GOSSIIN.HARDIIIG LUTBER CO.

T\flENTY.FIVE YEARS

A large photograph shows the new private office of Al Koehl, of John W. Koehl & Son. All done in walnut, it is one of the most beautiful private offices in Los Angeles.

In a special article in this number Robert V. Baker, secretary-manager of the Lumbermen's Club, of Arizoha, discusses in interesting fashion "Arizona's Growing Industry-a,r-0".."

George C. Cornitius, of San Francisco, well known hardwood importer and wholesaler, has formed a combination with three of his former competitors, and organized the George C. Cornitius Hardwood Company. They will import Philippine and Japanese hardwoods.

Ted Lawrence was winner of the low net trophy at the big golf tournament held on lune 22 in Los Angeles, sponsored by the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club. Frank Burnaby was toastmaster of the banquet that followed the tournament.

On July 1 the National Hardwood Company, of Los Angeles, oldest exclusive hardwood flooring concern in the area, was taken over by the Western Hardwood Lumber Company of the same city. N{r. Frank Auten, who organized the National in 1907, is retiring from active business.

The entire plant Company, in Los $150,000.

and stocks of Angeles, was the Diamond Hardwood destroyed by fire, loss ft is announced that the Klamath Falls district, in California and Oregon, produced 371 million feet of lumber in the past year.

Bill Sampson, sales manager for The Hipolito Company of Los Angeles, is now calling on the trade in Arizona and other distant districts bv chartered plane.

The National Association of will hold a district convention ath Falls, August 17 and 18.

Wooden Box Manufacturers of its membership at Klam-

&lodernizotion ot McNory

To Cost Over Million

Mention rvas made in these columns July first of the improvement and modernization program under way at Southwest Lumber Mills, Inc., at NIcNary, La.

Further information states that the prog'ram now under way u'ill cost more than one million dollars, and will include : a huge steel shed for the storage of rough lumber; an automatic stacker and unstacker; a dry sorter; modernization of the dry kilns so that the entire output of the big mill will be kiln dried. The result, according to Jim Ben Edens, chairman of the board, rvill be to enable the mill to operate all the year around instead of only seasonally, with no shutdowns forrvinterrveather. This u'ill mean stable employment and continuous all-year around payrolls.

Besides the great improvements at N{cNary, tl.re firm is also installing new machinery at their mills at Snowflake and Overaard, Arizona. All irnprovements rvill be complete by next winter, from rvhich time the mills rvill be able to make better lumber than ever before, and process their logs more economicallv than ever.

Gyclones Couse Huge Timber Domoge

According to "Forestry Digest" cyclones cause an estimated $500,000 damage a year in the State of Minnesotafn one storm during the last year about one million feet of Noru'ay and White Pine timber was knocked down or badly damaged by a storm. About 95 per cent of the damaged timber from that one storm has been salvaged by emergency Iogging operations.