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Brice & Floward Trucking Co. --,,--------------------25
Cetifornia Panel & Veneer Co. ----------------I.B.C.
Celifotnia Redwood Acsociation, The ---------*
Catifornia Vhole.cale Lumber Aoc'n.-------------*
California Sew Woilc' -------------23
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Loop Lumber Company -----------13
McCormick Lumber Co., Char. R. ---------------f, Moore Mill & Lumber Co. ---------,-------------------21
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Subccription Pricc, $2.00.pcr Ye8r Single Copicr, 25 centr och.
' Lumber production and new businesg received during the nlveek ended February 3 at the sawnri[s of'the country were bomewhat less t{ran dudng the two preceding weeks; shipments nrere heavier than for any week of the year, according to reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers AssociatiJn from .regronal associatioirE covering the operations of leading hard: woo{ and softwood mills. .The rqrorts were made by l2O7 Ameiricaa nrills whose production was 142rS10rfrD feei; shipmenti'143r066,(XX) feet; -orders 165,21O,O00 feet.
During the first five weeks oL lgr4, identical mill reports ahow production 37 per cent above t'hat of tht same period of 1933; shipmentsr ll per cent above those of last year, and otders received 23 per''cent above orders of the same 1933
INew 6usin6; -repixted to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended Februagy 3, .by QQ7 mills was q2,675r114 feet against a production of. 75,679pOO feet and ehipments of. 61r768r72E feet. Shipmenta were under produc{on by \E.4% and current sales weie over productiox-by g.Z7o. Orders boo&ed for the week .by this group of identical mills i,vere under the precedinS w;et< bg 15,OOO,OOO feet or 15.32Vo.
The California Redwood Association reported production for ilrc week from 2O mills as 62O4.WO feet, shipnients 61828,000 feet, and new business 4p17rfiD feet. Orderi on hand at the
A. J. Morley, president of the Saginaw Timber Co., Aberdeen, Wash., was a caller. recently at the offices of the Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, Northern California representatives for his company's famous "saginaw Brand" Red,Cedar.ghingles. Mr. Morley traveled by autoniobile, and also visited Los Angeles and San Diego. Enjoy
end of the week wete 28,113.(XX) feet ll identical millr reported production 58 per cent gr€ater and new bucincss ll pcr cent greater than for *. *t w1:k las; fcar.
New business "-Lroeng to 3Or276rNO Leq ot t2 pec ccnt belon' the previous wee&r-was reported bv the Veetjrn Plnc Association for the week ended FAbruary l. Shipments for the week were t0r659rOOO feet and production 20-r16or(X)O fcet Onders for the year to date have been54 per cent above actud productiotr.
4o7 hardwood arrl ,"oJrr"a 1r"* l*irro, for the week ended february 3 as 21,19O,fiD feetr or ll per cent abovc production and rhipmentc for the same weeh ier:e l9r423rAA0 teet, or .5- per cent above production. Production war 19,335rM f.eet.
The Califoroi" -.r1". ir*rarrit L oone improvemcnt has been noted during t{re past few weeks. A decioion on the Fir -cargo freight raqe question is expected soono and as thc retailers are getting better prices on iheir sales they fd. vty much encouraged- With the spring months approaching, a seesond upturn in business is lo&ed-for.
Unsold stoc&s on the public docks at Los Angeles harbor tgtale{ 536,0q) feet on February 12. Cargo arJvab at Loc Angeles _harbor for dre weeL ended February 12 totald 5r 425,OOO feet, which included 7 cargoes of Fir carrying 3r9SOr0O0 feer, and 3 cargoes of Redwood -*ith t,44j,o0o fe;. -59 vccryls in the coastwise l"Tb"t oervice were operating on February t2; 45 vessels were laid up.
The S.S. Point Loma, which was in dry dock at San Pedro for two weeks undergoing annual inspection and geheral repairs, went back into service on February 9, starting on its r.egular run to Coos Bay, Reedsport.'and Grays Harbor. The S.S. Point Loma is operated by the
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By Jack Dionne
Montague Glass died the other day; a kindly, lovable humorist, whose writings gave the world much to smile at. To the reading world he will be chiefly remembered as the creator of "Potash and Perlmutter." But to me he will live chiefy as the author of the keenest Christmas card I ever saw. Glass was an orthodox Jew. His wife is gentile and Christian. They lived their lives respecting the religious beliefs of each other. One Christmas years ago he sent out a personal card that read: "Commemorating the birthday of my wife's Savior." To me, that's the champion !
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I got a kick out of this one. The optimist said to the pessimist: "Cheer up ! Some of these days you'll wake up and wonder where the depression has gone." "ii wiii have to hurry," said the pessimist, "or some of these days the depression will wake up and wonder where I've gone."
The lumber business ,J;*:. That's a generat statement and means the industry generally. The degree of improvement is varied, and has to do with species, territories, and various other things. But the general condition IS better; and contrasted with conditions through November and December, it is MUCH better.
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At least, every time a lumberman-be he manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer-sells some lumber, he realizes a profit. A year ago at this time when a mill shipped a thousand feet of lumber it shipped at least five dollars in cash along with it. They were losing at least that much on everything they cut. * * *
Today the decent price they get for what they sell-even though the volume be small-is a tremendous help both to their purses and their morale. And when they get the chiseling eliminated-for there is still price chiseling and lots of it going on-things will be better.
The morale of the ,"U""at, nl, irr"r"""ed and improved decidedly more than the actual physical conditions; which is a very hopeful sign. The other day I had a letter tl'at nearly knocked me out of my chair. It read: "Quote us on some modest advertising; we think it is time for the lumber industry to show some signs of life, and we can't do it in any better fashion than by advertising our wares
in our lumber journals." Nothing like that had happened to me in five years.
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Which reminds me that the Lumber Code Authority has asked the NRA for permission to collect 5 cents per thousand on lumber production and use it for advertising lumber. I'm against that-stoutly, strongly, and enthusiastically. I have two reasons for feeling that way.
The first is an entir"r, .JroJn ."". I'rn one of those queer, particular humans, who like to eat, wear good clothes, ride in a motor car, and enjoy the comforts of life. In order to achieve those selfish desires I must sell advertising. Ijve been losing money for three years operating iumber journais. Some of rhese days i want ro mai<e some again. And if a five-cent collection is taken up to advertise lumber through any central agency, it \ilill have the effect of shutting off advertising from individual firms, and will mean that the depression will go on indefinitely for the lumber press. That's the first objection.
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The second one is that I don't think advertising of that sort can be done effectively, practically, or productively. I think it would be money wasted. I don't think the Lrimber Code Authority or anyone else can do the job suggested with any degree of success. When you consider all the products, and all the species, and all the departments of the industry and its adjuncts that come under the lumber code, it must appear to any practical student of the industry that the thing is utterly impossible.
