Chips From the Forest

California's share in the receipts from the national forests within the State is g496,977 for the fiscal year 1930, or almost 14 per cent more than for the previous fiscal year, according to Regional Forester S. B. Show of the U. S. Forest Service. This amount has iust been turned over to the State and will be distributed among the 39 counties in rvhich national forests are lo,cated. Fideral law requires the U. S. Forest Servi,ce to return to the State 25 pef cent of- all receipts from the sale and nse of timber, forage and other resources, and this annual contribution has incleasecl steadily from 952,183 in 1908.

Tree specimens found buried in a clay forrnation beneath a glacial drift about 120 leet below the original surface at 5th Ave. and Bell St., Seattle. Wash.. have-been identified by the U. S. Forest Service as a close relative of the coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens). Geologists estimate that that wood has been buried for about 40,000 years.

The Department of Agriculture stands sixth in the number of employees of all the Government departments. The personnel numbers 25,736, according to figures compiled by the Civil Service Commission. There are 20,558 men and 5,178 women. One of the largest bureaus of the Depart- ment of Agriculture is the U. S. Forest Servi,ce, charged rvith the administration and protection of 159,750,000 a&es of Government land included in 149 national forests, which has 2,170 permanent employees.

The United States now uses 4 million tons of newsorint yearly, or twice the amount required ten years ago. Newsprint _imports amount to 2.6 -million tons, largely from Canada, with Newfoundland and the Scandinavian coutttries sendir-rg small quantities. Twenty years ago this country was self-supporting as to newsprint. The forests of the Territory of Alaska administered- by the U. S. Forest Service are able to supply one million tbns of newsprint annually in perpetuity.

A plantation of big trees (Sequoia .washingtoniana) establish"4 17 years ago in the Humbug region of the Klamath National Forest in northern Californii has shown great ability to live and thrive under adverse conditions, according to reports ofU. S. forest rangers. Out of 482 big tree seedlings planted, 275 or over 50 per cent, are alive and thrifty. The 'tallest tree is 15 feet high, the average height is about 9 feet, and some of the trees are already bearing cones. The site tvhere these trees wer,e planted is hotter and contains less moisture than the situations where big tree groves occur in the Sierra Nevada,-the only p)ace in the r,vorld where this species is found grorving naturally.

f Pacihc Lumber Company v Moves Offices

The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, will occupy the entire 24th floor of the Shell Building, 100 Bush Street, starting February l.

Th9 telephone number will remain the same as ar present, GArfield 1181.

Three of the rooms will be finished in Redwood, and each of these will be a reproduction of a room in a famous old Colonial home.

Samples of Redwood and literature will be displayed in the entrance lobby.

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