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New business booked at the lumber mills during the week ended February ll,1933, totalled 1031018,000 feet, the lowest of any week of the year since that ended lanuary 7, according to reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association from regional associations covering the operations of,724 leading softwood and hardwood mills. Production during the week ended February 11 was E6O64rOo0 feet, and lower than any week since that of January 7.
Production was 18 per cent of capacity and orders were 22 per cent of capacity, compared with 19 per cent and25 per cent respectively for the previous week.
Stocks at softwood mills on February 11 were the-equivalent of 109 days' average production of the reporting mills, comparcd with 142 days last year.
Forest products carloadings during the five weeks of 193) to date wete 25 pet cent below those recorded for corresponding period of last year which were in turn 46 per cent below thoee of the first five weeks.
A total of 252 mills reporting to the Vest Coast Lumberments Association for the week ended February 11 opemted at 21.5 per cent of capacity, as compared to 21.7 per cent of capacity for the previous week During the week 159 of these plants were repofted as down and 93.as operating.
178 mills repo*ing to the Association fot the same week produced, 47$7219O6 f,eet or 21.6 per cent of their weekly capacity. Current new business of these mills for the week was 5OrO251652 feet, and shipments were 481391 ,183 fet. New busineEs was 5.6 per cent over production, and shipments 2.2 per cent under production.
New export business received during the week was 1961000 feet lesso new domestic cargo ordets were 814801000 feet under, and new rail business increased 51r00O feet as compared to the previous weekts business.
Details of orders and shipments aa reported by these 178 mills follow: Orders'+ail l2rrl5rl74 f.eet; domestic cargo 2O,3Lt,63 feet; aport 1410641764 feet; local Vr734r05l feet, Shipments-rail 11 12601272 feet; domestic cargo 2011861797 f.eet; expott 1410641764 feet; local ,rrr4r05l f,@t,
fnventories, as reported by BA mills, are 17.3 pet cent less t{ran at diis time last year.*****
The California Redwood Association for the month of Januaty, 1933, r'eporte ordere received fot 12 mills as 1Q814r00O feet; orders on hand t6r753rOOO feet; shipments l2r097r000 feet; production l2r7 44rOOO f,eet.
Details of orders and shipments follow: Orders-Northern California 3,637.000 feet; Southern Califomia, 2167,O,O00 feetT Vestern E7,000 feet; Eastern 3r890rfi)0 feet; Foreign 5701000 feet. Shipments-Northern California 5rr27,OOO feet; Southern California 21616rOOO feet; VZestern l22rOOO feet; Eastera 3,457'OOO feet; Foreign 565,000 feet.
The Southern Pine Association for the week ended February 11 reported nen business for 110 mills as 18,073,00O feet; shipments t8r776,OOO feet; production 18r883,0fi) feet. Or.ders wete 4 per cent below production and 4 per cent below shipments. Shipments were I per cent 6elow production.
The Vestern Pine Association for the week tqrorted.new business for 111 mills as tgJtSrOOO feet; shipments 181178,000 feet; production Er9841000 feet. Orders were 119 per cent above ptoduction and 8 per cent above shipments. Shipments were 102 per cent above production.
318 hardwood mills fo,r the same week reported new business as 1314501000 feet, or 30 pet cent above production, and shipments as 1216621000 feet, or 22 per cent above production. Production was 1013651000 feet.
Unsold stocks on the public docks at San Pedro are low and continue to show a decrease; on February 22 they totalled 41. 349rO0O feet as compared to 416801000 feet the previous week. Cargo arrivals at San Pedro for the week ended Februtuy lE were low and totalled 3,8971000 feet, which included 9 cargoee of Fir cacrying trtg4r000 feet and 2 catgoe of Redwood with 5031000 feet. Cargo arrivals at this port the previow week amounted to 61177100 feet. On February tt, 42 lumber vessels in the coastwise service were olrerating;64 vessels were laid up. The California volume shorved improvement duritrg the past two weeks and mill prices are holding firm.
A gathering or severar hundred peopre greeted the s.
Peter Helms of the McCormick Steamship Line on its friends are invited to attend. :ru:lx;?l3ill,ll,;8,!!:r'$::iJi:Gf"i:""n"ii1
lumber for the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. and generar cargo ror distribution at Stockton and other varley
points' thing new in the way of an entertaniment and relaxation
Officials of the McCormick lines making the trip from for the tired lumberman. San Francisco to Stockton on the steamer were: Joseph As this will be the first social gathering the lumber fraA. Lunney, operating manager; J. C. Strittmatter, freight traffic manager; Harry Strittmatter, terminal agent at San ternity in the Los Angeles district has held for some time Francisco; john A. Stein or the traffic department, and
Capt. B. H. Tietjen, port captain at San Francisco' They the other members of the committee.
foreign freight agent;
N. Eigle, district freight agent,
and George p. peu, generar
Peter Helms, l2-year-old boy for whom the vessel was named, was also a passenger on the vessel betrveen San Francisco and Stockton. He is the son of C. E. Helms, first vice-president of the McCormick Steamship Company and the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.
They were guests of the Stockton chamber of commerce at a public reception at the municipal dock in the afternoon following a luncheon at the Hotel Stockton.
The East Bay Hoo Hoo Club will hold its next regular dinner meeting at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Calif., on Monday evening, March 13, at 6:09 p.m. Professor F. W. Hart of the University of California will address the club. Mr. Hart is a speaker of national prominence and his subject will be "The Price of Civic Complacency." The musical program will be under the direction of Mrs. Frances Brunk.
Lumber was made by hand. "The machine was developed to answer the age-old cry of man for relief from tedious, back' breaking labor,t' But even today, some hand-made products are desirable, and among them
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By Jack Dionne
In a recent issue we devoted this column to a discussion of panics. That discussion brought one of the greatest kick-backs this department has ever known. In this issue let us talk about the next most important matter before the public today-most vitally interesting to every business man-TAXATION.
NOT the general subject of taxes. Heaven forbid that I attempt that in this space. But rather a specific taxthe biggest thing in the tax line the world has yet knowna rnodern miracle that most of us should understand yet know very little about; GASOLINE TAXES. you drive up to a gasoline service station, buy your gas, pay for it, and then drive off without considering the amazing background to the transaction you have just been a party to. For when you paid for your gasoline, you not only paid for that motor fuel, but you likewise paid the State and Federal tax on that gas. And THAT shall be the subject of this effort at an educational discussion.
What is this gasoline tax? Whence comes it? For what is it used?. How is it abused? What does it mean to you and f, to our government and the support thereof? Do you know? You should! Few things are more vitally important. Every man who owns and operates a gasoline consuming vehicle is vitally interested in this subject. Likewise every taxpayer.
Generations ago England, seeking new means of paying the continually rising cost of Government (it being universally understood that men make and must therefore support Government), discovered that Holland was paying expenses in very satisfactory style with a new and unique type of taxation called an "excise." So England adopted it. And we inherited it from England. We first used it on tobacco products, and later spread it in all directions.
It was not universally popular in the beginning, for we read in the famous "Dictionary" of Doctor Johnson in England, this definition of the excise tax: ,,A hateful tax, levied upon commodities, and adjudged, not by the common. judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." History says that they tried through
the courts to force Doctor Johnson to change that definition; but he never did. The Supreme Court of the United States refers to excise tax as an.impost on ..importation, consumption, manufacture, and sale of commodities; privileges, particular transactions, vocations, occupations, etc." Our gasoline tax is an excise tax, and its use has spread in this country as it did in England, until today it fairly dwarfs into insignificancg all other forms of taxation. And the greatest of these is the rnotor car and motor fuel taxes. :f*{.