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In my judgment every efrort of the past to nationally advertise lumber in general has been a total loss. The only effective way lumber can be effectively publicized is by dividing it into trade territories, and then advertise specific things, be they species, particular products, or what not.
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A friend of mine uttered a mighty truth the other day in publicly piotesting against the passage of another of these moratoriu(n laws in one of our states. He declared that "The INVESTOR is the forgotten man, today." Right ! Chimes right in with what I tried to say in my own clumsy fashion in this column last issue. The man who puts his money into investments that are HELPFUL,
that furnish employment, business activity, money turnover, etc., catches unshirted Hades on every'hand. The guy who hides his money, or puts it into unhelpful securities-goes unscathed. We are going to put people back into GENUINE employment in this country when we lighten the burdens of the HELPFUL man, be he investor or otherwise, and put the load on the OTHER FELLOW.
As long as the irrrru"tol, *n"r" active money buys the mortgage that builds the building; furnishes the funds that finance the turning of the wheels of industry; creates all the real employment that exists, has to bear the brunt of all the alleged efiorts for "relief," men with money are going to fear to use it-to invest it. The best way I know to increase employment is to help the fellow who must furnish it. ***
I know a man with about five million dollars, which he keeps invested in whatever manner he thinks best. Most of that money in the past has been invested in business things, mortgages, stocks and bonds of business enterprises, etc. But for the past year he has been liquidating his rnoney, and buying government securities. And THAT sort of thing is what's killing business. We've need to do something drastic to reverse that sort of thinking-and investing. For HE is creating UNEMPLOYMENT every time he switches a dollar in that fashion.
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CWA money has sure made the flowers bloom and the birdies sing. It goes into circulation 100 per cent, and its effect is amazingly apparent everywhere. On the other
hand take the money the government loans farmers for moftgage reliel The farmer gets the money, goes to the bank and pays the mortgage, and that's the end of ttrat money. It retires from circulation, and, outside of afrording needed relief to the farmer, it helps no one. CWA money goes into circulation and changes hands a dozen times a week.
I have a feeling that th: trr""" of money congress has voted the President, the use of which he has not divulged, is going to be devoted to furnishing credit for business. Jesse Jones told the banks again the other day that they must extend credit to help the recovery program. That's idle effort, for the banks are not going to do it. If business is to get credit in the near future, goverrunent is going to have to provide it-directly. I have a notion Mr. Roosevelt intends to see that business gets the credit it must have if it is to expand, thrive, and employ.
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Still no announcement of definite relief for building in sight. Still no credit. A man I know who has never been out of a job and has a very decent reputation, went to his bank the other day to borrow $150. They asked him what he wanted it for. He said it was to repair the roof of his home. They told him they were sorry but they were not lending money for such purposes. He asked tfiem what purposes they ARE lending rnoney for? That was two weeks ago, but they haven't answered yet.
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I know another man worth at least a quarter of a million dollars. He is planning on building a home, and wants to /Continued on Page 8)
With its wealth of real negro hunor, goes on and on
. The orders still come in . . . Every new book owner remembrs some one else who loves a good darkey story-and so the story spreads . o . Mahe someone h"ppy with acopy.o,Ithelps drive arvay the blues.MR. JACK DIONNE, 318 C*ntrcl Bldg., IO8 Vest Skth St., Ios Angelas, &lit. Enclosed find tt.N tor uhich tetd nr,c o aog ot "Cullud Fun."
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put up half the cash and borrow the other half on a first mortgage. He hasn't found anyone interested in buying the paper. So he isn't building yet. There are thousands of such cases everywhere. Building will boom when'reasonable credit is found.
Some of these days I confidently expect to see Uncle Sam open actual home loan mortgage banks in every city and center, for the sole and only purpose of buying good building paper at low interest rates on long term loans. The money will be used for repairing, remodeling, and for building new homes. Operated in simple business fashion those banks will do more to'put men to work than even CWA has done, and the building work will be 100 per cent REAL and not artificial. And, the government will get a much greater percentage of the loaned money back than they will the rnoney loaned in any other direction.
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Honest, friends, I've been kidding about some of the suggestions I have made in these columns as maybe some of my friends suspected. But so far as this suggested home loan bank is concerned there is nothing else on top of this earth that would make a boom country out of a bum country half as quickly as that would. No foolin'!
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I like this guy Al Smith. I like the way he thinks, the force with which he expresses himself, and the courage that bids him talk when the talking time comes. fn one of his recent writings he expresses his utter disbelief that any substitute can be found for "initiative, force, foursquare down-rightness, and hard-bitten self-reliance" in rebuilding the prosperity of this country. Righto ! ***
All of the great and good characteristics that our fathers and mothers believed in are as needed in this country today as they were fifty years ago. More so ! Because it was straying abroad from these fundamentals that got us into trouble. Honesty, thrift, sagacity, hard work, and eternal sticktoitiveness are going to be major elements of success and worth-whileness in the future as in the past. ***
Facts and figures show tremendous improvement in the motor car industry. The reasons? They are two in number. First, it's easy to finance the sale of an automobile. Second, great merchandising. It is almost impossible for a lumber dealer today to finance the building of a home. But ttr'e auto dealer can finance the sale of an auto to al-
most any employed person. The machinery for such financing is ready and easily available. The finance companies suffer few losses. If a buyer fails to pay they promptly repossess the car and immediately sell it, and seldom lose anything on the deal. Often they make a profit. That's why this looks like a motor car year, instead of a home building year. That and the fact that the motor car industry is doing everything on earth to induce people to buy cars, while the home builder is handicapped on all sides in his home selling efforts. ,F ,B 'F
The big automobile building cities will boom this year. Detroit, stricken for the past several years, has a huge upward swing. Henry Ford alone employed over 100,000 men in January. That's a city of nearly a half million people by itself. And, he gave his men a voluntary wage increase in addition to putting tens of thousands to work. And, what helps one city and one section, helps all cities and all sections. >i,f*
I find that elderly rnen are as a rule pessimistic about our present situation, and about the things that are being done to promote recovery. This is not strange. To the old business man there is but one god-EXPERIENCE. And, when he sees us traveling strange and unheard-of paths that have never been trod before by either man or devil-it frightens him. There are exceptions, naturally, but they only prove the rule. ***
That, perhaps, is why the average bank seems as timid and frightened today as it did a year ago; simply because most banks are owned or controlled by men of advanced years. Lacking the buoyancy and enthusiasm of youth, there is fear in their hearts, and a dragon lurks behind every business bush.
