T\TENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO

Merchant Oct. TODAY 15, 1926 As reported in The California Lumber

The Grays Harbor Sales Company, Hoquiam, ton, announces that it will now be represented in California by the Hendrickson-Godard Lumber of San Francisco. The shingle output of five big be routed into California.

Fire caused $70,000 damage the Bentley Lumber Company

WashingNorthern Company, mills rvill to the sheds and stocks of in Glendale, on October 4.

A high climber for The Manary Logging Company found and topped a fir tree of record height recently, on the land of the Pacific Spruce Corporation, near Toledo, Oregon. The tree measured 214 fleet high at point of topping, and measured 34 inches in diameter across the top. The top that r,vas cut off measured 125 feet. so the tree was 340 feet high.

The Pacific Coast its annual meeting 8, and 9.

The Concatenated convention at Kansas Arthur A. Hood lvas

Hardr,vood Dealers Association helcl at Del Monte, California, October 7,

Order of Hoo-Hoo held its annual City, I\{o., September 28,29, and 30. elected Snark of the ljniverse.

E,lmore King, of ing of retail yard on October 9.

Bakersfield, presided over a joint meetowners and managers held in Fresno

In this issue appears an extensive of the big pine sawmill of the Red pany, at Westrvood, California. It is illustrated write-up River Lumber Coma four band sarvmill.

Fred A. Chapin has been elected president for the ensuing year of the Orange Belt Hoo-Hoo Club. Chapin is {rom San Bernardino.

The Pickering Lumber Company, Tuolumne, California, reports cutting dorvn a sugar pine tree that produced 31,080 feet of lumber. It rvas 9 feet in diameter at the butt, 226 feet high, and the first limb was 102 feet from the ground.

George S. Long, of Tacoma, Washington, general manager of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, announces that construction is ready to start on one of the 'lvorld's biggest sarvmill plants to be located at Longvierv, Washington.