T\TENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The California Lumber Merchant August 15, 1923

The C. D. Johnson Lumber Company started operations at its big new sawmill at Toledo, Oregon. ***

The Supreme-Court of Missouri fined 19 St. Louis lumber dealers from $2,500 to $1O000 each, and "ousted" them from the state of Missouri.***

In the first 13 days of August 59 lumber boats had brought 70,000,000 feet of lumber into San Pedro harbor. ***

President Warren Harding was dead in San Francisco.

New California vehicle laws just passdd require lumber and other trucks to give turn and stop signals that can be seen from left side. ***

The McCormick Steamship Company has just been organized by Chas. R. McCormick and associates to consolidate all the McCormick steamship lines consisting of 76 boats'

Parson Peter A. Simpkin delivered wonderful address to Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club on August 9th. ***

Norman Selby, better known as "Kid McCoy" of pugi- listic fame, has just started selling sash and doors in Los Angeles district for Glasby & Company.

Just locating yards ""0*ooJu.lt wit-ington are several great Los Angeles lumber concerns, including The San Pedro Lumber Company, L. W. Blinn Lumber Company, and Consolidated Lumber Company.

The Paramino Lumber Company, San Francisco, has started operating five lumber steamers from Puget Sound to San Diego.

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Lumber Company is opening a lumber yard ***

The entire sawmill plant of the Chas. R. McCormick. Lumber Company at St. Helens, Oregon, was destroyed by fire August 4th.

The Frost Hardwood Company is building on West Market Street in San Diego.

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