The other day I sat in the office of the big president of a big bank, and talked about conditions. He asked "What would you do,to hurry up recovery, if you had your way?" I said, "I'd slap such a tax on every idle dollar in this and every other bank in the country, that the guys who owned them would break into a trot to get down here and get them out and put them to work creating jobs." That was when he called the guard. **+
But as I went out I had a chance to add: "I'd even put a stiff tax on semi-idle money, such 1s that invested in
government securities." He said, "You can't tax tax-free securities." I said, "I wouldn't tax the tax-free SECURITIES; I'd tax the MONEY invested in the securities." He said, "You couldn't do that." I said, "The Hell we couldn't; we've done everything else on earth that we thought couldn't be done; why not this?" That was when the banker fainted. He could dish it out. but he couldn't take it.
Talk about money traveling in circles ! RFC put the pressure on the banks to make them take cash for capital stock. (RFC had a notion a lot of loose cash would make them loosen up the credit strings). The banks held back. RFC insisted. So a lot of them grabbed it. And, tore right over and bought themselves some nice new government bonds with it. And. the old vicious circle remains unbroken.
Plan to so live during 1934 that, should you die during the year, the preacher might be safe in saying some nice things about you without having those present crowd around for a look at you to see if they hadn't got into the wrong funeral.
E. D. Kingsley, president of the West Oregon Lumber Co., Linnton, Ore., manufacturers of the widely known West Oregon Super Finish, recently spent a week in San Francisco. While there Mr. Kingsley made his headquarters at the offices of Wendling-Nathan Co., California agents for his company.
Mr. Kingsley, who is a past president of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, was a pioneer many years ago in the introduction of high grade Fir finish throughout the country.
Many carloads of California wines from the famous wineries of the Italian Swiss Colony at Asti, Calif., have been shipped in the last few months all over the United States. in boxes made from Redwood "Boxboard", a new product of the Hammond Lumber Company.
The company has produced and shipped up to date 2O carloads of these boxes, 500O boxes to a car. The majority of these have been used for the'shipment of wines, but several shipments have been made to The Grolier Society" publishers of the well known Book of Knowledge, who {rnd the box particularly suitable for shipping their sets, of heavy volumes.
The box is made of "Boxboard", with ends of solid R.edrvood. "Boxboard" is made of Redwood slats and jute lined with kraft paper. The two main advantages claimed for the container are its light weight and strength. It compares favorably with any other type of container for withstanding rough usage, and a feature that recommends it to some users is that it can be used a number of tirnes..
Retail Lumber and Building Material Code Authority (Northern California) members met at the Palace Hotel,. San Francisco, February'2. Ralph Duncan, Merced Lumber Co., Merced, chairman, presided. The principal business was the discussion of uniform terms and conditions, of sale applicable to Division No. 2 of the retail lumber and. bqilding material industry.
James Tyson, president of The Chas. Nelson Co., Sar Francisco, is spending some time at Palm Springs, where, he is recuperating from a recent,illness.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 3O-Problems presented by the export phase of the lumber industry's business occupied the attention of the Lumber Code Authority at its opening session here today. The subject was brought up by the appeal of the Hardwood Division from an order iartially exempting lumber for export from production control. 'fhe claim has been frequently made that increased costs of lumber production and quota limitations under NRA are restricting exports.
Wilson Compton, general manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association and Counsellor to the Lumber Code Authority, emphasized the importance of preserving the country's export markets, and, upon his motion, the Authority directed the appointment of a special committee of representatives from the divisions substantially interested in export trade, to consider such equitable plans as will provide each branch of the industry with reasonable options in the matter of production allotments and minimum cost-production prices for export lumber.
Axel Oxholm, chief of the lumber division of the Departm€nt of Commerce, urged the Authority to forego any action tending to attempt an increase of export business by enabling lumbermen to cut prices, declaring that price slashing had made foreign buyers distrustful of American price policy. Mr. Oxholm contends that a firm price policy, coupled with a vigorous trade extension campaign abroad, would restore export business, whereas price cuts would not.
W. Averill Harriman, Assistant NRA Administrator, assured the Authority of the cooperation of the Administration. He stated that public criticism of the lumber code, while predicated somewhat upon imperfections which were susceptible of correction, was largely prompted by misunderstanding and would disappear as people learned that the administration of the code was in the public interest.
Lee Robinson, president of the Hardwood Manufacturers Institute, L. S. Beale, secretary of the Hardwood Coordinating Committee, Mark Fleishel of the Cypress Division, E. W. Demarest of the West Coast Logging and Lumber Division, and others spoke in favor of the Hardwood Coordinating Committee's appeal. They alleged that the resolution of the Control Committee, which, if approved by the administration, rvould result practically in exempting from production control 5O per cent of all lumber cut for export, would tend to force every operator into the export business, with a resulting chaos in export prices and a shrinkage of the allotments to such small mills as could not compete in the export field.
Speaking against the appeal, Charles Green of Laurel. Miss., and President C. C. Sheppard of the National Lumier Manufacturers Association, urged the high prices obtainable for some export.orders, and the menace of Cana,4ian competition.
ft was made clearlv evident bv the discussion that the
export market presented,varying problems to each division and for each species, whereupon Wilson Compton stated that too much was involved to settle the question merely by approving or disapproving the National Control Committee's action. He mentioned the fact that the code as now written had less than a year and a half to run, and deplored any action which would result in destroying the country's export business meanwhile, and pointed out that our former predominance in the export market over Canada -our lumber exports being double those of the Dominion four years ago-had been lost and our position reversed. He then offered the following amendment to the motion to rescind:
"and that a special committee of representatives of the divisions substantially interested in export trade be appointed to consider such equitable plans as will provide reasonable option to the divisions under both Articles 8 and 9 as will encourage the continuance of export trade in American lumber; and report its recommendations to the Lumber Code Authority at this session."
Axel Oxholm, chief of the forest products division of the Department of Commerce, spoke in favor of the motion as amended. He declared that the industry had been throwing away its opportunities by failing to carry on a vigorous trade extension campaign at home and abroad.
The motion to rescind the Control Committee's action, as amended, was passed by an overwhelming majority, members of the Control Committee abstaining from voting, Decisioris on Other Appeals
The Authority then considered the cases of the Stimson Mill Company, of Seattle,- Wash., the Chicago Mill and Lumber Company of Chicago, the Stimson Veneer and Lumber Company and the United Lumber and Timber Company of Memphis, all of whom were appealing from production-control decisions of the Board of Complaints and Appeals, which heard these cases at Memphis, November 27. The Stimson Mill Company of Seattle had appealed originally from a decision of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association; the Hardwood Manufacturers Institute exercised original jurisdiction in the other three cases.
