RED RIVER
"Paul Bunyan's"
NEW LOW PRICES are made porsible by reduced production costs and the confident anticipation of increared volume.
NO SACRIFICE OF QUALITY is involved. In fact, improvement and refinement is a continuous Red River policy.
PRICE LIST NO. 107, effective March 15, re-groupr gradec to conform to standard commercial lirtr. You can now compare RED RMR CALIFORNIA PINE PLYWOOD with other rpeciesgrade for grade and price for price.
RED RMR'S development of high standards of manufacture has heretofore necesritated higher pricer. Plywood users have balanced price against reduced working-up costs and have given RED RMR'S product a wide market. The benefit of lower "price" as well as lower ttcoltt' ir now parsed on to the conrurner.
A A POINT ONE "OLD FASHIONED PINE'' J,F|'
Light weight. Bright color. Soft even texture. Non-checking, nongrain-raising.
A A DOINT TWO "RE-DRIED AT NO CHARGE'' RIE
Process includes accurate humidity control. Minimum weight. Mini-
A A I'OINT THREE "STRAIGHT GRAIN'' RI
Veneer sheets cut and matched for grain and texture to remove a cauee f panel distortion.
Current low prices of RED RMR CALIFORNIA PINE plywood and lumber items ofier an exceptional opportunity to buyers. QUANTITY ORDERS ARE RECOMMENDED. WE CAN NOT ASSURE A CONTINUANCE OF PRESENT LUMBER PRICE LEVEIS. Mixed cars and pool cars accepted for immediate delivery.
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New business at the hardwood mills during the week ended April 15, 1933, was the heaviest since last October and totaled 3l per cent above that booked during the correcponding week of. 1932, according to reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association from regional associations covering the operations of. 663 leading softwood and hardwood mills. New business at softwood mills fell below that of the previous four weeks but was higher than for any of the first'ten weeks of 1933. Softwood production established a new high for 1933' at96r972,O00 feet. All production totaled lO7r295rOOO feet, also 1933 highest figure. *t"*l orders .-;""*1 to t24,328,000 feet.
Douglas Fir-A total of 252 d.own and operating mills which reported to the Vest Coast Lumberments Association for the week ended April 15 produced 62,505,446 board feet of lumber. This was a decrease of 8571791 feet or l.4Vo undet their cut in the preceding week. The average weekts production of this group of savrmills n 1933 has been 57,1721322 feet; during the same period of. 1932, their weekly avetage was 651930,6O4 f.eet.
New business teported for the week ended April 15 by 179 mills was 5818311260 board feet against a production of 57r66i6,255 feet and bhipments of 63,410,085 feet. Shipments were over production by 9.9jo and current sales were over Production by z.Vo. The ordets booked for the week by this group of mills were less than their orders of the preceding week by 7r9t4r065 feet, or l2/e. Production decreased less than 1r0(X),000 feet from the previous week.
New business in volume is back to a.point somewhat below that set for March 11, when the bufng furry started, but considerably higher than during the week of March 4. - As pro. duction did not'follow new business up during March, cutting remains less than the orders during the current week. Inventories continue to decrease although this is the usual time of year fot stock making. The Association reports that there is no evidence of a building revival at hand.
Details of orders and shipments at these 179 mills for the week follow: Orders-Rail 19,4741803 f.eet; Domestic Cargo 2214411076 feet; Export tlr35rr4t9 feet; Local 51561,962 f.eet. Shipments-Rail 2O,O76,613 f.eet; Domestic Cargo 23,173,607 feet; Export 14,637903 f;t; f;cat 5,561,962 f.eet.
The Southern Pine Association for the week ended April 15
rqrorted new business from 105 mills at 22109600O feet; shipments 24r872r00o feet; and productioa 21r07e0fi) feec Orders wete 5 per cent above production and 11 per cent below shipments. Shipments were 18 per cent above production.
The Western Pine Association for the week reported new business from 1O7 mills as 2216971000 feet; shipments 27r3O4r0OO feet, and production l7r974rOOO f.eet. Orders wete 26 per cent above production and 17 per cent below shipments. Shipments were 52 per cent above production.
265 hardwood mills for the same week give new business as 1712841000 feet, or 67 per cent above productiono and ship. ments 1511741000 feet ot 47 per cent above production. Pro, duction was 1O,32),O00 feet.
The California Redwood Association for the month of March, 1933, reports orders received from 12 mills as l2232rOOO feet; orders on hand 151569,000 feet; shipments 1216441000 feet, and production 101811,000 feet.
Details of orders and shipments for the month follow: Orders-Northern California 4,33610oo feet; Soutfiern California 216521000 feet; V7estern l27rO0O feet; Eastetn 4r084r0(X) feet, and Foreign lr023r000 f,ea. Shipments-Northern Cdifornia 5r3l9rOOO feet; Southern California 1,9881000 feet; Vestern 89,000 feet; Eastern 3,t89r000 feet; Foreign 1,859,00 feet
The trend of business in generd is betfer throughout the state of California and the outlook is brighter in all lines. April building totals in Los Angeles will be the highest of any month t{ris year, the building permits for the first twenty-two days of tlre month amount to $97ArZ4Z; 80 per cetrt of this total is for repairs and alterations. The California lumber demand slowed up some during the past two weeks. Following the briek demand for lumber in the Southern California earthquake zone for repairc and emergency uses, it is now thought that it will probably be a few months before actual re6uilding gete under way. Fir mill prices are very firm.
unsold stocks on the public docks at San Pedro totaled 3e2O9rO00 feet on April 22, as compared to 3r655r(X)0 feet'tfie ptevious week. Cargo amivals at this port for the week ended Apil 22 amounted to 91602,000 feet, which included 9 cargoes of Fir. 48 lumber vessels in the coastwise trade were operatiag on April 22; 5E vessels were laid up.
First, we run our bills. Then, our bills begin running us. Then we begin to find out what "depression" means.
"A gentlem"rr," ,"*"rrl"U " O*"U of mine, "is a man who immediately makes the other fellow feel at ease, particularly if that other fellow is of lower station in life than himself." ***
A snob, then, is very easily defined. He is the exact opposite of a gentleman. And the same thing goes for the female sex. For "gentlemen" simply means a gentle, thoughtful, courteous man; and "lady" means a gentlewoman.
