The California Lumber Merchant - June 1927

I)evoted to the welfare ol all branches of the Lurnber Industry..tr11tt, Yard and Individuat. vol-. 5. NO. 23

Index to Advertisements, Page 3

JUNE r, 1927

We also publish at Houston, Texas, The Gulf Coast Lumberman, America's foremost retail lumber journal, which covers the entire Southwest and Middlewest like the sunshine covers California.

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you have created for hirn a piece of work that will fulfill ALL the requirements for which it was created.

Swimming pools and reservoirs properly built of Plas, titeWater,tight Cement cannot leak. They will demon, strate their superiority year after year in their freedom from costly repair bills, and inconveniences which result when an unsuitable material is used.

Plastite waterproofed plastic cement is the best material known for swimming pools, reservoirs, basernents, and all other construction where

strength and permanent

Plastite is manufactured by the Riverside Portland.

Cement Co., 724 South Spring Street, LosAngeles, Cali, fornia. This company also manufactures "Riversidett and "Bear" Portland Cement, and t'Riverside Oil Well Cement.tt

resistance to water penetra-

tion are important consider, ations.

Write for detailed plans and specifications for swilnming pools and reserq,)oirs.

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

Quolity Lurnber

Since 1895 .

Csurteous ond Etficient Sewice

Suggest to Horne Builders

Brown's SUPERCEDAR Closet Lining Unsurpqssed for Moth Destroying Properties Ea VERY home should have at least one closet lined with genuine Tennessee Red Cedar L) tongued and grooved and matched . easy to install. A profitable line for the lumber dealer. Packed in dust-proof, damp-proof cartons.

With warm weather coming! on see us for Spring BoardsJ

t. J. Stanton & Son Southern Calif ornia Distributors

vholesale Dealerc 2o5o E.38th St.

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Panels and veneers.

Los Angeles

AXridge 9211

OUR ADVERTISERS * AdvertiscEnent aplrears in alternate issues'

Adams Lu,nrber Co. ...

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.. ... . .. . 39 Albion Lunrber Co. . ..

Archer Blower & Pipe Co. ............ 46 Arkansas Oak Floo'ring Co. .. ..... .... 43 Associate Lumber Mutuals

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.........61 ...... '. 61 Beebe, W. M. ...

Blinn, L. W., Lumber Co. ............. 44 :r' Bookstaver-Burns Lumber Co. . .. ..

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Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. . ... .. .. 26 Brown, Geo. C. & Co. . ........ 59 Built-In Fixture Co.....

Buttress Mfg. Co. .. '.. 23 Cadwallader-Gibson Co. .. .

California Panel Veneer Co. ........'..27 Baxter, J. H. .

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California Redwood Association Central Coke and Coal Co. Chamberlin & Co., W. R.

Cooper Lumber Co., W. E. ....

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.... -. 18 . '... 43 Creo-Dipt Co. ... t Crow's Lrmrber Index . .... .. . 46 Defiance Lulnber Co. .. . . . .'.. . 56 Dodge Co., E. J. .

Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co. . . ... .. . . 30* Eagle Lumber Co. . ..... 48 FoJter Bros., Inc. ..

Fruit Growers Supply Co. . .. . ... . . . . .., 56 5 Gaynor Masters Lumber Co. . .

Geilinger-Stevens Engrn. Co. ......... 35 Gritzmlcher & Gunton * Hall, James L. . .. .

Coos Bay Lurnber Co. ...

Coos Veneer & Box Co. ...

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. ..... . 25 ...... 41 Pacific Lumber Co., The Parsons, N. H. . ......... 54 ..........24 Hart-Wood Lumber Co. ... ...... 14 Pickering Lumber Co. .. . . ...I.B.C. Higgins, J. E., Lumber Co. ... . ....... f8 Pioneer Paper Co ....32-33 Hillyer-Deutsch-Eilwards Co ... ....... 2l Plaza Hotel, The .. ..... 55 Hipolito Co. ... ......O.B.C. Red River Lumber Co. . . . . ....., 9 :r' Riverside Portland Cement ..:,.....I.F.C. Hobbs-Wall&Co..

Holmes-Eureka Lumber Co. .......... 31 Robbins Flooring Co. ... ....... 39 Hooper, S. C,, Lumber Co. . .... 45 Santa Fe Lumber Co. ... .......17 Schumacher WalI Board Corp. .. ....O.F.C. Hoover, A. L. . . .... . .... 6l Industrial Service Co., The ..... 59 Simonds Saw & Knife Agency .. ...... 38 .. .. 40 Johnson, C. D,, Lumber Co. ... ...... .. 13 Slade, S. E., Lumber Co. ...

3 Johnson, John, Flooring Co. ... ,......, 12 Stanton & Son, E. J. .

Kneeland, Mclurg Lumber Co... ..... . 't Strable Hardwood Co. ... ......51 Koehl & Soq Jno. W. ... ...... 29 Sudden & Christenson .... ..... 57 Laughlin, C. J. ....... . 45 Truck Tire Service Co. . . . . ..... 37 Little River Redwood Co., The ......... 53 Union Lumber Co. . ... *. 20 * Upson Co. Long-Bell Lumber Co. . ..

Louisville Veneer Mills .. ...... 47 Weaver-Henry Mfg. Co. . . . ..... ltt L. A. Paper Mfg. Co. .... 15 Wendling-Nathan Co. ... ..... . . 26 Lumbermens Reciprocal Assn. ........, 4l Wes-Co Blower & Pipe Co. .... ........ 36 Madera Sugar Pine Co. . . . ..... 50 West Coast Lbr. Trade Ext, Bureau. . .. * McKay.& Co. ..... . .... 54 Western Hardwood Lutnber Co. ........ 8.

Mitchell-Whitside Lumber Co. .. .. ..... * Western Sash & Door Co. ..... 50 Monolith Portland Cement Co. ......... 16 Western Wood Preserving Co ........ 3E * West Oregon Lbr. Co. Moore Dry Kiln Co. ... \llleyerhaeuser Sbles Co, .. .

McCloud River Lumber Co. .. . ......r11 Memphis Hardwood Flooring Co. ..... 30 Wheeler-Osgood Co. ...

Morrill & Sturgeon Lumber Co. ... . .. . . * White Bros. .,.... 28 * Wilkinson, W. W. McCornrick, Chas, R., Lbr. Co. 7 National Hardwood Co. .. . ... .. 55 Willapa Lumber Co. ... .....,.... 52 Williams & Cooper National Mill & Lbr. Co. . . . .. .. l0 ..... 5l * Wood Lumber Co., E. K. .

National Paper Products Co. ...... 20 * Nichols & Cox Lumber Co. . . . ........ 52 Zellerbach Paper Co.

Hamrnond Lumber Co. ...

Hanify Co., J. R. ....

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

J. E" MARTIN

Advordalng Muagcr

THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

w(x)Ds, w.SuH.Franclco Ofrlo

JackDionne,fuibl;stw Impmted u&r

Manag:lng Editc

A.M.THACKABERRY Clrcul,ado Muegpr

A. C. MERRYMAN Mgr.

W. T. BLACK

Mrr. Pctland Offlcc

thc bvt of Cellfcnh J. C. Dlonnc, Prg!, and Trus; J. E. Mudtr, Vle-Prcr.; A- C. Merrlrnan, Jr., Sccy.

Publfuhad thc lat ud lsth of cach nmth et 3lt-le-20 CENTRAL BUILDING, LOS ANGELES. CAI-. TELEPHONE VAndtke 4Ee5 Ent!rud u Sccond-clas'nattcr Septanbcr'E, lr?2, at tte pctbifie et Lo: Angcl*, Cdlfmi$ udcr Act of Mirch I ftt

Subrcription Pricc, 92.110 pcr Ycrr Single Copicr, 25 ccotr cch.

LOS ANGELES, CAL., JUNE t, 1927

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Talephoe Dannpct tllTt

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2nd Nrdod BaDk Blds.

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Northrertcta O6cc

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Advcrtidng Retcr

on Applicrtior

Hardwood Situation Dominates Lumber Market Naturally, the high light of the lumber market right now ir the hardwood situation Since our }ast mar,ket report was written, fully fifty ed' ditiond hardwood millr have been taken over by the foods in Louiriana and Arkansas, and with new outbrealc still occurring dong the lower parts of the Missisrippi and its tributaries, the curtailme'nt of hardwood production and rhipment is far greater than when last reported. The Hardwood Inrtitute of Memphis reports that the curtailment among their member mills is over eight million feet a day, and of courEe there are many mills in the fooded area not included in thiE membership.

However, the production of hardwood in Texas, Louisiama, and Arkansas has advanced slishtly from its lowest level, due to the fact that many hardwood mills outside the Mississippi foods, that were closed for some time by local foods and heavy rains, are operating full time again.

Western Louisiana and East Texas mills are now rmaffected by water, and are manufacturing to t'heir highest capacity.

There have been continued advances in the hardwood price rituation. It is consenatively estimated that the price has advanced on all oak and gum an average of $12 to $15 a thousand rince the flood started.

It would be fooligh to attempt to predict anything about the hardwood market. No one can possibly lsrow anything except that Southern hardwoodc are going to bc very scarce for the rest of tte year. Naturally, competitive woods are looking up. Foreign hardwoods will come in rtro,nger than ever before, and there is already much sign of activity along that line.

In the general Fir market, reportr from the Northwert are more optimistic than they have been in many months. Crrtailment has had an excellent effect, and it looks as though when the sununer really opens up, and the terrific stor.lns and heavy rains that have been sweeping the cormtry ce.Ee, building should spring up apace.

The Lumber Merchant is much more strongly convinced today than two weeks.ago, that there is going to be a s8ong

national lumber market by midsummen Soutfiern Pine ir

showing continued etrength. The Redwood market ir fine1 and apparently getting better. The big food in the Miricsippi Valley will help Redwood. It has curtailed Cypresr production" and created a demand for building materiats in a territory where Cyprec is much ured.

California doet not refect the improved lumber rituatioa elsewhere. The market is weak and waveri-g, and there ir muc!. kicking to be heard on all sides, in all departmentc of the lurnber busineas.

About tte same condition pertains in all parts of the state. The physical conditions in the northwest, and the improved prospect and feeling up there is not refected in California, and will not be until they quit fooding the stbte with surplus stock, t[us making it impossible to itrengthen the price dovm here. The general feeling in Cdifornia is pessimistic. They are selling various items of Fir in Califorrria f"r !"q m{oney than it can possibly be bought at the mills and shippld dgwn here for. It's tte same old trouble, of course, overloading California. They think when tti lumber ia loaded on a boat consigned to Catifomia that it is so{, but it isn't sold until it has been once sold to a dealer, and then to a consurner.

There is an accrrnulation of stocks at San Pedro in the last thirty d-eys of _reven to ten million feet. Partial building reportr indicate that the demand is very good, and th; chancea are that May will stack up a good building total throughout the state" Redwood is getting stronger. The lart barometer chowed saler at the top of_the measuring stick. Pricer are ateady.

Com,mon, sap, and ghorts are oversold. Clears "re -oririo we_ll._ -Foreign demand is fair, and eastern demand is sood] White and Sugar line stocks are getting lower, and Iower grade stockc ere badly broken- Clearr ari moit g well, and prices are a little better. White Fir dimenrion ic sellinc well. The mills of the California Association rhowed i product 9t \!2 millio-1-feet up to May l4th this year, as compared with 27O million up to the same time last iear.

fhu making and keeping gf friends who are REAL friends is, perhaps, the surest token we have of a man's success in life.-(Ar[hur Lefevre.)

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

Biril's-eye view of the Washington Lumber & Spar Compory operation, Lafte Washington, u.ith S.S. /ane Nettleton at the iloch loading f or California.

This mill has a capacity of approximatelv 25O M daily. Parcels of standard items are aEsembled on the dock with the aid of a 4-ton Ederer crane. They favor rough dimension above other California items, and require one million to one and a half million of this class of business monthly. In addition, of course, th"y furnish rough boards, wire tied lath and the usual No. 3 occUillulations.

This plant is one of ten manufacturing operations whose product we handle exclusively in the state of California.

The large mill capacity, and widely diversified stock carried by members of this group permit us to accept and handle efficiently any type or size of order incidental to the Fir lumber business.

Prices consistent with the market.

Gaynor Masters Lumber Gornpany California Representatives Puget Sound Mills 424 Petroleum Securities Building,

Los Angeles, Calif .

WEstmore 8ff,3.

Stuart Buililing, Seattle, Wash.

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHAN]

What Price Credit2

By Jach Dionne What price credit?

No one seems to kngw.

I read, the other day, an address made by a well known Federal Reserve Bank officer, discussing this very subject. And while, he viewed with amazement, and likewise with something close akin to alarm, the present credit situation in the United Stateg he confessed that the changes have come so rapidly that only a seer could prognosticate what they eventually will mean, and he offered no opinion other than the personal opinion that the United States of America is "fairly well saturated with credit."

He said one thing that is very interesting, and very probably true: "Credit is exactly like morphine; in the hands of those who understand its dangers as well as its benefits in the time of emergency, it is a most helpful and useful invention; but either credit or morphine used habitually leads inevitably to the gutter."

One phase of,modernized credit that he mentioned is one that the lumber and building industry is naturally interested in-the fulancing of buildings through "bonds" or "debentures." In the old days a big building was much like a little building, so far as its financing was concerned. They were built by men or groups of men who used their own money for the purpose, bought a site, and erected the structure.

Now comes the new sort of mortgage, split into hundreds and thousands oI parts, and sold to investors everywhere who have no direct interest whatever in the building, have never seen it and will never see it. They buy bonds for investment, and great buildings go up on every hand.

In the past two years I have seen a great hotel structure completed and placed in active

operation, on which, from the best of authority I learn, only five thousand dollars cash was ever invested by the builder and promoter, and that was the first cash payment on the site. The building, firrriishings, etc., were all bought on long time part-payment credit.

This banker says, referring to such cases: "I do rlot say that these bonds may not represent in most cases, a solvent investment on the part of the purchaser, but it seems to me that these transactions must carry some overhead, that somehow, somewhere, a price is being put upon this thing above and beyond the actual cost of construction."

Like this banker, we all wo4der what it all means, and where it leads, but, like him, we don't know, having no experience in the world's history to go by.

But one thing every lumberman IS certain of, which is that without modern methods of financing buildings, the volume of lumber sold during the past few years would have been not over 75/o of. the volume that has developed.

And what would this industry have done on THAT basis?

June l, 1927

Jlune l, 1927

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

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Neaily etuy day a M&ormick vessel learcs the West Coast loaded vith lumbe,

Mccormtelt servlee

alds bulldtng prospects NgW possibilities are yours

through McCormick Durable

Quick deliveries on our own feet of vessels put you in direct contact with this great source of

Douglas Fir. The vogue for the home builtof wood demands fine, clear lumber.

lumber supply.

McCormick's great holdings in America's finest timber stand assufe you quality. Our own sawmills on tidewater cut it as you want it. Your reputation is safe in our hands. Orders placed with us protect your promises.

development. Let our nearest sales office or sales representative quote you in scaight or mixed cars. Besides cargo facilities, we have a departnrent specializing on rail

We offer you a complete chain of service the result of 25 years'

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Glras. R. lf,cGorrntclc Lunber Go. Exclusiye California disnibunrs for Weyerhaeuser Fir Flaofing and Walnn Vetreq Panels

SALES OFFICES: San Francisco-271 Marha Sreeti Davenport i5il). Los Angela-ll0o Lane Mortgage Building; Tinity 5421. Phoeilx-C. P. Hetry,rcf raentotite, 42i Heard Building. MILIS: St.Helens,Oregon; Port Ltdloy and Port Gamble, Vashington. TREATING PLANT: St.He[ers, Oregon. PLANING MILIS: San Diigo. DISTRIBUTION YARDS: Wilmingin and San Diego.

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Jane l, 1927

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

Central California Hoo Hoo Outing at Calaveras Big Trees The members of the Central California Hoo-Hoo Club, together with their wives, families and guests, spent Saturday and Sunday, May 2l and 22, at the Calaveras Big Trees.

Chas. G. Bird, Stockton, had charge of the party and arrang'ements were made lvith Mrs. Whiteside and her son Edgar, who operate the hotel at the grove, to take charge of the party. The members began arriving about noon on Saturday, and Saturday afternoon was spent in admiring the giant redu'oods.

Following dinner in the evening, a huge bonfire was made in front of the hotel around rvhich were spread benches and chairs, and a very pleasant hour lvas spent. Short talks were made by Fred W. Roth, San Francisco, state IIooHoo counselor, and Robert S. Grant, vicegerent snark of the San Francisco Bay District.

Vicegerent Snark Grant and his nine were on hand to stage the concatenation, but as many of the candidates could not make the trip to the grove, the regular concat was dispensed with until a later date. To take the place of the concat, the ladies were initiated into "lfow's Hoo" and after a ritual rvas prepared all gathered in the main lobby of the hotel, r,vhere the r,r'ork was put on. Many of the ladies objected to that part of the rvork, rvhere they were to agree to make no complaint or comment when the head of the house came home late at night, or not at all. Several

other stunts were put on and the entire program was a big success. Those who assisted Bob Grant in putting on the degree work were: Charles G. Bird, L. J. Woodson, Joe Cuneo and W. H. Woods.

