T\TENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The California Lumber Merchant June 15,1928

The Pacific Southwest Hardwood les, has succeeded the F. P. Baugh and is installing new equipment and including a planing mill. Sterling L.

Newly installed officers of Phoenix. Arizona. are: M. H. O'Malley, vice president; R. V. N. H. Huev. state counselor.

Company, Los AngeHardwood Company, other improvements, Stofle is manager.

Hoo-Hoo Club No. 72, aI McCalla, president; E. V. Baker, secretary-treasurer;

' Jack Hart, Hart and Burmeister, San Francisco, has been re-elected president of the San Francisco branch of the Millwork Institute o{ California, at a meeting held June 1. Will Goddard is manager of the San Francisco office located at 1l7O Market Street.

Distributors of plywood in the Southern California field held a dinner meeting in the Jonathan Club, Los Angeles, on June 6. Harry V. Hanson was chairman of the meeting, and Bob Osgood the principal speaker.

A beautiful exhibit of California Redwood has. been on display at the famous furniture store of Barker Brothers, in Los Angeles, for the past several weeks, and then moved to the Los Angeles public library. has chartered the Redwood lumber of California, made Congress, started

The Little River Redwood Company steamer W. R. Chamberlin, Jr., to l-raul to the West Indies.

"The Hardwood Industry of the Pacific Coast" is the title of an article 'ivritten by LeRoy H. Stanton, of Los Angeles, appearing in this issue.

Airplane patrol of the national forests possible by a special appropriation of July 1.

Figures just released show that the total lumber production of California {or the year 1927 was 2,013,590,000 board feet, divided by species as follows: Redwood, 511,478,000; White Pine, 728,259,000 ; Sugar Pine, 265,928,000 ; White Fir,I79,377,000; Douglas Fir, 120,120,0A0; all others, 79,496,W.