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(Continued from Page 6) just the proper speed, stopping at each end of a thrilling run just in time to keep from going through the end of the mill. I know of nothing more thrilling in mechanics than those two sawmill levers in the hands of an expert sawyer. I can watch them for hours at a stretch, have been doing so for forty years, and never seem tired of a wonderment that never ceases.

As far back as I ""r, ,u,nl-iurl'.r. been watching re-saws operate in big sawmills. Likewise gang saws, in which whole logs, flattened on two opposite sides, are shoved against and through a battery of saws set equal distances apart that saw up and down and turn the log into rift-sawn lumber.I recall long ago seeing many machines they called "gang-edgers," a small gang made up of circular saws spaced on a single shaft, that cut forrr and six inch "cants" into boards. I never see that sort of mill any more. Guess they have gone "where the woodbine twineth." I remember once when I was a kid and working in a sawmill during vacation time, seeing a gang-edgerman reach his hand into one of those machines to pull loose a piece of bark that had caught in the edge of it. And I shall never forget how that hand looked when he finally pulled it out.

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Sawmill edgers look and operate about like they did when f first saw them, There have been improvements, of course, bearings have been changed and improved, the setting of the saws has been eased and facilitated; but the fundamental method of removing the bark from the edges of lumber that has come from the saw, is just about the same. The same way with lath mills. They look the same as they always did, and operate in the same fashion, with brawny young men shoving the edgings through and back again, turning the clear lumber just inside the bark into wooden plastering lath. And the lumber leaves-the last operation in the sawmill-and goes out of the mill on takeoff chains, just about the same as it always did. There are variations in various mills, but the fundamentals are unchanged.

In the things that happen to the lumber AFTER it leaves the sawmill proper, greater changes have taken place. However, as in the sawmill itself, the fundamentals have held their own remarkably well, the modifications and changes being in the details of operation. There are still tramways topped with thick planks over which the lumber is hauled to various units of the plant; there is still a planing mill, a lumber yard, dry kilns, storage dry sheds, railroad loading dock, etc. They are there now, just as they have always been. But great changes have taken place WITHIN these fundamental units.

Take the mechanical ,";o;"J"nd drying of the lumber, as an example. In the old days they piled the lumber in a room heated either with steam or dry air, and left it there to dry. Naturally the outside dried quickly and the inside dried slowly, the result being a decided upheaval in the fiber of the wood, that resulted in its warping, cracking, checking, cupping, twisting, defects were enlarged, knots loosened and fell out, and great was the loss thereof. Little by little and step by step the dry kiln specialists by means of intelligent experimentation, overcome these vital faults in lumber seasoning, until kiln drying lumber today is a highly intelligent, scientific, and successful operation. Most species of commercial lumber can be kiln dried today without any more defect development than comes with careful air drying, and without removing any of the valuable physical properties of the wood.

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Yes, the greatest change that has come to the lumber manufacturing business from the beginning until now, is in the drying and seasoning department.

In general fashion, afr" pfJ"f"g mill is the same unit it used to be in the old days. In detail, however, it is a vastly improved department. The machines are faster, smoother, more economical, more dependable, and turn out definitely better lumber than they used to. In this department there is a wide variety of effort as between different mills. There are still thousands of sawmills that use their planing mills just as they did a generation ago, for the finishing of their product into standard items of lumber. And they stop there. Thousands of others go various distances into the remanufacturing of their product into items and products other than standard lumber for building purposes. There are many that emulate the example of the up-to-date meat packers and market "everything except the squeal." one simple change n""*"olu 1o pr""ti""lly all softwood manufacture in the last few years that deserves special mention. EASED EDGES. For generations lumber was made and sold and used with square, sharp edges, hard to .handle, easy to sliver, etc. Someone in the Pacific Northwest conceived the idea of softening that sharp edge by "easing" the edge off as it went through the planing mill machine. Today it is done universally. No mill too small to ease their edges. Another simple improvement to common items of standard lumber that is growing very popular is improved ends. A second trimming that makes square, bright, smooth ends on the lumber is growing very popular. In fact, all soft wood lumber today is straighter, smoother, brighter, and easieq to handle than it used to be.

