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ROCKPORT, MENDOCINO COT'NTY, CAIJF. MANTIFACTIIRERS OF REDWOOD TIIMBER

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Shiprnents by Rcril or Vessel From Mill

STOCTS CARNIED AT WITMINGTON AND OATTAND FOR DEATERS' CONVENIENCE

Fire Chiel Blames Lumber Fires on American Forestry Association Sponrors

Sabotage Plot Another Trail Riders Trip Into Sierra

Seattle, August 9.-It was disclosed here today by Fire Chief William Fitzgerald that authorities have been investigating what is believed to be a coast-wide sabotage plot which has cost the lumber industry many thousands of dollars in losses.

He blamed today's $55,000 fire here, which destroyed the Pankratz Lumber Co. and damaged two adjoining industrial plants, of a "firebug ring operating up the entire Coast from California to \Mashington."

Chief Fitzgerald said he based his belief that the Seattle fire was incendiary on the the fact that the plant was ablaze in three difierent places when a watchman discovered it.

Thousands of' dollars worth of property has been destroyed during the last month in fires in seven Washington cities. Last Sunday a $275,000 fire destroyed the Eastern Railway and Lumber Co's. property in Centralia. Only 10 days previous in Chehalis, five miles away, the Palmer Lumber Yards and nearby property burned at a loss of $220,00O. Three nights later two waterfront buildings were destroyed at Vancouver, \Mash., with a loss set at $70,000.

Other fires occurred at Goldendale, Deming, Forks and Sellick, Washington.

"It is the belief of fire chiefs on the Coast that the fires are the work of an organized ring of saboteurs, who for some unexplained reason, are directing their attacks on the lumber industry, as in each of the fires a mill is involved," Chief Fitzgerald said.

The Forest Service has given its approval of a second "Trail Riders" trip into the High Sierra, sponsored by the American Forestry Association, and participated in by its members. The trip will start August 2A Irom the town of Bishop in the Owens Valley, and will last 13 days. It will be limited to 25 people, and will visit various famous forests in the }Iigh Sierra, crossing passes over 12,000 feet high, and viewing many peaks of over 14,000 feet altitude.

Fire Destroys Logs

Fire recently destroyed 5,000,000 feet of bucked logs in the woods belonging to Stimson Lumber Company, Forest Grove. Ore.

Los Angeles Building Figures Grow

Los $ngeles easily held its position as second city nationally for the first six months of 1939. From January I to June 30, Los Angeles issued building permits totaling $39,401,810, as compared with $33,178,384 for the same months last year. For the first six months of this year building nationally gained 17.8 per cent over the same months of the year before.

FIRE DESTROYS EIGHTEEN MILLION FEET OF LUMBER AT FEATHER RIVER MILI-BIG ARMY FIGHTS THE,FIRE

On July 27 an army of more than one thousand men fought a fire for five hours that destroyed eighteen million feet of lumber and threatened a big lumber plant. Fire broke out early in the morning in the yard of the Feather River Lumber Company near Portola, California. Five hundred of the mill crew and five hundred volunteers fought the fire stubbornly. The big box factory caught fire several times, and each time the fire fighters put out the flames. The fire was finally wiped out after five hours hard fighting, but not until eighteen million feet of lumber had been consumed. The loss is more than $15O,00O. The headquarters of the firm is in Denver.

Gus Hoover Has The Boys Working

Gus Hoover, of Los Angeles, is starting his two sons to learn something about lumber. The oldest son, Bob, who is a Stanfard graduate, is piling boards at the mill at Scotia, learning about Redwood the hard way. The younger son, Dick, who has one more year to go at Stanford, is working irr his father's office in Los Angeles.

TRADE EXECUTIVES ENJOYED ANNUAL MEET. ING AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY

The annual Western Conference for Commercial and Trade Executives was held at Stanford University July 23 to 28 with the largest attendance in its history.