The gasoline tax was first suggestd officially in this country on December 7, 1915, when president Woodrow Wilson, personally addressing Congress on the emergencies of the war we were then entering, and suggesting ways and means for raising additional funds for war financing, urged a one cent per gallou Federal tax on gasoline, declaring that ten millions of dollars might be raised annually in that way. Little did the president know that he was then establishing the foundation for the most momentous tax gathering idea the world has ever known. *:t*
In l9l8 a gasoline tax was rnentioned in the first draft of the Federal budget, but did not appear in the final draft. But in 1919 the State of Oregon, having the vision to see the huge asset a system of modern highways would be, decided to finance the building of such highways within her borders by the imposition of a one cent per gallon state gasoline tax. And thus a most momentous ball was started rolling. Oregon specified that the gas tax was to be used exclusively for road building and maintenance. The idea followed in the wake of the old toll roads and bridges of early days, built by private means, and charging the toll for their use to those who passed over. The new gasoline tax was designed as a road toll on the rnotorists passing over. ***
The germ was not long in spreading. Three other states followed that same year. By lgZl fifteen states had gas tax laws. Rapidly, all the states and the District of Co_ lumbia followed suit, and passed gasoline tax laws to build and maintain the highways. Allof them started with one cent per gallon assessments. ft was not until 1926 that the ante was raised above one cent per gallon.
But just as naturally as State by State they decided to assess a gasoline tax, so did they later decide, as tax hunger developed in the various state legislatures, that a horse that could carry a one cent load so easily, might just as well carry two. The lamp of Aladdin and the touch of Midas seemed exemplified in our modern life by this magic wand of tax wealth that had suddenly appeared.
With the rapid development and distribution of the motor car came the need and demand for more and better roads; and with this latter came the need for the money to build and finance those roads. The gasoline tax was "a natural." It was certain to come, and did come. But the size and importance to which it has grown in thirteen years, staggers the imagination. For today every state in the union has a gasoline tax, and the lowest is two cents per gallon . Ilere are the figures: 4 states have a 2 cent per gallon tax:. 12 states have a 3 cent per gallon tax; L7 states have a 4 cent per gallon tax; 9 states have a 5 cent per gallon tax; 5 states have a 6 cent per gallon tax;2 states have a 7 cent per gallon tax (this list includes the District of Columbia).
In addition various cities and communities in many states have taken it upon themselves to impose their own special gasoline taxes; and in I93Z the Federal Government imposed a one cent per gallon tax on gasoline; so that today in no state is the gasoline tax paid by the motorist less than 3 cents, and it ranges from that to as high as 11 cents in certain communities. Mobile, Alabama, furnishes an excellent example of what burdens of taxation can be placed upon a long-suffering commodity. In Mobile the wholesale gasoline license costs $500; the wholesale lubricating license is 9250; the filling station license is $25; the city license on each gasoline pump is $S5; the state and county license on each gasoline pump is $50; the state gasoline tax is 5 cents per gallon; the city tax is 1 cent per gallon; the sea-wall tax is l7/2 cents per gallon; the Federal gas tax is 1 cent per gallon; making a total of 8rl cents per gallon gas t:rx on top of the huge license fees.-
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The system universally employed in taxing gasoline is what is known as the barn-yard theory of taxation; we pluck the most feathers from the bird that squawks the least. The burdens piled and piled up on the gasoline business with so little "squawking" that our lawmakers just heaped iton. No other tax in history ever increased so rapidly in rate and in total of revenue. Never before had any government discovered an opportunity to make so much in revenue from one legitimatg necessary, and
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widely used comrnodity. And never before in the history 1931 was just $70S. This year the average will be still of the world has one class of taxpayers contributed so gen- lower. What a tax ride thils motor car owner is being erally and generously to the cost of government. taken for!
At first it was universally conceded that the gasoline tax was a road tax, the motorist paying rent for the use of the highways. So well established became the use of gasoline tax moneys to highway building and maintenance, that any other use of such moneys became known as "Diver' sion." But Diversion soon caf,ne to play a very promihent part in the drama of gasoline taxation. The gas tax opportunity was a tax collector's dream come true-an apparently unlimited source of funds-a tax goose par excellence, yielding its feathers without squawking, and continuing to lay the golden eggs. So, in many states they got into the habit of diverting the road moriey to other uses, until today in various parts of the country the total annual amount of gas road tax money used for a wide variety of purposes far removed from road construction and upkeeping totds about $30,000,000, to which is now added the Federal one cent tax, which is entirely diverted from road use.
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How this gasoline tax grew! In 13 years it has yielded to the various states a total of fully $3,000,000,000. This year the gasoline tax income is approximately as follows: State tax, $550,000,000; Federal tax, $15o,000,000; total, $700,000,000. What a staggering sum ! Today, according to the best authorities, the average State and Federal tax on the national sale is about 5 bents per gallon; greater than the average wholesale price of the product, and double the average gross retail profit.
The highest taxed commodity on earth today, is gasoline. The highest taxed piece of property is a motor car. According to authorities, during the 13 years the gasoline tax has been placing in the public coffers $3,000,000,000, automobile taxes of all sorts have amounted to approximately $5,000,000,000. There are 27 different taxes upon the motor car, providing 12 per cent of the nation's total tax revenues, or about $2,000,000 per day. The average annual tax bill of the average motor car is computed to be $4E.38. Yet two-thirds of all the motor car owners in the United States have incomes under $3,000 a year. 93 per cent of all motor cars cost less than $1,000, and the average retail price of all the cars sold in the United States in
Adam Smith, the wise, in his "Wealth of Nations," said in 1776: "High taxes, sometimes by diminishing the consumption of taxed commodities, and sometimes by encouraging smuggling, frequently afford a smaller revenue to government than what might be drawn from more moderate taxes." That truth has been often demonstrated in every land and clime since that time.It is being well demonstrated in the gasoline industry today. As tax rates mounted above two cents a gallon (that seems to be about the level that can be levied without leaving room for illegal practice in manufacture and distribution) there cdme into existence the unnatural child of this legislation-gasoline tax evasion. As soon as the tax reaches a level that makes it more profitable to evade than to pay, the business of evasion starts. And with every notch upward the gas tax creeps, this monster grows. Today it permeates the entire oil industry, reaching its menacing, tentacles into every corner of the country, and in the states and districts where the tax is highest it takes on a boldness, an effrontery, a cunning and resourcefulness that has challenged the attention of the nation, stealing from the pockets of every taxpayer.
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Today the evasion of the gasoline tax has becqme a national racket of no small proportions. ft is estimated that last year at least $100,000,000 was stolen from State and Federal government tax coffers through this means alone. And as high gasoline taxes continue here, and increase there, the toll of evasion grows. Evasion is accomplished in a hundred cunning ways too nurnerous for description here. But you can be assured that for every ten gallons of gasoline that are sold legally and tax-paid in the United States today, at least one gallon is tax-evaded. And in some states, where the opportunities are greater because of conditions surrounding the industry, such as numerous sources of supply, etc., it is believed that for every five gallons sold legally, one gallon is sold illegally.
