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Northern California Representatives
Sacramento and ' San Joaquin ValleYs
Ralph P. Duncan
P. O. Box 603
MERCED, CALIF.
Phonc 1114J
San Francisco Bay Digtrict Peninsula, and Coast Counties
Seth L. Butler
7 Front Street SAN FRANCISCO
Phonc SUtte 8854
In Philippine Mahogeny you crn rupply your dircriminating curtomcrr with r wood thrt hal incomparable beauty ani'richnerr oi "pp""r"ncc--et comparatively low cogt becaute ol thc great abundance of thic luperb timber in the Philippiner, the low production cort and abccnce ol import duticr.
No wondcr thir ftne-grained, fine-textured wood ir rapidly gaining in popularity throughout the Unitcd Statcc for intcrior trim and finilh, dooru, crbinet work, ftxturcr, lurniture, boat plrnking and trim, pattcrn work, etc.
Thrt'r why Philippinc Mahogany of,eru you ncw cales opportunitiet.--neW rvcnues of proftt. Let urtell you morc about hhilippine Mahogaiy and rend you a rerier of inctructivc bullctinr--no obligation. A thorough underrtanding of't-he ralet poiribilitics ol Philippine Mahogany wrll mean wo*h'whilc extra proftt lor you. Write TODAY for full detrilr.
E\7AUNA-KLAMATH-PINE Factory Lumber is THE answer.
Consistently soft-textured, uniformly and properly kiln-dried to the correct moisture content, EWAUNA KLAMATH PINE Factory lumber is occorded many preferences by a discriminoting class of Millwork Manufacturers. Don't forget that poorly dried lumber will undo all the thought ond core used in producing sood millwork. You won't so wrons with EWAUNA KLAMATH PINE Factory lumber.
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Homer Maris, Maris Plywood Co., San Francisco, returned June 11 from an Eastern business trip made both ways by air. He attended a meeting of the National Plywood Jobbers' Association at Chicago, took time out to visit his mother in Indianapolis, visited Pittsburgh, and called on the Algoma Plywood Co. at Algoma Wis., for which his firm is Northern California representative.
Francis W. Pool and Mrs. Pool, and Fritz Brandt and Mrs. Brandt of Phoenix, Ariz., recently spent a few days in Los Angeles. They returned to Phoenix by way of San Diego, where they visited the Fair. Mr. Pool is E. K. Wood Lumber Company's representative in Arizona, and Mr. Brandt is Arizona representative of the Southwestern Portland Cement Company.
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A total of 200 down and olterating mitls in Oregon and Vashington which rcported to the West Coast Lumbermenta Association for the week ended June 2o produced larrttl,5lg feet. The industry produced 629 per cent of its average weekly cut during igzi-pZg. The new business taken by tfiese mills-was lO7'E27r!15 feet, and shipments wete lffirl72$43 feet. The unfilled order file at these mills stood et r87r58tr7t0 feet.
The Association rqrorts that ptoduction has decreased stead' ily during the past seven weeks. Lumbermen anticipate con' tinued low production during the next several weeks, particu' larly duting the yeaiy Fourth of July shutdown Period. Orders, although below production during several weeks pre' ceding the week ending June 2Q have increased slowly, and during the week of June 2O were crossed by the dropping pro. duction line. Most active of the markets for 'Vest Coast mills during racent weeks has been the rail trade. Numerous inquiries from the Eastern teritory have been teceived on orderu calling for delivery before July 1, the date on a rail tate increase fuom 72 cents per hundred pounds to 7E cents becomes efiective. The domestic cargo market has been slow. Reports received by lumbermen indicate that the infuence of British Columbia mill competition in this market will be lessened by improvement in the LJnited Kingdom market, in which the Canadian mills hold a preferred position. The export market for Ametican mills continues to*be in poot shape.
The Vestern Pine Association for the week ended June 2O,
shipments. Shipments were 19'1 per cent below ptoduction. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 252,76Or@O f.eea.
The California Redwood Association for the week ended June 13 teported producion of 13 mills as 9,6llr0(X) feet, shipments 10327,000 feet, and new business 7r653rO0/J fer:t. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 4o1264roo0 f.eet. ***
The California retail business is good and lumber is moving freely out of the yards. Fir stocks were bought vetY heavily a few months ago which slowed up yard buying for a while, but most of this lumber has been delivered and the retail dealers did more buying the past two weeks.
Cargo amivals at Los Angeles harbor for the week ended lane 27, Fir and Redwood combined, totaled l9r732rooo f,eet as against 2314691000 feet for the previous week.
June building in Los Angeles will set another tecord according to indications. Dudng the fitst 24 days of the month 2'608 permits were issued totaling i5r015,350. For the saine period last year, 11544 petmits were issued representing building construction valued ^t i1r642r564. At the present rate the month will show the heaviest building since 1929.
Sugat Pine prices are very firm, and Ponderosa prices are firm with the exceptioer of some items in the lower grades of Commons. Stocks ate badly broken at the mills.
Redwood prices are firm and the mills report a good volume of business.
117 mills tepocting, gave new business as 69r550rfi)0 feet, ship- Vith the seftlement of the logging industry's dispute in the ments 65r53ir(X)O feet, and production 81rO76r(X)O feet. Orders Columbia River basin, all the mills that were down have started wete 142 per cent U"t"* pt"a""ai* ""a O.l
L. W. MacDonald, MacDonald & Bergstrom, Inc., Los Angeles, has returned from a month's business trip in the Northwest.
Sudden Lumber Company, San Francisco, recently moved to 4315 Third Street, where they will continue to 'carry on their lumber trucking business.
7th Floor, Alaska-Commercial Bldg., AGENTS
Ancricrn Mill Co.
Hoquiem Lumbcr & Shingle Co.
Hulbcn Mill Cr.
Vilhpe Hcbor Lunboc Millr
LOS ANGELES 630 Borrd of Tredc Bldg.
310
Abcldccn, \f..b Sarrtian Hoguien, \Farh. Trinided Rerbara Cater Abcdcca, \refi. iorothy C.hitt
Reynon4 VeA. Edne Chrircruoa
Brrach Oftccr: SEATTLE
Nationel Bant of Coomcnce Bldg.
STEAMERS
Jane Chrirt5aron
Annie Chrirtcnron
Edwin Chrictenron
Catfterine G. Suddcn
Eleanor Chrirtenroa
Charter Cbri*cnroa
PORTLAND 200 Hcnry Bldg.
San Francisco, June 2S.-Columbia loggers voted' 2647 to 2615 last week in favor of the conciliation agreement, it was disclosed when the votes were counted in Portland June 21. Both loggers and employers have approved the agreement, which is expected to be ratified immediately at the headquarters of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America in Indianapolis.
The agreement provides for a hiring hall supervised by Chas. H. Gram, State Labor Commissioner, 712 per cent wage increase, 40-hour week, no work on Sundays or legal holidays, and no strike or walkout before March L,1937.
Plans have been made to open some of the camps on June 29, and. others will not open until July 6.
The majority of the mills on the Columbia River were forced to shut down through lack of logs. Some of these have already started up again, but most of them will not get under way until after July 4.
H. C. Kofoid, Kofoid Lumber Co., Caruthers, and Mrs. Kofoid, will leave July 8 on a five months' European trip where they will visit Bornholm, Denmark, the old home of Mr. Kofoid's father, and also tour England, France and Germany. Mr. Kofoid's brother, C. E. Kofoid, professor of zoology at the University of California, Berkeley, and his wife will accompany them on the trip. Professor Kofoid expects to be away about a year and will visit the Orient before returning.
