Ofd Lumber Journals Never Die r r r

By Jack

"Old sold,iers never die-they just fade away," says the old song that MacArthur brought so sharply into public view last spring.

OId lumber journals never die-most of them at leastneither do they fade away. They seem to keep right on keeping on.

The American Lumberman,of Chicago,which started business in 1873, has entered on its 78th year. The Mississippi Valley Lumberman, of Minneapolis, has just completed its 75th year of life. The Southern Lumberman, of Nashville, Tennessee, was organized in 1881, and is going strong after 70 years of existence.

Then there is The Lumberman, of Seattle, which started in 1889 and operated most of the years since as the West Coast Lumberman. The Timberman, at portland, started in 1899, and continues to flourish. The Southern Lumber Journal, at Jacksonville, Florida, $ras organized in 1g96.

Those are the oldest lumber journals now operating, so far as my recollections go. There have been important changes made in some of them, naturally. The high honor for consistency goes to The Mississippi Valley Lumberman, of Minneapolis, which has been published every week for 75 years. The American Lumberman and the Southern Lumberman were weeklies for many years, but have been semi-monthly publications for a long time. .The Southern Lumber Journal used to be semi-monthly, but changed long ago to once a month. The Minneapolis journal remains the only weekly in America in the lumber field.

None of these old journals are under their original pub_ lishers. The American Lumberman, the West Coast Lum_

Lewis Killey qt Scn Fernando

Lewis Killey is the new manager of the Hammond Lumber Company yard at San Fernando, California. He succeeds the veteran Dave Nembeck, Sr., who is retiring. Mr. Killey has been assistant manager of the Hammond yards at pasadena and Rosemead. He is past commander of the American Legion Post at Alhambra.

Dionne berman, and the Southern Lumber Journal changed hands, and have other owners and publishers. Jim Baird died and the Southern Lumberman passed into the hands of his lieutenants, Stanley Horn and J. H. Whaley. Platt B. Walker, who founded the Mississippi Valley Lumberman, is long since dead, as are the two sons, Platt and Jim, who succeeded him. George M. Cornwall, founder and for many years publisher of The Timberman, is dead.

The writer of this piece established and began publishing THE GULF COAST LUMBERMAN in April, 1913, and THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT in July, L922. Both have been published semi-monthly throughout these years, the first at Houston, Texas, and the second at Los Angeles, California. So the first is in its 39th year under the same publisher, and the second in its 29th.

So far as I can figure THE GULF COAST LUMBERMAN is the oldest lumber journal in the country under the same publisher and owner. Horn and Whaley became owners and publishers of the Southern Lumberman a number of years after THE GULF COAST LUMBERMAN started, and probably ranks second, and THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT third.

During the years the writer has been in the lumber journal business quite a number of prominent lumber journals have disappeared from the field, chief among them being the New Orleans Lumber Trade Journal, the St. Louis Lumberman, the Lumber World Review, the Lumber World, Lumber Review, Southern Lumber & Industrial Review, and quite a number of lesser knoWn publications.

Allen Bulkin, Pilot, Completes 7l Missions Over Koreq

Allen Bufkin, First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Force, recently returned from Korea on a 15-day furlough, after completing 71 missions over Korea. He hopes to be discharged in a few months, and to resume his work as salesman for Dant & Russell Sales Co., Los Angeles.

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