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Hardwood Salesman Wanted

Wanted for Southern California territory, salesman experienced in selling hardwoods, Ponderosa and Sugar Pine, to call on industrial and wholesale trade. Give particulars of experience in letter. Address Box C-769, California Lumber Merchant.

Lumber Yards Wanted

If your yard is located in Southern California and you want to sell,.let us know about it as we have inquiries from lumber yard buyers. Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers, 801 Petroleurn Securities Bldg., Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 8746.

Midsummer Forest Fires Surpass 1938 Mark \(:th Man-Caused Fires in Lead

With the forest fire season for the country as a whole at the halfway mark, the number of fires in National Forests to date has surpassed the number for the same period last year, and also the averag'e number for the comparable period in the years from t934 to 1938, according to last minute compilations by the Forest Service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

While scarcity of rain in the past few weeks, combined with generally high temperature in most regions, is the chief cause for the reported increase in forest fires, Forest Service records show a seven percent rise in man-caused fires this year over the number for the first half of the fire season last year. This year, 4,474 fires, or 70 percent of the total reported, have been man-caused. The comparable figures for 1938 were 4,032, or 63 percent.

Though mainly in the West, National Forests are located in 40 States and two territories, with Federal forests in almost every section of the country except the Great Plains regions of the Middle West. Thus, the National Forest fire record gives a roughly accurate picture of the forest fire situation throughout the country.

The records show that for the first half of this year there have been a total of 59 fires which individually burned over more than 300 acres in the National Forests, while in 1938 up to the corresponding date there were but 44 6res of this size, and for the same period in 1937 only 41. The total number of forest fires on land under the protection of the Forest Service has been 6,4O5 to date, while the number for the same period last year was 6,379, and the average for the same period in the years from 1934 to 1938 was 6,195.

As to area burned over in National Forests and adjoining privately-owned land under Forest Service protection, the records indicate that so far this year 549 acres per million acres protected were burned over, that the comparable

Sales Position Wanted

Wanted sales position. Fifteen years' experience, export and wholesale in China, Japan, Los Angeles, San Francisco and both Valleys. Thoroughly familiar with West Coast products. Proven record. Highest recommendations can be furnished. Address Box C-768, California Lumber Merchant.

Wants Position In Retail Yard

Young man, 22 years of age, desires position in rEtail yard as utility man. Three years' experience. Will go anywhere. Address Box C-767, care California Lumber Merchant.

figure for last year was only 4O7, but that the average for the same periods in the years 1934-1938 was 602

The section of the country in greatest danger of forest fires includes Colorado, South Dakota, and Wyoming. So far this year D,474 acres have been burned over which establishes a record for the region. Three new fires were reported burning in other parts of the region.

Prolonged ho't, dry weather has brought the fire hazard in the Rocky Mountain region up sharply this year, as compared with previous years. So far this year there have been 286 forest fires in this area, while in 1938 up to the same date there were only 99, and the yearly average for the same periods in the years 1934-1938 was but 146. Because of the serious fire situation in the region, Roy Headley, Chief of the Division of Fire Control in the Forest Service, has interrupted a trans-continental inspection trip to remain in the central Rocky Mountains while the present danger continues.

New large-scale fires were reported burning in Oregon and California (as of July 25). Flames were said to be sweeping over 14,000 acres in two fires on the Siskiyou and Fremont National Forests in Oregon, both believed to have been caused by smokers. In the California fires 20,000,000 feet of sugar and ponderosa pine on 11,500 acres is reported destroyed.

Improvements At State Fair Grounds

More than 3dO State and WPA workmen are employed on the final stages of the improvements in the State Fair grounds at Sacramento which will cost $700,000 in the period since the 1938 fair was held.

It is stated that 25 carloads of lumber have been used in construction of new buildings and for the remodeling of the pari-mutuel facilities.

Humboldt County will add to its usually interesting display an animated deer hunting scene.

The State Fair will run from September 1 to 11.