A talk on "Archery" and a demonstration of the skill of the speaker, H' C. MacQuarrie, expert archer, kept members of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club keenly interested at their regular dinner meeting, held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Monday evening, June 22.
Port Orford Cedar is the best wood for arrows, and it is largely used for this purpose, the speaker said, for in spite of the hard. usage, arrows made of this high-grade material will last indefinitely on account of their resistance to impact' V. J. Coley, of the Oakland Police Department, spoke on "Fingerprinting" giving reasons why this should be universally adopted as a means of identification'
President Gordon D. Pierce, presided, and announced that the next meeting will be in September.
Wm. Chatham, Jr', Loop Lumber Co., Alameda, an archery enthusiast and expert hunter with the bow and arrow' introduced the speaker on this subject.
E. L. Green, vice-president in charge of sales, Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, returned June 22 fuom a two month's tour of the Middle 'West, Southwest and East.
John Haselmeier has bought the George M' Hufi Lumle Co. yard at Culver City. He will operate the yard under the name of West Adams Lumber Co'
When the poet wrote his oft-guoted words to the effect that "It is love that makes the world go round," he started something. But he was talking sentiment-not business and industry. What makes the world go round in business and industry? Why RESEARCH, of course! What else?
And research is a -.*r*r,* thing. The first industrial laboratory was organized in 1888 by the Du pont Company on the banks of the Brandywine just outside of Wilmington, Delaware. Today there are more than sixteen hundred industrial resgarch laboratories in the United States, which employ thirty-five thousand skilled men in their operations, and spend more than two hundred millions of dollars annually in their scientific investigations and experiments. ***
And what have they done? Nothing much. Just rebuilt the world, is all ! They have created the automotive industry which has built sixty-two million motor driven vehicles in this country; and in building this industry they have, of course, built the many other industries, rubber, glass, paint, metals, upholstery, etc., that hinge directly upon the automotive industry.
They have built the petroleum industry from cellar to roof. They have built the telephone, electric, radio, chemical, aviation, asphalt, cement, and various other industries that have added their large contributions to making this a new world to live in.
And lumber? What has research done for lumber? Well, it has not yet performed miracles for lumber AS SUCH, but for WOOD it has done mighty miracles. The average lumberman does not appreciate this fact because he is only accustomed to thinking of wood in terms of standard items of building material, and not so much in terms of wood in other forms.
Not that research hasn't really done some splendid things for lumber itself. It has. ft was only a few years ago when many kinds and characters of hardwoods, for instance, were small in value, Iow in price, and inconsiderable in use because the producers of lumber did nbt know how to properly season the stuff and make it usable. Research taught them. Today you can buy some of these very sarne woods that used to cause so much trouble, perfectly seasoned and ready for use. You can even prescribe the moisture content, and the mill can prepare and deliver it exactly the fashion you want it.
Research has done the same for all commercial woods, hard and soft, to a considerable extent. Lumber drying and seasoning today is a highly specialized and scientific process, due entirely to what research has taught. Most of this experimentation has been done by makers of lumber drying equipment; a considerable portion has been done by the United States Forestry Laboratory, at Madison, Wisconsin. ***
Research and experimentation of scientific character have brought veneering of wood to a very high state of perfection. A generation ago the average buyer of furniture, for instance, turned up his nose at an item when he found it was vi:neered. Not so any longer. Research has taught the art of building veneers, veneered panels, and what we now call "plywood," until they can unquestionably BUILD wooden things that are stronger, straighter, less subject to warp, crack, or cup, than the solid wood of the same materials. **,f
Scientific knowledge of how to make the cores for these veneers, how to cut and season the outside veneers themselves, and how to manufacture and use the glues that hold the veneers and the cores together, has made possible marvelous building items, possessing building properties and building values impossible in solid wood.
They learned, after years of experimentation, how to make glue that possesses waterproof and other necessary properties. They learned how to build cores out of waste and other cheap wooden items, and to put them together in such fashion as to create stout, smooth, dependable, shapeholding foundations for the beautiful slices of thin lumber that are glued upon them.
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Today you can cover a big wall with just a few pieces of beautiful, clear, wooden boards, that will furnish every sort of service that the builder desires. Research and experimentation did it, and it is one of the greatest forward thrusts the lumber industry has made in its history.
But it was with wood, ;a-".:wood sawed into lumber, that research has performed its wonders. One of the greatest living authorities says that "few industries seemed further removed from chemical research than this one" because it is "based on a raw material that is an uncultivated product of nature," yet he declares that "no industry has seen greater chemical changes or offers a more illuminating study."
Take paper. Today, when paper is so plentiful that even the paupers can waste it, it is difficult to conceive that three generations ago it vyas a luxury; that during Civil War days paper was so scarce and so expensive that newspapers were rare, and people of modest means used to read them in groups in the post-omces and other such public places.
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In those days books and nen'spapers were not plentiful, even in the homes of the well-to-do. Tn L776 Continental Congress issued an appeal to the people to save their old rags so that paper might be made to meet the needs of the army and the Government. Today a thousand tons of newsprint-made from wood-are used in the printing of a single Sunday edition of a great New York newspaper. Paper is used for thousands of inexpensive purposes by our entire population.
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We use, in the United States, ten million tons of paper each year I and two-thirds of it is made from chemicallytreated wood pulp supplied by forests. The rise of paper has been along upward steps created by the chemist. First they developed the soda process for making wood fiber into wood pulp. Then they developed a sulphite process for the same purpose. Then came the more recent Kraft process.
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The first two processes made paper out of wood cheap and
plentiful; the latter made it cheap and strong. Out of the last process has grown an enormous expansion of the paper board manufacturing industry. Paper board combined with cheap wastes have long since challenged wood in its lumber form for an enormous number of construction purposes. ,f*rf
I have often heard and read thunders from makers of wooden boxes, against the competition of fiber containers, the complainants never stopping to think that the stuff they kicked about was as much wood as their own product. One came through the laboratory and factory, and the other through the sawmill and planing mill. Both are wood. The new strong papers made of wood have made possible the displacement of fabric sacks for shipping cement and other products; they have routed the old-fashioned barrel and tin can from the average grocery store and in many other places. Through research and chemical activity wood is now ground into pulp and then re-run into solid boards for many building purposes. You often hear lumbermen kick about "substitutes." \llfood has done some magnificent substituting in recent years, itself. **rF
Six million tons, or about 3/+0,000 carloads of wood are moved by the railroads every year TO the paper and pulp manufacturing plants. For wood is not just wood to the chemist in his laboratory. It is CELLULOSE. And cellu-
lose, to the modern chemist, is far more wonderful than gold. It is the fiber that forms the cell walls of all plants and trees, but wood and cotton are its chief source of supply. Wood and cotton, in the hands of the chemist, have become a partnership of apparently almost infinite opportunity. The limit of the use of cellulose is probably not even in sight. Yet see the wonders that have already been done.
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Rayon is the product of wood and cotton. Do you know how large the Rayon industry has become? A small matter of ONE BILLION POUNDS IN 1935. So fine has its manufacture b6come under reseach and experiment that it is now'setting standards for silk From cellulose, from cotton and wood come X-ray and other photographic films. About one-half of all women's shoes, and a large percentage of men's shoes are no longer bound with nails, pegs, or thread. They are sealed with cellulose cement, which is rapidly revolutionizing shoe manufacture. The polish for tinting women's finger nails; shoe buckles; eyelets; lace tips; the coating on the heels of women's shoes that prevents scuffing; these and scores of other things can be traced right back to the forest or the cotton patch; for they are cellulose.
Enough of it has been made in the last ten years to wrap up the world, and its use is still in its.infancy.