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It is the old law of too high taxes invoking the rule of diminishing returns. Many specific instances can be shown, where a state increases its gasoline tax-already highand immediately finds that by so doing it has decreased
its income from gasoline taxes. As the tax mounts, P€ople stop using gasoline-on the one hand-and the evasion of the tax on the quantity used increases on the other. One of the states that raised the gasoline tax to the highest lirnit immediately found that it had a problem to face in handling bicycle traffic. People had taken to the pedals again. That too high gasoline taxes reduces motor car sale and use, and encourages lawlessness in evading the tax, there is no room for doubt. ***
In every state the gasoline tax money furnishes employment for a large number of people, building and maintaining the highways. When they raise the tax to an unreasonable level, people quit buying gasoline as much as possible, and the evaders increase by leaps and bounds. Thus the income from the gas tax is automatically reduced, and unemployment is the inevitable result. ***
This editorial is written to urge every loyal citizen to take an active interest in gasoline and automobile taxes, their uses and abuses. Only by the cooperation and assistance of good citizens can justice be had. Oppose a gasoline tax so high as to defeat its own purpose. Oppose any unwise diversion of this legitimate toll for use of the highways. And help destroy the evil of tax evasion by buying only gasoline on which you know the tax has been paid; and spread that gospel as you go. Urge your local
this matter before the minds of its readers'
Who gets hurt when tax-evaded gasoline is sold? First, the state and nation are deprived of the legal gas tax, and that gap has to be supplied by honest taxpayers in some other way. Second, the honest and legitimate gasoline dealer cannot exist when exposed to the cornpetition of tax-free gasoline, and he has to. get relief, go out of business, or turn .crooked and sell smuggled or blended fuel also. Third, the price structure of the oil industry is damaged by such unlawful competition. It must be apparent that the man who sells gasoline without paying the tax has a perfectly destructive advantage over those who operate their business legally. When the law assumes the right to assess a heavy tax on the sale of a commodity, that law and all those who hold law sacred assume the protection of those who pay those taxes and operate in respect for the law.It is the duty of every square-shooting, right-thinking citizen of this country to do everything in his power to destroy the evil of tax-evasion.
The awakening of public consciousness to the gasoline tax problem is one of the vital needs of the hour. The prevention of gasoline tax diversion should be an obligation; and the destruction of the racket of gasoline tax evasion should be a civic duty.
All member yards were represented in the attendance at the annual meeting of the Central Valley Lumbermen's Club held at Stockton, on Saturday, February 11.
The club complimented port officials of.the Port of Stockton on the speed with which the unloading and distribution of the lumber cargoes of the steamers Peter Helms and Daisy Gray, first lumber steamers to reach Stockton, was accomplished.
Port Director Colonel B. C. Allin addressed the club on the subject of the Port of Stockton.
Harry A. Lake, of Garden Grove, president of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, referred in his talk to present conditions in the lumber industry, and expressed the opinion that improvement cannot be looked for until there is an increase in the prices of farm commodities.
Frank J. O'Connor, president of the California Wholesale Lumber Association, San Francisco, spoke on the subject of cooperation between the manufacturer, rvholesaler and dealer.
George Ley, Santa Cruz Lumber Co., Santa Cruz, president of the Coast Counties Lumbermen's Club. talked on organization.
Other speakers inclqded Chas. G..Bird; Geo. M. Cornwall, The Timberman, Portland, and D. C. Essley, manager of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association.
Chas. G. Bird presided. The meeting went on record as being opposed to the repeal of the State contractors' license law.
The executive committee, which will meet in the near future to elect the new officers, was named as follows:
A. J. Russell, San Francisco; Charles G. Bird and Elmer Brnce of Stockton; Lester Elliott, Valley Lumber Co., Lodi; A. R. Martin, Hale & Simons, Sonora; Charles C. Moorehead, I\{oorehead Lumber Co., Escalon; W. O. Mashek, United Lumber Yards, Modesto; Warren S. Tillson; Modesto Lumber Co., Modesto, and John Yancey, Yancey Lumber Co., Newman.
The following attended the meeting:
Frank J. O'Connor, California Wholesale Lumber Assn. .... San Fraucisco
Colonel B. C. Allin, Port Manager...... ...Port of Stockton
W. H. Falconbury, San Joaquin Lumber Co.. Stockton
J. U. Gartin, Stanislaus Lumber Co.... ...Modesto
C. H. Hoft, Newman Lumber Co. .., ......Newman
A. J. Porter, Patterson Lumber Co.
H. M. Schaur, Good Lumber Co.
A. R. Martin, Hales & Symons
A. J. Russell, Santa Fe Lumber Co.
Roy E. Burnett, Tracy Lumber Co.
W. H. Anderson, Brentwood Lumber Co.
A. A. Kelley, Santa Fe Lumber Co.
Tom L. Gardner, Stockton Lumbermen's Institute
A. J. Field, Moorehead Lumber Co. ... ....Escalon
Charles C. Moorehead, Moorehead Lumber Co. .......,..Escalon
John Krause, Buitders'Supply & Lumber Co. ... .....Lodi
Warren S. Tillson, Modesto Lumber Co. ..,..,Modesto
Lester H. Elliott, Valley Lumber Co. . .......Lodi
Robert S. Fuller, Valley Lumber Co. . ........Lodi
J. P. Kelly, United Lumber Yards . Modesto
W. O. Mashek, United Lumber Yards .,..Modesto
A. Banchio, Gustine Lumber Co. ........Gustine
Frank T. Fisher, Fisher Bros. Lumber & Mill Co.......Stockton
O. V. Wilson, Central Lumber Co..... ....Stockton
D. C. Essley, California Retail Lumbermen's Assn. ......Oakland
Ralph P. Duncan, Merced Lumber Co. ..Merced
George M. Cornwall, The Timberman . portland, Ore.
Charles G. Bird, Stockton Lumber Co. ... ..Stockton
Harry A. Lake, President, California Retail Lumbermen's Ass. Garden Grove
George N. Ley, Santa Cruz Lumber Co. ....Santa Cruz
C S. Tripler, Secretary, Central Valley Lumbermen's Club .. Stockton
Seattle, Wash., Feb. 16.-Preliminary figureS on total production, shipments and orders of the entire lumber industry in the United States for the year 1932 were received during the week by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association from Charles S. Keith, general manager of the Central Coal & Coak Company, Kansas City, Missouri.
These preliminary totals follow:
Board Feet Production . 8,328,355,000 Orders 1O,496,265,0n Shipments
"For all practical purposes these figures are correct,,' Mr. Keith states, "being well within 5 per cent of the actual, as indicated by past experience. They have been developed from carloadings, vessel clearings, and reports of the National Lumber M.anufacturers' Association.,'
Mr. Keith points out that the 1932 production of lumber is lower than any recorded by the Bureau of the Census. The lowest government figure is 12,750,000,000 feet during the year 1869. At that time the United States had approximately 39,000,000 people; now the population is approximately 128,000,000. Yet the 1932 lumber production is estimated to be 65 per cent of that in 1869.
The figures given also reflect, according to the West Coast lumbermen's Association, the important shrinkage in lumber stocks which occurred during 1932,the difierence between shipments and orders representing more than 2,000,000,000 board feet of lumber which was taken out of piles and not replaced during the year by the manufacturers. Stocks of lumber in the Douglas fir region of Washington and Oregon decreased 34 per cent during the two years of 1931 and.1932; the estimated total lumber sold more than was made in 1932 being 355,000,000 board feet, or LZ per cent.
Washington, Feb. zO.-U the labor of the woodsmen who cut dirwn the trees; of. the sarvmill rvorkers. who cut the'logs into lumber; of the planing mill men who make the doors, sash and flooring; of the various transportation and distributing agencies which carry the logs to the mills and finished lumber to the job are included, the portion of the lumber dollar going to labor in the construction of the average home, says the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, will be found to be near 67 cents.
A survey in l5.large cities in as many states, by the Bureau of Labor Statistics finds that the all-material cost in residential construction is 62.7 cents of the building dollar and labor costs are 37.3 cents and that the lumber dollar (carpentry work, lumber, millwork, etc.) is divided into 67.1 cents for materials and 32.9 cents for labor. "Material" means delivered material on the job and does not reveal the proportion of labor which goes into its preparation.
