UP AND DOWN THE STATE

CET{TRAI CALIfORMANS PLANMNG PICMC EAN,LY IN SEPTEMBER,_PR,ESCOTT IIEADS COM}IITTEE

I-rumbermen of Central California are planning 'rone large tide " early in September. The afrair will be in the nature of a picnic under the joint auspices of the San Joaquin Valley, the Central California and the Sacramento I-rumbermen's Clubs. F. Dean Ptescott of Fresno is head of a joint committee representing the three organizations.

Big Creek has tentatively been suggested as the place.

Eupiirat And Eoover Travel Nortii

M. L. Euphrat of the Y{ending-Nathan Company at San Francisco, accompaniecl by A. L. ("Gus") Hoover, manager of the company's 1es Angeles ofrice, will start this week on an automobile trip to Oregon and Washington. They will visit some of the big Fir mills and meet their numerous friends in that territory.

DEAN PR,ESCOTT'S MOTHER PASSES AWAY

Mrs. F. K. Prescott, mother of F. Dean Prescott, general manager of the Valley Lumber Company at Fresno, passed. away at Seabright a few days ago. Her husband, F. K. Prescott, started the Prescott-Pirece Lumber Company, now the Valley Lumber Company, many years ago. IIe continues one of the substantial citizens of the San Joaquin Valley. The bereaved family have the \rarm sympathy of all the lumbermen of the state.

REEDY RETURNS TO TACOIIL,A; OSGOOD STAYS

R. L. ("Bob") Reedy, sales manager for the Wheeler, Osgood Company at Tacoma, Wash., who has had charge of the 16s Angeles braneh for the last four months, will leave for home within the next few days. He is succeeded here by Robert S. Osgood, one of the principals of the firm. Young Mr. Osgood has been on the ground for the last month be' coming acquainted with the local trade.

Julius Seidel To Visit Our State

Julius Seid.el, head of the big St. Louis lunber enterprises that bear his name, and past snark of Hoo-Hoo, is headed for California and expects to spend. some time in the state. Frank Trower of San Francisco, C. D. I-reMaster of Fresno and othel of his intimate friends have promised to take him on a trip to Yosemite, to Sequoia, General Grant and Wauwona parks so he can see some of the big trees and other wonders of Nature of which California has an abundance.

EXPORT COMPANY BEFOR,E TBADE COMffiSSION

Ilearings will be held in San Francisco early this month under the direction of the Federal Trade Commission in the case of the Douglas Fir Exploitation & Export Company, for alleged uafair practices. The commission accuses the exploitaiion company of stifling competition by underselling non-members in foreign markets. The company is composed of a large group of the leading fir lumber manufacturers in Oregon and Washington. It is organized. under provisions of the Webb act which permits competitors to band. together to engage in export business.

SUPPLY OF DOOR STOCK FROM NOR,THWEST I}fiLLS GROWING SEOBT, SAYS GLASBY

Log shortage, due to forest fires in the Northwest, is causing a distinct tightening of the supply of Douglas fir (Oregon pine) doors, says C. E. Glasby, of Glasby & Co., Los Angeles manufacturers.

"Some of the biggest mills that supply stocks to the d.oor factories have eithei closed. or red.uced. their output," s&ys Mr. Glasby, who has just completed a survey of the situatiori. '!Consequently the supply of d.oor stock is short.

"On top of this, I understand, the big door plants in Oregon and Washington have many thousands of doors on their books which they cannot deliver for the next 60 days. The railroad, strike situation is going to make prompt d.eliveries to eastern territory a hard. matter for some of them.

"As a result of these conditions doors have ad.vanced. four points in the California market within the last ten days."

Fruit Growers Supply Company

GOVERNMENT PREPARES GRADE M/A,RKING BOOKTET TO ENCOURAGE UNIFORMITY AMONG IIILLS

Washington, D. C., July 28.-To inform lumbermen and lumber users regarding one of the far-reaching ehanges in lumber trade practices now under consideration by the industry, the National I-.rumber Manufacturers' Association has just published a booklet entitled "Grade Marking of I-:umber. " The first copies were rushed to the directors of the National Association and members of the Western Pine llfanufacturers' Association and of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, who are now conferring in Portland., Seattle and Tacoma regarding a number of fundamental changes in trade usages, in order to fully inform them of the status of grade-marking of lumber in the United States and. abroad.

It is significant of the keen interest that Secretary of Commerce Hoover is taking in the vital problems of the lumber trade. that he authorized Axel FI. Oxholm, Chief of the I-.,umber Division of the United States Department of Commerce, to prepare the booklet. Mr. Hoover also wrote for it an autographed prefatory paragraph, in which he says, "The grade-marking of lumber is an excellent idea. It will tend not only torvard a more economical distribution, but it is a big step toward better merchandising, and will directly benefit the manufacturer, middleman and consumer. It should be practical and beneficial for the domestic and export trade alike."

In this connection it is noteworthy that Mr. Hoover is represented at the Northwestern lumber conferences by W. A. Durgin, his special assistant, in charge of the Division of Simpliffed Practice.

DOUGLAS FIR EXPORTS FALL OFF DUR,ING MAY; SOUTHER,N PINE UNCEANGED

Export demand. for Douglas fir shows a distinet decrease, according to the Department of Commerce for the month of May, being 2,000,000 feet below the monthly average for 1913. Shipments of fir lumber to Japan amounted to slightly over 27,000,000 feet for the month, with 11,000,000 feet going to China. Shipments to Australia indicate an increased demand, being nearly three times what they were in May, 1921. Australia ranks third as a foreign market for fir for the past.eleven months.

The exports of Southern Yellow Pine during the month of May were very nearly what they were in April, maintaining a marked increase over the average for 1921, and indicating that April's increase was not a mere spurt, but that our lumber export trade is gradually reviving.