D. C. ESSLEY and SOI{

Dee Essley Woyne Wilson Chuck lember

Essley

7227 Eost Telegroph Rood Montebello, Colif.

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members of the council : Herman Kranz. president of the Morris Furniture Nlanufacturing Company of Los Angeles; Mal Coombs, president of the Coombs Lumber Company at Carberville; George R. Duff. manager of Cal-Ida Lumber Company at Auburn; and Henry Trobitz, manager of California Timberlands Division of the Simpson Lumber Company, Arcata.

They joined the council July 1, replacing four whose terms have expired: Verne C. Cardner, vice-president of American Forest Products Corporation, Fresno; Dr. Nicholas V. Poletika, vice-president, research oI Lnion Lumber Company, Fort Bragg; Thomas Shelton, Potlatch Forest lumber C.o., Monchester

Industries. Lewiston, Idaho; and Herbert E. Toor, president o{ Furniture Guild of California, Inc., Los Angeles.

As new council president, Rushton will succeed Dr. William Hearon, vice-president. research and development, Crown Zellerbach Corporation, San Francisco.

Now is a good time to get your sketches in shape if you are planning to install fences. Fence posts are easier to dig when the soil is damp. Also, your summer gardening can be planned around your {ence installations. Western red cedar is a durable wood and ideal {or both posts and fencing materials.

Old-Growth DOUGTAS FtR from Spocek Bros. lumber Co., Monchester

Precision-trimmed STUDSDouglos Fir . White Fir . Redwood

REDWOOD AIR-DRIED qnd KILN-DRIED

REDWOOD POSTS qnd FENCING

THE AMERICAN ECONOMY (Lontinued

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Initial tlelir clr of tics is sr.lrt'rlult'rl I'ol l9(r,1. rvith snliserluent shipmt'rrts t onlinuing llrr-orrslr l9(rfr as uork on the trvo pr()je(.ts l)rogl'('ss(.s itrrtl lcrltri r'('l])('nts irrt' rrct'tlt'tl.

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REDWOOD PRODUCTS CO.

YOUR BEST BUY GERTIFIED KILN DRI IN ED

It took only 30 minutes to unload 40,00C ft. of packased pine from this new wide-mouth design boxcar. lViilan A. lr.4ichie, Stahl Lumber-Company vice-president, sh0ws the tremendous size of the 0pening with doors full op-en. 0. lvl. Hill, s0uthern California representative for. the ihippers of the load, McCloud Rivei Lumber, sold this first shipment to Stahl. Rapid unloading of the 3,500 ft. packages resulted in a big saving of labor costs. For a moie complete description 0f the b0xcar itself see Larry Turnbull's letter in this month's Letters section.

CALIFOTNIA tUflIIEI IIEICHANT

San Ramon Retailer

(Continued, lrom Page 4 ) electrical, power and hand tools and countless other items for the weekend carpenter trade.

San Ramon Valley Mill and Lumber celebrated its store renovation and expansion with an informal open house May l-4 with Mrs. Gladys Spencer, wife of manger Bud Spencer, and Harry's bride Alyce acting as hostesses, Several hundred good customers from the Danville area showed up to share cofee with the staff. Refreshingly, the open house was not treated in a bargain-day sale manner. Rather, the whole thing was treated in a friendly, easy-going tempo, more of a party than a commercial occurance.

Looking at the man at the helm of this thriving business we find a fellow who logged his 42nd year in the lumber business last February. The year of l92l was the year that Harry Stewart entered the lumber business with the old C. S. Pierce Lumber Company in Fresno.

ln 1925, Harry decided to take a swipe at the manufacturing end of the business, so he moved to Westwood, California, where he became assistant of the old Red River - Lurnber Company's veneer plant.

During the I930's, retailing beckoned again and Harry signed on with Diamond National, a company still referred to as Diamond Match Company by anyone who's had his hand in the business as long as Harry has.

Stewart worked his way up through the ranks with Diamond and became area supervisor, part of which included Contra Costa County to which San Ramon Valley Mill and Lumber pays its taxes. San Ramon Valley Mill and Lumber, established by the late Irving Nelson in 1937, was located in an area of great future potential, Harry noticed while making his rounds for Diamond. What's more, it was giving his yard at Walnut Creek a good run for it, too.

Diamond Match authorized Stewart to negotiate for the yard, but owner Nelson held firm. Finally, during 1944, Nelson conceded to do business--but onlv with Stewart individually. And that's how the whole thing got started. Danville gained another solid citizen and businessman. and the northern California retail lumber industry gained another long-range member.

Monthly Lumber Focts

Both orders and production of lumber at Douglas fir region sawmills in Oregon and Washington for the first six months of l!)63 were falling behind the same period a year ago. Production was ofi nearly 100 million feet and orders fell 200 million feet behind the first half of 1962. Shipments were down lB0 million feet.

The lumber inventory of.872 million feet, generally considered lumber in process of manufacture, is the lowest in several months.

The weekly average of West Coast lumber production in June was 162,68O000 b.f. or 89.1/o of the 1958-62 average. Orders averaged 164,170,000 b.f.; shipments 160,234,W0 b.f.; weekly averages for May were production 151,813,000 b.f',95.4/o oL the 1958-62 average; orders 163,203,000 b.f.; shipments I69,839,0(n b.f.

Six months of the cumulative production 3,996,049,000 b.f.; six months oL 1962, 4,094,933,000 b.f.; six months of 1961, 4,039,'[87,000 b.f.

Orders for six months of 1963 bn'rk down as follows: Rail and truck 3,054,403,000 b.f.; domestic cargo 666,635,000 b.f.; export 20I,804,000 b.f.; local 150,807,000 b.f.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 577,953,000 b.f. at the end of June, lumber inventory at 872,038,00 Ob.f.

Biggest surprise of the Columbus Day, 1962, hurricane which hit Oregon, Washington and California a ssvere blow was the way wood cedar shingles withstood the 150-mile-an-hour winds. Metal and composition shingles took a terrific beating, and were ripped ofi by the winds.

Pine White Fir

E. KENT

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