TWENTY-FIVE YEARS As Repoded in The California Lumber AGO Merchanl, TODAY Jufy 1, 1934

The "Twelfth Anniversary" Edition of The Merchant, July l, 1934, contained several congratulatory advertisements on the magazine's milestone, and one of the Cover advertisements .was for the new TECO Joint-Connector Design System of the.Timber Engineering Co., Washington, D.C. The advertising space was provide-d through the courtesy of The Pacific 'Lumber Company. Publisher Jack Dionne had a very interesting column of reminiscences in the issue called "Twelve Years Ago Today," bridging the years 1922 to t934 and telling how The Merchant got up its first head of steam. He remembered how Gus Russell told him he was a "damn fool" to start a lumber journal in California, but how Gus's Santa Fe Lumber Co. of San Francisco gave The Merchant its first paid advertisement. (Of those ad,vertisers in the Vol. 1, No. 1, Santa Fe and also Union Lumber Company are still with us regularly in 1959; all the others are now out of business or merged into other companies.)

President Roosevelt on lune 28 signed the National Housini Act passed during the closing session of Congress to provide $3,200,000,000 for the construction and repair of homes.

The National Retail Lumber Dealers Assn. simultaneously announced a reduction of about 10% in the cost of lumber and building materials as an aid to the administration's housing program George Melville of the Schafer Bros. L. A. ofifice, traveled by auto to the mill at Montesano, Wash., accompanied by Floyd Elliott of the S.F. office . . . Lumber Dealer Edward E. Gillon died June 16. He had operated a yard in the Richmond district many years The Long-Bell Lumber Co. petitioned June 9 to reorganize under the new corporate law signed by FDR on June 7.

The Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers' Import Assn. held its annual meeting June 11 and 12 in the L.A. offices. Officers elected were W. G. Scrim, M. S. Chapin, F. J. Dunbar and G. P. Purchase. Roy Barto was reelected to the executive committee Figures just released by the Bureau of the Census showed that the production of lumber, lath and shingles reached a higher figure in 1933 than they had in 1932 . . . James Maddock of the Santa Cruz Lumber Co. left Tune 10 on an auto tour of the east ind Chicago World's Fair Alexander Parson joined the Jones Hardwood Co., San Francisco, of which Nelson Jones is president Bill Tice, formerly with the Klicka Lumber Co., San Diego, is now with the Diamond Match Co. at Marysville . . John D. Tennant of Longview, Wash., was reelected chairman of the Lumber Code Authority at the annual meeting in Chicago, June 11. On the new Natl. Control Committee were B. W. Lakin, McCloud, Calif.; E. W. Demarest, Tacoma, Wash., and Floyd Hart of California.

Thomas P. Hogan, Jr., president of the T. P. Hogan Co., Oakland, is pictured in this issue with a string of five striped bass averaging out at 15 lbs. and caught near Red Rock in San Pablo Bay The annual report of the California Redwood Assn. in this

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