Hammond Redwood Op.rations Expand

Initiating a new program of extending its production facilities to even larger proportions, the Hammond & Little River Redwood Company is installing considerable new equipment.

A new 2,000 kilowatt turbine engine is being set up this week at the company's Redwood mills at Samoa, Humboldt County. This powerful turbine engine, augmented by the present equipment, .combines to generate suffi,cient power to furnish light for a city the size of Bakersfield, and in addition provide steam heat for the stores and office buildings in a city of this size.

The Hammond Company is also increasing its Caterpillar Tra,ctor fleet in the woods, and is purchasing other new machinery.

"We are ,convinced," says an executive of the ,company, "that the time has come to invest in equipment and facil-

Los Angeles Housing Exposition Attracts Large Crowds

With over 100,000 attending during the first week, the National Housing Exposition in the Pan-Pacific Auditorium at Los Angeles, is now in its second rveek. The exposition opened Saturday, May 18, with elaborate ceremonies and 20,000 in attendance and the large ,crowd found the auditorium which is 400 feet long and 250 feet wide filled with exhibits which demonstrate in every detail the latest developments 'of home construction, furnishing and equipment.

Surrounding the auditorium are many features such as the model homes completely furni,shed of the Federal Housing Administration, Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. and the Los Angeles Times, also the "Village of Tomorrow", a presentation of modern dwellings in miniature which were made by various Southern California high school students, and a "Theatre-of-the-Stars" where seventy-five artists present nightly a colorful pageant entitled "Housing Through the Ages" illustrating housing progress fr,om the earliest ages to the present time.

Among the lumber and building material firms having exhibits are E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Pioneer-Flintkote Company, W. E. Cooper Lumber Co., Masonite Corp.; El Rey Products Co., and Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., J. H. Baxter & Co. and the West Coast Wood Pr'eserving Co. More than 100 exhibits are in place in the large auditorium.

The exposition is sponsored by the Los Angeles Better Housing Program Committee of which Henry S. MacKay, Jr., is chairman, and was constructed and is supervised by an exposition board of governors headed by George L. Eastman as chairman. Cliff Henderson is manager of the exposition. The exposition will close on Jane 2.

ities for greater and more efficient production. With momentum in the building construction market being constantly ac'celerated through the Federal Housing Act, we are preparing for a large volume of production at our Redwood mills."

The Hammond & Little River Redwood Company recently announced its estimate of the Hammond holdings in Redwood timber acreage as enough to last for a ,century at present rate of cutting. This conveys to the lumber industry some idea of the vast stands of timber in the great Redwood belt along the seacoast of Northern California.

It is generally,con'ceded by all authorities that the supply of good commercial Redwood timber at the normal rate of controlled produ,ction, with reforestation, will last indefinitely.

Forest Service Announces New CCC Program

Expansion of the Civilian Conservation Corps by provisions of the Emergen,cy Relief Appropriation Act from the present authorized strength of 370,000 to 600,000 will give the U. S. Forest Service a total of. 73 CCC camps in California for the fifth enrollment period,-April to Sept., 1935. Also under the supervision of the Forest Service will be 18 ,camps located on State forestry or private land projects.

In the National Forests the camps will be located as follows: Angeles, 7; Cleveland, 4; Eldorado, 2; Inyo, 1; Klamath, 5; Lassen, 4; Mendocino,4; Modoc, 1; Plumas, 5; San Bernardino, 6; Santa Barbara, 9; Sequoia, 5; Shasta, 5 ; Sierra, 4; Stanislaus, 3; Tahoe, 3; Trinity, 5.

State Forest and private land camps are located in the following counties: Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Fresno, Los. Angeles 3, Mariposa, Mendocino, Nevada, Santa Clara, San Diego 2, Siskiyou, Trinity, Tulare, Tuolumne, Ventura.

The new program calls for a total of. 2,916 camps for the entire CCC. Of these the Department of Agriculturb will supervise 2,106 camps, Department of the Interior 698, and War Department Il2. The total personnel will be divided as follows: 2fr,A0 in camps located in the National Forests, State Forests and private land, 120,000 on State and National Parks, 116,000 on erosion control and 74,000 on flood, wil'd life, drainage and water proje'cts.

FOUND_CAP F,OIR SHEAFFER FOUNTAIN PEN

Charles L. Cheeseman, Donovan Lumber Co., Petroleum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles,'rep,orts that he found the cap of a Sheaffer fountain pen in the Club House of the Brentwood Country Club following the lumbermen's golf tournament on May 17. lle states that he will be glad to turn it over to the owner. His telephone number is PRospect 5942.