A Carpenter Asks About \7hite Pine

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Lumber Dealer: "Well, my mill friend assures me that botanically this is NOT white pine".

Carpenter: "HelM ain't no botanist. I'm a carpenter. I been using a soft white wood for building purposes, and it's pine wood. Can someone pass a law that says I can't call it white pine?"

Lumber Dealer: "Now, don't get excited. I was just-".

Carpenter: "I know. Ygu were just trying to pull an April Fool joke on me here in the middle of summer. But surely you didn't think I'd belibve you, did you? I know they pass a lot of fool laws in this country, but I'm not farmer enough to believe anyone would pass one to prevent me calling white white, or pine pine. And I'll tell you what I want. I want fifteen hundred feet of that white pine you got back there so I can begin filling some orders for cabinets. I'll show you the bin I want it taken out of. I don't care a tinker's d-n what botanists call it; I don't care what sort of leaves the tree had; I don't care what its fancy name is; I'm paying cash for my white pine; now do I get it, or do f go somewhere else?,'

Lumber Dealer: "You get it".

Carpenter: "Then let's be marching,'.

Cargo Arrivals in Los Angeles and San Francisco

San Francisco unloaded more lumber at her docks in 9Jtg!qt, 193Q than in any month of the year ending June 30, 1931.

. August, 1930, was the biggest month Los Angeles harbor reports for that same year.

' In October, 1930, San Francisco unloaded 46,561.000 feet of Fir, and 17,369,000 feet of Redwood, a total of 63,930,000 feet.

In A_ugl_st, 1?39, there was unloaded at the Los Angeles docks 79,561,000 feet of Fir, and 4,828,@O feet of Redw-ood. a total of 8{389,00O feet.

Los Angeles' total Redwood receipts by water for the year ending June 3oth, 1931, was 49:9n,fu feet, as compared with a total of 139,819,000 feet unloaded in San Franclsco.

, Los Angeles' Fir receipts for the twelve months were 62,9n,W feet, as compared with 497,O78,000 feet for San Francisco.

The total of both Fir and Redwood for the year received by cargo in T.os Angeles was 712,851,00O feit, while the total for San Francisco rvas 636,897.000 feet.

The figures on shipments into Los Angeles harbor for the past_generation are interesting. In 1898-lumber receipts in this harbor were a total of 100,582,000 feet. Then we find that in 1915 they had increased to 460,000,000 feet. 1916 showed 557 millions; l9l7 showed 623 million: 1918 and 1919 dropped below the L9l7 level. but 1920 took another stride forward with 734 million f.eet. L92l slipped a little, Uyt-.t!t:" .!!S big- bulge started, and 7922 showed receipti of 1169 ryllflon, after which 1923 set the high record for ihe port of 1542 million. L924 dropped back-to 1210 million feet, and 1925 to 1176 million feet.

Here are the figures by months of cargo receipts of lumber at San Francisco and Los Angeles:

H. S. MORTON VISITS NORTHWEST

_ H. S. Morton, of Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland, returned June 22 from a lo-day business trip to Oregon, where he called on the firm's mill connections and cbnferred with T. L. Driscoll, manager of their Portland office. Mr. Morton made the trip by automobile and was accompanied by Mrs. Morton.

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Colusa Rotarians See Redwood Pictures

Invited by Rotarian Roy Grenfell, of the Grenfell Lumber Co., Colusa, Jim Farley, assistant Western sales manager of The Pacifi,c Lumber Co., San Francisco, attended a meeting of the Colusa Rotary Club, June 16, and exhibited the motiot pictures showing the whole process of manufacture of Redwood at the company's operations in Scotia.