After consideration of the Chicago Mill and Lumber Company appeal in executive session the Authority voted unanimously in favor of the following resolution:
The Authority finds that the mill of the Chicago Mill and Lumber Co., located at Waterproof, Louisiana, is capable of operation, and that pursuant to Article 8 of the code transfer of the allotment from said mill to another mill under the same ownership is authorized; the decision of the Board of Complaints and Appeals denying such transfer is overruled.
In the other three cases the Authority voted to sustain the action of the Board of Complaints and Appeals.
E. A. Goodrich, manager of the Southern California operations of The Union Lumber Company with headquarters in their Los Angeles office, ha6 announced his resignation effective March I, 1934. He has been manager of their operations in Southern California for the past seventeen years. He has not announced his plans for the future but hopes to do so after a short rest. He rvill still continue for some time to make his headquarters at the company's Los Angeles office.
Mr. Goodrich is widely known with the lumber fraternity of California by whom he is held in very high esteem and his many friends wish him success in any future undertaking.
East Bay Hoo Hoo Club will stage its second annual Reveille in Oakland, April 20, according to a decision of the board of directors at their meeting January D. This date was chosen by reason of the fact that retail lumbermen of Northern California u'ill meet on that day in Oakland.
The annual golf tournament will be held on Saturday, April 21.
Councilman W. C. Baker has proposed an amendment to the ordinance adopted by the Los Angeles City Council on last January 5 and which became effective February 8 requiring that all lumber used as underpinnings of all types of buildings in Los Angeles be pressure-treated with creo' sote or its equivalent as a protection against termites.
The proposed amendment provides that the creosote treatment shall not be required if the wood rests on a noncorrodable metal termite shield installed on top of the foundation or if No. 1 Heart Common of Cedar, Cypress or Redwood are used in underpinning and foundation construction.
Councilman Baker's amendment was referred to the Building and Safety Commission and the Building and Safety Committee for recogrmendation. A hearing on the proposed amendment rvill be held in the rooms of the Building and Safety Commission, City Hall, at 2:00 P.M., I\,[onday, February 19.
D. H. Doud, sales manager of the Defiance Lumber Co., Tacoma, \Mash., was a recent Los Angeles visitor where he conferred lvith A. C. Penberthy, manager of the Tacoma Lumber Sales Agency.
Back in the early California Pioneer Days, one of the Forty-niners, Gustavus Ziel, was a vety busy man importing all sorts of European commodities into the port of San Francisco. The firm was ZIEL, BERTHEAU & CO. and was established in San Francisco in 1852.**
The name again appears in more modern times among California foreign traders in the firm of BARG, ZIEL 6a CO.,. established in San Francisco in 1931, in which John Gustavus Ziel, grandson of the Pioneer, was a partnet.
On January lst, 1934, ZIEL sa CO. was organized by John G. Ziel to carry on the business of importing foreign hardwoods' and exporting California sofrwoods. And once again we are very busy importing foreign commodities, this time Oriental Woods. such as
JAPANESE OAK, JAPANESE BIRCH, JAPANESE BEECH, JAPANESE ASH, SIAM AND BURMA TEAK, AUSTRALIAN IRONBARK, SPOTTED GUM' JARRAH, etc.
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The white lady lay with her young baby at her side, and the colored cook was summoned to pass on the new and wonderful thing that had come into the house. After appraising the baby for some moments with much enthusiasm the cook declared:
"Missy, dat sho am a won'erful chile you got."
"Don't you think she's the most beautiful baby you ever
saw?" asked the mother, looking at her baby with undisguised worship.
Immediately the colored woman began backing up.
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The Redwood industry is filling an order of the City and County of San Francisco, booked by The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, for 1,00O,000 feet of irrigation grade Redwood to be used for a cover for the Crystal Springs aqueduct, which is six miles long.
This work is. employing a lot of men, and delivery of the material on time is therefore very important. This is being accomplished as follows: Twenty per cent in six to eight days from date of order, fifty per cent in 2O days, seventy-five per cent in 3O days, and one hundred per cent in 40 days.
The mills report that Redwood is being used more and more for reservoir and aqueduct covers. One of the most recent reservoir jobs was the framing and roofing of the Greenleaf Reservoir for the City of Whittier. This reservoir is 68,000 square feet in area and the work took 166,00O feet of Structural Grade Redwood.
Northern Counties Lumbermen's Club met at the Senator Hotel, Sacramento, February 9. President E. T. Robie, Auburn Lumber Co., Auburn, presided.
Los Angeles, Feb. 4.-Monroe Butler, state manager of the Home OwnerS' Loan Corporation, said today more than 4O00 loans amounting to $11,891,325.56 have been closed in California. Last week the corporation closed 537 loans on small homes, with a total mortgage indebtedness of $1,443,672.52.
Washington, Feb. l.-The Lumber Code Authority today touched the edge of the problem of trade relations with Russia as affected by American recognition when it was confronted with reports of large increases of imports at Pacific ports of Russian ash lumber. It voted to put such lumber under the same minimum prices as Appalachian oak and ash. Similar ruling was made with regard to Asiatic hardwoods.
The delicate question of Russian lumber imports in general, especially of pine, and also of pulpwood, was not taken up. But members of the Authority pointed out that if Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau's order of January 24, suspending regulations in effect since 1931, should result in substantial increase of imports from Russia, relief might be obtained under the National Industrial Recovery Act. These regulations were aimed at imports from four northern districts ol Russia, after findings that convict labor was there used in lumber camps and mills. Imports of convict-made goods are forbiddden under Paragraph 307 of the tariff law-also of such products made by indentured and forced labor.
The Industrial Recovery Act authorizes the President, either of his own motion or upon complaint that imports seriously endanger the operation of codes, to impose limitations upon imports even to the extent of embargo. As the minimum prices established under the lumber code are likely to be attractive to importers of Russian lumber, large increases in such imports are expected. In that event, it was said, the lumber industry would undoubtedly appeal to the President.
George Meissner, Valley Lumber Co., Lodi, left January 25 lor a visit to Tucson, Ariz. He expected to be gone for two or three weeks.
The next dinner meeting of the East Bay Hoo Hoo Club will be held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, on Monday evening, February 26.
Entertainrnent Committee Chairman H. Servall Morton has secured Earle Warren, District Attorney of Alameda County, to speak on the subject of "Organized Crime."
The prevalence of kidnaping, lynching, murder and all forms of racketeering makes Mr. Warren's talk of particnlar interest, and it is expected that there will be a large attendance.
Professor Emanuel Fritz, o{ the department of forestry, University of California, will speak for 15 minutes on the subject of "Termites".
