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Crating Specifications

We are equipped to furnish all kinds of short cut-to-length stock such as Crating, Backing, Pail Tops Sets, and for any purposes for which such stock may be desired.

We can furnish this material in standard thicknessGrl or rcsawed from standard thicknesses to any thick, ness required for your purpose.

Since our principal output is Soft Old Growth Yellow Fir, we prefer to furnish these short cuttings in that wood, but where that wood cannot be used, we can furnish certain quantitiee of thesb cuttings in Pacific Hemlock.

The Whitney Company

Gariba,ldi, Oregon

(Continued from Page 10) to pay a tariff to get in, they might have to speed up production at the expense of quality in B. C.

I heard many guesses in, Washington as to what a tariff would develop. That it would bring about a great increase in shingle production on this side the line, there can be no doubt. With their huge production of logs in British Columbia, they would undoubtedly have to cut them on the American side of the line *"r *l"n as*possible.

There are more tourists in, this district this summer than ever before, and there is less to see. No rain for three months has developed fires everywhere, and there is no scenery to be seen. The wonderful snow-capped mountains haven't been seen in weeks. Mount Hood, Mounj Adams, Mount St. Helens, Mount Jefferson, Mount Rainier-or was it Tacoma?-none of them in sight. I have played golf at Everett when you couldn't look at your ball because of the woqdrous scenery, with the Cascades running jagged into the sky on one horizon, and the Olympics on the other. Not this summer. You can't see a mountain from Everett. or couldn't for many w;eks.

Speaking of timber supply, some of the famous old spots in Washington are getting thin. Sam Anderson told me the other day that there is less than ten billion feet of Fir stumpage left in the Gray's Harbor district-one of the greatest qu,antity and quality timber districts that made this country famous-and when you realize that there is a great battery of big sawmills on the Harbor, one of which cuts a million feet a day, you rcalize that the end of the Gray's Harbor production is close by. Their time has been shortened by the purchase of some big tracts of timber that had always'been considered as eventually coming to the harbor, but are coming to the Columbia River instead. A very few years will see Gray's Harbor production cut to a very low ebb'

A serious blow to the Fir Trade Extension Bureau, just getting well started, is the serious and continued illness of Henry Schott, Manager of the Bureau. He has been laid up for many weeks, and may not be able to resume the duties of the office, it is reported.

A sign of the times is the fact that there have been more lumber buyers and prospective lumber buyers in the Northwest than ever were known before, during the last several months. A4d the folks up here are always glad to show them around.

Booth-Kelly Announces New Policy Regarding Grademarking

During the past six months The Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, of Eugene and Portland, Oregon, have been pursuing a policy of only grademarking their lumber when specially requested to do so by the purchaser.

Effective August first they inaugurated an entirely new policy, that of grademarking all of their lumber except when especially requested NOT to do so by the purchaser. They have found that the demand for their grademarked lumber has progressed to such an extent as to justify this change in policy.