The California Lumber Merchant - April 1935

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Proper thickness-for exact ternperature and fuel requirernents. No rnore than clirnate requires-no Iess than cornfort derrrands.

Easy to apply-foolproof-so workrnen can do a positiver perrnanent job of installation.

Stays where it is put-perrnanent (insulation that sags or settles cannot give lasting efficiency).

Moisture-proof (insulation that can becorne wet or darnp will not control heat; rnoisture in insulation causes flaming rnernbers to decay).

Fire-resistant-cannot aid cornbustion or add to the risk of firc.

Rot-proof arrd verrnin-proof-to protect the rnaterials that are used in the building.

Wind-proof-one irnportant function of insulation is to prevent drafts. Thc right kind of insulation nr.ust bc wind-proof.

BALSAM-WOOL is strictly a plus volurne itern and carries a better rnark-up. ft is not a substitute for any other itern in your stock on which you rnake a better profit.

BALSAM-WOOL is needed in hundreds of houses in your town today-a rnarket that represents substantial volurne.

BALSAM-WOOL gives the kind of satisfaction that rnakes boosters out of rlsers, bringing you additional sales. It is sold under a money-back guarantee of satisfaction.

A, BALSAM-WoOL represents a business with a future - for you. The use of insulation is growing each day. Modern heating equiprnent and air conditioning rnust have the right kind of insulation to operate properly.

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Glass - Mouldings

Ironing Boards

Medicine Cases

Housing Exposition to Open at Los Angeles M.y 18

Construction has already started on the large auditorium at Beverly Boulevard and Curson Avenue, Los Angeles, in which the Housing Exposition will open on May 18. The site will be known in the future as the Exposition Center of Southern California.

A permanent building which will serve as Los Angeles headquarters for annual shows will cost $125'000 and provides for 108,000 square feet of exhibition sPace. In addition to the space under roof, there are twelve acres of ground which are to be landscaped at once and model homes are to be built to demonstrate all types of home ,construction. The designs for the modernistic auditorium were submitted by members of the Southern California Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The architects' prize of $1,000 was won by the firm of Plummer, \Murdeman & Beckett of Los Angeles.

The exposition is being conducted by a board of governors representing the banks, department stores, building industries and the federal government' It is a non-profit undertaking, the net proceeds to be used in furthering the general housing program during the next two years.

George L. Eastman is chairman of the board of directors and Clifiord W. Henderson is managing director.

W. W. WOODBRIDGE BACK FROM EAST

E. A. NELSON VISITS LOS ANGELES

E. A. Nelson, sawmill superintendent at the Washington Veneer Co. plant at Olympia, \Mash., arrived in Los Angeles, March23, on a business trip. While in the Southland, he will make his headquarters at the company's Los Angeles offi'ce.

*Advertisements appear in alternate issue.

W. W. Woodbridge, manag'er of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, Seattle, has returned from the East, where he attended a number of retail lumbermen's conventions.

Three new field men have been added to the Bureau's stafi. One of these will be located in California, one in Boston and one in Columbus, Ohio'

OURADVERTISERS D ' '

Aberdeen Plywood Co. ---------------- ----'----- -----"---21

Associated Lumber Mutuals

Bookstaver-Burns Lumber Co. - -----------"21

Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. ---------------- --'-- ---- ---'--'13

Brookmire, fnc. --------------- ---------23

Buckley Lumber Dealers' Supply Co.------------- 5

California Builders Supply €o. ------ -----'-------21

California Panel & Veneer Co. -------------------21

California Redwood Asociation ------------------'---15

California Wholeeale Lumber Assn.---. ---------'23

Celotex Company, The Chamberlin & Co., W. R. ----------------------------25

Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co. -- ---- ---- - 21

Elliott Bay Salec Co. -------------:-------------------------11

Flonmond Lumber Co. ---.------------------------- ----21

Ffarbor Plywood Corp. -----,----------_--_---21

Hill & Morton, Inc. ---------------------------------21

Hogan Lumber Co. --------.--------------------------21

Holmer Eureka Lumbet Co. ----------------------21

Ffoover, A. L. ------------ ----------21

Kingsley Company, The ------..----

Koehl & Sons, fnc., Jno. V. --------------------21

Laughlin, C. J. -- ------- -----------21 Lawrence-Philipe Lumber C,o. ---------------- --------21

Lumber ComPanY -------21 Lumbermentc Credit Arrociation ------*-----' McCormicl Lumber Co, Char. R.-------------21

THE CALIFOR}.IIA

How Lumber Looks

New business received at the lumber mills during the week ended March 16 was 13 per cent above production-and 5 per cent above orders of the iorresponding ;ek last year, .."oiding to reports to the National -Lumbei Manufacturers Associatio.n. Shipments were heavier than during the previous week and were 18 per cent above those of the c&responding week a yeaf ago.

Reports from 11039 mills for the week ended March 16 ehowed .production 158,856,000 feet, shipments 126,45g,000 feet, and orders received 17g,g75r000 feet.

New business reported to the Vest Coast Lumberments Association for the week ended March 16, 5rg mills reporting, was 89206,#4 feet against a production of 90,894,462 feel,' and. shipments of 86,9151016 feet. Current sales wete under pro$uctiog by 3 per c_ent, and shipments were under producion by 4.4 per cent. Orders booked for the week by ihi, e.o,lo of mills were under the preceding week by.about :':OOTOO-O fedt or approximately 6.1 per cent. The unfilied order file at these mills stood at 39Or482,87O feet, approximately 2r00OrO00 feet under the week before.

The Vestern Pine Association for the week ended March 16, 123.^mills-reporting g_ave orders as 53rl7tr}00 feet, shipments 481929,000 feet, and production 29rl42r0o0 feet. Orders were 84.8 per__c9nt above production, and 10.1 per cent above ship-ments. _Shipments vete 67.8 per cent aboie production. Orders on hand at the end of the week rotaled iggrg:7rOOO feet.

Lumbermen's Reveille April 26

Final arrang'ements have been completed for the Northern California Lumbermen's Reveille which r,vill be held in Oakland on Friday evening, April 26. The banquet and entertainment will be held at the Hotel Oakland, and Edwin M. Haus, tenor and radio artist of national fame, will be the guest artist.

The golf tournament will be held on Saturday morning, April 27, at the Oak Knoll Country Club and many.prizes will be awarded to the winners of the various events.

The committee has made great efiorts to exceed any previous Reveille, both as to the entertainment features and attendance. Larue Woodson is chairman of the general committee, and Carl R. Moore is general secretarf-treasg-e1. _Members of the general committee are H. S. I\Iorton, G. F. Eonning'ton, B. E. Bryan, M. R. Grant, Earle Johnson, J. B. Overcast, Gordon Pierce, Clement Fraser and Henry Hink.

The California Redwood Association for the week reoorted production from 16 mills as 613651000 feet, shipments 6ri92rOOO feet, and new business 61337rooo f.eet. Oiderc orr harri

end of the week totaled 35r23orooo f.eet.

Reports fuom 192 hardwood mills for the week ended March 16 gave new business as 7,0381000 feet, or 2l per cent below production, and shipments Er952r000 feet, or .l'per cent above production. Production was 8p4f000 feet.

Unsold stocks on the public docks at Los Angeles harbo,r on March 25 totaled 4ri56rooo f.eet. Cargo arri-vals at Los Angeles harbor for the week ended Marcf, 25 amounted to 121609100A feet which included 19 cargoes of Fir canying \2,268,000 feet, and one cargo of Redwood with 341,000 ieetl 62 vessels were operating in the coastwise lumber eervice on March 25; 38 vessels weri laid up. rF * -x

Application loans under Title II of the FHA in Southern California since the opening of the ofrce two months ago showed a total of. $117121695 up to March 23. Of this amount, fl716r145 was for o"* "orrrt*ction and $9961550 refunding of mortgages. New construction loans totaling filTr- 830.and refunding loans involving $2g2,673 were .piioo"d. Modernization loans under Title t of the Act totalinj i4rOOOr- 000 have been made in Southern California since lasi A.rg.ri. March was the best construction month in Los Angeles since October, 1933. Building permits from March I to Match 22 inclusive totaled f2r217r087 or more than double the total for the- same ^period last year, and compared with construction activities for February will run about 100 per cent ahead, due principally to the improwement in one-fariily home building and considerable school construction.

Lumber Code Will Be Revised

Because of the withdrawal of the department of justice from the Belcher case, the Lumber Code Authority asked for the suspension of the Lumber & Timber products Code on March 27, stating that it inferred the department will no longer endeavor to enforce its code, ac,cording to news releasqs from Washington. Donald Richberg, NRA chairman, in reply to the request of the Lumber Code Authority for suspension of the ,code promised immediate steps to revise the code.

The Lumber Code Authority advised its Divisions and Subdivisions on March 28 that the,code is still in effect and that every effort will be made by the NRA to secure compliance.

New

Distributor Nu-\(/ood

California Builders Supply Co.

and Balsam \(/ool Enlarges Office

The E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, have been appointed distributors of the Wood Conversion Companyrs line of Insulating, Decorating, A'coustical Correcting and Sound Hushing materials, including Nu-Wood and Balsam Wool, Weyerhaeuser Products.

This line embraces the very popular and fast selling Nu-Wood Board, Plank, Tile, Wainscot and Mouldings, rvhich come in soft and pleasing natural shades of rich browns, tans and grays in several textures, all of which blend with any type of interior decoration. Also Balsam Wool Insulating, Acoustical and Sound Deadening Blankets and other types of refrigerator and cold storage insulations.

Wood Conversion Co., through E. K. Wood Lumber Co. are offering lumber dealers in Southern California an opportunity to join with them in a program which takes full advantage of the possibility of greater volume and more profits in 1935, 'created by new building and modernization.

INSTALL TELETYPE AT PORTLAND OFFICE

The Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co. have installed a teletype at their Portland office' The company also have teletype service at the main office in Montesano, \Mash', and in their Los Angeles and San Francisco oflices'

California Builders Supply Co., Oakland, recently enlarged and remocleled their ofiice which is norv completely finished with Big Timber plywood, for which they are distributors.

Kenneth Shipp, president of the company, reports that their business for the first three months of 1935 is ahead of last year in volume.

C. L. LEWIS VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

Chas. L. Lewis, former manager of the Raymond Lumber Co., Raymond, Wash., and his son, T. D. Lewis, were recent visitors to the o{Iice of Sudden & Christenson, San Francisco.

J. K. TIOINEY VISITS CALIFORNIA

J. K. Honey, president, Snider Sales Co., Portland, Ore., left San Francisco March 27th after making a tour of Northern California yards with A. N. Lofgren, San Fran,cisco, his company's representative. His trip oc'cupied er'bout three weeks.