There will also be a musical program.
Henry Willard Taylor, retired lumberman, died at his home in Berkeley, Calif., February 5.
Mr. Taylor, who was born in Boston 75 years ago, came to California at the age of 20. He operated the Taylor Mill & Lumber Co. in Alameda, and retired from business sonre time ago.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Emma Squires Taylor, and two daughters, Miss Ruth Muriel Taylor and Mrs. Chesley J. Roberts, of Berkeley.
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Washington, Jan. 26-Within ninety days, stated C. C. Sheppard, President of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, at the conclusion of the national forest conservation conference here, tonight, all private forest owners subject to the Lumber Code of the NRA will begin to apply rules of forest practice designed to conserve and replenish forest growth. C. Arthur Bruce, Executive Officer of the Lumber Code Authority, said that the body would proceed at once to incorporate basic rules of conservative'forest practice into the Code-also to hasten approval of the detailed rules of forest practice for the respective divisions of the lumber industry.
This u'as the second session of the conference, which, at the suggestion of Wilson Compton, general manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, was called by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace for the purpose of establishing forestry rules and regulations under Article X-the conservation article-of the Lumber Code. The first session was held last October.
The conference was made up about equally of representatives of the forest industries, on the one hand, and of public and private forest agencies and associations, on the other hand. The attendance numbered about one hundred and represented the entire private and public forest areas of the-United States, being about one-fourth of the total land area of the country, supporting the largest group of population of any industry except agriculture.
The conference, whose final action today signalizes the general introduction of conservative forest practices-int_o ihe private forests of the United States, covered two fields of recommendation. One was recommendations as to forestry amendments to the Lumber Code, which have been contemplated since that instrument was adopted, and the other was recommendations as to federal and state legislation and administrative policy required to promote reforestation.
In respect of legislation, federal aid in forest credits to finance sustained yield administration of forests is recommended to the extent of a $200,00O,000 revolving fund. President Roosevelt is asked to lay before state governors a program of deferred taxation designed to meet the problem of carrying timberlands during the financially unproductive period bf growth or regrou,'th. General simplification of local government is urged in order to lighten taxation burdens in sparsely settled timber regions.
Congress was asked to appropriate the entire authorized fire piotection appropriation of $2,500,000, under th"
Clarki-McNaty acli attd incre".e it to $10,000,000 annually. Special consideration of the federal government was recommended in its plans for salvaging timber injured by fire, wind, or insects, to the 325,000 acres of timber in the Tillamook region of Oregon, damaged by fire last August. Elaborate recommendations were made governing cooperative public expenditures for fire control, forest research, proteltion against insects, the conducting of economic surveys, forestry extension work, forest utilization, etc.
Disposal of timber in the public forests should be governed by a policy of extreme conservatism, it was held. It was recommended that the Oregon and California railroad land grant in Oregon, aggregating ,{0 billion feet of timber, should be turned over to the Ln. S. Forest Service as national forest land. This transfer is to include not only portions of the grant classified as forest land, but also all socalled agricultural land, except as it actually is such. The present basis of tax compensation to Oregon counties is to be continued until the middle of 1936. The national forest land acquisition program of the Forest Service, defined in the Copeland report, is to be made operative immediately, with ttie additional acquisition of 150 billion feet of standing timber. Special altention is directed to the possibilities of extension of national forests by donation of private lands under provisions of the Clarke-McNary act of June 7,1924. Farm woodlands, amounting to about 150 million acres, should, it was agreed, be included under the Lumber Code. so far as the conservation measures are included, but not as to manufacturing operations-wages, hours and prices.
The meeting' was commented on by both foresters and lumbermen aJ being an exceptionally harmonious one in view of the fact that the two elements of the conference have, in a sense, been historic opponents. There were no contests in the two days' meeting in which the industry members lined up against the public representatives.
It was presided over by Dean H. S. Graves of the Yale University School of Forestry, and the Secretary was W. L. Hall, Consulting Forester, Hot Springs, Arkansas, and the chairmen of the various committees were as follows: Legislative Committee-J.H. Pratt of Chapel Hill, N. C.; Committee on Taxation and Forest Credits-Geo. F. Tewett. Potlatch Forests, Inc., Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; Com- '-itt""'on Forest Practice-{. C. Sheppard, Clarks, La', President of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association; Committee on Public Timber Disposal and Acquisition-O. iVI. Butler, Secretary, American Forestry Association, Washington, D. C.; Committee on Cooperative Public Expenditures-W. G. Howard, Albany, New York, State Foiester; Committee on Farm Woodlands-R. W. Graeber, (Acting) U. S. Agricultural Extension Service, North Carolina; designated chairman, Fred Brenckman, National Grange, Washington, D. C.
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Congratulations
Whenever a critical question arose in the course of the two days' discussion it was amicably settled with mutual satisfaction. And in the concluding session tonight President Sheppard, of the N,ational Lumber Manufacturers' Association, and U. S. Forester Sitcox, exchanged congratulations and felicitations on the inauguration on a naIional scale of sustained yield lumbering and the simple principles of forest maintenance. Mr. Sheppard assured the foresters of the gathering that the lumber industry was profoundly serious in its intention to practice the forestry
rules and regulations recommended in a general way and to be later formulated by the Lumber Code Authority.
Mr. Silcox said that for his part he accepted the assurances of Mr. Sheppard as to the attitude of the industry and that he looked forward to a new era for the forest industries, in which they would take a leading part in a great social readjustment which must largely hinge upon the question of land utilization. The forests, he pointed out, constitute a large, if not a major part in such proper utilization and predicted that the reforms to which the industry rvas committing itself would ultimately mean the maintenance and development of community life centering around the forest industries and their provident utilization of the forests.
Although debates over the various parts of the legislative and Lumber Code forestry provisions were long and lively, they related almost entirely to changes in the reports of the committees, and a detailed report must await the directed revisions of the reports.
It was decided just before adjournment that the conference should be a continuing body, Secretary Wallace being agreeable, and that an executive committee composed of five public and five private representatives should carry on the work of the conference.
John D. Tennant, Chairman of the Lurnber Code Authority, appointed Col. W. B. Greeley, Secretary and Manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, David T. l\[ason, Manager of the Western Pine Association, Geo. F. Jewett, Potlatch Lumber Industries, Inc., Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, A. G. T. Moore, of the Southern Pine Association, and A. B. Recknagel, Secretary of the Northeastern Lumbermen's Association, as the industry members of the above mentioned executive committee.
Washington, Feb. 3-The N.R.A. has announced that it will hold a hearing here February 7, on the administrator's order of January 5, approving temporary modifications of the method of computing costs and overhead for the Retail Lumber Code, "because of complaints received."