And then, of course, ah"* t" Lrood nr"""rving, which is likewise a product of the chemist. Naturally. Wood preserving started with railroad ties, in the efiort to make them long-lived and rot-resisting. It spread to lumber and tim. bers for many building purposes, and its activities are sPreading' * :* {<
The chemist found that rot was NOT a natural thing; that it was caused by fungi and parasitical things, and he proceeded to develop cheap chemical treatments for killing them. Blue stain used to cost the lumber industry ten million dollars a year. It is no longer a problem, thanks to the chemist. One and one-half billion board feet of lumber and timbers were chemically treated in the United States in 1934' :B * ,*
To make lumber rot-proof, termite-proof, and in addition fire-proof, is the final aim of the lumber chemist. The first two are already a success. The third is inevitable. Within the next decade such lumber should be available and in general use.
The safety glass in
the shell of the fountain pen you write with; the bindings of school books; the washable window shades we all use; the toilet things on your wife's dressing table; the motion picture film that furnishes entertainment for the millions; many of the upholstery fabrics you use; explosives used for a thousand kinds of blasting; these and thousands of other things in daily use are made from the cellulose that is made from wood. It is entirely possible that a tree may furnish the cellulose from which is made the blasting powder later used to remove its own stump in clearing the land. Some circle ! *{<rf
Wood used to be wood, but since the chemist got hold of it, it would be a wise tree that would know its own products. And think of cellophane, that new product that the whole world is using, made of cellulose, from wood and cotton.
These things already ;;J are HERE. There is no conjecture about them. But a great tide of wood-made wonders seems to be in the offing. This very day I read in a newspaper of experiments that are being made on the Pacific Coast for creating Diesel motor fuel from wood, and the statement was definitely made that a line of trucks are today being operated experimentally on Diesel fuel made from POWDERED WOOD. Amazing predictions concerning the low cost of such fuel per mile are hazarded. It shows what marvels of the immediate future we may reasonablY exPect' {< * *
Sho nuff, friends ! Isn't there really something of a romance in the story of what the chemist, and research, have done for wood?
The California Redwood Association's sound moving picture "California Giants" has been in big demand and is proving very popular with Southern California groups. During the month of June it was exhibited at the following meetings:
June 9, Lumbermen's Post, American Legion, Los Angeles; June 10, (morning) Long Beach Breakfast Club(noon) Cirgonian Club, Los Angeles-(evening) Native Sons of the Golden West, Los Angeles; June 11, (noon) Kiwanis Club, Claremont-(evening) Better Business Bureau, Long Beach; June 16, (morning) E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles-(evening)-Masonic Lodge, Santa Ana; June 17, Rotary Club, Culver City; June 18, Exchange Club, Alhambra; June 22, (alternoon) Women's Club, Los Angeles-(evening) Parent Teachers Association, Alhambra; June 23, Rotary Club, Redondo Beach; Jane 24, Los Angeles retail lumber dealers, Los Angeles; lune 25, (noon) Kiwanis Club, San Gabriel-(evening) Los Angeles retail lumber dealers, Los Angeles; June 29, Elks Club, Alhambra; June 30, Kiwanis Club, Whittier.
Sunday afternoons lrom 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., the picture is being shown in the California State Building, Exposition Park, Los Angeles. A number of bookings to show the picture during July before other groups in Southern California have already been made.
Howard Page, who has been representing the Coos Bay Lumber Co. in the San Joaquin Valley territory, has been appointed manager of the company's Los Angeles office. He succeeds Stuart Smith who has resigned. Mr. Smith has not announced his plans for the future, and is in the Northwest enjoying a few weeks' vacation.
E. G. "Dave" Davis is now calling on the Los Angeles, Long Beach and Santa Barbara yards, and Fritz Hawn is covering the "Kite" territory, Orange county, San Fernando Valley, and some of the Los Angeles yards.
Bob Dixon, who has been connected with the Oakland office, is now representing the company in the San Joaquin Vallev.
Walter G. Scrim, Findlay Millar Timber Co.; Roy Barto, Caldwallader-Gibson, Co., Inc., and George P. Purchase, all of Los Angeles, attended the adjourned annual meeting of the Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers' Import Association, Inc., held at Chicago on June 29.
BACK FROM N. \^I. TRIP
Howard M. Gunton, MacDonald & Harrington, San Francisco, returned June 16 from a two weeks' trip to the Northwest. He was accompanied on the trip by Mrs. Gunton. They drove up the Redwood and Roosevelt Highways, and came back by the way of the Pacific Highway, visiting Crater Lake and the Klamath Falls district.
LEADER: Giver of every good and perfect grft, we bless thee for the revelation of thy creative power. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handiwork, and the rivers and the hills and the trees are his also. For all growing tr.ees with their rich vitalitn with their vigorous poroer, with their lace work of verdure; for the useful trees, from which we build our houses and fashion implements of toil, we tfiank thee.
RESPONSE: For beautiful and serviceable trees, we bless thee.
LEADER: Fo'r the great taaes' foc their generous shade within which we may rcst and ponder the deep things of t{re apirit, we thank thee.
"The kindliest thing that God evdr made, His hand of over healing laid IJpon a fever"ed world, is shade.t'
RESPONSE: For the great and spacious trlees we thank thee.
LEADER: For age-old tre6, grey patdarchs of the racel for the modest, little trees, like children playing in the sun or like humble little houses with green shutters closed against the noontime heat, we bless and thenk thee.
RESPONSE: For new-bocn trees pointing to the sky, we bless thee.
LEADER: For heroic trees, standing strong against the wind and translating the passion of storm and tempest into fibre; for patient trees enduring drought o,r winterts cold, symbols of moral heroism in manhood and womanhood, we bless thee.
RESPONSE: For heroism in trees and in men, we would rejoice.
LEADER: For bloesoming trees with their sweet fragrance; for majestic trees by forest pathways like cathedral aisleE in God's vast temple of naturel for snow.crowned trees glotified by the spotless white of winterte cororultioni
RESPONSE: $7e would magnify thy name.
LEADER: For fruitful trees giving us sustenance; for hoepitable trees opening their doors to tired travelers; and for all the unknown trees lonely in their solitude, unhonored and unsung by the multitude;
RESPONSE: For all trees, great and small, knovm and unknown, we glorify thy name. Amen
Louis Jennings, Jennings Lumber Co., Safford, Ariz., and Mrs. Jennings, have been spending a few weeks vacation in the Northwest. Mr. Jennings will be back at his desk soon after July 1.
O. C. Morris, sales manag'er, Quincy Lumber Co., Quincy, Calif., recently spent two days in Los Angeles with his company's Southern California representative, Arlo D. Squires.
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Yosemite Sugar Pine Company, Merced Falls, Calif., will cut from 35 to 40 million feet this year. The mill started cutting May 20. The production will run 6O per cent or better Sugar Pine, and the balance in order of importance, Ponderosa Pine and White Fir, with a small amount of Incense Cedar. Approximately 50 per cent of the total production is marketed locally in California.
Harold R, Ford, sales manager, recently back from a seven week's .business trip to the Eastern States, found business in the East exceptionally good. "Things look bright to us, particularly in California, and we are looking forward to good business. Sugar Pine prices are firm, with the trend upward," he said.
John R. Ball is president and general manager of Yosemite Sugar Pine Company. He is also president of the Friant Timber Company.
H. W. (Herb) Matthews is superintendent. Tom Ware is secretary-treasurer of the company, and is office manager.
Arlo D. Squires, 416 West 8th Street, Los Angeles, is Southern California representative.