Those who made the trip were: Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Hull, Stockton, Rolland Hull, Jr., Stockton; Miss Eleanor Coffett, Stockton; Mr. and Mrs. George Kewin, Modesto; Miss Opal McAtee, Modesto; H. P. Alderman, Berkeley; H. B. Chadbourne, San Francisco; Joe Cuneo, San Francisco; J. E. Atkinson, San Francisco; Robert S. Grant, San Francisco; L. J. Woodson, San Francisco; Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Roth, San Francisco; Mr. and Mrs. A. Bevelockway, San Francisco; George C. Moorehead, Escalon; Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Irwin, Escalon; F. H. McPherson, Escalon; Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Meshik, Modesto; Chas. T. Gartin, Modesto; E. L. Sundahl, Portola; J. E. Fett, Oakland; Chas. G. Bird, Stockton; A. F. Emerson, Stockton; Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Gardner, Stockton; Mr. and Mrs. LaMar, Stockton: Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Falconbury, Stockton ; Miss Barbara Jean Falconbury, Stockton; Mr. and Mrs. W. E. French, Stockton; N{r. W. E. French, Jr., Stockton; Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Lease, Stockton; Mrs. C. A. Lease. Stockton: W. H. Woods. San Francisco.

If you want your ship to come in you must first send out a ship,

and second you must keep your docks cleared to receive cargo.

Sugar Pine,

White Pine, White Cedar, Spruce, Hardwood Flooring

EVERYTHING IN HARDWOODS Our battery of modern kilns, operated under the direction of an experienced kiln enginegr, assures our trade of a complete stock of correctly seasoned hardwoods to meet the climatic conditions of Southern California.

Western Hardwood Lurnber Cornpany 2014 E. 15th St.

WEstmore 6161

D. J. CAHILL, Prer.

Mail Addrcre Box E, Sta. C

[.os Angeles B. W. BYRNE, Scc.

June l, 1927

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

Sugar Pine Siding PINE WITH A PEDIGREE. Sugar Pine is true White Pine, botanically and physically, except that the trees are much larger than other members of the family.

, WITH A SERVICE RECORD Shake roofs and hand sawed window frames of Sugar Pine on the cabins of the '49ers in the Sierra Nevada Mountains stand today with no traces of decay. These were never painted and have been exposed to extremes of Winter. and Summer weather for three-quarters of a century.

Built in 1850. An humble ,nonument to durability

DISCRIMINATING BUILDERS who figure "cost" instead of "price" find that Sugar Pine Bungalow Siding assures distinctive appearance, harmony with many types of home architecture and lasting durability. In stock it commands attention and sells itself to those who appreciate quality.

Distinctiae Appearance, High resale value

Write Today for our "Dealer Help" Proposition.

You will find it profitable' "Producets of White Pine for Over HaIf a Century"

The RED RIVER LUMBER CO. CALIFORNIA . MIII FACTORIES and S.ALES' WESTWOOD' LOS ANGELES Distributing Yard$ CHICAGO and

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SALES OFFICES: MonadnocL Bldgo tllT Hcnnepin Avco 3Sl, N. Michigan Blvd" 702 E. Slruroa Avco CHTCAGO LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO MINNEAPOLIS

THE CALIF'ORNIA LUMBER MER.CHANT

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JIM FARLEY A SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA VISITOR

Frank Curran Back at His Desk Again

Mr. Ftanft Cutut Frank Curran returned to his duties as general manager for the southern division of the E. K. Wood Lumber Company on Monday, May 16 following a successful three months' fight to regain his health which had been seriously impaired by his steady adherence to business. He spent the greater part of the three months leisurely touring California and Arizona and leaving business matters strictly alone.

Mr. Curran has been in the lumber business more than 25 veqrs and is one of the most widely known and respected men in the industry in the Pacific Southwest. His recovery of good health and his return to the high executive positibn with'the E. K. Wood Lumber Company has Lrought him the congratulations of mahy friends throughout Southern California and Arizona.

Jim Farley, The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, is a Los Angeles yisitor on company business matters. While in the Southern metropolis, he is making his headquarters with A. L. (Gus) Hoo'ver, Southern Cafifornia repiesentative of The Pacific Lumber Co. O. M. BOWEN LOOKS OVER REDWOOD OPERATIONS O. M. Bowen, W. H. Norris Lumber Co., Houston, Texas, is a California visitor and is inspecting the milling and logging operations of The Pacific Lumber Co. at Scotia. Mr. Bowen was also a visitor at the Los Angeles and San Francisco offices of The Pacific Lumber Co. The W. H. Norris Lumber Co., with offices in Houston and Dallas, represent The Pacific Lumber Co., in the Texas territory. Before returning to the South, Mr. Bowen plans to visit the Douglas fir mills in Washington and Oregon and the California white and sugar pine mill operations in the High Sierra.

THEY ALL GRAB THE IIEBCHANT AT

THE VALLEY I{UMBER CO. OF'FICE "Please send The Lumber Merchant to me at my home address. Candidly I do not get sufficient opportunity to read it at the office. The minute it gets in the office it is grabbed by ary one of several people.

Such a course is complimentary to you but derogatory

to the complete dissemination of all your good wisdorn-tt

W. K. ("Billy'') Kendrick, Fresno, Calif.

A new catalogue on

Built-ln Fixtures and Kitchen Furniture showing a complete line has just come off the press. A COPY WILL BE SENT YOU FOR THE ASKING.

Are you taking advantage of the opportunities of profits which are being derived from this line of merchandise?

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A Finerrype of Sofrwood Flooring 'sfeyerhaeuser Facif,c Coast

Ilenlock Flooring-a Neur kader

' and Sure Repeater for You

lust assoon ae you are ready lormnething new iadtettzr to show your conractor &iends and home-building prcpectq put in a trial shilment cfWqprhacuser Padft rC-,qst Henhck Floodoe Hardwood appearance at a softqrood pti"* A striking eucc€se-wherever it hae been diephved.

A quick seller. A e,nrc rqnater.

Twomonths afterputting it in,one Pennryl'

vania dealer reqrd€red fourtimes. Aoother re' ordered seven timeg. One New York State dealer pl""d six orders in two montbs; another ninc I I ldl

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orders Paciffc Coast Hemtock Flocing ie itrst the thing lor speculative builders. Slome builders who want an inexpensive flooring upstaile ale on the lookout lor iust euch material a thb Contractore like it for remodeling iobs.

Weyerhaeuser PaciftcCoast H€nlock Floc' ing is nade lron carelully selected strips' oa tlre same tyDe of machines ae the moet expensive grades oihardwood llooring The surlae is ready for the wood finisher.

Paciffc Coast Hemlock makeo ideal flooring No other softwood eo doeely res€nbles ha!dwood in texture, in colc, ingrain e6ect' in finish" iog po€oibilities and in aatural wear r€i*anas 'Weyerhaeuser improved methods of seasoning rcnder it inmune b alv tendency to walp.

It-stays straight and works readily without

splintering.

This flooring is a iast sc[iDg€peciahy put out to help you incteaeeyoursaleeand profita \l/oahecurcr Prcif,c Cort Halcl Fl@rins b 13116' thicl r z%' hcq It coma both uitlr end matchiag end uithout cnd utchiag. Both typer erc milled sith thc hollow bacL Tbc highat gFrdc of thi! f,oing ir Laown ac "B and Bcner Edge Gnia. " For lc cnctiat u6 os whcre a still lowcr lriced llori4 ir wantcd it is abo made in tho grada oI "C Mircd Graia." budla,ach onc Theflooriagconala ret re bearinr u attractivc label in olon which showa thc nane, ihc Wcyerhaeura Brand, the grade mul ud tbc

Velerbaetser Pacific Coas t

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Hcmloch Fhoring is anotber

and Snoqualmic Frlla, Waehington, or &om uy oI thc

feature of tbe Veyerbaetser Pbs-a baying adoantage tbdt bae,fits ateq deahr utbo ases it, .(sk tbe Vc7crbact ser mat,

Thir fioriq ie mrauhctred by Veyerhacurct Timbq Company md ir oboinable in mircd crr ordo dist hom the Wcyerbaqrq Mills at Evqen. W'erhlngtoa, th,re Weyqhaeus Diltributirg Planu at Baltinore, Poronouth. R L. ud Miumta Tnadc, St Peul.

SIEYERHAEUSER SATES COMPAI{Y, D istri butors of V eyerhaeuser Forest Products General O6ces : SPOKANE, VASHINGTON Brancb Ofices MINNBAPOLIS

ST.PAUL

3o6.Plymouth Bldg.

2563 Fnnklin Avc.

PITTSBURGH 24ol First Nat. Bok Bldg.

PHIL/\DELPHIA 1600 Arch Street

CHICAGO

2o8 So. L Salle St.

NBTTYORI'

28, Mrdison AYe.

TOI,SDO

1313 Sccond N.t BaoL D[d8.

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Fresno Has Ninety-Five Per Cent Frame Houses But Wins Place In National Fire Prevention And F'ire Loss Reduction Contest.

How little relation there is betrveen the pr'evalence of frame residences in American cities and the fire losses, is pointed out by building engineers here, in connection witl a study of the results in the 1926 fr.re prevention and fire loss reduction contest conducted by tlie Chimber of Commerce of the United States.

It will be recalled that Fresno received honorable mention in this contest, in its class.

The contesting cities, 220, were divided" into four competition classes, one first prize and four honorable mentions being awarded in each class.

Poltland, Oregon, Winner of first place among the cities of first class conlain more than 96 Per cent of frame buildings; Long'Beach, California, second-class- winner, h?t- 4 pei cent of frame buildings; Battle Creek, Micligan, thirdilass winner, 9O per cent; Albany, Georgia, twice winner in the fourth class, 82 per cent.

The average percentage of frame buildings in the 44 win' ling cities, as given by local authorities, is 73.8, which is ,statid to be rather higher than the av€rage in all cities.

The proportion of frame buildings in Fresno is stated to be ,ninety-five per cent and bears out the general conclusion that frame buildings ar'e no more subject to fire losses than those with brick walls.

The per gapita fire loss of the contesting cities in 1925,

is given by the Chamber of Commerce as $3.77 as compared with an estimated national average of approximately $5.00 A slight general decrease in fire losses in these cities is noted as compared to previous years. In the face of vastly increased values of buildings and other property subject to fire destruction this decrease is regarded by the engineers as indicating rel3tively lower fire losses where frame con-

struction is general.

Studies by the building engineers of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association of fire losses in manv states have shown a steady increase in burnable wealth, wiih fire losses relatively stable, indicating that the loss per thousand dollars worth of buildings and contents is steadily decreasing.

Much of this decrease is attributed to the educational efforts of public officials which have brought about greater care in the home and factory; and to increased use of automatic sprinklers and portable fire extinguishers. Overi5 per cent of all building fires start within; and the probability, with modern fire engines, that they will be communicated to other buildings is very slight. City ordinances which require masonry buildings, according to the engineers, would cause far less expense to builders, and would result in more genuine safety and fire protection if, instead, they required a good portable fire extinguisher to be installed in each home.

For Your Own Protectio Owing to the f,ood conditionr throughout the South, much of the timber land is inindated, and many of the mills have been cdmpletely shut down. The result is a chaotic condition of the market-with every indication of a marked shortage of hardwood stoclrc and a steady advance in hardwood prices.

This unctable co'ndition of the Southern hardwood industry has not, as yet, i-paired our ability to take care of yoirr onders for handrrood fooring promptly arrd completely, as heretofore.

However-in the face of this impending shortage and higher priceo, we urge for your own protection that you let us take care of your requirements now.

JOHN JOHNSON FLOORING CO. |dfjllz Santa Monica Boulcvald

4128 GRanite 4l?A

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

C. D. JOHNSON LUMBER CO. Pordand, Oregon Car and Cargo Shipments

o#Htf6,3';:T,??.",i3$"""',* Ships-S. S. Robert Johnson, S. S. C. D. Johnson III. Species-Old Growth Yellow Fir and Sitka Spruce

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CAPTAIN CR,AZY LIKE A FOX Skipper's Leap Overboard Had 9500 Worth of Reason Behind It Diamonds are diamonds, but a sudden leap overboard is merely a bath to Capt. John Olsson, master of th6 Hart-Wood Lumber Cornpany's steamer Quin-

Hollister, Calif., May t3,1927, Dear Jack: Enclosed find check for $2.00 for subscription to your valuable paper.

Am leaving Tuesday as a dele$ate to the Rotary International Convention that meets in Ostend, Belgium, on June 5th.

I expect to be gone about three months and feel that the boys could not be without The California Lumber Merchant when I am gone.

Prospects for business here this summer look very

ault, He had laid his tie and $500 diamond stickpin above his wash basin for a shave, preparatory to going ashore. But as he went to don the articles he let out a shriek and burst from the cabin and dived overboard like a man demented.

Then he swam to the ships scupper's and, treading water, cupped his hands under the stream issuing from his basin through a waste pipe into the harbor.

His hunch was the right one, for a moment later the diamond tumbled into his hands on its way to the sga.-p1em the Los Angeles Times, May'17.

good.

Respectfully yours, A. D. McKinnon.

LUMBER COMPANY MOVES INTO NEW PLANT After nineteen years of progress in South San Francisco, the South City Lumber & Supply Co. are now located in their new $150,000 new plant. The mill building is 70x120

AUSTTN HATHAWAY COVERTNG SAN JOAQUIN VALLEV. FOR CHAS. R. McCORMICK LUMBER CO. Austin Hathaway is now traveling the San Joaquin Valley for the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., having succeeded Al Lucas rvho is no longer connected with the company. Mr. Hathaway has been with the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., about four years; a part of this time was spent at the company's mill at St. Helens and for the last year he has been in the rail department at San Francisco.

REDWOOD PRODUCTION AND SALES FIGURES In the last issue of The Lumber Merchant an editorial on Redwood conditions misquoted a number of statistical spur track facilities, vertical storage for lumber and the figures frorir the Redwood Association.

Production was given as 88 million, shipments as 103 most up-to-date machinery, the plant is able to reduce million, and sales as 118 million feet, which was correct, the handling costs to a minimum. W. H. Dinning and I. E. but it should have stated that this ryas fgr the year up and Horton are the managers of the company. to including April 23rd, and not forra single w6ek. feet and equipped with new machinery. Adjoining the mill, is a dry shed 30x140 feet and a warehouse 30x50 feet. With

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"Hartwood" "Willapa" "San Diego" "Avalon" "Quinault"

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A wholesalers' service is often measured by their manner of handling "grief."

"The customer must be satisfied." We have stuck to this principle for 20 yea?s. No reinspection. No arbitration. No passing the buck. If you are displeased with a shipment our representative will call and settle the matter to "your satisfac.tion" in one visit.

Only through handling our own lumber from the logging camp to delivery to the customer is it poss:ble for us to maintain such a policy. You will find it pays you best to buy lumber from us.

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You anrwer that question to your complete satisfrction when you specify El Rey Ten and Twenty-Year Guaranteed Roo-fs. The guarantor is then the Los Angeles Paper Mfg. C,o., one of dre oldat and largest

*619 concertu in thc Wet. . operating a $rrloorooo .

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El Rey Guar' Complete spocifications arc furnisH the atrhitd aotord Roofs. They are insalled undet the supenrision of our own experts, and inspe&ed at intervals throughout the term of the guarantee.

'We commend the entire El Rey line of roofings, including slate roo6 and shingles, to your consideration, and will gladly furnish you prices and samples uPon request.

LOS ANEELES PA.PER. MFG. CO. 1633 No. San Pablo Sreet

LOS ANGELES Telephone ANgelus 5236

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

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1926-27 National Waste Prevention Contest Awards As Recommended by the Utilization and Waste Prevention Committee and Approved by the Board of Directors of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association April 29, 1927.

First Prize, $1000: W-. J. McHale, Sawmill Superintendent, Menominee Bay Shore Lumber Company, Soperton, Wisconsin. Multiple Guide Dimension Mill.

Second Prize, $500: A. L. Thomas, Millwright, A. C. Tuxbury Lumber Company, Charleston, South Carolina.

Board Width Scale and Indicator Attachment for Lumber Edgers.

Third Group, Prize $100: R. J. Moore, Filer, Ernest Dolge, fnc., Tacoma, Washington. Method and Necessary Attachments for Aligning Band Saws with Carriage.

Third Group, Prize $100: Fred Wiebner, Re-sawman,

Kneeland-Mclurg Lumber Company, Phillips, Wisconsin.

Pressure Roll Device for Horizontal Resaw.

Third Group, Prize $100: A. E. Wyman, Clark Nickerson Lumber Company, Everett, Washington. Lumber Trimmer Table Board Turning Device.

Fourth Group, Prize $50: I. H. Ellington, Edgerman, W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, Fremont, Virginia. Sectional Edger Feed Roll.

Fourth Group, Prize $50: A. T. Kjelland, Chief Mechanic, Weyerhauser Timber Company, Everett, Washington.

Lumber Edger Line-Up Device.