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I really believe that the depression has given us a greatly reduced volume of snobbishness, and therefore gets a merit mark for good accomplished. In my crude lexicon of thought, the lowest form of animal life in human shape is the rniser; next comes the snob; then all the other criminals in proper relationship. ***
If I thought the depression would eventually kitl off all the snobs and misers, I wouldn't care much how long it lasted. But, unfortunately, it won't. In fact, some of the worst snobs and misers I know seem to be weathering the depression better than a lot of people with brains and character. So I guess we'll have to abide with them until that hallowed day when the Fool-Killer comes. ***
There is only one aristocracy-that of intellect; only one nobility-that of character. ***
It seems that we all agree on George Bernard Shaw. The half-wits agree that he's a wit; the bootlickers agree that he's a genius; and the honest people agree that he's a lousy old rascal that has long since forfeited any claim he may ever have had to the attention of intelligent folks. That's perfect agreement.
Last issue in these ".r;"" r*"rr."a for inflation. Four ilays later my friend, the new President, let me have it. That's service, and no mistake.
iEverything is getting better. It has been steadily but cirtainly improving since the 4th day of March. Pretty soon \rye will be able to pay debts with dollars about the
size they were when we went into debt. Then we'll be "going to town."
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It wouldn't be a bad idea to inject a few facts into this inflation bugaboo. Most of those who try to scare us with inflation warnings, aren't telling all the facts-they are holding back the most salient ones. And you can depend on it that the guy who cries "Beware !" every time inflation is mentioned is trying to collect enough 6-cent cotton to pay notes made when cotton was 25 cents a pound. If inflation raised cotton to 50 cents-an utter impossibility and not to be even considered-the debtor would only be getting a 1 to 2 advantage as against the creditor's 4 to I advantage today. Personally I don't want to see 50-cent cotton-but I'd rather have it than 6-cent cottoR. And it would be eminently fairer to all concerned.
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Our continued climb toward business health is utterly contingent on infation, price raising, and cash circulation. They tell us with quivering voices of the terrible thing that happened to Germany when infation broke its bonds and went wild. They don't tell us that what happened in Germany-terrific and desperate though it was-was nothing like as bad as what we have been threatened with in this country for the past year and up to the 4th day of March, 1933. They don't tell us that every debtor in Germany got out of debt before infation had been long under way. Of course, it was tragedy to the creditor classtragic beyond words-but tragedy has been all about us for the past year or so. It is tragedy tfty unless we get money into circulation, and credit restored; and that we have been showing no signs of getting. .:;,
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We cut loose and printed a lot of new currency as soon as the new administration came in. Have you seen any of it? Not a dime! THAT effort failed. The Government offered that money to the banks to loan to worthy people and worthwhile business. The ba-nks have done nothing of the kind. I'm not blaming them. Like everyone else they have been fighting for life, and their idea of safety is a liquid condition. But a liquid condition for the banks means starvation for business and for industry. We are still in a deadlock. And finding that no standard means of getting money into circulation seemed workable, President Roosevelt stepped out and said-"Then we'll do
it the next best way." And he dropped the gold standard, and announced for controlled inflation.
I predict that this extraordinary announcement from this extraordit aty man w.ll go down into history as one of the most dramatic and fateful pronouncements in this nation's annals.
Since the hour he took office he has been attempting by one bold stroke after another to rouse this nation. With powerful blows in a variety of directions he has been seeking to stimulate our courage, bolster our morale, rouse our fighting spirit, enliven our faittr'- and restore our hope. He has succeeded splendidly. The entire structure of the nation has guivered at his sledge-hammer blows as does the ship-keen for the launching-whose stays are being knocked awa''
And then, finding the course toward prosperity still blockaded by the twin evils of no-cash and no-credit, and all ordinary methods of elimination apparently ineffectual, he takes the proverbial bull by the well-known horns and presto !-we are off the gold standard, and on the way out of the depression over the inevitable inflation route.
Better? Of course things are better! And, as inflation develops we will see trade development and business unfolding. People are taking their money and buying things. They have two first-class reasons. First, things are cheap, so this is the time to buy them before they go up. Second, dollars are high, and this is a good time to invest them while they still have large purchasing power.
And, naturally, the more things they buy the higher the price will go; and the more money they spend the lower its purchasing power will become. When we get a lot of cash in the tread-mill of commerce again, we will all begin buying and selling naturally, just as we used to do. And the next thing we will be looking back and trying to decide .just exactly what date it was that the depression ended. And most of us will agree that it was on the fourth day of March, 1933.
And what of the lumber business? It will prosper. For a few years after the definite termination of this great depression, the lumber industry will follow a rather automatic course. It will swing back toward prosperity rather slowly, because of the lean buying power of the average man. But there has been created a great reservoir of building necessities that will act as an urge to do rnore buying and biilding, and, as the ability of the world to buy and pay for building materials develops, that reservoir
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will exert a terrific drag to bring the public dollar in building directions. A high tide of prosperity will then follow. There should be several years of buyers' markets, with exceptionally heavy consumption of all important building materials. **+
Of course, competition in building materials is going to be very keen-perhaps more so than ever before. And as soon as the suction, created by the great vacuum in building of the past six years, begins to run its course, the great competitive day will come again, and from that time on the best salesman will get the most orders. By that time, however, there will be an enormous reduction in the Pine production of the South. Hundreds of big mills will pass out of the picture in the next five years in the Southern states. And the question of how much business the remainder of the lumber industry is going to do from that time on is going to depend very larlely on the amount of improvement the lumber industry makes in its methods of doing business. There will still be huge possible lumber production from the Pacific Coast.
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But that is looking a long time ahead. What have we to smile about in our intelligent anticipations for the next few years, other than the fact that the world has gone without buildings for six years, and must one day try and catch up? One very monumental thing, I would say; DECENTRALIZATION. That's the thing! For a long generation the people of this country have been steadily moving in, moving in, from the farm and rural districts to the city. And now the swing back has begun-definitely and proveably begun. The things that made the city attractive to the rural folks, now belong to country and city alike. And people are going back; back to the farm; back to the middle-sections between city and farm; back to the territory where there is room, and fresh air, and economy, and opportunity not found in the restricted clty. We went from the farm to the city because we found in the city comforts, conveniences, entertainment, luxury, happiness, satisfaction not then known in the country.
Now all these thing, ": : alail"ute on the farm as in the city, Good roads, electric lights and power, radio, innumerable household conveniences, luxuries of all sorts, and plenty of room at economical rates, have done the trick. In the old days industry crowded into the cities. Now industry is pushing and will continue to push-OUT. Everything that the city alone could furnish a few years
ago, is now available equally in the country, with numerous assets that the city never had. Lights, power, transportation, and labor are all available today to better advantage twenty or thirty miles out of town than tiley are fN.
Yes, folks, we're going back out, away from the crowded congestion of the city. We're going to scatter our population. And that means that we're going to rebuild this whole country. Yes, sir, the whole blamed country is going to have to be'rebuilt to meet this new order of things. That will mehn a world of building materials in addition to those of our present definite needs. It will mean an opportunity for wise planning and wise merchandising and intelligent building assistance to this rebuilding country. It means everything to the prostrate lumber industry. ft is something to begin getting ready for. It is a promise that we must make the most of. Yes, I would say that the prospect for the lumber industry in the next few years is an enviable one. There should be prosperity enough for all.
