The California Lumber Merchant - September 1937

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COBERLY'S NEW CLOVIS YARD

L. M. Coberly is opening a new lumber yard on Clovis Avenue in Clovis, California. The buildings are now being erected.

NEW NEVADA CITY YARD

The Tahoe Sugar Pine Company, which operates a Pine sawmill near Graniteville, is opening the retail yard formerly operated by the Builders Supply Company, in Nevada City, California. H. S. Foreman will be in charge.

HOBART LUMBER COMPANY YARDS IN NEVADA

It is announced that the five lumber yards at Reno, Carson City, Virginia City, Lovelock, and Minden, Nevada, which have in the past been operated by the Hobart Estate Company, will in future be operated by a company which has been incorporated for that purpose, the Hobart Lumber Company. G. D. Oliver, who has been general manager of the Hobart Estate Companv, is president of the new company, and C. M. Oliver is general manager. The Hobart Estate continues ownership.

NEv/ YARD IN TURLOCK

Home Lumber Yard, Inc. has opened a retail yard at Turlock.

J. H. Ward, Jr. is president, and R. B. (Burt) Gartin is secretary and general manager.

NEW YARD IN STOCKTON

Frank Fisher, formerly of Fisher Bros. Mill & Lumber Co., Stockton, completed construction of his new yard, Frank Fisher Lumber Co.. at 3330 Main Street, Stockton, early in August.

LUMBERMAN MAKES FAIR A SUCCESS

Walter S. Found, general lnanager of Merced Lumber Company, Merced. is receiving many compliments on the srlccess of the first Merced-1\{ariposa County Fair, held at Merced, August 6,7 and 8.

Mr. F-ound did a lot of the preliminary organization work and was mallager of the F'air.

ED ADAMS IN RETAIL BUSINESS

Ed F. Adams is norv owner and operator of the Economy Lumber Yard at 2040 Seminary Avenue, Oakland.

For a number of years before going into the retail business three months ago he was a well known commission lumber salesman with headquarters in Oakland.

ATTENDS INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION

A. D. McKinnon, of McKinnon's Lumber Yard, Hollister, has returned from attending the International Rotary Convention in France.

Mr. Ward was formerly with the Union Oil Co. at Turlock, and Mr. Gartin iras been manager for the past several C. years of the Modesto Lumber Company's branch at Tur- ing a lock.

\MM. KILLEN

Wm. Killen, of the Foxu'orth-Killen Lumber Company, Tucson, Arizona, underrvent a minor operation in Los Angeles recently, and is norv back home on the job.

BLESSED EVENT

Mr. and Mrs. Norman E. Beers are rejoicing over the arrival of a son, Norman Roger Beers, born August 16 in San Francisco.

Mr. Beers is with The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco.

BACK

n'Iarc de Bruin, of the Francisco, general sales Lumber Company, Port after spending a u'eek at

FROM MILL

Gorman Lrrmber Company, San representatives of Trans-Pacific Orford. Ore.. is back at his desk the mill.

LOOKS OVER SO. CALIF. TERRITORY

E. L. Green, vice-president in charge of sales, Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, was back August 23 from a two weeks' business trip to Southern California.

C. C. BARR IN NEBRASKA

C. Barr, Barr Lurnber Company, Whittier, is enjoyvisit back in his old home in Nebraska.

McELROY MAKES AIR TRIP

J. H. McElroy, of the McElroy Lumber Company, Palo Alto, returned home August 19 from a business trip to the Pacific Northwest. He traveled both wavs by air.

BACK FROM MOUNTAINS

Gordon D. Pierce, Boorman Lumber Co., Oakland, back on the job from a vacation spent at Dardanelle, the High Sierra.

WITH MacDONALD & HARRINGTON

M. E. Lopes is now' in charge of tl,e box shook department of MacDonald & Harrington, San Francisco.

L. K. LEISHMAN RETURNS FROM EUROPE

L. K. Leishman, Crown City Lumber & Mill Company, Pasadena, has returned from two months' trip to Europe.

CALLS ON MILLS

J. H. "Jerry" Stutz, of Atkinson-Stutz Co., San Francisco, recently returned from the Northwest where he spent two weeks calling on the mills.

Bulleted Between ClO, AFOL and NLR4 Pacific Lumber Industry in Tough Spot

The labor situation has the lumber industry from San Diego to Vancouver all a-quiver at this moment. It started in Portland, Oregon, when the crews of seven big mills joined the CIO and the local AFOL unions in that city promptly picketed them, and boycotted their products. So the mills shut down. It is reported that they are threatened with prosecution under the Wagner Act for locking out their CIO crer,r's. They have had the unique experience of being picketed by both CIO and AFOL. The seven mills are still shut down, all AFOL unions refusing to handle any CIO made lumber, either in Portland or elsewhere.

It is reported that one mill in the Northwest had the unique experience of being picketed by three labor organizations at the same time, the CIO, AFOL, and the 4L.

At Tacoma the crew of one of the biggest sawmills voted to join CIO. It rvas immediately picketed by AFOL and closed down. In a few days it started operations, the report being rife that the company had been ordered to run or be prosecuted for locking out its CIO crew. So it started, but the AFOL unions have announced, it is reported, a nationwide boycott of the products of the mill. In Los Angeles the AFOL labor leaders stated that they

CALIFORNIA STRIKE NEWS AFFECTING LUMBER

In Los Angeles workers in the various furniture factories have voted to strike. but the date has not been set.

In San Francisco where plasterers and hod carriers have been on strike for several weeks, the plasterers have reduced their demand from $1.75 per hour to $1.66, and the hod carriers, who have been asking $1.50 an hour, have agreed to a like reduction. No other developments.

An agreement has been signed between-the Buikling Trades Council and the Building Trades Employers' Association and kindred organizations in San Francisco that is a movement toward permanent peace. The agreement sets up a joint board of 14 members, 7 union and 7 employers, to assist in settlement of any dispute, and provides for arbitration in all disputes over wages, hours, and working conditions.

MILLS TO REOPEN

Portland, Ore., Aug. Z8.-Seven Portland sawmills closed since August 16, when they were picketed by A. F. of L. building trades council pickets, will resume operation August 30. The way Ior the reopening of the mills was paved by a truce between union forces of the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. which employes and employers hope will become permanent.

Under its terms 2,500 men will go back to work pending outcome of further peace negotiations to be directed by Charles W. Hope, regional director of the National Labor Relations Board.

would make every effort to prevent ships from carrying the products of the mill, and that AFOL unions everywhere would refuse to touch its products.

In Los Angeles AFOL labor leaders asked the Los Angeles Lumber and Allied Products Institute to notify its members that the AFOL carpenter's unions will not handle or touch any lumber made by CIO crews, and that furthermore they will boycott any lumber yard that handles CIO lumber. Much concern has been expressed among the Los Angeles lumber people over this announcement.

In San Diego it is reported a local sawmill crew voted to go CIO, and the product of the mill was immediately boycotted by the local AFOL unions.

It is reported that the trouble in the Northwest is so far practically confined to the Portland and Tacoma districts, it being evident that tests are to be made in those places to determine what the future shall develop.

It rnust be remernbered that in none of the cases mentioned are the mills in any way mixed in the controversy. They are not resisting the unionization of their men, and are paying the wages and working the hours and conditions prescribed by the unions. They are simply caught in the battle between the two union organizations.

N. L. M. A. HOLDS EXECUTIVE MEETING IN MINNEAPOLIS

Plans for continued improvement and extension of the merchandising and research facilities of the lumber indus= try were laid by the Executive and Advisory Committees of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, meeting in a three-day session at the Curtis Hotel, Minneapolis, July 8, 29 and 30. The gathering of over fifty lumberrnen from all'sections of the country r,r'as welcomed at its opening meeting by Mayor George E. Leach, following which the committee discussed proposals for consolidating and further advancing the lumber industry position in the fields of merchandising and engineering research. The meetings were presided over by N.L.M.A. President Walter B. Nettleton. Seattle, Washington.

ANNUAL STATE LUMBER MEETING IN DEL MONTE IN NOVEMBER

The annual meeting of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association will be held at Del Monte again, at some date in November to be decided upon by the executive committee. This was decided upon at a special meeting of the officers and directors and secretaries held August 28 at the El Encanto Hotel in Santa Barbara. (Report of this meeting will be in our next number.)

UNSOLD LUMBER AT

Unsold lumber at Los 15,7&,W feet, as against 274,W on the 12th.

L. A. HARBOR INCREASES

Angeles harbor August 26 was 14,031,000 on the 19th, and 12,-

Vagabond Editorials

By Jack Dionne

They say polite folks in washington never say ,,Thanks a Million" any more. They say "Thanks a BILLION." Just keeping up with the spirit of the times.

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The Congress that just adjo,urned appropriated about nine and a quarter billions of do,llars. But why should we care ? All we've got to do is to pay it.

Reminds me of the colored boy u"hetting his knife on the sole of his shoe, while a big catfish flopped at the end o,f a string. The boy said, "Whatsa matter Mistuh Catfish? Whut you foppin' fo'? I ain't gwine to do nuthin' to ye-jest gut ye."

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Anyway, the wage and hour bill did not pass, even if the huge appropriations bills did. But it will be back. So will the government reorganization proposition, and the Supreme Court bulge, and all the others. They'll be back. Don't let anyone fool you about that.

There are thousands upon thousands of small and financially weak enterprises and businesses that heave a sigh of relief, however, even if it IS only temporary. Many small lines of business are forced by sheer necessity to pay lower wages and work longer hours than their more fortunate competitors.. How would it help to drive them out of business ? *lr*

And countless thousands of workers who belong for various physical and other reasons to'the "weak sister" class, likewise feel a great sense of relief. The first thing an employer does who is forced to pay more money for help, is to weed out the weaker and poo,rer help, and pack his payroll with the best and most productive men. And what becomes of those others? **rt

What will the lumber business be this fall? That question they are asking everywhere. The definite summer slump that reached from ocean to ocean has put a sharp edge on curiosity with regard to the immediate future. It

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is my conviction that a whole lot more lumber has been USED during the past sixty days-natio,nally speakinithan has been BOUGHT. Looking into the future with some doubts and misgivings it has been the tendency of lumber users everywhere to dig into their inventories, reduce their stocks, and wait for some developments before doing much lumber buying.

