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(Telegram) Flouston, Texas, August 30, 1932. Greatest activity in five yedrs manifested in Yellow Pine market today. All mille.west,of River, withdrawing price lists and issuing advanced..oncs; Orders increasing daily as thousands of yards rush irr 'to puichase in face of strengthening matket while wholesalers likewise join in buying wave. Demand coverlr Southwest and Middle Vest and sweeps Eastward. Low mill stocks ,fei.ng, rapidly depleted as buyers seek to fill in lowest retail stocks in history. S6rithern hardwood demand also fat surpassing p3-gqg+t production. Red Cedar shingles enjoying boom market all prices this territory advanced thirty to forty qents [rer square in two weeks. Gteatest optimism prevails in dris lumber tertitory soaring cotton market largely responsible. +Jact< Dio:rne.
Lumber mills experienceil the most favotable ffow of new business in several months duting the week ended August 20t according to relrorts to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association from regional manufacturers associations covering tfie operations of. 624 leading hardwood and softwood mills. Orders received by these mills amounted to t44r780rOOO feetthis favorable ratio of. 32 per cent above the cut being partly accounted for by continued curtailed .production. Production was 10919561000 feet.' Shipments amounted to l73r94OrOOO feet, or 22 per cent above dre cut.
The California market showed fut[rer improvement during the past.two weeks and mill prices are firm. The retail dealers "t" or{"rittg more lumber as they feel that prices have struck bottom and they are no longer'likely to have to stand an inventory loss. Shingle prices are much stronger. unsold stocks on the public docks at San Pedro on August 24 totaled.3r398r000 feet, as compared. to 319311000 feet the previous week. Cargo amivals at San Pedro for the week ended August 20 totaled 4r494r0oo feet, which included seven cargoes of DouglEs fir carrying 315651000 feet, and four cargoes of Redwood with 9291000 feet. 44 lumbet vessels were operating in the 9{ifotnia service on August 20; 67 vessels were laid up.
Douglas Fir-A total of 321 mills reporting to the Vest Qoast Lumbemen's Association for the week ended August 20
operated at 19.9 per cent of capacity, as compared to 19.8 per cent of cepacity for t{re previous week and 35.1 per cent for the same week last year. During the week 2O7 of. these plants were reported as down and 114 as operating.
Current new business of 216 identical mills was 17.5 pet dent over production. This group repotted production approximately the same as the previous week. Shipments for the week were 21.7 pet cent over production.
Unfilled orders decreased 2rg4lroo0 feet from the previous week. New export business received during the week was 3r6861000 feet lessr. new. domestic cargo o,rders werc 2r74lr000 feet under and new rail business increased 4rlgr0o0 feet, as compared to the previous weekts business. The local trade wac 1,0511000 feet less than the volume repoited for the previous week.
For the week ending August 20, these 216 mills reported the following: Production, 4915791512 f.eet; Orders, 58'28Lr339 feet; Shipments, 60,t56,503 f.eet.
Details of orders and shipments as reported by these mills follow: Orders-Rail, 231386,246 feet; Domestic Cargo, t9rt34r160 feet; Export, 10,278'479 f.eet; Local, 5,282,454 feet. Shipments-Rail, 19 r7 41 r87 6 feet ; Domestic Cargo, 2l 17 6l r9l8 feet; Export, 1315701255 feet; Local, 512821454 f.eer'.
The Southern Pine Association for the week ended August 20 reported new business from 109 mills as 3815501000 feet; shipments 29r774rOOO feet, and production 20'004'000 feet. New business was 93 per cent above pro'duction and 29 per cent above shipments. Shipments were 49 per cent above production.
The Vestern Pine Association for the week reported new business from 113 mills as 35r9l2rOOO feet; shipments 32126r000 feet, and production 32r982rOOO fedt. New business was 9 per cent above production and 12 per cent above shipments. Shipments werc 2 per cent below production.
179 hardwood mills gave new bwiness for the same week as l0r373r000 feet, or 63 pet cent above production, and shipments 91770,000 feet, or 54 per cent above production. Ptoduction was 634510O0 feet.
"13" doesn't mean anything to Ecl. Sewarcl of the Dolbeer-Carson Lumber Company of I-os Angeles. On Saturday afternoon, August 13, he made a hole-in-one on the 13th, 110 yard, hole at the Wilshire Country Club, I os Angeles. He is gaining national prominence as a hole-in-one golfer, this being the fourth time he has made an ace shot. On January 2 of this year, he shot a hole-in-one on the 8th, 148 yard, hole on the Hollyrvood Country Club course, and prior to that date performed the same feat twice on the 16th, 140 yard, hole of this same course. Ed.'s friends are now checking up the record books to determine if he does not now hold the distinction of being the ,champion hole-inone golfer in Southern California.
