of 14 years, drove a team of six and eight mules, often doing scout duty for Indians, and enduring the hardships encountered in crossing the plains eminently fitting him to build a pioneer west. The wagon train after crossing West Texas, Arizona, then the Colorado River, landed in San Diego, August 23,7869. Bordering the line between
In 1881, Mr. Skidmore became associated with the J. M. Griffith Lumber Co. of Los Angeles. The company was organized as the Griffith-Lynch Lumber Co. but later Mr. Griffith took over the Lynch interests and in 1881 Mr. Skidmore was appointed manager of the company's yard at Downey. Since that time the J. M. Griffith Company sold out to the Griffith Lumber Company, and in l92I the yard at Downey was taken over by Mr. Skidmore and the late Mr. A. C. Bowers, under the firm name of Skidmore & Bowers Lumber Co., the name under which the yard now operates.
Mr. Skidmore is survived by his widow, Mrs. Eliza Skidmore, and one son, Grey M. Skidmore. Funeral services were held at 2:A0 P. M., Friday, May 12, at Downey and a large delegation of Southern California lumbermen were
in attendance.
THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT
May 15, 1933
Manulacturers Express Optimism Act \(/ould Prohlbit Destructive Jas. E. "Jimmy" Atkinson, district sales manager, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Fran'cisco, returned May 8
from a l2-day business trip to the Northwest oh which he visited the company's mills at St. Helens, Port Ludlow and ?ort Gamble, the Seattle and Portland offices' and the mill of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co., Tacoma. Mr. Atkinson was impressed with the optimism expressed by all the millmen he met. Without exception they reported having order files that will take care of output for the next 45 days, and that stocks are generally badly broken, many items being depleted. Price advances are expected in the near future, he said. While in Tacoma he attended the weekly meeting of the Tacoma Lumbermen's Club as the guest of A. H. Landram, sales manager, St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co., and there also noted the opinion expressed by a number of lumbermen that the industry is on the. upgrade once again.
Appointed Secretary of Ventura ?^ Lounty LrrouP W. S. Elton has been appointed secretary of the Building Material Dealers' Club of Ventura County. Mr. Elton has been connected with association work in Southern California for a long period, and prior to his taking over his 'new position was secretary of the Inland Empire Institute at San Bernardino, Calif. The Ventura Club have their headquarters at Ventura, Calif.
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Competition An act regulating competition in business, providing for the organization of trade associations as defined in the act, authorizing the Corporation Commissioner of the State of California to issue permits for the operation thereof, and defining and prohibiting destructive competition has been introduced in the State legislature by Representative Boyle. The bill is designated A. B. 2400. The proposed bill is attracting the attention of many members of the lumber industry in the state. L. G. Sterett, secretary of the Millwork Institute of California, who is taking an active interest in the proposed bill, in expressing his views on the matter says: "I have discussed this proposed legislation with a number of my principals and they all feel that our industry should get behind this bill and insist upon its enactment. The import of this whole movement, even now national in scope, is that the constructive efforts of our trade associations are at last being legally recognized as being in the interest of the public welfare as well as in the interest of our industry. When our industry is unable to enforce, apparently, universally practiced methods of fair competition, the public in the end is the one who suffers with our industry."
A. C. Horner Opens Office
A, C. Horner, consulting engineer, of San Francisco, who is devoting only part of his time to the work of representing the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, since their San Francisco ofEce was closed April 1, has opened an office at 901 Financial Center Building, San Francisco. Mr. Horner is occupying the other portion of his time as consulting engineer for various grouPs of building material manufa,cturers, and is carrying on for them much the same kind of work he has done for the National in the last five years. Eventually he expects to devote his full time to consulting engineering work, including standardization of building materials, decay and termite investigation, and representation of various groups in connection with legislative restrictions of building materials. Due to his close association with lumber and wood products, Mr. Horner expects to be active prin'cipally in that field, and since the closing of the offices of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association he has been in Long Beach and Los Angeles almost constantly, keeping in touch with the numerous developments and proposed building code changes brought about as a result of the recent earthquake.
JOINS WHOLESALE ASSOCTATION W. E. Gilbert, l,106 1lth Street, Sacramento, has become a member of the California Wholesale Lumber Association.