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This seemed to be particularly true of many of the lumber consuming industries of the North and East, as well of the retail lumber end of the industry. In my judgment lumber stocks are much lower than they were the first of June, and that as fall opens up there will be brisk lumber buying in most all normal localities.

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I think it was the fear of labor trouble, and fear of what Congress might do, that caused most of the summer lumber slurnp. With conditions running all the way from fair to fine all over the country, there should be a very definite improvement in the demand for all sorts of lumber, softwood and hardwood of all kinds. I believe there will be, and that it is about due to start.

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The revival in national horne building-in spite of the fact that a lot of homes have been built in the past eighteen months-is no more than well started. Increased cost

of building has had a cooling effect most everywhere, and has undoubtedly cut down the building permits considerably, but this was to be expected. But we still need millions of modern homes in this country, and we are going to get them.

Residential construction will be the hope of the lumber industry for the next two years, and perhaps longer. The new home and the home improvement reservoirs of need, built up over a long series of short building years, has been scarcely touch€d. {<

The lumber industry itself can put a giant lever under the home building industry by intelligent merchandising. Showing and teaching people how to use better lumber, is one thing; teaching and showing them how to use lumber better, is another. There are millions o'f habitations in this country that could and would be amazingly improved in the next year, if those who own them could be shown the possibilities. Just boards and dimensions won't make any one buy. It is what lumber and lumber products can be made to do, that will excite the human appetite to the wood-buying point.

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(Continued from Page 7) and preparing it for market have come apace in the past few years. There ARE many new things under the lumber making sun, and don't you doubt it. This is particularly true with regard to the seasoning of hardwoods. Every lumberman and lumber consumer knows that the seasoning proposition has been the biggest thing the hardwood industry has had to work out. At first it was a slow process. But they have learned. *r<T

It was just a few short years ago when few men would have conceded that kiln-drying hardwood lumber green from the saw uras within the realms of practical possibility. Yet today tremendous quantities of the most difficult of hardwoods are being artificially dried right from the saw, and with thorough success. The ordinary method of drying commercial hardu'ood lumber even yet is to pile it carefully out in the air for a certain number of mohths, and then taking it to the kilns. But the greatest lumber drying authority in the world tells us that he believes hardwoods dried green from the saws are comparable in every possible vvay to those air dried wholly or in part.

He goes farther than that, and declares that with the proper sort of kilns and kiln methods, concerns drying hardwoods green from the saws are enabled to overcome many other handicaps and still take a dominant place in the markets with their goods. Both in the West and South there are now a number of outstanding concerns that are kiln drying their green hardwoods, and my informant believes that their number will grow faster in the next few years than any other department of the lumber business.

May I digress here to ask a question? It is one that nobody can answer, but I'll ask it just to give you something to think about. There is quite a lot of hardwood lumber now being manufactured in Washington and Oregon, the principal species of commercial value being Maple and Alder. Will somebody kindly tell me why these Western States produce softwoods so much larger than the softwoods of the South and North, yet produce hardwoods so much smaller than do those districts? They do. But why? Looks like the same land that breathed the breath of life into the enormous Firs, and Pines, and Cedars, and Redwoods of the West would also create large hardwoods. But they don't.

As this is written there is serious labor trouble in the

milling districts of the Pacific Northwest again. In fact they have hardly been without serious labor troubles up there fo,r the past five years. Today the trouble is between the C. I. O. and A. F. of L. for supremacy in organizing and controlling the sawmill labor. The mills are innocent bystanders caught between the two grinding wheels of the labor organizations. Just at a time when the mills should be doing their best cutting of the season, and the camps the best logging, labor troubles close them down.

In some cases a mill finds itself with three labor organization groups contending for their men at o,ne time, the 4 L being the third organization. Two sets of pickets have become common. Three is not unusual. Poor industry ! **d.

Is it any wonder that so few new business enterprises are being started anywhere? What with labor trouble and taxes, who wants to be in business these days?

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Conditions and Prospects in the Lumber Industry of California

By Frank \fl. Trower,Trower Lumber Co., San Froncisco

Writing under this head is a large order, for California is an empire as large as several combined states on the Atlantic seaboard. Lurnber Trade has a different meaning in the mil1s of the Sierra and the redrvood coast than in a lumber yard or industrial plant perhaps 6OO miles distant, but still within California. In spite of long years of adversity in thc general lumber business, there are yards which hardly have knorvn there rvas a depression. Usually such concerns sell a heavy percentage of other building materials, u'hose price is fairly well maintained by the manufacturers. One may easily include too much territory in speaking of California lumber trade conditions. Yet, upon the whole, and in the long run, we are all affected by the general situation. The public is often bafiled by the financial contradictions affecting difierent localities and branches of the California lumber business. I{owever, if any lumbernran, whether stevedore or owner o'uvned by his banker, happens to rate notice in the daily press, he nearly always is relerred to as "a wealthy lumberrrian." We appreciate the compliment, but enjoy a secret grin. Long years in the trade teaches that Caution follows close on the heels of Experience r,l'hen it comes to guessing the California lumber market and its mercurial temperament. As schooiboys we learned from reciting Longfellow's Psalm of Life that "things are not what they seem !"

"The Market" is what we are all interested in. Its trends or sudden fluctuations often mean the difference between pro'fit and loss. Lumber well bought is alreadl' half sold. In many of our large California cities present retail lumber prices are far below those needed to cover proper costs and reasonable profit. Therefore close buying is required to meet competition and stay in business. Not only price, but grades, quality, texture, manufacture, are important buying factors. During Code days a lower price for the same grade had to be made for certain Fir producing districts whose timber is harder, coarser and heavier than others. Even then such mills had difficulty moving their stock and many of them accumulated heavy inventories that were later sold at a loss. Yet, to the public lumber is just lumber.

A few months ago the irrcreasing sound of the hammer and the saw was sweet music in our ears. Business was on the up grade; a dammed-up building program had burst its barriers. Money for legitimate building was, and is, plentiful. Then something happened and today we have a sort of creeping paralysis covering the home building business. ft is too complicated to attempt analysis in this limited space, even if one felt adequate to the task. Sit-down strikes throughout the country, defiance of courts and law,

ill-concealed approval by government officers, unreasonable Iabor demands, the President's blast against higher costs, all brought loss of confidence. That word means much more than a political slogan. Without Confidence we shali have poor lumber trade. This sudden change reminds us of the darkey in the story we heard in boyhood days, r'i'ho was roasting a 'possum in his cabin oven. Tired by the hunt and the heat, he lay down for a nap. A practical joker, passing the open door, sniffed the savory odor Tiptoeing in, he dipped his fingers in the'possum grease and applied them quietly to the lips and fingers of the sleeping negro; then decamped with the roast. Sambo awakening, licked his chops, looked in the empty oven and exclaimed: "f shore musta done eat it. But dat am de most ONSATISFACTORY 'possum I yever did eat !"

In recent issues of daily papers in the Bay district appeared ads covering Open Statements to the Plasterers and Hodcarriers of the Bay area. One signed by the Northern California Institute of Architects said: "A recent survey of the principal architects offices in the Bay Area shows a great shortage of work. In spite of the need for new building, the public has started a buyers strike, due to their feeling that the cost of building has been raised to an unreasonable plane."

Another signed by the Contracting Plasterers said; "Are you going to wreck your business as the brickmen have done theirs ? The brickmen ran labor costs too high. As a result, substitutes for brickwork have largely taken the place of brick construction. If plastering labor costs are forced too high, substitutes for plaster will be the result. Then, where will your jobs and our business be? We are both in the same boat !" That tells the present building trades story and might well sum up this lumber review.

In recent issues of this journal have appeared notably thoughtful research studies by E. C. Parker, President, California Retail Lumbermen's Association. He says; "It can be shown by actual statistics that the average sales price of lumber the 6rst four months of 1937 is less than a T year averag'e. The idea that lumber is high has been brought about by the fact that it is considerably higher than in the abnormally low years of 1932 and 1933." He says further: "Most items that compose the lumbermen's cost of doing business are higher in 1937 than a 20 year average"-yard employes in July, 7937, earn about 25%, more than the previous 20 year averag'e.-"Statistics will also prove that the gross margin of profit on the goods sold by lumbermen is not higher than a 2O year ayerage, r,vhereas practically every item of their cost of doing business is considerably higher than a trventy year average."

Yet Lumber is made the public scapegoat for the entire increase in building costs, though it represents but a fraction of the increase. Lumber needs a first-class press agent on the job steadily. Former wide mill price slumps are impossible now.

The market student must fairly consider this matter of \,vage costs. Formerly when competition forced down lumber prices the first thought was to take some of it out of the worker's hide. Now, fixed union wages prevent that. Owners must make a pro'fit, or borrow money, or close down. That is a social and economic gain. We start with a fair wage for a fair day's work and build on that solid foundation, or not at all. But again we must avoid dogmatic statement. For there are instances when an employer has an honest right to ask his workers to share some of his loss, so that the plant may keep going for their mutual benefit. The National Lumber Survey Committee in its recent 24th quarterly report to the U. S. Department of Commerce states that wage scales are the highest in the history of the West Coast lumber industry. It adds that throughout the depression lumber prices have averaged substantially less than building materials prices generally. Lumbermen should somehow get these truths across to the public. Today's market survey must take note of the solid fact that present lumber cargo freight rates on this Coast clo not return costs, even without insurance and depreciation, rvhich should be included. The Coastwise Freight Conference expires August 18th, but rates have long been open. More boats are quitting the losing battle against low rates and higher operating costs, and are joining the idle fleet. Stockholders know that most coastwise lumber steamers have not paid dividends for 10 to 14 years. The ferv exceptions only prove the rule. No new lumber vessels have been built on this coast since 1923. But we must not paint too dark a pictufe, however justified, or bankers may refuse loans to their lumber shipping clients, -if they can.