Henry M. Adams has purchased the interests of the Bowers estate in the Adams-Bowers Lumber Co. at Anaheim, Calif., and will operate the yard as the Henry Adams Lumber Co. Mr. Adams has been connected with the retail lumber business in Orange county for many years and is widely known to the California lumber trade. The yard was established by the Griffith Lumber Company, and in 1921 was purchased by Mr. Adams, who was manager of the yard, together with the late A. C. Bowers, and his son, the late Elmer Bowers, and was operated as the AdamsBowers Lumber Companv.
In their advertisement in August 1 issue Strable Hardrvood Co., Oakland. stated that all evidence indicated that the bottom had been reached and passed in hardwood prices, and expressed the belief that dealers could now buy without future inventory loss.
These statements received further confirmation in a letter sent to the trade under date of August 16 by White Brothers, San Francisco. The letter, signed by C. H. White, vice-president and general manager, is headed "Now Let's 'Talk Turkey"', and states that hardwood prices are down to the levels of 1904; that Douglas Fir plywood and wallboard are at their lowest prices in history; that hardwood flooring prices are also at the lowest for 28 years, and advises the trade to buy now if they expect to need any of these items in the near future, as it is the firm's sincere belief that prices on the items mentioned have hit bottom and must go up.
Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., 606 Petroleum Securities Building, Los Angeles, and St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co., Tacoma, (A. C. Penberthy, Petroleum Securities Building, Los Angeles, Southern California representative) have recently become members of the California Wholesale Lumber Association.
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The clouds of depression are lifting. Everywhere. Every day. Stocks go up; and what was guestion mark, becomes an asset. Bonds go up; and the paper they are attached to as collateral become sound again. Cotton goes up; and one-third of the nation feels millions slipping into their pockets. Cattle, hogs, wheat, commodities of every sort, Bo up, and people begin to buy on the rise, just as they have always done. Every irnprovement brings others. The fabric from which prosperity is being created is interwoven of all business.
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More lumber is being bought in the country today than any time in three years. Not in great gobs. But everywhere there is a movement and a stirring. No one has any lumber in the distribution end of the lumber industrynationally speaking. So they all get in and buy a littlesome a lot. And the barometer of business creeps steadily upward. Everyone feels it; everyone tingles with it; and their optimism is another strengthening influence.
"rt's artificial," cries ; ;r:-rst. "rt's political manipulation," cries anpther. Foolish words ! What difrerence does it make, so long as it turns over our motor and starts it running? The very thing that you do when you turn on your switch and touch your toe to the starter of your car, is being done today in business. As your motor stands idle the motive power is all there. You have to apply the artificial stimulus of the start€r to turn it over and get it going. You don't have to keep your toe on the starter after the motor gets going.
As I write a bond salesman sits grinning at my elbow. "'W'e have more calls for bonds today than we have had in any entire .month since 1930," he says. You can't tell HIM that we aien't climbing the hill. He says that men who used to.slam the door when they saw him coming in, are asking him today-"What have you got?"
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Millions of men are going back to work in the next few weeks. Already I meet people on the street who grinningly say-"I've had my pay raised." Nothing like that has happened in a long time, but it's happening now. The mer-
chants everywhere sense the change. They are raising prices. Go into your chain drug store and find out the comparative prices of standard articles today and thirty days ago. It will surprise you. Those chain store birds are a good barometer. They have raised innumerable articles as much as twenty-five per cent-and selling them.
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The way money comes bubbling forth is impressive. And people will come out of their "huddling" in the same fashion as the upward tide develops. Don't doubt. Believe. And help. But whether you doubt, believe, or help-we are nevertheless climbing the hill today. Soon there will be no room for doubt.
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Coca Cola announces that it has "no saturation point." Huh! Didja ever spill one in your lap?
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A middle western co,ncern sold two million dollars worth of hamburgers in 1931. Goes to prove that the eternal grind will bring fortune-if not fame.
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l'There is hardly a vestige of conversation, left in America," writes a famous English critic. Say ! What is this guy -a bachelor?
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A friend of mine sends me in a new word:
BOOKSNEAF-A person who habitually borrows books from friends. A victim of the pernicious habit of carrying away books from homes-libraries-of friends-and even casual acquaintances.