CLYDE OSBORNE VISITS S. F. Clyde Osborne, manaS'er of the creosoting department, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., Portland, was a recent visitor to the home office in San Francisco.
THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT
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May 15, 1933
ADVERTISING
Rate---$2.50 Pet Column Inch. WANTED_A BOOKKEEPER Wanted: A young man bookkeeper with experience as office salesman or manager. Will sell an interest in the business to the right man. Address Box C-476, California Lumber Merchant.
LUMBER INSPECTOR Wants position. Experienced in Oregon and Washington lumber products. Qualifications the best and will go any place. Will appreciate an interview. Frank Jones, lrlo7 Oxley Street, Pasadena, Calif. Phone SYcamore 1206.
Lumber Exports Largest Sinc e1931 Washington, April 28.-Preliminary reports of United
States exports of softwood lumber and sawn timber during March. 1933. show for that month tl-re heaviest volume of any month in 1933 or 1932. These exports, according to U. S. Department of Commerce reports, totalled nearly 92,000,000 feet of which somewhat over 49,000.000 were shipped to the Orient and Near East, nearly 21,000,000 to Europe and 10,700,000 to Central America, Mexico and the West Indies. March was the highest month in the last 15 for exports to the Orient and near East, and to the Central American
group, and the highest to Australasia except May, 1932. The greatest de'clines, as compared with recent months, rvere in exports to Canada and to South America, which were reported as 446,000 and 4,754,Offi feet respectively in March. Because of the low record of February, the first quarter
of 1933 does not 'compare so favorably rvith last year as does Mar'ch, although the softwood total of the quarter of more than 225,M,m feet was only 2 per cent below the
first quarter of 1932. Hardwood lumber exports during the first three months of 1933 totalled more than 51,000,000 feet, according to these preliminary reports. This was 16 per cent under the volume of the first quarter of 1932 and below the second and fourth quarters. Lumber imports during March, 1933, while heavier in volume than in February or January were under most months of. 1932. In March they totalled somewhat over 10,500,000 feet-and all from Canada, predominantly pine and spruce. Lumber imports totalled approximately 27,000,000 feet during the first quarter of 1933 as compared with 107,945,000 during the first quarter ol 1932 and 59,868,000 feet during the last quarter. Of the imports of the first three months of 1933, less than 2,000,000 were hardwoods and of the softwoods, nearly all were from Canada. No imports came frorh Russia during the first quarter.
FOR S^A,LE Lumber yard in Southern California for sale. Old established yard. Stock about $10,000.00. Mill equipment; Trucks; Office Furniture and Fixtures, $2,000.00. Real esrate and sheds can be leased reasonablv. Address Box C-477, California Lumber Merchani.
All-Lumber House for Chicago Exposition Chicago, Ill., April 2S.-Lumber will have first class visualized representation at the Century-of-Progress exposition of its merits as a residence building material. The charming bungalow that is to carry lumber's colors at the exposition will be representative not only of lumber as a commodity in its various species and products, bFt as an industrial group. The cost of the house has been defrayed very largely by small contributions, mostly single dollar gifts from men, companies and groups in all departments of the industry.
Wilson Compton, President of American Forest Products Industries, and Manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, after conferring with the Executive Committee of the American Forest Products Industries here this week, made the definite announcement that ccinstruction will begin immediately. The architect's plans have been completed and approved, the money is on hand and materials and equipment, which have been given in lieu of money subscriptions,. are ready. The house is to be located on a favorable site overlooking Lake Michigan. The lumber house is a one-story, five-room modern home in every respect. In design it is a charming com-modernbetween the advanced modern promise and the older American tradition of what a lumber built house should be. Lumber. House from Lumber Dollars
To illustrate the representative nature of the cash subscriptions, it is worth mentioning that the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen of the West Coast, with head: quarters at Portland, Oregon, contributed $5 subscribed in the form of 5 ,cents each from 100 members out of work. Most of the subscriptions were for $1, but some firms gave up to $50 apiece, and one donation was for $1m0. Some lumber companies made subscriptions on the basis of $1 collected from each employe and officer. All branches of the lumber industry-manufacturing, wholesale, retail, individuals, companies and groups were represented. All contributions, whether collective or not, represented individual gifts, so that the thousand nomirial contributors represent really many thousands.
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