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T\TENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As repofted in The California Lumber Merchant August 15, 1925

C. W. Pinkerton, of Whittier, president of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, announces that his Association is starting a campaign rnaking grademarking compulsory on all lumber sold in California.

Exchange Sawmills Company, of Kansas City, one of the big Southern lumber manufacturers, announces moving westward. It has purchased the Modoc Lumber Company, of Klamath Falls, Oregon, with a mill and half a billion feet of pine timber.

Arthur Edgecumbe, prominent lumberman and shingle rnanufacturer, of Vancouver, B. C., attends Bohemian Grove outing as guest of Gus Russell, and then visits in Southern California.

Union Lumber Company announces Redwood reforestation on a vast scale They plan to plant and nurture about every one they cut at their mill at Fort that it has taken up in Mendocino County. 30 Rcdwood trees for' Bragg.

Robert Inglis, Dan Schroebel, and A. A. Hauerbach have purchasecl the controlling stock in the San Joaquin Lumber Company at Stockton, California.

W. A. Pickering, of Kansas City, Mo., is visiting in Long Ileach, California. He is president of the lumber company that bears his name, and also of the Standard Lumber Company, Standard, California. This concern is now the second largest owner of pine in California.

Wooden buildings fared wonderfully well in the recent severe earthquake in Santa Barbara, California, and the lum bermen of that city are overlooking no opportunity to publicize that fact, while the rebuilding of the badly damaged city goes on apace. Little damage except to chimneys was suffered bv the average wooden home.

A group of offrcers and directors of the National Lumber Nfanufacturers Association were recent visitors in San Francisco. They were headed by Frank Wisner, of Laurel, Mississippi, president of the Association, and were returning from the annual convention of their association in Portland.