And the farmer. no, tio |.rlr".,oo, he has been rushing from the farm to the city-from the corn field to the professions. Now he is going to rush back. And he won't confine himself to simply cotton, fruit, small grain, or some other cash crop that has to be shipped and marketed. He will diversify, supply his own needs first, and then raise enough salable crops to exchange for those things that cannot be secured by barter. That was the condition of the farmer originally. That is the way he is going to return. And he, too, should have a period of peace and happiness in store.
Roy Grenfell, owner and manager of the Grenfell Lumber Company, at Colusa, Calif., was recently elected president of the Colusa Rotary Club.
George r\dams, well known Northern California retail lumberman and son of Noah Adams, of the Noah Adams Lumber Co., Oakland, was married on April 15 to Kera Schumacher, of Walnut Grove, Calif. Mr. Adams has charge of the Adams yards at Walnut Grove, Isleton, Rio Vista, Clarksburg and Fairfield. They will make their home at Walnut Grove.
Chicago, April 10.-Business casualties reflected by reports to the Lumbermen's Blue Book during the month of March, 1933, with comparative figures for March, 1932, follow:
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1933 Bankruptcies. Receiverships.
Extensions Requested. Assignments.
Composition Settlements. Creditors Committees
Appointed.
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1932 Bankruptcies. Receiverships.
Extensions Requested. Assignments. Composition Settlements. Creditors Committees Appointed.
1933 is due, in part at least, to decisions matters which had been dragging for a
Inquiries for special reports, while not attaining as large a volume as during this month last year, were much heavier than in either January or February this year.
The bank holiday naturally had a material bearing on collections, with the result that comparison with a year ago is not significant.
N. H. (Hawk) Huey of Phoenix, Ariz., was a recent Los Angeles visitor where he spent a few days calling on the lumber trade. Mrs. Huey accompanied him on the trip.
"A well-constructed and properly designed house still is the safest investment in America," says N. Max Dunning, Fellow, American Institute of Architects, of Chicago. "Home ownership, however, cannot be of lasting benefit unless the investment is based on sound value."
Mr. Dunning is the chairman of the "Ifow to Judge a House" committee of the National Committee on Wood Utilization, United States Department of Commerce. A publication under this title has been issued for the benefit of the prospective home buyer, pointing out the details of construction and design, a knowledge of which will enable the non-technical prospective purchaser to determine the value of his purchase.
The average man, the bulletin states, often has difficulty in checking up on builcling materials and their application. I{ the frame'ivork or the foundation are of poor construction, costly repair u,ork rvill foilow. The bulletin also shorvs hor.v to avoid extravagance in construction, thereby securing the lorvest possible rental values.
"The American public is more critical of values toclay than ever before," says Mr. Dunning, "and this booklet 'rvill encourage good building practices to cater to public needs."
"llow to Judge a llouse" is an S5-page, illustrated bulletin, which may be secured at a cost of 1O cents a copy from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C., or any of the district offices of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, located in the principal cities.
Harry Bradford and M. G. Callahan, who have made an exhaustive study of early California history, will be speakers at the next meeting of Hoo Hoo Club No. 39 to be l:el4 at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Monday, May 15, at 6:09 p.m. Their subject will be "History of California Missions." and the talk will be illustrated with slides. Dinner will be 85 cents a plate.
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In the interest of further price stabilization, the Millwork Institute of California announces it is issuing, in simplified form, a new Sash, Window ancl Door Frame Schedule. The size and layout is so arranged that it may be added as a separate section on frames to the current Sash & Door Schedule No. 132. It is composed of 13 pages and covers both exterior and interior frames of the various designs and types generally in use; and it is so simplified that it can be used by the smallest planing mill or retailer.
fn order to partially finance the printing cost, they are making a nominal ,charge of 5O ,cents per set. The Millwork Institute is the sole source of distribution and all orders for Frame Schedules should be forwarded to their office at 523 Patterson Bldg., Fresno, Calif. They request that you enclose your check for these S,chedules with y,our or,ders so that they may be spared the expense of hanclling a large number of small accounts.
Organized local groups, as well as individual firms, rvill find the Frame Schedules entirely applicable to their method of operation. Groups may order their copies through their local secretaries.
Referring to price stabilization L. G. Sterett, secretary of the Institute, in the announcement says :
"The Millrvork Institute has been actively engagecl in price stabilization work. Lo.cal cooperation has been responsive and notable success has already been n-rade. Indications are that the trend in the building industry for 1933 will be towards a more healthy price condition. This is of the utmost importance to every firm in the state. The suffering during the past has been occasioned more by insane pri'ce levels than by low volume; and the solution for it is in our hands. It is time to substitute honesty, confidence, faith and cooperation for suicidal, cut-throat competition with all its attendant losses."
The sawmill of the Compania Maderera de Durango, S. A., at El Salto, near Durango, Mexico, and 18,000,000 feet of lumber were destroyed by fire April 10, according to news recently received from Mexico City.
This mill rvas owned by American interests, and in 1926 and 1927 Frederic S. Palmer, manager of the Pine department of the Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, was its general manager, and C. C. Stibich, sales manager, Tahoe Sugar Pine Co., San Francisco, was his assistant.
Sacramento, April 1S.-Determined to prevent repeal of the state contractors' registration act, representative leaders of every branch of the construction industry in California today were preparing to appear before the senate governmental efficiency committee Wednesday in opposition to the repeal movement.
A spirited battle is in prospect when the abolition bill, sponsored by Senator Ray R. Ingels, Ukiah and Senator David Bush's fact finding cdmmittee, comes up for action before the committee. The California State Builders, Exchange heads a group of builders and contractors organized in leading the fight against the repeal movement.
"Repeal of the contractors' act," according to Ralph E. Homann, Los Angeles president of the state builders, exchange, "would achieve nothing, and would fail to save one penny for the state's general fund.
"In addition, repeal of the law would throw down the bars and result in a horde of crooked and irresponsible carpet bag contractors and jerry-builders from other states invading California and robbing the building public. The recent earthquake disaster in southern California strongly emphasizes the need of this regulatory measure, which was initiated by the contractors. Its operation is entirely selfsupporting."
More than 20o builders' exchanges, contractors, plasterers and plumbers association, material dealers, home finances organizations in virtually every California county, and representing 95 per cent of the persons engaged in construction work, have gone on record as strongly, opposed to the repeal bill, Mr. Homann said.
