Oliver J. Olson &. Co. Corgo - Riding High Business Wove

Latest step in the construction program of Oliver J. Olson & Co. was recently completed at San Diego, where the steamer Mary Olson, owned and operated by the Olson firm as a coastwise lumber carrier for the past twelve years, was converted to become their fourth barge currently in service.

Four months of work on superstructure and general reconditioning by the San Diego Marine Construction Co. iricluded three mounted cranes, bulk self-discharging elevators, large hatch accesses to below-decks cargo holds, and several engineering improvements.

Greater Capacity

With a capacity in excess of 250,000 cubic feet and 6,000 tons dead weight, the Mary Olson brings greater versatility to the Olson lineup of six vessels, and is ready to haul various classes of dry and liquid cargo as well as the coastwise lumber shipments in which Olson has long been the leading carrier.

"The conversion of this vessel," says E. Whitney Olson, president of the firm, "is in line with changing conditions in the coastwise trade and our desire to keep in service vessels capable of superior capacity and equipped with time-saving and money-saving f eatures."

Construction Program Progresses

Olson pointed to the company's construction progress in the past two years with the charter of deck barge Pacific No. 2 and the all-new construction, in Texas, of two of the largest barges ever built in the United States, namely the Forest and the Florence. Both of these have 250,000 cubic feet of dry cargo space below-deck (equal to 133 boxcars of plywood) and total dead weight of 8,000 tons, thus bring-ing new economies to the business of shipping plywood, pulp and particle board.

Past History of the Mary Olson

Originally named the Oduna, she ran to Alaska in the service of the Alaska Steamship Co. Subsequently, she was part of the lend-lease program during World War II and was operated by the Soviets under the name of Visheva. When they returned her to the United States, Oliver J. Olson & Co. purchased the steamer from the Maritime Commission and renamed her the Mary Olson.

Pioneers, Since 1891

Oliver J. Olson & Co., established in the schooner days of 1891, today owns and operates four barges and two steamers as well as the million-dollar Olson Terminal at Fields Landing on Humboldt Bay, an independent opera- tion serving lumbermen with milling, planing, assembling and shipping facilities.

The firmts Northern California home office is in San Mateo, with other Olson offices in Portland, Coos Bay, Eureka and Long Beach.

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londoir on Stqte Fqir Gommittee

Mel J. London, vice-president of Calaveras Cement Company, a Division of The Flintkote Company, was named by Governor Brown to a Zl-member citizens committee to promote California's State Fair. He was the only representative of the construction industry in the group.

They say in Haiti: "The heart has no wrinkles."

No one was ever rr"rj"a ;. ;t a difficult situation by repeating that senseless remark: "Everything is going to be all right." *< {< *

"An economist," says the practical man, "is one who

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knows everything but can't do anything." "A practical man," replies the economist, "is the man who insists on perpetuating the mistakes of his ancestors."

The speaker declared Jn", ilr, J'r"r, "r" always approachable, while small men trying to appear big are always the opposite. Said a railroad man in the audience: "Sure ! The smaller the station, the bigger the agent." *{<*

"In fighting a ghost, folks often create one."

Patrick Henry ,"id r "ih" il"..rl i" not to the strong, but to the vigilant, the active, the brave." t<t*

Francis Bacon said: "If a man write little. he hath need of a great memory; if he confer little, he hath need of a present wit; if he read little, he hath need of much cunning to seem to know what he doth not."

Thoreau said: "No r"iln ,,oli"n*we can give to a matter will stand us so well at last as the truth."

C. F. Kettering said in"a i"."lrch is "The problem of finding out what we are going to do when we can't keep on doing what we're doing now."

Lord Coke said: "Law is the perfection of human wisdom." * * *

Sir William Watson wrote: "I count him wise who loves so well man's noble memories, he needs must love man's nobler hopes yet more." {. {< t(

George Santayana wrote: "The nation which does not remember its history has to repeat it."

"Good English," ""r" ir. i. c.*poor"y, "is the kind that expresses most simply and clearly the meaning of the tone or impression that one wants to create in that particular time and place."

"The educated man," says Everett Dean Martin; "has mastered the art of making choices. He not only expresses himself in usefulness, but attends to the matter of having the right quality of manhood to express. Education is a spiritual, as well as an intellectual, awakening."

"In order that people *t J" frJpp, in their work," wrote John Ruskin, "thre.e things are needed: They must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it, and they must have a sense of success in it."

A brainy American, writing in 1895 about the economic and financial greatness of this country said: "In 1893 we used three billion dollars worth of products, things manufactured and grown, and we sent to other countries 654 million dollars worth." And then he added: "These vast sums are almost inconceivable." Those "vast sums" would be penny ante these days, wouldn't they?

In a newspaper column written by Malcolm W. Bingay, he tells a lot of interesting things about the finances of many of our past Presidents of the United States. We had some who were rich, others who were "well-fixed," and others who were poor. Quite a number of them were born poor, but got rich through their own efforts.

One of the poorest ot ifr"rJ ail in his early life, Herbert lloover, became the richest man- to ever hold the Presidency, though he is one of the most generous of men.

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