Lumber and carpentry rvork account lor 27.3 cents of the building dollar, or a larger percentage than any other items in residential construction, according to the Bureau of Labor report. Not only is this true r,vhen considered as an average for the 15 cities under survey but in each of them, except Chicago, lumber and carpentry work was the largest single item of expense.
The next largest item in residential construction is brick rvork, rvhich, including materials, accounts for 14.8 cents of the building dollar. Plumbing and its materials take 10.1 cents;concrete work, 11.7; plastering and lathing,8.2 cents; heating and ventilating, 6.6 cents; electric rviring and fixtures, 4.5 cents; painting, 4.2 cents; tile work, 3.5 cents; roofing, 1.8 cents; excavating and grading, 1.3 cents: papering, 0.5 cents; miscellaneous, 5.5 cents.
In non-residential construction, concrete r.vork and materials accounts for the largest portion of the building dollar or 2O.7 cents. Brick rvork at 17.2 cents is the only other item amounting to more than 10 cents of the dollar. Lumber and carpentry work is 6.4 cents; structural steel, 8.7 cents; elevators, 7.6 cents; electric wiring and fixtures, 6.6 cents ; heating and ventilating, 6.6 cents; plumbing, 5.2 cents: other. 21 cents.
Because of its unusual interest to educational institutions, the exhibition of rare rvoods from all parts of the world at the Architects Building Material Exhibit, Los Angeles, was held over until March 1. The exhibit rvas well attended and several classes in woodwork and arts from the Frank Wiggins trade school visited the display.
Washington, F-eb. l5.-That the farm field is providing one of the best lumber markets is emphasized in a comprehensive report of the American Forest Products Industries, Inc., made recently by its Agricultural Engineer, C. F. Miller. This report points out that
(a) On some 6,000,000 farm units there are $12,000,000,000 worth of buildings annually needing ordinary repair and replacement work.
(b) The "Back to the Soil Movement" is creating additional demand for new farm construction and repair and replacement work.
(") All farmers are not "broke." 58% ot the owner operated farms in the United States are free from mortgage indebtedness.
It shows how much lumber the farmer needs per year, the type of work being done by Federal, State and other agencies which influence farm construction and'discusses in detail the use of lumber, concrete, brick and other materials in farm construction. It gives evidence of new construction on farms, particularly in the Middle West.It discusses costs of farm building at the -present time.It speaks in some detail of plans for farm structures and gives briefly the high spots of recent farm lumber promotion activities. It closes with a small but valuable list of outstanding farm buildings bulletins and plans available from other than commercial companies.
"To house 32,000,000 rural people;" says the report, "to shelter 200,000,000 farm animals; to protect 700,000,000 fowls from changing temperatures; to have storage space for hay, grain and other feeds to be used in caring for this livestock and poultry; to provide storage space for fruits, vegetables, and other foods grown and consumed on the farm; to protect an enormous investment in machinery and equipment; and to provide temporary and permanent storage or handling facilities for practically all foods to be ultimately consumed in the United States, with from 8 to 10 per cent surplus for exportation, is a housing and storing problem of the first magnitude."
This "Farm Lumber Market" report should be of special value to the executives and sales forces of the American Forest Products Industries subscribers for whom it has been exclusively prepared. It follows the same practical, comprehensive lines as the report on "Promotion of Lumber for Railway lJses" and will be followed in the near future by a survey entitled "Lumber for State Highrvay IJses."
I4 preaching the philosophy of "Share-the-Work" during the past winter, I have'found the following story very effective as an illustration of the state of mind many people get into when they have been unemployed for sometime, and become practically unemployable:
An Englishman had been on the dole for a couple of
Washington, Feb. 20.-The need for effective lumber industry cooperation has been greatly illustrated in the evoIution of the building plans for the Forest Servi,ce headquarters building at Ogden, Utah. The original specifications of the architects took no cognizance of the nature of the occupancy and of the fact that the Forest Service, whose headquarters it is to be on the border of the biggest lumber region of the ,country, is itself the administrator of huge timber reserves.
The original specifications called only for wood doors, stair rails and liberal use of wood in the library, particularly for shelving. The National Lumber Manufacturers Association brought these specifications to the attention of the Forest Service, the Supervising Ar'chitects office, the associate architects, the Secretary of the Treasury and the industry. As a result a new contract was let on December 2l and bids are now being taken, based upon the approval of the Treasury Department, specifying the further use o{ wood produ,cts in the following items: sash and frames, doors and trim, and floors for all offices. Consideration will also be given to the use of wood piling. All these changes can be made without important modifi'cation of the original design and rvithout delaying the erection of the building.
Before the intervention of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, aided by the Forest Service, rubber tile was to be used for baseboards and hall floors, and linoleum for office fioors. Now provision is made for wood block set in mastic on a concrete base for the floors.
The Forest Service structure at Ogden is a practical office building to house the varied regional activities of the Service and in no sense is it a monumental or memorial edifice. It will be approximately 100 feet square, 4 stories, and is in a beautiful location. The entire appropriation was for $300,000. After the ground was bought and cleared, $226,000 rernainecl for the building itself.
years, and had gotten well accustomed to being fed by the government. One day he said to the pastor of the church to which he belonged, "You know, Doctor, I was offered a job the other day that would have paid me four schillings a week more than I am getting from the dole. I took it under consideration, and finally turned it down. I decided to keep my independence."
Dr. W. W. Cross of Oakland, was the speaker of the evening at the February dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39 held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, on Monday evening, February 13.
The speaker, who is an authority on the venomous snakes of the world talked on this subject and illustrated his talk with lantern slides.
Plans for the big get-together meeting to be held in the latter part of April were dis,cussed and some progress reported.
The music was furnished by a trio of young men from the Industrial Home for the Blind who played a saxaphone, a guitar and a piano accordion.
Among the honored guests was George C. Troth, former secretary of the club, who has over a period of seven years also held the offices of sergeant-at-arms, director and chairman of various committees, and who has missed very few meetings since the club was formed.
In view of the fact that the club was eight years old on February 18, the minutes of the organization meeting were read by Secretary Carl Moore. Only one of the original officers was present, but a number of those attending were present at the first meeting, including R. A. Hiscox, chairman.
President Earle Johnson presided, and there was a good attendance of members and guests.
Reuben W. Smith, who for the past several years has been connected with the trade extension department of the California Redwood Association, and prior to that was a member of the staff of the trade extension department of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, is now sales manager for the Monterey Bay Redwood Co., Santa Cruz.
Thatts what many of your customers will say when they re-order after you've sold them Flintkote Roll Roofing with the neru Red Seal Openers!
This modetn method of wrapping roll roof' ing is rapidly winning repeat business for Flintkote Dealers. Red Seal Openers are the first red improvement in toll roofing for years! And th"y cost you and your customers -nothrng.
Red Seal Openers are a genuine help in merchandising roll roofing. Make use of this selling feature, it is EXCLUSMLY yourc! Set up a demonstration rollin your window or in your show room, partially opened. And then watch results!
CORES of sales opportunities exist in every community today for the Lumber Dealer who will get out into the field and tell the story of Pioneer Asphalt Emulsion. Think it over for a moment, yourself. How many foors in shops and manufacturing plants have you noticed that needed repair, and needed it badly? How many roofs on homes and indusrial buildings do you suppose there are right in your temitory that need to be made watertight-whose owners have long postponed necessary repairs? How many odd-and-end jobs of waterproofingbasements, foundations, tanks, flumes, reservoirs and so on-could you find that are badly in need of attention?
Pioneer Asphalt Emulsion is one of the most economical and efrective materials to use for these jobs-and a dozen more. You can sell it because the owner saves when he buys it-and there's no stronger argument than that to make sales in todayts market!