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L. W. Angeles,

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MacDONALD VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

MacDonald, MacDonald & Bergstrom, Inc., Los has returned from a trip to San Francis'co where several days on company business.

ANNOUNCEMENT

We Are Readlr to Malse ShtPments OF STRAIGHT OR }TIXEI' CANS

Dtrect lrom Mltl and Warehouse Stocks

CONSISTING OF OREGON PINE (Douglas Fir)

Windows and Sash-OPen and Glazed, Panel Doors

Glazed Doons

Screen Doors-Open and Wired

Panels

Wallboard

Lumber

Finish, Casing and Base

Moulding and Frames

Inside and Outside Door Jambs

PONDEROSA PINE

Windows and Sash-Open and Glazed

Panel Doors

Glazed Doors

Screen Doors{pen and Wired

RED CEDAR

Shingles, Siding, Mouldirg, Frames, etc.

-ALL THESE ITEMS CAN BE LOADED IN SAME CAR-

CaliJornia Sizes of Windous, Sash and Doors Carried in Stochfor Immediate Shipment

Send LJs Your Inquiries and Orders

BUGKLEY LUMBER DEALERS' SUPPLY GO]UIPA]IY

PORTLAND (Kenton Station), OREGON CALIFORNIA SALES OFFICE-F. S. BUCKLEY, Sales Manager 111 Sutter Building, San Francisco-Phone Sutter 0908

V.gabond Editorials

It is said that when Abraham Lincoln was first mentioned as a candidate for President ,many people thought it a huge joke. He was poor, and he was awkward. Someone was heard to remark about him that he couldn't possibly be President, as he had no money, and no pull, ,,nothing but a lot of friends."

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Think of that remark ! Nothing but a lot of friends ! Nothing but a fortune that the gold of Croesus could not buy,'and the lamp of Aladdin could not match. Someone said of the great baseball pitcher Walter Johnson once: "Johnson can't pitch, because all he's got is a fast ball.,' And, a listener answered, "Yes, and all John D. Rockefeller's got is a billion dollars." ***

Values are strange things, anyway, and depend largely upon the appreciation of their owners. And, if to their owners they are riches, then those owners are rich. Why not? They used to tell about the Ozark Mountain man who proudly remarked that when he came to Arkansas twenty years ago he was "pore as Job's turkeyt ?n' look at me now; I own eleven of the finest hounds in Arkansas."

And the other backwr.U"-"" who was asked if there were many poor people in his neighborhood, and who replied: "Poor? Why we've got people in this neighborhood so poor they actually ain't got a pint of whiskey in the house."

Right now the Bonus Bill and the Wagner Bill threaten passage. Without consideration of the merits of either, but only thinking of their effect on business, I am afraid those two if enacted into laws would give struggling business what prize-fighters call "the old one-two." A punch in the tummy that doubles you up, followed by an uppercut on the jaw that puts you out. The Bonus Bill will bring fear of inflation, and the Wagner Bill will frighten every present and prospective employer. ***

An American was asked by an Eskirno in Northern Alaska to explain what this famous Depression of ours consists of. The Eskimo was intelligent, understood English very well indeed, and was anxious to be informed. But when the man from the States explained to him that we have so much food we have to destroy and abort it; so much clothing rnaterial that we do the same thing with

it; so much materials for building shelter that we have to deeply curtail its production,; that we can flood the wodd with food, clothing, and shelter, and therefore are in a terrible financial and economic state-the Eskimo just shook his head, sighed, and walked away. He knew someone was ctazy, and wasn't sure who.

You see, this Eskimo wasn't schooled enough in modern thinking to understand that what we want in this country is ten dollars 'a day with dollar beefsteak and few jobs. He had an idea, I guess, that two dollars a day with twenty cent beefsteak and plenty of jobs would be all hunky dory.

They used to tell the story of the missionary who was preaching Christianity to the Eskirno. And one of the natives took his knife and made a small circle in the snow. "Inside that circle," he said, "is what I know.,' Then he drew a larger circle around the first one. .,Inside that circle," said he to the missionary, "is what you know.,, Then his knife blade pointed to all the world outside those small circles. "But outside those circles is what neither of us know, and there my opinion is as good as yours.', i imagine that in the case of this Eskimo who wanted to learn about the Depression, he would have given his informant that which was within the small circle-if any.

I have just this minute finished reading a speech made by a Federal administration officer-L. P. Talley, president of The Commodity Credit Corporation-which is so filled with good horse sense, and indubitable evidence of practical understanding of that whereof he speaks, that I instinctively rose to my feet and gave him three loud and rousing cheers when I finished his remarks. I've grown so accustomed to reading New Deal philosophy from the Brain Trusters, or Secretary Wallace, or others of that same ilk, whose logic always convinces rne positively of one thing, namely, that someone is nutty, that when f .get hold of a wise, practical, humorous, human discourse on business things like this one of Mr. Talley's, I am doubly appreciative. It restores my faith and bolsters my hope glands.

He reminds us that selfishness has a lot to do with our difficulties, and with our delayed return to prosperity. He says his wife's aunt once asked his brother if he believed

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Vagabond Editorials

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in the prohibition of liquor, and his brother replied that he certainly did-he believed in putting whiskey where nobody could get it but himself. He says our exporters in this country-he was talking to such a group-sharpen their pencils and indulge in lightningJike cerebral convulsions trying to figure how to shade the basis, get the business, and still make a nice profit on sales abroad. "And, what do you think the fellow across the hall, or in Liverpool, Cairo, Bombay, or Rio is doing?" asks Mr. Talley. "When we are piling up .a surplus of 13,000,000 bales of cotton do you think that every foreign spinner is so altruistic that he is impelled to burn up the cables with offers in order to relieve us so that our export figures may be maintained at a high level?"

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Here is a smart little idea he utters, explaining how and why people can go so long without buying lots of things: "Progress in the inventive field, coupled with close competition, has so improved the quality of goods of all kinds that the interval before replacement grows constantly greater; therefore the reassertion of demand is delayed longer after each period of depression. Even the average life of the old bus is now eight and one-half years, and a new suit for father is a real event in the family."

"Economics," he says, lr" *""t sort of bird. ft flies in a straight line; it is the science of continuing events. If I were called upon to describe the term, I would say it is the perpetual competitive force between contending groups. Where do we get by arguing something that cannot be settled by the argument, when cause is followed by effect, and efiect is produced by what the human mass does and we as human beings constitute the mass? There is only one \ /ay, to adopt the philosophy of Christ and eliminate human issues, and I have an oil painting of our doing that ! Do you think that issues between one section of the country and another, those between races, religions, buyer and seller, capital and labor, employer and employee, debtor and creditor, producer and consumer, nation and nation can be prevented from controlling our daily activities and calculations? Well, not for another 5,000 years, anyway." ***

He says that most of our theories today are being advanced by politicians, economists, philosophers, the clergy, socialists, communists, fascists, Democrats, Republicans, progressives, brain trusters, and the whole gamut of our social classifications, "some of whom probably never really earned a dollar in their lives."

Mr. Talley thinks we are getting well, slowly perhaps, but getting well nevertheless, and that perhaps the most certain sign of returning health is the general tide of criticism that is being directed against the recovery ,program. He thinks Americans are too impatient, and want the Government to change its plans before those plans have a thorough try-out. He doesn't approve of the philosophy of Japan but thinks the fine economic position of Japan today, with no unemployment and goods outselling and underselling other goods the world over, is due to the fidelity with which the Japanese have stuck to their Government's approved business philosophies. He thinks we must continue to crlrtail our productivity, while we gradually beat our way b'ack to the point where we won't have to; but that that point has not yet been reached. And, he tells why in a most human and interesting fashion.

I imagine the Eskimo , "n"0" "U in the beginning of this discourse would understand the Japanese plan of fighting world depression'much better than he would ours. Our plan seems to be based on reducing production to raise prices. Japan has aimed to increase production to the nth degree, keep everybody WorkinB, get costs down, and sell her own and the world markets at prices that defy competition from other lands. Of course that shocks our American ideals by making the masses. work for most meager pay-but they ARE working.

I recall the old -"r, o*riro ** Urt"*, and. who said to his pastor who sat at his bedside: "Parson, I've lived a long life, and worked hard, and all I ever got for it was my victuals and clothes, and the victuals didn't agree with me, and my clothes didn't fit." When it's all said and done, what do any of us get out of this world in physical things anyway, but our "victuals and clothes" ?

West Coast Elect Officets

W. B. Nettleton, president of the Nettleton Lumber Co., Seattle, Wash., was elected president of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association at a meeting of the board of trustees held in Seattle on March 8.

F. R. Titcomb, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Tacoma, Wash., who was acting president since the last annual n.reeting of the Association, was elected vice president for Washington. Victor Larsen, Forcia & Larsen Lumber Co., Noti, Ore., was named vice president for Oregon. R. W. Condon of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.. Seattle. Wash., was elected treasurer.

ALWAYS_ SUDDEN SEnvICE

Whether it is Pine, Fir, or Red Cedar Products of any sort, we offer you Santa Fe Service of the most prompt and personal character. Our standards of quality have been known to the California trade for a generation.

KESTERSON

KLAMATH FALIS, OREGON

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E:clurive Reprcrentativcl in Northern Crliforaia for Creo-Dipt Company, lnc-, North Tonawanda, N' Y'

Manufacturers of Klamath Soft Pine PINE

Lumbermen's Golf Tournament With Roth-Maier Lumber Co.

Lumbermen's Post No. 4O3, American Legion, is sponsoring a Southern California Lumbermen's Golf Tournament which will be held in May. Leo Hubbard, Commandant of the Lumbermen's Post, has appointed the following committee to arrange for the tournament: llerman Ros.tberg, Don Philips, Francis Boyd' Ross Blanchard' Harry A. Graham, Roy Stanton, "Friday" Freeland, Jack Thomas, Stuart Smith, Clint Laughlin, Frank Burnaby' Kenneth Smith, "C^ppy" Slade, Duff Hansen and Ed Martin. F-urther announcements rvill be made at an early date'

KENNETH SHIPP VISITS SEATTLE

, I(enneth Shipp, California Builders Supply Co', Oakland, returned March 16 from a business trip to Seattle'

The Roth-Maier Lumber Co. of San Francisco announces that D. O. Druffel is now connected with the company succeeding J. Har'old Johnson. Mr. Johnson will devote his entire time to their sales of Parafiine Companies, Inc', products. Mr. Druffel is widely known to the lumber trade in the San Francisco Bay District having been formerly with the Planing Mill Listing Bureau at San Francisco, and prior to that rvith the Pa'cific Manufacturing Co'

RETURNS TO NORTHWEST

Albert Schafer, vice president, Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., Montesano, \Mash., left San Francisco March 15 after a week's visit to that offrce.