Wise lumber buyers are keeping an eye on the prospects for a shipping tie-up Sept. 30th, when agreements with the Longshoremen and Maritime unions expire. Harry Bridges' recent renerval of the L L. A. contract seems hopeful on its face. Incidentally, by a mere stroke of his pen in changing the name of his organization, he put on record the first agreement of a major western industry with the C. I. O.; to the bewildered astonishment of the Waterfront Employers Ass'n., which had casually written him of their own change in name, indicating they were a Coastwise group now instead of a merely San Francisco body. Most steamship owners expect a strike or higher \\'ag'es and operating' costs, or all three. The limit on boat operating expense has been reached; rail mills are steadily increasing their trade at the expense of cargo mills. It is a definite trend that carries great significance to all lumbermen.

If lve know what Labor and Government rvould do in the next six months or six hours we could make a fairly intelligent guess on the market outlook. Curtailment by Fir mills is removing the fear of overproduction. Log supply is barely normal and prices hold well.

Jurisdictional labor disputes threaten to close some

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plants. It is felt that many buyers are holding back Fir orders until "bottom" seems near.

Shippers with unsold stock on California docks have had their fingers burned. These distress lots of common grades bring $1.00 to $3.00 per I\[ less than mill shipment orders, but they dynamite buyer confidence, tend to set the price pace in dull times, and have a very adverse effect on forward buying. They are the curse of the industry.

The Fir market can improve quickly, for the Coast industry, taken as a whole, is basically in sound condition. If a shipping strike on Sept. 30th seems probable, the boats will begin to tie up after the middle of September, to avoid being stalled with cargo aboard away from their home ports. This may mean rather heavy purchases for delivery within the next 3O days. For if the boats quit, many cargo mills must soon close; and rail mill prices will advance, as they have done in similar strikes of recent years. Staple farm crops throughout the country promise large returns and increased lumber purchases.

California yards are not ovef-stocked. It would seem wise to keep at least 2 or 3 months supply ahead. A study of May and June California building permits in the July lst and August lst issues of this journal, with the 1936 comparison, is encouraging, though July will probably show some decrease, for reasons already stated. The writer had occasion to learn recently of an acute shortage of 5 and 6 room dwellings in two small cities of Central California about 150 miles apart. There are doubtless scores of such cases. This should coax out building investment money, if costs are held down.

Redwood and California Pines being more specialty woods do not encounter altogether the same conditions as Fir, which is a primary construction species. Redwood mill order files are still healthy, though orders of long standing are being cleaned up. The steady demand for dry redwood perrnits mills to pile up safely heavy inventories that would make a Fir mill-owner frantic. The redwood buyer feels fairly confident he will not have the bottom of his price structure pulled out from under him

overnight. Pine mills are all busy on summer schedules, filling orders and piling up stock for winter sales when many plants are down. Stocks are nearly normal, there is some mill curtailment; prices hold well, with only a few soft spots in Ponderosa. The Pine box market is stronger. California Pines find a steadily increasing sale and nerv buyers in their home State.

California lumber consumption is still a very important factor in Coast mill calculations, and with irer steadily growing population will continue tp bulk large on the lumber horizon. But "normal" is a term never applied to Coast lumber conditions in the present tense; it ahvays refers to past or future. For several years Fir cargo trade to Atlantic Coast ports exceeded water shipments to California. But for the first six months of. 1937 California took by boat 569,053 M ft. compared with Atlantic Coast 549,306 M ft. Measured with the same period last year, California gained 4% and Atlantic Coast lost l6t/z%.

Probably never before was the lumberman confronted with more perplexing problems within and rvithout his industry. We would like to forget the political jitters emanating from Washington, the prospective dangers of war, inflation, mounting public debt, unwise legislation, labor excesses, etc. But these outside forces have a vital bearing on our business in these modern days, try as we may to keep our eye mainly on the ball in our own lot, and closely watch mill and yard prices and our own order files. We may cuss and discuss the certainly uncertain lumber business, but at least it always keeps _us guessing. It is such an interesting game that even those who think they are well out of it may sometimes be found slipping in again under the circus tent. Some just can't quit the job of feeding the elephant, though his color may be white; others feel they have a bear by the tail and can't let go. If the market conditions existing as this is written are the same when it is printed, we shall be making some progress towards stability.

Vital Statistics of FHA Insurance

Home mortgages accepted for insurance by the Federal Housing Administration for the first six months ol 1937 numbered 59,306 for an amount of. $243,73I,316, as compared with 45,131 for $18O,583,400 for the first six months of 1936.

The distribution by states of the net cumulative total of mortgages accepted for insurance by FHA in its lifetime through June, 1937, is shown in the following table. It will be noted that California far outstrips all other states in the union for its number and volume of FHA mortgages:

Bassett-Teachout Company Are Fir Door Spccialists

The Bassett-Teachout Company, of Los Angeles, are Fir door specialists. They likewise are wholesale distributors of Fir Plywood and Wallboard, Fir panels, and Fir colurnns. Their offices and warehouse are located at 1600 East Washington Boulevard, where they carry a full stock of the above for quick wholesale delivery.

The company, which is a California corporation organized just last spring, is made up of men with lifelong experieuce in the docr business. David W. Teachout, President, is a member of the family that has owned and operated the Teachout Sash, Door & Glass Company, of Columbus and Detroit, for a great many years. He came to California, fell in love rvith the country, the climate, and the business prospects, and decided to move out and go in business here, which he promptly did.

James E. Bassett has been for thirty-four years VicePresident of The Paine Lumber Company, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, door manufacturers of national note, and he likewise knows the California situation thoroughly. He rvas the man who, in L912, shipped an entire trainload of Birch veneered doors to Los Angeles. There were 25,000 doors in the train, which was well plastered with placards describing the notable event.

The third man in the company is Mr. Bassett's son, Thos. E. Bassett, who follows in his father's footsteps and likes the door business. They report business to be very good.

HAYWARD YARD AT BAKERSFIELD BURNED

All the fire equipment in Bakersfield was called out on August 22 to combat a fire that entirely destroyed the big lumber yard of the Hayward Lumber & Investment Compann at that point. The total loss is estimated at $150,000. It will be rebuilt at once.

MY FAVORITE

By Jock Dionne

sToRlEs ,, (ot 20 years---Some legg Ag"

not guaranteed---Some I have told

The Big D.y \(/as Comins

A certain rich philanthropist used an insane asylum as one of his chief charities and beneficiaries.

One spring it occurred to him that a swimming pool for the inmates might make them very happy, so he contracted to have one built in the asylum grounds, and hearing that it was finished he drove out there. One of the inmates had been a life guard at a bathing resort before he lost his mind, and the asylum management had appointed him to take charge of the pool.

It so happened that the first person the philanthropist met as he got to the institution was the balrny life guard, so he addressed him.

"Well," he asked, "how do the folks here like the new

swimming pool?"

"Grand," replied the balmy life guard. "They are crazy about it. I just can't keep them out of it. And how they do love diving off that high diving board ! That is their favorite sport."

"Splendid !" said the rich man.

"Yes," said the life guard, "and now they can hardly wait until Saturday."

"Why?" asked the philanthropist. "What is going to happen Saturday?"

"Saturday," said the balmy one, "they're going to put the water in the pool for the first time."

JAMES SMITH SUCCEEDS G. C. CABLE AT HAMMOND'S LOS ANGELES YARD

Grover C. Cable has resigned his position as assistant to Harry Mcleod at the Hammond Lumber Company headquarter's yard in Los Angeles, and has been succeeded by James Smith. Both are well known to the lumber trade of Southern California.

Mr. Cable has been with the Hammond Lumber Company for nineteen years, most of which was spent as manager of the mammoth terminal yard at San Pedro. When that yard was closed out he was transferred to Los Angeles in 1926, as assistant to Mr. Mcleod. In recent years he has accumulated four very fine small town lumber yards in Southern California, located at Laguna Beach, Newhall, Bell, and Compton, and he will in the future devote himself to the management of those yards.

Mr. Smith has been u'ith Flammond for the past thirteen years in the capacity of industrial engineer, and he knows the Hammond Southern California business by heart. His appointment to succeed Mr. Cable is a very popular one.

UNION ANNOUNCES PERSONNEL CHANGES

I{or,vard J. Abbott, of the sales department of the Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, has been transferred to the Chicago office. He left for Chicago, August 23.

J. E. Watt, of the Chicag<-' oflice, r,vill take over Mr. Abbott's desk in the San Francisco office.

NATHAN PAINE, FAMOUS DOOR MAKER, VISITS CALIFORNIA

Nathan Paine, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, president of the Paine Lumber Company, is a business visitor in Southern California at present. His concern has been nationally knou'n manufacturers and distributors of hardwood doors for two generations.

TEACHOUT RETURNS F'ROM EAST

David Teachout, of the Basset-Teachout Company, door distributors of Los Angeles, has recently returned from a business trip to the East.

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DOUGLAS FIR-SITKA SPRUCE-HEMLOCK

Lumber - Lath - Millwork - Timbers - Ties

Piling - Mine Poles

Car and Railroad Materials

PORT ORFORD CEDAR

(Also known as White Cedar or Lawson Cypress)

Lumber - Ties Crossing Planks - Decking

Tunnel Timbers - Venetian Blind Stock

PONDEROSA AND SUGAR PINE

DIONNE ADDRESSES MILLWORK MEN

Jack Dionne, Publisher of The California Lumber Merchant, was the luncheon speaker at the August 12 meeting of the Institute of Woodworking Manufacturers, in Los Angeles. Ted Herzog presided. C. W. Pinkerton introduced IVIr. Dionne.

BUILDS SUMMER COTTAGE

Al Nolan, Western sales manager of The Pacific Lumber Company, is building a summer cottage in Marir, County which will be 10O% Redt'ood. It is insulated with Palco Wool, and each room including bath, shor,vers and kitchen is finished in Redwood.

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In every community it's easy to find plenty of people who can be sold over-roofing and over-walling with Certigrade Red Cedar Shingles. It's a proved way, too, for a lumber retailer to build fall business.

Point out how easy it is to lay Certigrade Shingles right over old roofs and side walls without litter or bother. Stress the modest first cost, the added living comfort-the fuel saving. Tell how Certigrade Red Cedar Shingles resist wind, hail, even blizzards-add structural strength to a building. Then toss in Certigrade beauty and their natural insulation value. Clinch the sale with Certigrade durability, their extremely long life, and their outstanding economy.

