COOS BAY LUMBER COMPANY

Douglas Fir and Hemloch Lumber

Saw Industry Announces Stand a r dizatio n Pro $ram

The saw manufacturers of the country have definitely joined the lumber industry in its work for standardization ind simplification of product. For some months a committee of representafive iaw manufacturers has been studying the needl of the lumber industries throughout the country, and after carefully considering the best current mill practice they are now publishing listslf standard band and circular saws for wood cutting.

It is proposed to confine manufacturers' stocks of finished sawi to these standard items which are generally in demand with approximately ninety per cent of the trade. The obiect is to miintain stocks of finished saws which will al*iys take care of customers' standard requirements promptly. In the past when there was an attempt to carry in stock-almost an-unlimited variety it actually proved impossible to have stocks capable of servicing customers except at the expense of excessive investments.

This development is in line with the simplification and standardizatio-n movement whichhas gained such momentum in American industry under ihe leadership of President Hoover and the Uriitea States Department of Commerce. In over ninety different industries simplification programs have worked to the benefit of manufacturer, distribui-or and consumer by reducing the amount of capital tied up in slow moving stocks, by-eliminatin-g mistakes in the hairdting of orders,-and by mbking possible quicker deliveries and better service to the consumer.

Of course, the most outstandingly successful of all has been the lumber industry's establiihment of the American Lumber Standards. It isto be expected that the lurnber industry as a whole will share in the benefits of this saw standar-dization program as its own customers are sharing in the benefits oT the American Lumber Standards.

The Committee responsible for this saw program consists of H. C. Atkins, President, E. C. Atkins & Co.; S. Horace Disston. Vice President and George Satterthwaite, General Manager, Henry Disston &-S91s, I,nc.; E. Foste.r, General Manaler'Saw Department, R.^Hoe &- Co., Inc'; W' B. Huther, Piesident, Huther Bros. Saw Mfg' Co', Inc'; G. K. Simonds, General Manager, Simonds Saw and Steel Co.

American Walnut Export Shipments For 1928

According to the "Monthly Summary of Foreign Commerce" p.tbtirh.d by the United States Department of Commerce, 13,119,000 board feet of American Walnut in the form of finished lumber were exported from the United States in 1928. The principal countries to which this lumber is being exported are as follows:

Germany, England, Canada, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Scotland, and Portugal' Shipments are also being made to British South Africa, Japan, and South America'