U. S. Lumber Industry Offers Tariff Trade

to Canada

Proposed Reduced Duties on Species of Lumber Scorce in the

United States-No Change Produced in Surplus

Washington,.Mar. 12.-Characterized as a statesman-like proposal, the nine interested regional associations of lumber manufacturers, acting in unison through the National I-umber Manufacturers Association, today submitted to the Committee for Reciprocity Information of the State Department recommendations for a truly reciprocal deal with Canada. For the first time, it is said, in the course of the negotiation of agreements with foreign countries for the purpose of encouraging reciprocal trade under the Presiclent's prog'ram, a major American industry endorses the idea of reciprocal trade and forthrightly outlines a basis of mutual tariff concessions.

"The American lumber industry approves, and accepts as desirable," says the statement by the National Lumber Nfanufacturers Association, "the principle and the practice of mutually advantageous reciprocal trade and tariff agreements between the United States and other nations. The principle of exchange of lumber between the United States and Canada is outlined as follows:

1. Reasonable and effective protective tariffs on lumber of species which are in surplns supply in both countries, and also on Canadian lumber directly supplanting lu'mber of species which are in surplus in the United States.

2. The principle is laid down as an ultimate objective that reciprocal trade in an important sense can be attained betrveen the United States and Canada only with the reestablishment of equal access by the two countries to the competitive rvorld lumber markets. This refers particularly to the tariff preferential system within the British Empire.

3. As between the United States and Canada it is held to be sound permanent policy and in the interest of the lumber trade that duties be established as low as the larv permits on a reciprocal exchange basis on the following surl>lus species for lumber of scarce species (including in the case of Canada, Northern white arrd Norr,vay pine; and Western white spruce; and in the case of the United States. Redrvood; Western .i'r'hite. sltgar. Ponderosa and yellow pine; cypress;oak;gum;yellow popl:Lr and chestnut). Of lunrlrer of iclentical species and scarce in both countries. reciprocal exchange is aclvocatecl at rnoderate rates. permitting a reasonable range of tracle, especially in border markets.

4. Reasonable tariff protection {or surplus species of timber on the basis of tracling surpluses for scarcities arrcl of species scarce in both countries.

It is stated in the brief that access to the Unitecl States rnarkets by Canadian lnmber, determined in the specified manner at reduced import duties means access to a market fifteen times as large as the Canaclian domestic market. Such an exchange, it is asserted, is warranted only if Can-

in the Species of Lumber bv Both Countries

ada similarly admits on comparable terms to her less ex_ tensive markets the wider range of species scarce in Can_ ada and available in surplus in the United States, as each country is a large natural lumber exporter.

Definite recommendations by the U. S. lumber industry are as follows i

(a) The species relatively scarce in the United States or relatively scarce in both countries, on which American duties may be reduced to the extent to which the law per_ mits, are Northern white pine; Norway pine; Wesiern white spruce; Eastern hemlock and Basswood. The Cana_ dian duties or other taxes or charges on these species are not to be greater than those imposed by the U. S.

(b) With respect to species of lumber relatively scarce in Canada, it is proposed that duties or other charges on them rvhen imported into Canada be at reduced rates com_ parable to those imposed by the United States on the spe_ cies enumerated above. The species that are scarce or commercially non-existent in Canada are named as yellow pine ; Redwood, Western white pine ; ponderosa pine; Sugar pine and Cypress. Also these hardwoods : bak; Gum ; Yellow poplar; Chestnut.

(c) On all other species of lumber imported into the United States from Canada, including hardwood flooring, no changes are to be made in the tariff.

This exchange of concessions leaves Douglas fir, the chief lumber product of the North pacific Coast. in the same statrls as at present in the tariff schedules of both countries, as it is produced in surplus for export in both Canada and United States. The same statement applies to Eastern spruce, manufactured mainly in the northeastern part of the United States and in the eastern part of Canada.

In case the recommended reductions of tariffs on lumber imported from Canada into the United States are not con_ ceded, the position of the American lumberman is that there should be no reductions of tarifis on Canadian lumber.

A proviso is made to the effect that if importations of lumber from Canada at any time are in such volume or at such prices as substantiarly to interfere with the abilitv of American lumber manufacturers to observe the Lumber Cocle or mandatory regulations in any other form of wages, hours of employment and operation, the recommended re_ ductions may be modified or the volume of imports regu_ lated by the President.

The brief urges the government of the United States to seek the cooperation of the government of Canada in se_ curing promptly the abandonment of preferential tariffs in favor of Canadian lumber within the British Empire. Fur_ thermore, it is recommended that so long as this preferen_ tial system is continued u'ith respect to lumber wlthin the

British Empire there shall be no deviation on the part of the United States from adherence to the policy of deliberate protection of American lumber of domestic production. The lumber brief gives in great detail reasons why tariff protection should be maintained on imports of lumber from Canada. It is pointed out that the lumber industry pays 35 per cent of the value of its products to labor, against 17 per cent for all American industry. Sawmills and logging camps alone normally employ 414,000 men' and the lumber industry is the major source of industrial employment in nine states. At present unemployment in this industry is still of tragic proportions. The lumber producing capacity of the United States is grossly excessive, being more than three times as large as the 1934 production. The United States has the most extensive and most diversified commercial forest resources in the world, standing saw timber of the United States amounting to approximately l,7N biliion feet as against 500 billion feet in Canada, of which less than 30O billion feet is accessible. The United States is the largest natural lumber exporting nation, and until the depth of the depression was reached the United States led in total exports. The American lumber industry is the largest in the world, and the maintenance of American forest resources must include, in the words of the U. S. Forest Service, aggressive and persistent effort to retain, rebapture and expand markets for wood. IJnder the Lumber Code the lumber industry is now engaged in measures necessary for conservation and sustained production of forest resource's. Canada is the principal competitor of the American lumber industry in both domestic and forest markets. Canadian manufacturers have advantages over American manufacturers and distributors in respect of more favorable conditions and lower cost of timber holdings and purchases, lower transportation costs, especially in inter-coastal shipments from British Columbia and lower manufacturing costs. At present hourly minimum wages in Washington and Oregon are about 7O per cent higher than in neighboring British Columbia. The competition of imported lumber is not necessary to the assurance of reasonable prices in the United States. The average price realized by American lumber manufacturers early in 1934 were less than the cost of production in many species. The American lumber industry as a whole is still operating at heavy losses. Canada has maintained for years a tarifi and taxes generally totalling 321 or 34 per cent on finished American lumber, and has within the British Empire markets, preferential tarifis which practically exclude the competition of American lumber. At present importations of forest products from Canada now constitute 51 per cent in value of all imports from Canada to the United States. IJnder these circurirstances and others the brief objects to Canadian proposals that Canadian lumber be placed on the United States free list. With the continuation of suitable protection the lirmber and timber products industries of the United States can be maintained as a permanent supply of forest products, ample for domestic uses and export.

GEO. R. KENDRICK LOS ANGELES VISITOR

Geo. R. Kendrick, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, was a visitor at the company's Los Angeles office on Mar'ch 23.

Stands for cooperation-Ask our customersPermit us to assist you on your Plywood Problems.

"Red" Wood J Soyr.'

ffThere is a grade of Redwood for every purposFtle sure to get the proper grade.

"IRRIGATION"The highest common gtade, selected f o r durability. - Especially designed for irrigation work.

Recommended where durabilitY and resistance to the attack of wood eating insects are the Prime requisites, such as: Irrigation *o"k-tnnd sills-barn floorsboard walksseptic tanksmanure boxes and small Poles.

MY FAVORITE STORIES

Ag not guaranteed---some I have told for zo years---some less He Had Learn ed About Deeds

The old darkey paid the last installment on the piece of property he had bought, and the real estate man said to him:

"ft's mighty fine to see you pay off this land, Uncle Mose, and I'll have your deed made out right away.,, "Please, Suh," said Uncle Mose, ,,Ah doan want no deed. Ah wants me a mortgage."

"A mortgage ! Why, Uncle Mose, you must not know the difference between a mortgage and a deed.,' "Maybe not, Suh," said Uncle Mose. ,,But Ah lnrows dis. Ah bought me a farm once befo. Ah had me a deed" and de Fust National Bank had dem a mortgage. An now de Fust National Bank dey got de farm, an' de deed, an, de mortgage. Dey got 'em all. So whut Ah wants dis time is a mortgage ! Den maybe Ah kin keep de farm."

Favors Government Action in Aid FHA Exhibit at San Diego Fair of Private Forest Conservation to Feature "Modeltown"

Washington, Mar. 12.-Though reaffirming its conviction of the sounclness of the principle that forest conservation is primarily a matter for private enterprise, the Board of Directors of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce at its meet_ ing here declared it to be essential that success depended upon such govern,ment action as rvould afford tax relief and adequate fire protection.

The Board passed the following resolution on the recommendation of the Natural Resources production De_ partment Committee of the Chamber:

"l\{aintaining the forest resources of the United States in order that there may be an ample supply of forest products for the future needs of the country is an undertaking primarily for private enterprise. The Chamber reiterates its conviction of the soundness of this principle. It is essential, however, if private forestry is to succeed that it be encouraged by govern_ ment action in affording proper tax systems and ade_ quate protection from fire."

The Committee's report directed attention to the action of the Chamber's membership in 1923, when the principle of private enterprise rvas affirmed in a referendum vote, and cited the action of the lumber industry in embarking upon a nation-wide project to establish woods practices for the promotion of reforestation upon private land under Article 10 of the Lumber Code. ,,More remains to be done, however," continues the report, ,.in the direction of action by public authorities with respect to methods of taxation and helping afford adequate fire prevention. The President has given assurance that he will encourage federal legislation which will recognize the obligation of the federal government to take the leadership of securing the above."

The Federal Housing Administrat:on exhibit at the California-Pacifi,c International Expositiori which opens on \[ay 29 at San Diego r,vill feature two major divisi,ons, one devoted to "Modernization Magic,' and the other to "X.{odeltown."

"Modeltown" will be a,community of 56 miniature homes showing the newest types of residential ,constru,ction. Designs and sketches for "Modeltown,' are being planned by the Southern California Chapter of the American Institute of Architects under the direction of David Witmer. Los Angeles architect. "Modernization Magic" will show the ,change of an antiquated, dilapidated village into a modern ir.rrproved community, a dramatic mechanical operation effecting the complete transformation in ten minutes.