FREE! The o'Certigrade Handbook"-a 96-page perm.anenl reference book of valuable roof and side-wall data. Write today. Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, Dept. CC-937, Seattle: Canadian office. Vancouver. B. C.

SPLIT REDV/OOD

Ties - Fence Pocts - Shingles

Shaftes - Stakes - Piling - Poles - Anchots

RED CEDAR

Shingles - Transmission Poles - Stubs - Anchors

Fence Posts. Op"tt Tank Treated or (Jntreated

CREOSOTE, PRESSURE TREATED

Lumber - Ties - Poles - Piling

PIONEERT F[INTKOTE EXPANDS

The one million dollar expansion program started several months ago by Pioneer Divisiorr, 'I-he Flintkote Company at its 31-acre general office and factorv site. 55th and Alameda Streets, Los Angeles, is norv practically completed. All nerv l>uildings have been finished; new machinery and equiprnent has been installed and is now in operation.

Although the Company has carried on a rather continuous program of expansion for nearly half a century-"Since 1888"-this latest program is one of the most extensive in its entire history. The large additional investment, according to L. NI. Simpson, general nranager, has been made becanse of the increased building and industrial activity on the Pacific Coast, ancl also to carry out the Company's

policy of diversifying its production. Mr. Simpson ar1nounces that one of their veterans, A. E. Carlson, has been named manager of the ner,v Corrugated Container Division.

The new paper nrill, housed in a building with a 9-foot basement and 30-foot clearance first floor, is over 210 feet long; the stack type driers are 23 feet high. This mill is for the production of boxboards and chipboards to take care of the increasing demands in that field and also for ccrrugated test liners, to supply the material for the new corrugated container plant.

Adjacent to the paper mill are the stock preparation plant and beater room, equipped with breaker beaters, disintegrator pumps, Jordan's, and all machinery necessary for the proper and efficient preparation of materials for the paper mill.

The nerv corrugated container bttilding is "L" shapecl with a crane runway constructed or.er the paper storage pit along the entire east side. This storage portion is 44 by 244 {eet and the clear height is 35 feet to the under side of the trusses, permitting a roll paper storage to a height cf 30 feet under the crane.

The manufacturing portion of the building adjoining the crane runway is 78 l'ty 244 feet. The floor of this portion is at truck loading height. The rvestern side of the building provides ample space for finished stock storage and clelivery. The entire building is da1'liglited by saw-tooth roof construction and monitor sash.

This new Pioneer-Flintkote Corrugated Container plant is equipped r,vith the latest type machinery for the manufacture of A arrd B Flute Corrugated Board in sheets, single-faced corrugated in rolls, and for conversion of the board into containers. The Slitter-Scorer, the 2-color Printer-Slotter, the Taping Machine are all high speed machines so that quick deliveries can be assured to meet the requirements of Western merchants and manufacturers.

Pioneer-Flintkote, in addition to the new line of Corrugated Board and Containers, is rvell known throughout the Western States for its other oroducts which include

(Below) Here Comes the Finished Corrugcted Bocrrd on q Mcchine 145 Feet Long

(Above) New Chip crnd Boxbocrd Wcrehouge qt PioneerFlintlcote Plcrai

Asphalt Shingles and Roll Roofing, Asphalt Emulsion Roofing Asphalt, Building Papers, Boxboard and Chipboard, Cane-ite Structural Insulation, and I.-lintkote Hardboards.

Flintkote Cane-ite is a 7C07o cane fibre structural insulation. Cane-ite rvill help materially to fill the ever increasing demand for insuiation in new building. It also has manv uses in remodehng and irnproving of older buildings and homes. Cane-ite is made up in special forms for building board, sheathing, plank paneling, lath, tile, and roof insulation.

Flintkote Hardboarcis are available in several densities. thicknesses and sizes, and have an almost endless number of uses in building, remodeling and manufacturing.

According to Mr. Simpson. this expansion of facilities ar.rd products is another expression of confidence in tlre future of the West-a luture that will see industrial and population lead.ership centiring more and more in the West, u'hich means continued large scale construction of all types of buildings for years to come.

L. I!f. Simpson has been active head of Pioneer Division, The F'lintkote Company since May, 1934. For many years prior to that he directed the national sales activities of one of the largest manufacturing concerns in the country, organizing its branch offices and also cooperating with proriuction and research departments in the development and improvement of product quality and design. His wide experience and extensive contact with dealers, jobbers, contractors and large industrial concerns has given him an unusually keen appreciation of the problems of lumber and building material dealers and he has continually worked to develop the distribution policies and products of his company to give dealers the utmost cooperation.

In addition to his business attributes, "Lou" Simpson, as nrost folks knorv him, has an engaging personality and friend-making ability of rare character that has made him a host of friends in all parts of California.

L. M. SMPSON

Generql Mcrncger

(Below) The Old Pcper Finishing Mcchine, ol ihe New One.

(Above) New Corrugcled Container Plcnt.

(LeIt) L. M. Simpson, Genercrl Mcncger, trnd A. E. Ccrlson, M<rncafer, Corrugcted Container Division' Inspecting New DoubleDeck Corrugcting Mcchine.

Iugt Hcll the Size

2 Color Printer and Spotter Uged in Mcrking cnd Printing Corrugqted Contqiners.

CHANGES IN McCORMICK'S PERSONNEL

Charlie llenry, who has been connected with the Chas. R. N{cCormick Lumber Company in Los Angeles, has resigned and will enter the wholesale lumber business for himself.

w. E. (Bill) sometime, rvill office.

Ruy in both

Davis, who has been with the company for succeed Mr. Henry in the Los Angeles

Wheeler will represent the company in San Diego, their lumber and steamship operations.

HERBERT MOSS OF LOUISIANA VISITS CALIFORNIA

Herbert Moss, of Rochelle, Louisiana, sales manager for The Tremont Lumber Company, was a recent business visitor on the West Coast. He stayed several days in Los Angeles, and several more in San Francisco, before leaving for the Northwest. He was accompanied by Mrs. Moss.

The Tremont Lumber Company operates a very large sawmilling plant at Rochelle, with a Yellow Pine sawmill, a hardwood sawmill, and an oak flooring department, as separate units. lIr. Moss called particularly on the hardrvood trade in California, offering for sale their Southern harclwoods and Oak flooring. Their flooring is all cut from their own timber growing on Dugdemona Creek, so they call it "Dugdemona Creek Flooring," and boast of its quality and uniformity.

BACK FROM VACATIONS

Fred Boock, Gilroy Lumber Co., Gilroy, recently spent his vacation at Oroville.

Cliff Kelly, of Gilroy Lnmber Co., has returned from a vacation trip to his old home tolvn in Nebraska.

WHOLE STAFF AIR-MINDED

N{iss Peggy lVlorrell, of the Gorman Lumber Company, San Francisco, recently made a round trip to the TransPacific Lumber Company's mill at Port Orford, Ore., in George Gorman's new 4-place Stinson plane.

Frequent air trips are made from the San Francisco Bay district to the mill by Mr. Gorman in the average time of three hours. This compares with a tiring trip of about 15 hours reorrired bv automobile.

CELOTEX ANNOUNCES EASTERN PLANS

Bror. G. Dahlberg, President of The Celotex Corporation, announces, vrith regard to therr newly acquired plant at Metuchen, New Jersey, that Arthur Landis, formerly Vice-President of the Auburn Automobile Company, will be Eastern Operating Manager at that point. Operating under General Sales Manager Harold Knapp, and making their headquarters in the New l ork offices, George E. Swenson will be Manager of Sales for the Metuchen Division, and Paul D. Close, Assistant. Tlvo new products are being made ai this point, Celotex Cemesto, and Traffic Top. The first is an insulation board with a fire resisting asbestos cement surface, and the latter is a roofins board with a strong lvearing surface.

CARL MOORE OPENS OFFICE

Carl R. Moore, representative of Moore Mill & Lumber Co. in the East Bay area, has opened an ofifrce at 1924 Broadrvay, Oakland. His telephone number is Hlgate 5028.

ON FISHING VACATION

Harry G. Hood, of the San Francisco omce of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co. is on a two weeks' fishing vacation on the Klamath River with E. J. Stewart, general superintendent of the Dolbeer & Carson mill.

Sash Doors Mtllworlt

Kennctb J. Shipp A. D. Villianron

Pine Sales Gompany

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Pool tVill Attend Floating Convention of Bruce Salesmen

F. W. Pool, representing E. L. Bruce Company, hardvvood flooring manufacturers of Memphis, Tennessee, in Arizona territory, left rvith Mrs. Pool for Chicago August 28 to join rvith 150 other Bruce representatives and officials on a "floating convention." The steamship North American has been chartered for the occasion and lvill leave Chicago orr Labor Day night for a tu'o-day and three-night cruise, traveling the length of Lake Michigan with a stopover at Mackinac Island.

In addition to the Bruce lnen over 300 representatives of the national Bruce Terminix organization and theirivives will be on board for their fourth annual convention. The 52 cornpanies making up this group are licensed by E. L. Bruce Company and comprise the world's largest termite control organization. After a brief joint session the groups will meet separately.

Encouraged by the sharp rise in building activity, Bruce officials are planning an aggressive advertising and sales campaign for the coming year. The outlook for the building industry is the most favorable in ;nany years.

JAMES L. HALL BACK FROM NORTHWEST

Jamcs L. Hall returnecl recently to San F'rancisco from a month's tour of the Northrvest, in the course of which he called on Smith Wood-Products. Inc.. manufacturers of Port Orford Cedar, Coquille, Ore., Bloedel-Donovan Mills, Bellingham, and other mills rvhich his firm represents.

Mr. Hall, rvho rvas accompanied by Mrs. Hall and their 1-oungest son, motored by rvay of Spokane to Banff and Lake Louise and from there to Vancouver and Victoria, spending about two weeks in Canada. On the way south a circuit of the Olympic Peninsula r,vas made and two days rvere spent at Lake Quinault.

