Under the Pines and Redwoods Gathered These Timely Tales Are

PINE BEETLE KILLS MILLIONS OF FEET OF TIM. BER IN CALIFORNIA FORESTS

More than 100,000,000 feet of timber has been killed in the last three years by pine beetles in 'the Happy Camp-Lava Beds region of the Modoc National Forest, reports the United States Forest Service. A recent examination by experts of 430,000 acres of yellow pine timberland, 145,000 acres of which is in private ownership, indicates'that about 150,000 feet per section has been destroyed. This represents two per cent of the total estimated stand of timber on the area.

The beetle which is causing the death of this timber is the well-known Western pine bark beetle, which for years has ravaged the forests of the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Coast States, and against which stringent control measures are now being d,irected by private owners and Federal igencies in Southern Oregon and Northern California. A more detailed examination of the Modoc Fbrest area will be made this spring, and every effort used to secure funds to control the depredations of this beetle pest.

Oden Now With Thompson Organization

E. G. Oden has joined the forces of H. L. Thomson and will act as outside lumber salesman in the San Fran'cisco district. Mr. Oden was formerly connected with the Henry Colwell Lime and Cement Co., dealers in building materials, and spent eight years with this con,cern. For a good many years he has been closely affi'liated with the lumb,er industry and has a large acquaintance-ship among the lumber dealers of the Bav District.

FRAMBES VISITS IN S. F. ON WAY NORTH

W. P. Frambes. of the well known wholesale firm of Fletcher & Frambes of Los Angeles, was a recent visitor at the San Francisco ofifrces of the Andrew F. Mahony Lumber Company. Later he left fbr the Northwest to cail on his mill connections. He expects to go as far north as Vancouver, B. C. and will be in the north about'three weeks before he returns to California.

Storms Delay Lumber Movement

Indicative of the way the recent storms along the coast have effected the movement of lumber, was the experience of the lumber carrier La Merced, requiring 22 days for the run from the Columbia river to Los Angeles harbor. La Merced went hundreds of mi'les out into th,e Pacific to avoid the storms but ariived with her cargo of 2,000,000 feet intact.

HUFBAUER RETURNS F'ROM MIDDLE WEST

J. R. Hufbauer of the Red River Lumber Company's organization, has returned to the Los Angeles office of the company from a trip to Oklahoma aud Kansas. He reports business prospects in the Middle West as very promlsrng,

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