T\TENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The California Lumber Merchant September 1, 1924

Vere Hunter, long a prominent member of the Bay District lumber fraternity, died at his home in Oakland on August !2 af.ter a long illness. All lumber yards closed for his funeral, and Hoo-Hoo members attended in a body.

The Second Quarterly meeting of the Millwork Institute of California was held in Los Angeles on August 23, with millwork men from all over the state in attendance. H. W. Gaetjen, oT San Francisco, presided, and H. T. Didesch acted as secretary. E. R. Maule, H. P' Dixon, H. J. Quinn, A. W. Bernhauer, J. A. Farnsworth, D. N. Edwards, and E. J. Nutting were on the program.

Benson Lumber Company, San Diego, has just received a great raft of fir logs from the Columbia River. The raft was 900 feet long and consisted of five million feet of logs, in addition to a deck load of three million lath and shingles. The tug "Humaconna" towed the raft down the Pacific Ocean in safety This is the third raft of that kind the same firm has received this season.

Australia has become a huge buyer of Western lumber. For the month of June the port of Portland, Oregon, shipped more than seven million feet of lumber to Australia.

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