The Los Angeles coroner's jury, which investigated the quake, also went on record opposing repeal, according to Mr. Homann, who was a member of the jury.
Charles Knight, manager, industrial department,- California State Chamber of Commerce, declared today that "abolition of the bureau, which is performing excellent work in wiping out the crooked contractor, should be strongly opposed." The state chamber has opposed abolition.
John Crawford, president of the Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co., Walla Walla, Wash., has been visiting in Los Angeles with relatives and calling on his lumbermen friends. The Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co. operate a chain of retail lumber yards in Washington and Oregon.
Moore Mill & Lumber Co., Bandon, Ore., is now cutting timber that runs into a much larger percentage of Douglas Fir than formerly, and the company has therefore re-entered the Douglas Fir market. This Fir grows in ,the Coast Range about 50 miles back from the Coast, and is of softer texture than that which grows within a few miles of the Coast.
Ralph T. Moore is general manager of the company, and Carl R. Moore is in charge of the San Francisco office, which is at 525 Market St.
R. O. Wilson & Son, with offices at 525 Market Street, San Francisco, are sales representatives in California.
The return of beer has resulted in considerable new business for his firm, according to P. R. "Bob" Kahn, manager of Forsyth Hardwood Company, San Francisco, who states that they.have sold an average of three bar tops daily and much other material since the sale of beer has been made legal.
Mr. Kahn believes that some kind of a record rvas made when he recently placed an order with a mill in the Philippine, Islands for 100 Philippine Mahogany bar tops, lt/+ by 22 inches wide and 22 to 30 feet long. He says they are getting inquiries for these from as far East as Denver.
Jack Rea is now located at room 801, Petroleum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles. He was formerly in the Chamber of Commerce building. He represents W. R. Chamberlin & Co. in the Southern California territory.
Homer Maris of the Maris Plywood Co., San Francisco, has been in the panel business for many years, but says the quickest service he has ever experienced frotn a manufacturer was in connection with an order he recently placed with C. W. Buckner, Northern California representative of the Harbor Plywood Co., Hoquiam, Wash., for 10,000 feet of Douglas Fir panels for concrete forms. The order was wired to the factory at noon on April 12. When it arrived the logs were in the pond. These were cut into veneer, the panels were dried, glued up, trimmed, sanded, oiled, and the shipment was loaded and delivered in San Francisco April 19, in exactly one week from the time the order was given.
W. S. Cram, well known Northwest lumberman, is now representing the Tacoma Crate Co. of Tacoma, Wash., in the Southern California territory. Mr. Cram is making his headquarters in Los Angeles. Jacob Siler, who was associated with Mr. Cram for many years in the sawmill business at Raymond, Wash., recently opened the Tacoma Crate Co. plant at Tacoma. The company are specializing in vegetable crates.
Andrew F. McNair of the McKinnon-McNair Lumber Co., St. Helena, recently spent a few days in San Francisco. While in the Bay district he attended the meeting of the California Lumbermen's Council and the Lumbermen's Reveille held at the Hotel Leamington, Oakland, April 21.
The baseball season is on again, and baseball stories are in the air.
The game had been a stormy one with many close decisions and much bickering among the players and. razzing on the part of the fans.
As the umpire was leaving the ball park an irate fan approached him and demanded:
George T. Gerlinger, president of the Willamette Valley Lumber Co., Dallas, Ore., was a recent visitor to California. Mr. Gerlinger was a caller at the office of the Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco. He made the trip by automobile, accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Swindells, of Dallas, Ore., and drove to Southern California to visit another daughter.
Walter C. Ball, J. R. Hanify Co., San Francisco, was a Los Angeles visitor during the latter part of April. Accompanied by Wendell M. Brown, of Los Angeles, the company's Southern California representative, they spent several days calling on the retail trade.
L. C. Hammond, vice president and general manager of the Hammond Lumber Company, San Francisco, underrvent an operation in the University of California Hospital April 10. Mr. Hammond has made satisfactory progress, and when this issue went to press expected to be moved to his home within a few days.
"Where's your dog?"
"Where's whose dog?" asked the umpire.
"Where's YOUR dog?" persisted the fan.
"f haven't any dog," replied the umpire, disgustedly.
"The Hell you haven't," said the fan. ..Then you're the first blind rnan I've ever seen that hadn't a dog."
VISITS S. F.
E. D. Kingsley, president of the West Oregon Lumber Co., Linnton, Ore., and C. H. Ditewig, sales manag'er, were recent visitors to San Francisco. While there they made their headquarters at the offices of Wendling-Nathan Co., their California sales agents.
A. W. Donovan, Los Angeles representative of the Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, recently spent a few days in San Francisco, and left fc-,r his southern headquarters Aoril 14.
S. A. BISHOP VISITING ROCKY MOUNTAIN STATES
S. A. Bishop, of the Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, is making a six weeks' business trip in the Rocky Mountain States territory.
RALPH MOORE VISITS S. F.
Ralph T. Moore, vice president and general manager of the Moore Mill & Lumber Co., Bandon, Ore., recently spent a week at the company's San Francisco office.
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The consensus of the 272 lumbermen tvho attended the First Annual Reveille of the lumbermen of Central and Northern California, held at the Hotel Leamington, Oakland, Friday evening, April 21, seemed to be that the affair was a great success from every standpoint.
Members of the California Lumbermen's Council which met in the hotel at noon stayed over for the Reveille. Dinner was served at 6:30 p.m. Earle E. Johnson, of Livermore, president of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39, sponsors of the big event, presided, and representative lumbermen from all over Central and Northern California were seated at the head table, and all branches of the industry were represented in the attendance.
As entertainment was scheduled to take up most of the evening, the time devoted to speech making was very brief.
mittee at an early date from executives of the various lumber organizations to work out the details of such a plan.
Harry Lake, president of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, said that the idea is a good one and expressed his belief that the lumber dealers can put it over if they go after it.
Frank O'Connor, president of the California Wholesale Lumber Association, praised the plan, and said he felt sure the wholesalers will cooperate to the best of their ability.
H. Sewall Morton, chairman of the entertainment committee, then introduced Frank Bristol. master of ceremonies. The professional entertainment was preceded by a burlesque entitled "Amos & Andy Lumber Co., Unincorported," "in which," to quote the program, "the wholesaler will endeavor to show the retailer how to sell his lumber without the use of the chisel." This skit was very clever.
President Earle Johnson rvelcomed the large crowd, and said that the Reveille rvill probably be made an annual event, as the large attendance indicated that the idea of such a meeting is a p.opular one.
