THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT
June 15, .1934
E. P. Ivory, California White and Sugar Pine Manufacturers'Associationr gave an interesting talk on the physical characteristics and uses of the California pines at the Monday luncheon of the Lumber Salesmen's Club of San Francisco, held at the Palace Hotel on May 26. Charles Moody presided at the meeting. ,'1.** Approximately 500 new builclings were constru,cted in San Francisco during the month of May, making it one of the best constructicin months of the year, according to information given out by Building Inspector John P. Horan. Permits for May totaled $5,478,111, the largest of any month since August, 1922.
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Building operations in San Jose during the month of
May showed a considerable gain over the preceding month, according to City Building Inspector M. C. Woodruff, which shows the value of building permits for May as $229,650 as against $152,450 t:t ,1. month of April.
The Humboldt Lumber and Building Co. of Eureka will erect a mill and dry kilns on Lawren,ce Creek in Humboldt County. D. H. McFarlan is vice president and manager
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of lumber dealers, furniture factories and all other carload buyers of lumber and allied products.
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* ,F * The Southern California Division of the Hart-Wood
Lumber Co., under the management of T. B. Lawrence, has acquired dock and storage ficilities at San Pedro Harbor, and according to Mr. Lawrence, they will store a considerable quantity of lumber, shingles and lath for quick shipment.
_.Th. new departrrent is under the management of Joe
Silva, San Pedro superintendent. The dockage is a strip of eight hundred. feet of the Outer Harbor Dock & Wharf Co., and includes about one and one-half acres of ground with three spur tracks.
The Diamond Match a;r;r; has pur,chased the Anderson Lumber Co. yards at Anderson, Shasta County. Frank L. Fox, president and general manager of the FoxWoodsum Lumber Co., Glendale, was host to the Glendale Chamber of Commerce one dav last month when he condu'cted twenty members of the-Chamber through the company's plant. A photograph shows the delegat-ion in front of the yard. ,*t<*
From the "Head Saw," monthly organ published by the Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills. - "Did you know that if all the lumber and shingles manufactured by the Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills ior the last tw-enty-five years were placed in one freight car it would be 600 miles long, and,the train would reach from Bellingham over into western Montanai"* * The California Retail Lumbermen's Association will hold their annual picnic at San Diego, on Friday and Saturday, lune2U21. A.banquet will be held at the Hotel San Diego on Friday_evening, and on Saturday there will be an all diy picnic at Balboa Park under the auspices of the San Dieg-o
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ufacturers and wholesalers throughout the country.
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* :fi * Tle Monrovia yards of the W. J. Bettinger Lumber Co. -
has been sold to George T. Blamei and his son, George T. Blamer,'Jr.,. who will ,conduct the business under the iatne oJ. Blamer & Son. Mr. Blamer, Sr., .has been manager of the plant since it opened in 1922, and his son has beJn acting as assistant manager for the past eight months. 't<:r*.
Joe Rolando, who has been connected with the Los Angeles office of the Hdrt-Wood Lumber Co., was recentlv transferred to the company's head office at San Francisco,
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