Arizona republican., 1919-01-02
BENNETT LUMBER CO.
 |S PROGRAMMED TO EXP AND BUSINESS

Reorganization of the Bennett Lum- Der company preparatory to the expan- sion of this successful concern has just been completed, and the firm will greet the new year better equipped than ever to carry on their extensive interests. Associated with the company will be J. J. Halloran, an expert with 15 years of experience in the industry, who will succeed Hal Bennett as manager and secretary treasurer.
 The reorganization. announced this morning. was made imperative by the necessity of cnlarging the concern to keep pace with the progress of the city. It is planned to expand the com pany in many lines, and to furnish even better service to their clientele than was possible under the old ar engagement
 In the future the company will be known by the new firm name of Ben- nett Lumber Company, Incorporated Walter Bennett, the present president will remain in this capacity, and all of the stock of the company will be re- tained by the former stockholders in the old concern, with the exception of
  loran.
 The company has been engaged in business for the past 10 years and has established itself as one of the leading business interests of the city. It has grown constantly since the time of it's organization until at length some measures were made necessary to care for the increased business which was sorely taxing the capacity of the old concern. Reorganization and recapi- taliZatiOn were the steps decided upon.
 The concern is exceptionally for ! tunate in securing the services of MT. Halloran The new manager has had wide experience in the numbering in dustry in all of it's phases, and at the time he became interested in the op- portunties awaiting in Phoenix he was connN'ted in an executive capacity with the F. K. Wood Lumber company. one of the largest wholesale lumber companies of the Pacific coast. He re- signed this position to become identi- fled with the local enterprise.
 The retirement of Hal Bennett, the former manager, comes with q sense of distinct loss to the members of con- mercial and social circles of the city. Mr. Bennett resigned the position which he has capably filled for the past few years to ti.ke over the active man. agement of the Los Angeles Trailer company of Los Angeles, California, in which he is heavily interested. With his family he will take up his residence in the nearby metropolis in the near future.
 His active participation in the af- fairs of the trailer company was made imperative by the growth the Califor- mia concern has registered during the past year. Instituted as an experiment. the business rapidly demonstrated the fact that it was meeting a long felt want in the rruckage and delivery de- paTtment Of the modern commercial system.
 In the course of q year the output of the company has doubled several times. While the business of filling government war orders was respon- sible for the first remarkable boom in the trailer business. the efficiency made possible by the utilization of this device created an enormous demand on the part of local dealers. Accrued orders awaiting the convenience of the manufacturers guarantee that the en 1 tire output for the ensuing year will be purchased as rapidly as it can be l placed upon the market.
 i The Los Angeles Trailer company is exclusively q wholesale manufacturing i concern. It will be Mir. Bennett's first 1 job to speed up the production to meet the present demand after which plans for an increase in tle size of the plan and it's manufacturing capacity will bt l matured.