Record Low for Lumber Production

Washington, Dec. Z9.-Lumber production in 1932 will be less than 1Q000,000,000 feet, lower than for more than sixty years, according to the National Lumber Manufac, turers Association, basing this figure upon reports from the representative larger sawmills of the country which indicate a production drop of 42 per cent as compared with 1931.

U. S. Census figures for 1931, just released, give production of 16,522,643,WO feet, lowest in 50 years. Preliminary report of large mills last July comparing 1931 with 1930, showed decline of 33.5 per cent which was within one per cent of the National Lumber Trade Barometer relation for the two years. Final figures for 1931 show decline of 36.6 per cent, the loss in small mill production being greater than in the large mills. Doubtless this loss will be repeated in 1932.

The Census Bureau shows decrease of 1931 lumber production as compared with l9D of 55.2 per cent and the value of the output at the mills of timber products and lumber in 1931 as only 35 per cent of what it was in 1929. The 1931 total is $441,587,203. 'Wage-earners in 1931 in the industry averaged 53 per cent fewer than in l9D and wages paid suffered decline of 63 per cent.'

The year 1931 was the first in which Douglas fir production exceeded that of Southern pine. In 1930 six species each cut more than a billion feet; in 1931, only threeDouglas fir, 4,648,455,000 feet ; Southern pine, 4,4D,643,AOO feet and Ponderosa pine,1,822,46,000 feet. The decline in production in these three species as compared with 1930 was respectively 28 per cent, 40 per cent and 30 per cent. Output in 1931 of the three other species, each of which produced more than a billion feet of lumber in 1930, fell to the following in 1931; hemlock 960,431,000 feet or 37 per cent below 1930; oak, 953,559,000 feet, 43 per cent below 1931 ; white pine, 715,504,000 feet or 35 per cent below pfevious year. No more than 35Q000,000 feet was produced of any other species in 1931.

Washington and Oregon are still the leading states in lumber production with output of. 3,X)7,997,W feet in Washington and 2,628,035,000 feet in Oregon. The output of five states, each of which produced more than a billion feet of lumber in 1930 was as follows in 1931:

Florida in 1931 produced 576,626,W feet; Arkansas, 507,715,000 feet; North Carolina, 500,802,000 feet. States whose output was between 250,000,000 and 500,000,000 feet in 1931 were Georgia, Idaho, South Carolina, Wisconsin, Virginia, Tennessee and Michigan.

Appointed Traffic Manager Make Changes at Branch Yards

Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 6.-Frank A. Nelson has been appointed Traffic Manager'of the Long-Bell Lumber Sales Corporation to suc,ceed R. S. Davis, deceased. Mr. Nelson will handle all matters pertaining to traffic problems.

He joined the Long-Bell organization in 1917 as chief clerk of the traffic department. In l92O he was made traffic manager of several Long-Bell railroads in the South.

His entire business experien'ce has been in the railroad field-in 1898 with the Kansas City, Pittsburgh and Gulf (now the Kansas City'southern Ry.)-in lX)7 with the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient-in 1910 he became gen' eral agent in Kansas City for that road-and in 1911 he was appointed traffic manager for their Texas lines and was stationed at San Angelo, Texas-and in 1915 he came to Kansas City as traveling freight agent for the International and Great Northern.

Fred Palmer Laid Up

Changes in management at:several of their branch yards 'were recently made by the Patten-Blinn Lumber Co,, of Los Angeles.

J. C. Sammons, formerly manager of the company's yard at Santa Monica has been transferred to Long Beach as manager of their yard there. Frank M. Wise, who has been manager of the Beverly Hills' yard, will succeed Mr. Sammons as manager of the Santa Monica yard. August Voglesang, who has been connected with the company's branch yard on West Washington Blvd., near Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, has been appointed manager of the yard at Moneta. J. B. Dausman has been appointed manager of the Hermosa Beach yard and E. P. Bradford has been named manager of the Alhambra yard; both Mr. Dausman and Mr. Bradford were formerly connected with the L. W. Blinn Lumber Co. for a long period.

Dick Loveday R Turns From Eastern Trip

Dick Loveday, Loveday Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has returned from a three weeks' trip in the East spent at Chicago, Ill.

H.ppy New Year

Here is a New Year dawningDawning for you and for me; Smiling, it brings a challenge, What will its story be?

Plastic it comes to our moulding, Potent for shade and for light; Into what shapes shall we form it, Toiling by day and by night?

Fair are our dreams as we meet it, Here is the world made new; Will it fulfill its promise, May we our faith renew? May we be somewhat kinder, Breaking the rusted chains, Turning our eyes to the future, Sharing with others our gains.

Here is a New Year dawning, Merry the bells and gay, Bringing the old time gladness Into the new born day; This is a new beginning, Strong may our courage be, Earnest our fresh endeavors, Truer the visions we see.

"Happy New Year," we're saying, Greeting of hope and of cheer, Bidding good bye to old'32 With never a sigh or a tear; Taking the new deal offered ' With eager and willing hands, So, Here's to a Happy New Year To all of earth's far-flung lands. A. Merriam Conner.

New Yard in San Francisco

F. L. "Fritz" Dettmann and E. A. "Eddie" Allen, both of whom were for many years with Pope & Talbot, and recently with the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company, San Francisco. have started in the retail lumber business at 20ffi Evans Avenue, San Francisco, where they will occupy a part of the site previously used by the Chas. R' McCormick Lumber Company. The new business will be operated under the name of the Allen & Dettmann Lumber Company.

Tom Nordby Takes In Football Game

Tom Nordby, Nordby Lumber & Box Co., Portland, Ore., took in the Pittsburgh-Southern California football game at the Pasadena Rose Borvl on New Year's day. He came south on the maiden trip of the S. S. Santa Rosa of the Grace Line. His wife accompanied him on the trip. The Nordby Lumber & Box Co. operate a mill at Bingen, Wash.

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