S. B. Shumway, well known Phoenix, Ariz., business man, has bought the Douglas Lumber Co. yard at Phoenix, and the name has been changed to Grand Ave. Lumber Co. Joe Tardy will continue as manager of the yard.
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New York.-A feature of the interior finish of the eueen Mary is the dominance of wood paneling. In the words of John Gunther, London correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, "very little paint, very little plaster or wallpaper have been used either in the walls of public rooms or cabins. Everything is in wood and the ship is a veritable masterpiece of wood workers, art,,,
The builders of Queen Mary took full cognizance of the agitation in the United States for the restriction or elimination of wood as an interior-finish material in passenger ships, investigated conditions carefully, made some experimental tests which went as far as actually building a fire in one of the rooms of the ship, and then decided that there was no justification for them to refrain from using the most suitable material for their purpose.
It is also re,called now that the Normandie is as generous in the use of wood as the Queen Mary.
The Frolic and Fashion Show sponsored by Lumbermen's Post, No. 403, American Legion, held at the Army and Navy Club, Los Angeles, Friday evening, June L2, brought out a big crowd. Nearly 300 sat down to dinner at Z:ffi P. M. Several young ladies furnished a fine entertainment program, following the dinner, which included a Fashion Show, dancing and singing numbers.
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Calif ornia Sugar Pine
California Ponderosa
California Redwood
Douglas Fir Lumber
Building Materials
Hardwood and Fir Plywoods
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There was the frantic shriek of brakes, the grinding of fenders, a slight crash, and then the two drivers got out to look the situation over. There was simply no question about it. The young man was in the wrong. The young lady had signalled for a left turn, then started to turn just as he started to pass her on the left-and the collision. The facts
were plain. She looked at her humbled car, then at the young man.
"Your signal fooled me completely," he said.
"I turned the way I signalled," said she.
"Sure," he said. "That's what fooled me."
Seattle, Wash.-The General Marine Committee of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association h'as voted to petition the United States Shipping Board Bureau for suspension of the increased cargo rate on lumber shipments from the Pacific Northwest to Atlantic Coast and Gulf Coast ports published to become effective on July 1, according to an announcement issued by R. E. Seeley, chairman of the committee. The new rate is $13 per thousand feet, representing an increase of 50 cents per thousand feet over the present rate. The competition of British Columbia mills, which ship lumber to the East Coast on a much lower rate, was given as one of the reasons for seeking the rate suspenion.
The comm'ittee voted also to cooperate with the steamship lines in developing uniform regulations and practices to apply to the handling of West Coast lumber cargo shipments, and to compile a water traffi'c book covering rules and regulations with respect to cargo movement of lumber.
George Grant, sales manager for the Coos Bay Lumber Co., Oakland, was a recent visitor at the company's Los Angeles office where he spent a few days on business.
Seattle, Wash., June 16-Methods of preventing fires in Western Washington logging operations were dis'cussed at a field meeting of camp superintendents and fire wardens held on June 13 at Camp No. 3 of the Simpson Logging Company near Shelton. The meeting was arranged by 'Warren G. Tilton, in charge of fire prevention activities of the Department of Forest Conservation, a joint agency of the Pacific Northwest Loggers Association and the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. A similar meeting was held near North Bend on June 6.
Discussions were lead by Major C. W. Cowan, manager of the Washington Forest Fire Association; W. R. Osburne of the 'United States Forest Servi'ce; and logging superintendents including Frank Hobi from Aberdeen, Ernest Carlson from Potlach, Sam Stamm from Pysht, and George Drake from Shelton.
I. L. Walker, formerly secretary-manager of the California Lumbermen's Council, has established a Federal Housing Administration Service for the Lumber Production Promotion with headquarters in the Walters Building, Redwood City.
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One could easily make an interesting hobby in finding "tough" uses to which lumber has been and is being put. World travelers cannot fail to be impressed with the long life of wood.
There are many examples of well-preserved and useful wood in structures, and elsewhere, 1000 years old. Most of these, however, are rot and weather-resistant examples. Wear-resistance is something else.
For instance, crossing-planks the railroads use between the tracks on country road crossings, have to "take it"contant jolts from every kind of vehicle, including tractors and other heavy farm machinery, not to mention weather and soil conditions, all highly destructive. Port Orford Cedar has been found most practical from the price, impact, and rot-resistant angles, and is consequently the standard crossing-plank used in this part of the country.
Stage floors of the legitimate theater get extremely hard usage. Scenery, equipment, and trunks are banged around on it. Nails, s'crews, bolts, etc., are being coirstantly inserted for bracings and fastenings, and then removed. These floors must be able to "take it" without splintering and crack'ing, and still be strong and firm to support the required weight and hold these temporary grips.
The Geary Theater in San Francisco has a Port Orford Cedar stage floor llx4 Tongue & Grooved, laid in 1910, and still in good shape. This floor has "taken plenty" in its 26 years of life.
While not usually subject to su,ch "tough" usage as the above, when you ,consider the fragile size of a Port Orford Cedar Venetian Blind Slat, and what it has to stand in the way of light, heat and movement, one cannot f'ail to enthuse about the hardy'character with which Nature has endowed this unusual wood.
Do you know of any other "tough" spots for wood?
California Redwood will be used for constructing gates at the back of more than one thousand pig pens at the Iowa State Fair this summer, it was announced today by Hammond Lumber Company. Redwood for this construction was sold by Hhmmond's Chicago office. The principal Hammond Redwood mills are located at Samoa, Humboldt County, California, in the heart of the great Redwood timber belt. According to the official publication of the Iowa State Fair Board, $35,000 is to be expended for construction of 1,009 exhibition pens, 7 ft. by 8 ft. in size. "The 8-foot gates along the back of the pens," states the report from State Fair officialls, "will be constructed of Redwood plank."
Moulding Supply Company, 1121 Meridian Avenue, Alhambra, manufacturers of high grade finish and mouldings from Ponderosa and Sugar Pine and Redwood, are working to full capacity.
Tom Price, manag'er, is at present confined to his home by illness, and W. P. Roberts, superintendent, is in charge.
The identifi,cation of lumber, piece by piece, with its grade and the name of its supplier is the most progressive development now under way in lumber mer.chandising. The entire industry, from manufacturer through to the retail dealer, realizes that only by thus insuring the consumer an article of standard quality and identified source, can lumber command the general confidence of home builders, architects and financial agencies and hold its place in the great revival of building now under way.
The Douglas fir lumber industry of Western Oregon and Western Washington is thoroughly behind this movement for certification of the quality of its products. Over one hundred sawmills, members of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, have announced their readiness to furnish grade marked lumber in West Coast items to any buyer. These mills represent over 6O per cent of the total production of Douglas fir and its associated species. Their action insures a large and continuous supply of grade marked lumber from all portions of the Douglas fir region.
To extend the supply and use of grade marked lumber,
\Ve have eeveral designs of thesc beautiful front doors, which we carry in both DOUGLAS FIR and PHILIPPINE MAHOGANY.
The Fir door is dl verticd grain, h*try raieed panel and heavy raised mould outside.
PHILIPPINE doors
arc all dark red fibon grain, with heavy raised panel and heavy raiscd mould outside.
the manufacturers'association in the Pacific northwest has also licensed some forty wholesale and retail yards in California to place upon their lumber the 'copyrighted trade and grade marks of the Association nnder the supervision of its inspe,ctors.
The official grade marks of the Association are designed to be the "sterling" mark of quality on West Coast lumber items. Every mill or yard authorized to use these marks receives regular inspection and verifi,cation of its grading practices by the experienced inspectors of the Association. Marking licenses have been withdrawn in several instances where operators have failed to maintain the standard grades pres'cribed in the published rules of the Association. This policy will be followed stri,ctly. Grade marks are a practi,cal insurance to the home builder that the grades used conform with the grades specified for his structure; and the Association will not petmit its official grade marks to be used by any operator who does not live up to this requirement.
