EXTENSION OF LACEY'S ORGANIZATION 



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E. A. STERLING 



ITH the opening of a New York office the firm of 

 James D. Lacey & Company has increased its 

 staff of experts by the addition of E. A. Sterling 

 and C. A. Lyford. Mr. SterHng is in active charge 

 of the New York office, which is located in the Forty- 

 Second Street 

 building at 30 

 East Forty- 

 Second Street. 

 He wiU serve 

 as Eastern 

 manager for 

 the firm. Mr 

 Lyford has be- 

 come chief for- 

 est e n g i n eer 

 and will be lo- 

 cated in the 

 Seattle offices, 

 where he will 

 co-operate i n 

 field work and 

 in the selling 

 of timber prop- 

 erties. 



In thus 

 strengthening 

 its organization 

 the firm increases its widely known facilities for technical 

 service in properly estimating, mapping and reporting on 

 timber projjerties. The expansion is in accordance with 

 the firm's long recognition of the necessity for complete 

 and accurate reports as a basis for the financial and 

 operating phases of limber investments. Mr. Lacey has 

 been actively indentified with the lumber business for 

 several decades. Of the other members of the firm, 

 Wood Beal has been associated with Mr. Lacey since 

 1882, and Victor Thrane since 1900. The firm is known 

 to the entire lumber industry throughout North America. 

 As Eastern manager, Mr. Sterling brings to the firm 

 broad experience, highly developed technical training 

 and splendid ability. He is a graduate of Cornell with 

 the degree of Forest Engineer. His college work was 

 followed by a season of study in Europe, in 1903. After 

 serving as forester with the New York State Forest 

 Commission, he entered what was then the United States 

 Bureau of F^orestry. In this bureau and in the succeed- 

 ing United States Forest Service he had wide oppor- 

 tunity for investigations and experience, covering the 

 entire United States in his extensive travel. After two 

 years of investigation into forest conditions in Cali- 

 fornia he prepared and procured the passage of the first 

 comprehensive forest law enacted in that state. As chief 

 of the division of forest extension in the Forest Service, 

 Mr. Sterling spent two years in administrative work and 

 field travels in connection with the development of the 



C. A. LYFORD 



government policy of reforestation in the National P'or- 

 ests and in giving assistance to private owners along the 

 line of forest extension. For five years, from 1907, 

 Mr. Sterling was chief forester of the Pennsylvania Rail- 

 road, in which field his work gained broad recognition. 



His next step 

 was to estab - 

 lish himself as 

 consulting for- 

 est and timber 

 engineer. As 

 a specialist in 

 wood preser- 

 vation he gain- 

 ed a national 

 reputation and 

 in 1913 he was 

 elected presi- 

 dent of the 

 American 

 Wood Preser- 

 vers' Associa- 

 tion. Recently 

 M r . Sterling 

 has been man- 

 ager of the 

 trade exten- 

 s i o n depart- 

 ment of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion, where his constructive work was of great value. 



To the duties of chief forest engineer Mr. Lyford 

 will bring an experience of several years and an intimate 

 knowledge of forest engineering work. His familiarity 

 with tide-water timber in British Columbia is pre-eminent, 

 besides which he has had broad experience in the pulp 

 region of Eastern Canada. Some idea of the magnitude 

 of his work may be had from the statement that his firm 

 of Clark & Lyford, Limited, has made forest surveys of 

 more than 5,000 square, miles of territory, or 3,200,000 

 acres. Mr. Lyford was in personal charge of much of 

 this work, often spending weeks and months in the com- 

 mercial forests in order that the survey might be per- 

 fected on a high engineering basis. In connection with 

 this work he effected an improvement in survey methods 

 and placed timl>er estimating for pulp wood properties 

 on a new scientific basis. 



Mr. Lyford has been in charge of a British Columbia 

 logging operation for some time. He is a graduate of 

 Cornell University, with the degree of forest engineer. 

 At college he was prominent in athletics, stroking the 

 Cornell "four" and playing football and baseball. With 

 the addition of Mr. Sterling and Mr. Lyford to its staff 

 the firm of James D. Lacey & Company is in position 

 to do even greater work than in the past. Mr. Lacey's 

 home is at Newburgh, New York, and he will make the 

 New York office his eastern headquarters. 



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