The order in question stated that lumber could not be sold at retail for less than cost, which "shall in no case be less than the effective minimum delivered prices established by the Code Authority of the Code of Fair Competition for the Lumber and Timber Products Industry." Handling and delivery costs were fixed at figures ranging from $4.80 to $6.00, according to wage areas.
Washington, Jan. 31, l934-Appointment of five members to represent public interests on an Executive Committee whose duty it shall be to take promptly such action as it may find appropriate to give effect to the recornmendations of the recent Forest Conservation Conference, was announced today by Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace. An equal number of representatives of the forest products industries are to be named by the Lumber Code Authority.
"The lumber and timber products industries are now committed under Article X of the Lumber Code to a policy of conservation and sustained production of their basic resource, the forest," said the Secretary. "This policy constitutes a major step in the evolution of our American forests and forest industries. To the extent that it can be carried out, a migratory industry, based on speculative exploitation of timber which it did not grow, will henceforth be replaced by a permanent industry, based on timber that is grown according to definite plans. Individualism, guesswork, and competitive skimming of the cream of natural resources will give way to teamwork, long-term planning, and concerted action to conserve the resources for future use.tt
Acting at the request of the recent Forest Conservation Conference the Secretary has appointed to the Executive Committee, as representative of public interests: Earle H. Clapp, assistant Forester in charge of research, U. S. Forest Service; Ward Shepard, Indian Service; W. G. Howard, State Forester, New York; O. M. Butler, Executive Secretary, American Forestry Association; B. P. Kirkland, U. S. Forest Service.
George A. Slacke, who was at one time in the lumber business in California, and who has been associated with A. A. Gardner, Pacific Coast manager of Henry Disston & Sons for the past eight years in Seattle, has been appointed manager of the company's San Francisco branch succeeding A. F. Kennedy, who has been transferred to Chicago as manager of that office.
He is happiest who finds peace in his home.-Goethe.
And then there was the Scotchman who married people to his wedding. He figured wedding gifts would be clear profit.
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She's a sweet little lass, and she's happy, (As happiness goes in this world)
And I patted and cuddled most gently Her head all so towsled and curled.
"If I had a lamp like Aladdin's And could give you whatever you'd like What is it you'd wish for, my darling?"
And she answered "a b'loon tired bike."
There is life that is worth living now as it was worth living in former days, and that is the honest life, the unselfish life, cleansed by devotion to an ideal.
There is a battle that is worth fighting now as it was worth fighting then, and that is the battle for justice and equality; to make our city and state free in fact as well as in name; to break the rings that strangle real liberty and keep them broken; to cleanse, so far as in our power lies, the fountains of our national life from political, commercial, and social corruption; to teach our sons and daughters, by precept and example, the honor of serving such a country as America-THAT is work worthy of our finest manhood and womanhood.
The well-born are those who are born to do that work; the well-bred are those who are bred to be proud of that work; the well-educated are those who see deepest into the meaning and the necessity of that work.
Nor shall their labor be for naught, nor the reward of their sacrifice fail them; for high in the firmament of human destiny are set the stars of faith in mankind, and unselfish courage and loyalty to the ideal.
The tramp says: "I won't."
The quitter says: "I can't."
The lazy man says: "I don't know."
The wisher says: "I wish I could."
The disinterested says: "f might."
The hopeful says: "I'll try."
The sure one says: "f can."
The busy one says: "I will."
The boss says: "I did."
She didn't take time to consider, She answered from depth of her soul, It wasn't just part of her longings; It was one wish that took in the whole. No, she doesn't have hopes she might get it She knows that the rich can buy things, That a child really likes (like b'loon tired bikes) But she understands "poor folks aren't kings."
So she smiled when she gave me that answer, And she seemed quite contented and meek; As her head sort o'drooped on my shoulder, But a tear drop rolled off of her cheek. And I pray now, if ever I'm able, To buy dreams like "b'loon tired bikes," That I'll never forget that such tear drops as hers Still fall from all poor little tykes.
A junh shop at the intersection of the highway and the railroad tracks, flaunted the following sign in big letters: "Go ahead! Take a chance! We'll buy the wreck!"
A man-about-town lost a bet to a preacher, so to pay the bet he has to go to church every Sunday for a year and listen to the preacher. That ought to teach him that it's wrong to bet.
Chicago, Feb. 8-The building industry,s most important product during the next 1O years will be a simple, substantial house selling for $3,000 or less, Bror G. Dahlberg of The Celotex Company told members of the Illinois Lumber and Material Dealers Association here today.
Such a house, he declared, will create the biggest market the industry has ever had and dwarf building,s l92S pay- roll of 3 billion dollars, the largest ever paid by any industry.
"There is a 30 billion dollar market for such houses among the middle third of our population-the l0 million families with annual incomes between $1,200 and $2,000. All these people want is a good house at $3,000, plus a 15year payment plan. Because new houses have always cost more than they could afford, they have had to live in old, cast-off dwellings, just as they had to buy second-hand, ramshackle automobiles before Ford ofiered them good, new cars at $500. Like all of us, they would rather have something new. The building industry is about to give it to them."
He estimated the total U. S. housing need at 45 billions. In addition to the 3O billions in the 91,200 to $2,000 income class, there is a 3 billion dollar housing shortage among families with income above $2,000, the result of lack of new construction during the depression.
Another 12 billions, he declared, are needed to provide homes for those families with incomes under $1,200. Extensive government aid, modeled on European slum clearance systems, is required if such dwellings are to be provided at $1,200 a unit, a minimum that has never been achieved. he asserted.
The 31st annual convention of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association will be held at the Davenport Hotel, Spokane, Wash., on February 22, 23 and 24, 1934.
H. W. "Tim" Preston, sales manager, Silver Falls Timber Co., Silverton, Ore., recently paid a visit to his mother in Southern California.
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Seattle, Wash.-A demonstration home, the first of a series which fundamentally changes small house construction, has just been built at 545 36th Avenue North, Seattle, Washington, by the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, Tacoma, Wash. The home is of a novel modern design, constructed entirely of units prefabricated at the mills of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company. It is one story, has a flat roof and contains an automatic heating and air conditioning unit. The layout is similar to that of the most modern apartment house, although the home is located on a large landscaped lot in a setting of trees and shrubs.
After the foundations were laid the house was completed in twenty-one working days, although weather conditions during the entire operation were the worst experienced in western Washington in a great many years. The speed in construction was thq result of the units being fully manufactured and finished at the mill. The entire framework, all partitions, closets, doors and windows were first brought together at the mill and made into units. These units were transported to the site in the forrn of panels, which needed only to be joined and tightened.
