"Pefiect Posts" Prove Popular Paying for Exports to Russia

"It is seldom that saw logs are made into split products, but The Pacific Lumber Company's policy of making posts and other split produ'cts out of the choicest Redwood timber has proved to be a good one", said Jim Farley, assistant Western sales manager of the Company, recently to The California f,umber Merchant.

"After making his decision to go into the split produ,cts business E. E. Yoder, resident manager of The Pacific Lumber Company at Scotia, decided that posts should represent the same high quality that has always been maintained by Palco products. In making the posts he has the large posts cleaned up with a broad axe and the small posts with a draw knife, and although the extra work entailed requires the posts to be sold at a ,considerable premium over ordinary posts, these perfect posts have proved so popular that the company is operating a crew of 25 men in its split products operations.

"Although The Pacific Lumber Company is specializing in posts, they are in a position to offer exceptional quality in any split Redwood produ,ct, and have recently developed a split and sawn shingle which ,carries the trade name of 'Ruff-Rift'. These shingles are offered in various lengths from 18 inches up, and in various thi,cknesses. It is believed that a good market can be developed for these shingles in small homes as the split shingles heretofore available have been too massive for application on the smaller tvpe houses."

Sherman Bishop Back From Trip

Sherman A. Bishop, of the sales department of the Union Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned May 9 from a four weeks' business'trip to Middle West and Southwest States.

Washington, D. C., May S.-Senator Oddie, of Nevada, has introduced an amendment to the Revenue Bill which provides that in addition to any other tax a duty or tax. of 50. per cent ad valorem, assesied on the American selling price, shall be imposed upon all goods, wares, articles and merchandise produced or manufactured wholly or in part from materials produced in Russia.

It was said at the offices of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association here todav in reference to the Oddie amendm,ent that that industry views with disfavor the present drive to recognize Soviet Russia and re-establish commercial relations with that country. It was remarked that the supporters of this drive have-paid no attention to the problem of what the Russians would use for money in case the Utopian dreams of American exports of a billion dollars annually to Russia were realized. The Soviet authorities actually expect to pay for any future increase in their imports from Am,erica with equivalent exports from Russia. .The most promising field for the development of such reciprocal exports is lumber. The lumber industry ordinarily employs over half a million men and is the chiif industry of many states. Lumbermen ask what advantage could accrue to the United States from the importation of large quantitie-s of lumber from Russia, especially as the United States is the largest producer and eiportei of lumber in the world and has self-perpetuating lorests which assure it an abundance of timber from generations to come and forever if economic conditions permit.

J. H. PRENTICE RETURNS FROM VISIT TO MILL

J. H. Prentice, Los Angeles, Southern California repre- sentative for the Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills, has- re!g_rn9d from a trip to the company's mill at Bellingham, Wash.