Fourth Group, Prize $50: Edward McCluskey, Foreman, Cloquet Lumber Company, Cloquet, Minnesota. Improved Re-arrangement of Dogs for Holding Small Logs on Carrrage.

The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a constant state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference.

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The Origllral Plastlc, Waterproot Portland Gernent YIGTOBT FOUNTAIN, at Long Beaah; one of the tnoct beautttut nonunentc ln the lVeetrlr of llonollth Ptac' ttc lYaterproot Portland Genert. It ls waterprootlc bullt to reclet htgh wlnd pre$ure and ternpereture etrccrer-cnd lret has nunerous dellaate ornanentat forn3. Ever'57 requlrGlrgtlt-artlctlc and tlractlcal wac [:"tr* Bldg. "l'3: Lo Argelaa, Caltf. net blr Monotlth. pl.ht at MONOLITH PORTLAND CEMENT CO.

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

EVERYONE KNOWS A DRY LUMBER HOME

IS BETTER THAN A WET LUMBER HOME California has been building with Green Fir for years because it got into a bad habit, and habits of long standing are hard to tfrow off.

Of late Fir has been fooding the Middle West and Soutfiwest (Texas-Oklahoma) districts. First th"y rhipped them Green Fir. But the trade took less than a year to discover that Green Fir mahes a far inferior building to Dry Fir, and notw the mills are shipping Dry Fir to those territories.

And the difference between a green lumber home and a dry lumber home is just as great in California.

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

FRED STURGESS This introduces Fred Sturgess, advertising and publicity manager for the McCormick interests. He was born near Aluick on the border line between England and Scotland. He had an early desire to visit America, and when he was fourteen years old, he made the trip alone to America, and thence across Canada to Vancouver, B. C. For several years, he lived in Vancouver and Victoria, B. C., where he was engaged in real estate and colonization work.

He served four and a half years with the Canadian army during the World War and saw service in France for three and a half yeirs. He was one of the youngest majors in the Canadian army-when 6e *"r twentynine years old he had charge of 1000 men in action. He did liaison woik between the 27th and, 29th American Divisions at the Battle of Bellicourt.

Following the war, he returned to Vancouver, B. C., where he acted as Canadian sales manager for a large London machinery house. Later he moved to Los Angeles, where he was engaged in the oil business.

He joined the McCormick organization in 1925, and, makes his headquarters.a,t thg company's San Francisco office. He has been closely associated with publicity work for many years, and during the war published a magazine in the army:_ H_e recently completed a trip to all thJ company's operations on the Pacific Coast, which included an inspection of theii mills and -shipping. -facilities in the Northwest, and their Lumber operations in Southern California.

To the little man bigness is unforgiveable.

COOS BAY Four reasom why you should stock Browntr Supercedar Closet Littittg.

LUIUBTR CO.

l-Demand-greater every day because archi-

of California

tects are specifying it.

2-Cost-about the same as lath and plaster. packed in fibre-board, 3-Easily Handled

- No depreciation. No dampproof boxes.

broken tongues and grooves.

Manufacturers of Douglas Fir and Port Orford Cedar Sawmillr, Marshfield, Oregon Dfutributing Plant - B"y Point

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Annual Production .

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Jane l, 1927

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

L$TEN FOLKS!!

You're going to get a big kick out of our July First Birthday Number. It will commemorate our fifth birthday, and from the returns already in it is certain that it will far surpass in every worlhwhile particular our four previous birthday numbers.

Men and women of outstanding ability and prominence in the industry all the way from San Diego to Seattle are preparing things of interest which they will say under their own signahrres to the lumber people of California in that number. The list of special authors and-"ot'horesses for that special occasion guarantees a live issue, filled from cover to cover with interesting ttoughts, facts, figures, and pictures of California lumber trhings and lumber people.

It will be the most attractive, practical, and interesting issue of a lumber journal you ever 6ayy. The work of every lumber and HooHoo organization in California will be reviewed by their own officers. The greatness of California as a lumber state will be thoroughty covered and attractively illustrated. The lumber men and women of California will be well portrayed. Every page will contain tfiings that will interest YOU. It will be a number that will be long preserved as a Eouvenir.

It will be full of punch-the kind with a wallop in it.

Just as a sample, Mr. Ed Nicholson, of the Pacific Door & Sash Company, one of the keenest trlrinkers in California in any line of business, will tell you why California is bound to take from the Middle West the laurels as the world's mill-work center. Therets real romance in that story.

Mr. R. A. Long will be one of our special authors, and there will be scores of others from all parts of California and farther north on the coast. There will be a star for each subject.

Besides, wetve got our office gang worlcing out interesting and useful features for the iggue.

I personally guarantee it will be an issue that will well refect the greatners of California and her lumber industry.

Yours for a Record Breaking Issue,

JACK DIONNE

ORDER YOUR EXTRA COPIES NOW

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june l, 1927

4L Directors Commend Employee's Interest in Industry Problems

Portland, Ore., May l7.-Strongly endorsing a comAt the morning session of the board President Ruegnitz munication from 4L employee members, urging that both reported on growth of the organization since January 1, employers and employees in the lumber industry of the Pa- which he said had been more than 1000 new members. He cific Northwest work for adjusted production of lumber, the also reported on the employees' wood promotion campaign 4L board of directors yesterdav went on record as heartily of the 4L. The bodrd adopted plans to more.actively precommending employee interesl in manufacturing and sell- sent this campaign during the next six months. ing problems. This was the 17th semi-annual meeting of Composed of 12 employers and 12 employees, elected by the board of directors. The resolution had been formulated ballot in the 4L districts of Idaho, Oregon and Washington, by lumber employees in districts I and 2 of the 4L and later the board of directors is the governing board of the organendorsed by many other local groups. ization, and it meets twice -yearly. Yesterday's session was the "The lumber industry is facing a situation where pro- ' 17th semi-annual.

The board this year is composed as follows: duction regulation with curtailment and retrenchments apEmployers: A. C. Dixon, Booth-Kelly Lumber Co., pear vitally necessary," the resolution said in part.

Eugene; M. C. Woodard, Silver Falls Timber Co., SilverVocational rehabilitation of those iniured in industrv in W. B. McMillan, Peninsula Lumber Co., Portland; the state of Washington was another'matter brought-be- ton; R. H. Willapa Lumber Co., Raymond, Wn.; J. C. fore the board. It was pointed out that although both' Shaw, Burnside, Eureka Cedar Lumber & Shingle Co., Hoquiam, Wn.; Oregon and Idaho have vocational training by the state {or industry's unfortunafes, there is no similar act in Washing- J. C. Buchanan, North End Lumber Co., Tacoma; D. M. Fisher, Snoqualmi,e Falls Lumber Co., Snoqualmie Falls, ton. In this respect a 4L committee reported that 41 states Wn.; M. C. McGregor, Morrison Mill Co., Bellingham, now have some sort of vocational training; that 14,000 perP. McGoldrick, McGoldrick Lumber Co., Spokane; Wn.; J. sons in 39 states are now undergoing training, and that durHuntington Taylor, Edw. Rutledge Timber Co., Couer d'ing 1926,5,600 injured workmen had been trained in some Alene, ; Joseph Stoddard, Stoddard Lumber Co., Baker; gainful occupation. The board ordered a committee to and H.Ida. E. Allen, Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Co., Bend. act with Washington legislators before the next session.

Employees : W. Purcell, Wendling; R. P. Scott, No change in the minimum lvage scale of the 4L rvas re- Silverton; B. T. J. Turner, Portland; F. C. Beckman, Rayquested or made. mond, Wn.; W. F. Annett, Hoquiam, Wm.; l. A. Ziemer, The group disability insurance plan of the 4L was re- Tacoma; J. M. Kanall, Snoqualmie Falls, Wn.; Frank L. ported to norv be in force at 25 logging or lumbering opera- Pederson, Bellingham, Wn.; Ashley Richard, Newport, tions; 597 claims have been paid since August 1, tbtalling Wn.; Fenimore Cady, Coeur d:Alene, Ida.; F. C. Grant, $16,143.

Baker; and Homer Mayrand, Bend.

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CALIFORNIA REDWOOD

47Ol Santa Fe Ave. Los Angeles

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

June 1,1927

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It is:Cut-to-length.

Surfaced or sized.

Perfectly equalized.

Correctly dried.

Bundled.

Tl'te crating ,ho*,, *o, urnd by the Albert Furniture Co., Shelbyz,ille, Indiana

HDE crating will save you time, money and trouble. ll[i.red cars of lnrdzuood.s, guaranteed as to moisture content, and ttorhcd to an! fottern,; cA'press worhed to dimcnsiort, sizc; and, soft, easy-w.orhing short leaf pine

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]'HE CALIFORNIA LUMtsER MERCHANT

Let's Look This Green Lumber Fact in the FaceMr. California Lumberman

By Jack Dionne

Not long ago there rvas reported in these colunns the fact that in San Francisco a splendid new home rms being builg u"ing recond hand timbers for franing, the architect and builder stating that he was doing that because he could not buy dry stock and would not use the green that seemed to be the only thing on the market.

That might have seemed to be an isolated case, but there is so nuch additional evidence developing along the same line that it seems as thowh the time had come to take this ques. tion up without gloves, and tdk it over.

There is now working in California Mn Reginald T. Titus. Mr. Titus ic spending two montrhs in this state. He is a field engineer and trade extension worker with the West C-oast Lumber Trade Extension Bureau, of Seattle, Washington, which is the merchandisiog advertising end of the organized lumber "nd industry in the Pacific Northwes! and his work in California at the present time ir ca[ing on the architects of the state in the interest of wood generally, and Northwestern wood pro. ducts pa*icularly.

Mr. Tituc has been several weeks in the state already, and his findingr are indeed interesting.

He sayr that fully three out of cvely four arfitects he calls on, make tlre voluntary state. ment to him that the chief reason why they do not sp€cify more wo'od in their construction work is because they cannot get seasoned lumber, and that they refuse to specify the use of a material that will shrink in the walls. Mr. Titus finds the architectural profession to be universally of the opinion that green lumber is not a frt building material, and will not be used by them when they can get any other materials.

M"rty of these architects have cited to Mr. Titus individual caser where they used wood framing, and when the shrinkage came the walls cracked, and had to be replastered after the shrinkage ceased. One architect told him that that Eame thing happened in every home where he has used green lumber, with the result that he would uEe no more except when it was impossible to do otiherwise.

Another anEwer that he got from numerous architects when he inquired why they did not

give wood construction consideration when

planning a building, rya! that they had never before been called upori by anyone ruggerting or promoting tihe use of wood, while tbe makerc of other commodities keep on their trail the entire time, advising, informing, ond asristing the architect in the selection of materials. Under such conditions, who gets the business?

The otrher d.y I read a letter on the subiect of green lumber written by one of the best known retail lrrmbermen in C-alifornia" It was a more or less confidential letter, written to a friend, and I will therefore not mention his name for that rearon, but will gladly give it to anyone interested enough to want to know.

He lives in the San Joaquin Valley, and he toH of building a home for himgelf, using the customary green dimension, and within a year having to tear out some of the wallr and replace the studding, which had warped, and then rotted right in the wall.

Whatts the answer?

The experience of Mr. Titus with the California architects brings tfiis matter to the front in a r''anner that cannot be evaded. It is manifest that lumber and wood constnrction is guffering in California because tlre architects do not believe the grecn lumber ondinarily used here for construction purpos€r is a proper material. lf the architects are right, something ehould be done about it, shouldn't there?

And if they are wrong, it is someonets business to put tlrem right, and it ought to be done in a hurry. The West Crast Trade Extension Bureau, which is promoting the use of Fir and Hemlock all over the country, isntt going to tackle the job, because they will undoubtdly rgree with the architects. Mr. Titur, a wood and forest engineer, took no i$ue with tihem because his training and experience teach him that green lumber cannot make as good a building as seasoned lunben The California Lumber M<irchant considers that there is no more important quection before the lumber industry of this state today than this one, and o.pens its columns to its readers for a discussion of the subiect, either side, or both.

l, 1927

Jwe l, 1927

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

Over Fivc Million Eeet On f{and, Ready For Pronpt Shiprnent TN addition to our Los Angeles reail L lard, our main or distributingyardis

located at Long Beach whcre we ltaue ow ovm dock far ocean going vessels and cany at all times from four a six

million feet of Phil@ine lumber season ing for shipment.

Allel E in our lnng Beach Yard.

Wa*ing Alley B with high-powered, caniers,

FREE FROM WORM HOLES and Uniformly Hard.

Rough and Sur-

DATAAN and LAMAO Mahoganies are as free from worm

faced Lumber .

Doors "

Mouldings and Finish. Plywood Panels andTops 7)eneers

l-D holes as mahoganies from Africa and Mexico, and are graded under rules of the National Hardwood Lumber Association which specify that worm holes are positively a defect.

These beautiful hardwoods are grown in the highlands of Luzon, the northernmost island of the Philippines. They are sawn in our own mills, full to thickness, and run very uniform as to color. Bataan is dark red. Lamao is light red. They are very much harder and more dense in texture than the general run of Philippine mahogany.

With large stocks always on hand, and centralized control and manufacture, we are in a position to make immediate shipments at prices no higher than most domestic hardwoods of similar grades' Srraaufrctared excrasitery by

CADWALLADER- GTBSON CO., 3628 Mines Avenue

BATAAN AND

LAMAO MAI{OGANIES

- Ios Angeles, California

CADVALLADER-GTBSON CO., 3528 Mines Avenue, Los Angeles, Calif.

Gentlemen:-

' Please send us for insp€ctioD sampls ofyour Baten and Lamao uhoEany. also literature dewtibing therc supierior Philippine mhoganies.

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

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Cadwallader-Gibson Company Enlarges all Facilities Preparing for Increased Mahogany Trade B. 14. Cadoalladq

A big new modern sawmill in the Philippines; a new -and modern wharf on the California Coast with every facility and convenience for the unloading and handling of lumber; a big new battery of dry kilns in California at the coast yard; increased volume of water shipments from the Philippine wharves of the Company to the California rvharves of the same concern; new and complete equipment' for manufacturing panels of mahogany and domestic hardwoods at the big Los Angeles plant of the company; _enlarged scope of setling operations covering the entire United States as well as foreign lands; these are some of the outstanding accomplishments now under way or recently completed by The Cadwallader-Gibson Company, of Los Angeles, designed and planned to meet the growing demands of their entire business, particularly in reference to their Philippine mahogany.

It is putting it mildly to say that Mr. B. W. Cadwallader, owner, active manager, and guiding hand of all these properties has been a busy man of late, and that his splendid organization is working under high pressure.

For a number of years Mr. Cadwallader has been developing his resources for producing, and bringing to this country his mahogany products, and for further manufacturing and marketing these products on this side. Step by step Philippine Mahogany has been establishing itself in public favor. One by one the early prejudices against it have been disappearing, and it has come into its own as one of the beautiful and generally useful high class hardrvoods of the world, until now Mr. Cadwallader has decided that the time has come to put his mahogany products on the market in quantity never before attempted, and give this great wood its rightful place in the world of cabinet woods.

And to that end he is norv bending all of his remarkable energies. Ever since the time when he went to the Philippines as a soldier during the Spanish-American War, and remained there to become one of the foremost industrial

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figures in the Islands, he has been laying his plans, and devoting his energies to the development of such an insti-r tution as he now possesses, and which is now being rounded out in every department to serve the large purpos€s he has tn vlew.

The Cadwallader-Gibson Company owns three hundred square miles of land in the Philippines, all heavily wooded with this Mahogany timber. His properties are located on the highlands of the Island of Luzon, where he believes he selected the highest quality and stand of timber on those islands. Here he has just placed in operation another big and modern sawmill, equipped with a band headrig and a horizontal resaw, together with every modern supplementary device for the manufacture of Mahogany. This is his second sawmill, another large and modern one having been in operation for several years. These two mills manufacture about 30,000,000 feet of Mahogany lumber a year, and in Mahogany that is SOME lumber.

They also operate there a large veneer and panel plant, and a big planing mill and hardwood flooring p1ant. They own their orvn docks and wharves, and have their own ships carrying their product of Mahogany lumber, veneers, panels, and flooring, to the United States.

They keep one million feet of Mahogany on the water all the time in transit from their Philippine mills to their California docks, and thev are planning now to keep an even larger av€rage volume on the water in transport.

Their big wholesale yard is located at Long Bealh, California, and it is there that they are now making many improvements and innovations, That yard has been in operation for a little over a year. The new wharves are being built on contract by Marritt, Chapman & Scott, of San Pedro, and they are-being equipped with every device that modern mechanics and ingenuity knows for unloading and handling lumber with facility. These docks will be-completed by July first. The Long Beach yard carries from (Continued on Page 26)

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four to six million feet of l\{ahogany lumber in stock all

the time.

installing at the Long Beach yard three Z2 f.oot -_They.are North Coast dry kilns, which will make them a total of seven kilns in all on this side of the water, they having four of the same size and type in operation at fheir Lo"s Angeles plant.