The exhibit will adjoin and is part of the palace of Better Housing, a beautiful building of Spanish renaissance archite'cture which will front the Avenue of the palaces.

Talks to Rotarians

Ben Phillips, Northern California salesman for Nicolai Door Sales Co., San Francis,co, got a fine reception when he talked to the members of the Sacramento Rotary Club. March 7.

Mr. Phillips, who was Lieutenant, senior grade, in the Navy during the great war, took as his subject ,,Sweeping, Mines in the North Sea.". When he got through his audi-. ence had a pretty good idea of the extreme danger of that occupation, and of the many hair-breadth es,capes of the men eng'ag'ed in it.

He was invited to give this talk by Rotarian Ed Cain of the firm of T. E. Cain, Sacramento, dealers in glass, sash and doors, and manufacturers of mirrors.

Lumber Quotas Increased 4.5Vo for Second Quarter

of 1935

Washington, D. C., Mar. i8.-Tota1 allowed lumber production for the second quarter of 1935 was fixed at 4,489,900,000 feet by the National Control Committee of the Lumber Code Authority, in session here today, an increase of about 4f per cent over the 4,D9,3@,000 feet prescribed for the first quarter of the year. The amount includes 3,791,300,000 feet of softwood and 698,600,000 of hardu'oods. Expected consumption was placed at 4,558,500,000 feet. Taking into account seasonal variation it was stated that lumber shipments have improvecl, month over month, every uronth since last October.

The quotas contemplate a recluction of stocks on hand at the mills in some divisions of the industry, and an increase in others to the end that total stocks on hand may present a balanced national inventory calculated to take care of expectecl demand.

The production quotas incltrstry follow:

detail for each division of the

Lumber Quotas Second Quarter 1935

Allowed production of other forest products than lumber for the second quarter are given below, with a comparison r,vith the first quarter:

Booth-Kelly Douglas Fir, the Association grade and trade mark certify to your cugtomerg t'he quality of the stock you handle. Builders guit guessing about what they're buying, and buy where they lsnow what they're getting.

Cafifornia Lumberments Councif Holds Fourth Annual Meeting

Ihe fourth annual meeting of the California Lumber_ men's Council rvas held at the palace Hotel. San Francisco. March 15 and 16.

George N. Ley, Santa Cruz Lumber Co., Santa Cruz, was re-elected president, and Charles G. Bird. Stockton Lumber Co., Stockton, was re-electeri vice president for the 1935-36 term.

The follciwing nre'rbers \\'ere electecl council represerta- tives from their respective clubs for the term 1935_36: Coast Counties Lumbermen's Club, George N. Ley, two year term, and J. H. Kirk, one year term; San Joaquin Lumbermen's Club, George Burnett, tw,o year term, ancl Walter Peterson, one year term; Central Valley Lurnber_ men's Club, Warren Tillson, trvo year term, ancl Charles Bird, one year term; Recl.ivoocl En.rpire Lumbermen's Club, Andy McNair, two year term, and Mead Clark, one year term; Peninsula Lumbermen's Club, A. S. Hatch, tu,n_ year term, and I. E. Horton, one year term ; N,orthern Conn_ ties Lumbermen's Club, James Tully, two year term, ancl E. S. McBride, one year term.

George Burnett, Burnett Lumber Co., Tulare, rvas elect_ ed treasurer for 1935-36.

It was decidecl to en.rploy a full time secretary for the council. He rvill probably have his l.reaclquarters i' Sa' Fran.cisco.

W. K. Kenclrick, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno, gave a complete resume of Council activities since its inception. Mr. Kenclrick's address u,as outstancling o.w,,ing to its com_ pleteness ancl clarity.

Frank Trower, Trorver Lumber Co.. San Francisco, gave an irrteresting talk on behalf of the califor'ia wholesale Lumber Association.

Jim Farley, The Pacific Lumber Company, addressecl the Council as representative of the California Reclwoocl Association.

H. A. Lake, president California Retail Lumbermen's Association, revierved activities of retail lumbermen throughout the State.

Kenneth Smith, Los Angeles, discussed the present status of codes versus associations.

Edwin P. Gerth of the Gerth-Knollin Advertising Agency, San Francis,co, advertising agents of the California Redwood Association, talked on advertising of Redwood.

Mildred Bush Farley rendered a number of splencli<l songs at the lun,cheon held Saturday noon.

The following were in attendance:

George N. Ley, Santa Cruz Lumber Co..... ....Santa Cruz

C. G. Bird, Stockton Lumber Co..... ......Stockton

G. C. Burnett, Burnett Lumber Co..... .......Tulare

Mead Clark, Mead Clark Lumber Co..... .......Santa Rosa

L E. Horton, So. City Lumber & Supply Co.. So. San Francisco

E. T. Robie, Auburn Lumber Co..... .Auburn

H. A. Lake, President, Calif. Retail Lumbermen's Assn. Garden Grove

W. K. Kendrick, Valley Lumber Co..... .....Fresno

F. Dean Prescott, Valley Lumber Co.. Fresno

Kenneth Smith, Lumber and Allied products Inst.....Los Angeles

Geo. Cornwall, The Timberman. ....portland

Jas. Farley, The Pacific Lumber Company. ..San Francsico

Frank Trower, Trower Lumber Co..... ......San Francisco

E. P. Gerth, Gerth-Knollin Adv. Agency .......San Francico

Mr. Knollin, Gerth-Knollin Adv. Agency San Francisco

D. C. Essley, Retail Lumber and Building Material Code Authority .... San Francisco

Walter E. Peterson, Bakersield Bldg. Mat,l. Co.........Bakersfiel<i

Paul Merner, Merner Lumber Co. ... .....palo Alto

A. S. Hatch, Hatch Lumber Co., ..Half Moon Bay

Warren S. Tillson, Modesto Lumber Co..... ......Modesto

J. H. Kirk, S. P. Milling Co..... ....San Luis Obispo

Wm. S. Dillon, S. P. Milling Co..... ..San Francisco

George Gorman, Hammond Lumber Co..... .San Francisco

O. F. Liebeskind, S. P. Milling Co..... .......San Francisco

Ray Clotfelter, W. R. Spalding Lumber Co..... .....Visalia

E. S. McBride, Davis Lumber Co. ........Davis

James Tully, General Supply Co..... ....,North Sacramento

Russ Stevens, A. F. Stevens Lumber Co..... ...Healdsburg

Franft McNulty, McNulty Lumber Co..... San Bruno

A. D. McKinnon, McKinnon & McNair...... ...St. Helena

Frank Duttle, Sterling Lumber Co..... ....Oakland

C. H. Griffen, Monterey Bay Redwood Co... ...Santa Cruz

J. V. Creath, Central Coast Lumber yards. ....Morro Bay

Andy McNair, tr{cKinr-ron & McNair ....St. Helena

Paul G. Gable, Western Lumber Co..... ....Reedley

J. B. McKeon, Retail Lumber & Building Material Code Authority.... San Francisco

C. D. LeMaster, Northern Counties Lumber Club Sacramento

E. R. Ellis, Peninsula Lumbermen,s Club .....San Mateo

W. M. Peterson, So. City Lumber & Supply Co. .......So. San Francisco

S. J. Hauge, Redwood Empire Lumber Co..... .Santa Rosa

H. J. Ford, San Joaquin Lumbermen,s Club... ......Fresno

R. M. Engstrand, Pasadena & San Gabriel Lumbermen's Club. ....South pasadena

E. Steffenson, Orange County Lumbermen,s Club........Santa Ana

Louis Love, Modesto Lumbermen's Club... .......Modesto

H. H. Smith, H. H. Smith Lumber Co..... .......Da|y City

R. P. Davison, Salinas Lumbermen's Club... .......Salinas

Ed Larson, San Jose Lumbermen's Club... .San Jose

M. D. Bishop, Coast Counties Lbr. Club. ......Watsonville

With the Retailers

Fred H. Smith has purchased the Elsinore-pioneer Lum_ ber Co. yard at Elsinore. He was formerly manager of the yard.

Kelsey Flint and J. A. McNeill have opened a yard at 4968 South Huntington Drive, Los Angeles. The yard will be known as the Flint & McNeill Lumber & Building Sup_ ply Co.

The Boulevard Lumber Co. on Valley Boulevard, Los Angeles, was re,cently started by Clarence Hyde.

F. P. Roth, former manag.er, has purchased the palm_ dale-Pioneer Lumber Co. yard at palmdale.

Ben Levy has opened a yard at 5941 South Western Ave., Los Angeles, which he is operating as the Ben Ler,1, Lumber Co.

Over-Roofing mcans nailing shingles over the old roof. No roof exposure at any time; no expense of removing old roofing; no debris and disorder: better insulation.

WITH SHINGLES OF CALIFORNIA REDWOOD

Easy and fnexpensive Through Government Credit Plan

A rool that is worn out and run down, ruins the architectural beauty and value of a house. No longer is there any need for postponing repairs or complete re-roofing. To apply new roofing of Certified Redwood Shingles is to transform the appearances and restore protection and lasting value to your home. Over-Roofing with Shingles of California Redwood is the applying of new shingles over the old. You save the messo confusion and cost of tearing down the old roof and you double the insulation; saving fuel bills and enjoying a cooler home in

summer. Interior of the home is never exposed during the process of Over-Roofing. The new credit plan of tJre Federal Government enables property owners to arrange at once for Over-Roofing. Payment in easy monthly in' stallments is spread over three years and in special cases five years. Almost any bank or other approved lending

agency can make the loan quickly. Table below shows amount of monthly installment, based on time desired for repayment up to 36 months, for sums from $100.00 to $2,000.00.

EASY MONTHLY PAYMENTS. LOW COST

Generaf Lumber Export Agency Established

Washington, D. C., Mar. 11.-Establishment of a national agency for lumber export has been outlined at a meeting here of lumber export groups representing \Mestern and Southern softwoods, and hardwoods. The new body at their request rvill function as a part of the activities of ti," National Lumber Manufacturers Association. Substantial financial support has been underwritten by the exporters.

It rvas agreed that the outstanding present task of the llew agency is the preparation and submittal of briefs, set_ ting forth the position of the forest products industries with reference to foreign trade, to those agencies of the Federal government having in hand the negotiation of reciprocal trade agreements with foreign countries. A brief was filed in connection with the pending trade agreements with ltaly, and plans were approved for the adequate presentation of facts with regard to other agreements in the making or in prospect, including those with Canada, and nearly 15 other countries.

