Opent Lumbermen'g Governmantal Service

\(/eyerha euser Establishes Complete Ffue Bureau

C. W. Pinkerton has opened a Lumbermen's Governmental Service Bureau with offices in Sacramento and Whittier. The Bureau will be devoted to the study of legislation and larvs affecting the lumber and building material industry.

The Bureau will provide the following services:

Personal representation at the State Capitol throughout the year in matters pertaining to legislation and pending legislation and laws affecting clients' business; appearing before State officers, boards, commissions or agencies in matters that do not require personal appearance or service of attorney; representing clients on pending legislation or governmental activities; personal letters of interpretation of legislation; notice of the introduction of bills affecting clients' interests; printed copy on request, of special bills; digest of bills affecting the lumber and building material industry, and amendments thereto; legislative services; encouraging legislation of interest to the industry.

Mr. Pinkerton has had many years of legislative experience at Sacramento where he represented the California R.etail Lumbermen's Association. Since the State Association has been discontinued, many lumbermen urged him to start a Bureau so that he can continue this service to lumber and building material industry. The cost of the service to each yard is $1.00 per month.

Changes Name

Change in name of the Charles Miller Lumber Co., Inc., Vallejo, to the Security Lumber Co., fnc., was recently announced. Officers of the company are Dave paganini, president; Louis Claus, vice-president, and W. H. Snowdon, sales manager.

Protection on 1301000-Acre Tree Farm

Tacoma, Wash., June 24, 1941.-With the advent of the 1941 fire hazard, season, the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company has launched a new type defense against the worst enemy of the forests. A standby crew of 30 trained men, supervised by a forester, by means of tank trucks, thousands of feet of hose, portable pumpers, two-way radio sets, lookout towers and other equipment are giving "complete protection" to a compact plot of 130,000 acres in Grays Harbor County,Wash.,a region famed as a timber producer.

Known as the Clemons Tree Farm, the area includes some virgin old growth, largely Douglas Fir, in which logging is still carried on but the great bulk of the acreage is logged over and now in various stages of producing a new forest crop, new trees sprung from the seed tree areas which were left or trees which have been planted by hand as seedlings from the Weyerhaeuser nurseries. The main lumber harvest is probably 50 years in the future.

'fhe fire protection system embraces 170 miles of roads -largely converted logging grades-by means of which water hose lines can be brought quickly to every acre on the "farm."

Equipment includes a fleet of fast, light patrol trucks carrying l3Ggallon tanks of water and "live reels" of hose, heavy fighter trucks which pump four lines of lfinch hose ata time, a bulldozer, 9O miles of telephone line and 16 tlvo-way radio sets by means of which lookouts, patrolmen and dispatcher can report and dispatch.

Key to the protection system is prompt detection of fires nearly all of them man-caused in this a1s3-3nd prompt dispatch of water with hose and pressure to the scene so that the fire may be extinguished while it is still small. Trucks, portable pumpers, hose, other equipment are mobilized at strategic points according to weather conditions and the men are ready to spring into instant action.

Although the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company owns slightly less than half of the protection area, it is underwriting the entire heavy initial expense and also assuming the sizeable operation costs. It is hoped that, by demonstration and example, the full protection system will be expanded to other areas and also win further support as the experiment proves its value as an effective method for perpetuating the timber crop.