T\(/ENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The Calilornia Lumber Merchant August 1 , l ggo

More than 2,000 people attended the fourth annual gettogether of Northern California Hoo-Hoo held at Fall River Mills, July 4, 5 and 6. Westwood Hoo-Hoo Club No. 38 was the host and sponsor. There was speaking, dancing, baseball and other outdoor sports, as well as much feasting.

During the first three months of 1930, there were exported from the United States 441,000,000 feet of lumber, a decline of 27 percent from the totals of the previous year.

The 18 national forests of the California region, U. S. Fores.t Service, established a new highwater mark in receipts when they returned to the federal treasury, from the use ancl sale of natural resources for the year ending June 30, 1930, a total of $1,647,360.

With new homes hard to sell on account of stringent financial conditions, the lumber industry of California in general is making a strong drive to sell remodeling materials. Some newspapers predict that this will be the biggest rehabilitation vear in historv.

Building permits for June in Los Angeles totaled $5,485,000, as compared with g8 million for June 1929.In San Francisco fhe drop was very small, the 1929 total being 92,303,000, and the 1930 figures $2,232,000.

W. L. Leishman, Crown City Manufacturing Company, Pasadena, is chairman of the committee rnaking all arrangements for the conference of the Millwork Institute of California, to be held at the Hotel Huntington, August 7, 8, 9.

Professor Emanuel Fritz has been appointed editor of the Journal of Forestry, which is the official organ of the Society of American Foresters,. Prof. Fritz is a member of the staff of the Divisi'on of Forestry at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of the nation's greatest authorities.

The Pickering Lumber Company, Kansas City, Mo., announces the recent formation of Pickering Lumber Sales Company, which will in future sell all Pickering lumber products. L. V. Graham has liquidated the Chicago Lumber Company of Washington, which he has headed for several years at Oakland, and has been made general sales manager for Pickering. C. C. Stibich has been made manager of Pickering's district sales office in San Francisco.

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