Pioneer is now introducing a new Asphalt Emulsion Sales Plan that has doubled the former volume of business on this product for several Lumber Dealers. You may secure the complete details of this merchandising plan by attaching the coupon below to your letterhead and mailing it to the fnduscial Emulsion
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Seattle, Wash., February l5.-Notification has been received by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Seattle, of freight rate changes, both reductions and increases, on West Coast lumber, which will be effective April 1, from the Pacific Northwest and the Pacific Southwest to the South and Middle West. Reductions predominate in the changes announced by Trans-Continental Freight Bureau in lumber rates from the Pacific Northwest.
The rate reductions from Pacific Northwest points on lumber as announced are:
(Per 100 pounds, lumber)
Southeastern Kansas ....$.70 $.62% $.O7%
Oklahoma, northern area. ... .7O &J7% .62% .07% &.15
Oklahoma, southeastern area... J7% .72 .05%
Southeastern Missouri and Arkansas and Memphis, Tenn...
Louisiana
To the State of Texas the announcement includes both increases and decreases in the rates, made to equalize differences in the rate structure. Southeast of Amarillo, Texas, where the present rates are 62%,70 and 771 cents, the new rates will be 70 and 72 cents, involving reductions ol 5l cents to two-thirds of the entire state; but also an increase ol 7rl cents to Fort Worth & Denver City Railway and Wichita Valley Railway points beyond Amarillo to Wichita Falls, and 9l cents to points east of Wichita Falls to Dallas inclusive.
New rates on shingles will be 12 cents per hundrred pounds more than the announ,ced rates for lumber, as detailed, both reductions and increases as given for lumber to govern for shingles. Similarly, the rates on doors will be reduced and increased.
The changes in rates as announced, according to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, have been pending since the early part of 1930, or just after the first conference of the West Coast lumber committee, organized by J. D. Tennant of Longview, Washington, then president of the Association, with western railway executives in Chicago during February of that year. The Association considers the reductions just granted as the first answer to the pleas of western lumbermen for freight rates more in harmony with the ability of the lumber industry to pay and nrarket its products.
On receipt of the information, the West Coast Association wired H. G. Toll. chairman of the Transcontinental Freight Bureau at Chicago, asking that an application be made by the Bureau to the Interstate Commerce Commission seeking authority to establish these rates on one day's notice, instead of April 1, as announced. The Association pointed out that no element of surprise exists as the rate change has been under consideration for three years; and urged that the present bad situation of the West Coast
Washington, Feb. 15.-The unexpected. popularity of the wood sample sets which the N.L.M.A. is supplying at cost has necessitated a rush order for 1000 additional sets. The inquiries resulting from a single news item in a popular scientifi c magazine were more than 2N, and every mail brings orders.
These sets were originally intended for complimentary distribution by lumbermen to their local. schools, but it has become necessary to supply direct schools that ask for them. The orders from lumbermen have been so numerous that it was not possible to meet even all of them from the supply on hand. Correspondence received by the Association shows that the schools are grateful for gifts of the sets and make splendid educational use of them. Any active lumberman may purchase these sets for his own use or for presentation to sctrools. The local publicity and goodwill advantages of such a gift are obvious. The cost is only $1.95 a set.
There are 48 species represented in the collection covering the most important commercial woods produced in the United States. Each block is 2lxSx/s inches. It has a printed label describing the species, giving its botanical and commercial names, the area in which it grows, anriual production, commercial uses and importance, peculiar properties and the source of supply. The samples are shipped in a white pine box which can be used for displaying thqm. The species represented arei
Softwoods
Eastern Hemlock Ponderosa Pine Idaho White Pine
Easterri Spruce Engelmann Spruce Western Larch
Arkansas Soft Pine Incense Cedar Port Orford Cedar
Shortleaf Pine I T,ongleaf Pine
western Red
Sitka Spruce
Sugar Pine
Tidewater Red
Cypress
Appalachian White Oak
Basswood
Southern White Oak
Red Gum
Hard Maple
Hickory
Magnolia
Eastern Red cedar fuest coast
NorwaY Pine Hemlock
Douglas Fir
Northern White Cedar
Tamarack
Hardwoods
Northern White
Pine
White Fir
Redwood
Birch Cottonwood
Appalachian Red White Ash
Oak
Southern Red Oak
Rock Elm Black Walnut
Soft Elm Sap Gum
Yellow Poplar Soft Maple
Chestnut Cherry
Sycamore Tupelo
Beech Willow
lumber industry might be measurably improved by an immediate freight rate reduction, whereas the thirty day notice might cause some buyers to withhold purchases.
U. S. Wood Products Company recently started business in San Francisco, with offices in the Chancery Building. The principals of the firm are Langford W. Smith, who for a number of years rvas sales manager of the Red River ' Lumber Company at Westwood, Calif., and R. S. Pershing, who was associated with Mr. Smith as assistant manager of the Red River Lumber.Co., and who has spent three years with the Insular Lumber Company in the Philippine Islands and the last two years selling lumber in the East for the Trotter-Kelleran Lumber Co. of Buffalo, N. Y.
The company will carry on a general wholesale lumber business and will act as Northern California representatives of the U. S. Plywood Company, N. Y., manufacturers of veneers. They also represent this concern for the Harvaiian Islands territory.
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T.B. Lawrence, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was a recent San Francisco visitor rvhere he spent a few days on business
Pat Sublett is back in California after spending the past year and a half at Oklahoma City where he was connected with the lumber business. Prior to his going to the Middle West, he was associated with the industry for several years in San Francisco and Oakland.
Washington, Feb. 25.-The seventh quarterly report of the Lumber Survey Committee of the Timber Conservation Board has just been issued, showing estimated lumber consumption during 1932 and three preceding years, lumber stocks as of the first of 1933 and 1932 and anticipated lumber consumption during the first quarter of 1933.
The Committee points out that although lumber stocks have been mu'ch redu'ced since 1930 and over 2-5 billion feet during the past year, equivalent to nearly one-fourth of the total volume of lumber movement, the net decline since the beginning of 7929 has been only about 3O per cent, whereas consumption ,in 1932 has declined over 65 per cent f.rom 1929, The Committee states that further large reductions in stocks is essential to industry recuperation and recommends a reduction during the.year of. 3l billion feet.
The Committee finds that average lumber pri'ces at the mill in the last quarter of. 1932 showed a slight advance, the first in three years. It states that increase'in production is not justified until consumption has increased and excess stocks liquidated. It recommends that diligent efforts be made through exchanges of stocks and sales, to a?oid unnecessary production of items already in industry surplus.
The report shows that if the lumber industry generally had not followed the recommendations of the Timber Conservation Board during the past two years and had continued production schedules at the rate prevailing in 1930 and early 1931, instead of an average stocks surplus of 4O per cent at the beginning of 1933, the surplus would have been approximately 120 per cent.
The Lumber Survey Committee appointed on July 9, 1931, consists of Thomas S. Holden, Vice President, F. W. Dodge Company, New York; Dr. Frank M. Surface, Assistant Director, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce; M. W. Stark, lumber and coal economist of Columbus, Ohio; Calvin Fentress, Chairman of the Board, Baker, Fentress & Company, Chicago, Ill.; and Dr. Wilson Compton, Secretary and Manager, National Lumber Manufacturers Association. This Committee serves. voluntarily in cooperation with the work of the Timber Conservation Board in its study of the economic situation in the forest products industries.
L. C. Stewart, Sudden & Christenson, San Francisco, spent a few days in Los Angeles during the past month where he conferred with Girth Byers, the company's Southern California representative.
One Saturday afternoon a destitute but honest rnan found a purse on the city street. It contained $3,(X)0 cash, and the name of a well known bank president. The poor fellow who found it couldn't return it until Monday morning, because the bank was closed. But when the bank opened Monday he was there at the door, and hurried in eager to restore the cash to its rightful owner, and certain of reward.
