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Redwood Seminars Held in Texas

The success of the Redwood Seminars held by the California Redwood Association in Dallas, Texas, October 17 and 18, and in l{ouston, October 20 and 21, points the way to similar meetings being held in many areas throughout the country.

The Dallas session opened at 9 a.m. on October 17 at the yard of the Cowser Lumber Company. Invitations were issued to every wholesale or commission representative of redwood in the Dallas area. The Union Lumber Company shipped a representative car of redwood which was placed on display by grade, pattern, and sizes, so that under the direction of John R. Freeman, field representative of the Association, a clinic was held on redrvood grading. manufacturing process and utilization. The clinic lasted until noontime and was resumed, at 2 p.m. in the Adolphus Ifotel.

On Tuesday morning at 10 a.m., retail lumber dealers, architects, and other specifiers of building materials met rn the Adolphus Hotel. Sherman Bishop, manager of the Association, John R. Freeman, and Philip T. Farnsworth, director of publicity and promotion, each had a part of the morning program, devoted to outlines and case histories of redwood utilization. Included in the program was thc Association's new color and sound picture, "Sempervirens,,, and a new sound film entitled "Box Score," dealing wittr the properties of lumber, and a report by Mr. Bishop on the tremendous strides being made by redwood producers towards a perpetual supply of redwood lumber, using the improved forestry and logging techniques.

The Houston meeting followed the same schedule except that the clinic was held at the Schroeder Lumber Company's yard. The Monday afternoon meeting was held in the French Room of the Rice Hotel, and the Tuesday meeting was held in the South American Room.

Those from San Francis,co who attended the Redwootl Seminars were the following: Kenneth Smith, assistant to the president, The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco; Fentress Hill, president, Northern Redwood Lumber Co., San Francisco; David F. Hill, Northern Redwoocl Co., Korbel, Calif.; H. E. Bailey, vice president, Hammoncl Lumber Company, San Francisco; Wm. R. Morris, vice president and general sales manager, IJnion Lumber Company, San Francisco; Howard A. Libbey, general manager. Arcata Redwood Co., Arcata, Calif.; George Knab, sales rnanag'er, Arcata Redwood Co., Arcata, Calif.; Henry IVI. Hink, president, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco; E. G. Davis, Rounds Trading Company, San Francisco; Leroy McCormick, Redwood Sales Company, San Francisco; Mrs. H. F. Walker, sales manager, Northern Redwood Company, San Francisco; Sherman Bishop, John Freeman, and Phil Farnsworth, California Redwood Association, San Francisco.

Also in attendance were: Carl Bahr, eastern sales manager, The Pacific Lumber Company, Chicago; J. E. Watt, eastern sales manager, IJnion Lumber Company, Chicago; Johnny Jones, Union Lumber Company, Chicago i Johu Klopfenstein, manager, Chicago office, Hammond Lumber Company.