Clement Fraser, Loop Lumber & Mill Co.. Alamecla, chairman of the genera.l committee and originator of the Reveille idea, in a short talk spoke of the apathy prevailing in the lumber industry regarding much of the propaganda being circulated against wood, and saicl he thought the time ripe for a reveille, or awakening to the dangers that beset their industry. He revealed the serious purpose of the gathering by tentatively introducing the idea of a campaign of collective advertising and promotional rvork to be shared in by retailers, manufacturers and rvholesalers to help revive the industry in Central and Northern California, and possibly of the entire State by selling consumers the idea of wood. The California Lumbermen's Council, he said, at their meeling earlier in the day had approved the idea. He conchided by suggesting the formation of a com-
C. H. Terrell and J. B. McKeon took the parts, and both clid good work.
The choice of entertainment reflected great credit on the entertainment committee, and the show was said by many to be the best ever put on at any lumbermen's gathering in this part of the country. Judging by the applause the Neapolitan Quartette, rvith Joseph L. Bobba, accordion accompanist, was prime favorite. Scotty Weston made a big hit with his tap dancing, and his Co., a l2-year old and a six-year old boy came in for a good hand. Berna Frechette, soprano, the Weber sisters, singers and daniers, and Consuelo Gonsalves all received well merited applause. The Reveille Review, Dr. Josephus Forrestus, The Medicine Man, and Betty Zak, dancer, rounded out a fine program.
The sponsors of the Reveille are indebted to the wholesale firms of San Francisco and Oakland. lvho financed the entertainment. Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, furnished the orchestra which played throughout the dinner hour.
Bert Bryan, Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, and C. I. Gilbert, Eureka Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland, were hard working members of Clement Fraser's general committee.
The golf committee consisted of C. I. Speer, chairman; Henry Hink, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco; Larue Woodson, Nicolai Door Sales Co., San Francisco, and Jerry Bonnington, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco.
The souvenir program had on its front cover the three colored sticker issued by the East Bay Lumbermen's Club, with its slogan, "Make It Good-Bqild with 'Wood."
Forty eight golfers turned out for the golf tournament on Saturday morning, April 22, at the Oak Knoll Country Club.
'Geo. Dunn, Zenith Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland, was the winner of the low gross prize with a score of 84. Jar. E. "Jimmy" Atkinson, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, won the low net prize with a net score of 67.
The retailers'low gross prize was won by Roy Dreisbach of the Zenith Mill & Lumber Co., with 88, and Geo. Malm of Malm & Angle, Dds Palos, with a net of 74 won the retailers' low net.
Retailers' high gross prize was carried off by A. E. Hilmar, Loop Lumber & Mill Co., Alameda, with 151. Wholesalers' low gross winner was Nick Cryer, J. E. Higgins Lumber Co., San Francisco, and Jerry Bonnington, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, copped the wholesalers' low.net with a score of 70.
Flight one low gross was taken by Lee Noack, Concealo Fixture Co., Oakland, with an 86; flight one low net was won by Fritz Dettmann, Allen & Dettmann, San Francisco, with a net score of 76; flight two low gross fell to Roy Hills, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, with a total of 90; flight two low net won by J. A. Chase, Chase Lumber Co., San Jose with 75; flight three low gross won by Doug. Cook, Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland, with 93, and flight three low net by J. G. MacKenzie, LibbeyOwens-Ford Glass Co., San Francisco, with 74.
The prize for the most birdies was won by A. Ferreira, 93-7-86, W. R. Chamberlin Co.. San Francisco. Harry Vincent, E. K. Wood Lumber Co.,9O-tl-79, won prize for lowest score on hole two, 4 strokes. Prize for highest score on hole 13, 10 strokes, was won by Roy Matheny, Matheny Bros., Lodi, IL9-27-82. The prizes for the scores indicating truest handicap were won by Tom Branson, Melrose Lumber Co., Oakland, 94-17-77; C. I. Speer, Zenith Mill & Lumber Co., 9l-14-77, and C. H. Terrell, Hill & Morton, Oakland, 94-14-80. Guest prize was won by Mr. McCurdy.
The 20 golf prizes were donated by lumber and building material firms of San Francisco and Oakland. In addition to these prizes a new ball was given to each player on the first tee. Luncheon was served to the players in the club house.
Announcement is made that copies of the photograph taken at the Reveille dinner on Friday evening may be obtained from H. Sewall Morton, Hill & Morton, Inc., Dennison St. Wharf, Oakland. These are 8x10 inches, and are 50 cents each.
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Books are the open avenues down which, like kings coming to be crowned, great ideas and inspirations move to the abbey of man's soul. There are some people still left who understand perfectly what Fenelon meant when he said: '"If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading, I would spurn them all."-Ernest Dressel North.
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He who can't pay at least can say, "Dear Sir: I got your bill today. Though I allow I can't pay now, I hope to pay it soon, somehow. Don't think (I've not) that I've forgot, But lately I have lost a lot. I want you, though, this much to knowI'll pay you every cent I owe."
You may not think that's worth the ink, But when your credit's on the blink, Although it still won't pay the bill, It helps you more than silence will. For Dick or Dan say "There's a man We know will pay us when he can; Like all good men-and we'll know then That we can trust that man again."
An editor received a little poem from a lady, which she wanted published. It was entitled, "f wonder if you miss rrie?" After reading it over the editor returned it to the author with this note:
"Dear Madam: If he does, he should never be trusted with firearms again."
"A heathen country," says the Brooklyn Eagle, "is one where a payroll can be delivered without an armored car."
Life is but a garment. When it's dirty, brush it; when it is torn, mend it; make it last as long and as good as you can.-Tagore.
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Max E. Cook, farmstead engineer, with The Pacific Lumber Company, left San Francisco for Scotia, April 21, after spending a week at the main office.
Mr. Cook, who has been occupied with important work at the company's plant at Scotia for some weeks, is about ready to announce a revolutionary development in septic tank construction. Asked for some information on the s,ubject Mr. Cook stated that he was not quite ready to talk about the new idea, but predicted that the new tank will be of interest to every lumber dealer. On his return from Scotia in the near future he will be prepared, he said, to release in thesc columns full particulars of the new development.
George MacPherson, Longview, Wash., advisory architect and engineer of the Long-Bell Lumber Sales Corporation, is calling on the architects in the Los Angeles and Southern California territory, introducing the new LongBell development Enterlock Lumber. Mr. MacPherson is arranging for an exhibit at the Building Material Exhibit at Long Beach which will run through the month of July; the exhibit will include a miniature house built to scale showing the use of Enterlock Lumber. He has already installed a display at the Building Material Exhibit at Los Angeles. Mr. MacPhcr.-on r';ill be in Southern California about two months.
C. B. Lyons, Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles, was the low gross winner at the monthly golf tournament held by the Orange County Lumbermen's Club at the Santa Ana County Club, Wednesday afternoon, April 19.