When he got home that night, his wife asked: ..What did he give you as a reward for returning his three thousand dollars?"
"Nothing," replied the honest man. ,,As a matter of fact I had to argue with him an hour to prevent his charging mCinterest for three days use of the money.,'
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Nor the vague night wind with blasphemies; These cannot help you any more than grief
Will help a dying tree to bud and leaf.
Go bravely forth instead, where women are, And you will never have to travel far
To find one gorgeous creature in a mood
To swap you platitude for platitude.
Wild starlight streaming will cajole the heart
You once thought broken, to a fresher start, And burn a bright blaze for this new findLove is so little sight, so much more mind !
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The street car stopped very suddenly.
"What's the matter?" asked a lady passenger.
"\ll/e just ran over a dog, ma'am," replied the motorman.
"Was he on the track?" asked the lady.
"No, trna'am," replied the motorman, ,,we chased him up an alley and caught him just as he was dodging under a barn.t'
James Truslow Adams in his book ..The Tempo of Modern Lifer" says:
"\Mhat is to become o{ the stability of government in its time-honored functionp if it is to become a business efficiency or a tipster's bureau? In the winning of men's respect, the snaintenance of civil order, the dispensing of justice, the waging of wa& the handling of foreign relations, and other problems of older statesmanship, is it likely to be helped by undertaking to create prosperity and guide people in their stock speculations?
"That 'Big Business' has raised big questions must be allowed. That all questions are now tinged witfi economics must also be allowed. That some experiments in stabilizing business may be needful and eventually useful, may also be allowed. But .in the present state of our abysmal ignorance about economics, is there not danger in handing over the economic lives and welfare of our people to the Government, already tottering under the load of the older functions, which it is performing none too well, such as maintaining order and dispensing justice?"
He that does good to another man does good also to himself, not only in consequence, but in the very act of doing it; for the conscience.of well-doing is ample reward. -Seneca.
By fertilizing his ranch freely, planting it scientifically, and cultivating it with diligence, a Colorado farmer recently harvested thirty bushels of grasshoppers to the acre.
Hero: "Where are the papers, cur?"
Villain: "At the blacksmith shop, my lord."
Hero: "Aha! You are having them forged, I suspect.', Villain: "Nay! I am having them filed.',
Knowledge is born of sufiering. To grow, means to en. dure growing pains. There is a price for every step of progress. No pay, no growth; no growth, decay. Take your choice. Also, to experiment means to make some mistakes.-Aaron Wirpel.
Washington, Feb. 12.-The National Lumber Manufacturers Association has filed with the Interstate Commer'ce Commission a brief signed by Wilson Compton, its manager, protesting against a continuation of the freight rate surcharge on lumber and timber products. The protest is made on behalf of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association as well as the various regional associations of lumber manufacturers.
The opposition of the lumbermen to continuation of the surcharge is based on allegations that they do not provide the railroads with increased revenue, that they are in fact, destroying lumber rail traffic, that manufacturers are unable to pass on added costs and have to meet them out of capital assets, not having any net income at this time. It is pointed out that lumber production during the past year has been less than ZS per cent of normal capacity; that prices have declined 45 per cent in four years and the volume of the lumber movement by approximately 70 per cent. Under these circumstances "the lumber industry should not be ,called upon further", says the brief, "to subsidize the operations of the railroad, notwithstanding that these operations also may be unprofitable."
The petition of the lumbermen asks, in the event that the Commission shall not grant its request, that the surcharges shall not be continued beyond December 31, 1933. Furthermore, it is asked that the railways shall not be permitted to retain the sur,charges without reference to any pooling plan. It is specifically requested that the pooling plan be continued. It is pointed out that if the railways are allolved to follow their program the temporary emergency 'charges, which were authorized for the relief of the needy carriers, will become a part of the permanent rate structure of the country.
The lumber position is supported by numerous citations of statistics of various kinds tending to show that the lumber industry is in a relatively more precarious condition than the railways themselves, and cannot therefore be reasonably expe,cted to be taxed for the relief of the latter. For instance, it is shown that from 1928 to 1931 lumber freight costs increased relative to the total value of lumber production by 45 per cent. On the basis of 1923 commodity prices, all commodities have declined 36 per cent, whereas lumber, alone, has gone down 49 per cent. The data supplementing the petition also strikingly demonstrates that lumber consumption is closely controlled by rail transportation costs. It is also emphasized that as railway rates have gone up the volume of forest products transported has steadily declined.
William A. Riley, of Los Angeles, father of Miss Ella Riley of the California Panel & Veneer Co., died on February 14. He is also survived by another daughter, Miss Lena B. Riley, and a son, George A. Riley. Funeral services were held at Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon, Februarv 16.
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Washington, Feb. 10,-The National Lumber Manufacturers Association through Wilson Compton has joined with the glass and cotton textile industries, through Walker D. Hines and Goldthwaite M. Dorr, of counsel in filing a brief with the U. S. Supreme Court, as "friend of the court", in the Appalachian Coals case. This action, involving a suit brought by the United States against'certain coal producers agreeing to a common marketing plan and alleging violation of the anti-trust laws, is now on appeal to the Supreme Court from the Circuit Court of Appeals, which sustained the government. The appeal is being heard by the Supreme Cour.t todaY.
The outcome of this case is being closely watched by industry generally, because the decision of the Supreme Court will determine whether it is lawful for industrial concerns to endeavor to maintain a stable and orderly conclition in industry, by common action through the utilization of a group selling agency.
The brief filed by the three industries jointly points out that not every form of concerted action among competitors is unlawful per se by reason of being inconsistent rn'ith the maintenance of free competition. In determining whether concerted action is or is not lawful, consideration should be given to the characteristics which make for effective functioning of the competitive system which it is the object of the statute to safeguard, and then it must be determined whether the concerted action involved in tl-re case is inconsistent with this object.
The brief also makes the following points:
1. The prohibitions of the anti-trust la'iv against restraint of trade and monopoly have for their purpose to secure the protection o{ both buyer and seller by maintaining competition.
2. It is essential to this purpose that there be active competition among buyers and active competition among sellers. The system fails when a reasonable balance of such active competition is lost or destroyed.
3. Causes outside of the competitive circle, such as great shortage or over-capacity may operate to destroy this reasonable balance as much as artificial monopoly among buyers or sellers.
4. A concerted effort among a group of competitors, whether buyers or sellers, which will prevent or mitigate the efiects of a breakdown in the reasonable balance of competition is the very opPosite in character and result from con.certed action designed to cause such breakdown.
5. In the Appala'chian Coals case the Circuit Court should have measured the effect of the Appalachian Coals Company by reference to conditions of competition within the coal industry. It should then have determined whether the concerted action produced effects consistent or inconsistent with the objectives of the anti-trust law.
6. A concert of action among competitors for the purpose
Chicago, Feb. l7.-Business Lumbermen's Blue Book. Inc., ary are as follows: 1933
Bankruptcies Receiverships
Extensicins Requested Creditors' Committees Appointed
3 Composition Settlements
7 Assignments
troubles reported to the during the month of JanuL932
Bankruptcies Receiverships
Extensions Requested Creditors Committees Appointed
4 Composition Settlements
8 Assignments
There was a marked decrease in inquiries for special credit reports this month in comparison with January, 1932.
The volume of claims placed for collection this month rvas not quite as large as the same month last year. There was no substantial difference in the average amount per claim. Collections are moie difficult than in January,1932.
