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B,edwood - Iloug;las Fir Ponderosa Pine

733 'West Fourteenth Street

Long Beach, California

Phone Long Beach 6-5237

Teletype LB 88-029

Direct Mill Shipments

Jqmes A. White Wirh Gnloveros

Mel J. London, vice president and general sales manager for Calaveras Cement Company, San Francisco, announces a new California sales representative, Jdmes A. White, is now representing the company in Stanislaus, Merced, and Mariposa counties, as well as portions of San Joaquin and Northern Madera counties, including the towns of Manteca, Escalon, Chowchilla, and Califa. He has established headquarters in the Valley Builders' Exchange, Modesto, California.

Bu i lding Contrqclors Associotes

Building Contractors Associates is the name of a new organization created by the Building Contractors Association of California, and operating in the Los Angeles area. It was created in order that building material manufacturers and distributors may have an organization for sharing new ideas and materials, and the membership is made up of manufacturers and distributors of building materials, bnd of firms engaged in servicing the construction industry. The officers of the new organization are: president, Charles Eisenmayer, Sawyer Cabinet Company; Walter Jennison, of Davidson Plywood Co., vice-president; Owen L. McComas, of Southern California Gas Co., secretary; and Charles Stivers, of Land Title Insurance Co., treasurer. Directors-at-large are William Charlton of Gladding, McBean & Co.; and Arthur Hansen of Generbl Electric Appliance Co.

Fire Destroys J. A. Sturgis Ploning Mill

The J. A. Sturgis planing mill was destroyed by fire which broke out Monday afternoon, August 3. The mill was located lt/a miles west of Laytonville, California, on the Branscomb road. Sawdust and grease at the mill added to the intensity of the flames and control of the blaze was not possible until the mill building had burned completely down. Other buildings near the blaze were not damaged, however a small amount of finished lumber was destroyed. Unofficial estimates of damages were placed at about $32.000.

Big Timber Troct Sold

The Paul B. Kelly Lumber Co. has announced that it has formed the Kelly Development Company for the purpose of developing and selling a large timber tract located about 30 miles west of Cloverdale. The stand is said to consist of nearly a billion board feet of redwood, fir and sugar pine. The Cloverdale Timber Co. has already purchased part of the tract and is now waiting for completion of the main access road from the Northern Pacific Railroad at Cloverdale. They plan to start construction of the sawmill next spring.

J. Harold Cyr, Pope and Talbot, Inc., San Francisco, and Mrs. Cyr, returned to the Bay area August 1, after a tlvo weeks' vacation spent at Seattle, Washington. The trip was of special interest to Mr. Cyr as he had spent many years as a lumber buyer in Washington and Canada.