But, generally speaking, it is still pretty much the same type and style of business that sawmilling has.always been, and the general plan of turning a log into commercial lum- ber has probably changed less in forty years than that of any other basic industry. A friend of mine who specializes in refining petroleum products tells me that so rapid is the change that takes place in oil refining that equipment for that purpose becomes entirely obsolete every ten years. It's different with lumber. I imagine the lumber manufacturers are glad of it. The equipment of a twenty-year-old sawmill is always salable for many years more use. t<**

Watching the changes that take place every season in some other industries, I often wonder what would have happened to the lumber business if the makers of sawmill machinery and equipment had been as laboratory-minded as they have in various other lines, such as the automobile, radio, or electrical industries? Supposing the sawmill machinery folks had brought out new models every year, so attractive, so improved, so practical, so desirable, that the mill men would have had to buy, just as automobile owners do. What would a sawmill be like today? Would it even faintly resemble the present ones? Would there still be the same carriages, "niggers," band mills, edgers, trimmers, dry kilns, planing mills, etc.? What would wooden building material look like? Would it even faintly resemble lumber? I wonder.

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We have seen the wonders that have been wrought in the manufacture of wooden pulp board, wide lumber made from wood lyaste, plywood, etc., all products of the labora- tory. Who knows what lumber and the lumber business would be like today, if General Motors and Henry Ford had been operating the lumber business, instead of the motor car industry? ***

How tragic it is that nobody in official Washington seems to sense the vital fact-in their business discussions and legislation-that BUSINESS IS MENTAL. Everything they do is convincing proof that those who are making the rules and laying down the law to business look npon it as a hard, physical, financial thing, rather than a sensitized, emotional thing, as defiitely subject to the jitters as a seismograph. They seem incapable of understanding that fear injected into the consciousness of business, means paralysis of the body of business. That is our trouble today. That has been our trouble for the past several years. And that will be our trouble until understanding comes. It is utterly inevitable.

Congratulates Jack Dionne on Paint Editorial

Los Angeles, California

May 17, 1938

Mt. J. C. Dionne, President

The California Lumber Merchant

108 West 6th Street

Los Angeles, Calif.

Dear Mr. Dionne:

Permit me, as one who has spent many years in the Paint business, to extend my congratulations to you for the article entitled "Paint-Paint-Paint in the Spring," which appeared in the California Lumber Merchant in the May issue. You are absolutely correct when you state that the retail lumberman becomes one of the leading paint distributors when, as and if, he will see the opportunity of merchandising a complete paint line. Within the last week the writer has had occasion to call on a number of leading retail lumbermen in and around Los Angeles, who are enjoying a good paint business. It was interesting to note that they had effective window displays, store banners, colorfully illustrated booklets, color charts and many other things to brighten up their store and attract the buyer's attention. It is my opinion that paint is not only a profitable line to promote, but that it is one of the best leaders to attract consllmer attention in a lumber display room or store.

It is to be hoped that many of your friends among. the retail lumbermen will profit by your wise counsel and advice, as outlined in the above mentioned article.

With my kindest personal regards, I am

Cordially yours,

THE PARAFFINE COMPANIES. INC.

J. E. Holbrook, District Manager

Perhaps we should give to these whip-crackers a short course in studying the derivation of words. For instance, even the most ardent New Dealers will agree that the business men of this country are suffering from ,,loss of Confidence." What is Confidence? Whence comes the word? From "Con-Fides," meaning "with Faith." Men who lack Confidence are therefore "without Faith.', Our entire business structure, we all know, is built on Credit. And what is Credit? Where do we get the word? From ,,Credo," meaning "I Believe." Credit is established and business goes forward when business men .,believe" in the things about them. Business men, ree are told, are frightened because the conditions that surround them seem to lack Fidelity. Fidelity, from ,.Fidelis," meaning ,,Faithful.', Faith is the thing that makes or breaks business. Faith in our_ selves, in our fellows, in our government-those are the things that make business good; and their lack is what makes business bad. Con-Fides, Credo, Fidelis-these three are lacking today. So we have Depression. They have been banished, not by misfortune so much as by mis_ understanding. So long as the MIND of business is fright_ ened, the BODY of business will be both .,halt and lame,' as the Good Book says.