Henry Homer Miller, well known Southern California lumberman and owner of the San Diego Hardwood Co., died at his home in San Diego on Monday, February 20. He had resided in San Diego for about fifteen years. Funeral services were held in Bonham Brothers' chapel on Friday, February 24 and were conducted by San Diego Lodge No. 168, B. P. O. E. IIe was 47 years old.
He was also a member of Southwest Lodge No. 283, F. & A. M. and a past patron of Southwest Chapter No. 345, O. E. S. I{e is survived by his wife, Catherine M. Miller, a sister, Mrs. Della Borin of Eugene, Ore., and trvo brothers, Frank and Will Miller, of Garrett, Ind.
of creating new competitive unit by combining only their marketing functions, while preserving their individual initiative in production should not be held unlawful, where concerted action based on a combination of both marketing and producing facilities would be lawful. I
7. If these ,coal companies could have merged all their properties and activities without violating the anti-monopoly section of the law, reasonably they should be enabled lawfully to combine merely their sales. There should not be one principle of law against monopoly and another and harsher principle of law against mere restraint of competition-especially,clearly destructive competition.
Mr. Compton after the hearing before the Supreme Court today stated that no one, of course, can forecast the Court's decision; that the outcome depends on the Court's view of the extent to which the exact words of the statute m'ay be flexibly applied to the changing economic facts while still conserving fundamental purpose of the anti-trust laws, namely, public protection; and that the decision, whether favorable or adverse, will be valuable. If favorable it will indicate important opportunities for cooperation in marketi.tg.If adverse it will plainly show that the relief from the unnecessary burdens imposed by the existing law must be secured not in the courts under present law, but in Congress through new legislation.
The Daisy Gray, coastwise lumber vessel of the Freeman Steamship Company, arrived at the Port of Stockton's rnunicipal dock on Thursday morning, February 2. It unloaded 650,000 feet of lumber for the Wendling-Nathan Co. of San Francisco for distribution to yards in Stockton, Sacramento, Fresno and other Valley points. The lumber originated at mills along the Columbia river in Oregon.
Factory whistles announced to Stocktou the arrival of the Daisy Gray, and within a short time several hundred people were at the municipal dock to rvatch the unloacling of the vessel.
Forrest Barrett, industrial agent for the port; C. O. Burgin, traffic manager; City Manager Walter B. Hogan; Port Dire,ctor B. C. Allin; Mayor Franke and other city officials were at the dock when the steamer arrived. George Freeman of the Freeman Steamship Company made the trip from San Francisco bay to Stockton on the Daisy Gray.
In the evening, Mr. Freeman, Axel A. Backman, captain of the Daisy Gray, and federal engineers in the Stockton division were guests of the chamber of commerce at a dinner at the Stockton Golf and Countrv Club.
The Los Angeles offices of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. and the McCormick Steamship Company are norv located in suite 717, W. M. Garland Building, ll7 West Ninth Street, Los Angeles. Their telephone number remains the same, TRinity 5241. They formerly occupied offices in the Lane Mortgage Building.
Allen & Dettman Lumber Co., San Francis,co, have recently completed improvements which include construction of a large shed.
A large lumber shed is under constru,ction at the p. C. Hansen Lumber Co., Niles, Calif., adjoining their office which will be used to store their dry lumber. The dimensions of the new building will be 5O feet by 200 feet.
Washington, Feb. l5.-Based upon number of wageearners, the lumber and timber industry is the most important in Montana, 24 per cent of all wage-earners in the manufacturing industries bf the state being lumber employees. The National Lumber Manufacturers Association, in its survey of the status of the lumber industry in various states, also finds that Montana has been the leading state in larch production since 1923.
Lumber production in Montana was highest in I9Z3 when 121 mills reported cut of. 426,423,000 Ieet. In 1929, 126 rnills reported production of 388,711,000 feet; in 1930, 114 mills reported D6,99O,W feet. .Of the 1930 production 45 per cent was Ponderosa pine;26 per cent larch; 15 per cent Douglas fir; 9 per cent white pine.
Four mills in 1930 in Montana, each cutting 25,000,000 feet or more, prodrrced 69 per cent of the total output of the state.
The lumber and timber industry (sawmills and logging operations) was first ofall manufacturing industries in ntrmber of wage-earners in 1929 when 3,501 were employed. It was second in r,vages paid, ($4,597,899) being exceeded by car construction and repair; and second in value of products, the flour and grain mill products industry being first.
Lumber consumption in Montana in 1930 is given by the Forest Service as I82,74O,W feet or 340 feet per capita. This may be compared with 19O feet for the country as a rvhole and 395 feet in Idaho. Seventy per cent of this consumption was of lumber produced within the state and 30 per cent came from outside states. Practically none .was imported.
About 4O per cent of the sales of lumber by the sawmills of Montana are to wholesalers ; 22 per cent to retailers; 13 per cent direct to railroads and public utility companies and 2l per cent to manufacturers of wood-consuming industries.
Preliminary Census reports of large mills indicate that lumber production in Montana and Idaho in 1931 was 37 per cent less than in 1930.
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Right now the building industry. is poised on the threshold of better times. In fact, the industry has nowhere to go except Up. Its recent history is familiar to all of us and ne'eds no repetition. We all know that residence construction has been steadily declining for some years past. How much it has declined may be judged by the fact that in the year 1925 alone, more homes were built than in 1929, I93A and 1931 ,combined. But these bad years had their full quota of new families, with the usual one million marriages a year. Based on past averages, there should have been three million new homes, while the actual new family units built was only one-sixth of that number.
These are facts we all know. They admit of only one logical conclusion, that despite the seeming ,contradiction of thousands of empty houses, empty apartments and a stagnant real estate market there exists in the United States today a tremendous potential shortage of dwellings. Another twelve months with another million new families will convert this shortage from the potential to the actual and make new home ,construction inevitable.
These things are facts upon which we all mo{e or less agreed. Most of us, no doubt, .concur in the opinion that the next twelve months will witness a definite improvement in the building situation. This opinion we hold, not only because of the things I have cited, but also because the volume of actual plans being drawn today in architects' offices furnish positive indication of renewed activity.
But most of us are afraid to trust these signs of returning life in our industry. Through fear of being wrong, we shrink from openly expressed optimism. We prefer to think that improvement will be a slow and halting process for a long time to come, rather than a sure-footed return to the highways of prosperity.
In this view I emphatically disagree, and believe that the next five years will witness the greatest period of home building activity this country has ever seen. I believe that if we could throw upon a screen a motion picture of building activity three years from today we would all stand open-mouthed at the panorama flashing before our eyes.
To reach this ,conclusion it is not necessary to draw upon secret sources of information, clairvoyants or crystalgazers. Every-day indications ,clearly show that a buying wave in the building field has been held back about as long as possible. The pressure of necessity will cause it to break-to break soon and to break strong.
The accumulated and in,creasing disparity between new families and new homes is one such factor and one that cannot be held in abeyance much longer. Air conditioning is another. We have all heard about it-read about it and talked about it for a year or more. Some people predict that air conditioning will ,create a sudden volume of sales comparable to the motor car, or the radio, or electric refrigerator. Judt whif-the volume will be I cannot foresee, but
I can see-and see clearly-what it will do to the building industry.
Air conditioning will completely revolutionize standards of home,comfort-it will stimulate home building and modernizing to a degree never before contemplated. With these new standards of comfort how many of the twenty million homes in our country will be able to pass the test? Dwellings perfectly satisfactory to the occupants today will be completely out of date five years from now. This means that such dwellings must be replaced or extensively modernized to bring them up to the new standard. Few homes built in the last fifteen years can successfully operate air conditioning equipment without radical remodeling. Here I believe is an important sour,ce of business to which the industry can look forward with confidence.
