\(/estern Pine Review 'For 1935

n Bv Frederic S. Palmer Manager of Pine Departm'ent, Santa F'e lumb"r Co.

Tiking a look at,fhe recor-d foi 1935 the Western Pine . The'piice'tr-end throughotit 1935 has'bben steadily.upsituation is improved. ward. It is of interest to note the sum of these advances

To those who were taught that a variation of 10 per as reflected in prices now current as compared with those cent makes the difierence betrveen goo{ and bad times in of a year ago. Hpre are a few typical items: the pine business a comparison of 1935 with 1934 is to com- p"r. 'tb",l" with "r,vorsp" but the improvement is never- productiol in 1935 has been in the neighborhood of three billion feet. In 1934 it wbi slightly less than two billion.

Increased' shipments have kept satisfactory pace with the jincreased production e*ceeding the 19J4 figure by No. 1 Shop about 3O per cent. No. 2 Shop

Unfilled orders on hand are for about trvice what they December bookings of Western Pines in the shop graded were at the.close of 1934. Something like 165 million feet were comparatively very heavy. A number of the mills reas against g0 million. port orders for these grades to cover all stock on hand and Stocks on hand are practically the same as a year ago, ih"t to be produced to April 1. the increase in sales volume having offset the increase in Production plans for 1936 incllcate that manufacturers production. expect a heavy and increasing demand throughout the year.

i 45O Christmas Kegs

Eagt B.y Club Distributes Perlection Oak Flooring Co. Moves To New Location

Four hundred and fifty kegs of groceries were tttrned over to the Salvation Army in Oakland to lre given to needy families of the East Bay, December 24' This distribution was made possible by the generosity of the lumbermen and mill men of both the East Bay region and San Francisco, and the organizatiou u'ork lvas handlecl for the fifth successive year by East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39. Miland R. Grant, of Wesfern Door & Sash Co., Oakland. lvas again chairman of the committee handling the big.job. . Mr. Grant reports that the amount spent by the conlmittee rvas $676.50, and that six trucks were requiretl to haul the kegs. The amount of food required to fill the kegs was as follorvs : Sugar, 225A lbs.; flour. 2250 lbs.; potatoes, 2250 lbs.; rolled oats, 900 lbs.; navy l>eans, 2250 lbs, ; coffee, 45O lbs.; macaroni, 900 lbs' ; nut spread, 450 lbs.; corn, 450 cans; milk, 450 cans; tomato sattce, 900 cans. The Salvation Army added to the kegs 45O pounds of butter, 1350 pounds of meat, and 450 loaves of bread.

TRADE.MARKED . SELECTED FIRM TEXTURED

BATAAN.-.IAMA()-..BAGAC

Philippinq Mahogany - Philippine Hardwood

Perfection Oak Flooring Company, Los Angeles, recently rnoved their oftice and warehouse to a new location.at 820 East 60th St. Their telephone number, Pleasant 4104 is unchanged.

"We are specializing in the sale of hardwood flooring to the retail lumber yard trade," said B. W. Klug, manager of the company, to a representative of this paper.

"For the convenience of the yards we are carrying large stocks, practi,cally all of which are brand new, and :we ar€ well equipped at out' new plant to give first-class service to the yard trade."

ATTENDS FORESTERS' SOCIETY MEETING

Earl E. Bowe, Reilly Tar & Chemical Co., Los Angeles, was in San Fran,cis,co recently on a business trip. While there he attended the meeting of the California section of the Society of American Foresters held December 2O.

M. Vininger Manager and Sole Owner

Tclephone Glencourt 829t

WHITE PTNE, SUGAR PINE, REDWOOD, ORBGON PINE, PLYVOOD PANELS, SHINGLES, LATH, ETC.

WHOI FSALE LUMBER PRODUCTS Room 415 Pacific Building Oakland, California

Second Best

I scanned the wares Life offered me, And unto Life I said, "Let others take the and gems, Just give me love d bread."

And then, to it doubly sure That one might dine, ran to bak a snowy loaf, my love like wine.

I poured my love on arid sands, As blanched as desert bone, My snowy loaf was bitter bread, That I must eat alone.

But I am not all discontent

Though small my share of living, Life took my gifts, and left me none, But I have had the giving.

-Mary Johns Dickinson in Commonwealth.

Figure This One

The Christmas guest was being shown to his bed in the haunted room by his host's faithful but rather sinister_ Iooking retainer. At the door of the room they paused.

"By the wa!," said the guest, {,has anything_+r_un_ usual ever happened in this room?"

"Not for over fifty years, Sir," replied the servant.

"And what happened then?', asked the guest, with a sigh of relief.

"A gentleman who spent the night here, appeared at breakfast the next morning," was the reply.

The Cottage Class Writer

By Thomas Dreier

Long ago, in thinking about my own k in the world, I decided that there was a place. f man capable of writing cottage thoughts, just as man to write cathedral thoughts. is a place for a to the cottage class. After all is as much ce rendered by one who builds cottages f the millions to live in, in which the few rnay as by one who worship.