The status of American lumber trade in those important foreign markets for which trade agreements will be negotiated, including their tariffs, quota and exchange restrictions, and other artificial barriers to imports from the United States, rvas thoroughly canvassed. The conference agreed that the following points should be regarded in these applications:

l. To seek a reduction in duty sufficient to permit a substantial increase.in sales of American lumber in each market.

2. Where cluty is assessed on a basis of weight, to seek a change to basis of measurement.

3. Shou' disadvantages due to clifierence in ocean rates from IJ. S. and other exporting countries.

Seek, through law if necessary, a U. S. drawback on reimported box lumber cut to multiple shook lengths; this for only those markets approved by box shook exporters.

Seek to establish favorable foreign tarifi classifications for fabricated timbers such as designed by the Tim-

ber Engineering Company.

6. In addition to presenting the economic condition of the lumber industry, shou' needs for added outlets for mature timber products.

7. Show estimates of possible sales to each foreign market under more favorable tariff treatmenr.

8. Shorv effect on employrnent of increased export.

9. fnfluence on conservation of increased steady exDort of lumber.

It rvas understood that the several groups lvere to advise the Export Depa.rtment as to foreign market possibilities under more favorable tariff treatrnent. .Th,e department will, following the conclusion of: tiade pacts with various governments, consider the broad. question of export trade extension and suhrnit plans.for promoting the increased use of American building and industrial woods abroad.

The new agency, proposed as a department of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, will be directed by a permanent committee of lumber export interests of not over five members, each, with an alternate, to be selected by the supporting groups from among their number. Pending the election of this committee L. E. Force, W. J. Sowers and Dougias F. Heuer were appointed as a temporary planning committee. The new agency will supply export data to its subscribers.

Those attending the conference included: Douglas F. Heuer, Secretary, National Lumber Exporters Ass'n,, Memphis, Tenn.; W. J. Sowers, Vice President and General Manager, American Pitch Pine Export Company, New Orleans, La.; L. E. Force, General Manager, Douglas Fir Exploitation & Export Co., Seattle, Wash.; C. E. Dant, Dant & Russell, fnc., Portland, Oregon; H. G. Hawthorne, Pacific Coast Exporters Ass'n., Seattle, Wash.; Henry N. Anderson, Grays Harbor Export Co., Aberdeen, 'Wash.; W. Brown Morgan, General Box Co., New York City; C. H. Kreienbaum, Reed Mill Co., Shelton, Wash.; C. D. Hudson, Secretary, National Wooden Box Ass'n., Washington, D. C.; Wilson Compton, National Lumber Manufacturers Ass'n.; and former Senator Clarence C. Dill of Washington, who has been engaged by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association to represent it in connection with pending reciprocal trade agreements.

The proposals of the export groups for the formation of a national agency for these purposes will be submitted for approval to the Board of Directors of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. Prompt approval is expected.

Joins Sales Staff

Floyd W. Westman is now,conne,cted with the Los Angeles office of the Washington Veneer Company, and will assist Ted Wright, California sales representative, in the California territory. Mr. Westman has been associated with the plywood industry in the Northwest for a long period and has been at the company's plant in Olympia, Wash.

Redwood Shingle Bureau Meets

Redwood Shingle Bureau, which has as its object the promotion of the use of Redwood shingles, held a meeting at the Commercial Club, San Francis'co, March 11.

Present were the executive committee of the Bureau consisting of George W. Gorman, Hammond Lumber Co.; Fred Holmes, Holmes-Eureka Lumber Co.; Jack Williams, secretary, California Redwood Association; N. P. Burgess, \Meott, Humboldt County; E. L. Moore, Santa Cruz; R. C. Turner, Navarro Shingle Co., Philo, Menocino County, and Jim Farley, The Pacific Lumber Co., Chairman of the committee.

A Atrew Edition of ((CULL{JD'' FUN

JUST A MORE ECONOMICAL COVER.

The first two editions of (Cullud" Fun have been sold out. This third edition especially produced to meet the continued demand fot this famous book. Order your copy now. Just fill in the coupon' attach your check and mail.

A DOG'S PRAYER

Oh Lord of Humans, make my master faithful to his fellow men as I am to him. Grant that he may be as devoted to his friends and family as I am to hiin. May he be open-faced and undeceptive as f am; may he be true to trust reposed in him, as f am to his.

Give him a face cheerful like unto my wagging tail; give him a spirit of gratitude like unto rny licking tongue.

Fill him with patience like unto mine that awaits his footsteps uncomplainingly for hours. Fill him with my watchfulness, my courage, and my readiness to sacrifice coi'nfort or life for one I love.

Keep him always young in heart and crowded with the spirit of play even as I. Make him as good a man as I am a dog. Make him worthy of me-his dog.-Contributed.

COULDN'T UNDERSTAND IT

An Englishman was visiting this country for the first time, and was on a motor tour when he came to a'big sign at a turn in the highway that read:

..DRIVE SLOWLY. THIS MEANS YOU !''

The Englishman stopped and scratched his head in puzzled wonder.

"My word!" he said.'i'Ow did they know I was here?"

SERVICE

I'd like to feel when life is done That I had filled a needed post, That here and there I had paid my fare With more than idle talk and boast; That I had taken gifts divine, The breath of life, and manhood fine, And tried to use them now and then In service for my fellow-men.

The House ol Friendly Service

THEY CAUGHT HIM

The flight commander did not know that the group of pilots were "laying for him," and as he passed he heard them talking with great animation about "the last word in airplanes," and heard this phrase repeated with apparent great seriousness loudly several times. So he turned and walked back to the group.

"Well," he asked, "what is the last word in airplanes?"

And all together the grinning gang hollered-"JuMP !"

THAT'S HOW

Lawyer: "And how do you know it was exactly that distance ?"

Witness: "Because I thought some me that question, so I measured it.r' jackass would ask

HE WAS PARTICULAR TOO

Patron in Restaurant: "Say, waiter, call the manager. I can't eat this terrible stuff."

Waiter: "No use to call him, sir. He won't eat it, either."

ALL HUMANS INTERESTING

I have never known an uninteresting person, nor have I ever been bored by anyone. I have always learned something, and most of all from the so-called lower classes, even when I did no more than watch them. Whether I carry on my dumb dialogues with Bismarck or our gardener is all one to me, for I am concerned with the reactions,of the heart, which is moved by the same passions whether the shoots be grafted on quince-trees or nations.-Emil Ludwig.

Nearly 121000 Changes in New New Portland \(/holesale Firm Credit Rating Book

Of the 11.723 items relative to the lumber and woodrvorking industry rvhich were voluntarily reported to subscribers by the Lumbermen's Credit Association, Inc., during the past six months, 7,294 were changes in credit ratings, while 1,882 were new businesses, successions, and changes of names.

While definite figures are not available it is estimated by the Association that, of the 7,294 changes of credit ratings reported, at least 2O per cent were changes upward, indicating an improved condition over a year ago.

These changes of credit ratings, new businesses, successions, and other changes, were reported to subscribers of this special credit agency through TWICtr-A-WEEK Supplements to its credit rating book and all are reflected in their new edition which rvas placed in the hands of their subscribers on April 1.

The April Reference Book is the 107th edition of the Lumbermen's Credit Rating Book and the fourth edition published since the merging of the Lumbermen's Blue Book with the Lumbermen's Credit Ass'n in the Spring of 1933.

The Association has increased its staff of employees during the past year so that it now totals nearly one hundred persons in its offices at Chicago and New York City, who supervise the efforts of their correspondents located in every city, town and village shown in their credit rating book.

Eliminate Health Hazards

DgvpnAL compounds used in the preserwative treatment of lumber are t'hemselves poisonous to man and may present an additional hazard by the formation of toxic fumes.

Lumber pressure-treated with REILLY

TRANSPARENT PENETRATING CREOSOTE

presents no health hazard either to the workmen handling the lumber or to the occupant of the house. Lumber so treated can be used safely wherever wood is specified.

Write us for particulars

Campbell-Moore Lumber Company, a new wholesale lumber concern, recently entered the Portland field. Offices are in the Terminal Sales Building, and the company is affiliated with the Pendleton-Gilkey Company of Minneapolis.

Offi,cers of the company are H. S. Gilkey, president: Mark D. Campbell, vice president and general manager' and Frank G. Moore, secretary-treasurer.

The Pendleton-Gilkey Company is a pioneer otganization. It operates the Straits Lumber Company, .Nanaimo, B. C., the Mohawk Lumber Company, New Westminster, B. C., and has extensive timber holdings in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Mr. Campbell was for many years in charge of logging and sawmill operations of the Standard Box and Lumber Company, Banks, Ore., and was with the Chas' R. McCormick Lumber Company for the past 15 years, most of this period being spent as manager of the rail department at Portland.

Mr. Moore is well knorvn in the industry as vice president and general manager of the Washington Wood Preserving Company, Spokane, a Pendleton-Gilkey Company activity.

VISITS PLYWOOD PLANT

Lloyd Harris, Elliott Bay Sales Co., Oakland, returned March 24from a visit to the plant of Elliott Bay Mill Company, Seattle, manufacturers of Big Timber plywood.

SUDDIN & CHRISTENSON

Lumber and Shipping

7th Floor, Alaska-Commercial Bldg. 310 Sansodrc Srcet

San Francisco

AGENTS

American Mill Co.

Floquiam Lumber & Shinglc Co.

Hulbert MilI Co.Willapa Harbor Lumber Millr

Edna Sanitam Trinidad

Barbara Cater

Dorothy Cahill

Edna Christenron

STEAMBRS

Aberdeen, Varh. . Hoquiam, Wach, Aberdeen' \ffash. Raymond, \[arh.

Jane Chriatenron

Annie Chrictenson

Edwin Chrirtenron

Catherine G. Sudden

Eleanor Christenton

Charles Christenron

Branch Ollices

LOS ANGELES

630 Board of Ttadc Building

SEATTLE

National Bant of Conmercc Bldg.

PORTLAND

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Ten Files of

Years Aso The Colifornia Lumber Today Merchant, April From the 1 , 1925

J. C. Ferger of the Swastika Lumber Co., Fresno, was re-elected president of the San Joaquin Valley Lumbermen's Club, at the annual meeting held Saturday, March 28, at the Hotel Californian, Fresno. Other officers reelected were: Elmore King, King Lumber Co., Bakersfield, vice-president; Frank F. Minard, C. S. Pierce Lumber Co., Fresno, secretary, and Joe Martin, Fresno Lumber Co., treasurer.

working out the arrangements and details. The afiair will be held as a Lumbermen's Pirt{.

t Hu.ry Gaetjen and H. T. Didesch have returned from the Northwest where they attended the annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Millwork Association at Seattle. ***

George B. Maxwel,

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his retirement from the wholesale lumber business to devote his entire time to his recently acquired retail tTO:t yard interests.

Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9 of San Francisco announces its first annual golf tournament, dinner and entertainment to be held at the Claremont Country Club, Oakland, on April 6.

Herman L. Rosenberg, retiring snark of the Los Angeles district, presided at the First Annual Past Snarks' Day at the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo luncheon on March 26. ***

A;meeting of the Citrus Belt Hoo-Hoo Club was held at the Elks Club, San Bernardino, the night of March 20. President Roy L. Sandefur presided.

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E. G. Linsley, professor of astronomy at Mills College, Oakland, was the speaker of the day at the monthly meetiiig of the East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club, held at the Hotel Oakland, on March 18. President Hugh W. Hogan presided.

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Golfers representing the lumber and shipping departments of the Chas. R. McCormick San Francisco office had a tournament at the Lincoln Park Golf Club, Sunday, March 15. The shipping department golfers were the winners and later in the week were the guests of the lumber department golfers for luncheon at the Palace Hotel. **<*

The monthly meeting of the Central California Lumbermen's Club was heid at Wilson's, Stockton, Saturday, March 14. President W H. Falconbury presided at the meeting. Jack Dionrle, fublisher of The California Lumber Merchant, addressed the meeting.

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The Sacramento Valley Lumbermen,s Club met at the Hotel Senator, Sacramento, on Saturday, March 21. B. J. Williams, Paraffine Companies, Inc., was the speaker of the day, his subject being, "Building a Business That Lasts.',

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Announcements have been mailed to every man inter_ ested in the lumber business in Southern California of a monster Stag Party and Jinks to be held at the Ship Cafe, Veni'ce, on the night of May l. A committee of twenty is

Paul Shoup of the Southern Pacific Company addressed Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9 at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, on March 12. His subject was "Too Many Laws." Kenneth Smith was chairm"r*ot*an"*meeting.

A. L. (Gus) Hoover, accompanied by Mrs. Hoover and their two children, returned to Los Angeles on March 26 following a month's trip to New York City via the Panama Canal. The return trip was made by rail.

E. D. Kingsley, president and general manager of the West Oregon Lumber Co., Linnton, Ore., has been appointed vicegerent snark of the Portland Hoo-Hoo district.

A 3,47Ufoot seawall will be built along the San Diego bay front from Eighth to Columbia Streets at a cost of approximately 9250,000. The wall will make possible the reclamation of 80 acres of choicest tidelands. The city harbor'department has already closed leases for the land with several lumber firms. The seawall will become one of the distinguishing features of San Diego Bay. The lumber co'mpanies will build a 2o-f.oot apron wharf out from the sea.ivall making ideal landing facilities for lumber carg'oes'

The Union Planing Mill of Stockton has purchased a new location there and are erecting u*r"* modern planing mill.

Herbert J. Anderson attended the annual convention of the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association at: Atlantic City on March 18 and 19. Mr. Anderson visited: New York City, Chicago and other eastern cities during the trip.

Ben Bemis was chairm; ; .;. day at the Los Angeles. Hoo-Hoo meeting on March 12. George J. Eberle, professor of commerce, University of Southern California, talked ontheHousingsituationinSouthernCalifornia.

The Fruit Growers Supply Co. at Susanville, Calif., has completed the installation of two band saws which will replace the ttvo pony bands formerly in use there. They have completed the construction of a nelv dry shed which will shed over six million feet of lumber, and have also increased the capacity of the loading dock by installing a new rail system. New equipment has also been installed in their stacker house.

BT]YEBS9 GT]IDB SAN FBANOISOO

LUMBER

Bucklev Imber Dealers' Supply Campany' lll - Sutts Buildins..,.........' .....Sutter 090t

Chamberlin & Co- W. R.' 9tb Flo, Fife Bldg. ....'.....,.DOuslas 5470

Dolbs & Crcm Lumber Co., ?nt Mmhuts Exchange Bldg.......Sutter 7456

Hmod Lumber Co. 310 Sanme SL '..'..'....'.'...DOuglu 33t9

Hobbs, Wall & Cor 2350 Jenold Ave. ....,.............Mlsid 0901

Holmes Eureka Luber Co.15{td Firocial Center Blfu.......GArfreld r92l

Larene-Pbilips Lunber Co.' zOe Fife Building............. ".. .EXbrook !393

Loop Lmber Compo.ny, Ft. ot 16th st:.................... EXbrook 4631

lpng-Bell Luber Sales Corpontiont 625 Market Street...:..'.........'.GArfield 1839

Mulligan & Co., W. J., 5D Montgomery St... ....'.GArfield 6890

LUMBER

lvlacDonald & Hmingtq Ltd.' 16 Califqnia Street. '.. '. ' .GArfield E393

Mc€omick, Chas. R., Lmbq Co, 461 Mdket Street.....,............DOugIs 256l

More Milt & Lumber Co., 525 Market Stret ,......,....,...EXbrok 0rzl

Pacific Lmber Co.- The t(l|| Bush Strei,.......'......'.'.'GArfield lltl

Red River Lumber Co., 3r5 Momdack 81ds...............GAr6e1d 11022

Santa Fe Lumber Co, f6 Califmia Str@t,...........KEarny 2074

Schafer Bru. Lumber & Shingle Co.' ' rdB Fife Bldb.:.......:.............Sutter Uzl

Sud&h & Chri6ten3on,310 Sansme Street.. ..GArfield 2E16

Trowc Lumber Co., 110 Market Street........ ......,,....Sutter 1t426

Union Lmber Co., Crocker Building ..Sutter 6u0

OAITLANI)

LUMBER

Hill & Morton, Inc.' Dennison St. Whaf .......'....ANdover 1077

Hogan Lunb€r ComPaY, -znd & Alie Streets.. ".........Gl*ncourt 6861

E. K. Wod Lumber Co.Frederick & King Sts........ .....Fruitvale 0ll2

LUMBER

HARDWOODS

LUMBER

Van Arsdale-Harris Lunber Co, Inc., Fifth & Brarru Streets....,.,...GArfield 360

Wmdling-Nathu Co., ll0 Market Strcet ...........,......,Sutter 53dl

E. K. W@d Lumber Co, I Dru Stret.............,..,...KEamy 3710

Weyerhaeusa Sales Co.. 149 Califonia Stret...............GArfield t97.1

DOORS AND PLYWOOD

Harbor Plywood Corpuatioq 557 Market Street.................G.4rfield t520

Nidai Dor Sale Co,, 3lM5 lgth Street ,..... .,.. .....Mlsio ?920

Wbeeler-Osgcd Sales CorlDratim, 31145 19tb St. .,.... ................VAlencia 2241

CREOSOI]ED LUMBER-POLES_PIIJNGTIES

Buter, J. H. & Co., 3il3 Mootgmery Street..........,,DOug|re 3tt3

Mc€omick, Chc. R., Luber Co., 461 Mar*et Stret, .DOuglar 2561

PANELS_DOORS-SASH

El:iott Bay Sales Co., 1t24 Br€dway '..Hlgate 24'17

Califomia Builders Supply Co., s{tf 29tb Avenue .ANdover lltE

Westem Dor & Suh Ca, sth & cypress st6 ..............LAkwi& t{00

Strable Hardwod Co., 53? First Stret. ..., ..TlEmplebar SSE|

LOS ANGBLBS

Bookstaver Burns Lmber Co.' -:6i**" Jf Comerce Btdcr...."PRcpect 6231

Chmberl'n & Co. W. R.' ---3ls-w;tt xinll st"'-""" """'TUcher l'|31

"tH"rt"u*i",it?nk::Y:. .fl:: ...'rro"u*" ,r'

Hmmond Lumber Co.' ---ioro --s-".-Atn*aa St. .' .'PRGpect ?l?l

Holnes Emka Lmber Co., --- zii-zrz-Atct itet3 B!ds.' ..Mutud 9rEl

Hover, A. L., ----?o'Sc Ia'B*" Ave. .."""""""YOrk ll6t

Lrrence-PhlliPt Lunber Co

'At' F.-di;-;- securiuc'' Btder. PRcpect 0229

Im-Bell Lumber Sala Corporatlon'

-- ia P"trol* Seoritieg Bldg...Procpect t46E

MacDmald & Bergstrcn, Inc., - - ?33 Petrclem-Seorities Bldgl...PRspect 7lt4

MacDoald & Hanington, Ltd. - k? P.trcleu Se&rities Bldg....PRepect 5931

McComick, Chas. R., Lumber Co.- "--iii-w.it-sth st' .'. ..TRiniv s2!r

Mulligan & Co., W' J', u7 West *L St. ........,,....'..'VAndike 4'186

Pacific Lumber Co.' Tle ?tn So. La Brea Ave. ...'.,..........YOrk lr6t

, LUMBER

Patten-Blinn Lumber Cq, 52r E. 5th st. ....................vAndike 2321

Puget Sond Asciated Mills 626 ltrI. I\[. Garlud B|dg..........'TUcker lE25

Red River Luber Co., 702 E. Slaumn .CEntury 20071

Suta Fe Luber Co., 3u Fi---cial Cmter Bldg.......V.Andike 1471

Scbafer Brc Lumbs & Shingt€ Co., 1226 W, M. Garland Bldg........'TRinity {Zll

Sudilen & Cbriatenon, Gm B€rd of Tnde Bldg. ......,.TRinity t644

Union Lumber Co. 023 W. M. Guiad Bldg...........TRini9 zE2

Wendling-Natban Co., 700 Sc La Brea Ave. ...,..,.......YOrk ll6E

E. K. Wood Lumber Co., {701 Silta Fe Ave. ..,...........JEfrerso Slll

Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., tl9 Petrcleu Securitis Bldg...PRcpect 55Elt

TIES

Buter, J. H. & Co., 601 West Filth Street..... .Mlchigm 0|!fi McCom'ck, Chas. R., Lumber Co., ll7 W6t gth St. .......,..........TRinity 5211

HARDWOODS

Hammod Lumber Co., 2ltl0 So Almeda St. .PRcpect 7l7l

Laugtlin, C. J., @li Petrclm Sqritiee Bldg...PRcpect 270:i

Stantm, E. J., & Sm, zt50 Eut 3Eth Street............CEntury 29211

SASH-DOORS_MILLWORK

Hmmd Lumber Co., 2010 So. Almeda SL ,..,.....,.,PRcpect 7l7t

Kahl, Jno. W.. & Sru, 652 Sq Myerc SL ....,..,,......,ANge|u tlgl:

Red River Lmber Co., 702 E. Slaucdr .,CEnhry 2907r.