The retail lumber dealers of Los Angeles are out in the lead of the entire country in the promotion of grade marked lumber. But the interest in placing identified lumber in the hands of the builders and consumers is rapidly extending to other areas. The retail lumber dealers in the Atlantic Coast states are following the example set by the dealers of Southern California. More and more lumber is being ordered from the mills of Oregon and Washington grade marked for shipment to the Atlantic Coast. A substantiai grollp of retail distributors in Westchester County, New York, within the New York metropolitan area, have recently adopted a program of supplying their trade with grade marked lumber, very similar to that now in efiect by the members of the Lumber and Allied Products Institute of Los'Angeles. These New York dealers are now starting to mark their lumber in stock with the grade marks of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. under the instruction of our inspectors, just as the Los Angeles yards made their start several years ag'o. Every previous period of building activity in the United States has developed "jerry,' building, substitution of grades less than specified and other chiseling methods which in many instances prevent the home builder from getting honest materials and honest workmanship. In so far as the West Coast Lumberinen's Association can help to keep the present re.r'ival in home construction clean from these evils and abuses, through making sure that at least the lumber used is honestly identified for the grade it actually is, we propose to do so. The movement undertaken by the Los Angeles dealers for pushing the use of grade marked lumber is one of the most progressive undertakings in this direction at any time and in
any part of the United States. It has the heartiest backing of the manufacturers' association.
The Douglas fir forests of the Pacific northwest constitute a permanent supply of lumber for the building requirements of the regions which their woods natnrally enter. Aside from the great reserves of the National Government, there are still some 340 billion feet of standing commerc'al timber in the hands of private owners, or enough to carry last year's cut of West Coast lumber nearly seventy years. Even more important, however, than this vast storehouse of virgin timber, as an assuran,ce of future supply, is the increasing extent and volume of reforestation.
Under the provisions of the N. R. A. Lumber Code, West Coast operators put into practice effective methods o{ fire prevention, "fire-proofing" cut-over lands through the falling of snags and reforestation-which were worked out by experienced foresters lvith the cooperation of the United States Forest Service and the State Forestry Departments of Oregon and Washington. When the Lumber Code was killed by the Supreme Court, the West Coast Lumbermen's Association decided to carry right on these practical measures of forest conservation. They are no longer required by law; they have become a matter of voluntary cooperation for the welfare and permanency of the industry. The West Coast Lumbermen's Associatiorr employs t'"vo skilled forestry engineers whose entire time is devoted to inspection of logging operations and working out of the most practical ways and means of regrowing the forests which are ,cut. Probably two-thirds of the industry is continuing the same methods of fire prevention and reforestation which were adopted in the days of N. R. A. These include the leaving of seed trees or patches of timber so that cut-over areas will be thoroughly reseeded. A number of ,companies are developing "selective logging" under whi'ch only a portion of the standing timber is removed in the first cutting. The net effect is that the regrowth in the Douglas fir region probably already exceeds the rate at which old timber is being cut. Oregon and Washington will always be great lumber producing states.
T. F. Eckstrom, general manager. Pacific Mutual Door Co., Tacoma, was in Southern California on June 16 and 17, conferring with R. A. Forbes, manag'er of the Southern California sales office and warehouse at Alhambra.
Mr. Eckstrom was returning from an Eastern trip on which he visited all the company's warehouses. He found business conditions very encouraging in all the centers he visited.
J. A. Brush, of the Brush Industrial Lumber Co., Los Angeles, industrial specialists in Ponderosa and Sugar Pine and hardwoods, returned recently from a trip through the Ponderosa and Sugar Pine mills of California and So'uthern Oregon.
Mr. Brush states that he has never seen such a scarcity as there is at present of No. I Shop and Better and No. 2 Qommon. in both Ponderosa and Sugar Pine. He found the mills exceedingly busy, and was in fact reminded by the present activity bf the years 1921 to 1923.
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The near-sighted Professor in English, called the class to order then addressed himself to the man he saw in the back of the room.
"You in the back there, what was the date of the signing of the Magna Charta?"
"f dunno."
"You don't? Then tell me, who was Bonnie Prince Charlie?"
"f dunno.t'
"'WelI, then, tell me what the Tennis Court Oath was?', "f dunno."
"Listen, young man. I assigned these questions day before yesterday. What were you doing last night?"
"f was out drinking beer with some friends."
"Out drinking beer instead of studying? Then how do you expect to pass this course?"
"f don't. f'm just the plumber, and I'm fixing to repair the radiator as soon as you get through here."
What an important letter is 'E'
It is always out of "cash," forever in "debt," and never out of ttdanger." At the same time it is never in ..war,r' always in t'peace," and necessary in something to "eat." It is the beginning of "existence" and the end of "life." Without it there could be no "happiness" and no "heaven."
It is the center of "honesty" and always in "love." It starts with ttencouragementt' but ends in ttfailure," begins in "errof' but ends in "fi,zzle." ft plays an important role in "hone5rmoon" as well as in "wedding,tt but, alas, ends with "divorce." ft doesn't appear at 'tirth" but is in every ttdeath" and ttfuneral.tt
It calls you to ttbreakfast" and serves you at ttdinner" and "supper," but it isn't in "lunch" although it is partial to "tea." Nor does it approve of "liquort' or the ttcocktail hour,tt even though it favors ttalett and ttbeer.t'
The motor of your car runs without it for it isn't in "ignition." nor in ttoil,t' but it appears in "gasoline" and t'exhausttt as well as in the ttuniversal,tt in ttgears,t' and in ttdifferential." ft has no use for ttlights" or ttrornst' but makes the "wheels" and "tires" run. And how would the old bus look without ttfenders.t' ttpanels." or ttseats?tt
So don't be unmindful of that little letter "E" even thoueh it doesn't take to ttgolf,tt for it helps make ttbaseball" and tttennis-t' in fact manages to make itself necessary in most of the thinss we do.
Sharing is the great and imperative need of our time. An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens his life, especially if sharing be done not formally or conventionally, but with such heartiness as springs out of an understanding of the meaning of the religion of sharing.-Rabbi Stephen Wise.
To save something each month develops self-control. This power frees one from fear and gives abiding courage. Such moral strength is of much greater value than the mere possession of the money that has been saved.-Samuel W. Reyburn.
I had a little Sorrow
Born of a little Sin, I found a room all damp with gloom And shut us all within. And t'Little Sorrow," weep, said f, And "Little Sin," pray God to die, And I upon the foor will lie And think how bad f've been.
-Edna Vincent Millay.There are no ghosts to creep about the hallway, Or stand unhappy at some turn of stair; We do not need to scour away the shadows That other tenants might be leaving there.
The busy little ghosts of happy houses, Are very quick to take themselves away, It is the lonely shadows would be staying To creep about a house at close of day. No ghosts will slip before us through a doorway, Nor wait above the attic's narrow stair; The new house creaks and stirs and is uneasy, Waiting for ghosts to fill the sterile air.
-Elspeth Clarke in New York Times.The colored woman who was being treated for a badly hunged up head and some missing teeth, was evidently very reluctant to tell how she came by them. But the doctor insisted on knowing.
"Well. Doctuh," she finally said, "ifn you mus'know de truf, ah got kicked in de face by a gentleman friend.t'
Washington, June 25.-The lumber industry of the United States is eagerly looking forward to a national gathering in force of lumber manufacturers from all over the United States on the occasion of the mid-summer meeting of the directors of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, which is to be held in Seattle, Washington, July 22 and 23. The same week will witness the meeting of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, and that Association proposes to act as host to the officers and directors of the National Association as well as to all visiting lumbermen who may be prompted to accept the open invitation which ha been extended to them by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association.