A unit consists of :
(1) Sections of wall complete with window frames, sash and screens, doors, transoms and screen doors, and glass and hardware;
(2) Interior partitions which duplicate the wall units except that the sheathing and interior finish is omitted, and closets, wardrobes, drawers, or mirrors included;
(3) Portions of the ceiling and the roof.
All these were delivered at the job in sections for joining. The assembling carpenters worked practically without tools, lumber or nails.
The wall units made for this house consist of a series of vertical boards for the exterior, building Paper, Balsam lr'ool blanket with a dead air space in between, and Douglas fir plywood on the inside. These units are the basic elements in the manufacture of prefabricated housing, being complete in themselves and capable of forming any size or arrang'ement of rooms in multiples of the unit width. A wedged U-bolt is used to fasten the wall units to adjacent units and to the floor and ceiling structure.
The sub-structure above the foundations consists of a sill plate in lengths multiple of the rvall unit and with drilled holes in spaced intervals to bolt to the foundation.
The headers and floor joints are also in length multiples of the wall units, the joints fitted into notches cut into the headers at one-half and one unit intervals and spiked to the headers after being dropped into place.
Headers are spiked to the sill plates and the floor plates spiked to the headers.
Floor plates are router drilled for the U-bolts which are
used to securely fasten the wall units to the floor plates. Solid bridging of exact sizes is provided, making for exceptional stiffness of the sub-structure.
It is not necessary in this type of construction to lay the sub-floor until after the wall units are in place and it is a very simple matter to install the plumbing, heating and wiring equipment in the four walls, under the floor, and over the ceiling as soon as the roof is on.
Announcements concerning this first and experimental unit-F. R. Titcomb, general manager, Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, made the following statement:
"It became apparent to our company during the depression that if the manufacturing and sale of home building materials were to keep abreast of the improvements constantly being made in other fields, there would have to be a substantial reduction in the time consumed in building, as well as the more definite determination of the cost of homes contracted for.
"It is desirable from the purchaser's viewpoint, as well as from the dealer's and manufacturer's, that a house should be a more nearly finished product, and recent progress made in the housing field has been in that direction. We, therefore, concentrated on the problem of factory manufacture of the frame and finish of the house in predetermined unit sizes which could be produced in quantity and completely finished ready for shipment.
"In order to find out ourselves just what we had accomplished in our study, we decided to manufacture and erect a demonstration house.
"This first house is only one of many designs in types ranging from the simplest of cottages to substantial urban residences possible to manufacture in the mill and assemble on a site and in a minimum time for a clefinite selling price.
"Perhaps the time is not yet arrived, but we believe it is coming, when a prospective owner can go to a dealer and choose his own home and move in it two weeks later."
The unit and the method of manufacturing were developed in the Housing Research Department of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company under the direction of C. W. Drew, an architect, rvho rvas assisted by Henry Fey and R. L. Reamer, both as consulting architects, of Seattle.
The Los Angeles office of the Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers' Import Association, the Administrative Agency of the Philippine Mahogany Subdivision of the Lumber and Timber Products Industries Code of Fair Competition, has been moved from the Central Building to the Board of Trade Building, 111 West Seventh Street. The -telephone number, TUcker 3585, remains unchanged.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 31-The Lumber Code Authority, in session here, declared today that all its sessions were and had been open to the public, guaranteed contribution as a birthday gift to President Roosevelt of all the lumber and timber products required for the Warm Springs Foundation building, and adopted a proposed amendment to the Code permitting the Authority to enter upon a trade promotion campaign. The amendment, if approved by the National Recovery Administration, will authorize the Code Authority to assess an additional fee of not to exceed 5 cents a thousand feet (or its equivalent) of lumber for trade promotion purposes.
"The Lumber Code Authority considers its deliberations as being of a public nature," C. Arthur Bruce, executive officer of the Code Authority explained. "We are operating by authority of a law of Congress and our acts have an aspect of public legislation and administration. They should be and are open to public hearing and scrutiny. We have always welcomed the attendance of all persons who may be interested in our proceedings, whether on the score of personal interest or public concern. The only restriction upon this general rule is that votes of the Code Authority shall be taken in executive session. Even this restriction is in the public interest, as it aims at freeing members of the Authority from influences that may determir-re their votes by considerations arising from personal and business relations, as a member is sometimes called upon to sacri6ce private to general interest in determining his position in regard to Code policies.
"We hope that this 'open door' policy will contribute to industry and public understanding of the generally beneficial objectives of the Lumber Code and the sincerity and fairness of its administration."
The Authority's unprecedented action in regard to national trade promotion came as a result of recommendations by its code administration committee, headed by John D. Tennant of Longview, Washington, who is also chair-
man of the Authority. Discussion emphasized the desirability of stimulating building and of acquainting the public with the merits of u'ood as a housing material. This novel a.ction by a code authority was in the form of the following resolution:
"That the executive ofhcer shall file an appropriate amendment with the National Recovery Administration which will authorize the assessment of additional code fees of not to exceed 5 cents per thousand feet, or the equivalent thereof, for the purpose of conducting a national trade promotion program in the lumber and timber industries in an effort to assist in the President's program of stimulating 'building activities with its resulting absorption of unemployed labor."
This resolution will, it is said, bring to a head the NRA position regarding advertising and other promotional uses of code funds.
The Authority established a production quota for the first quarter of 1934 for the broom and mop handle division, and increased the maple flooring division's quota for the quarter by 10,000,00O feet. It also voted to ask administration approval of an amendment permitting withholding of production allotments from operators failing to submit code reports or pay code fees. A resolution was passed permitting administrative agencies to allot production on a monthly basis.
The Authority refused an application to exempt camp maintenance employes from the forty-hour-week limitation and also voted down a proposition to lower certain minimum wage rates.
California Lumbermen's Council met at the Hotel Stockton, Stockton, February 10, for the Ciscussion of Code problems. President George Ley, Santa Cruz Lumber Co., presided.
Washington, Jan.30 -The general forest practice principles adopted by the Forestry Conference for recommendation to the Lumber Code Authority for incorporation into the Code as the "constitution" of forest conservation are given below. Rules were also adopted for the broad guidance of the eastern and western opeiators. As to the regional divisions o{ the lumber industry under the Code, the Forest Practice Committee found that none of them had prepared tentative rules which measured up to all requirements. Suggestions were agreed upon for modification of the tentative divisional rules.
Regarding administration, it was recommended that the divisions use the advisory counsel of national and state forest agencies, including farm extension agencies, and private forest protective organizations and place the work under committees on forest practice. Employment of technical assistance is advised. It is expected that a representative of the U. S. Forest Service will keep informed of progress in each division and work in close contact and cooperation with the supervisory agency.