It will be remembered that their Los Angeles plant, one of the finest and most modern woodworklng plants'ever built in California, has been built and in opdrdtion just a little over a year. In this institution thet' have iuit fin_ ished -installing a complete and wonderful plant for the manufacture of panels. They will make panels from their own Mahogany veneers, and will likewiie make them to serve their trade from some of the domestic hardwoods, such as oak, gum, and walnut. They are splendidlv eouioped now to supply their panel tradi from^ their ovrn'L6s Angeles plant.

The Los Angeles plant, in addition to manufacturins panels,-makes Mahogany doors, moulding, finish, and trim: and sells this product all over the Unit=ed States. Theii business in all lines is steadily growing, and they are con_ tin_u-ally_ opening up new terriioiy.

I\{r. Cadwalladef uses three nimes of their own devisine for the three distinct and separate species of philiooinE Mahogany. he produces. Thiy are Eataan, l-"r"oi'""a I3agac, and are listed according to their corhparative value.

Bataan is their highest quality wood, is a beautiful d"rk;a rn color, is.a very-dense and wonderfully grained \ilood, and less subje_ct to defects than other Malogany, in thi of Mr. Cadwallader. 1lI They use this -for'il;i;, lpinion doors, and the highest types of paneling work. ifr.'""tir. omce.ot the.company-in I, os Angeles has panels and doois ot l3ataan, all with a simple finish, and the wood is extreme_ ly beautiful

June l, 1927

Lamao is their second best species, and is lighter in color than Bataan, but is used for thi same general lurpor.r. I; the Philippines- where- they make .rr.nders and panels, they use other woods for their cores and cross-banding, and the Bataan and Lamao for their exterior cabinet us"es. Thev make some very fine flooring out of Lamao, also. {or entirely difierent purposes. It . Their Bagac -is used is what might be called their common Maholany lumber.

It is very dark in color, is not beautiful for vineirine like Bataan:nd .Lama-o, but has a multitude of very praiticai usel. They have found a big market for it in furniiure fac!or!es, truck factories, auto-factories, and industrial uses.

It is. being_ used very freely to replace domestic hardwoods rn brg trmber for the oil fields, and for industrial timbers also. In London they have found a fine market for Bagic with the railroad car'builders, for coach and car rnateriils.

They. make lots of plain one-hal! by two inch flooring of it, and lt serves a fine purpose for those who want a fine hard_ wood floor at less money than the usual quarter-sawn woods. It looks fine, and wears wonderfully. ' bring over their Philippine Mahogany lumber, sawn " Th:f Iull thrckness, and running very uniform in color. Go through the Cadwallader-G-ibson- mill and yards, and you g-et a wonderful impress_ion_of looking at quality stock.

You are convinced that Mr. Cadwalladei is tellins ihe facts when he declares that "You can go through Tn"t .i*. amount of lumber of species, aiywhere,-and you will never find so much _any_ lumbei with so- few defects,- so few kn_o!s, so little stock that need be wasted for any purpo.i.' . Mt.C.q.a*allader particularly resents the old origin"i ia." that. Philippine-Ma6ogany is wormy stock. ,.Oor jurUirl" graded under the rules of the Nati6nal Hardwood Lumber AssociStion, and worm holes are positively a defeci ir o", stock just as they are in any othir lumb-er, ,rrd anv M._ hogany that contains worm holes is defective lumber. The (Continued on Page 28)

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West Coast Hemlock Accepted by New York Building Superintendents Seattle, Wn., May 14.-Following six months of negotiations and technical tests, West Coast hemlock from Washington and Oregon has been accepted officially by the building superintendents of four New York boroughs as ,equal in strength _of eastern spruce and the comnion grades of Douglas_fi-r, according- to telegraphic advices receiied today by the West Coast Lumber Bureau this citv from C. i.

Hogue, field manager, at present in New Vork. Weit Coast hemlock, the telegram stated, will have full unrestricted use hereafter in the four boroughs of New york City at the same strength.values as other itandard building *oodr.

Bro.oklyn was not _represented at the ineeting.

Millions of-bor_ough dollars in potential income to the pacific Nortli west were involved in the decision, local lumbermen stated.

Late last fall the New York building departments temporarily accepted a ruling that hereaftei West Coast hemIock would be rated for strength along with eastern hemlock, although until this timelhe *esle.., wood had been accepted by builders as_the.equivalent of eastern spruce and common grades of Douglai fir. Hundreds of miilions of feet of West Coast hemlo-k were, at the time the ruling was m,ade, in New York yards, on the docks and in transit-.

The effect of this ruling, it rvas foreseen by hemlock manufacturers, would be to drive West Coast hemlock from this newly developed and most valuable market.

Protest was made at once by the West Coast I_umber Bureau, the West Coast Lumbermen's Association and the New York Lumber Trade Association. Technical tesis of the .western wood arranged at the insistence of these organizations were held under the supervision of building

L. D. GILBEIRT PURCHASES HENRY HESS

COMPANY AT HEALDSBURG L. D. Gilbert, Oakland, purchased the Henry Hess Com_ pany branch yard at Healdsburg, Calif., on May 20. Mr. Gilbert has organized a closed corporation under the name of The Healdsburg Lumber Co., the hame by which this yard was known f.or 20 years before Henry Hess secured it 8 years ago, M-r. Gilbert, president of the new company, is well known to the lumber trade of Northern Califirrnia.

(Continued from Page 28) old idea that Philippine Mahogany ilust b. *o.- eaten is entirely erroneous. Most of the other old ideas about Philippine Mahogany are erroneous. It takes as wonderful a finish, with as little soaking of filler, as anlr Mahogany user could ask. Every day we are proving tliat to peopli using cabinet woods."

FiFbh",,a Brannan Sts.- San Fancisco

engineers associated with the five boroughs at Columbia University Laboratories.

Following the preliminary mechanical tests to determine .the wood's strength, durability, eti., the supervising committee of borough engineers visited thp Pacific Norihrvest at the invitation of the West Coast Ldmber Bureau to see the forests, mills and ,lumber stock and to collect checking samples for further study. These enginlers visited Vancou-ver, B. C., Seattle, Everett, Grays- Hlarbor, Tacoma and points on the Columbia River, during dpril. Final reports were made on their return to Nerv Ydrk which were followed by a series of co-nferencees betwfen the building departments and C. J. Hogue of the \tfest Coast Luirber

Bureau.

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"'Probably the one most important {actor in the sale of our West Coast woods is the strengthiratings given them by city building departments," stated the Welt doast Lumber Trade Bureau. "All cil,ies have m{nimum strength requirements which govern the use of l'{'ood and othEr materials in various zones and building arefs. With a strength rating of 900 pounds extreme fibre-stre$s as announced 6st fall by the Nerv York buildine official$, West Coast hemlock would have been barred ior most]purposes from that market. Allowed a rating of 1200 pdundi extreme fiber stress, West Coast hemlo& will now do into construction in the City of New York as the equivaibnt of the best American soft woods. "\Me believe the efiect of this rvill b{ to aid the sales of West Coast hemlock in all eastern and central markets to the great advaritage of the West Coasf lumber industry,". the Bureau stated.

P. C. STEVENS RETURNS FROIW]''N'OO"' WEST P. C. Stevens assistant salesmanasdr of the Chas. K. Spaulding Logging Co., Salem, Oregdrp, spent a ferv days in the rrrBay district LIE Day ursrrrct recentry recently vtstung visiting lylt r,yitti James L. H;ll rvho represents the company-in.San Fra{rci Mr. Stevens had returned from a trip which cov.ref Texas, Oklahoma and the Middle West. He states tlr]at business in the

So. Mr. Cadwallader and his great ution and organization, bigger and better equipped tha ever before, is preparing to put Bataan, and Lamao, and Bagac on the market as never before, and to prove their great worth to the entire lumber using world. And theirs is, indeed, an interesting campaign with interesting and autiful woods.

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MY FAVORITE STORIES ABe not suaranteed-r"-iitf:::il'ro ,o, 20 years-some less

He Had Caught The Spirit Children are very impressionable.

Little Johtttty had been reading some old English fiction, and he was standing in front of a tobacco shop, and looking very disconsolate, when an old woman noticed his expression.

"Sonny, ye look troubled. Anything f can do for you?l' "Hist Mother!"

ADAMS LUMBDR CO. OPEN WHOLESALE

tr-o.r%tT*?y:*d a warehouse at 5312 St., Oakland, where they will carry a full line of llorton California Pine Plywood Panels of various grades and thicknesses. They will carry panels suitable fbr all purposes; for walls, doors, etc., and in all thicknesses running quarter inch and thicker. Ttreir panels will cover all requirements of construction from summer bungalows to high class residences.

Their stock will also include doors, open and glazed sash, mouldings and screen doors.

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The urchin grandiloquently placed a penny in her hand.

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Seest thou yon tobacco shop? Then take thee this bronze coin, and bid the churl within to give thee a cigarette, and eke a match therefor. Be secret, Mother, and betray me not, or thy old blood will answer for't. I will await thee here. And now, beldame, begone !"

CHAS. LINDNER OF PORTLAND VISITS IN LONG BEACH, CALIF. Chas. Lindner, of Portland, Oregon, one of the leading lumber wholesalers of the United States, has been a visitor for the past four weeks at Long Beach, California. Mr. Lindner is President of the Henry D. Davis Lumber Company, of Portland, a wholesale lumber concern that does business all over the United States. They particularly specialize in timbers, railroad ties, and oil- field stock.- Mr. Lindner has returned to Portland after a delightful vacation in Southern California.

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Styles inBuilding ilIahe Them, FoIIow Them, or Buch Them---Which?

Consumer demand is pervaded throughout with an ever-present desire for change. A fashion today is shunned tomonow. The greater the popularity, the more likely is reiection.

This ebb and fow in style is due to a conflict between the desire to conform and the wish to be individual. A woman will trhrow away a dress if no one else has one similar. But she will be iust as quick to throw it away if she sees a dozen other exacdy like it.

Style can be created if a powerful organization spen& money popularize its product. Wise organizations ane quick to E€nEe to andfollow the created style. It is futile to offer a product disrelished by the buying public.

The Holmes Eureka Lumber C,ompany has in stock sone new wood products. Others are ready for manufacture. Still otherg are under iontemplation. We are gathering ideas on artistic siding, rand blast treatment, acid stained and hand hewn effects, new ctain, gnln' and color cornbinations.

We want your ideas. A good idea is style. Once wood is styligh, wood substitutes are removed from the field of competition.

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HOLMES EUREKA LUMBER COMPANY With Four Senicemen to Customers: Lloyd Harris, 38 Nace Street, Oakland Haney Isenhower, 2518 N Stre€t, Sacramento Will Hamilton, 1O25 Van Nuyr Bldg., Lor Angeler Fred Holmes, 947 Monadnock Bldg.' San Francirco Wc are membcrr of thc California Redwood Arociation which wc believc ir helping to rcll more Redwood, to the adventage of the indurtry a. a wholc.

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THE BOOTH'KELLY I,UMBER CO. One of the great lumber rnanufacturing firms of the Pa-

cific Northwest, one with a national reputation for the production of Douglas Fir products, is The Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, of Eugene, Oregon.

This concern is one of the greatest timber holding concerns in the lumber business. It owns more standing timber lands than any other lumber concern operating in the State of Oregon, and ranks second in timber holdings in the

The two mills at Wendling and Springfield are both new and modern to the minute, being electrically driven, and , equipped with the most efficient machinery throughout that money can buy. Each plant has a large planing mill, remanufacturing plant, with dry kilns of ample capaiity. The company specially caters to mixed car business, and carries large and well assorted.stocks in yards and sheds for quick

shipment.

The Booth-Kelly rriills are not of the break-down, timber entire Pacific Northwest.

The firm was organized in 1898. For a time it owned making type that many of the large Northwest mills are, and operated four sawmill plants, at Springfield, Wendling, but are particularly well equipped for serving the retail Coburg, and Saginaw, but the two latter mills were closed lumber trade in all of its softwood needs.

The Booth-Kelly Lumber Company was organized. in and dismantled years ago, and the two first named are left in operation, cutting slowly into the tremendous forest !Q9S by Senator R.-A. Booth, and Major George"H. Kelly.

Major Kelly retired from the firm sixteen years ago, but reserve held in fee by the company.

The Booth-Kelly Lumber Company product is very Senator Booth is still its Vice-President.

The active management of the operations of the firm small in comparison with its great timber possessions. The two mills at Springfield and Wendling have a daily single is in the very capable hands of Mr. A. C. Dixon, who lives shift capacity of 325,000 feet. They are reported to have at Eugene and personally looks after the production and enough timber to keep these mills running for centuries at sale of the lumber. The President of the firm is Mr. Rav regular single shift capacity, and their timber was selected E. Daniher, who lives in Detroit, Michigan, but makes oicarefully nearly thirty years ago from the finest stands of casional trips to the Northwest, and is very closely in touch with the affairs of the company. Both Mr. Daniher and timber in the whole Northwest.

The mills at Springfield and Wendling are served by Mr. Dixon have taken quite an active part in the councils their own logging roads and equipment. Formerly they did of the lumber industry of the entire nation for a good many most of their logging by river, but it rvas found more prac- years, and are looked upon as outstanding figures in the tical to build their railroads into the woods and bring out lumber world. The ownership of the Booth-Kelly Lumber the timber by rail. The log trains come down the moun- Company is in the hands largely of Michigan lumbermen.

Mr. Dixon has been with the company for a quarter of a tains from their camps to Wendling, where they are divided, half the cars being shipped over the Southern Pacific.to century. The General Sales Manager is Mr. L. L. Lewis, their Springfield mill, which is situated across the river who lives and has his offices in Portland. At Eugene Mr. from the city of Eugene. At each mill the logs are auto- Dixol is assisted by Mr. H. A. Dunbar, who is Secretary matically unloaded into great log ponds, where they are and Treasurer, and by Mr. Ralph W. Martin, who is Assistassorted before manufacturing.

(Continued on Page 36)

Airplane View of the Springfizltl Plant.

June l, 1927

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,4irltlanc I'iczu of thc 11/cndling Plant.

(Continued from Page 34)

both San l.-rancisco and Los Angeles, catering to all of

ant Sales Manager. Like Mr. Dixon, Messrs. I-ervis, Dunbar, and Martin have been with the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company for a qttarter of a century.

The Booth-Kelly Lumber Company has long played a very prominent part in serving the rail tracle of California rvith its supply of Douglas Fir, and maintains oflices in

California, as rvell as Arizona.

The San Francisco oflice is located at 402-4O4 Marvin Building and is in charge of Mr. J. R. (Bert) Neylan, whosc thatch has grorvn grey in the service of this same concern.

He is assisted by Mr. H. C. (Hi) llenry, who spends most (Continued on Page 38)

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220'EastAnaheim

6523-s..nid MontaElYd. Tclcphonc Ho-552,0

Telephone.62279

t244.East 8t! Street - MEtmpolitan 619l tJOS ANGELES CALIFOR.NIA

June l, 1927

THE CALIFORNiA LUMBER MERCHANT

Timber Crane for Handting Large and Long Timbers.

(Continued from Page 36)

of his time traveling and presenting the merits of BoothKelly stock and seivice to the lumber trade of the San

Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys.

The Los Angeles office is in the Central Building, and

$iloNDS

-Courtcsv American Lumberman'

was opened four. years ago b.y Mt. 4..C. Clark, wh-o, for many years previous to that time, had charge of t!9 Sacra-

menio-Valley business for this concern. Mr. Clark's territory includet all of Southern California, Arizona, and New (Continued on Page 39)

CREOSOTE STAINS AND WOOD PRESERVERS

Red Streak High Speed Steel Knives will give you longer service without regrinding or jointing. Th"y are made of shock-resisting steel.

USE CREOLINEUM WEATI{ERPRq)F STAINS AND CREOLINEU M

WOOD PRESERVER "stanilaril in thc Soutftpest Since 1892"

"Tungsweld," the only Welded High Speed Steel Knife. The cutting edge of high speed steel is welded to a soft steel back. Outlast thick carbon steel knives three to five times.

Ordcr from

SIMONDS SAW AND STEEL CO., 416 Eart Third ,Street

Lor Angclcr' Celif.

Zn-z?A Firrt Strcet

San Frencirco, Calif.

Wertern Wood Prerewlng Go. 7fl)6 Stanford Ave. Dealers Write For Quotatiotts

Loe Angclcr

lune l,1927

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

Behind the Floori,ng tr[achine.

J9

-Courtesy American Lumberman.

(Continuecl from Page 38) Mexico, and he is assisted by Mr. A. t. Show, one of the best known road salesmen in Southern California.

Mr. A. L. Tomseth, rvith headquarters in phoenix, supplements Mr. Clark's work throughout Arizona.

The name of Booth-Kelly means nothing but good to the lumber trade of California. Fair dealing, good lumber, good service, and square competition is what the name stands for.

ATBION TUIYTBER CO.

Bobbins

REDWOOD R'LL STOCKS GREEN LUMBER COMMON ^A.ND UPPERST AT

Flooring Go. RHINELANDER, wlti.

MILLS.

In "Robbins" Flooring you are aesured of the very

AIR DRY UPPERS AT SAN PEDRO

6nest that has ever been, or ever will be produced.

Main Salcr OGcc Hobart Bldg.