Wheeler-Osgood Sales Corpmtion, 2153 Sacro€nto SL ............,,..TUctcr {964

PANELS AND PLYWOOD

Aberdeen Plywod Conpany, zllx Wert Pi@ Stret.....,..,.,.,.Fltzroy t52l

Califmia Paml & Verw Co., 055 So. Alameda SL.....,....,,....TRinity 005?'

Harbor Plywod Ccpontio, 160 N. Ia Brea......,,..........,..WHitrey 3267

Pacifrc Mutual D6 Co., CApitol ?t0& U26 Wdtmiuter Ave. (Alhmbn)

Wheler-Osgood Saler Crporatio, 2153 Sactmato St ................TUcker ,|964

A Progressiye Oakland Conc ern

Organized as a father

John L. Todd and J. Z. and son co-partnership in Todd, the Western Door

r9I4 by & Sash

This firm has the distinction of having pioneered the sale of Douglas Fir doors in the California market.

Plant ol the Western Door & Company of Oakland has been serving the trade from Tehachapi to the Oregon border for nearly ?l years.

Like many other successful business this one was startecl in a modest way by two men whose wide dxperience, rvill-

Sash Company, Oakland, Calif.

A very complete stock is carried of doors, stock doors and sash, panels, Douglas Fir and Philippine wallboard. Thev also carry a full line of glass products, including plate, sheet and ro11 glass.

Interior I/ieu ol their ingness to work and deterrnination to give the best service enabled them to make a steady growth, rvith the result that for many years they have been an important factor in the distribution of doors, sash, panels, glass, etc.

Irplo-Date Fartory

In their modern factory. equipped rvith individual drive machines. they are prepared to make all wood specials su.ch as special doors and sash. This additional service makes it possible for all orders to be completed without going out-

side to purchase, thereby saving much time

Floor Space 30,000 Feet

many ,cases.

The pr'esent plant at 5th and Cypress Streets, Oakland, was built in 1922 just adjoining their old plant. It has 30,000 square feet of floor space, and consists of the warehouse, factory, yard and glazing room.

The Principals

Just a word about the principals. John L. Todd needs no introdu,ction to the retail trade of Northern California, for he is one of the best known and respected men in the industry. He is acknowledged to be the dean of the sash and door salesmen, having traveled this territory in the sash and door line for a greater number oI years than any other man in the business.

J. Z. "Joe" Todd, after leaving university came to Ta'coma where he worked in all departments of the mill business. After gaining considerable experience in the sales end he went to Victoria, B. C., where he was a successful salesman for millwork from 1910 to 1913. He came to California in 1914 to organize with his father the present concern. He is a hard worker and an enthusiastic Rotarian.

Personnel

In the sales department Miland Grant has charge of the San Francis'co office. David A. Clark looks after the Berkeley office and contiguous territory, and Floyd Callaway has the Oakland territory. As has already been stated Mr' John L. Todd 'covers the rest of the Northern California territory.

H. D. "Doug" Cook is in charge of telephone orders and estimating. Mrs. Dowse is offrce manager, in charge of billing, bookkeeping, etc.

George McDonald is in charge of the warehouse and shipping. Orlando Kitto has charge of the mill.

\(/estern Retailers' Annual

At the annual meeting of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association held at Tacoma, Wash., February 21, 22 and 23, the following officers were elected:

President-Carl Blackstock, Blackstock Lumber Co., Seattle, Wash.

Vice-Presidents : Idaho-Bert Stone, Stone l,umber Co., Boise, Ida. Montana-Eastern Division, F. S. Ford, Hellekson Lumber Co., Scobey, Mont.; Western Division, C' D. O'Neil, O'Neil Lumber Co., Kalispell, Mont. Nevada-Ray Peterson, Home Lumber & Coal Co., Reno, Nev. OregonEastern Division, W. H. Hermsen, Shockley Lumber Co., Baker, Ore.; Western Division, O. F. Carson, CarsonFowler Lumber Co., Ashland, Ore. Washington-Eastern Division, H. B. Kendall, Standard Lumber Co., Spokane, Wash.; Central Division, A. L. Larse, 'Wenatchee Lumber Co., Wenatchee, \Mash.; Western Division, Earl LeValley, Columbia Valley Lumber Co., Bellingham, Wash.

Directors for three years: J. R..Comn, Elko Lumber Co', Elko, Nev.; C. H. Crawford, Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co', Walla Walla, Wash.; F. S. Dickinson, Colby & Dickinson, Inc., Seattle, Wash.; E. B. Gabriel, Gabriel Powder & Supply Co., Salen.r, Ore.; C. S. Kenyon, Kenyon-Noble Lumber Co., Bozeman, Mont.; J. E. Olinger, J' E' Olinger & Sons, Milton, Ore.; John Uglem, Home Lumber Co', I-ewiston, Ida., and C. F. Ullman, IJllman Lumber Co', Big Timber, Mont.

CALIFORN IA

\YHOLESALE LUMBER ASSOCIATION

San Francisco Office: Merchants Exchange Bldg.

S. M. Hauptman, Gen. Mgr., Phone SUtter 6126

Lor Angeles Omce: Petroleum Securities Bldg.

Clint Laughlin, Dirtrict Manager ' Phone PRoapect 2703

MEMBERS

W. R. Chmbcrlin & Co. ......San Franclaco and Lor Angclcr

Donovan Lumber Co. '.'.......San Francko and Lor An3clcr

EastGm & Wcstem Lumber Co.............'.....'..Portland and San Franciaco

James L. Hatl .'......San Franciso

J. C. Hamilton Box & Lmber Co. .......'..... .San Francbco

Hammond Lumbcr Co. '.......San Francicco and Lw Angclcr

J. R. Hanlfy Co. ........,.... .'San Francigco and Los Angclcr

Hart'Wmd Lmber Co. ...'....,.... """""""San Franclrco

A. B. Johncon Lumber Co. .....San Franciro

Alvin N. Lofgren , .San Francko

MacDoutd & Harrington .....San Fnnciso and Lo AnSclcr

A. F. Mahony Lumbei Co. ......San Fnncirco

Cbas. R. McCmick Lumbcr Co. ' .San Francieco and Loa An3clcr

McCormick Supply Co. .., .San Fanciaco and Los Angeler

W. J. Mulligan A C". .,................'........San Fnnieco and Lc Angelea

Charler Nelim Co. .....,.".... Su Francico and Lor AnSclcr

Peremino Lumber Co. ,San Franciro

Santa Fe Lumber Co. ........San Francieco and Los Angeler

Schefer Brc. Lumber & Shingle Co. ..'.. .'..'.Su Frucirco ud Los AnSelcl

Suddcn & Chrictenson ............,.....,.......San Fruci*o and Los An3clcr

Trower Lumber Co. ...,...,.'... ...'..'..........San Francis

Wendling-Nathan Co. ..San Franei*o and Lo-Angclcr

R. O. Wltrcn & Son San Frencisco

E. K. W@d Lumber Co. ..'..San Fnncirco rnd Lu Angclee

Hill & Morton, Inq. .......Oekland

Pyramid Lumber Sales Co. ......'..........Oak|ud

Bookstaver-Bums Lrtmber Co. ..."...,,... .."..'.Los Angele:

Brookr Lumber Co. .....,...... ..Lo An3clar

Grippcr & Haglind ..,.,.. ........Lc Angelu

Kq&hoff-Cuznir Mill & Lumber Co. ...........Is Angels

MacDmald & Bergstm, Inc. ............ '.......!a Angel,es

Patten-Blinn Lumber Co.

Angeler

E. L. Rcitz Company

F. M. Sl,ad€

A. C. Paberthy, Agent

F. M. Slade

Twohy Lumbcr Co. ...,.........

E. U. Whc1ck.,.......,......

Angeles

An3clo San Pedro Lumber Co.

Angeler

and ls Angele3

Angeles

What is the current trend toward either of these eventualities?

Read the timely diecussion of these factors and their infuence on business and markets, in the cunent iesue of the Brookmire Counselor.

You may have a copy, gratig by requesting Bulletin | 9-E.

San Joaquin Valley Lumbermen's Club Holds Annual Meeting

George C. Burnett, Burnett Lumber Co., Tulare, was re-elected president of the San Joaquin Lumbermen's Club at its annual membership meeting held at the Hotel Californian, Fresno,, on Mar,ch 9. F. Dean Pres,cott, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno, was elected vi,ce president. Ralph P. Duncan, Merced Lumber Co., Mer,ced, treasurer, and Harold J. Ford, Fresno, secretary, were re-elected.

Directors elected for the ensuing year were George Malm, Malm & Angle Lumber Co., Dos Palos; H. C. Kofoid, H. C. Kofoid Lumber Co., Caruthers; S. P. Ross, Central Lumber Co., Hanford; Burton Boyle, Cross Lumber Co., Mer'ced; E. E. Schlotthiuer, Willard Lumber & Supply Co., Fresno; Elmore W. King, King Lumber Co., Bakersfield; W. E. Peterson, Bakersfield Building. Materials Co., Bakersfield; Ray Clotfelter, W. R. Spalding Lumber Co., Visalia; Chas. L. Marsh, Hammond Lumber Co., Madera, and Dean Cook, Madera Lumber Co., Madera.

This was one of the best attended meetings ever held by the Clab, 79 members and one guest, Harry A. Lake, president of the California Retail Lumbermen's Asso.ciation, being present.

Harry A. Lake and W. K. Kendrick, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno, chairman of the Council Lumber and Roofing Committees, addressed the meeting. Other members were on the program to cover various topics affecting the industry and each member afforded an opportunity to express his views on all subjects discussed. Secretary Harold J. Ford gave his annual report, ahd the report of the Auditing Committee was also read.

The membership unanimously approve(l the establishment of a Council office in San Francisco with the employrnent of a full time secretary, and also unanimously approved and adopted the "Standard Trade Practices!' of the California Lumbermen's Council, and the "Schedule of Differentials" was also explained to the members.

The general dis'cussion at the meeting seems to indi,cate a greater need for Trade Associations than ever before, which was best verified by the large attendance and the keen interest shown by the members.