President Walter B. Nettleton of the National Association, is a resident of Seattle and is intent upon bringing to his home city lumbermen from every section of the United States. Mr. Nettleton and his associates are eager to show and explain the wonders of their Douglas fir industry to their friends and rivals. In the Pacific Northwest lumber is the greatest manufacturing industry and lumbermen are the outstanding industrialists. The setting is therefore ideal for a business and pleasure gathering of the industry in this year of gratifying recovery, and the outcome is expected to be a closer union of the industry than has existed heretofore. A glittering program of entertainment has been provided extending over the whole week of July 20; The Seattle Lumbermen's Club and the Tacoma Lumbermen's Club will assist in a,cting as hosts to the lumber pilgrims. The program includes visits to sawmills, logging camps, door factories and other industries, the annual golf tournament of the Tacoma Lumbermen's Club, an all-day cruise on Puget Sound, and visits to Mt. Rainier, which is to be called Mt. Tacoma during th{s wgek.
Aside from the open and executive sessions of the Lumber Association on lumber affairs, there will be an interesting inspirational and educational program featured by an address by C. P. Winslow, dire'ctor of the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis., who will outline the Laboratory's program in the interests of the lumber industry, such as the pre-fabricated all-lumber house, fire-resistant treatments for wood and other methods of processing wood to complement its native qualities with acquired ones. Mr. Winslow will also suggest desirable types of cooperation between the lumber industry and the research work of the Government. As the greatest forest owner in the United States, IJncle Sam is now devoting exceptional attention to improvement and extension of wood utilization as a double-barreled way in which to perpetuate his forests and simuitaneously make them nationally beneficial-industrially, socially and conservationally. Reciprocally, the forest industries are now whole-heartedly committed in principle to sustained yield forest management, and the Seattle meeting will be marked by consideration of the future of the lumber industry as a domesti,cated, as it might be put, instead of a "wild life", industry. More and more the woods industries will grow their trees and systematically develop new products and improve old ones.
Modem pressure treating plant operated by J. fi-. Baxter & Co. at Long Beach, Calili where Chromated Zinc Chloride andl creosoted material are processed [9r the Southern Califomia trade.
In line with the program of establishing stocks of treated building lumber in California, J. H. Baxter & Co., San Francisco, has recently added a complete stock of Chromated Zinc Chloride treated lumber at its Alameda, Calif.. yard. A dealer service will be maintained to enable Northern California lumber yards to draw on these stocks for their immediate requirements. Special orders and dealer's stock requirements will be shipped direct from the Northern plants of the West Coast Wood Preserving Co., through J. H. Baxter & Co., California agents.
. Plant improvements have recently been made at J. H. Baxter & Co.'s wood preserving operation at Long Beach, Calif., to supply the Southern California market with Chromated Zinc Chloride treated lumber. With these facilities now available for treating dealer's lumber more than twenty Los Angeles lumber dealers have installed complete stocks
Air view ol the Eagle Ha[or, !(/ash., treating plant of the \(/est Coast \(/ood Preserving Co. Another large plant is located at Seattle. Both plants have fasilities lor cargo shipping to the Calilornia market.
of CZC lumber to meet their requirements for treated underpinning.
Chromated Zinc Chloride treated lumber is recommended for termite and decay resistant construction and is also recognized for its fire retardant qualities. The product is clean, odorless and paintable making it especially suitable for building construction.
Zinc Chloride, the basic reagent in the improved Chromated Zinc Chloride, has been widely used for framing, sheathing and underpinning in commercial work throughout the United States and in Post Offices, barracks and other permanent government buildings, many of which have recently been erected in California. Chromated Zinc Chloride is now replacing Zinc Chloride in specifications for this preservative, it being an improved form of this long established salt treatment, with added effectiveness where the lumber is exposed to dampness.
P. W. Chantland, manager of the Los Angeles office, Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., is spending his vacation at Bass Lake in the High Sierra. Mrs. Chantland and their two children accompanied him on the trip.
George S. Melville, Los Angeles representative for the South Sound Lumber Sales, Inc., has returned from a trip to the company's Seattle office.
Vincent Harris Olson, president, Volsonite Enterprises, Ltd., Pasadena, manufacturers of a complete line of waterproofing materials and technical paints, leaves July 1 for a trip over the Chicago and Middle West territory. The company wants wholesale distributors for its products in the Middle Western and Western states.
Walter Koll, A. J. Koll Planing Mill, Ltd., Los Angeles, and Mrs. Koll, are on an eastern trip. They will visit Chicago and the Black Hills in South Dakota.
Jim Overcast, sales manag'er, Strable Hardwood Company, Oakland, returned June 27 from what he describes as a "grand vacation," spent seeing the Redwoods, Oregon Caves, Crater Lake and other interesting sights in California and Oregon.
Edward P. Schafer, general sales manager of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., Montesano, Wash., left San Francisco June 18 for Montesano after spending two weeks in California. He called on the trade in the San Francisco territory with Floyd Elliott, manager of the San Francisco office, and in the Los Angeles territory with P. W. Chantland, manager of the Los Angeles office.
Christenson Lumber Company, San Francisco, will move in the near future from their present location at 5th and Hooper Streets to the site formerly occupied by the Sudden Lumber Company at Quint Street and Evans Avenue.
Booth-Kelly Douglae Fir, the Association grade and trade mark certify to your customers the quality of the stock you handle. Builders quit guesaing about what they're buying, and buy where
The manufacture and distribution of Red Cedar shakes is not quite as simple an operation as it seems at first glance. It is undoubtedly true that there are always a few so-called Hill-Billies or woodsmen who will split out shakes; but only when the spirit moves them, and not until. So-right here at the source-the splitters furnish the first problem.
After some fourteen years of dealing with this class of labor, we have come to the conclusion' and a very definite one-that the ability to deliver when wanted and in sufficient qdantities is the real essence of the shake industry. Youcan count your Cedar Shakes when, as, and if, they are actually in your shed, and not until.
fn our operations on the Olympic Peninsula throughout a distance of some fifty miles, there are many entire families living ofi their production of Cedar slabs. The whole family in many instances, takes part in the work. The log is snaked in from the woods to a spot up near the house where Pa, Ma and all the kids start splitting, trimming, and piling slabs.
When the tree is worked into as many'one-in'ch boards, or slabs, as possible, all of which must be 26 inches long, 6 inches to 10 inches wide, and at least one inch thick, they are then brought to the mill where the family is paid ofi-on the spot. In most cases, however, crews of two to four men go out in the woods and work for weeks before anything is heard from them. They usually aocumulate several thousand slabs before bringing them in and it is from such crews as these that the real dependable source of raw material is obtained.
The sawing of the slabs into tapered shakes is done in the mill by expert sarvyers who inspect each slab before it is
H. D. (Doug) Cook, Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland, was back at his desk June D from a two week's vacation. He spent the first week at San Diego, where he visited the Fair, and the second at Carmel improving his golf game.
IN ANGIER BUILDING PAPERS
A REALLY COMPLETE LINE
FR.M ""Y3tB"tttflf;"rNFoRcBD pApER
Including BROWNSKIN the Sheathing Paper with a Factor of Safety-It Stretches.
SHEATHING PAPERs-Plain-Treated-Reinf orced
CONCRETE CURING AND PROTECTION PAPERS
Reinforced With Cords and Burlap
sawn so as to get the smooth end at the tip and the rough end at the butt. This is quite important if the rough texture efiect is actually obtained at the butt end while the tip remains comparatively smooth to aid in making the final roof a watertight job.