D, E. Liggett, Liggett Lumber Co., Santa Ana, won the low net prize, the Schumacher cup; as this is the third time Mr. Liggett won the low net prize, he gains the permanent possession of the cup. The cup was donated by the Schumacher Wall Board Corp. of Los Angeles. The bogey prize was won by A. H. Hoel, Claremont Lumber Co., Claremont.
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Civilian Conservation Corps camps will soon be in operation in the national forests of California, according to report of the United States Forest Service headquarters in San Francisco. President Roosevelt on April X approved the establishment of. 166 camps in the 19 national forests of the State, distributed as follows:
Southern California: Angeles, 17; Cleveland, 9; San Bernardino, 16; Santa Barbara, 15; total, 57. Central California: Sequoia, 9; Sierra, 9; Stanislaus, 9; Eldorado, 6; total,33. Northern California: Tahoe,9; Plumas, 11; Lassen, 9; Modoc, 6; Shasta, 11; Klamath, T; Trinity, 8; Mendocino, 8; total, 69. East side of Sierra Nevada : Inyo, 3 ; Mono, 3; total, 6. One additional camp will be located in the California section of the Siskiyou National Forest of Oregon.
Regional Forester S. B. Show, chief of the California Region, U. S. Forest Service, will be in charge of the conservation corps activities in the national forests and will also coordinate all State, county and private C.C.C. projects in California. Mr. Show, who is now in Washington conferring with Robert Fechner, director of emergency conservation work, ahd Major R. Y. Stuart, chief of the U. S. Forest Service, is expected back shortly to direct the Federal forestry activities. C. B. Morse, assistant regional forester of the U. S. Forest Service at Ogden, Utah, will be stationed at the Presidio of San Francisco to act as liaison ofificer in coordinating the work of the Forest Service and Army throughout the Ninth Corps Area, comprising the states of California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.
California's national forest quota for the C.C.C. camps will be 33,000 men who will first be concentrated in Army posts where they will be clothed, fed and exercised for a period prior to their transfer to field camps. Thus {ar instructions are to enroll only unmarried men between the ages of 18 and 25 years, who are citizens of Cali{ornia and have dependents. Each applicant will be required to take an oath and sign an agreement to turn over a certain percentage of his $1 a day pay to his dependents. Recruiting will be handled by local relief agencies under the general direction of R. C. Branion of the State Department of Social Welfare.
The Army will have full charge of all C.C.C. camps, and will have an officer with necessary assistants stationed in each camp. It will also transport the men from the concentration posts to the field camps. All camps will be operated on the basis of 200 men.
The U. S. Forest Service will handle all men engaged on forestry work in the national forests, including their transportation between camp and work points.
The Roosevelt conservation program, according to Forest Service officers, will afford an opportunity for the accomplishment of productive work on the national forests, for which detailed plans have been prepared, but which otherwise could not be completed for many years because of the lack of government appropriations. The following constructive work will be done by the conservation corPs
The Concealo Fixture Company, Inc., Oakland, Calif., announces that their sales Jor the Pacific Coast states are' now being handled by I. L. Walker, better known to the lumber trade as Lee Walker. Mr. Walker is putting into effect a wholesale only policy, and is ofiering many dealer helps in selling complete kitchens in both new and old homes.
Mr. Walker says that at present many lumber merchants are capitalizing on the fact that many people are unable to build that new home they have been wanting, therefore, they can be easily sold to the id,qa of a new kitchen and other improvements around the home. Lumber merchants who are specializing on kitchens find this to be the most advantageous point to approach their prospect, he states. Mr. Walker also aclds that when the woman of the house can be shown how her old work shop can be made into a beautiful and convenient place to do her work, the sale is just about made with a good profit to the dealer. The company also manufacture a large line of store fixtures and commercial refrigerators.
The Chicago and New York sales are being handled by W. R. Noack, president and manager of the company.
Lumber dealers from all over Central and Northern California were in attendance at the meeting of the California Lumbermen's Council held at Hotel Leamington, Oakland, April 21.
Legislative matters were discussed in addition to regular business.
George Burnett, Burnett Lumber Co., Tulare, presided at the meeting until the arrival of George N. Ley, Santa Cruz Lumber Co., Santa Cruz, president of the Council, who was delayed.
F. "Tom" Tomlinson, well known San Francisco lumber salesman, who is doing a commission business in the San Francisco bay district, is now also handling Redwood for The Pacific Lumber Company in this territory.
workers: the clearing of firebreaks; development of camp grounds; erosion and flood control projects; building of lookout houses, telephone lines, guard cabins and administrative improvements; tree planting; improvement of the range by the construction of watering places and drift fences; reseeding of denuded ranges, and the eradication of poisonous forage plants; rodent control; construction of trails, bridges and secondary roads; control of pine beetle infestations and other similar projects.
Washington, April l8.-Writing to Col. W. B. Greeley. Manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, at Seattle, Wilson Compton, Manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, gives it as his opinion that the recent increase in lumbi:r shipments is clearly not due to any expansion of lumber consumption. It is due, rather, Dr. Compton says, to the conviction of buyers that lumber prices have reached such a lorv point that buying now is considered prudent, the more so as it is generally knorvn that lumber stocks at the mills have been reduced to manageable proportions.
The letter rvas written in response to one from Col. Greeley asking Dr. Compton's viels in regard to rnarket prospects in view of the present buying wave and also to the possibilities for closer and more effective cooperation in the lumber industry growing out of the supreme court decision in the Appalachian Coals case.
The prospect of credit or monetary inflation is also a factor Dr. Compton finds in the general business situation which must be taken into account in considering the recent spurt in lumber buying. Inflation would result in higher coinmodity prices, but in any event "if lumber production is kept in control, there is reason to expect further continued rebound in prices." Dr. Compton presents the inflation prospect as follows:
"The fact that we have gone off the gold standard-although as yet only technically and not far-has given grounds for this view. There will be more inflation. The only question is the form and manner and as to that nobody knows yet, neither the Administration, Congress or the people. Currency inflation ma;r of"course be offset by further credit deflation, such as that resulting from the bank moratorium. No one knows whether and to rvhat extent the inflationary matters rvill outbalance the deflationary.