WICKERSHAM IN ARIZONA

W. B. Wickersham, of the Chas. R. McCormick Company, Los Angeles, has been on a trip through during the past couple of *'eeks, calling on the trade.

The Plallorrn3 PROTIGTI0IU

The Sign by utbicb lou rna! knout

The GoaI: MUTUnr. Pnorrrs THNOUGH FNIN DENI.ING . . .

The inspector who brands the "Wolmanized*" mark on Wolmanized Lumber bears witness to an essential fact: The brand means that he has seen the lumber treated, with genuine Wolman Salts, and knows that the treatment has been done thoroughly.

That is sure protection against termites and decay. Yet Wolmanized Lumber has all the advantages of ordinary wood. It can be nailed and painted. The treatment leaves it odorless, noncorrosive, and slightly fire-retardant.

The brand tells you this also: Your profit on lumber which bears it is protected. Wolmanized Lumber is sold only through recognized trade channels. Well known producers stock it, so you can get it in straight carloads, or in cars mixed with untreated lumber.

As for sales, try this: the next time you want to interest a prospective customer in the services of your yard, mention Wolmanized Lumber, explain the dependable protection, and how it will cost only about l/ addit:onal, since it is required only for sills, joists, and other exposed points. Aggressive dealers are finding this an effective way to get new business. For more information, write to AMERICAN LUMBER & TREATING COMPANY, 1405 Old Colony Building, Chicago.

I'os An(eles: 1031 South Btoadway, Ptospect 5558 San Francr'sco: 116 New Montgomery Streef, Suttet 1225

'rylrHo's wHo"

Ed Culnan

Ed Culnan lives in San Diego. He likes San Diego. And San Diego reciprocates by very frankly liking Ed Culnan. It is for the same reason that he gets along so well in the lumber business. He likes the lumber game. And he likes the people he meets in the lumber game. He has from his earliest boyhood. And the lumber folks have always found him a most worthy and likable member of its r,r'arm-hearted fraternity.

He got into the lumber business

because he liked it. He didn't have to choose it. His father before him was in the dry goods business, owned his own high class store, and Ed could have taken that route. But when he was a kid in Marinette, Wisconsin, he could hear the whistles of a score of big sawmills blowing, and see the lumber piled high in every direction, and the lnmber bug bit him and has stayed with him ever since.

He was born in 1888, at Calumet, Michigan, moved to Marinette r,r'hen he was nine, graduated from the high school there when he was 18, and then went West to try the lumber business. In the meantime he had worked around the mills during his vacations and spare time, and boards and sawdust were no strangers to him. He worked around a number of mills in Washington as a youngster, got to inspecting lumber. He took a business course, learned to keep books, but never made much use of his learning, for he prevailed on Chas. R. McCormick to give him'a job. He was sent to San Diego in 1911. In l9l2 he married Elenor Holmgren, of Denver, Colorado, and they have three children, the eldest, David, being an electrical engineer; Bob, the second son graduated from the University of California last spring and is going back this fall for more learning, while the youngest, Ruth Marian, is just 17 and still in school.

Ed is an enthusiastic sportsman as rvell as an enthusiastic lumberman. He plays a fair game of golf at the La Mesa Countrv Club, r,r'here he is a member; is much given to horse-back riding, and likes most other out-door sports. He belongs to the Padre Sierra Post, American Legion, rvas President last year of the San Diego Chapter of the Reserve Officers Association, and is a member of the Executives Association.

He was connected with McCormick at San Diego, Riverside, and Los Angeles, until 1933, tvhen he went to San Diego as vice-president and general manager of the Western Lumber Company, of which Jerry Sullivan, Jr., is president, and Robert J. Sullivan, is secretary. This is a progressive wholesale and retail lumber cclncern that also operates a mill at its headquarters yard in San Diego. Outside of San Diego this concern also operates the Chula Vista Lumber Company, at Chula Vista; the Coronado Lumber Conrpany, at Coronado ; the La Jolla Lumber Company, at La Jolla; the Ocean Beach Lumber Company, at Ocean Beach; and the Pacific Beach Lumber Company, at Pacific Beach.'

Snider Shingles cre the linesl money ccn buy.

Snider Shinglce cro expertly mqnulcctured ol high cltitude Red Cedar.

Snider Shinglcg' clole, cven grcin gusrcnteer tr permcnent roolIree lrom repcirr.

Snider Shingler cre <rttrqctiveecry lo sell.

Snider Shinglee crre unilormecey cnd inerpenrive to lcy.

Snider Shingles come in all gires cnd grcdea. Aleo Nu Cui ahckes.

Since he went to San Diego their mill has been comDletely modernized, the oftices have been remodeled and modernized, and the entire institution is in the pink of condition. Their business is growing, and Ed is very proud to have a hand in its growth. He is a fine citizen, a fine lumberman, and a fine Irishnran. What more could anyone ask?

Ed Culnqa

PAINT PEOPLE REPRINT C. L. M. EDITORIAL

The National Paint, Varnish & Lacquer Association, through the office of its President, Ernest T. Trigg, in Washington, D. C., recently reprinted and issued to the paint men of the United States an excerpt from the Vagabond Editorials of August first.

Philippine Mahogany Committees Returns on Advertising Campaign Pleasing

George Purchase, secretary oi the Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers' Import Association, is delighted with the returns that are coming in every mail as a result of the modest campaign of advertising to consumer, architect, and contractor, now being conducted by them. The response covers many states, and the interest is very practical. The public wants to know about Philippine, where they can get it, how to use it, how it looks. Most of the inquiries are answered by original letter, accompanied by attractive literature. Gerber & Crossley, Inc., of Portland, Oregon, handles the publicity for the Association. The replies come to the Association office in Los Angeles.

President Walter G. Scrim, of Los Angeles, announces the following major committees appointed for the year ending May 31, 1938:

MONROVIA PAPER REPRINTS CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT EDITORIAL

The Monrovia News-Post, of Monrovia, Califotnia. in its issue of August 23rd, reprinted in full, under a two column head on its first page, the recent California Lumber Merchant editorial, "It Isn't Your Town, It's You."

Trade Treaty Committee: Daniel R. Forbes, Washington, D. C., chairman; C. U. Martin, Port Lamon Lumber Company, New York City.

Trade Promotion Committee: Roy Barto, CadwalladerGibson Co., Los Angeles, chairman; Glenn W. Cheney, Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Company, Portland, Oregon; George C. Cornitius, George C. Cornitius Company, San Francisco; Howard R. Black, Black & Yates, Inc., Brooklyn, New York.

Budget Committee: J. Raymond Peck, Insular Lumber Company, chairman; Thomas E. Powe, Thomas E. Powe Lumber Company, St. Louis; J. K. McCormick, Henry J. Winde Company, Boston, Mass.

R. v/. WIER IN CALIFORNIA

R. W. Wier, of Houston, Texas, President of Long J-eaf Lumber Company, manufacturers Leaf Yellow Piue, is spending his vacation with ly at Del Mar.

the Wier of Long his fami-

PHILIPP

"From Jungle to Job"

ilE with

Gadwallader-Gibson Go., InG.

Continually engaged in the manufacture, preparation for market, and merchandising of beautiful Philippine Mahogany for more than a quarter of a century, CadrvalladerGibson Company, of Los Angeles, announces with forgivable pride that they are now in far better fix than ever before in their history to supply the hardwood and cabinet users of the United States with beautiful hardwoods of the Philippine Islands. At least so says President Roy Barto; so says Vice-President J. \\i. Mcleod ; and so says Sales Manager Bob Osgood. They should know.

Their sawmill at Camarines Sur, on the East Coast of the Island of Luzon, is comparitively new, and extremely modern. In fact they have barely completed all the departments of this fine manufacturing establishment, built in 1934. The sarvmill rvas built for double equipment, but up to this time they have in operation one nine-foot band mill, two resaws, two edgers, and an automatic trimmer. They have modern dry kilns and lumber sheds at the mill, likewise a flooring department where they make flooring of either Bagac, Yacal, or Guijo. Their big lumber storage yard at the mill is one of the finest anywhere, the entire yard being paved so that wet weather interferes with their yard operations not at all. They load their lumber for shipment to this country at their own docks, on oceangoing steamers.

These same steamers are unloaded at their own docks on this side of the Pacific, u'hich are located at Long Beach, California. Here they have docks, a great storage yard with every possible equipment for the rapid and practical handling of their lumber, dry kilns specially designed for drying Philippine, and a modern planing mill that

New C<rdwqllcder-Gibson Mill in Philippine Islcsnds

Sorting Chcins in the Philippine MiII

t:.tiS

Paved Lurrber Storcge Yord qt Philippina Mill

MAHO GAII Y

contains flooring equipment, and there they likewise manufacture Bagac, Yacal, and Guijo into flooring.

Modern equipment and modem methods everywhere. In the Islands as well as at I-ong Beach the most modern power equipment is used for the handling of their stocks. The timber concession is one of the finest in the Philippines, furnishing a supply of the grandest timber that gror,vs in that timber rvorld for many years to come; and from the back of the logging woocls to the finest finishing machines at Long Beach, Cadwallader-Gibson Company have spared no effort and no expense to enable them to deliver to their trade Philippine products that are perfectly manufactured, seasoned, and prepared for use.

In Los Angeles they own their own big brick combined storage and office building. Roy Barto, president and head of the company, spent most of his life in the rvoods and mills of the Philippine Islands, and combines a thorough knowledge of the Islands and their wood products, with a genius for manufacturing and selling lumber. He .is one of the most enthusiastic members of the Philippine Mahogany Association, which is now engaged in spreading the name and fame of these beautiful cabinet woods by means o{ a national advertising and merchandising campaign. He believes that if they can get the builders and wood users of the United States to understand how beautiful and valuable and at the same time economical Philippine Mahogany is, that their problem lvill be solved, and the rvorld will "make a beaten path to their door." For, of all woods, Philippine Mahogany sells best through the eyes. To see is to admire it. To admire is to use it. To use it is to love it. That's Roy Barto's philosophy, and he's working at it.

