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In turn, the grorving, bustling city of Sacranrento hes looked to Friend & Terry for advice and help in filling its building needs and reciprocating in helping the firm rack up the enviable record of transacting business in the same tou'n for over 102 years I

During its existence, the firm has experienced many a notable event, such as a contract for ill of the Redwood planking used many years ago to construct d wooden road across Imperial Valley.

At one tin.re the busy plant housed 18 teams of horscs and many \vagons, rvhich rvere used to make deliveries. Chain hoists, installed in 1912 ancl designed to iift an entire load from a wagon in one lift, rTorv hang idlr:. The first internal combustior-r motor truck to be used by a yard in Sacramento rvas purchased by Friend & Terry in 1912, and since that time the firm has continued to be among the first to accept innovations in lumber handling and merchandising.

Silver and Gold Among the Threads

The period of activity during World \\rar II is all but forgotten, as the company is back on a busy, if not hectic, schedule, but Shepard likes to reminisce over the 50,000,000 board feet of lumber remanufactured in the Friend & 'ferry yard for use in btrilding the Sacramento Signal Depot. Other lumber remanufactured at the yard is nol' in military construction all over the Pacific. The firm has shipped to many parts of the t'orld in its long history, and

Shepard believes an unusually high percentage of hom':s in Sacramento contain lumber once stacked in the Friend & Terry yard.

Sin.rpson and Shepard are arclent horseureu, each owning several animals. Both enjoy driving multiple hitches, and Shepard is knor.vn throughout the Pacilic Coast for his ability as a six-horse hitcl-r expert. FIe has clriveu stage coaches and other oldtime vehicles in paracles and celeI'rations over much of California ancl Oregon.

In addition, Shepard has been cquite actir-e in civic affairs Ior many years, and is currently holding drx'r'n the big job of president of the I-umber Merchants -\ssociation oI ^\orthern California.

M&M Continues long-Ronge Plqns

Clay l3rown, president of M and M Wood Worhir.rg C.rnpany, Portland, l-ras narred Larry T. Marshall of Arcata, Calif., manager of NI and M's California Timber Division in the big plywood door and lumber collcenl's long-range plans for a sustained yield timber l-rarvesting prograr.n irr Northern California. Marshall, who has had wide experience in timberland management, was chosen to put into operation plans that call for selective cutting, logging to provicle natural re-seeding of land, developn-rent of fire control sl.stems and the further acquisition of logs ancl timber. Prior to joining M and M, Marshall was logging rnanager of Dolly Varden Lumber Company, Arcata; and from 1946 to 1950 was with the West Gate Lumber Company of Sweet llome, Orcgon, in the same capacity. From 1930 to 1942, Marshall was employed in various capacities in mill and woods operations.

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