SAN FRANCISCO

Lor Angclcr Oftec 397 PaciGc Electric Btdg.

Phonc TUcLer 5779

Our geogtaphical location, the modern machinery in our mill, and the type of men who make our flooring. all go to make this statement poseible. "Robbins" Maple and Birch Flooring is the beet.

Mentberc California Reduood .4csocrcfion Southcrn Crlifornir:

NofthcrD Califonir:

320 SprccLclr Bldg.,

C. J. LAUGHLIN,

Main 2lll5

62il PctrolGua Sccurltlc Bld3., Loe AagclG.

GEORGE C. CORNTTIUS,

SAN DIEGO Anartcu BuL Bldg., Sea Fnnctrco

June t, 1927

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

40

WHAT WAR MONEY WOULD BUY

THE POVERTY OF WEALTH

Give me the money that has been spent in war, and I will

Andrew carnegie said: .,I was born in poverty, and would not exchange its clothe every man' woman, and child in an attire of which kings and (ueens.would be proud' I will build a school sacredmemorieswiththerichestmillionaire'ssonwh6ever house earth' I will crown 1a.lley over the whole. breathed. What does he know about M;t["; ;r Father? every_ il--"ygty consecrated to the place worship of hillside"ivith .i There are mere names to him. Give me the life of the boy Sumner' peace'-Charles gospel of .ooli, whose mother i" ,r*re, seamstress, *".tr.r*o-urr, teacher,angel,andsaint,allinone,andwhosefatherisIJErn|1rTT''^,,T HE COULDN'T UNDERSTAND IT EITHER guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between' with a broken leg- was taken to a hospital A lumberjack These are the boys who are born to the l..t i-t""e. Miland after the leg was set the nurse woods' northern in the wealth lionaires who laugh, are rare. My experien"i i. tt

"t t;;;i;i"t"r..it'3'4"'*i{l'sJ",x.f;,"i,.*::..l?.nffl;:'hereplied....I.was

sky-hooking for the Weyerhaeuser gang, and I only had one grbund mole. _ He sent up a big blue butt and she was

,,paw?,, "Now

'rKl'rArsltL'I\r],DD 'RE'AREDNESS what?" , - ,r [::lJ,"1iTJ'il3[;i*i"r'lio:fl.t"f'},iil..i f'il:il L:"1 had he L swat both the nies when

,"iillr-"i'ft'fi"{:ll

"You go to bed, tt:g

#iir*.t,:|flt."*iiH-.;;.;;';J'ii"-*"ppi.;"*.a the nurse said.

a""r_

THEREFORE BE ACTM He who is silent is forgotten He who abstains is taken at his word.

He who does not advance, falls back.

He who stops is overwhelmed, distanced, crushed.

He who ceases to grow greater becomes smaller.

He who leaves ofi, gives up. .r i The stationary condition is the beginning of the. e.nd'

*ts"." ltr*"

-Amiel'

"I don't seem to "ialtri"na exactly," the lumberjack earnestly. "The "Neither do I" replied blame fool must have been crazY." VOLTAIRE ON CREED This little globe which is but a mere speck, travels through rp""."*ith its fellows, lost in, immensity. .Man, a creatu"re about five feet tall, is certainly a tiny thing as compared with the universe. Yet one of thq,se imperceptible' beings declares to his neighbors : "llearken unto me. th..e worlds sp-eaks with my voice' There The God 6f

"ll

lo'J'i,.'Tt"?il'"n;l'l',,':1'{ ili lll"nlil"i,T;1,Hff'#.fi Him. Mine alone is blessed'"-

I make it a rule never to argue with people for whose eternally damn'ed by Voltaire' opiriont I have no respect.-Gi5bon.

GEORGE GOOD VISITS SAN FRANCISCO IERRY STUTZ TO OPEN UP TEXAS TERRITORY George Good of the Good Lumber Co-., Tra.cy, accomFOR COOS BAY LUMBER CO. -bv Mr. Nichelmann, who is the football coach of I. H. "Terry" Stutz, who has traveled the San Joaquin oanied 'tn" Tt""y High School, visited San Francisco about May Vattev for the Coos Bay Lumber Co. for the last four lr..r.] left for Dallas, Texas, about the middle of May, 20th to irtrtt{. for new football suits for their team. *tt.r" he will represent the compahy in the Texas terriE. T. DODGE CO. RESUMES OPERATION torv. A. L. Sailbr, who has been with the companY for E.-J. Dodge Co.'s mill at Newburg, Humboldt. Co', The T,os ha.s office, of their serreral years working out -An-geles after having been shut down Leen transferred to the San Joaquin Valley with head- recently t6sumedloperations for about three wee-ks undergoing the usual anhual repairs'

quarters in Fresno.

S. E. SLADE LT,|I{BER CO. EST.

rr

WHOLEIAI.I

REFIEIENTING

A. J. WEST LBR CO. E" C. MITLER CEDAR LBR OO. ABERDEEN, WASH.

PROMPT AND REGULAR STEAMER SERVICE ON DTFFICT.'LT CUTIING ORDERII LOS ANGELES

301 Pctrolcun Sccuriticr

WErtnorc 52tt

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Tcl. Kcarncy lll0

June l, 1927

4l

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

Compensation Costs

Your Hardwood Order Can be Filled at Harnmond's

A Scrhs

All rrtcr on COMPENSATION INSURANCE erc crteblirhcd rnd epplicd by thc Cetifornie Inrpcction Rrting Bureer4 end thc ntc rppticablc to cach cleuification of ildurtry ir nrde up on r cort of production buir. Thc rctual rccidcnt cortr uc conprrcd to thc pryroll end nurt crtrb' lirh a rrtc pcr Lundrcd dollarr of pe5rroll wLich nutt pro' ducc cnough prcdium to pry ell eccidcnt cortr plur r ieir pGr ccnt of profit to thc inrurrncc compeny. Undcr our phn of opcntion, profit nedc by thir Arocietion ir rcturocd to thc Arurcdn and conrequcntln our erurcdr obtein thcir protcction rt ectuel COST.

Ovcr r pcriod of tLrcc ycer thc cort of WORKMEN'S COMPENSATTON TNSURANCE her bccn rtcedily clinb-

ia3, which hu brought rbout corrcrponding incrcercr in ratcr for precticelly rll tbc cbrificetionr in cvcry iadurtry.

Thcro retc incrcsrcr hrvc bccn practically uniform, which

tn H E recent Mississippi floods have r wrought havoc among the Flardwood mills of the South. With a great number

of sawmills shut down and with SO/o of Gum timber lands under water, as well os ? Gor. siderable amount of Oak and other Hatdwoods, the market has become demoralized, with shortage of stocks in evidence and a cotresponding steady advance in picee.

Hammond Hardwoods and Hardwood Flooring stodss are not depleted even in face of these conditions. Foreseei.g an abnorrral market, eady artangements were made to maintain these stocks on a normal level regardless of cost. Yout orders for Hardwoods, either rough or manufactuted, can be filled prompdy and completely, now as heretofore.

ir convincing proof thrt thcrc nurt bc rone eau.c or group of ceurcr for brin3in3 thcrn ebout, end to prcvcnt cv.n furthcr ilcrcercl thcrc crurcr nurt bc clininetcd.

(In our ncrt rrticlc wc will teLc up tLcec caurcr.)

Lunberrnentc BccfproGal Assoelatlon GEO. R. CHRISTIE, Gcncnl Merr3cr

MAIN OFEICts 2@ C,elifornie Sc.

sAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.

Sdar Offlccr .

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Southern C-alifornia Diviaion E. J. Brockrranun Pacific Coret Menrgcr Lor Angclcr BrancL San Fraacirco Branch 526 Hcllman Building 506 Undcrwood Building

2O1O So. Alameda St.

LOS ANGEI FS, CALIF.

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

42

Jane l,1927

Hoo Hoo News LOS ANGELES HOO.HOO CLUB The regular meeting of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club was held at the Elite Cafe, Thursday, May 19. President B. W. Byrne presided over the meeting. Fred Golding acted as chairman of the day.

Herman Rosenberg, The Hipolito Company, who had just returned from an extended eastern business trip, talked on "Impressions of his trip East." He spoke on the business rrrethods of some of the large eastern concerns, the efficiency of their large manufacturing plants with special reference to the Cadillac plant which he visited at Detroit, and the qualifications and training of salesmen.

Ted Lawrence, Hart-'Wood Lumber Co., who had returned from a four-weeks' trip visiting the mills in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia, spoke on lumber conditions in the Northwest. He also talked on lumber market conditions in Japan, China, the Atlantic coast and

California.

Art Penberthy, S. E. Slade Lurnber Co., who was also a recent visitor at the mills in Washington and Oregon, talked on conditions at the mills with reference to the curtailment program.

Fred Golding, Golding Lumber Co., related some of his early reminiscences of Los Angeles. He stated that he arrived in Los Angeles when he was three years old and at that time there were only 11,000 people in the city. He told of the first subdivision in Hollywood twenty-five years ago and also spoke of the rvonderful development that has been made in the San Fernando Valley.

Jack Dionne, "The California Lumber Merchant," gave an interesting talk on flood conditions in the Mississippi Valley. In referring to the hardwood market, he stated that over 200 hardwood mills had been closed due to flood ,conditions. ' President Byrne announced that the meeting on June 2, will be Ladies' Day. Cliff Estes will act as chairman of the meeting and arrange for the program on that day.

EAST BAY HOO-HOO CLUB NO. 39 The monthly meeting of the Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 was hetd at Oakland on Friday, May 20. Earl White acted as chairman of the day. W.- Hubert Graham, vice president Cosmopolitan Mutual Business and Loan Association, was the speaker of the day. His subject was "Clearing House."

President J. E. Neighbor presided over the business session of the meeting.

SAN F'RANCISCO H.OO HOO CLUB San Francisco Hoo Hoo Club No. t held their regular luncheon in the California Room, San Francisco Commercial Club, Friday, May 13th- President J. Walter Kelly presided, with J. F. Peggs as chairman of the day.

Dr. Ng Poon Chew, managing editor of the Chung Sai Yat Po, the leading Chinese daily paper of San Francisco, was the speaker of the day. Dr. Chew addressed the club on present conditions in China.

Dr. Chew went back into Chinese history in order to get the foundation for his talk, and led his listeners through its various phases, stressing the points which have contributed largely to the present crisis. Unification of the Chinese is bound to succeed, the domination by foreign governments and the unfair discriminatory practices by foreigners will surely come to an end, he stated. The new generation coming up in China is vastly difrerent from the old and will not tolerate the conditions which have prevailed in the past, and the system under which their tariff laws are made and their customs service operated is very obnoxious to the present generation, in as much as this source of revehue is under foreign control and supervision. Dr. Chew said.

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHERN OREGON HOO-HOO PLAN OPEN AIR CONCATENATION Plans are under way for a large open air meeting and concat to be staged by the Hoo-Hoo of Northern California and Southe.rn Oregon. The event will be held at Fall River Mills, California, ,during the summer. Jewell D. Lowe of the Westwood Hoo-Hoo Club, who initiated the proposed meeting, is heading a strong committee appointed by the Westwood and Susanville Clubs to see that the

meeting is carried thiough. The tentative program in-

cludes a reunion and open air concatenation, barbecue and outdoor sports. Fall River Mills, which is beautifully located in the virgin pine timber country of the High Sierra, is easily accessible by automobiles to all lumber centers of Northern California and Southern Oregon.

ARTHUR A. HOOD APPOINTED ASSISTANT TO J. M. McNARY

Arthur A. Hood, Hoo-Hoo Snark of the lJniverse, has

been appointed assistant to J. M. McNary, president of the

Cady Lumber Corporation, with headquarters at El Paso, Texas. Mr. Hood has been connected with the lumber business in Minneapolis for many years.

W. R. GHATIBERLI]I & GO. GARGO and RAIL Dirtributing Agcntr

OPERATING STEAMERIi

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FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES

6lE Mrtron Bldg.

266 Charobcr of Conmorcc Bld3.

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

lane 7,1927

HUGH GRAVES RESIGNS Hugh Graves, manager of the Chula Vista Lumber Co., Chula Vista, has resigned. Due to his wife's health, he is compelled to move to a different climate. Mr. Graves has been associated with the Chula Vista Lumber Co. for many years. O. G. Gray, formerly rvith the City Lumber Co., San Diego, has been appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of !Ir. Graves.

COULD NOT CARRY ON Iy\/ITHOUT YOUR MAGAZINE forward my copy of your magazine to me "Please at Healdsburg. Could not carry on without your

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Healdsburg Lumber Company L. D. Gilbert, President.

SAN FRANCISCO PARTY VISIT THE REDWOOD DISTRICT Garnet W. Fraser, C. & A. R. R., San'Francisco; Mrs. J. E. Fraser, secretary of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, San Francisco; Joe Cuneo, White Bros., San Francisco; and Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Jones, M. & St. L. R. R., San Francisco, were recent visitors to Eureka and other points in Humboldt County, making the trip over the Redwood Highway. While at Crannell, they were entertained at luncheon by Mrs. Ollie I\{. Cole, wife of Harry W. Cole, vice president and general manager of The Little River' Redwood Co. Those who attended the luncheon were: lfarriet and Clair Cole, Edith Bowers, D. J. McCormick, H. A. Libbey, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Jones, Joe Cuneo, Mrs. J. E. Fraser and.Garnet W. Fraser.

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Manufactured by the

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A three story house

FOR SPECTAL SIZE P.ANEIS

Mrs. B. C, Ball's residence,614 Laurel Avenue, Portland, Oregon, is a oarticularly attractive modified English type' Tbe architect, A. E. Doylc' ind the iontractors, McHolland Bros., agteed that only the best oak flmrins obtainable would serve in such a home.

Thev dhose "Perfection" Brand Oak Floring, using clear quartered white oak-on the first floor, clear plaia white oak o! the second flmr, and select

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As you see it today, the rich natural finish has a beautiful lustre. The texture is such that generations from now these same flmrs will retain their original beauty. Yet "Perfectioo" costs no more than a number of other brands.

There's a size and grade of "Perfection" Brand Oak Flmring for every type of structure, new oi old. For full information write today.

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

Iane l, 1927

Possibilities of Securing Cooperation From The Lumber Industry in the Better Farm Structures Movement Max E. Cook (Mem. A. S. A. E.) Farmstead Engineer California Redwood Association

(Delivered at the Anrrual Spring Meeting of the Pacific Coast Section of the American Society of Agricultural

Engineers).

Mr. Mat Cooh

Lumbermen, as rvell as Agricultural Engineers. recognize thelvorth of complete plans, specifications and bills of material to encourage and nrake it easier for the farmer to

build. , l,ikervise, as does the farmer, the lumber dealers supplying him feel the need of plans that result not only in better arrangement and appearance, but that can be easily follorvecl rvithout rvaste of material or labor and rvith the greatest economy in choice of lengths, sizes and grades of material most suitable.

As modern merchants, progressive lumbermen are coming to appreciate the mutual benefits that accrue from the investment of the farmers' money in properly planned, practical and durable improvernents, instead of permitting it to be squanderecl on untested schemes and extravagant and useless l.vhims.

To the majority of efforts made by state agricultural

colleges, experiment stations and others to enlist the lumbermen's cooperation and interest in "Better Farm Buildings" demonstrations, exhibits, conferences, etc., lumber interests have responded heartily and, unquestionably, mutual benefit has resulted therefrom.

The retail lumber clealer norv is. and for some time must be expected to rernain, the chief building advisor in most farming communities. He immediately commands definite recognition as one of our greatest powers for good in the dissemination of economically sound and useful building information of proven merit.

I am not overlooking that the agricultural engineer's impelling interest is in the perfection of design and construction of farm improvements rather than in the merchandising of construction materials, yet rvithout the acceDtance of de-

sign and recommendations by the material manufacturers and their sales representatives; lvithout their willingness, and indeed ability, to manufacture and sell to specifications, the result is often a spreading of building propaganda that too frequently does more harm than good.

It is not sufficient for Agricultural Engineers to originate and put on paper and in print improved ideas on farm building construction. In spite of the very excellent work indeed of our State and Federal departments, including the tireless efforts of farm advisors. home demonstration agents and others offering services to the farmer, there yet remains a great lack of coordination betlveen these agencies and those commercial interests tvho are in still closer touch with the farmer, and rvhose advice is sought daily. The influence that the country Carpenter and the retail lumber dealer have rvith the farmer in arriving at important decisions on all building matters can hardly be over-estimated.

Although some of the more progressive lumbermen take advantage of the service of their state agricultural colleges (due them if for no other reason than as.tax payers), they are comparatively fetv. Experience has demonstrated that this process of securing distribution of suggestive building plans, descriptive bulletins and building advice is too slow to accomplisl-r anything like the desired results. We must "carry the message to Garcia." Some few of our agricultural colleges, have undertaken to do just this; notably, the Ohio State University by corresponding rvith country lumber dealers, carpenters and contractors, by sending extension agents to call on them and by arranging conferences, demonstrations, etc.

(Continued on Page 46)

THE L. W. BLINN LUMBER COMPANY Lunbcr MiU WorL Serh & Doorr Neilr Gcncral O6ccr

Roo6ng

25lfl South Alancda St.

