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Well, there never was a truer saying than the old adage that it's an ill wind that blows nobody good. Naturally the other softwood territories are profiting by the paralysis of the great Fir territory. The order files for Western Ponderosa Pine are reported high and the demand rapidly increasing. Redwood mills report a fast stiffening rail demand. And Southern Yellow Pine, Fir's direct competitor in the softwood building markets of the entire country, is having a field day. Nothing less.

There is almost a runaway market for Yellow Pine in the South. Because all this came just at a tirne when the demand for lumber was showing general and definiie signs of rapid stimulation. When the big strike came in the midst of an already quickening market, things began hap- pening in a hurry. Southern Pine order files are heaped high, prices have been steadily increasing, and the buyers are much on the run' ,k ,k ,<

The shingle situation is outstanding. The entire country is in need of wooden shingles, and right now can't get them. Shingles are needed for immediate USE, not for speculation, and the past week has seen frantic scrambling all over the country to find a way to solve the problem of shingle needs. That the manufacturers of other than wooden shingles are already reaping a harvest as a result of utter lack of wooden shingle supply, is already a noted fact, the same "ill wind" that hurt Fir lumber and helping Yellow Pine, now helping manufacturers of asphalt and other roofings.

4L Presidenr Predicts 100 Mills Will Start Soon as Result of New !(/age Increases

By a vote of 20 to 8 of the directors of the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, all 4L mills agreed to grant increases of 5 to 10 cents hourly, efiective June 1. The decision came after a three-day meeting in Portland, May 20 to 22, breaking a deadlock between the 14 employers and 14 employes on the board of directors, who voted earlier on three other wage proposals.

On the strength of this friendly settlement, W. C. Ruegnitz, president predi'cted that all 4L mills, comprising about 100 operations, will open simultaneously, probably between June 3 and June 10. He said the new wage scale is acceptable to all 4L employes. The new scale is reported to be the highest average wage paid in the industry in 14 years.

Pine Demands Heavy

The demand for California Pine is heavy according to Willis J. Walker,'chairman of the board of the Red River Lumber Company, who recently returned to San Francisco from a two weeks' visit to the company's mills at Westwood.

"We have all the business we can handle, and while we have a moderately good stock it is nevertheless broken by the heavy demands on it. Our California Pine plywood plant has 60 days business on its books and has stopped taking orders for the time being," Mr. Walker stated.

With MacDonald & Harrington

Fred H. Morehouse has joined the Los Angeles sales staff of MacDonald & Harrington, Ltd., and will sell Ponderosa and Sugar Pine in the Southern California territory, He is well known in retail lumber circles, having been associated with the Hammond Lumber Company at Los Angeles for fourteen years, the last eight years as a salesman in their Pine Department calling on the Southern California retail trade.

Cooperage Plant Starts

Union workers in Company, Portland, 24 to return to work growers of a serious the plant of the 'Western Cooperage which employs 500 men, voted May May 27. This relieves Oregon fruit barrel problem.

National Guard Threat Quiets Trouble at Oregon Mills

Threat to call out the National Guard by Gov. Charles H. Martin of Oregon on May 23rd, dispersed a throng ,of about 30O pickets in the vicinity of the mill of Stimson Lumber Company, near Forest Grove, Ore. The strikers had beaten three persons in a brutal manner.

Buttons For Me

He thinks of the home his boyhood knew, $.nd, viewed through the mists of the past, It glows like a gem of purest ray And he grieves that it could not last.

The house was sheltered by rustling trees, There *.te flo*"ts and a wimpling stream; And now enshrined in his loyal heart, Of course it's a beautiful dream.

But his clothes were washed in the little brook. Or in water drawn from the well:

And he bathed in the kitchen each Saturday nightJust how, he refuses to tell.

He read at night by a coal oil lamp, Or a candle's guttering flame, He split the kindling and chopped the wood, And his neighbors all did the same.

He plowed the fields and he drove to town Over roads that were mud or sand; He sat on a stool in the cold grey dawn And milked the bossies by hand.

So I smile discreetly, indeed I do, When he harps on "the good old days," When he groomed the horses and shoveled snow And suffered in various ways.

In memory a dear old fashioned home Is priceless, I must confess; But give me a strictly modern home, With gadgets-and buttons to press.

-A. Merriam Conner

Travefs 12,000 Miles by Air

Charles L. Wheeler, executive vice president of Chas. R. McCorrr,rick Lumber Company, San Francisco, returned May 9 from a two weeks' business trip in the course of which he covered a distance of 12,000 miles, traveling the entire route by air.

Cities visited by Mr. Wheeler included Los Angeles, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and New York. He also m'ade a trip to Porto Rico, and returned to San Francisco by way of the Pacific Northwest, where he visited the company's offices and sawmills.

Furniture Plant to Open

On June 3, z,An men are scheduled to resume work at the Doernbecker and B. P. John furniture plants in Portland, the union workers having con,cluded an agreement with their employers. The 2,000 workers asked a 50 cent an hour minimum wage by June 1, but voted June 25 to accept the'counter proposal to defer the full increase until 1936.