. Canadian forest industries July-December 1920. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 50 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER December 15, 1920 An Affgrrcssive Lumber Salesman John Hall. 160 Huron St., 'J o- ronto, who represents the \V. M. Ritter Lumber Co., Columbu.^, Ohio, is widely known to the Canadian consumers of hard- wood. He has been ,with the firm for nine years, calling upon the wholesale and retail trade, manufacturers and others. The W. M. Ritter Lumber Co. recent- ly joined the Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association. Mr. Hall was
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1920. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 50 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER December 15, 1920 An Affgrrcssive Lumber Salesman John Hall. 160 Huron St., 'J o- ronto, who represents the \V. M. Ritter Lumber Co., Columbu.^, Ohio, is widely known to the Canadian consumers of hard- wood. He has been ,with the firm for nine years, calling upon the wholesale and retail trade, manufacturers and others. The W. M. Ritter Lumber Co. recent- ly joined the Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association. Mr. Hall was present at the last meeting, being accorded a hearty rece])tion. ]5orn in West Virginia, he si)ent his boyhood days in Richmond and his first jol) was as tally-boy with the Deverex Lumber Co. of Charles- ton, W. Va., with whom he re- mained seven years, serving in various capacities which gave him a i)ractical, all-round know- ledge of the lumber game. He then went into business for himself, which he followed for some four or five years previous to becoming associated with Mr. Ritter. Mr. Hall has had twenty-one years' insight in the lumber line and remem- bers Mr. Ritter when that gentleman started out with one mule and a truck drawing out logs for a little circular mill. To-day the Ritter Lumber Co. own and "operate thirteen band mills with an annual capacity of 130,000,000 feet, six planing mills and eleven flooring units. Mr. Hall, their Canadian representative, handles oak of all . kinds, i)oplar, chestnut, cypress, birch, beech, basswood, buckeye and yellow John Hall, Toronto, Ont. Lumberman Does Not Lose Good Name The victim in 1913 of what Justice Middleton, of Toronto, describes as "a series of financial reverses com])arable only to the business dis- asters of the ]:)atriarch Job," Charles Pedwell, of Lion's Head, Bruce county, sawmiller and lumberman, had been in 1912 abundantly solvent, worth $75,000, according to his own estimate, and $25,000,
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