Long Becch Yard. Trcrag-Pacific Ste<rmer Unlocding

Modern Equipment in Long Becch Yard

Long Beach Yqrd qnd Plcning Mill

\(/hat Reciprocal Lumber Agreement With Canada is Doing to American Lumber

United States Senator Charles L' McNary, of Oregon' made a speech in the United States Senate just before leaving for ho-. in advance of the adjournment of Cong..rr, in which he severely criticized the State Department io, lraroirrg virtually turned our domestic lumber market over to our chief competitor, Canada, and getting nothing in return. Our government, he charged, has been completely out-traded by Canada, and he furnished surprising iacts and figures to prove his point' He declared that the State Depaitment has entirely failed to use its bargaining powers to gain for American lumber some ofiset for the Lpporto.rltl.t it freely gave away in the lumber trade agreement entered into with Canada'

He stated that by the trade agreement we made with Canada, their rates on lumber into this country were reduced one-half, and no deal made concerning American lumber entering the British Empire, or for any moderation of the British Empire preferences to Canadian lumber. What happened? In l9D the British Empire received 586,000,000 feet of lumber from Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia, of which Washington and Orelon supplie d 747/z per cent, and British Columbia ZSI per cent. By the end of the depression the total market for North Pacific lumber in the British Empire rose to 986,000,000 feet, of which British Columbia supplied 94 per cent, and Washington and Oregon only 6 per cent'

In the first year of the Canadian reciprocity agreement total lumber exports from the United States declined 33 million feet, and total imports increased 218 million feet' But in British Columbia woods only the increase was more than 100 per cent. The answer is, the agreement between the British Empire and its colonies to give them preference in its purchases' We let Canadian lumber into the United States at reduced rates, but made no trade for getting back any part of the tremendous lumber business we had had with England, and which has disappeared'

Formerly the United States was the world's largest exporter of lumber. Today we are fifth, although we have more lumber supply than Canada, and could easily furnish the rest of the world a tremendously increased amount of lumber and lumber Products'

WEST SIDE LUMBER CO. DROPS NIGHT RUN

The West Side Lumber Company, of Tuolumne, California, has shut dorvn its night shift and laid off the night crew, due to seasonal slackness in business and demand'

NEW RETAIL OFFICE AND DISPLAY ROOM AT MONTROSE

The Anawalt Lumber & Materials Company, of l\{ontrose, California, has started construction of a very attractive nerv ot6ce and display building at 3725 Verdugo Road. The building will be 42 feet square, the entire front to the lined with attractive display windows. The old office building will be removed when the new one is completed. Bernard Anawalt is in charge.

ST(lP $ERUIGE for Stock Sash

IDoor and Wtndow Soreens

Iblm - Panels - Ironln$ Boards

Medleine Cablnets

tr.ir and Bedwood

R,ol gh and Surfaeed Lumber

f We ar" also manufacturers of all items of 'l f special and detail millwork and specialize in I FULL MILL BIDS THROUGH LOCAL DEALERS

Hoenm LumnBER @@"

Vholesale and Jobbing

LUMBER reffi6F3

OFEICE, MILL, YARD AND DOCI(S

2od & Alio Str OAKLAND Gbacoun 6E6r

Replica in Oak of bow of the ttSanta Mariatt fagship of Columbus.

entrance will be found on Powell Street in San Francisco.

\(/. B. Dean

William Benjamin Dean, 68, retired general manager of the California lumber operations of The Diamond N{atch Company, and vice-president of the company, passed away in Chico, August 9. On May 9, 1937, Mr. Dean completed fifty years of service in the lumber business, 20 years with the old Sierra Lttrnber Companv and 30 years u'ith The Diamond Match Company.

lfe was born in Dallas Cit),, Ill., and came to California with his parents at the age of 14, arriving in Chico in the first week of April, 1884. His father was employed by the Sierra Lrrmber Company, Chico, and young Dean got his start in the lumber business rvhen he was 17 as office boy with this concern. Promotions made him stlccessively freight clerk, bill clerk, bookkeeper and finally general manager.

The Sierra Lumber Company \\ras acquired by The Diamond Match Company in 1907 and Mr. Dean was placed in charge of the seven yards then operated by the latter company. In 11 years he lvas made general manager of The Diamgnd Match Company, and in 1930 was named a vicepresident. He announced his retirement a short time ago.

IDEPENI'ABILITT-RIGIIT PRICEI ANd CODIPLETE 8TOCK8

HIGH GRADE HARDWOODS-Dogstic woda: Arh, Be-ech. Qirc\ Gu' Hickory, Maraolia, Mrple' Oak' Poplrr' wrlng r.rar ud rrtr$' lldE ' F-oREicN w-oopS: Ait;s, B;br' SF;ir! ccaar' Ebgr' spottcd.G'-, Irubark, Jcnisro' Liggu Vitee, Maboguy' Prlnrvlrr' N'ccwoo'l' siln lur' Abo DOUGT-AII FtR PLYWOOD AND WALLBOARI)

"Harduoods ol th. WuLl au! a Wdil of Harduoods"

Mr. Dean was a niember of Chico Lodge No. 111, F. and A. M.; Chico Chapter No. 42, R. A. M.; Chico Commandery No. 12, Knights 'Iemplar; Josephine Chapter No. l0/', Order of Eastern Star and the lslam Temple of San Fran'cisco. He was a charter member and past president of the Chico Rotary Club and a past president of the Chico Chamber of Cc.mmerce as \\rell as a past director of the California Automobile Association aud a past president of the Western States Retail Association.

He leaves his wife, Mrs. Bertha Irene Dean of Chico; two daughters, I\Irs Leta R. Robbie of Chico and Mrs. Vera L. Severance of Pittsburgh, Pa.; a brother, Dr. Joseph Wilson Dean on the medical staff of the United States Army; and a sister, Mrs. Nellie Ann Warren of Long Beach.

Funeral services were held August 11, and Masonic graveside rites were conducted in the Chico cemetery by the Knight Templars.

6&, co. 3ffi#&Tl$3lHl3

Original predeccslor

Batchelder Claims Added Profits Possible Throush Sale o[ \(/all o[ Protection

"It can probably be truthfully stated that the aim of every lumber dealer is increased earnings," recently asserted E. H. Batchelder, Jr., vice-president and general sales manager of The Insulite Company. "The Insulite Wall of Protection, announced only last year, has already provided greater profits for dealers throughout the United States and indications are that many more lumber yards rvill be stocking the materials for this modern new method of construction in 1937," concluded Mr. Batchelder.

The Wall of Protection provides for Insulite Bildrite Sheathing outside the framework and Lok-Joint as the plaster base, or where plaster is not used, Insulite Interior Finish products are employed. The manufacturer states that this mehod of home construction is a decided advance in providing structures which will ofier protection against weather extremes, with resultant increase in comfort the year around and lower fuel bills in winter.

Vice-presiclent Batchelder pointed out that besides offering double insulation, the Wall of Protection adds greatly to the bracing strength of a structure and the large, solid sheets of Bildrite Sheathing joining only on the framing members, leave no cracks or checks through rvhich winds and drafts can penetrate.

Mr. Batchelder brought out an important fact when he stated that to obtain the maximum amonnt of efficiency frorn insulation, it must necessarily be balanced throughout the entire area of the 'ivall. "Heretofore," said Batchelder, "many well-built homes have permitted costly heat losses through failure to fortify against escaping heat. But no'rv by combining the Wall of Protection rvith the use of storm sashes on doors and rvindows, it is possible to build houses that comply with the new theory of balanced insulation and at a cost commensrlrate rvith the benefits received."

"It has always been my firm belief that the retail lumber dealer is the axis around which other factors in the building industry revolve. It is the lumber dealer who is the captain of the selling team and, consequently, he leads other members of the industry toward a unified selling effort. This is the reason why Insulite products are sold through Iumber dealers and also accounts for the many sales helps rve have prepared for the lumber dealer. National advertising on the Wall of Protection is appearing in the rvell-

known home magazines thus reaching prospective hon.re builders, and also is being directed to contractors and builders throughout the country, as well as the profitable farm market. Nlany colorful booklets and folders have been prepared describing Insulite products rvhile other literature is directed to buyers with certain specific requirements. Sample display panels, metal 1'ard and truck signals are other selling aids rve have prepared to help dealers increase their profits through more sales. And, speaking for our entire organization, we earnestly invite clealers to avail themselves of the counsei offered by our service departments on any problems .rvhich dealers may encounter."

WESTERTI RED GEDAR

This honey-colored wood stqys like Sugcn Pine, holds pcint like Port Orford Cedcrr, is tops for trim inside ond out.

\I/ith no end shrinkcrge cmd cr resistonce to deccry thot mokes o piker out of most woods, Wesiern Red Cedor typifies honest permonence.

Stonton corries cleors, commons, sidings crnd shingles of the best (Moltese Cross brond), the lorgest stock in Colifornicr.

Stcrnton eornestly recommends Western Red os qn honest wood thot does its job.

E, H. Bctchelder, Ir.

California Invites Australia

ROY A. DAILEY VISITS CALIFORNIA

Roy A. Dailey, Western \{anager for the NationalAmerican Wholesale I-uruber Association, has been a visitor in Los Angeles and San Francisco for the past couple of rveeks. He makes his home in Seattle.

LEE H. EUBANK VISITS TE,XAS

Lee H. Eubank, of the firm of L. H. Eubank & Son, Inglewood, California, recently returned from a business trip that took him to the various business centers of Texas. He arranged while there for Texas distribution of some of their products, principally ironing boards and medicine cabinets.

Since 1912

California's bid to Australia to participate in the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition is contained on a huge Redwood panel donated by the Redrvood Empire Association, travel promotion group and the California Redwood Association. On a solid panel of Redwood, five feet long by four feet wide, is mounted a large reproduction in sepia of an aerial view of the San Francisco Bay region, showing both bridges and Treasure Island as it will appear rvhen the World's Fair opens. Below is a plaque of redwood burl with the formal invitation to Prime tr'finister Joseph A. Lyons of Australia, inscribed in gold. Shown here with the panel are, from left to right, Carl W. Bahr, president of the California Redrvood Association; and Major O. J. Keatings, chief of the Foreign Participation Department of the Exposition.

