R. T. Bourns Yisits Texas in THB PAINT Interest of Union Lumber ALSO Company

R. T. Bourns, general field agent for The Union Lumber Company, of San Francisco, has been a business visitor in Texas for the past several weeks, where he has b'een investigating the possibilities of that field as a consumer of Redwood lumber both for the present and future. Texas has always been a big producer and huge consumer of Southern Pine, using a higher quality of lumber on the average than any other state in the union, but during the past two years western woods have been slowly making their entry into The Lone Star State just as a few years farther batk Red Cedar and Redwood shingles worked into that territory as the supply of Cypress shingles was reduced.

During the past six months a great quantity of western woods have been sold in Texas. The buyers of railroad materials, for instance, have been buying more Fir in Texas since January first, than they have Southern Pine. Fir finish, fir-flooring, and fir shiplap, have gone into north and west Texas in large quantities, and California White Pine has been shipping a lot of common lumber into that state.

Texas has long been a small consumer of Redwood, largely used for factory stock. Many of the city yards of Texas carry stocks of Redwood at all times. The visit of Mr. Bourn was to determine along what lines they might act to increase the consumption of Redwood in the Lone Star State.

The dealer who sells a man a jag of lumber for a new btrilding at 25t6 profit,, and then lets the fellow go up the street to buy the paint to cover the building with a 507o profit, isn't fully onto his job.

Yet there are lots o{ dealers who don't stock paint because they consider it too much trouble to handle. No man who stops to think can discount'the great advantage that comes to the dealer who sells both the building and the paint.

There is another interest that the lumber dealer has in selling paint with his lumber. If he DOESN'T, how does he know that the buyer lvon't cover his new building with a snide job of paint that rvill bring disrespect for the lumber itdelf, or that he rvon't leave it entirely unpainted, and exposed to the ill effects of the weather.

A board is much like a man. Dress him up to look like a bum, and the casual glance will convince the passer-by that he IS one.

Can and Will are cousins who never trust to luck; Will is the child of Energy and Can the son of Pluck.

Can't and \Mon't are cousins, too; always out of work; Won't is the son of N,ever Try, and Can't the son of Shirk.

-Afizona Bulletin.