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LUMBER AND MOULDING, INC

5050 Eost Slouson Ave., Los Angeles 22,ColifPhone lOgon 5-5111

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T\(/ENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The Cal:fornia Lumber Merchant December 15, 1925

Announcement is made that on December 23 the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo will act as hosts to 350 orphai-r children, in a dinner and entertainment to be held at the Elite Cafe. Contributions are called for to defray the expense of feeding these kids and giving each one some Christmas presents. The Committee in charge is A. L. lloover, B. \\'. Byrne, H. L. Rosenberg, Paul Hallingby, H. \'. Hanson, and L. H. Stanton.

The Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club held its November meeting at Marysville, rvhere the lumbermen of that city acted as hosts. H. G. Cave made the address of welcome to tl-re visitors.

W. G. Scrim, of Los Angeles, announces that the Kolambugan Lumber & Development Company, u'hich operates Philippine Mahogany sawmills at the torvn of Kolambugan in the fslands, is installing the latest type of Moore dry kilns at its big milling plant, the equipment being manufactured at Portland. Mr. Scrim represents the sau'mill concern in the United States.

The ington, Long-Bell Lumber announces that it Company, of Longviell', 'S'ashhas set aside a large nursery area in its timbered lands near Ryderrvood, Washington, and rvill immediately begin a practical reforestation program. By so doing the company hopes to perpetuate the great sarvmill plant it is norv building at Longview'

C. A. Smith, president of the Coos Bay Lumber Company, of NIarshfield, Oregon, died suddenly at his home in Berkeley, California, on December 9. He u'as one of the most prominent men that ever invaded the Western lumber and timber industry. He t'as 73 years of age, a4d came to the West from Minnesota, though he was a native of Srveden. He organized the C. A. Smith Lumber Company, rvhich acquired huge stands of timber on the Oregon coast, and rvhich was succeeded by the Coos Bay Lumber Company. He built the mill at Marshfield, probably the largest single unit sawmill ever built on earth, capable of cutting 50,000 feet of lumber per hour.

Here are lumber species production records for the year 1923: \\rashington produced 5,M7,712,m feet of Douglas fir; Louisiana produced, 2,598,754'000 feet of yellow pine; Michigan's production of maple exceeded that of any state for any hardrvood species, and Arkansas ranked second in its production of oak.