Ccncnt Plartcr

lVall Board

Lor Angclcr

Evcrything in thc

Buildias Lhr IIrtribu6nr Yer& ud lVhrncr, Foot of McFerlrnd Avc, Ilr

Ar3clct Hrrtor, q7n-l-ftc,

Crf.

June 7,1927

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

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46

Jane l, t927

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT (Continued from Page 44)

Oregon Agricultural College, I believe, has recently provided every retail lumber dealer in Oregon (outside of the larger cities) with a full set of farm building ciiculars and in addition, several blueprint plans of poultry houses and accessories most in demand. T'his is a commendable practice, indeed, and will unquestionably accomplish very constructive and satisfying results.

Many of our state colleges have from time to time inspired at least intermittent action by arranging conferences between agricultural engineers and lumbermen. Numerous demonstration building projects have been arranged for the benefit of all interests and very substantial contributions in the way of plans and counsel have been extended to building trade associations and building material manufacturers who in turn have passed much of this information on to the farmer in the form of advertising literature.

This is all in the right direction, but there is yet need for a r4uch closer working relationship, with the lumber interests in particular, to bring the retail lumber dealer, whom you might say is out on the "firing line," into complete sympathy with our eftort. To do this, it is imperative that we furnish him with plans in such form as to fully meet his requirements.

To indicate to an appreciable extent, I hope, something of the possibilities in promoting better farm structures and needed improvements on the farm by securing the aid of the retail lumber dealer, through a process of helping him to help himself, I should like to submit a brief outline of some of my own efforts in this direction.

With years of close daily contact with faimers, country carpenters and contractors, retail lumber dealers and others, in the development of all classes of farm buildings under varied conditions, I long ago became convinced of the absolute necessity of designing a given structure, not only to

meet the requirements of the individual farm, but to receive the universal endorsement alike of farmer, country con-

tractor or carpenter and retail lumber dealer. Without the former, you know what happens. I have often wondered if all of us who design farm buildings,-(say a model milking barn for instance, completely and painstakingly covered in blueprint and bulletin form, submitted to a farmer perhaps in some locality too far distant to permit of close follow-up), would ever recognize the completed structure after the local retail lumber dealer and the .carpenter were through'txperting" the plans. This is without intimation that they have erred, for more often than is generally realized, building material stocks and local practices vary so greatly, even in adjoining commurtities, as to make extensive alterations in the plans and specifications unavoidable.

In recognition of these important factors, when it became my privilege some two years ago to organize an Agricultural Department for the California Redwood Association, to establish a farm building consulting bureau and produce for release, plans, specifications, lumber and cutting lists, etc., to assist lumber dealers, farmers, and agricultural interests with farm building problems, it u'as with a firm determination to secure, if possible; the retail lumber dealer's hearty support, without rvhich the effort would be largely wasted.

Accordingly, having as a test limited the original area to be served to the State of California, a State-wide canvass of all retail lumber yards with farm trade was made to determine demand. Based on the returns, the following S€rv: ice was inaugurated: Complete plans and specifications with alternate recommendations were specially prepared covering a great variety of farm structures and accessories, including septic tanksirrigation structures-fence construction-farm gates-portable panels, hurdles and pens-mash feeders and hoppers (Continued on Page 47)

EI{GINEERS

ud

Old Growth Yellow Fir

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REMEMBER

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Jlune l, 1927

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

47

(Continued from Page 46)

for hogs- feed racks for cattle and sheep-self-feeders poultry houses-nests-rabbit hutches, etc.

As a distinct and important feature of the service, complete lumber and cutting lists for each of the subjects were prepared separately as Supplements.

As a permanent reference for all interests s.erved, and to assist in the selection of extra sheets suitable for distribu: tion and field use, all plans are issued in Bulletin form on heavy ledger paper, bound in flexible leatherette binder.

All Bulletins are of letter size, to facilitate mailing in the reprint form, (described elsewhere).

Loose leaf form permits of periodical addition of further Bulletins. New material is added to cover those subjects in greatest demand.

This book is used as Dealer's reference in office, shop and yard; as Salesman's manual in the lield. Many Dealers have ordered these overprinted with their compliments for

Farm Advisors, Agricultural Schools, Manual Training Classes, Agricultural Project Managers, and various officials with Agricultural interests, identifying the Dealer and yard as a sympathetic cooperator wherever farm structures are under consideration.

Suggestions for additional subjects are solicited. Consultation on all farm building problems is invited.

Reprints of the individual Bulletins with corresponding Supplements are made available in unlimited quantities for

wide distribution and use. They differ from the reference or bond sheets only in that they carry a space for Dealer's name and address to be overprinted or rubber-stamped to identify them as Dealer's issue.

The Supplements are of different color to distinguish them from Bulletins. They are not intended for general distribution and are given out only after making a sale of material and to assist in the actual construction. This enables the Dealer to give freely a wide distribution to the Bulletins, promoting further inquiry on the part of a pros-

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Distribution of Bulletins has been accomplished with especially satisfactory returns by mailing out periodically, enclosing a questionnaire listing other Bulletins available and offering to supply them where needed. Sample Bulletins may be most advantageously distributed with a f)ealer's letter addressed either to an individual by name or to a rural box holder. or both.

Further circularization is also obtained by numerous direct methods making them available free, from racks in Dealers' offices, Expositions, Fairs, and various community gatherings. Being of letter size they are very suitable for enclosing monthlv invoices.

The various inquiries for suggestive Bulletins received direct are answered and at once referred to Dealers in their respective territories.

(Continued on Page 48)

Quotations Gladly Furnished by Wertern Saler Reprerentative

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THE LOUFVILLE VENEER MILIS

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SPRAGUE LUMBER CO. OPEN NEW YARD The Sprague Lumber Co. are opening a new yard near _ Santa Ana, located on the San Diego Highway. The Sprague Lumber Co. also operate yards at Moneta and Los Angeles.

FRED BOCK A SAN FRANCISCO VISITOR Fred Bock, manager of the Gilroy Lumber Co., Gilroy, was a recent San Francisco visitor where he spent a few

days calling on the trade and looking over lumber condi-

tior-rs in the Bay District. He reporis that building con-

ditions in his territory are satisfactorv.

RALPH CLARK GETS HOLE IN ONE

.Ralph A. Clark, sales manager of Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Mills, Seattle, made a hole in one recently at the 10th

hole of the new Broadmoor Golf Club in Seattle. Mr. Clark was playing with John D. Collins, another lumberman, at the time.

(Continued f.rom Page 47)

Actions speak louder than words. Sales have been materially_increased and farm business has definitely come in where Dealers have built and displayed many of the fixtures and accessories illustrated in the Agricultural Series. Farmers listen patiently to those who would tell them how to do a thing, but they much prefer to be shown.

In addition to giving distribution to Bulletins, and to other means of advertising, many Dealers are building these farm accessories and are offering them for sal,e eithei ready built or in K. D. form, or they are furnishing Bulletins and Supplements with the bill of materials, giving as they do

complete instructions for cutting and fitting. Where a

Dealer prefers to sell lumber only-, it has been- demonstrated as well worth while to build and display several of the accessories if only to arouse interest and encourage the farmer and poultrymen to order material with wh-ich to build these, or similar fixtures.

Illustrations in mat forrn suitable for newspaper advertisements are furnished all subscribing Deallri.

These illustrations attract attention to Dealer's ads and definitely identify the yard 'as one able to give farm building service and fully meet the requirements of farm trade.

Specially weatherproofed yard, truck and road signs are also furnished to dealers, annollncing free plans available, further identifying them as Farm Building-Service Yards.

As a measure of the reception and usefulness of this service I shall merely touch on a few typical results.

The service has b6en subscribed and i. installed in over 350 retail lumber yards in California alone. These yards in turn have used over 300,000 reprints for use in prombting farm building. In addition, although we have been only

June Lrl927

A. T. SHOI',i/ CALLING ON ARIZONA TRADE A. T. Show, representative of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Co., with headquarters in Los Angeles, is in Arizona where he will spend about two weeks calling on the company's customers and looking over market conditions. He will visit the Arizona territory with A. L. Tomseth, the company's Arizona representative who makes his headquarters at Phoenix.

LUMBERMEN'S RECIPROCAL ASSOCIATION AN. NOUNCE NEW SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REPRESENTATIVES E. J. Brockmann, Pacific Coast manager of the Lumbermen's Reciprocal Association, announces that R. E; Walker and N. A. Peterson have been selected as their Southern California representatives, with offices in the H. W. Hellman Building, Los Angeles. Messers. Walker and Peterson have had a wide experience in insurance and are both well versed in casualty insurance. too glad to furnish complimentary sets of our Agricultural Series of Bulletins to certain interests, these same retail dealers have purchased and distributed, at considerable additional cost, over 150 copies of the complete bound Series for presentation to their respective farm advisors, farm bureau and farm center officials, high schools with manual training cla-sses, colonization project managers, agricultural engineers, farmers associations, etc., etc.

The Service is not furnished free to dealers, although he makes free distribution of the material to farmers. Experience has demonstrated that a more judicious use is made of such material by dealers tvhen it has a value placed on it.

Although there is much material of a somewhat similar character available for the mere asking, these dealers have spent literally thousands of dollars to help defray the cost of securing this and getting it before the farmer.

Hundreds of letters from farmers, farm advisors, dealers and a great variety of agricultural interests attest to its helpfulness and indicate very successful accomplishments.

No small part of the success of the plan is attributable to having gained the cooperation and sympathetic support (both moral and financial) of retail lumber dealers to meet their needs as well as the farmers whom they serve.

As evidence that it does both, we have the knowledge on the one hand of greatly increased sales of lumber to the farmer for needed improvements; inquiries from all directions and from every imaginable interest, and new and repeat orders for this material coming in daily from dealers catering to the farmer.

In closing, I would again like to stress that the retail lumber dealer be given the recognition he deserves as one of our strongest allies in the Better Farm Building movement.

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Centml California Lumbermen's Club The Central California Lumbermen's Club met at the Tracy Inn, Tracy, on Saturday, May 14. George Good, Good Lumber Co., acted"as chairman of {he day. Mr. B. S. Crittenden, an attorney of Tracy and 'a member of the Legislaturb from that district, rvas the speaker of the day. . W. H. Falconbury made a report for the Plan Book committee. C. G. Bird gave an interesting talk on "Build a Home First Week," which campaign will start on June 6,

and several thousand stickers, buttons and various kinds of building literature will be distributed. On a motion of W. H. Falc-onbury, $100.00 from the Club treasury was donated to the Mississippi Flood Relief Fund. Mrs. J. E. Fraser, secretary of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, talked on State Association matters.

It was announced at the meeting that Dick Ustick, Stanislaus Lumber Co., Modesto, has been appointed Viceger'ent

Snark of the new Central California Hoo-Hoo District, which include Stockton, Tracy, I\fodesto and surrounding territory.

The meeting was held at the Tracy Inn, Tracy's new community hotel. An inspection of the new hotel was made by those who attended the meeting. The new hotel is an attractive building, is beaqtifully furnished and is a tribute to the citizens of the community.

Those present were:A; Willhelm, frwin Lumber Co., Escalon.

H. C. Henry, Booth-Kelly Lumber Co., Sacramento.

A. H. Fisher, F'isher Bros. Planing Mill Stockton.

I'rank Fisher, Fisher Bros. Planing Mill Stockton.

Geo. Good, Good Lumber Co., Tracy.

C. E. DeFreitas, Good Lumber Co., Tracy.

E. E. Keltcman, Tracy.

B. S. Crittcnderl TBcy. G. E. Groun{ Modesto Lumber Co., Modcsto.

W. O. Mesheh United Lumber Yards, Modesto.

Chas. T. Gartin, Stanislaus Lurnber Co,, Modesto.

W. H. Bcsecker, Tilden Lumber & Mill Co, Oakdale.

R. F. Wells, West Tudock Lumber Co., Turlock.

Robt fngts, San Joaquin I-umbcr Co., Stockton.

Mrs. J. E. Fraser, Cal. Retaiters Assn., San Francisco.

Joc Cuneo, Whitc Bros., San Francisco.

Tom Tomlinson, McDonald & Harrington, San Francisco.

Mrs. S. H. Rothcrmel Stockton.

Mrs. E. DeCleisem, Stockton A. E. H. Cardwcll Tracy Lumber Co., Tracy.

O. V. Wilson" Central Lumber Co., Stockton S. H. Rothermel Central Lumber Co., Stockton L. H. Elliott, Valley Lumber Co., Lodi G. W. Fraser, Chicago & Alton R.R., San Francisco.

W. T. Ralston, Yancey Lumbcr Co., Newman.

J. H. Yancey, Yancey Lumbcr Co., Newman S. J. Irwin, Irwin Lumber Co., Escalon B. R. DuVall, Ripon Lumber Co., Ripon.

O. D. Ruse, Tilden Lumber & Mill Co., Stockton W. H. Falconbury, Falconbury Lumbcr Co, Stockton

W. A. Glenn, Coos Bay Lumber Co., San Francisco.

H. M. Isenhower, llolmes Eureka Lumber Co., Sacramcnto.

J. M. Montggmery, Silver Falls Timber Co., Stockton.

H. M. Schaucr, Tracy Lumber Co., Tracy.

T. L. Gardner, Mill Work Institutg Stockton.

R. L. Ustick, Stanislaus Lumber Co., Modesto.

Chas. C. Moorehead" Irwin Lumber Co., Escalon.

C. G. Bird, Stockton Lumber Co., Stoclto:r.

W. H. Woods, "California Lumber Merchant," San Francisco.

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FIRE PREVENTION HANDBOOK FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN ISSUED BY U. S. FOREST SERVICE

What fire does to the forests and brushfields of California and how it can be prevented and controlled is the subject of a new circular entitled "A Forest Fire Prevention Handbook for School Children," issued by the California district, United States Forest Service in cooperation with the State Forester and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

This circular deals especially with forest conditions and forest fires in California.- The directions it contains, though prepared for the use of sclrool children, are such as may be ipptiea by any public spirited citizen who gocs into the woods and wishes to do his part in preserving the forests.

If they were put into general practice they would help mightily to reduce the enbrmous iosses from fires, *ht"!,-19 Cal-ifornia alone, in the past five years, have totaled 12,545 fires that burned over 3,91O000 acres of timbcr and brush land and caused an estimated damage of $6,40O,000.

The Forest Fire Prevention Handbook consists of 30 pages of text a-nd 29 photographic illustrations, together wiitr a map of California forest zones, and a foreword to teachers by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

The text is divided into five simplc lessons for ehildren on (1) the forests of California, (2) causes of fires, (3) t-he efieits of fire, (4) fire prevention, (5) how fires are detected and fough[. Appropriate questions at the end of each lesson add to the-value of the circular for the teaching of care with fire.

Copies of this handbook, lliscellaneous CircutalNo. 79, may -S.be obtained free of charge from the District Forester, Forest Service, Ferry Building, San Francisco' or U. from any forest supervisor of the 18 natioEral forests of the State.

SCANDINAVIAN GANG SAW METHODS TO BE TESTED Hope to Profit From European Experienccs in Closer Utilization of Arrcricen Ltmrber Complying with the recommendations of a special committee of lumbermen, tests will be carried on during the

spring and summer of the operation of a Scandinavian gang siw on hardwoods and softwoods in the United States, according to a decision made by the sub-committee o{ the National Committee on Wood Utilization on the gaug sawing of lumber under the chairmanship of A. Trieschmann of Chicago, Illinois, at a conference held recently at the Department of Comrnerce.

While gang saws have been used for many years in America, these saws have been of a heavy type designed for the cutting of heavy timber. Top logs and small timber produced by the thinning process have nqt usually been converted into lumber because the American sawmill machinery designers have not paid much attention to this class of raw material, the utilizalion of which has been of small importance- as long as virgin timber of large dimensions was available at low prices.

A. F. STEVENS VISITS BAY DISTRICT A. F. Stevens, A. F. Stevens Lumber Co., Headsburg,

spent a few days in the Bay District around the middle of the month attending to business matters. While in San Francisco, he called on the lumber trade.

HERMAN HELWIG A BAY DISTRICT VISITOR Herman Helwig, manager of the Watsonville Lumber Co., Watsonville, accompanied by a part)r of friends, was a recent week-end visitor in San Francisco. He toured his party over the Peninsula and East Bay Districts showing them the'beauty spots of the San Fiancisco Bay District.

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Ted Lawrence If you wGnB to ask any Californb lunbcrman who Thcodore B. Lawrcacc ia, hc

vould pobably acratch his hcad'and tdl you he ncncr hcard of any such ltc{sort.lBut if y6u arked him who 'Tcd' Livrence is, that would !c aq cntir-cly'_diffeneat story. For tf,ey all bror Ted Larrcncc in thc hunber businocs in Califomia-Noth or Soudr, East c-West Califcnia- Hic namc anrl fanro so,rt of co,vcrs fie stato aftcr ttrc raailter of wcll loo*r and highly advcrtised Californira Butrghinc.