The following attended the meeting:

G. C. Burnett, Burnett Lumber Co..... ....,.Tulare

Lawrence E. King, Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. ....Bakersfield

L. C. Adams, Hayward Lumber & Investment Co... .Delano

H. P. Adams, Wenrich Lumber Co..... ....Merced

D. O. Wenrich, Wenrich Lumber Co..... ..Merced

Robert Kimble Jr., Valley Lumber Co.. Hanford

H. C. Kofoid, H.C.Kofoid Lumber Co..... .....Caruthers

J. F. Wright, Brey-Wright Lumber Co..... ......Porterville

George E. Doak, Burton-Doak Lumber Co..... ....,Lindsay

Frank Baxley, Brey-Wright Lumber Co..... .....Porterville

Harry B. Hook, Valley Lumber Co. ..Kingsburg

O. V. Martin, Valley Lumber Co.. Selma

Walter Hardwick, Dinuba Lumber Co.. .Dinuba

E. J. McDonald, Dinuba Lumber Cb..... .....Dinuba

Paul G. Galle, Western Lumber Co..... ....Reedley

Frank F. Minard, C. S. Pierce Lumber Co..... .....Fresno

Paul C. Clore. C. S. Pierce Lumber Co..... ......,Fresno

Kenneth D, Seeley, Seeley Lumber Co.. ......Fresno

F. B. Trull, W. B. March Lumber Co..... ...Ivanhoe

W. W. Boyd, Parlier Lumber Co..... .Parlier

H. C. Kinnee, Valley Lumber Co..... .....Hanford

Chas. Schaffer, Citizens Lumber Co..... ...Kingsburg

L. L. Walker, Valley Lumber Co.. Fresno

R. H. Hallmark, Tulare County Lumber Co..... .....Visalia

D. S. Mirtzwa, Prescott Brick & Lumber Cb..... ...Sanger

J. E. Holt, Bengston-Holt Lumber Co..... ..Fresno

W. S. Denham, Central Lumber Co..... ....Hanford'

E. J. Stewart, Fowler Lumber Co..... .......Fowler

E. P. Ruth, Reedley Lumber Co..... .......Reedley

A. P. Wedel, Western Lumber Co..... ....Reedley

E. M. Prescott, Prescott Brick & Lumber Co. ..Sanger

R. L. Wilson, C. S, Pierce Lumber Co..... ....Biola

John McNally, Hammond Lumber Co..... ...Madera

C. L, Marsh, Hammond Lumber Co... . .Madera

S. D. Luke, The Cox Lumber Company. .....Tulare

F. M. Kidd, Burnett Lumber Co.. . Tulare

G. L. Dunlap, Burnett Lumber Co..... .......Tulare

Morris Pool, Valley Lumber Co..... ..Fresno

J. G. Hyman, M. Kellner & Son Lumber Co..... ...Dinuba

C. W. Krumholz, Kellner Lumber Co..... ....Fresno

Frank T. Bell, Clovis Lumber Co..... .Clovis

W. D, Stephenson, Clovis Lumber Co..... ....Clovis

J. G. Ferguson, Clovis Lumber Co..... .......Clovis

G. M. Gibbs, W. R. Spalding Lumber Co..... ...Strathmore

J. F. Heptner, W. R. Spalding Lumber Co..... .....Visalia

Robt. Burgett, W. R. Spalding Lumber Co..... ..,..Lindsay

H. Clay Rogers, W. R. S,palding Lumber Co.. .. ..Woodlake

H. N. Kofoid, H. C. Kofoid Lumber Co..;.. ......Caruthers

E. E. Schlotthauer, Willard Lumber & Supply Co...........Fresno

A. T. Mathews, Fresno Lumbermen's Club (Secretary)....Fresno

J. J. Siegfried, R. O. Deacon Lumber Co..... .....Lemoore

Geo. E. Haire, R. O. Deacon Lumber Co..... .....Riverdale

R. H. Ruth, Reedley Lumber Co..... .....Reedley

Paul Schmidt, Lumber & Supply Co..... ......Dos Palos

C. A. Makin, Lumber & Supply Co..... ..Los Banos

G. E. Malm, Malm & Angle Lumber Co... .......Dos Palos

Walter E. Peterson, Bakersfield Building Materials Co. Bakersfield

W. K. Kendrick, Valley Lumber Co..... .....Fresno

James L. Venn, W. R. Spalding Lumber Co..... .Porterville

O. W. Carr, W. R. Spalding Lumber Co..... .......Exeter

Ctyde F. Switzer, W. R. Spalding Lumber Co..... ...Visalia

Ray Clotfelter, W. R. Spalding Lumber Co..... ...Visalia

Arthur H. Kelly, A. H. Kelly Lumber Co..... .....Visalia

F. L. Hand, Swastika Lumber Co..... .Fresno

J. C. Ferger, Swastika Lumber Co..,.. .......Fresno

S. P. Ross, Central Lumber Co. .Hanford

Elmore W. King, The King Lumber Co. ... .'..Bakersfield

plsd Marburg, Cross Lumber Co..... .'.'...Avenal

C. L. Faucett. Cross Lumber Co..... .Avenal

Burton Boyle, Cross Lumber Co..... ......Coalinga

H. M. Cross, Cross Lum er Co. .Merced

Dean Cook, Madera Lumber Co..... ......Madera

Ada N. March, W. B. March Lumber Co..... .....Ivanhoe

F. Dean Prescott, Valley Lumber Co,. .. '..Fresno

H. A. Lake. President. California Retail Lumbermen's Association . Garden Grove

Harold J. Ford, Secretary, San Joaquin Lurnbermen,s Club .. Fresno

Stephen H. Ross, Central Lumber Co..... 'Lemoore

M. E. Malott, Central Lumber Co. ... .....Leqoore

H. S. Hagler, Central Lumber Co....' ....'Lemoore

A. J. Crow, C. S. Pierce Lumber Co..... '.'.Kerman

Reilly Treated Lumber Approved

Lumber pressure treated with Reilly Transparent Penetrating Creosote has been approved by the Department of Building and Safety of the City of Los Angeles for use under the Los Angeles Termite Ordinance.

VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

H. J. "Bill" Bailey, sales manager, Saginaw Timber Co., Aberdeen, Wash., makers of "Saginaw Brand" shingles, was a re,cent visitor to the office of Santa Fe Lumlter Co., San Francisco, California agents for his firm's products, on his way to the Eastern states on his anuual sales trip.

SPENDS WEEK AT MILL

A. L. (Gus) Hoover of Los Angeles has returned from a week's trip to The Pacific Lumber Cornpany mill at Scotia, Calif. He also visited the company's San Franics'co office.

LAMINEX PLYFOBM

For Economical Form Construction For Smoother Cement Surfaces

Its laminated cross-grain construction makes it warp-resistantt split-proof.

'Wherever lumber has been used for the old method of building concrete fotms, LAMINEX PLYFORM can be used, and a better, more economical job results. Consult your nearest jobber.

IYHEETIR

WASHTNGTON

The Pacific Mutual Door Company of Tacoma, Wash., cxclusive distributors of Pamudo plywoods, are following up the idea of series advertising. Original advertising ideas are the big push behind Pamudo plywood dealers' sales. 1'he Mighty Elephant idea, as shown above, is characteristic of the Pamudo campaign and rvill soon be in the sales rooms of all Pamudo dealers.

CLASSIFIED

Rate---$2.50 Per Column

WANTED

ADVERTISING

lnch. Minimum Ad One-Half Inch.

Position wanted by Experienced Lumber Yard Manager or Assistant Manager. Fifteen years' experience as Manager of retail yard. Thirty-nine years old and married. Address Box C-536, California Lumber Mer,chant.

EXPERIENCED LUMBERMAN

Position wanted by lumberman experienced in all branches ol yard, also ofifice. Not afraid of work. Prefer Los Angeles or surrounding territory. Address Box C-537 California Lumber Merchant.

We can offer some retail lumber yards. Securities Building, 8746.

FOR SALE attractive buys in Southern Twohy Lumber Co., 549 Los Angeles. Telephone

FOR SALE

California Petroleum PRospect

Lumber Yard and Small Mill, near Los Angeles. Doing a very good business and paying well. Very small rental. $8000.00 wili buy. Sickness cause of sale. Address Box C-534. California Lumber Merchant.

FOR SALE

Lumber yard and small mill. East Bay district in thriving town. Old established business. This is worth investigating. $5000.00 plus stock inventory will handle down payment. Address Box C-544, California Lumber Merchant.

EXPERIENCED LUMBER SALESMAN

Desires to make connection with either wholesaler or nranufacturer. Well acquainted with retail trade in both Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys. Can furnish best of references. Address Box C-5,{0. care California Lumber Nlerchant.

FIR SALESMAN WANTS WHOLESALE CONNECTION

Experienced Fir salesman wants to make a connection with a Los Angeles wholesale lumber firm. Covered the Southern territory several years and knows the trade. Can furnish good references. Address Box C-539, care California Lumber Merchant.

A SET OF FOUR COLORFUL "ROBOTS''

Above is a black and white miniature of a set of four brilliantly colored cut outs with easel backs for counter or window displays. Each "robot" is approximately 8 inches by 13 inches in size. The set of "robots" is being sold on a cooperative price basis by the National Clean Up and Paint Up Campaign Bureau, 2201 New York Avenue, N. \$7., Washington, D. C., which, upon receipt of request, will send a descriptive price list, illustrated in colors, showing these new "robots" and other new display material for taking advantage of the opportunity to Clean Up-Paint Up-Fix Up-Plant lJp-under the National Housing Act. - -

Lot lls Tell Themrr

Twice each month we are sending out our message of business news, ideas and good cheer to the lumbermen of California. On every page there are matters of direct and practical interest to every California lum' berman.

Isn't this then an ideal medium for those who have a business story they want to send to these lumber folks?

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Spring melts the soul of the swamper and the icicles on the whiskers of the bullcook. The world thrills to restored life and Paul Bunyan, not to be outdone by the returning dickybirds, muct burst forth in song.

He has built a ukelele with boaids Babe hicked off of the barn and some wire rope from his logging outfrt. Paul sings the old songs, "Shanty Boy," "Paddy Hart," ..Bung Yer Eye," and "The Rock Candy Moun1sins"-lnsrnqries of his days on the white pine drives on the upper reaches of the Mississippi, the Penobscot, on White River, the St. Croix and the Red River of the North. Serious complaints are being received of interference with radio reception, so he may have to be stopped.

SPR IN G

Spring, to the lumber dealer, is more than singing in the sunshine. It means the filling up and rounding out of yard stocks to meet building demand. This year it is already difficult to obtain all the required items and indications point to more serious shortages later on if orders are not placed early enough to permit accumulation of stock by the mill. Supply and demand is working in that direction.

On one hand we have housing programs and returning farm prosperity to increase demand, on the other the greatest shortage of mill stocks rn years.

You can't sell items you haventt got and the mill can not supply. Place your orders as early as possible.

RED RIVER MIXED

. . . one loading, one shipnnent, one billing, one handling of lumber products and plywood panels and wallboards. This reduces your unit costs and the time consumed in buying scattered l.c.l. quantities or multiple loadings.