TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, December 1, 1933

The Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, announced it was opening a Los Angeles office, Dec. 1, with Bob Forgie in charge of a rail and cargo business. I{e was there for several years for Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Mills, and started in 1915 with the Baxter & Tordan interests Arthur Bevan, secretary of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau several years, was appointed chief of the Production Control Section, Lumber Code Authority, Washington, D.C.

Elmore W. King, King Lumber Co., Bakersfield, presided at the Nov. 17 meeting in Stockton of the California Lumbermen's Council in the absence of President Geo. N. Ley.

Roy Barto, head of the Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Los Angeles, placed a 9,000-mile industry call at 4:30 the afternoon of Nov. 15 to their Manila executive, Frank Fulcahy (where it was 8:30 the following morning), so he could explain the workings of the new Philippine Mahogany and Hardwoods CodJto all the producers^on the Islind"s

C. A. Kennedy, former manager of the Hayward yard at

Jim H. Berry

A full-page ad of the California Redwood Assn. in the Dec. 1, 1933, issue pictures the new Greenleaf Reservoir in the Citv of Whittier. Calif.. for which 166,000 feet B.M. of'Structural grades oi California redwood were used in framing and roofing. The ad declares the Public Works Program offers the lumber dealer many such opportunities.

Riverside, succeeded Paul M. Parsons as secretary of the Inland Lumber Institute, San Bernardino . . . Fred Cooper won the raffle for the winning Stanford-California game seats, Secretary Carl Moore reported dues were coming in good, Prof. Emanuel Fritz gave a talk, H. Sewall Morton introduced the speaker, Engineer H. J. Brunnier, who predicted the Bay Bridge would bring an era of prosperity to the Bay district, and President C. I. Gilbert presided-all at the big Nov. 13 meeting of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club 39. Mr. and Mrs. Don R. Philips of the Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., welcomed a son, Lawrence Philips, at Cedars, Nov. 15 East Bay Hoo-Hoo announced they would start distribution Dec. 18 of nail kegs to local lumbeimen to again fill with food for the needy The directors of the Lumber Retailers' Code Administration of Southern California met

DURABLE-This remarkable, wellpreserved example of Victorian architecture overlooks Humboldt B"y, Eureka, California. It was built in 1884 with redwood used almost throughout. The descendants of the original owner sold the mansion in 1950 for $35,000 and it is now used as headquarters for a men's club. Simpson Redwood Company featured the famous structure in a full-color advertisement in the November 8, Saturday Evening Post to direct attention to the time and weather resistant properties of redwood.

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John Ferri