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Brice & Howard Trucking Co.

l5l2 East 9th St.-Los Angeles, Cal.-TUcker B4?0

LUMBER YARD FOR SALE

Los Angeles and Southern California lumber yards for sale. Address Box C-480, Care California Lumber Merchant.

LARGE LUMBER CONCENTRATION YARD FOR SALE OR LE.ASE

Located in Houston, Texas. Big steel shed, overhead electric crane and locomotive crane. On paved highway, rail and water transportation. Fully equipped for low cost handling of West Coast products and heavy tirnbers.

Address

VAUGHAN LUMBER CO,, P. O. Box 1447. Houston. Texas.

Position Wanted

By experienced lumber salesman-mill, retail or wholesale. Also experienced lumber buyer, estimator and line yard manager. Best of references. Address Box C-531. care California Lumber Merchant.

Wants Position

Familiar with every phase of Soft and Hardwood Lum_ ber, Sash, Door and Millwork. Estimating from plans, cost accountant, auditor, etc. Address Box C_52g. care California Lumber Merchant

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Ponderosa \(/.y Proves a B. C. Waterborne Lumber

Successlul Firebreak Exports Show Gain

The Ponderosa Way, an 800-rnile firebreak 200 feet wide, separating the timber from the brush conntry on the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valley ltoundaries of the central and northern national forests of California proved its value during the fire season of 1934. Accorcling to the San Francisco headquarters of the Forest Service this firebreak stopped nine out of eleven large fires from spreading into the timbered regions above the Ponderosa Way.

Forest officers consider this a good record in view of the unfinished condition of parts of this, the rvorld's longest firebreak. Two of the eleven fires rvhich swept up to the Ponderosa Way rvere carriecl over it by exceptionally high rvinds rvhich r,vould have rendered any firebreak useless. The Ponderosa Way stopped a total of 15 miles of going fires rvith a large saving of valuable timber and rvatershed cover.

Chips From the Forests

Fighting brush fires with a wind machine, consisting of an airplane propeller mounted in reverse position and cipa_ ble of creating a 90-mile gale, is being experimentecl with by forestry authorities in Southern California. The wind blows the flames back and throws great clouds of dust and sand into the very teeth of the fire, smothering it.

Washington, D. C., December 29.-British Columbia waterborne lumber exports (including some logs) from the principal B. C. ports during the first ten months of this year totaled 806,188 M bd. ft., as compared with SgZ,2l9 M ft. in the same period of 1933, a gain of 32 per cent, states reports from Vice Consuls Nelson p. Meeks, at Vancouver, and Robert E. Newcomb, at Vi,ctoria, made public by the Forest Products Division of the Department of Commerce.

October 1934 B. C. lumber exports totaled 23,386 M bd. {t. compared with 61,965 Mft.in September 1934, and, 76,469 M ft. in October 1933. (U. S. exports of Douglas fir squared timber.and b,oards, planks, and scantlings totaled 55,674 M bd. ft.in October;68,317 Mft.in September 1934; and 40,215 N{ ft. in October 1933).

British Columbia waterborne lumber exports to the principal markets during the first ten months of 1934 compared lvith same period of 1933 were, respectively, as follows:

To the United States 2,771 M ft. compared with 14,315 M ft., a decrease of over 80 per ,cent; to the United Kingdom and Continent (largely to the U. K.) 368,590 M ft. compared with 185,409 M ft., a gain of nearly 100 per cent; to the Orient (Japan and China) 240,022 M ft. compared with 251,748 M ft., a decline of about 4 per ,cent; to Australia and New Zealand 160,632 M ft. compared with 115,920 M ft., a gain of nearly 40 per cent.