T\TENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The California Lumber Merchant September 15,1925

The Susanville Hoo-Hoo Club held a big annual outing and picnic on August 23, and, according to the report of President George R. Gunning, it was a wonderful success.

Col. W. B. Greeley was the principal speaker at the HooHoo annual at Spokane, Washington, on September 15. Jim Allen, Snark of the lJniverse, introduced him.

Ben Ostlind, president of the Coos Veneer & Box Company, at Marshfield, Oregon, has organized a Longfellow's Club in Portland, for men over six feet tall. The club is plugging for longer hotel beds, longer bath tubs, longer berths, longer hospital beds, higher public mirrors, and more space between theatre seats, longer sheets and bed clothing.

The Red River Lumber Company is cutting both white and black oak timber on their lands near Westwood, California, and trying it out for use in their veneer plant.

The Weyerhaeuser Timber Company announces that it will immediately begin construction of a huge sawmill plant at Longview, Washington, which will contain three sawmills and various other lumber manufacturing units.

Peter McNevin, Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, is spending two months in the East, studying the market opportunities.

The Long-Bell Lumber Company, Longview, Washington, announces that it has begun scientific reforestation efforts on about four thousand acres of land set aside especially for that purpose.

The California Door Company announces the comple: tion of its new sawmill plant at Diamond Springs, California, which K. Moore, general manag'er, believes to be one of the most modern in existence.

Announcement is made that the Red River Lumber Company, Westwood, California, is far and away the largest owner of pine timber on earth. Its one million acres of timber land holds between sixteen and twenty billion feet of virgin pine.