Freight Ra,te Changes to South Wood Samphs Big Dsrnand and Middlewest by Schools and Lumbermen

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.