"A huge public rvorks program is also in prospect. Administration advisers, both official and unofficial, are studying the possibilities of a gigantic undertaking with public funds to arrest the downward spiral and reverse its direction. Confident statement is privately made within the Administration that a well planned expenditure on public works of between five and six billion dollars, if properly related to private enterprise, rvould restore directly between two and two and one-half million to employment and indirectly from six to seven and one-half million more, a total of from eight to ten million. The theory is that one person returned to employment directly through the use of public funds rvould'within a few months carry three additional persons into employment throggh stimulated private industry. At any rate, the pfbbpect is for a gigantic effort to stimulate trade with the deliberate purpose of reversing the direction of the downvvard spiral. So far the action
of the Administration has been toward further deflation and unless this trend is reversed, industry everywhere is going to be crucified. That the Administration knows and whether publicly stated or not, it is the greatest single cause of concern within the r\dministration and among the leaders in Congress
"Back of the recent spurt in lumber buying therefore is the conclusion that prospective inflation will result in higher commodity prices; that the lumber stocks are relatively low; and that the wise strategy of the dealer who has low stocks is to replenish them at these prices.
"If lumber production is kept in control, there is reason to expect further continued rebound in prices."
On the subject of the Appalachian Coals decision, Dr. Compton says that "It puts organized cooperation among competitors on a par with mergers or consolidations of the same competitors."
"This means," he continues, "that so far as the federal larv is concerned lumber companies may do through cooperation between competitors what has long been established that they may lawfully do by a complete merger of ownerships. Furthermore, the Court has held that there is such a thing as a reasonable agreement affecting prices." There is thus opened up a vast field of cooperative action in production and distribution. The important practical factor so far as such trade agreements in the lumber industry are concerned, "is not a question of law but a question of the financial ability and the willingness of competitors to work together and to continue working together."
The most practical and useful cooperative means under the decision are held to be a common agency for handling sales and a common management plan for handling production or both production and sales. If the West Coast industry were to set up a sales agency arrangement comparable to that of Appalachian Coals, Inc., it might arrange a sales combination to handle, say,75/o of the 6r lumber based on production or on capacity; or a similar percentage for hemlock-possibly a combination of all West Coast wood. It would not, however, be advisable to attempt to secure any marketing advantages or results which would be dependent upon any monopoly element or upon an ability arbitrarily to determine conditions of trade or to influence prices. However, Dr. Compton considers that there is little danger of a monopoly question arising in lumber distribution because competitive forces in the lumber industry are so porverful that the most that can be hoped for at present is that destructive competition shall be substantially tempered. All that can be reasonably hoped for now (pending correction of certain basic conditions) is that thq device of cooperative selling will place sellers of lumber on a reasonable competitive parity .with buyers.
Washington, April 15.-The recent authorization by the U. S. Timber Conservation Board of the publication of the report of its Special Advisory Committee on the forest situation of the United States, coin'cides opp,ortunely with President Roosevelt's proposal to give emergency employment to 200,000 men in the forests. This employment is intended to be largely in the nature of improvement of the ultimate productive capacity of the forests through such measures as thinning out over-thi,ck stands of young trees, cleaning up forest debris and slash, removal of diseased trees, cutting of fire lanes, communication trails, etc.
It is significant, according to President Wilson Compton of American Forest Products Industries, Inc., that the report states that the present forest problem in the United States is not one of timber shortage, but of the proper protection and management of forested areas, including adjustment of produ'ction of forest products between and within the forest regions to secure best results from existing forest growing stock. The area now,covered with commercial forests and likely to remain available for that purpose, if given ample protection and management, is more than sufficient, according to the report, to meet any probable future demand.
"President Roosevelt's plan", says Dr. Compton, "is primarily an emergency employment help. But it is much more than that. If wisely planned with the expert help available from the Forest Service it will restore timber production in those regions in which the timber supplies are relatively the smallest and in which the future need of timber production evidently is the greatest."
In the detailed report on the forest situation in the United States, which was prepared by the United States Forest Service, the present forest area in the continental United States, omitting Alaska, is placed at 496,000,000 as1s5-abeut equal to the entire improved farm area of the nation-estimated to contain approximately 487 billion cubic feet of saw timber, cordw.ood, pulpwood and other commer'cial forest material. The estimated present current annual growth. of timber now of mer'chantable size is 7 billion cubic feet. In addition, there is an annual growth not now of merchantable size, of 3rl billion feet.
The total annual drain on the forests based on 1925'29 production amounts approximately to 16l/3 billion cubic feet, including 870 million feet destroyed by fire and 940 rnillion feet destroyed by insects, disease, drought and wind. To meet the commodity drain ol l4l billion cubic feet, it is estimated that there is a forest growing stock ol 487 billion cubic feet as against a requirement of 458 billion cubic feet.
These favorable statistics,. however, must be viewed in the light of unsatisfactory conditions, consisting of a lack of adequate fire protection, in the unbalanced cut as be-
trveen different forest regions and within those regions; in the failure to apply the principle of selective logging both in individual trees and the .stands, to practice sustained yield, to provide seed trees and to take other precautions to assure natural restocking.
On the assumption that the bulk of the forest improvement employment work will be in the eastern half of the United States (adjacent to centers of unemployment) it is noteworthy that the forest area in that region is overwhelmingly in private hands. In the New England states the national and state forests comprise only 296,000 acres, whereas farmers own 6,400,000 a,cres and others 19,577,W acres. In the middle Atlanti,c region the public forests cover 2,209,000 acres; farm woodlots 9,454,W and other ownership 15,476,W. In the Lake regions the figures are respectively 6,822,M, 12,245,0ffi and 36,828,000. In the. central region the corresponding figures are 772,A00,W, 32,158,000 and 31,319,000. In the Southeastern region the figures are 9,494,000, 57,86,06 and 124,379,W. On the other hand, in the Pacific Coast region the gdvernment holdings are 33,649,000 acres; farm lots 5,099,000, and other ownership 27,937 ,W. For the entire United States, government-owned forest land totals L04,62,000 acres; farm woodlots I24,678,W and other, mainly ,commercial, ownership accounts for 266,539,0@ acres.
In reference to the supply in the eastern region, which includes New England, middle Atlantic, Lake and central regions, the report pla'ces standing saw timber of merchantable size at about 155,0CX),0(}) board feet, which is less than l0 per cent of the total for the nation. The old growth stands of these four regions comprise less than 60,000,000; 000 board feet.
The fa'ct that there is still ,considerable old growth timber in these regions whose industries are dra;wing heavily on the distant timber supplies, indicates, according to the report, that the local supply is relatively inaccessible or of poor quality. It is a justifiable inference that emergency employment could be most advantageously used in this part of the country; for the report says that in the far western zone, the surplus of virgin mature timber is so great that the current cut marr be greatly accelerated.
According to American Forest Products Industries intelligent, even if temporary, forest improvement work will contribute powerfully to that balan'ced condition of the forests which, according to the committee's report, will, within 70 years, so increase growth as to allow an annual commercial drain of forest products amounting to about 5 billion cubic feet more than at present. With greater improvement it is estimated that the growing stock can be increased during the next 7A years to permit of an annual drain of 30 billion cubic feet.
