Findlay-Millar Timber Co. Sawmill at Kolambu$an Destroyed

by Fire

The big mill plant of the Findlay-Millar Timber Co', at Kolambugan, P. I., rvas entirely destroyed by fire on July Fourth, according to a cable received immediately afterwards by Walter G. Scrim, of Los Angeles, their American sales representative. This was the biggest mill in the Islands at the present time, with a daily'capacity of 100,000 feet of Philippine hardwoods. With the mill was destroyed about 200,000 feet of lumber. The lumber stocks were very small due to the fact that the mill had been shut down much of the time for the past six months for purposes of voluntary curtailment.

While no definite announcement has been made it is assumed that the mill will be rebuilt, since they have fifteen to twenty years' timber still to cut. It will be prob' ably six months or more before the new mill can be in operation.

The mill of The Insular Lumber Company, which was destroyed by fire last year, has been about half rebuilt, one side being 'completed before starting the other, and this half is already in operation.

Will Head Beverly Hills 7 Chamber of Commerce

Frank Burnaby, president of the Sun Lumber Company. Beverly Hills, Calif., was elected president of the Beverly' Hills Chamber of Commerce at the annual meeting of the board of directors recently held at the Beverly Hills Hotel. For the past seven years, Mr. Burnab.y has been a director and last year was first vice-president of the organization.