The resawing of the slabs is protected by patents, under which only a few licensees are operating. So for this reason a few mills are now turning out a double-split shake to avoid the resawing. Originally we did the resawing down here from the slabs shipped in to us, but the pile of junk and firewood left over at the 6nish of a car load of slabs was big enough to start several small wood yards. ' ds it is today, we can select our slabs at the m'ill door, eliminating those which would not take the resaw, and thus cut down to a minimum the fall-down.
The most radical change made in shakes recently is the new grading rule of 100 per cent vertical grain. The general idea prevails that only vertical grain slabs can be spl'it from the block. This is decidedly in error. The splitters can actually get more slabs from a block if allowed to include some slash grain. But with us, they are definitely out, for good and sufficient reasons known too well to the trade to go into at length.
We are at present offering to the trade three difierent dimensions in resawn shakes, all of which are 100 per cent vertical grain and 100 per cent clear. Nearly every day the phone will ring with some one on the other end asking about still a different one-thinner, thicker, shorter, or longer. 'We sin'cerely believe that with our present assortment the builder can obtain any roof effect desired by choosing one of the stock sizes now carried both at the Harbor and our South Pasadena yard.
S. F. HARDWOOD YARD ENLARGED
Forsyth Hardwood Company, San Francisco, recently took over property adjoining their yard at 355 Bayshore Boulevard, and installed two additional 300-foot gangways to accommodate in'creased stocks on hardwoods.
TRADE.MARKED . SELECTED FIRM TEXTUNBD
What is the best-most practical, most livable-house which can be built in Northern California at a cost of $5000 or less?
Seeking answer to this question, the district office of the Federal Housing Administration recently announced a "California Homes $500 Cash Prize Competition" in which local architects, draftsmen, builders and other home planners are invited to participate.
The purpose of the competition is to determine the popular trend in small homes construction and to picture types and costs of houses now being built here in the lower price levels.
Business and industrial institutions interested in home building are said to have contributed $500 to be awarded in prizes.
A prize of $250 will be awarded for the winning house costing $3000 or less. A similar amount will go to the designer of the winning house which can be built at a cost of $3000 to $5000.
Either photographs of houses already constructed, or drawings of houses contemplated, may be submitted, together with floor plans and a data sheet giving details of construction. The contest closes July 15.
Data sheets, with complete information and instructions, may be obtained from C. A. West, assistant to the director, Federal Housing Administration, 433 California street, San Francisco.
Final awards will be made by a committee of ten, composed of prominent architects, builders, housewives, educators and others. Mr. West said: "The winning houses will be selected for their livability, practicability, sensibility of design, and full values in a home for the purchaser."
J. H. Cresmer, who founded the Cresmer Manufacturing Co. of Riverside in 1905, has disposed of his entire interest in the business to J. Wesley Shrimp and H. G. Wilson, for many years officials of the concern, who will continue the manufacture of doors, sash and millwork. Mr. Cresmer will devote his attention to building contracting and appraisal, having associated with him Erick W. Emtman, registered civil engineer, superintendent of construction for thi Cresmer Manufacturing Co. since 1927, under the firm name. Cresmer & Emtman.
311 Financial Centet Bldg. 704 Sotrth Sptiog St., Los Angeles Telephone TRinity 9821
Representing in Southern California
SWAYNE LUMBER CO.
Oroville, Calif.
FEATHER RIVER LUMBER CO.
Delleker, Cilif.
KESTERSON LUMBER CORPORATION
Klamatft Falls, Ore.
SUcAn and PONIDEROSA PINE
Pressure Tteated lor Pertnanence
Decay and Termite Proof. Prolongs Sructural Life ruMBER.POLES.PILING
American Lumber & Treating Go.
General Oficec: 37 Vest Van Buren Sa, Chicago, IIL
WAUNA, OREGONWat Cdt Plarb - WTLMINGTON, C1\LIF. LOS ANGELES-SaIer Oficer-SAN FRANCISCO
1O31 So. Broadway 116 New Montgomery St.
Conceming texture and dryness we will compane ouf Sugar and Ponderosa Pine with any stock in the market.
438 Chamber of Commerce Bldg. . Los Angeler Phone PRoapet 9136
Southern California Reprecntative SACRAMENTO BOX & LUMBER CO.
Sales engineers wanted to sell Volsonite products. Will be required to contact the building industry trades, enginiers, architects, general contractors, wholesale jobbers and the industrial trade. Address Box 628, Pasadena, Calif.
One ton Ford lumber truck
One ton G. M. C. lumber truck
Both with rollers
Tustin Lumber Co., Tustin, Calif.
$250.00
$100.00
From the Lumber Merchant, July 1, 1926
The Southern California lumbermen will stage a golf tournament at the Lakeside Country Club on July 16.
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MacDonald & Harrington, Ltd., has moved its Los Angeles office to the Petroleum Securities Building.
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The Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club held a picnic at the Del Paso Municipal Park, Sacramento, on Saturday afternoon, June 19. Over 100 attended, including many lumbermen of the Sacramento Valley district, their wives, families and guests. ***
Fred Lamon, representative for the Wendling-Nathan Company in the San Joaquin Valley territory, has been transferred to the'company's San Francisco office where he will have charge of their Pine department.
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Nearly 100 employees of the Homer T. Hayward Lumber Co. attended a picnic at the summer home of Otto Rogge and Albin Anderson in Eureka Canyon, near 'Watsonville. The feature event of the day was the "Steak Eating Contest" whi,ch was won bv Arthur Havlvard. -*:F*
M. L. "Duke" Euphrat, popular San Francisco lumberman and a member of the firm of Wendling-Nathan Company, is receiving congratulations from his many friends,
The official opening of the new plant of the West Coast Plywood Company at the Port of Grays Harbor midway between Aberdeen and Hoquiam, Wash., was held at three o'clock on Thursday afternoon, June 18. The plant is equipped to manufacture 80 million feet of plywood per year which will include Douglas fir, Philippine mahogany, spruce, hemlock, and ribbon grain mahogany in sizes up to 72 inches by 144 inches.
The officers of the company are A. R. Wuest, president and general manager; A. R. Welch, vice-president in charge of production; Oscar Smith, treasurer; and Theodore Bruener, secretary. H. Bruce Wiscomb is sales manag'er.
the o'ccasion being the arrival of a bahy boy at their home.
Frank Wright, Br.y-W;g; Ju-r", Co., Porterville, atr tended the national convention of Rotary at Denver. Fol; lowing the convention, he traveled to New York, Bostore and other eastern cities returning by way of the Yellowstone National Park. Mrs. Wright and their daughtcr accompanied him on the trip. ***
The Los Angeles Paper Manufactnring Company, manuj facturers of El Rey roofing products, at Los Angeles, have completed the ,construction of their new administration building.
The Los Angetes ""r J"Ja,l, n",o its last meeting for the summer on Thursday, June 24, with the Charles R. McCormick Lumber Company as hosts. The meeting was officially known as "McCormick Day."
The Pioneer Paper a";Jrrl Los Angeles, is making final shipment on one of the first orders of composition roofing ever placed in California by the Navy Department. The several thousand rolls of roofing is designed for use on federal structures in the Canal Zone and was shipped direct from the Los Angeles Harbor to Cristobal.
The Los Angeles office of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. and McCormick Steamship Co. has been moved to the Second floor of the Edison Building, 601 W. Fifth Street. They will be in their new quarters on July I. The telephone remains the same, TRinity 5241.