A common purpose grounded equally in public welfare and industry welfare dictates that all forest land hereafter to be cut over under the Lumber Code jurisdiction shall be left in favorable condition for regrowth. Conforming to this basic requirement, it is necessary that within the limits of practicability, measures be taken by the operator to safeguard timber and young growing stock from injury by fire and other destructive agencies; during logging operations to prevent damage to young trees; and to provide for restocking the land after logging, if sufficient advance growth is not already present; and where feasible in practice to leave some portion of merchantable timber, usually the less mature trees, as a basis for growth and the next timber crop. The greater the amount of the growing stock retained, the greater the ensuing growth to be expected and the sooner operations can return to the same area.
Fire protection during and immediately following logging is an indispensable condition for forest regrowth. Responsibility for adequate provision for the control of fires during or immediately following logging operations, and in any way caused by said operations rests upon the said individual operator. He must definitely assume the responsibility of taking practical measures of fire control. This will involve a variety of steps in difierent logging conditions. It may include slash and.snag disposal where necessary, strict rules as to use of fire by employees including smoking in the woods, equipment of logging locomotives and engines with adequate devices for preventing fires, having readily available crews properly equipped to fight 6res upon call, closing operations during exceptionally dry periods, and other precautionary measures. Where a general fire protection system is in effect, it will be expected to correlate with the more intensive system of the individual operator, but it will in no sense replace the protective system of the operator or relieve him of responsibility of protecting his own property to the extent that he has created the hazard. He cannot, however, assume responsibility for fire caused by public carelessness or inadequate public protection.
2. Extension of Cooperation in Protection Against Fire, Insects and Diseases "
To the end that protection against fire and other destructive agencies may be extended rapidly to all forest a.reas that are now unprotected and that may require protection, the industry will endeavor to secure action on the part of all operating timberland owners in the direction of cooperating with public agencies in systematic fire privention and suppression and such protective action as may prove desirable and practicable for protection against insects and diseases. The industry will also seek such cooperation on the part of non-operating forest land owners.
3. Conservation of Immature Trees and Young Growth
So far as practicable all advance growing stock upon the land in the form of young trees of valuable species below ' merchantable size shall be preserved during logging operations and left without injury for future growtli. A certain amount of injury and loss is inevitable in felling trees and skidding logs and in the disposal of slash. Much of the injury and loss sustained in the past can be avbided by conscious care on the part of the woods foreman and his men. The saving of this advance young growth shall be set up by operators as a distinct aim to be kept constantly in view by woods employees.
4. Provision for Restocking the Land after Cutting
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where partial cutting is practiced, the safest measure to obtain regrowth after logging where conditions permit, is to leave on the logged areas a sufficient number of trees of desirable species to yield a commercial cut at reasonable intervals. Under certain conditions instead of partial cutting, leaving seed trees or groups of seed trees on or adjacent to logged areas may be sufficient to insure a regrowth on the logged-off areas. If there is an insufficient reserve stand or conditions are otherwise adverse and the prospects of securing natural reseeding are uncertain, planting may be desirable.
To the extent practicable, partial cutting or selective logging shall be the general standard for local measures of woods practice.
The industry will without delay, making use of studies already made, undertake to determine by regions or by forest types, the extent to which merchantable sizes of timber may wisely be left as part of the forest growing stock. Upon satisfactory determination of such conditions the induitry will promptly establish^ standards of practice lookiJrg* to the attainment of this objective.
In certain regions or forest types and conditions other methods than selective cutting may be allowed, where con- i ditions do not justify selective cutting. i
In order to provide for still greater flexibility and for de- I parture where _necessary from the regional or type standards that may be adopted, each individual operatoi shall be allowed to communicate to the Divi6ional Adininistrative o Agency the standard and methods which he proposes.as 1 best suited in his individual operation to achieve the de- I clared objectives of conservatioh and sustained production. i And if such undertaking is determined by the- Divisional I Administrative Agency to equal the regional or type standard of selective logging, or other method of prombtine iegeneration, it shall be approved in lieu theieof. This in effect allows modification of the regional standard upon :
Frederick M. Fenwick, vice president of the Nelson Steamship Co., San Francisco, and well known lumber and shipping man, died in Washington, D. C., on Sunday, January 8.
Mr. Fenwick.was in Washington in connection with the proposed shipping code.
He was at one time secretary of the Olympic Club, San Francisco, and was one of the organizers of the marine committee of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.
He is survived by his widow and two children, and his mother, Mrs. G. H. Fenwick, sister of the late A. B. Hammond.
A. G. Paul, resident sales manager of the Shevlin-Hixon Co. at Bend, Ore., was a Los Angeles visitor the first of the month where he spent several days on a combined pleasure and business trip. He was a visitor at the Los Angeles office of the Shevlin Pine Sales Co.
A bright star bloomed in the fields oi night, Low it hung o'er the western hills; And its shimmering image lay agleam In lakes and rivers and rippling rills. Ovei the forests it lingered long, Flecking their branches with dust of gold, Then onward swept in its destined path, True to its course as the star of old.
Over the snow clad mountain heights, Down to the canyon's rugged rim, O'er little hamlets and lonely farms, Into the gulches deep and dim; Stole the light of a shining star, Hallowing all with its magic sheen, And beauty blossomed as shadows fled, .And nothing it touched seemed poor or mean.
The star shone down on a little townOur little town of the seven hills; Resting secure in her mountain coign, Lulled by the music of singing rills; And rays from celestial realms afar, With earth born light were strangely wed, For a forest king stood forth in pride With a golden star on its regal head.
Lilting voices and words of cheer
Children's laughter and carols sweet, Fragrant incense gf fir and pine Jeweled verdure on every street; And a living tree with kingly grace Lifting a star to the orb above, While their mingled radiance told once more The olden story of peace and love.
-Adeline Merriam Lonner,(Continued f.rom Page 24)
submission ald,approval of specific individual management plans.
6.
Since the basic purpose'of sustained yield is to perpetuate the forest by regrowth after cutting and to mai.r.rtain in a given local district or on a given forest enough growing stock to provide ibw rriaterial for industry without interruption, and to safeguard the public welfare,-sustained yield is a desirable objective and. it shall be adopted as the objective of management for individual tracts or groups of tracts as rapidly as various considerations permit and owners find it advantageous as a matter of orderly business policy. Fire protection, preservation of young growth and partial cutting as outlined in the preceding paragraphs are irnportant steps toward regional and local sustained yield.
7. Public Coopbration'''
The measure,of-success ultimately- achieved by these undertakings of the Industry, is dependent upon the extent .*pd-.clraracter.of.pqblic..cooperation in4;rch slate, :
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