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Many Entries in Bridge Design Contest

Washington, April 24.-The timber bridge design contest being conducted under the joint auspices of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, the American Forest Products Industries and the Timber Engineering Company, and for which prizes of $1,500 have been offered by the latter company, enters its fourth month with more than 1,200 entries received from all over the United States. Hawaii and Canada.

Prizes range from $500 down to $50 with twenty-five prizes in all being awarded. As an added incentive to Canadian students, the British Columbia Lumber & Shingle Manufacturers Association has donated an additional sum of $100 to the prize money. This is to be divided among students of engineering and architecture of the {Jniversities of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia as follows: Fifty dollars to the student winning the highest student award, $25 to the student submitting the design judged best, provided it does not win one of the prizes of greater value, and $25 to the student of the University of British Columbia submitting the design judged best, provided it does not win one of the prizes of greater'value.

The rules require that the design submitted be of a highway bridge constructed of timber and employing the timber connector method of construction. A book giving complete rules and specifications may be obtained on request from the Timber Engineering Company, 1337 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, D. C. All designs must be in the mails my midnight, August 15.

Lumber Exports for March

Washington, May l,-The Department of Commerce has reported export of 87,000,000 board feet of lumber during March, this amount being greater than sxpelts for the same month last year by 171 per cent, but it is only 33.2 per cent of the average monthly rate of lumber exported in l9D, says the National Lumber Manufacturers Asso_ ciation.

During the entire first quarter lumber exports amounted to but Z26,W,m board feet, less than a 2 per cent gain from the first quarter figure of 1937, and only D per ient of the averag'e quarterly rate of lumber exported in I9D.

Blame for the decreased America,n lumber export trade can be placed on foreign tariff discriminations and prefer_ ences, exchange controls, restrictive imrport quotas, lower ocean rates and better shipping facilities enjoyed by for_ eign competitors, and Oriental conditions, states the Na_ tional Lumber Manufacturers Association.

In 1938 lumber exports dropped to less than one billion feet, the lowest volume in 4O years and were but 4.5 per cent of national production compared with an average of 9 per cent of the three-fourths larger nati.onal production ten years ago. The greatest losses have been to the Orient and to British Empire markets. Due largely to the SinoJapanese war, softwood lumber exports to the Orient in 1938 were about one-third of their volume in the 1920s. In 79?9 the proportion of Pacific Northwest water shipments to British Empire markets was 78 rper cent from the United States, 22 per cent from British Columbia; last year it was 5 per cent from the United States, 95 per cent from British Columbia. The Empire preferential tariff system has been largely accou.ntable for the phenomenal decline in United States exports to British countries and for the present critical condition of the lumber export trade. At the same time European supplies of sawn softwood available for export are about one-third less than 10 years ago.

While there has been a slight gain to date over 1938 exports, it still leaves our lumber exports 7A per cent less than those of ten years ago. On the other hand Forest Pro.ducts imports for 1938 were more than double its exports, $234,681,917 worth of products being received at U. S. ports and only $94,102,390 worth of products being shipped to foreign countries.

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