The noiseless house is another. Just as modern offices are being treated for sound quieting, so will the modern dwelling of 1938 be treated. It will be built to exclude street noises from without and to reduce domestic noises within. The multi-family dwelling without soundproof walls and floors will be as unpopular as it would be without running water or electric light.
Another factor that will stimulate activity is the growing tendency to spread o.ut population away from big centers, due to the rapid advance of transportation facilities. This movement, which has been going on for some time, is pulling families away from densely populated, over-crowded areas. Evidence of it exists not only in broadening of suburban developments but also in the location of manufacturing plants in small communities. It is altogether possible that new transportation may actually spread cities over a hundred mile radius. Express motor highways certainly will play a gre. at part by doubling or trebling the distance a man may travel in comfort between his work and his home. Go and stop trafiic light systems will be outmoded in a few years. We cannot forecast accurately how far the movement will go. But it seems certain that cheaper land will be available for home sites, thus removing one element of high cost from the home ownership picture.
Better transportation will also play b part in the development of the greatest resort building activity eve,r seen. Escape from ,cities will be made so easy and inexpensive that greater numbers of city dwellers will travel to the country for week-ends and vacations. There is going to be bigger business than ever before in the housing of these vacationers.
The shorter work week will also stimulate the resort business. But this shorter week will be another factdr that will influence the upward trend of home construction. Within a few years wb-shall undoubtedly witness the adoption to a considerable-extent of the five- and four-day week. This added leisure for the working man will make his home more important to him than it has ever been. Many'6
worker will be able to move back to the soil, where for two or three days he can cultivate his garden and enjoy his home.
The industry will receive another big boost from the reduction of costs for which everyone is striving. The costreduction idea is not exclusive with the people who advocate quantity-produced and factory-fabricated dwellings. I know of numerous cases where startling reductions have been made possible by clever buildings and ar'chitects through simple variations from the old models and methods. The importance of this cost reduction idea can be judged by the estimate recently announced after investigation, that a good house to sell for $4,800 would add sixty per cent to sales in the market for small single family dwellings.
It is upon such factors as these that we may base an optimistic estimate of the building industry's future. Does it -strain your powers of belief or your imagination ? It should not. The imagination you require is the same sort of vision that carried the American pioneer across the plains in his ,covered wagon, to establish his home in the wilderness. Just as that wilderness is now checkered with con'crete highways and busy cities, so will the uncertainty that now 'clouds the building industry give way to order and steady progress. This vision of the future is based on sound, well-known facts. It is further based on the final one of the three inevitable needs of mankind: foodclothing and SHELTER. Economic logic has placed that final need. in the hands of the building industry. I have full faith in the men of our industry and in their determination to deserve the return of prosperity by the value of their services.
Washington, Feb. 15.-According to American Forest Products Industries, the federal government building program now covers a total of $493,000,000 out ofa total authorization of $700,000,000.
The projects that have been completed total $98,000,000 and 281 different buildings. Under contract are 419 projects representing expenditurbs of $330,000,000. In addition, sites have been purchased in the District of Columbia aggregating $28,000,000 and sites have been selected elsewhere and various degrees of pfogress have been made toward the consummation ol 72 projects at a ,cost of $21,000,000. In addition some progress has been made toward the realization of approximately 50 projects, totalling about $16,000,000.
Washington, Feb. 17.-Minnesota was the leading state in white pine production from 1904 to 1927. Since 1927 Minnesota has been second to Idaho in white pine production and first in cottonwood production, according to the state's survey of the industry being made by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.
Lumber production was at its peak in Minnesota in 1899 when 404 mills produced 2,342,338,000 feet, ranking the state third in lumber output, following Wisconsin and I\{ichigan. Production in 1929 was 357,180,000 feet reported by 207 mills; in 1930, 222,389,000 feet, the output of 198 mills, or about 1O per cent of the 1899 production.
Three mills in Minnesota in 1930, each cutting more than 25,000,000 feet, produced 57 per cent of the total output of the state. Of the 1930 production, 65 per cent was white pine and 28 per cent, cottonwood.
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Lumber consumption in Minnesota in 1930 is given by the Forest Service as 526,343,N0 feet, or 205 feet per capita. This compares with 190 feet for the country as a whole and 215 f.eet in Wisconsin. Of Minnesota's consumption in 1930, 18 per cent was derived within the state and 76 per cent came from other states. Six per cent was imported from Canada. Nearly 30 per cent of Minnesota's lumber production is dsed at home; about 50 per cent is shipped to Illinois, Wisconsin and Ohio.
The lumber and timber industry ranked fourth of all manufacturing industries in Minnesota in 1929 in number of wage-earners. These numbered 4,4t2 and received wages of. $4,744,7O3. Value of products of the industry was $14,744,357.. Boxes and crates, planing mill production, and sash, doors and millwork are important wood-consuming industries in the state.
An unusually large proportion, or more than 4O per cent, of Minnesota's lumber is sold by the mills direct to retailers, including retail yards owned by manufacturers. From 15 to 2O per cent is sold through wholesalers and commission houses and 25 per cent direct to manufacturers of wood-consuming plants. Other sales made by the mills are local or interplant transfers.
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Redwood or White Pine connection for Ohio territory requiring full and exclusive time. Have been exclusive Cypress salesman in Ohio many years for large Cypress manufacturer. For obvious reasons would prefer change from Cypress to Redwood or White Pine. Address Box C-469. The California Lumber Merchant.
Several years' experience as manager of large metropolitan yard in California. Large acquaintance with the retail yards. Can show results. Now available for opening. Address Box C-471, care The California Lumber Merchant.
W. H. Wright, Smith Lumber Co., Anaheim, wag the winner of the low gross prize, the Schumacher Cup, at the monthly golf tournament of the Orange County Lumbermen's Club held at the Santa Ana Country Club, Wednesday afternoon, February 22.
D. E. Liggett, Liggett Lumber Co., Santa Ana, and C. B. Lyon, Hammond Lumber Co., Los Angeles, were tied for low net honors. R. E. Hostetler, Costa Mesa Lumber Co., Costa Mesa, and Ray Clark tied for the blind bogy prize.
The next tournament will be held at the Hacienda Country Club, Whittier, Wednesday afternoon, March 22.
J. Harold Dollar has been elected president of the recently organized Pacific Steamship Lines. Other officers elected are : R. Stanley Dollar, first vice-president; A. F. Haines, second vice-president, and E. H. Hall, secretary and treasurer. The company, which absorbed the Pacific Steamship Company, operates the Admiral Line.
The following is attributed toa San Francisco retail lumberman. When asked whether business is improving he replied: ".Yes, I think so. Yesterday we sold several orders. One amounted to $3.0O. The other two were SMALL."
Jack Rea, Los Angeles, Southern California manager for W. R. Chatnberlin & Co.. was a recent visitor at the company's San Francisco office.
Lumber Yard-$3000.00 for all stock of lumber and other building materials, truck, safe and adding machine. Rent $35 per month for yard. 24O lin. tt. shed and warehouse.
Write Geo. W. Jones Lumber Co., Box 445, Walnut Creek, Calif.
Building permit figures in 531 cities and towns of the country during Jdnuary, 1933, amounted to $33,701,343, according to official reports made to S. W. Straus & Co. This figure represents an increase of 20.58 per cent over December, 1932, when the volume of these cities was $26,3D,495. Permits issued during January, 1933, fell 29.58 per cent below the same month of 1932.
San Francisco has a large lead over all other cities with $14,557,555, which is 43.19 per cent of all the building reported, due to the vast $12,440,000 Golden Gate bridge project recently announced. This threw California into the lead of all states for the month with $16;627,249 or nearly half of all the building reported.
Twenty-five cities reporting the largest volume of permits for January, 1933, with comparisons for 1932, follow: San Francisco, Calif.
