Forest Service Figures on Timber Resources of the West

Just how much merchantable timber there remains in the West is a subject of intense interest to the lumbermen, not only of the West, but of the entire world, because this last great stand on the American continent must be the source of lumber supply on which the western world will depend for years to come..

So the following table, prepared by the Office of Products, IJ. S. Forest Service, Portland, Oregon, and believed by that office to be the closest actual compilation of the sort so far made, is of great interest. It is, as noted, divided into states, districts, and species, and will furnish the lumber student much food for thought.

Merchantable Timber Stand of West, fncluding Alaska aad B. C. M Feet Board Measure

Simonds Saws Exclusively at Great Plant at Lon$view, Washington

The biggest sawmill institution ever built by man is the great two unit plant of The Long-Bell Lumber Company, at Longview, Washington. Here stand side by side two great sawmills that manufacture from a million and a half to two million feet of lumber DAILY.

Naturally the saw equipment for so vast an institution, with its great planing mills, box factories, remanufacturing mills, etc., is a tremendous one.

The Simonds Saw & Steel Company of Fitchburg, Mass., with offices and distributing warehouses in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, announce elsewhere in this issue of The California Lumber Merchant, with pardonable pride, that this great milling institution uses Simonds saws exclusively, from the biggest bands to the smallest circulars,'and the finest resaws. All Simonds. This is a complim.ept indeed from a great milling concern.

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LUMBER LEADERS MEET AT VANCOUVER UNDER AUSPICES OF HOO-HOO

One of the most important meetings of lumbermen ever held in the Northwest convened at Vancouver, B. C., August l4th, under the auspices of the Vancouver lfoo.Hoo Club.

Dr. Wilson Compton, secretary-manager, and John M. Gibbs, director of the trade extension department, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, both of Washington, D. C.; Snark of the.IJniverse James M. Brown; Co. W. B. Greeley for the West Coast Lumbermen's Association; and the trade extension managers on the West Coast, including A. C. Horner, San Francisco, and S. V. Fullaway, portland, attended.

The meeting, which was arranged by W. H. Crowe, president of the Vancouver_Hoo-Hoo Club; A. F. ("Sandy,,) McDonald, former member of the Supreme Nine, and Col. h-*.r("!Ioo_t Mon") Lightbody, former Vicegerent for Victoria, B. C., took up, ?mong other things, thi splendid opportunity before the lumber industry of tiking advantage of the co-operation of Hoo-Hoo in the promoti,on of wodd use.