Washington, April 12.-It is just beginning to be realized that the swift compliance of the Interstate Commerce Commission with the railway rates petition of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Farmers' Educational and Cooperative Union of America, the National Coal Association and the National Grange, has brought up for early disposition the whole question of a general revision of railway rates. -The petitioners specifically asked only for an early consideration of revision of the freight rates on basic commodities. The order of the commission is in part as follows:
"The commission has decided to institute upon its own initiative an investigation of the existing freight rates and charges to determine whether and to what extent, if any, general reductions should be made."
The order concludes with this significant sentence: "The commission has also decided that its investigation should not be confined to any particular commodities or descriptions of freight traffic."
It is believed here that the case made out by the petitioners, especially in the argument of Wilson Compton in behalf of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association and American Forest Products Industries, convinced the commission that freight rates as a whole are so closely tied up with the problem of parity of prices as between
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commodities that it would be more judicious to exarnine the whole field of transportation rates rather than those relating solely to basic commodities.
This welcome decision'is thought to be purposely related to President Roosevelt's determination to overhaul and revise the transportation industries' financial and service structure as an essential part of industrial readjustment. The petition was, .therefore, most opportune; and the general thesis of the lumber industry that excessive railway rates are not only one of the contributing causes of the present depression but a potent factor in prolonging it, was so convincing that it created an irrefutable logical basis for lowering railway rates as an essential element in the improvernent of the general industrial situation.
The agricultural interests are enthusiastic in their praise of the forest industries' presentation of the barrier rigid railway rates, inherited from boom times, have been to a uniform deflation of prices toward a new level of mutual conformity. On this point the Compton statement said in part:
"Rate reductions on lumber and timber products alone would, of course, be beneficial to the industry, at least temporarily and in substantial measure, but the larger and more important interest involved is in such reductions, at the same.time, of rates on other commodities as will permit the substantial restoration of traffic and consumption of other commodities which supply the purchasing power for the purchase and use of lumber and timber products. Primarily the buying power of agriculture and the rural communities must be restored. As a matter of public interest it is essential that the freight rate level shall conform reasonably to the general price levels now prevailing in the United States. A downward price trend continuing o\rer a period of years may not be disregarded by transportation agencies, whatever be the interests involved in the maintenance of trigh freight rates. High rates do not necessarily mean high income. Rates cannot be reasonable which progressively and relentlessly destroy the traffic and impoverish its sources."
It now seems probable that an effort to remedy the perennial transportation problem, which, when it was made, seemed to be just another routine thrust at permanently entrenched excessive transportation rates, may turn out to be the determining factor in an early and comprehensive revision of railway rates, upon which it will be possible to build.the structure of new prosperity.
The comment is made in Washington that the railway iate triumirh is an impressive demonstration of the incalculable practical value of intelligent and alert industrial association activity in the solution of broad economic problems. One observer points out that if the intervention of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association in speeding up emergency action in the reduction of railway freight rates should accomplish nothing more than to bring about within six months what might otherwise have. requirecl two years, it will mean an expansion of millions of dollars in the gross income of the forest industries.
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YOUNG LUMBERMAN WANTS CONNECTION
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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.
LUMBER YARD FOR Wanted to trade for Lumber Yard town, WELL IMPROVED CLEAR FARM, SIX HUNDRED ACRES. California Lumber Merchant.
FARM in thriving California NORTH DAKOTA Address Box C-474.
Lumber yard in Southern California. Old established yard. Stock about $12,000.00; sheds, trucks and office fixtures $7,500.00. Can lease real estate very reasonably. Business good, wonderful opportunity for good lumberman. It will pay to investigate. Address Box C-475, The California Lumber Merchant.
F. M. Pitt is opening Manda Park, Pasadena. Republic Lumber Co. of
a new retail lumber yard at LaMr. Pitt was formerlv with the Pasadena.
9 years' experience in the mill-wholesale and retail trade. Thorough knowledge of cost accounting and sales promotion. Knowledge of the German and French language. Some capital available for se,cure investment. A-l references. Desirous of position with reliable concern. Address Box C-472, care California Lumber Merchant.
WANTS POSITION WITH LINE YARD CONCERN.
Lumberman for the past several years manager of large retail yard in California would like to make connection with line yard concern. Fifteen years' experience in the logging, mill, wholesale and retail ends of the business. Can assume responsibility and has initiative to produce results. Address Box C-473, The California Lumber Merchant.
Wants position. Experienced in Oregon and Washington lumber ploducts. Qualifications the best and will go any place. Will appreciate an interview. Frank Jones, l4O7 Oxley Street, Pasadena, Calif. Phone SYcamore 1206.
The Altadena Lumber Co., Altadena, sold to the W. E. Cooper Lumber Co. has been has puryard at
The Oceanside Lumber Co., chased the Hayward Lumber Oceanside.
Calif .,
Oceanside. Calif.. & Investment Co.
The Associated Lumber Co. recently opened a yard at Los Angeles.
R. C. Reynolds is back in the retail lumber business and is opening a yard near El Monte, Calif. His yard is located on the Valley Blvd., one mile east of El Monte.
Auburn Lumber Company, Auburn, has purchased yard of the Newcastle Lumber Co., Newcastle. the
The H. A. Browning Lumber Company of Los Angeles has just completed a large contract for structural lumber treated with zinc chloride for the United States Government. The material was furnished from the company's treating plant at San Diego.
Regional Forester S. B. Show, chief of the U. S. Forest Service in California, announces the appointment of George M. Gowen of the Cafifornia Forest Experiment Station to the supervisorship of the Lassen National Forest with headquarters in Susanville, Calif. Mr. Gowan takes the place of Supervisor Wm. G. Durbin who was recently retired under the Government age limit for forest officers.
Supervisor Gowen is a graduate of the Forest School, University of California, and has had large experience in all phases of administrative and research work in the forests of California. He first entered the Forest Service in 192O as a ranger on the Sierra Forest, later worked on the Eldorado and Lassen, and for one year was supervisor of the Trinity National Forest. In 1930, Gowen was placed in charge of research in fire control being conducted by the California Forest Experiment Station on the Shasta and other national forests of the State. Ife now returns to the Lassen, where he once served for two years as assistant supervisor, and will take over the management of this forest in May.
John Kendall, Potlatch Forests, Inc., Spokane, 'Wash., has been sojourning in Southern California visiting relatives in Glendale and contacting the Los Angeles lumber trade. His son, Homer Kendall of the Standard Lumber Co., Spokane, accompanied him on the trip.
Thc new method rimpli6.ee thc carpm. ter'r work and speedo the construction of a frame dwelling, aincc more than threc-fourths of the lumber ueed in a house may be delivered to the oite ready for areembling wlthout further cutting.
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