H. A. Browning Lumber Company announces the removal of their combined warehouse and office to 5959 South Riverside Drive, Los Angeles. The telephone number is JBfrerson 7121.
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Saatr Fc LumbGr Cc' fl C;rlltoroir Str..t............KEerat 207a
Schafcr Brc. LuDbGr I Shbth Ca. I Dm St.,.............,.....'..SUttct l7'l
Shcvlb Pinc Salcs Co- f@ MoadacL Bl&. .........,.K8rny ?fll
Sudda & Cbrlrtasn' tlO Sruor StEt................GArfidd 2t||
Trcvr Lunbr Ce, U0 Mlrlct Str".t............,..,....SUtt r alza
Unl,oa Lunbqr Co.. Croc&or Bulldhr ..guttcr O70
Wcndltnt-Nathu Co, fll M$k.t StreGt ................,.sUttcr 53tit
E. K. Wood Lmba C;c, I Dnnr Strut...........,...,....KEmy !7ll
Wolcrhrom SaIr Cc- t|, Cdifmdr strut,..,...........GArtcld ttTl
LUMBER
Hltl e Mqbo, laa. ----'D;;i;; dt. iinr* ....""""^N'ffi na
Horan Lunbcr CaPrnY, - --z"t C etic. strictr-'.... ....Gl*!grt't|l
Pynnld Lmbcr Sda €o., -' -iia Pt"lfic Buitdln3 ..'.......'.Gl.crcort tatl
E. K. Wood Lumbcr Cc. -- -f-""[tl"* C Khj SL'..........'Fruttv.t llr2
Bolretavcr-Bunr Lumbcr Co.'
HANDlvOODS
TT.ARPWOOOS AND PANEIJ
ForryfA Hrrdrood Co. l5l Bryrhcr Bly& .....,.........ATntc lltt
Whltc Brethen, Fifth end Bnlnra Strcct! ...,.....Suttcr U||
SAITH-DOORS-PLYIVOOD
Nlcold Door Salor Co., L5 fftb Stra.t ...,...,........,...M|rho ?t!l
Orugon-Wuhington Plywood Co, 55 Ncr Motromonr Strcct.......GArftrld t0ll
Unitcd Statcr Pbmood Gc, Inc, ll0 Kuu Strut ..........,.......MAr}at ltl2
Wheler-Orgmd Sdo Copondo, Lr5 ltth St. .........,............VA!q-ch 2ll
CREOSOTIED LUMBER-POLEII_PTLING.
TTES
Ancrlcu l.rrDb.r & Troth3 Co, llt New Montgomery St. ........,.Suttcr lzls
Buter, J. H. & Cq, 33! Montgmery St. ,.. .., .DOuglar !t&l
Hall, J.-r. L., r0ua MllL Bl&. ...................SU$.r lllt
PANET S-DOOn!'-SASH
Cdll@h Buildrrr Sunply Co, ?C0 ith Avc. ..Hlgar. ..ta
Wcrtan Doc & Suh Cc, Eth & Cyprar Sti ..............LA1o1& ta0
Strablc Hadreod 6r 5!' Flr.t Str..t...,.............TErCcb.r tEtl Whltc Brcth6., 500 Hth Sircct ....'..........'..AN.tovcr foO
- C50 Gbambcr of Commeru Bl&'..PRoQGGt |tlr
Chanbcrlin & Co., W. R.' -- rri W.ri ffinrf St..-......'.......TUcLC lal
"nB'"t"rFf,$i.rklil:..9:::......."And'ro rin2
Duming' W. D., {3s -dbmbcr'of Cmruro Blds...PRoP.ct ,rta
Hammmd & Llttle Rivcr Rcdwood Go' l03l So. Broadway'.'..........'.PRo.D.d fil
Hemingc' E. W, ?O{ gD' Sprint' St. .............'...TRlnitv e62l
Holmcr Eurckr Lmbcr Co., "-?ii:zrl- it"trt id- bug.' Muturt trtr
Hoa, A. L,?01 So lr 'Brca Avo. ' ..YOrk ff|!
G D. Johnron Lunbcr Corp-
|ct Petrolcun Sccurldet Bldg'...PRcpcct 1lC5
Kuhl Lumber CmpanS Carl H.'
Itt Charnbcr of Cmncrcc Blds."PRcpect tf$
hwrcno-Phllipa Lunber Ca.
--df- F;*ffi; s-iltaui-' ptt...PRopcct l2!r
MacDmld & Bergrtm, lnc., ?ilt Pctrcleu Scorlties Bldg...,PRcpect 7tl{
LUr'lBER
MacDold & Hminrto. Ltd.,
5{? Pctrolcun Sacrrrld:t Bl&....PRo.Dct tfa
Prclfic Lunbcr Co' lac tO So. L. Bnr An. .......'....'...Y(n Ual
Patto-Blhn frnbcr Co.
5:A E. 5th gL ....................VAndikc 2l2l
Rcd Rtvc Lebc Co?@ E. Sbum .CEnturr 2tCilt
Reltz Co., E. L, !!3 Pctrolcun Sccurltha Bldg. ..PRaDGGI te Suta Fc Lunbcr Co.'
3rr FilDdrt Canter Btd3...'...VArdtkc ll?t
Scbafcr Bn Lrnbc & SDhth Cc' En W. M, Gulud Bldt.........TRinl9 {27r
Shevlin Plne Sales Co., 32E Petrclem Securltiea Eld3. PRcFct aClS
Suddcn & Chrlrtog@, 6f0 B6rd of Tn& Bldr. .....'..TRtnlty $&
Taconra Lmber Salcs, 423 P€trclsu Seorlder Bldg...PRoepect ffm
Unton Luabcr Co
t2! W. M. Gerlud Bldr..,.'......TRbltt 22!2 \f,fsaflin3-f{qff,6a Qe. ?f Sc h Ba Ar. ..............YOrL lltt
E. K. Wod lmbcr Gc, .|?!l Sutr Fc An. ..............'JEficrro tlll
Woytrhem Salcr Go. t20 W. M. Garland Bld3.........MlchiSm a05l
HARDWOODS
Cadnlladcr-Glbrcn Co., lnc., ll2t Mlncr Avc. ......,..,.,......AngGlur lll6l
Pcrfcctloo Oak Floorlng Co., t20 E. |0th St. ......................ADamc 32Cl Stlntd, E. J., ll So, 2050 Eut t8th Strut,...........CEntury rtlt
PANEI.9 AND PLYWOOD
Cdifmh Pancl & Vcecr Co. t55 3c Ahmeda 3L.............,..T?|nity ||t?
Kehl, Jno. llt.- & So+ 052 Sq Myerc SL ....,.......,...AN1c|u tlll
Orcgon-Warhingtoo Plywood Co., 3lt Wct Ninth Str.ta ......,......TUckcr llll
Rcd Rlvcr Lmbcr Co.1 ?02 E. Slaum ..CEntury llo?l
United State! Plywod Co, Imll30 Eact rsth St. .....,..........PR6pcct !01!
Whclcr-Osgood Salcr Ccpmtioo, 215! Sacmeato St. ........,,..,..TUc|cr lll
CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLES-PILINGTIES
Ancrlcan Lumbcr & Treatln3 6.' f03f So. Brodmy ..............PRcpect 55511
Buter' J. H. & Co. 60l W6t sth St. ................,.Mlchtgu €l
Building activity is no longer a promise, but a pleasing reality. Lumber merchants with complete stocks of quality materials are busy and making money now. With a building public keenly demanding values that endure, it pays to keep well supplied with Redwood, especially the upper grades. Considering its natural durability and paint holding characteristic, Hammond Quality Redwood is not expensive. QotamondH