JIM AHEARN VISITS CALIFORNIA

Jim Ahearn, of the Emerson Hardwood Company, Portland, Oregon, was a recent visitor in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He had previously made a trip to I\femphis and other hardrvood producing regions of the South.

Catherine

Charler

Western Pine Semi-Annual Meeting

TlTe semi-annnal meeting of the Western Pine Association u'as held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, on Wednesday, August 11. This meeting of the board of directors and mernbership was well attended.

C. L. Isted, of Shevlin-Hixon Company, Bend, Ore., president of the Association, presided, and gave a review of Association and industry affairs.

S. V. Fullaway, Jr., secretary-manager, presented his report on the condition of the Association.

The meeting endorsed the national program of forest conservation.

Clyde S. Martin, forest engineer of the Western Pine Association, stated that the Association's conservation program is receiving fine support from the Pine operators.

C. C. Stibich, Tahoe Sugar Pine Co., chairman of the trade promotion committee reported on the progress of the trade promotion program.

W. G. Griffee gave an analysis of the statistical position of the industry.

The rneeting was preceded on Tuesday, August 10, by meetings of the Association's grading, statistical, traffic and executive committees. There was also a meeting of sales managers on Tuesday. W. G. Kahman, ShevlinHixon Sales Company, made the report of the grading committee in the absence of W. E. Lamm, Lamm Lumber Company, Modoc Point, Ore. A. J. Voye, Big Lakes Box Company, Klamath Falls, Ore., chairman of the trafiic committee presented the report of this committee, and Don Lawrence, \Meyerhaeuser Sales Company, reported for the statistical committee.

On Thursday, August 12, an i4dustry meeting was held at r.r'hich there was a round-table discussion of the labor relations problem.

The trade promotion committee also met on August 12. Chairman C. C. Stibich presided, and made a full report

of the Association's promotion activities since the annual meeting in February, outlining at the same time the program for the rest of the year. The question was discussed at this meeting as to w'hat the Association will do at the Golden Gate fnternational Exposition, San Francisco. This matter will be settled at the next annual meeting in Februarv. 1938.

CONFERENCE OFFICES CLOSED

The board of governors of the Pacific Coastwise Lumber Conference at its final meeting in San Francisco on August 11 passed a resolution dissolving the Conference as of August 18. This was made necessary by the resignation of 11 of its members, who decided on this action when their continued efforts to stabilize freight rates on the Coast met with failure.

Robert ,C. Parker, assistant secretary-manager of the Conference for the past five and one-half years, will reenter the r,vholesale lumber business. A resolution attesting to Mr. Parker's faithful and honorable service was one of the final acts of the disbanding organization.

CALIF. COUNCIL ANNUAL SEPT. 18, 19

Announcement is made by B. B. (Bernie) Barber, secretary-manager of the California Lumbermen's Council, that the sixth annual meeting of the Council rvill be held at Mountain Vierv Ranch Hotel, Santa Cruz Mountair,s, September 18 and 19. Further particulars rvill be annottnced later.

EAST BAY HOO HOO TO MEET SEPT. 20

The date for the next regular dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club was set tentatively for September 20 at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, at a meeting of the officers of the club held August 23.

The program committee is arranging an interesting program and the new officers who rvill serve for the coming year will be elected and installed.

WHEN YOU SELL

SIRUCTURAT

Booth-Kelly Douglas Fir, the Asaociation grade and trade mark certifu to your customers the quality of the stock you handle. Builders quit gueesing about what tficy're buying, and buy where tftey know what they're getting.

&ttJl"$Iinn$r"[prfo.

Genenal Saler Officc: Eugeng Ore. Mills: Wendling, Ore., Springfreld, Ore.

\THOLESALE JOBBING LUMBER SASH & DOORS MILL \TORK BUILDING MATERIAIS

THE DREAMER

By John Boyle O'Reilly

I am tired of planning and toiling In the crowded hives of men; Heart-weary of building and spoiling, And spoiling and building again. And I long for the dear old river, Where f dreamed my yo,uth away; For a dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.

I am sick of the showy seehring, Of a life that is half a lie; Of the faces lined with scheming In the throng that hurries by, From the sleepless thought endeavor I would go where the children play; For a dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.

I can feel no pride, but pity For the burdens the rich endure; There is nothing sweet in the city, But the patient lives of the poor. O, the little hands too skillful, And the child mind choked with weeds. The daughter's heart grown willful, And the father's heart that bleeds.

No, no, from the street's rude bustle, From trophies of mart and stage, I would fy to the wood's low rustle And the meadow's kindly page. Let me dream as of old by the river, And be loved for the dream alway; For a dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.

We editors may dig and toil

Till our fingertips are sore, But some poor fish is sure to say, "f've heard that joke before."

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

W. Adams.

THE WORST OF ERRORS

The worst of errors is to believe that any one rbligion has the monopoly of goodness. Fo,r every man, that religion is good which makes him gentle, upright and kind. But to govern mankind is a difficult task. The ideal is very high and the earth is very low. Outside the sterile province of philosophy, what we meet at every step is unreason, folly and passion. The wise men of antiquity succeeded in winning to themselves some little authority only by impostures, which gave them a hold upon their imagination, in their lack of physical force.

-Ernest Renan.

THAT COMPLICATED MATTERS

Lawyer: "Well, Rastus, so you want me to defend you? Have you any money?"

Rastus: "No suh, I ain't got no money, but I got a 1922 model Fo'd cah."

Lawyer: "Well, yo,u can raise some money on that. Now let's see-just what did they accuse you of stealing?"

Rastus: " A 1922 Fo'd cah."

PERSONALITY

Every one now believes that there is in a man an animating, ruling characteristic essence, or spirit, which is himself. This spirit, dull or bright, petty or grand, pure or foul, looks out of the eyes, sounds in the voice, and appears in the manners of each individual. It is what we call personality.

-Charles W. Eliot.

TESTING GOD

One evening Johnny's mother caught him going to bed without saying his prayers.

"Why Johnny, you haven't said your prayers !"

"Nome, I ain't goin' to say 'em tonight; and f ain't gonter say 'em tomorrow night, and I ain't gonter say 'em Friday night; and then if nothing don't happen, I ain't gonter say 'em again !'!

THE BULBS WERE BAD

A venerable old Scot purchased a little radio set, and a few days later hls friends asked him how he liked it.

"!l/ell, it's aw richt to listen to," he replied, "but those bulbs are nae so gud to read by."

-George

CNO83 GIRGULATION JKTLNS

21/o to 5O/o mote capacity due to solid edge-to-edge stacking. Better quality drying on low tenperaturec with a fa.et reversibie circulation, Lower stacking costs-just solid edge-to-edge stacking in the simplest form,

Kiln Buildem for More Than Half a Century Nor6 Pocland, Ore. Jacloonville, Flori&

CIJASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Rate---$z.sO Per Column Inch. Minimum Ad One-Half Inch.

WANTED TO BUY

Retail lumber yard in or near Los Angeles-$4000 to $6O00 stock. Rent or might buy real estate and buildings. Replies will be confidential. AddressBox 781, Inglewood, Calif.

RETAIL YARDS FOR SALE

Los Angeles yard doing $10,000 monthly bnrsiness. Real estate, buildings and all equipment $5,700. Stock at inventory.

Yard in active Coast city doing $10,00O a month, real estate leased. Improvements $6,O(X), including one owned lot, equipment $4,000, stock $8,000.

Both these yards are exceptionally good buys.

Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers, 801 Petroleum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 8746.

FOR SALE OR LEASE

Lumber yard site for sale or lease-in city which ran fourteenth in Southern California for July permits. 245 leet boulevard frontage-office building and salesroom-arnple shed spacHoncrete bearings, etc. To liquidate corporation will sell f.or l/3 value. Address Box C-681 California Lumber Merchant.

REPRESENTATIVE WANTED

Want representative for Northern California territory for Fir Plywood and Fir Doors. Must have experience. Address Box C-685 California Lumber Merchant.

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GOOD YARD FOR SALE

Lumber yard, Building Materials and Hardware business, and Service Station for sale. Located in town of 1200 population, on the Main Highway, in San Diego county. Good farming district to draw from. This yard has always made a profit. Address Box C-680 California Lumber Merchant.

YOUNG LADY WANTS POSITION

Experienced stenographer and bookkeeper, capable of doing any office detail !\rork, and figuring estimates, desires position. Bay District or Peninsula preferred. Address Box C-684, California Lumber Merchant.

WANTED

Experienced lumber salesman for retail yard near Los Angeles. Must be pleasant, aggressive, hard worker, familiar with estimating and general lumber practices. Good opportunity for right party. Answer in own hand writing, giving age, experience, etc. Address tsox C-682, California Lumber Merchant.

SUBURBAN YARD FOR SALE

Small yard on main Boulevard. Good lumber, paint, builders' hardware sales. Fast growing community. Reasonable rent. TERMS. Splendid 2-man yard. Address Box-C-683, California Lumber Merchant.

FOR SALE

Retail lumber yard on main boulevard in East Bay district. $50Q0.00 will handle. Address Box C-676 California Lumber Merchant.

AccessibleNo Tough Hauling fo, Your Truck

The San Pedro wholesale yard of the San Pedro Lurnber Cornpany is on a main highway-no dangerous hauling or rough roads to boost your pickup costs. Tirne saved is rnoney in your pocket.

Dougles FirRedwoodPonderosa Pine - Spruce

Douglas Fir Plywoods

Cement-USG Plegter-USG Roclc Lath

15 lb. Felt -S K and SigalkraltBuilding Paper

RoofingBuilding McterialsInsulationNails

Wire [ProductsCorugated SheetsMetel Lath

lB00-A Wilrnington Road, San Pedro, Calif.

Telephone, San Pedro 2200 Los Angeles Telephone, PRospect 4341

BI]YDB9S GT]TDD SAN BBANOISOO

LUMBER

Bmkstaver-More Lumber Co..

