David Douglas'Tree

(From "Spruce Splinters")

A hundred Jrears ago a young Scotchman named Douglas felt the call of the west, and voyaged to the Pacific Coast. Douglas was a qaturalisi, ind in the 'woods of Oregon he found a naturalist's paradise. Arnong the, wonders that he saw iri that viryin forest was a tree that interested him and those that came after him. He thought it some new sort of Pine, and other people have variously named it Red Spruce, Red Fir, Oregon Fir, Oregon Pine, Washington Fir, and so on.

The U. S. Forest Service gives official sanction to the -name of Douglas Fir, as a memorial to the young explorer who told the world about it. Like a fir in the Jlexible quality of its needles; like a spruce in its habit of bearing cones that hang downwaid from the Lyigr; like a hemlock in the way its twigs droop; and like a pine in the appearance of the wood. No wonder the tree puzzledthe scientist as well as the lumberman.

W. H. FALCONBURY VISITS EAST

W. H. Falconbury, 'San Joaquin Lumber Company, Stockton, and president of the Stockton t<iwanis -Clu-b. was a delegate to the Kiwanis International Convention held reccntly at Milwaukee, Wis.

E. L. REITZ BACK FROM VACATION

E. L. Reitz of the Hart-Wood Lumber Company at Los Angeles has returned from a two weeks vacition at the mills around Seattle and Aberdeen. Mrs. Reitz accompanied him on the trip.

Yz to 2-inch Drifling Capacity.

IVeights 10 to 20lbs.

Priced at f,100 and up.