Arizona's Growing Industry-"Lumber"

(Continued f.rom Page 42) machinery with new modern logging and sawing equipment which will insure them of an output of over 100,000,00O feet Per annum,

While there are now approximately thirty-6v" saw mills operated within the State producing about 1@,00O,000 board feet of lumber yearly, it can be safely said that 95 per cent of this output comes from the above five mentioned mills. The total value of this output amounts to over $8,000,000 yearly. What these operations mean to the State of Arizona can be best illustrated by the following data:

The payrolls paid out by these five companies alone amount to over $200,000 per month, which sustaiirs nearly three thousand people in employment with corresponding dependents of another four thousand, making a total of over seven thousand people directly dependent upon the mills for livelihood. The benefits. derived by the State and ,the Northern Arizona cities frorn,an annual payroll in excess of $3,000,000 may be easily imagined, and further than this the yearly state and county taxes paid by these mills is approximately $10O,00O and they pay for the timber purchased from the g'overnment and State, approximately $400,000 per year, of which the greater percentage goes to the State Treasury for the use of the University of Arizona at Tucson, and a proper percentage for the construction and upkeep of roads in the counties in which the mills ire situated. Out of the millions of dollars paid out by these lumber mills every year, 54 per cent is payroll and the balance is for supplies purchased almost,entirely within the State.

The markets for Arizona Native White Pine are quite extensive. Th'e Finish, Shop and Box lumber is being shipped into the Eastern and Middle Western States and the Finish, Box and Common into New Mexico., Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. At the present time only 40 per cent of this total iroduction findi a market withiir our own State which derives such an enormous benefit from its production. However, in the last few years the demand in Arizona for native pine is increasing and it is hoped that in a short time the entire output of the mills -will be absorbed by this State.

Tho cost of manufacturing the Finish lumber and upper grades of the Arizona pine is in excess of the cost of ihe manufacturjlg- of similar grades of lumber from foreign species which is now being-used in this State. This situ-ation is not only due to the isolated locations of our forests which- necessarily calls for a greater logging cost, but can be chiefly laid to the fact that not oier 2O per cent of the lumber which comes from the saw mills- will grade Commoir No. I or better. The other 80 per cent runs"from Common No. 2 to Cull, only 4 per cent being clear lumber. This means that only one board out of ever-y one hundred .that comes from the.mills is clear lumber, ift" U"f""". oi T p"r cent being mide up of Shop, Common and Culls, th-e-majority of which grades are biing sold today by the. mills below the cost of production.

Arizona is indeed blessed with its wonderful natural resource, Timber, which affords us one of the States greatest industries, the manufacturing of a high grade luirber. If the buying public would consider whaithe manufacture of this native product means to them in dollars and cents and State development, and would realize that the revenue from every foot of this native material consumed, comes back to them in the form of further State developmeqt and expansion, there would be no question as to the loyal patronage of every builder and consumer in this State.

REDWOOD EXHItsIT IN LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY

The Redwood exhibit of the California Redwood Association, which was in Barker Bros.' store, was moved to the Los Angeles Public Library for twp weeks beginrting June 18. This exhibit consists of photographs of fine homes in which Redwood has been used, and of panels showing the new transparent colors_for interior decoration, and 9f samples of sandblasted Redwood.

LI'MBERMAN VISITS CHICAGO

. John Colombo, Colombo Lumber Co., Sebastapol, has just returne4 _ftory a tlvo weeks' visit to Chicago. -He was accompanied by Mrs. Colombo.

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Helms In New Yoirk

C. E. Helms, vice-president of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, was recently in New york on a business trip.