525 Market Stret ......EXbrook {745

Chamberlin & Co., W. R., 9tb Flry, Fifc Bldg. .......,....Dous|as 5,170

Dolber & Canm Lmbcr Co, ?3c Machst! Exchugc Bldg.......SUtter ?{50

Gmu Lumber Qo., 1t6 califomia st. ...............GArfi eld 5lx1

Hell, Jamee L., 1032 Milb Blds. .....................Sutter ?520

Hmqd Redwod Conpany, ll7 Motgmery St. .........,...Doug|as 33Et

Holmer Eureka Lumber Co.1505 Financial Center Bld3.......GArfield lt2l

C. D. Johmn Lumber Corp. 260 Califomia Strect.....,......... GArfield 625t

kfgren, Alvin N., 2l0l Califomia Street ....., .Flllmore 6176

MacDonald & Hanington Ltd., lC Celifmia Street.......,........GArfield t393

Pacific Luber Co. Ths to Burh Strcei....................GArficld llsr

Peggs, J. Ei Drumm St. ....................Doug!a! t85E

LUMBER

LUMBER

Red River Lumbcr Co., 3r5 Mm&rak B|ds...............GArficld 0022

Suta Fc Lumbcr Co., f0 Califonir Str6t....,.......KEamy 2074

Scbafer Bru. Lumber & Sblrylc Co., I Drumm St. .,,........,...........Sutt"r Ullt

Shevlin Pine Sales Co., 1030 M@&ck Bldc. ...........KEamy ?0|r

Sudden & Christerson, ll0 SaMc Strect............,...GArfie|d 2E40

Union Lumber Co., Croc&er Building ....,.............,.Sutter eUo

Wendling-Nathu Co., ll0 Market Street ......,......,.,,.SUtter 53d!

E. K. Wood Lumber Co. I Drunm Stret.........,..........KEamy 3ill0

Wcyerhazuu Salcr Cq- f.o Cdifmit Strect.......,.......GArfield 89zt

Zlel & Ca., l3 Calilomh Stret .............Exbrek 5l4r

OAITLANI)

Hill & Moricr, lnc, Danlon St- lltiharl ..........,.ANdwc 107l

Hogan Lumber Copany' 2ld & Alie Strects..,..........Glaerurt 6$r

Pynmid Luber Salc Co, ItS Pacific Building ...........G!-acilrt tr3

E. K. W@d Lmbar Cc. Frcdrrick & Kin; Str........ .'. .Fruttvels 0ll2

HARDu/OODS

9trablc Handwod Costit Flnt StEt...,.............TEEplebrr 55ta

White Brcth€n, 500 High StFrt ..................AN&vc lt.l

LUMBER

Aoglo Calilonia Lumber Co.

HARDWOODS AIID PANELS

Fonyth Hardrrood Co, 355 Bayehm Blvd. ............,..ATrd'etr ltil

Whitc Brothers,Fiftb ald Brannan Str@ts ...SUttGr llatt

SASH_DOORS-PLYWOOD

Niolal Dm Sala Co., 30,15 l9th Stret .........,..........MIrciG ?!2a

Unlted Stltes Plywmd Co., lnc, lll KantaE Street .........,........MArket lEtz

Wheeler-Orgod Saler Corpontlon 3045 l9th St. .................,....VA|ercia Ztlt

CREOSOI1ED LUMBER_POLETPILING. TIES

Anerican Lumber & Treating Co., 116 New Montgomery St. ....Sutter lzzs

Baxter, J. H. & Co., 3:l3 Montgmery SL ..............DOug|ar 3E&f

Hall, Jma L., 1026 Milb Bl&. ..,..............,.Suttlr l!r5

PANE IS-DOORS-.SASH-SCREE NS

Cdifomh Buildcrr Supply Co, 70O 3th Avc. ......Hlgat. cela

Roll-A-Way Wrttdw Scren Co, Ltd. (Berkeley) Etb ard Carlton Stretc.........fftoawal Ataa

Wcatcm Doc & Sash Ca. 5th & Cyprcr Sti..............LAkai& r,|00

BUILT.IN FIXTURES

PanEout Built-In Fixtun Co. I&t? East rzth st.,.. ...,...'......ANdwer !461

Perlecs luilt-Il Fb<tue Co. (Berkeley) zdlll Su Pablo Avc. ..,,.,......Tti6mwail OeZo

LOS ANGBLDS

Gl20 Avalon Blvd. ............THmw411 3ll4

Bums Lumber Co., 550 Chamber of Commere Bldg...PRdprct aZll

Brush Industri:rl Lmber Co. 99lll So. Central Ave. ,,......,...CEntury Z0fE6

Cbemberlin & Co., W. R., 315 lf,f. Ninth St. ..,...............TRinity l5r3

Coper, Wilfred T., 6il2 Petrcleum Smrities Bldg...PRcpect 188{

Dolbeer & Canon Lumber Co., ,0r Fidaltty Bldg. ................VAndike t792

Doud, Do H.,

62E Petrol€um Secuities Bldg. '..PRcpect 237'l

Hammod Redwod Cmpaly, t(|3l So, Bmdmy ..,............PRcpect 2966

Holmer Eureka Lmber Co..

7ll-?12 Archlrrct Bldd. ..........MUtual 9lEl

Hocr, A. L.700 Sc L Brca Avc. ................YOrk ll6t

C. D. Johnsd Lumber Ccp601 Petrcleum Seorities Bldg....PRopect 1165

Kelly-Smith C,o., a2r-,|Zr Garfield Bldg. .,.... Mlchigan gnl

Kuhl Lumber Company, Carl H., 3t Cbanbcr of Cmnerca Bldg...PR6pcct tf36

Lrmncc-Philipt Lumber Co., GB Pctroleu Smrltlac Bld3,...PRcpect tl?l

MacDoald & Bergstm, lnc., 73il Petrclem Scorltla Bldg,...PR6p€ct 7191

MacDmld & Hanin3to, Ltd., 5,fi1 Petrolcm Smrltler Bld3....PRopcct lt?

LUMBER

Pacific Lubcr Co' Thc ?m So I- Bm An. ................YOrL ll$

Patten-Bllnn lmbcr Co.

5a E. 5th St. ...................,VAndikc 2321

Rcd Rivcr Lubcr Cc, 7O2 E. Slaum .CEntury 29071 tlt3l So Brcdway ,........,......PRGFct IEU

Reitz Co., E. L, Il3 Pctrclcun Seorltler Bldg. ..PRspect 236tt

Su Pedrc Lunbcr Co. Su Pedrc, lflnA wilmiDgtm Red.........su Pedrc 2o

Suta FG Lmbq Co., 3ll Fimcial Ccatc Bldt.......VAndikc 1,Ol

Scbafer Bror. Lumber & S[lngh Co., lz26 W. M. Gerland Bl&.........TRidV r4l

Shevlin Pine Saler Co, 328 Petroleum Securitier Bldg. PRGp€ct 0615

Sqthland Lumber Co..

,li!4 Petroleum Securities Bldg, ...PRcpect 3636

Sudden & Chrlcteroon, 630 Bord of Tnde Bl&. ,.,.....TRinity tt4{

Tacoma Lumber Sales, ,i23 Petroleum Seorltlec Bldg...PRcpcct lf06

Twohy Lumber Co., t(|l Petrolem Securities Bldg..,.PRcpect E746

Union Lunber Co.

923 W. M. Gariud Bldr...........TRtnltt Zf2

Wendling-Nathu Co.

?00 Sa k Bro Arc. ..............YOrk llll

Wilklnmn and Buo;r, 3lt W.gth St. ............,....... TUcker l13l

E. K. Wmd !-uber Co,

a?01 Strtr Fc Arc. ..............JEfiarrd lUl

Weycrhacuga Saler Cnt2c W. M. Garland Bldl...,.....Mlchlgan t35{

HARDWOODS

Cadwallader-Gibron Co., Inc., 3@t Ealt Olynpic Blvd. ..,.....ANaelu! lUtt

Stanto, E. J., & Son, 2050 Eut ltth Struet, .CEntury rtZll HARDWOOD FLOORING

Soulh9ra Hardwod Cmpany, 902 East 59th Street. .,. ..ADms 4l6tt

SASH_DOORS-MILLWORK

PANELII AND PLYWOOD

Calilmia Paret & Vemer Co.. t55 Sq Almeda St.......,.'........TRhtty 005?

Haley Brc., Smta Mmie Ia Angeles Phone ..............REpub!|c 0el?

Kchl, Jno W. & 56, 562 Se Myen St. ,......,........ANgclur lttt

Oreron-_Wuhingtm Plywod Co., tlt W6t Ninrh Stret .....,.......TUcker lfil

Red River Lumber Co., 702 E. Slausq ..CEntury lt0ll

Smpro Company (Paadem) 7,15 So. Ra5mod Ave. Blancbard ?ZUl United Stat4 Plywod Co,, Inc., 1930 East lsth St. ............,...PRcpect t0l!

West Cegt Scren Co., ll{5 E. 63rd Stret ..,...............ADm Ultt

West Cert Plywood Co., 315 W. Ninrh SL ..................TRinity l5l3

Whecler-Osgood Sales Cdpmtid, 2153 Sacnmento St. .TUcLcr /Ota CREOSOTED LUMBER_POLES-PILINGTIES Americu Lunber & Treating Co., l0:ll So. Brodway ...........,..PRoap*t 555t

Buter, J. H. & Co., 60l Weat stb St. ................MIcb|8D aata

WHERE TO U'E REDWOOD

FOR LATTICE }I'ORKT ARBORT. GARDEN FURNITURE

Selected all-heqrt Redwood is noted for its strange naturcrl Power to resist termites qnd rot. These destroyers, usuclly prevalent where wood comes in contcrct with dcrmp earth and moisture, crre rqrely Iound when heart-Redwood is used. Hence Hcrmmond Qucrlity Redwood is recommended lor qll garden uses, such as posts, Iences, stcrkes, trellises, crbors, lcttice work cnd furniture. Creqte more business by letting your trade know cbout Redwood,'cnd keep a good stock oI cll the grrcdes.

l- NOTE tlu." is no "all.purpose" lurnber. Redwood is recommended for many uses whete nothing else is "iust as good." It is importent too that the nglr I Lg"a" of Redwood be uscd in each instance. All lumbermco Crould have the grade specifcations of Crlifornia Redwood. Copies gladly supplted. I