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Lumber Looks Lively from Coast to Coast

Nationally speaking, the lumber market is jumping. The last weekly report of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association coming to The Lumber Merchant desk shows the following figures for the week:

Up in the Northwest the orders were streaming in, and the mills were beginning to smile at these figures: feet feet

That will give a very definite idea of what is going on in lumber, because that covers all districts and species. The week before that was splendid, also. Here are the

The improved market was confined to no one district, or species, neither to softwoods or to hardwoods, as is shown by these hardwood figures, from 90 hardwood mills in scattered

Buyers of lumber throughout the United States are playing no favorites at the present time. They are buying lumber in every district, for every purpose. No longer a buyer's market as it has been for several months past. Prospects for the next month look grand.

Reports All Main Fires In Washington Under Control

Seattle, Wash., July 26.-The forestry office reported today that all main fires in Washington were under control. But danger of further outbreaks remained, due to adverse weather conditions.

Fire fighters were gaining steadily against the worst of the state's fires, at Ryclerrvood, rvhich had destroyed 12,000 acres of timberlands,

Iy\/ITH STAPLETON LUMBER CO.

A. B. Igou has joined the staff of the Stapleton Lurnber Company, San Francisco, as salesman. He is covering the San Joaquin Valley and the Peninsula territory.