CAR MATERI

The Kind that Puts the Car through the Shop

With a Minimurn of Waste and Labor

Car builders r,vill appreciate the value of a source of supply whic bines the utmost suitabilitv of materials quickly available at a-ieisonab in any desired cluantities rvith an understanding of an adherence to sta of nranufacturing an<l grading that makes it po-sible to put a car thror shop u'ith the least amount of n'aste and labor.

Bu'ers for railro.ads will appreciate repair r-naterial carefully fairly piicecl and reaclily available in any quantity.

Not o.nl1' has Tacoma imrnediately adja- important thought for the car ow cent to its great nrills a tremendous supply must consider fiial cost. It is also < of the finest. cluality of stancling timber, tim- tively f ree f rom sap. ber_ posse_ssir.rg inherent aclvantages which These advantages Tacoma offe make it almost ideal for a majoriiy of uses .*t.ri"ifr"i ;;tlji; h.;-;;;r;;.; in freight car construction, but Tacoma the fullest consicleration. .I.acoma comprice rds the aded, who rato an to terial ssible he ren rvery. Donglas fir. of which Tacoma has vast Put totn' car material necds wp to ma! some g Tadirecefully luable

To haae tour inquiries reaclt thc entire lumber manufqcturing interests of Tacom,a and, Tacoma District, zarite or wire

TACOMA IUMBERMENS CLUB, Tacoma, Washington

FHIL B. HART Mqraging Editor

A. M. THACKABERR Circulation Mugcr

A. C. MERRYMAN, Advcrtirlng

J. E. MARTIN Mgr. San Francirco Olfice

Subecription Price, $2.1X) pcr Ycar Singlc Copicg, 25 centr each.

How Lumber Looks

Ristt and left, North and South, lll over the rtate, you will now hear 'thingr are going to pioh up, right after ilre 6rat of the month." Thir is fine. A generd feeling of optimirm and a univerral anticipation of a better month in April will all help to produce the deaired resultt. If everyone rtarts to predict and preach e better market, then we will have it.

So far in this month, thingr leave much to be decired dl down the line. It would be a pleanrre to report more generour buying activitiea by the yardt, 6ey are not, however, placing orders any more freely then tbey did in January{ and in the latter part of December. It is hard to conceive that the retail yards are all ar much overstocked ar har been reported cince the first of the year. Thir lurhber that they had on hand at inventory time, and which was suppored to have been loaded in on an €xpectnd rising market, surely has thinned out, eapecially in the routhern part of the rtate, where the building permitr have been on the increase.

The d'ocks at San Pedro Harbor are in much better shape than they were two monthr ago. There ir room down there for conriderable lumber, and here is another point. Up to Sc night of the llth, there had been only 37 cargoer of lumber in at thie port. They carried right in the neighborhood of 48 to 5O million feet, which would indicate that the montfi of March would see far leer lunrber in at this podt than for February when they received right clooe to 15OrOOO,OOO feet. . This mo'nth will probably run 25 miltion lese than thir.

The building in Los Angeler for March will total every bit ar much as it did in February, $I6,OOO,O(X). Up to the tenth the permits totaled about six million dollars.

The conditions at the mills, as we get them, point to better timer. The rail orders right now are proving to be a great etabilizer, and if this bulinees continues, the Middle \Meetern, and Eartern bucinees, will prove a greater infuence on the Cdifornia market.

The member mills of the West Coast Lumbetrnen's Asrociation are report'ng crderr for about eighteen hundred cars per week. They had urfiIled orderr for over 1160O cars, and the unfilled cargo orderr arnounted to 284,O00,O0O feet. Of this juat about half, or 136,000,000 was for domestic delivery, and the balance for export.

On the other hand, the cut of these mills for the week war 16% above their normal output, and their orderc were 2OVo below the production. And the total footage rhipped that week was 33Vo over new businers.

It is urderctood from reportr from Seattle that it will be ? very short time until shipments rtart to the Japanerc. Very little lumber har moved for Japan in the lari thi*y days; this stock ir accumulating, and no doubt by tbe firit of thb month will be moving acrosr the water.

Here in California again, reportr from variour partr of the rtate ghow a hopeful outlook, and as raid before, a general feeling for a better market, in about two weeks. -In the northern part, decpite the recent rainr, the rail burineer har not increased to any extent. In the San Joaquin Valley burin-ese ir ver;r slorv, and' conditionr here will probably, not change until in May or June. The dealerr ari not b.rving, ar a consequence. Wind and lack of rain has done muc,h damage in thir part of the state.

_ Conditionr are better in the Bay Diatrict. The dealen in San Francirco and Oakland are "rjovllrg rome good buei- nesl, and re4ly_are in better shape than their-neighbon b9lo1v the Tehachapi; in view of thlir having a more-rtable wholeaale market.

In l,gr Agg_elcr, while the permitr for February were well over 15 million dollarr, _the retailerr did not report arry record sales for the month. In fact complaintr have been heard that this month,war one of tbe doweet for come time. February is always a dow month in ralec, and a good'one in building pernr,its. The tax arersment time har e lot to do with this. These_de'lers will, without a doubi, have much larger sales in March. Ukewise the country'yardr, in the south.

_ Thg redwood mills laft report, for e week, rhows new buriness amounting to nearly nine'millio,n feet. ar "o-oo"d to seven million for t'lre week before. They cut nine million' and shipped reyen, in the week.

The Southern Pine Association member milh report a week'r businers of 6210OO,OOO feet,rrd they--arr;;ilJ 79 million. Their rdes barometer showr atiOVo;a;;;-"1" with their crft at 73Vo.