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"P,ne Buyers Are Plentiful at Millr" Says Clint Laughlin

Clint Laughlin, manager of the Softwood Department for E. J. Stanton & Son, of Los Angeles, reports that up in the Pine producing territory buyers and wouldbe buyers are much more plentiful than sawmills, and mighty near as plentiful as trees. "There are legitimate buyers such as wholesalers and retailers, and then there are snipers and fly-by-nights who have flocked into the lumber business because they have heard there are big profits in it, just as they would flock into bootlegging or anything else which promises a quick and handsome profit," says Clint. There were so many of them that when he was up there recently it was almost impossible to get a hotel room; the buyers had them all.

Writing in the December issue of "The Stantonite," a Stanton house organ of high repute, Clint tells some of his experiences with the wrong kind of lumber buyers up there, and then says: "Why,do you spend forty years from the sawmill on out and then have to compete with that? Mark Twain once wrote about a man (he was probably a lumberman) who woke up one morning with a terrible hangover. He searched hi6 pockets and found one copper cent (all his worldly wealth). He thought of suicide and decided he would flip the penny. Heads he would commit suicide, and tails he would go into the ieady made clothing business. ft came up 'heads,' but his head hurt sb badly he didn't have the heart to shoot into it, so he went into the ready made clothing business

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Representing in Southem Coliforniq f. J. Gcrr & Co.

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Redwood - Hordwoods - llouldlngs

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Scn Frcncisco Lumbermen's Club Members Hear Interesting Specker

Thomas C. Lynch, chief assistant district attorney of San Francisco, was the speaker at the November 18th luncheon meeting of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club, held in the Palace Hotel.

Mr. Lynch in his talk outlined the workings of the district attorney's office in a large city. The speaker was introduced by Jack Eyman, former assistant district attorney in San Francisco.

Two tickets for the big game between California and Stanford were won .by Mr. Eyman.

President Wayne Rawlings, Harbor Plywood Corp. of California, presided, and there was a good attendance of members.

Opens New Drying Yard

Anglo California Lumber Co., wholesale distributors of West Coast woods, with distribution yird and general office at 655 East Florende Avenue, Lqs Angeles 1, recently cstablished a new drying yard for pine lumber on Stanford Avenue, close -to their main yard. The drying yard is paved and fenced; and has a capacity of about 2,000,000 feet.

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