IfI f would m every cottage a miniature cathedral, table be an altar, and each meal would be should be regarded as being the simple happenings of the of communion. Every sentence spoken be a sermon in the sense that uplifts and makes those hear it finer and better and happier.

Religion and daily living ot be separated. Religion must not be something apar from rnen's lives. It must be an integral part of their ily thoughts and actions.

Let us learn to day, and by so doing create for ourselves a state of heaven wherever we find ourselves.

The

fn moonshine districts {t" -"ter and is drunk Iike w ideas about what drunklnness a district village one Sunday a man lying unthe broiling sun, conscious in the middle oI his mouth gaping open, whiskey jug by his side. A crowd

"He's drunk." said:

But a woman ickly spoke up. "No he ain't," she said. "f jest seen ngers move."

LOP.SIDED

The only thing worse than putting a ten dollar license on a five dollar car is wasting a twenty-five dollar beauty treatment on a thirty cent face.

The kiss of two who as sacred as the host in table, "is so strong "ft wouldn't do "The coffee is too

"This butter," at the breakfast

5na "n{ the coffee." boarder number two. ,,

,.. .ORRIE:W.HAMILTON, Secretary-Manager, Lumbbrinen's Service Bureau, San Diego

San Diego is completing a quite satisfactory building year. The building permts amount to twice as much as they did last year, and there has been new housing provided for 798 families as compared with 180 in 1934.

The outlook for 1936 is, at the moment, nothing of a startling nature. There see(ns to be quite a bit of money here to-invest in good building securities which has been the case for some time. Therefore, we expect building will continue at about the pace established this year, as there are no big buildings being p'lanned for 1936 for San, Diego.

CHAS. SCHLEEF, Secretary, Swayne Lumber Company, Oroville

We, of course, are manufacturers and rvholesalers ex.clusively, and m'arket our products ov-er a wide area covering practically every state in the Union and extending to seveial foreign markets. From a retail point of view, we are not well informed as to the outlook in the territory adjacent to our operation; however, believe there is a bettei feeling due principally to improved conditions in agriculture.

It is our opinion that regardless of the demand lumber prices returned to the mills will have to be substantially inireased to offset the additional burdens placed upon manufacturers in the form of pay roll taxes and other regulatory Iegislation, both State and Federal. Necessarily these additidnal costs of production m,ust be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices.

ROBERT W. BAIRD Home Builders Store, Carlsbad

This year has been best since 1932. Next year looks better now than this year did a year ago at this same time.

E. L. BULLEN, Homeland Building Co., National City

The lumber business will be better in 1Q36, especially for the larger producers and vendors. The sntaller dealers will probably be unable to make more than expensesand taxes. This is true because capital and government are both as yet unwilling to be interested in anything but "big business". The presidential campaign will hurt,businesi this year more than at any time in the historv of the nation. There will be riots, strikes and seriou5 11n1s5f-e1 worse, because we have not yet learned that government is more than just holding office and creating alphabetical combinations.

FRANK W. TROIVER' ' ' ', '.. Trower Ldmber Co.. San Francisco

There is somet\ing about that turn around the corner into the New Year/ that inspires confidence among lumbermen. Often it is nothing more substantial than the wish being father to the thought. But after discount'ing all of the liabilities in the situation, we do have left 4-sblid basis for renewed faith in the prospects for betfle?briilding business in 1936. Stocks at the Fir. Redwood and Pine mills are well in hand; very few items are above normal quantities. Statistically, the chief woods of the Pacific Coast are in good form. Building loans are much easier to obtain on easy terms and the tremendous advertising campaign of the Federal Housing Administration is bound to bring in a big volume of new business. We feel that the lum6er trade in California is in better condition than for some years past. Many of the lumbermen's difficulties could be overcome, or at least greatly reduced, by more co-operation. The two largest selling fields in the State show a fine increase in volume, but very inadequate selling prices. The human element is a greater deterrent against prosperity than any other factor. If we can have more of ttre Putt-Together spirit in 1936 we shall prove that our confidence in the future is not misplaced.

A. C. HANSEN, Secretary, S. H. Chase Lumber Co., San Jose

1935 has given us a good increase over 1934, and rve believe by all indications that 1936 will have a much larger increase than 1935.

Many are contemplating building homes and making repairs, for the reason that loans are mttch easier to be had.

FRED E. CONNER.

Builders' Supply llouse, Nevada City

Concerning the business outlook for 1936 reminds me of our late Maik Trvain's observation of the weather. Said he : "I have heard a lot of talk concerning the weather, but I have never known anyone who could do anything about ;r "

Leaving politics out of it. I do not believe the world has gone crazy. Where anyone lives and where he is interested ind has interests, that should be the nicest place in the u'orld. Ours is, primarily, a mining community and active. Re,cently the process of mining has greatly improved and quoting several key men in the mining industry in Nevada County, several years of mining activity should follow, hence, financially minded men should come this way. Climatically. Nevada City is ideal and well represented by progressively minded people.