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American Forest Week And The Lumber Industry

By Wilson Compton, Secretary and Manager, National Lumber Manufacturers Association

Washington, Apt. l8.-Folest Week is the big week of the year for the lumber industry.

The perpetuation of the industry is dependent upon the perpetuation of our forests. We-are usittg annuitty 37,000,000,000 board feet of the product from our sawmills, of innumerable kinds, shapes and sizes. There is nothing we do, and nothing lve make, but lumber of some kind and in some way plays its part. The use of lumber is so inextricably inteiwbv6n intoour whole social and economic structure that we can not do without it.

Thirty-seven billion board feet is the annual growth, under sustained yield forest management, of over 300,000,000 acres, At least that large an area must be kept constantly growing successive crops of timber, with careful fire proteciion and the best silvicultural treatment, to keep our lumber industry producing on its present scale, and to keep the country supplied with its needed lumber'

Naturally, therefore, the lumber industry is keenly interested in American Forest Week and its well planned efiort to make the people of the country "forest conscious," realizing the econbmic necessity for forest perpetuation, and sufporting all measures to facilitate the industrial growing of timber.

- Aftei three hundred years of lumbering, and of forest re$roval to make way for agriculture, we still have 130,000,000 acres of virgin forest left. This is enough at our present rate of consumption to supply our needs for perhaps two generations longer. But the lumber industry is looking beyond that period, to the time when it must depend forits raw material entirely upon man-g'rown fofests. Already a number of its leaders have started on the task of grori'ing new crops of timber on their cut over lands. Their experimental laboratory comprises over 12,m0,000 acres of forest land, where they are trying out all conceivable ways of making more and better trees grow faster.

Of our 470,000,000 acres of forest land, two-thirds will undoubtedly always be privately owned. To keep our forests always productive is therefore mainly a task for private enterprise, a problem of industrial forestry. ,Its importance to our general economic welfare is such that in the years to come it may well be ranked amongst our great utilities.

Private enterprise of this sort, to be successful, must have the. sympathetic support of the public, not only morally, but also in the concrete form of adequate fire and police protection, and of equitable taxation. American Forest Week in arousing public opinion to the hearty support of remedial legislation along these lines, will accomplish much in ensuring the success of industrial forestry.

There are those who believe that the way to save our forests is to stop using them. They would have us eat off tin tables, make oui window sashes of steel instead 9f pine, build our railroads with concrete or metal ties, and do a hundred and one other things less efficiently and more uncomfortably than we do them now with wood. Yet, if we cease to use wood it will cease to be valuable, the forests which produce it will become worthless, and it will no longer pay to take care of them.

The perpituation of the forests, therefore, is dependent upon the perpetuation of the forest industries.

w. E. LANDRAM ATTENDS JOrNT CLUB MEETING AT MERCED

W. E. Landram, retired lumberman, who was connected with the Merced Lumber Co. for 24 years, and who was president of the San Joaquin Valley Lumbermen's Club lor three years, attended lhe recent joint meeting of -the three Valiey clubs at Merced. He was very active just after the banquet in leading the 3@ visitors in community singing, a difficult job accolding to Mr. Landram, without a plano.

He is now vice-president and secf,etary of the Yosemite Barium Co., Merced, producers and shippers of barium, which is largely used for making peroxide, and to replace white lead in paint.

McCLINTOCK NOTy\/ WITH REDWOOD MANUFACTURERS

PITTSBURG, CALIF.,

April2.-E.V.

McClintock, who for the past several years has been connected with the Hammond Lumber Company at Los Angeles as Cbst Accountant of millwork op&atidns, has resigned that posltiol to take charge of the Full Mill Bid estimating for the Redwood Manufacturers Company of this city.

Mr. McClintock was one of the members of the committee which compiled the recently published Standard Sash & Door Sched-ules of the Millwork Institute. His experience in this activity plus his qualifications in the field of cost ascertainmentiit him particularly well for his new position.

c. D. JOHNSON VrSrrS SAN FRANCTSCO

C. D. Johirson, head of the 9. O. Jqtt"son Lumber Co., Portland, Ore., and the Pacific Spruce Corporation, Toledo, Ore.. lvas a San Francisco visitor for a few days last month. when he conferred with Russell T' Gheen, manager of the San Francisco office of the company. Mr. Johnson left San Francisco for Portland, April 2O-

New Yard To Open In Julian

Ransom Brothers Company, lumber and building supolv dealers of Ramona, California, have announced that thtv wilt open a branch yard and business in Julian in the tt.ar future. A deal haS been closed on property for the construction of the new buildings.

We cater to the small Yard'---'

And the smalter dealers have found out that our service to them is REAL SERVICE' Our quick shipment of anything and everything for the building trade by car or truck makes it possible for the small dealer to give tip-top service to his trade, and yet keep down his investment, his insurance and his overhead.