Ycs, folLsl Tcd Lawrcnce-is vell and most favorably knowtr to ua. He livce ia thc free a;d uoafraid City of Loc Angeles and is Manager in Southcrn Califo4nia for onc of thc greatcst lumber concerns that scf,vcs this territory. The Hart-Wood I;unbcr

Comtnny.

- Ted was evidently alwalc intcndcd td be a lumberdarl for hc sas born in Tacoraa, "Ttre Lunber Capital of Arncrica." His folks lived ilr Chicago during his boyhood dap, but when hc left school and got rcady for thc serious busincss of life thry had rndttcd back west like all wisc pcople cventually do, and landed, in San Frarrciscq and hcre Tlcd got his first and last job. He werrt to work for The I'trart-Wood Lumber Company. Hc stuff and the first thing thcy knew the I'Iart-Wood folLs had hirn roanshowcd Jhowcd a lot of stufi rmtil aging their big yard in San Francisco. Hc remained in charge of that yard tmtll rnarlv vcars ?go, aso. whcn the yard vard wad sold. IIc had been on that jnb irb ovcr tcrr years. rrcarly 6ve years put him in thc they dccided d=Gcided to take him out of the rotail dcpartment anrl pu,t Thcn thev gtcat wholcede Los Angnles and was ptrced in chargc of thc grcat rale, and he came to Loc wholcsale, ratcr tradc which that fi1m cnjoyr in this tcrritory. It has becn a good five yean he put in b Southern Califoroia- The tradc dosrr hrc liked him fronr thc first. , Hc has -good looking individual, as his pictrue shoaq anfl a strong-jarvcil hc-man at thd ba same time who makes and kecpc fricads in rmucual fashion. They dl Ukc Ted iu Southcrn California, because of his amiable dispoeition and furo qualitier of eharactlcr.

And they rcspect him far his brpincgc qudifications. You always hcar hin rncrxicred very quickly whcn lumber folks get to talking abqrt go-gcttcrc in tb. slrolcsalc business, and that hc is onc of t}re bcot-po8te4 bcst qualified, and most auccess-

lul sellers of wholesale lumber in California, there can bc no doubt The grcat Hart-Wood Lnrnbcr Compeny have great faith in hirq and plaoc their afrairs in ti6 hands dth t[c trtmoct conidcncc. Hc knows thc game he is playing, krws it backrar& and forsards, knoss hb tradc to pcrfection; and withd, heplaf's tlre garne fahly and squarcly.

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PLAN STRUCTURAL GRADE CAMPAIGN FOR DOUGLAS FIR A special national campaign in behalf of Douglas Fir structural timbers is announced to begin in June by the West Coast Lumber Bureau, this city. Details of the pllrn were agreed on during the week between a special timber grading committee of the West Coast Lumbermen's Asso' ciation and Bureau officials. Extensive advertising and field

work, both of a technical nature and directed chiefly toward architects and. engineers will be used by the Bureau to bring a larger amount of this class of trade to West Coast mills.

"Douglas Fir mills in Washington and Oregon can supply the most exacting requirements in structural timbers," the Bureau stated, "and on many of the most important pieces of timber const,ruction undertaken in America during recent years, Douglas Fir structural timbers were sp'ecified by the responsible architects and engineers. However, the quality, size and availability of our structural timbers are not as well known to the technical men as they might be and this is the reason for the campaign."

Architectural, engineering, building and lumber trade publications will be used for the structural timber advertising campaign and a special drive to coordinate with the publicity is planned by the Bureau's field staff of technical engineers. These will work in cooperation with sales representatives of Bureau member mills and with retail dealers stocking the structural grades of Douglas Fir. Quite a number of Bureau member mills are now cutting all the structural grades and others have signified their intention of backing up the program by adding these stocks to their regular lists.

J. O. ME;NS MAKEGAY TRIP

J. O. Means, the well known lumberman of Los Angeles, drove up to San Francisco, arriving about May 3rd. As he was combining business with pleasure he visited the Yosemite Valley on the way.

F. A. HART VISITS LOS ANGELES Mr. F. A. Hart, of Portland, Oregon, well known member of the famous lumber firm, The Hart-Wood Lumber Company, is a visitor in Los Angeles at the present time. He is being shown around by Ted Lawrence, Manager for his concern in Southern California, and by his son, Bill Hart, who sells lumber in this territory under Mr. Lawrence.

The Hart-Wood Lumber Company is a concern twenty-two years of age, of which Mr. Hart and Mr. W. H. Wood, of San Francisco, are the orvners. They do a huge business in the Fir lumber g'ame, owning their own timber and mills, their own great line of steamers, and selling their own lumber almost entirely in California where they have their own wharves and sales organization. In addition to the product of their own mills, they are heavy buyers of Fir from the better tidewater mills of the Northwest. They operate nine of their own lumber carrying ships, between the Northwest and California.

GEORGE LOUNSBERRY GOES EAST FOR

VACATION TRIP

George Lounsberry, of Los Angeles, active head of the concern of Lounsberry & Harris, who operate a'string of

big retail lumber yards in the Los Angeles district, left on May 26th for a five-weeks vacation trip to New York and other eastern cities. He was accompanied by Mrs. Lounsberry.

R. E. CALDWELL AND FRANK MINARD VISIT HUMBOLDT COUNTY R. E. Caldwell, The Little River Redwood Co.,'San Francisco, and Frank Minard, C. S. Pierce Lumber Co., Fresno, were recent visitors at mill operations of The Little River Redwood Co. at Crannell. A complete inspection of their mill and logging operations were made by the visiting lumbermen.

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lune l, 1927

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

First Hardwood Reforestation Epochal in the history of reforestation in America is the experiment now being carried on by the Thistlethwaite Lumb,er Company in reforesting hardwood lands in Louisiana, the American Forest Week committee here says in connection with the national observance of the week, April 24 to 30.

This, the first large commercial hardwood reforestation project in the United States, under way in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, is, in a sense, a monument to the late Lote Thistlethwaite, who began the work now being carried on by his broth'er John R. Thistlethwaite.

Perhaps because the depletion of hardwood has not been so obvious as that of softwood, commercial reforestation in the past has been confined entirely to coniferous trees, the American Forest Week committee says. Hardwood land, the committee points out as another probable reason why its reforestation has not been generally undertaken, is usually excellent agricultural land while land upon which coniferous tre,es grow is more often not.

The Thistlethwaite project, the committee feels, is significant in that it inaugurates the interest of practical lumbermen in hardwood reforestation.

On its cut-over hardwood tract of 11,300 actes the Thistlethwaite company estimates the minimum annual growth at 50O board feet per acre. The normal diameter growth on individual trees at present is everaging half an inch per y,ear, and the maximum over one inch. The growth is distributed among red oak, white oak, hickory and ash.

The tract, where the experiment in the restoration of hardwood is being carried out, forms only a reserve where young trees are protected but has been set aside by Thistlethwaite as a sanctuary for wild life for the entire reforestation period of thirty years.

Thinning has been necessary because of the too dense growth of trees to the acre, and the company has sold the product of the thinning at a dollar a cord as it lay on the ground.

No artificial planting is being done, fire protection and

scientific thinning being the only aids to natural replanting.

Even so, Mr. Thistlethwaite figures the cost of forest management at $26.& per acre, including the original land valuation of $5.00 an acre, and made up otherwise as follows: interest 30c per acre a year; fire patrol and incidental supervision 1Oc and taxes 32c.

These figures disregard compound interest which most practical lumbermen insist on computing in connection with any reforestation enterprise, with the general conclusion that it cannot be profitabe. There are others, however, who argue that it is not fair to demand compound interest in tree growing investments, particularly when the growing of new trees is carried on simultaneously with the cutting of mature trees in the same forest.

As an example of how the possibilities of hardwood reforestation have been brought home to him, Mr. Thistlethwaite tells of cutting logs 16 inches and up at the small end on a tract of timber that was an old plantation during the Civil War. In many young tracts of hardwood timber in Louisiana old furrows in which corn and cane were planted still exist, evidence that the tracts were fields not so many years ago.

Examination of logs on the Thistlethwaite holdings and knowledge of neighboring operations show that 40 to 45 per cent of hardwood logs 16 inches and up are 50 years and under in age according to Thistlethwaite.

Hardwood reforestation would be profitable on the thousands of acres of rich bottom land in the south which are idle today, and which regardless of their fertility, cannot be used for crops for the next fifty years because of the cost of drainage and clearing, he believes.

"Ifardwood reforestation, to my mind and from the findings of experience, is even more feasible, less expensive and less dangerous than softwood timber growing," he says.

The two most important things to be considered in hardwood timber growing, as in softwood growing, are fire prevention and equitable taxation, the American Forest Week committee says, adding that the Thistlethwaite Lumber Company is fortunate that Louisiana has special forest land taxation laws encouraging to reforestation.

The small stieam of business ldndness leads to the great river of business success.

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Jane l,1927

Here is a Letter That Gave One of Our Retail Friends A Big "Kick'o A retail lumberman in New Mexico sends us this story and accompanying letter. He says he sold a man the materials for re-roofing ahd repairing an old house, which the owner was getting ready to rent, and when the bill for the materials went out, the following letter came in return: "Dear Sir: This is to say my house is 'swept and gar-

nished' and await a tenant. I have oiled the floors and all the woodwork, and calcamined the kitchen. It was never so nice as now. It is furnished with new furniture of Mrs. Pollards selection. A Majestic range and hot and cold baths. Electricity and water and sceptic sewerage that surpasses Roswell. Fine shade, lawn Garage, sleeping

BUREAU HAS TWO TECHNICAL BOOKLETS TO DISTRIBUTE So many demands were made for the 16page booklet, "Douglas Fir & Southern Pine," published during the winter by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association at Seattle, that it has been necessary to run another edition. This is now ready for distribution and the Bureau, 562 Strtart Building, has several thousand copies for free distribution to the readers of BIG TREES. This booklet covers the subject thoroughly, pointing out the botanical differences, colors of woods, durability' strength, grades, etc. Complete working stress tables for woods are given. both '"Mechanical Properties of Timbers," written by C. J. Hogue, field manager of the Bureau, a lGpage booklet, giving-in a semi-technical manner the properties of Douglas Fir timbers for structural needs, will be sent free on request.

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Your acknowledgement of this is unnecessary, the thanks are all on my side.

Continued success to you."

T. A. Bonner, Wholesale Lumber, San Francisco.

CHAS. R. WILSON MAKES NORTHERN TRIP

Chas. R. Wilson, industrial representative, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, left for Portland on

May 16th. While in the North he will visit the company's creosoting plant at St. Helens and their mill operations on Puget Sound.

CLUB Jack Dionne, publisher of "The California Lumber Merchant," was the speaker of the day at the meeting of the Whittier Rotarians on Friday, May 13. C. W. Pinkerton, the well known Whittier retailer and President of the Whittier Rotary Club, presided over the meeting.

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porch and all modern conveniences. Price $40 per month to people who will care for it. I must rent it in order to pa)' you. I know you will aid me in getting it into use.

The Pollards occupied it a year, and only left it to occupy their own, which is not nearly so nice nor so wtll situated, and so free from dust and travel., The roof is all one could wish. Awaiting your willing help, I remain Your Customer, etc."

And now all this dealer has to do is find a good tenant for the house and sooner or later the material bill will be paid. Truly a man must be a versatile performer to be a country retailer.

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Los Angeles'Concern Makes Large Shipment of El Rey Roofing to Hawaii Reporting the shipment of another 10,000 roll cargo of mosaic patterns, are made of the new El Rey slate-surfaced El Rey roofing to Hawaii, Joseph Brown, Jr., vice-presi- shingles manufactured in our plant.

"The 'Clean-up and Paint-up Campaign' sponsored by dent of the Los Angeles Paper \{anufacturing Company the Junior Chamber of Commerce has been a welcome says increased demand is keeping their plant on a Z4hortr stimulus to business in all lines, and has had a definite production schedule. effect in helping to build that spirit of community pride

Mr. Brown said the growing demand for their new as- which is making Los Angeles and Southern California phalt hexagon shingles, surfaced with genuine Vermont famous for their progress in artistic building and the policy slate, in six different natural colors, has 6ben a distinct of keeping older buildings goodJooking and in good condition. surprise.

"There is probably no one thing about the exterior of a "Anyone who is watching the building program in Los structure that adds more to its beautv and value than a Angeles and vicinity has undoubtedly noticed the distinct- goodJooking roof that is durable. ive roofs that are being used on the new homes, club build"We have succeeded in developing roofing materials that ings, and churches," said Brown. not only give exceptional wear; but actually add to the ex"The tendency to brighten up exteriors is not only grow- telt_o{ beauty of the structures which they protect. ing, but is giving Los Angeles a unique place among the "Th9 best proof of this is in our steahy production 'best-dressed' cities of the country. growth, which has made repeated plant additions and ex"Many of these new vari-colored roofs, in distinctive tensione necessary during the past-year."

No building material sale is complete until it forms part of a Eotisfactory building thing.

When boosting a home sale tell your prospect to "Asl( the Man }lrho Owns Onett.

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Welcomes Lumber Men Harry Stockard, lcnown to Valley lumbermen ae the former host of the Hotele "Fresno" and "Californian," ig now at the San Francisco "Plaza"-which he invites you to make your

"stamping ground."

Make your appointments here . . . drop in for a friendly q9ke. . . uae the comfortabL l"bby ae a clubl You'll find the hotcl conveniently close to shows and shope and you'll relish thl savory menris turned out under the direction of the noted Joe Diert Ratee $2.00 to $5.50

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New Permanent Carrier Block Intfoduced By Gerlinger-Stevens Co. Economy and Durability Are Features

All lumbermen operating lumber carriers will be interested in this steel carrier block-because they are interested

in anything that will reduce their costs at a small initial outlay.

Mr. F. W. Stevens, General Manager of the GerlingerStevens Company, 326 Pacific Building, P-ortland, Oregon, who are manufatiuring and selling the "Economy" Steel Carrier Block, states tlat investigition shows the cost of buildins *oodett carrier blocks vaiies from 50c to 65c each, for maierial and labor; also that the life of a wooden block is onlv about six months. Added to this cost is the expense of refiting which is necessitated when loads have to be repiled afler the wooden blocks break.

Assumine that a wooden block only costs 50c, Mr' Stevens states"that their steel block will pay for itself in tw-oyears on replacement savings alone. This means that it the saving effected i rt..f blocli should last only five years, ovei that period would be-equal to l5O/o oh the invest-

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ment, or 3A/o per annum on the investment.

The "Economy" Carrier Block may be used in conjunction with any make of lumber carrier. The top member of the block is made from 4" structural channel steel, with pieces of hardwood set in at each ehd so as to grip the shoes of the carrier. The legs, of t/+" steel plate, 6" wide (giving a 6"x8! bearing surface), spaced 8" from each end, are flush with the inside of the channel, thereby eliminating strain on the rivets.

Over-all height of the "Economy" Carrier Block is 7", or lf" lower than most wooden blocks now ih use-materially increasing capacity of carrier.

Weight of. a 47' block is 30 pounds.

While several hundred carrier blocks are used in any plant operating lumber carriers, Gerlinger-Stevens Company state that it is not hecessary to discard all wooden blocks in order to use the steel blocks, but recommend replacement with the "Economy" block whenever wooden blocks break.

That's why th"y put eraters on the

The chief difference between an optimist and a pessimist, is a

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B. W. ADAMS, Mgr. Saler Dept.

Fint National Bank Bldg, San Fraacirco.

THE CALiFORNIA LUMBER IfERCHANT

June l,1927

57

Redwood Floor Blocks Rapidly Coming Into Use in Southern California One of the finest uses for Redrvood developed in recent years, is for Redwood blocks for flooring purposes, for use in factory, industrial, and other buildings where there is heavy usage, and much wear and tear.

For instance, the new Sears Roebuck & Company building now nearing completion in Los Angeles, is being floored throughout with Redwood blocks, and the total order for this one building amounts to more than 90O,000 feet of Redwood lumber. The blocks are two inches thick, four inches wide, and six inches long. This is the size in very general use for such purposes. This order rvas sold by the Union Lumber Co. There is another building recently completed in Los Angeles that used over 500,000 feet of Redwood blocks on their floors, and there are several other industrial buildings conlpleted with other large quantities of blocks.

This is most satisfactory business, brings an excellent price for the material, and diverts that amount of Redwood

from the open lumber market. It is a business that is destined to grow very rapidly, because there is need for such flooring, not only here but throughout the entire country, and is a field where promotion work might well be expected to bring splendid returns.

Redwood is admirably suited for the purpose. It contains no pitch or any other ingredient that makes it in any way objectionable at any stage of its use. The blocks are laid 'ivith the grain vertical, and the wear is all on the ends of the grain. There is therefore no wear at all. The floor just gets shinier, and smoother with use.

In the Wilshire Country Club in Los Angeles, the Redwood block floors are a great success. The golf shoe spikes do no damage whatsoever, but there is a give to the wood under the spiked shoes that is much easier to walk on, and the floor gets better every day with use.

The Redwood folks are delighted rvith the success of the block floors so far, and lots of good promotion work is being done for further business along this line.

San Joaquin Valley Lumbermen's Club The San Joaquin Valiey Lumbermen's Club met at the Hotel Californian, Fresno, on Saturday, May 14. The

plans to encourage the sale of lumber and its products.

