T\TENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

Ar repo*ed in The California Lumber Merchant Nov. 1, 1926 tsig pictures illustrate a write-up of the Union Lumber Company sau'mills located at Ft. Bragg, Glen Blair, and Mendocino, which cutatotalof more than one hundred million feet of Redwood lumber annually. C. R. Johnson is President of the Company, and Otis Johnson is Vice President. Fred White is manager of the Ft. Bragg mill; Ernest Sinclair is manager at Glen Blair; and R. D. Swales runs Mendocino.

Paul Hallingby, Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles, was elected president of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, at its fifth annual convention, held in the Senator Hotel, Sacramento, October 21, 22, and 23. Elmore King, Bakersfield, was elected vice president for the Northern part of the State, and Chas. P. Curran, Pomona, was elected vice president for the South half.J. E. Neighbor, Oakland, was elected treasurer, and J. E. Fraser reelected secretary. C. W. Pinkerton was outgoing president. Chas. G. Bird, Stockton, presided over part of the pfogram.

R. W. Blanchard is president; Dick Speer, of Owensmouth, is vice president, and Dave Lembach, of San Fernando, is secretary, of the San Fernando Lumbermen's Club, which meets monthly in the San Fernando Valley.

TheC. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation, of Portland, Oregon, has transferred Russell T. Gheen from Los Angeles to San Francisco, and placed him in charge of the Northern office.

The Western White Cedar Company, Marshfield, Oregon, has just purchased one of the largest stands of Port Orford Cedar in the world, from the Stout Lumber Company. The price was about a million and one-half dollars, and the timber is estimated at forty-million feet.

The Red River Lumber Company, Westwood, California, has just shipped a very unusual ,carload of lumber to Australia. It was all 5/4 inch Clear Vertical Grain dry Sugar Pine, cut to lengths 19, 20, and 2l inch, and will be used for the manufacture of piano keys.

A big battery of late model internal fan type dry kilns are being installed at the sawmill plant of the Clover Valley Lumber Company, Loyalton, California, by the Moore Dry Kiln Company.

Frank Burnaby, of Los Angeles, is chairman of a lumber golf tournament that will be held at Santa Barbara, Nov. 12. There will also be a banquet.

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