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(Continued fr,om Page 29) ject to Iess severe checking than material rvhich is permitted to season by natural agents.

Aftpr the seasoning bath a hydrostatic pressure is applied which forces the oil into the cells and fibers of the timber. Depending upon the ultimate use of the material, this pressure period is divided into two processes, the full cell and the empty cell. In the latter all free oil is removed from the cells of the wood. rvhile in the former the cells are felt full of oil. The full cell process is almost always used on piling and timbers for marine work.

Savings Derived

In anticipating the savings rvhich may be expected from treatment it may be well to'note the experience of some of the largest railroads of the country. In a recently published report of a joint committee of the American Railway Engineering Association, on service records, it was prese'nted that in 1908 the Santa Fe was usinig 301 tie renewals per nrile,lvhile in1922 by the use of treated ties, this figure was reduced to 158 ties. Likel,vise, the C. C. & St. L. in 1906 was using 392 tie renewals per mile and in 1922 has reduced its replacernents to 143.

A study of present prices in the San Francisco market may show this saving more clearly. Dense fir ties'are approximately $37.00, ship's tackle, and would give an average life of seven years. These ties treated lvith a six-pound, final retention, of creosote oil per cubic foot, by the empty cell process, would cost approximately $60.00, ship's tackle, and the average life would be twenty years. On this basis it is purely a question of spending $60.00 once in twenty years or $37.00 three distinct times in the same period, to say nothing of the additional cost of replacing ties in the track, rvhich is no small item. In other rvords, with treated ties you spend $60.00 once in tu'enty years, while by using untreated ties it is necessary to spend $111.00 plus the cost of renewals, which would bring this amount to at least $200.00. Obviously the saving in a twenty-year period would be approximately $120.00 for everv thousand board feet of ties under the rails.

"Forest Protection Week" April 2l-28

F'orest Protection Week, rvhich has become a national institution in keeping with the important part that forests play in the social and industrial rvelfare of the country, wili this year be observed during the rveek April 21st to ZSth. While this date has not yet been approved by the I)rr-'srdent, no difficulty is'anticipated in this're€tard, and it is expected that the executive proclamation rr,rill be shortly issued.

In a recent letter Mr. Paul G. Redington, District Forester, at San Francisco, says: "The cooperation of everyone is needed to make Forest Protection Week an outstanding success. At no time in the history of our country has the general public interest been so keenly alive to the importance of tightening up in fire prevention, and to the need for the formation of a constructive forest policy for the nation."

_ Here are the slogans that har-e been adopted, for Forest Protection Week:

Burned forests build no homes.

All outdoors is yours-but not to burn up.

Leave a clean camp and a dead fire.

Human carelessness is the cause of 80 per cent of Cal.ifornia's forest fires.

Make "Care with fire" your watchword in the woods.

Be sure your camp fire is dead-then bury it.

Ta:<es go up when forests burn down-You pay. '

A one-cent cigarette may start a $10,000 forest fire. put out that snipe.

Forests mean health and wealth. Help prevent fires. Eternal vigilance with fire is the price of a successful vacation in the mountains.

Going fishing? Be careful with your cigarettes and camp fires.

Smokers! Be sure your match, cigar or cigarette is OUT. Be a good woodsman-Leave a clearr camp and a clean record.

Game and fish depend ou forests and streams-Both are destroyed by fire.

Be is careful with fire in the rvoocls as you are with fire in your owtr home.

Be careful with fire today-tomorrow may be too late.

Help keep the mountains green-Be careful with fire. A burned city may be rebuilt in a few years, but it takes a century to regrow' a forest.

The-forestJare your playgrounds-Help keep them cleau and green.

The forest's prime evil-smoulderiug cigarettes"

Green forests pay big dividends in health and happinersHelp protect them from fire'

Frotn the Portland "Oregottiat{' Mareh 4th

Lumber Firm Expands

L. J. Wcntworth to Devote Timc to Holdings

Dollar Portland Company Enlarges Personnel; T. Y. S. Ballantyne

New Managcr

Expansion of the af{airs of the Dollar Portland Lumber compainy in various directions during the last year is being followed by .increases in the executive personnel as well as other forces, and hereafter Lloyd J. Wentworth, vice-president, will devote his attention exclusivily :to outside afiaits, embracing timber holdings anci allied activities. T. Y. S. Ballantyne, for some time identified with the Dotlar operations in British Columbia, will assurne the general management of the Dollar Portla'nd Lumber company.

Mr. Wentworth, who returned yesterday from San Francisco, made the following announcement concerning the enlarged organization: "The Dollir Portland Lumber company' which controls one of the largest bodies of standing timber in. the state of Oregon, and with othir large logging and milling interests in the state, is enlarging its personnel. Under direction of the Robert Dollar intenests, the Dollar Portland Lumber company has expanded its ope.rations in the last year through the purchase of large tracts of standing timbet in Linn ind Lane counties, reopened its large electrically driven mill at Portland, increased substantially its togging program and enlarged outside interests. Due to this expansion I shall devote my entire time hereafter to the Dollar Portland tin.rber holdings and allie'd interests.

"T. Y. S. Ballantyne, one of the most capable operators of the Pacific northwest, has been appointed general manager of the Dollar Portland Lumber company. Mr. Ballantyne brings to our organization lcvng experience and has, until this appointment, served as general manager of the Robert Dollar mill interests at Dollarton, B. C."

The Portland plant is cutting for the domestic and deepwater market and considerable material is being handled.

The Dollar Portland Company, as is known far and near by most everv one. is represented in the rail trade exclusively in California bv tie Santa Fe Lumber Company, "Gus Russell's Outfit."