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Years Ago Today From Ten Files of The
the Colilornia Lumber Merchant, Septem6er 1 , 1930
The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, added a Bell & How,ard motion picture camera to its motion picture equipment, and announced they would take pictures of interesting Redwood structures and installations.
District sales offices were opened in San Francisco and Los Angeles by the Weyerhaeuser Sales Compa.ny, distributors of Weyerhaeuser forest products.
Reproduced in this issue was a letter received by Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Company from M. A. Harris, wellknown San Francisco lumberman and Mayor of Atherton, who sent the company to pieces of. lxl? Redwood taken from an old barn built in 1868 in Atherton at the country home of Thomas Selby, president of The Selby Smelting Works. The two pieces of Redwood were in sound condition after 62 yearc of use.
George S. Melville, South Sound Lumber T os Angeles, vacationed for two weeks with Broken Bow, Nebraska.
Sales, Inc., relatives at
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R. W. Williamson, Dallas, Texas, for many years a manufacturer and retailer of lumber in the Southwest and now publisher of the R. W. Williamson plan Books, sojourned at Long Beach.
Henry Barg, Barg Lumber Company, San Francisco, left for Europe to spend several weeks visiting with the firin's correspondents in cities of the United Kingdom and also on the continent.
Caroli Brothers, who operated a millwork business in Los Angeles, retired from business.
East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club held a dinner dance and musical at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Friday evening, August 15. Pr.esident Bert Bryan presided at the dinner, and Rod Hendrickson was in charge of the entertainment program.
Leroy H. Stanton, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, returned from a three months'tour of Europe.
\THEN YOU SELL
Booth-Kelly Douglas Fir, the A$ociation grade and trade mark certify to your customera the quality of the stock you handle. Buildere quit guessing about what they're buying, and buy where they know what they're getting.
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