President F. Dean Prescott gave an excellent talk on the features of the new insurance plan of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association.

A. J. Russell, Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, and

meeting was largely attended, representatives being present from all sections of the San Joaquin territory.

Ben Maisler, Maisler Brothers Lumber Co., Fresno, who had just returned from Honolulu gave an interesting talk on his trip. John Hemphill, manager of the Sugar Pine Lumber Co., spoke on lumber conditions in the eastern markets where he recently made a business trip.

There was an interesting discussion on Trade Extension.

A committee was appointed consisting of W. K. Kendrick, Chairman, William S. Baird and Frank Wright to formulate

a popular member of the Club, was present and had the pleasure of presenting W. K. Kendrick with a new $50 bill for winning first prize in the "Questions and Answers" Contest which he recently conducted for retail dealers.

Mr. Henry Furman, secretary of the Valley Lumber Co., with offices in San Francisco, lvas a guest at the meeting.

A Club outing will he held at Yosemite during the month of June.

W. B. MARCH VISITS LOS ANGELES W. B. March, W. B. March Lumber Co., Ivanhoe, and well known San Joaquin Vallev retail lumberman, was a recent Los Angeles visitor where he spent several days attending to business matters and calling on the lumber trade. Mr. March reports that conditions in his section are very satisfactorv.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RETAILERS TO HOLD ANNUAL PICNIC AT POMONA Announcement has been made that the Southern California District of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association will hold their Annual Picnic at Pomona on June 11. All sections of Southern California will be represented. and a large turn-out is expected to attend the meeting.

& CHRISTENSON SUDDENLUMBER AND SHIPPING

6th Floor-Hind Blds.

230 California St., San Francirco

AGENTS

STEAMERII

Aberden Lumber & Shfrgb Co., Aberdeen, Wash.

Amerio Mtll Co., Aberdeen, Wash.

Hoqutam Lmber & Shingle Co., Hoquiam, Wash.

Pruper MiIl Co., Prosper, Ore. Raymqd Lmber Co, Raymond, Wash.

Colunbia Box & Luber Co, South Bend, Wash.

Hulbert Mill Co., Aberdeen, Wash.

Iiwi! Mills & Tlmbcr Co., South Bend, Wash, J. A. I€wis Shitrgls Co,, Sorth Bend, Wash.

610 Arctic Club Bldg.

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Edm Camel Raymod Broklyn Grays Hubor Edm Chrigtenm

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Lor Angeler

Jue Chrlgtenlon Anrte Chrbtonso Edwin Chrlrtenm Catherlne G. Sudda

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Portland

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT.

MIC'S PAGE MIC SEZz The ancient adage 'Credit is the life of Trade' hits the old bull's eye smack

in the center but from the manner in which the Building Material Dealers extend said credit to the above mentioned trad+looke like the trade had more lives than the proverbial cat.

Now seriously isn't it time something was done about this overextension of credit? Look at the following figures if you want an eyeful.

Lastyear there were 56,679 issued in L. A. C,ounty totaling $196,948,085.

Of this amount only 994 contracte totaling $5,760,700 were filed. However there were 19,393 Mechanics Liens totalins $8,175,431 filed. Think it over every third permit liened for an average amount of $250.00.

-practically What a load for the industry to carry, for a liened job means tied up capital, legal expense, increased overheads and the buying public have to make up the loss. Of the total amount of liens $8,175,431, it is safe to asaume that 5/o or $408,771 was a complete logs and adding to this the legal expense and Ioss on tied up capital which will equal approximately another 3/o or $245,262, you have a grand total loss of approxim.ately 9654,034.48 and all due to tfie fact that there was an overextension or careless granting of credit-and every one in the building material industry is carrying part of this burden.

Incidentally there isn't any question but that some of your over-competitive condition is due to Wholesalers, eager to 6nd an outlet for material, overextending credit to retailers to the detriment of the industry as a whole.

Look back at the above 1926 frgures and then get solidly behind legislative movements such as the attempt to license contractors and t{re filing of the financing of the job along with an intention 16 lqild-such things will tend to make for more careful credit granting and then all of you mend your own fences and be more careful before you put out your merchandise.

Your granting of credit resembles the Miss.ssippi Flood-it just naturally runs wild.

MIC P. S. Why don't you start a Clearing of Credit rhru the Millwork Inet. of Calif. L. A. County Branch. Reread the above figures and think it over.

Jane l,1927

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

Iune 7, 1927

NEW DIRECTORY OF THE WESTERN LUMBER INDUSTRY A copy of the 1927 edition of Abbey's Register and Year Book of the Western Lumber Industry has been received.

Bay DiStfiCt HOO-HOO It is a very complete book covering all b,rahches of the industry in all states west of the Rockies, includpafticipate in l::o.t ing British Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, and the Philippines.

For the lumber buyer it should be a valuable aid as all DediCatiOn Of necessary information such as sales manager, capacity, McLaren Park equipment, etc., is given. The seller to the industry will find hames of presidents, superintendents, purchasing agents, and all necessary data regarding equipment, capacity, etc. Over 5,500 operations of the various branches of the industry are listed.

R. S. Gran!

The price is $3.50; published by The Industrial Service On Sunday, May 1, the Bay District Hoo-Hoo, under Co., Sherlock Bldg., Portland, Ore. the leadership of Vicegerent Snark R. S. Grant, participated in the dedication of Mclaren Park in San Francisco.

Mr. Grant secured two Douglas fir and two Redwood trees which were planted with appropriate ceremonies by Boy Scout Troop No. 73 of San Francisco. Following the tree planting, Vicegerent Snark Grant talked .to the Boy Scoufs, and later introduced Parson Simpkin who also made a short address.

Through the courtesy of State Hoo-Hoo Counselor Fred Roth, a large truck was furnished on which was placed an attractive log cabin and several members of Hoo-Hoo dressed'in the robes of the Order rode on the float in the parade.

.It was estimated that nearly thirty thousand people assembled for the dedication exercises.

There's Money in this Kitchm

for YOU THE modern way to eell casework is to handle it com' plete, just as you would doors.You never sell just the

material for a door-why sell just the material for all new built,in conveniences? Sell them complete.

The Penru.rss line of built in furniture consists of more than 80 dilferent units. Every one of them is popular

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and a god seller. We give exclusive agencies.

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FOR THE SELLER TO THE LUMBER INDUSTRY

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box rhml|' lathq and dl olhcr Infdmatlon r.os$ry to Dlaor l[qulrl0r or ordarG Socllonr 6v0rln! box trctorlor, ycnls plantt, crtoloclne plrntr ard rhlntla llllr

wlth.qultncnt l! r fmturr ot thh yca'a boolc REilEIIBER ABBEY'S REGISTER h i oomDlcl. dlmtory ot ti. Wcdt.l Lur. bcr lndurtry odrln! b6th lut. and small opd.ilona lt llrt. l0O tf, 6!t no.r llrm! than any rlmllr book. pdm, bound ltr blu6 olotb, 13.50.

In conn.ctlon wlth Abbcy'! Brlld.r (Annral), wG Dublhh Thc Wctcn Lumbcf Roehtcr quftcrly, thc DurDolc ot yhloh ls to brlne tho Atrnrrl up-to.drto 4 dnc. a ymr. Sub$rltdor tor both Dubllortlm$ f5,00 Dcr y6ar.

THE INDUSTRI.AL SERVICE CO.

56i Sberloc.k Bldg.

Pctland, Orcgo

DEERLESS Egfilt-in Fwniture BUILT.IN FD(TURB CO.

26O8 Su Pablo Avenre, Bcrtelcy, Cdifonh

1160 N. Wc.t n Avcnue, Lor Angclcc HOOSIER,PEERLESS DISTRIBUTORS 2625 Elm Street' Pallar' Terer

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

60

Jane l, 1927

Agricultural Series. Bulletin No. | |

REDWOOD

FEED.RACK FOR SHEEP Usdng stoc( sizes and ecotwmicol lengths tnd grades of California Redwood lumbet.

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HE solid front on this rack tends to keep seed and small particles of hay, etc., out of the wool of feeding sheep.

Trough, or manger, is designed to mirrimize waste of feed while the skids make this rack easy to move and place the floor a desirable height above the ground.

It may be built in lengths to suit individual requirements, althotrgh the length shown (12 feet for hay) is economical and provides for easy handling.

Different widths or patterns of Redwood may be substituted (if local conditions warrant) for the 1"x6" material for which this feed rack is designed.

HOW STRONG IS REDWOOD?

U. S. GOVERNMENT ANSWERS As a post, for studding. as strong as "Oregon Pine" (Douglas Fir) and stronger than other light colored or "white" wood commonly used, according to the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis.

Actual experience bears out the judgment of this impartial Governmental agency.

In Gilroy, California, is a big two-story home built more than 70 years ago, Studs, floor joists and roof rafters are of Redwood. Roof, floors and walls are as straight and true today as then.

Tests by the University of California prove Redwood's strength actually increases with a'ge aud use !

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June l, 1,927

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

Great Floods Not Due to Deforestration Washington, Nfay 7.-Orving to the numerous references to the effects of deforestation on great floods that have been made during the current discussion of the causes and remedies of such floods as now prevail in the lower Mississippi Valley, the National Lumber Manufacturers Association today pointed out some "popular misconceptions" as follows: First, so far as deforestation has any important relatiorl to floods of the present magnitud'e, it is almost entirely confined to deforestation for agricultural purposes. The impossibility of evacuating the population of the eastern half of the United States and reforesting all the farms of the forest regions of the Mississippi River Valley is so obvious that flood remedy in that direction is ridiculous.

So far as the opelations of the forest inclustries in these regions is concerned, it may be stated as a general proposition that brush and second growth trees come in so rapidly that within two or three years the cut-over land is as absorbtive and retentive of rainfall as the original forest. It is true that in some instances timber cutting operations have been followed by such a series of fires that the return of vegetation has been virtually prevented. Bad local erosion and runoff conditions are thus created, but they are scarcely a drop in the bucket when considered with respect to such a disaster as the present one in the lower Mississippi Valley. a state of primeval forest the flood regu-

lation capacity of forests is largely local and absolutely dis-

app'ears in periods of abnormal precipitation. The sponge effect of the forest floor has its saturation point, when that

is reached additional rainfall runs off the forest cover just as quickly as off bare rock. That is why the great floods

attained as high stages a hundred years ago as they do now.

Manifestly, fundamental control of the extraordinary floods in the Mississippi Valley is something far beyond all possible reforestation, which has already been clearly indicated in a statement by Secretary Hoover.

The forest industries in no way seek to belittle the importance of a forest cover as a means of preventing or checking soil erosion, the rapid runoff of ordinary precipitation and local and regional drainage irregularities, such as alternations of too high or too low water, but they want to make it plain that there are limits to what can b'e done in the way of curing consequences of deforestation, principally because deforestation, especially in the valley of the Mississippi and its chief tributaries, is mainly for agricultural purposes, therefore, inevitably permanent.

Despite the popular conviction that there is an intimate connection between deforestation and the great floods that come now and again in the Mississippi Valley, the actual facts of the situation were classically developed twenty-five years ago by General Chittenden of the Army Engineer Corps. His conclusions have been generally.accepted by hydraulic engineers, foresters and meteorologists evef since.

SHINGLE PAINT GETS FIRE TEST Before representatives of the school board and various citl' departments in addition to a number of shingle and lumber manufacturers. a sDectacular demonstration was

HIPOLITO INVADES NORTHEASTERN TERRITORY_HERMAN ROSENBERG GOING EAST

ing Company, Seattle, with the purpose of demonstrating that ordinary shingles can be made more nearly fireproof than any other type of roofing.

Nine sections of different kinds of roofing were set upthree of composition shingles, five of new and old wooden shingles, both painted and bare, and two of new shingles covered with fire-retardent paint.

Then all were ignited simultaneously and a stop watch held on the time it took each section to burn. Two of the composition roofings were destroyed in eleven minutes and the other in trventy. But both of these shingl,e sections covered with fire-retardent paint were still rvhole when the test was concluded after thirty minutes, not even the top layers

geles, famous makers of Sugar Pine screen doors that have taken every district they have invaded by conquest, is going

staged Wednesclay at the plant of the Washington Lubricat-

having burned through.

J. H. BAXTER & CO. WHOLESALE LUMBER

TO DIRECT EFFORTS Herman Rosenberg, of The Hipolito Company, Los An-

to Detroit, Michigan, to be gone much of the time for the remainder of the year. Two years ago The Hipolito Company invaded the Te>ias territory, and there they have found much success. Now they are going still farther from home, and invading the Michigan territory. They rvili warehouse their doors there, and put on a selling campaign in that territory. Mr. Herman Rosenberg, Merchandising Manager and partner in the concern, is keenly interested in their new field work, and will look after it personally. He will be away from California most of the time for the remainder of this year. .VY.

M. BEEBE

Poler-Pilee-Creosoted Material

Southern-HARDWOODS-,Southe.rn Oak Flooring and Maple Flooring

Central Building TRinity 6332

1109 First National Bank Building Telephone Douglar 9117

June l, 1927

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

62

WA}{T

(The Clearing Houce)

This Column of "Want;" and "Don't Wants" is for: The Fellow Who Wants to Buy The Fellow Who Wants to Sell The Fellow Who Wants to Hire The Fellow Who Wants to Be Hired Ratcs s2.s0 per column inch FOR SALE

FOR SALE

Diego on University Avenue. One of the best locations in the city and in a fast growing section- Doing a good business that will average $135,000 per year without the use of an outside salesman. Business can be materially increased with additional sales force. Will sell or take in a pa.rtner. S20,000 cash to handle deal. Arrangements can be made to pay balance on terms. An excellent opportunity for a live wire lumber dealer.

D. E. Thompson Lumber Co.

VENEER CUTTING MACHINES

' Retail lumber and building material yard located in San

3502 University Ave. San Diego,

RETAIL LUMBERMAN WANTS POSITION Experienced retail lumberman open for position, seventeen years experience, four in Southern California as yard

manager, auditor, office and credit manager. Desires immediate connection. Address Box C-124. care of California Lumber Merchant.

EXPERIENCED LUMBER STENOGRAPHER AND SECRETARY Young lady with seven years local experience, personally known to "The California Lumber'Merchant," is seeking permanent position with Los Angeles firm.

Is able to handle most any stenographic or secretarial position. Good worker, pleasant personality and steady.

If interested call the Los Angeles office of "The California Lumber Merchant." VAndike 4565.

FOR SALE Retail lumber yard in fast growing territory near Los Angeles. $15,000 to $20,000 will handle. Address Box C-123. care California Lumber Merchant.

One Twelve-Foot Slice Cutter One Nine-Foot Slice Cutter Addrege:

THE LOUISVILLE VENEER MILLS llOO River Road Louisville, Kentucky

Wanted:-Estimator and counter salesman. Must have local exierience; be able to take lists off plans. State age, references, full previous experience and salary expected.

Address Box C-I26, care California Lumber M6rchant.

WANTS POSITION Knows all branches of the lumber business. Many years' experience selling softwoods and hardwoodi.

Knows the Southern California lumber trade. Would like to make connection with wholesale or retail concern in Los Angeles, or as mill representative in this territory. Address Box C-722 caie California Lumber Merchant.

WANTS POSITION Young man who has spent a few years at one of the large mills in the Northwest. Wouta fike to locate in Southern California, preferably in Los Angeles, with a wholesale or large retail -concern. Familiar with grading, billing and other office routine work.

Address Box C-l15, care of California Lumber Merchant.

Competent lumberman with five yeal's experience in retail yards, tlvo years as manager, desires permanent connection as manager or assistant. Two weeks notice. Bay District or Central California preferred.

Address Box C-l25, care California Lumber Merchant.

WANTS RETAIL YARD TRADE If your yard is east or north of Los Angeles, you can get quicker service when you want Hardwood Flooring if you call N. lL Parsons. Phone Terrace 1107. Pasadena. California. 241 N. Allen Ave. "Parsons delivers good oak flooring anywhere."

SOUTHERN CALIFO.RNIA HOO-HOO CONCATENATION Near Ventura at Riva Ranch, nine miles from Ventura on the Ojai Road. Road will be posted.

Concat rvill be held under the oak trees at 5:30 p.m. .Big barbecue will be held at 7:30 p.m. A wonderful meal rvill be served. "Wild Cat Meat", Chili Beans and all the fixings. Barbecue will be held in the grape arbor.

This will be the last Concattnation until next winter. If you have a Kitten communicate with Russell Edmonston. care E. K. Wood Lumber Co.

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You can build new business and new customers by purchasing

Hipolito Gua r atateed Screen Doors and Window Screens They are guaranteed in every way. That means satisfaction to the customer or he gets his money back, and we back this up all the way with you. That's one reason why Hipolito Screens have proved so popular in the past 30 years. They are not only the best screens that brains can devise and the latest machinery produce, but remember, we guarantee them to satisfy.

For additional stocks call on your distributor or write us direct.

HIPOLITO COMPANY [.os Angeles, Calif.

2,lst arrd Alameda Sts. Phone WEstmore 6131