Lumber Bg -Products, I{orth and Sou th

From Shasta's Lofty Summit to Coronado's Silver Strand

CALII'ORMA R. R. COMIYIISSION R,EDUCES RATES TO POINTS IN IMPERIAL VALLEY

Further reductions in rates have been granted by the California Railroad Commission on lumber moving from San Ped.ro and I-.los Angeles to points in the Imperial Valley.

In addition to the 10 per cent reduction granted JuIy 1, the rate to Niland is reduced. three cents, to Calexico two cents and to Cantu six cents.

JESSE F. and t. II. MS VISIT'CALIFORNIA

Jess tr'. Ives, manager of the Stimson Mill Company of Seattle, and his son, I-:awrence H. Ives, president of L. H. Ives & Co., wholesale lumber dealers of Seattle, have been spending the last few weeks in California. They shipped their automobile to San Francisco and began touring the state from there, but are going to drive all the way back. fn Los Angeles they visited with B. W. Masters, California manager for the Nettleton I.,umber Company of Seattle, and. Mrs. Masters, daughter of Jesse F. Ives.

HART-WOOD OFFICIALS TOUR NOR,THWEST

W. H. Wood of the San Francisco office of the Hart-Wood Irumber Company, accompanied by George H' Walker, representative of the company in I-,los Angeles, are on a tour of the Northwest. They went to Portland by train'and will cover the rest of the territory by automobile. They expect to be gone two or three weeks.

STATE'S REDWOOD PARK NEARLY COMPLETE

The state of California's red.wood park in Humboldt county now is nearly complete as all but two of the tracts required for the purpose have been bought' D' M. Pratt, stale forester, says that $40,000 remains in the fund of $300,000 appropriatett by the last legislature and that this will be sufficient to acquire the remaining parcels.

WEED LUMBER COMPANY RUNS OVER'TIME

On account of the heavy accumulation of orders, the plant of the 'Weed Lumber Company at Weed began working overtime on August 1. The mill now is running 12 hours a day. The company has a particularly strong demand for sash and doors as well as for box material and the ordinary run of mill products. The white pine doors and other products of the Weed plant are distributed by the Long-Bell Lumber Company, as the Weed Lumber Company is a unit in the Long-Bell organization.

SECOND BENSON LOG R,AFT LEAVES COLUMBIA RIVEB FOR SAN DIEGO

The second of the Benson Lumber Company's big log rafts left the Columbia river on August 2 for San Diego and is due at the latter port within the next few days. It carries an aggregate of nearly 6,000,000 feet of lumber, shingles, Iath and poles.

The first Benson raft arrived at San Diego the latter part of July and. seemed. none the worse for its experience in breaking loose from the tug off the Mendocino coast on its way south. It contained 5,000,000 of fir logs besides its deckload of shingles and lath.

The third raft now is being assembled on the Columbia river and will start south late this month.

A Moral

OAKLAND BIIII,DING ACTIVITIES CONTINUE

Builcling activities in Oakland continue unabated. Permits for the month of July aggregated 721 in number, with a value of $1,900,712. The first six months of this year were ile best six months that the Oakland building material folks have enjoyed for several years.

I'R,ESNO ENJOYING GOOD BUILDING YEAR,

Fresno is experiencing a steady builcling campaign this summer, with the result that the year will be oue of the best ever in that city. Permits for the month of July aggregated $315,950, bringing thq total for the first seven months of the year up to $4,881,444. JuIy and August usually are comparatively quiet in building Iines as many workingmen and their families go camping in the hills. It is expected that the customary activity will set in again late in August and that the calend.ar year will end. up with a hand.some total.

We ofier one of the best manufactured Lath in the p6ftstBright, fult width and thiclmess-up to grade-and made from rtrictly old growth yellow Fir.