\(/ood Conversion Announces Increase in Plant Capacity

For the third time in the past two years Wood Conversion Company, a Weyerhaeuser subsidiary with mills at Cloquet, Minnesota, announces plans to increase the capacity of its insulating and interior finish plant. This last increase is approximately 5O/o of present capacity and includes improvements in the pulp department as well. The machinery has been ordered and the necessary building construction started in order that the expansion in capacity can be taken advantage of by November lst.

In discussing the latest plans for the Wood Conversion Company mills, Mr. E. W. Davis, general mahager, said, "We have been'devoting our advertising and sales promotion efiorts toward the sale of Nu-Wood as interior finish. Tile, Plank, and Wainscot units have been accepted by architects, contractors, builders, and owners as a permanent wall and ceiling treatment. We have also been featuring BalsamWool Sealed Insulation as attic insulation in old houses. Last fall we backed the sale of Balsam-Wool as attic insulation with a moneyback guarantee to the owner, which has been most successful. These two activities have been responsible, to a great extent, for a sales volume which has again made an increase in production ne,cessary."

Starting in 1932, Wood Conversion Company began an active campaign to feature Nu-Wood as an interior finish which combined advantages of decoration, insulation, and noise-quieting in one low-cost material.

According to Mr. Davis, dealers everywhere have been able to introduce the products into markets never before available to them. Today the line of Nu-Wood products have found their way into the highest class of residences, schools, churches, theatres, offices, and other places where their advantages are needed and recognized.

When the Company ofiered Balsam-Wool under the money-back guarantee of satisfaction early in the fall of 1935, it was the first time so far as is known that a manufacturer of insulation materials had been willing to take such a step. Sure of the qualities and permanence of Balsam-Wool, Wood Conversion Company officials decided to guarantee their material's performance as attic insulation to the buyer. They offered to refund his money plus the cost of application if he was not entirely satisfied with the advantages Balsam-Wool had given him after a year of service. It was this guarantee, plus of course, an increase in new construction, that have stepped up sales to a new high.

For the past several years the Company has been selling a large volume of baled Balsam-Wool fiber to refrigerator cabinet manufacturers. These people "flufi out" the fiber bales and then form scaled slabs on licensed machines in their own plants, an economical feature which allows quick size changes at a minimum cost. So popular has this method of insulating refrigerator cabinets been that the Company enjoys considerably more than one-third of all the domesti,c refrigerator business. With Balsam-Wool fiber, cabinet builders get all the advantages offered by other types of insulating materials plus features which are not obtainable elsewhere.

In its dealer department the Company will continue its long established policy of manufacturing and selling materials which the lumber dealer can sell in substantial volume at a fair profit. The practical and popular plan of controlled distribution will be continued with an eye toward protecting the dealers' markets for insulation and interior finish as well as assuring them a fair profit on every sale.

Delers Action on \(/estern Forest Land Purchases

Washington, July 13.-With a forest purchase appropriation of $2,500,000 and a Forest Service program of purchases amounting to $10,000,000, the National Forest Reservation Commission on June 3O postponed a decision as to its course until the next meeting. There are approximately 61 units scattered over the country, which the Forest Service ultimately desires to purchase.

Chief Forester Silcox strongly advocates the prompt acquisition of the Ochoco tract of pine timber in Oregon, with an area of 28,ffi3 acres at a cost of $624,980.58, and affording an excellent opportunity for a permanent forest management project cooperatively between public and private forest ownership.

Among the other principal items in the proposed program are the acquisition of 132,000 acres in the Grand Lake, Maine, district and 19,@O acres in the northern redwood unit in California. The Commission ratified some small purchases with remaining Emergency Relief Administration funds which had been approved by the Forest Service in the following units: Pisgah, N. C.; Cherokee, Tenn.; Ala. bama, Talladega, Okomulgee, Conecuh, Alabama; Homochitto, Mississippi ; Ozark, Oklahoma and. Arkansas.

Opens Olftce in Seattle

Edgar W. Pack was a Los Angeles visitor around the middle of July where he spent a few days lining up connections for his buying office in Seattle.

Mr. Pack has been a lumber buyer in the Northwest with headquarters at Seattle for the past twelve years. From 1925 to 1929, inclusive, he was buyer for the Hammond Lumber Company, and for the past six years was with Chas. Nelson Co. His record for individual lumber buying in the Northwest of. 562,423 feet per day for 365 days in the year over a period of five years while buying for the Hammond Lumber Company still stands. Before going to the Northwest, Mr. Pack was connected with the Hammond Lumber Company at Los Angeles.

On Eastern Trip

Lew B. Train, Long Beach lumberman, will spend the next four months at Blue Rapids, Kansas, where he will visit with his folks after which he will go on to New york. He will be back in Southern California in the fall.

Increases Size Of Yard And Adds Improvements

Frost Hardwood Lumber Co. at San Diego has increased the size of its yard and made other improvements and changes, giving the yard a very attractive appearance.