East B.y Hoo Hoo Club Chicago Largest Lumber Rail

Another good attendance of members and guests marked the October dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39, held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Monday evening, October 10.

President Earle Johnson, of Livermore, occupied the chair, and Larue \Moodson, chairman of the entertainment committee, was chairman of the evening.

' President Johnson said the club is proud of the election of its active member and past president, Bert Bryan, to membership on the Supreme Nine, and referred to the fact that the East Bay Club is the most active club in the West.

C. I. Gilbert, finance committee chairman, in a short talk, stated that he considered the contact with other men in the industry afiorded by membership in the club makes it well worth while for lumbermen to belong, and reminded members that the annual dues are now payable.

Secretary Carl Moore presented retiring President Larue Woodson with a gold Hoo Hoo button

Music was furnished by Saenz' Orchestra from the Industrial Home for the Blind. The music and singing of these blind boys was much appreciited.

Robert Simmons, of San Francisco, passenger agent of the Canadian National Railways, was the speaker of the evening. Mr. Simmons showed two reels of motion pictures depicting the steamship trip by his company's steamers from Vancouver to Skagway, Alaska, and the rail trip to the Yukon, a trip that can be taken in two weeks' time from San Francisco. He also showed two reels of pictures taken in Jasper Park, Alberta, entitled "Jasper the Magnificent." Jasper Park, he said, is the largest national park in the rvorld, with an area of 4200 square miles. Mr- Simmons answered many questions about the various trips, and members freely expressed their enjoyment of the pictures.

oTrs R JOHNSON VISITS LOS ANGELES

Otis R. Johnson, Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, was a recent visitor at the company's Los Angeles office w-here he conferred with E. A. Goodrich, manager of their Southern California interests.

Regains Health Quickly

Harmon Kincaid of the Glenn County Lumber Co', Willows, who recently underwent an operation for ' appendicitis, is recovering nicelY.

Edric Brown A Los Angeles Visitor

Edric Brown, in charge of the by-products division of The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco' was a recent visitor at the company's Los Angeles office where he spent a few days.

Oakland Yard Installs Crane

Smith Lumber Co., of Oakland, has installed a crane purchased from the Coos Bay Lumber Co. for handling lumber in their yard at th6 foot of lSth Street, Oakland' The crane travels 500 feet and will pile lumber as high as 16 feet.

Center in United States

Washington, September 30.-Illinois is the fourth largest lumber consuming state in the country, ranking in 1930 only after California, New York and Pennsylvania, according to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association in its review of the position of the lumber industry in various states.

Of the 1,375,349W feet consumed in 193O, nearly 94 per cent came from other states. Of its small lumber production ot 25,212,M feet in 1930, 14,098,000 feet was oak and 2,514,000 feet walnut.

Chicago is the largest lumber receiving center in the United States and probably in the world for rail shipments. lnl9D approximately 10 per cent of all the lumber pro,Cuced in the United States entered Chicago by rail; in 1931, about 8 per cent. Of the t,775,3&W feet received in 1931 , 495,623,W feet was reshipped to other rections; the remainder went into local consumption or stocks.

In 1882 when lumber production in the Lake States u'al; at its height, two billion feet of lumber entered Chicago by water, or about 88 per cent of the total receipts. Since 1928 no cargoes have been reported, the movement bcing by rail or truck.

Illinois' great wood-consuming industries use more Southern and Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir than any other softwoods and more oak, gum, birch and maple than other hardwoods. These and other species go principally into car construction and repair, boxes and crbtes, agricultural implements, furniture, and sash, doors and millwork.

A World Lumber News Letter

Washington, D. C., September 3O.-A suggestion from Wilson Compton, secretary and manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, resulted in a decision by Leighton H. Peebles, chief of the lumber division, Dcpartment of Commerce, to issue a semi-monthly newsletter dealing with economic development affecting lumber in foreign and domestic markets. A feature of the "'World Lumber News Letter" will be the direction of attention to the various reports received by the division from all parts of the world, so that lumbermen interested in particular markets may study them.

In conformity with the economy law passed at the last session of Congress this new publication will be on a subscription basis. The subscription price is $l a year. It is thought that this nominal fee will not interfere r'r'ith efiective circulation. Subscription checks should be made payable to the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. It is considered preferable for the subscription address to be in the name of the officer of a firm or corporation who may be expected to give it his personal attention. The firm name and address should be included in the subscription address.

OREGON LUMBERMAN VISITS S.F.