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

NEW RATE OE 72 CENTS ON ALL LUMBER FROM NOR,TII OF PORTLAND TO ARIZ. AND N. M.

Under a new tariff filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission by the Southern Paeific, all points in Arizona and New Mexico will have a blanket rdte of 72 cents on lumber and. Iumber products from points of origin in Oregon and Washington north and west of Portland..

Portland and points south of Portland will continue to tenjoy a differential, the rate from Portland to the territory in question being 6712 cents.

The poiqt about the new rate is that it blankets all the points of origin in the state of -Washington as far north as Seattle, including Grays Harbor and Willapa harbor and all points on the Spokane, Portland. & Seattle Railway in Oregon. Heretofore rates from points in that territory varied according to the distance.

The new rates beeome effective September 6

CREDIT MEN VIEW L. A. HARBOR

A number of Los Angeles lumbermen joinecl in tbe outing of the Building Material Dealers' Credit Association on the harbor Saturday, August 19. The party were taken in a Iaunch as guests of President McKee of the Harbor Commission. They saw all the development taking place there to accomodate the growing volume of lumber shipments. They wound up Saturday evening at the Virginia Hotel, Long Beach, where they had a banquet and entertainment.

AIR,PLANE PIIOTO PROVES GOOD AD

An airplane photograph of a part of the Eagle Rpck business distriet, including practically all of the plant of the Eagle Rock Ilumber Company, has been on display in the office of that company for the last few weeks and has attracted much attention. Emil Swanson, proprietor of the lumber company, says it has attracted many people to his place of business and has proved an exoellent advertising stunt.

ANOTIIER, R,EDWOOD TRACT IS DONATED

R. C. Chapman of Santa Rosa has donated to the state a seven-acre tract of redv'ood timber along the south fork of the Eel river in Humbolt county. This tract, along with others similarly donated, will be made a part of the state's redwood park system

COMPTON VISITS CALII'ORMA

Dr. Wilson Cornpton, secretary-manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, stopped in San Francisco on his way home from the association meeting in PortIand, and called on the lumber folks of the bay district. He visited the ofriees of the California White and Sugar Pine and the California Red.wood associations and renewed acquaintance with his personal friends in the city. An informal meeting was held with officials and members of the associations