Pope & Talbot Taker Ove, McCormick Properties

Effective June 4, Pope & Talbot Lumber Co. took over all the properties of Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. with timber and lumber mills in Washington and Oregon.

The new company's announcement stated that under the n_ame of its principal owners the organization will carry on the service and traditions of 85 years of manufacturing and distributing Douglas Fir lumber and products. The stafi of the new company is the same as that of the former or_ ganization, with the following officers : Geor-o A. pooe, chairman; George A. Pope, Jr., president; Charles L. Wheeler, executive vice-president; J. A. Lunny, vice_presi_ dent; Hillman Lueddemann, rrice-president; Jas. S. Biown, secretary-treasurer.

Pope & Talbot history in the lumber business begins way back in 1767 when they shipped a cargo of American lumber into Boston harbor from East Machias, Maine. The popes and Talbots were among the first settlers of East Machias.

The development of the organization turned west in 1g50 when captain william c. Talbot arrived in San Francisco with a cargo of lumber. He was preceded by other mem_ bers of the families. In 1853 Captain Talbot visited puget Sound in search of more timber and directed the erecti,on of the Port Gamble lumber mill, which is still in operation, although considerably improved and enlarged since thai time.

McCormick Steamship Company operating 30 ships in domestic and foreign routes, and formerly alubsid iar.y of. Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., is now owned directlv bv the Pope & Talbot interests.

New Tax Bill Affects Lumber lmportr

Washington, May 28.-Imported lumber is affected in several respects by provisions of the new tax bill, which became law at midnight, May 27, without the President's signature, says the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

Imported lumber has been subject to both a duty under the tariff act of 1930 and an import excise tax under the Revenue Act of 1932. The Tariff Act specifically provides that no deduction shall be made for planing, tongueing and grooving in estimating board measure for duty purposes, but the Revenue Act imposes no such specific limitation. This situation has led the Customs Courts to hold that net measure of imported lumber should be used in determining the amount of the excise tax. The new tax bill amends the Revenue Act of 1932 by adding the limitation found in the Tariff Act.

Similarly, because the Tariff Act provides for "sawed lumber and timber" while the expression "Lumber, rough or planed or dressed" was used in the Revenue Act of 1932, there has been considerable litigation as to whether imported timbers were lumber and subject to the import excise tax. The new amendment specifically provides that the word "lumber" includes sawed timbers.

Three species of imported lumber, providing qualities insufficient in domestic supply, are also exempted from the excise tax in the amendment. The species exempted are: Northern white pine, Norway pine and Western white spruce.

The adoption of these amendments is regarded by the domestic industry as placing tariff administrative matters in the best condition in many years.

An amendment to the Customs Administrative Bill which would clarify the present law requiring that imported lumber be marked to indicate its foreign origin, is still before a conference committee in Congress. It is scheduled to be acted upon at an early date.

Acme Announces New Sash Balance

The many friends of the Acme Sash Balance will be interested in learning of another popular member of the famous family. This new sash balance is designed to lie flat or flush in the pulley stile so as not to project beyond the back of the frame. Both counterbalancing springs are housed in one cadmium-plated case and are of self-adjusting type.

The simplicity in design and construction of this balance appeals to those who know good hardware and the quick response by dealers is assurance that the new Housing Program will hang many windows on Acme-Twin. It is manufactured by The Acme Spring Sash Balance Co. of Los Angeles and carries their brand and dependable guarantee.

C. uI. BUCKNER BACK F'ROM EAST

Chas. W. Buckner, engineer-at-large for the Harbor Plywood Corporation, has returned to San Francisco from a business trip to the Eastern States. He made his headquarters in New York City for the palt several weeks.

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