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I heard a very interesting college professor talk educatiorl the other day. But he wasn't academic. He said that college teaches a young man two things, and if he learns thosti two fundamentals, he is .educated. First, it teaches hirn to live with other rnen. Second, it teaches him to think. Check, Professor ! You've done said it alt !
He wouldn't go out to meet it, like lots of wise men told him he should. He just waited patiently for his ship to come in; and when it came, it was a receiver-ship.
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OR thirty-odd years El Rey Roofing felt-the base for all El Rey Asphalt Roofing-has enioy"d an outstanding reputation for honest content and expeil manufacture. It is strong and heavy. AND IT POSSESSES AN OPEN TEXTURE THAT READILY ABSORBS ASPHALT IN SUF. FICIENT QUANTITY TO MAKE AN IDEAL BALANCE BET\TEEN THE FELT BASE AND THE SATURANT!
The asphalt compound used as the saturant must be in strict accordance with the formula of the El Rey Products Co. ft must pass precise melting point and penetration tests. High grade base and high grade saturant combined in perfect balance! That is the key to El Rey quality! You get it in El Rey Roll Roofing, El Rey Slate Surface Roofing, El Rey Shingles-every type of El Rey Asphalt Roofing!
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Time and experienge convinces us that the man with the small brain almost invariably has a big mouth; and that the man with a soul so small that it rattles round loose inside a peanut shell, is always niaking a terrible fuss about saving it. r* * rl.
And now we read in a lumber journal about a new type of wooden bridge that looks exactly like steel. And the steel people furnish a lot of stuff finished to look exactly like wood. Truly, we mortals are never satisfied with our own gifts, but always trying to ape those the Lord the other fellow.
A big corporation with thousands of employes has had great success in promoting within its own organization a "Coin Your ldeas" campaign, offering piemiums to ernployes who furnish or suggest ideas that they can use in their business. Wouldn't it be a grand and glorious thing if the lumber industry of the country could develop such a campaign? Lack of new ideas has made the lumber industry the most changeless thing since the Sphinx was modeled and set in the African desert.
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Association conducted for months a broad campaign to secure a suitable slogan that the industry might use, and as a reward for this worthy effort developed-absolutely nothing. If it had been "shoes or ships or ceiling waxl' or anything else on top of the earth that you can mention, thousands of catchy thoughts and phrases would have been offered.
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A great manufacturer of cosmetics announces that it has reduced the mid-year dividend on. its common stock in order to maintain its advertising campaign. There is an interesting thought, and will give their stockholders something to ponder over. Whether it is best to pay the full dividend and cut down the advertising, or to keep their sales effort up to full strength at the cost of part of the dividend, in the hope that by holding their sales position with the consumer they will profit the more largely when things turn back up the hill?
Not less than twenty ;J"J people committed suicide in the United States last year. A well known authority advises us of this fact, but states that continental Europe still surpasses us in that line. But Europe doesn't hold all the records. Take murder, for instance. We've,got Europe,
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Study the murder records and the various methods of handling homicides and homicide cases the world over, and you will easily discover that the homicide rate is high where punishment is doubtful, and light where punishment is swift and certain. Killings are scaroe in those portions of, the world where killers are locked up, promptly brought to justice; where the killer and not the deceased is tried i4 court; and where that horrible travesty on justice-"f thought my life was in danger"-+i-"1 5aq7 him reach for his hip pocket"-has no weight in excusing the destruction of a human life. In such parts of the world Justice rules homicide trials, and when the trial is over-Justice smiles.
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Charles Lindbergh strove so valiantly to dodge the public eye and hand, that he attained the very Nth degree of the conspicuousness he honestly sought to evade. Surely there is food there for those who think in terms of publicity. He would not talk, he would not parade, he would not be photographed, he would not be interviewed, he would not meet the public, he would not smile, he would do nothing but timidly dodge every form of publicity. And it brought him infinitely more publicity than if he had deliberately sought the limelight.
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He could have hired a publicity riran, ridden-in parades, given countlcss interviews, signed testimonials, written for the papers and magazinps, gone on the stage, and into the movies-and he never would have secured one-half the conspicuousness that his chosen and directly opposite method has brought him. If he had only known-there is a middle route that would have brought him nearer the
simple position that his heart desired. He could have accepted the inevitable attention of the nation in a MODERATE way; allowed himself to be banqueted, viewed and interviewed; accepted it all quietly and genially; and then gone about the business of living, dodging no one, hiding nowhere, just being his nice, quiet, loveable self ; settled down somewhere in a friendly neighborhood; conducted his everyday affairs in everyday fashion; and what a difference there would be in his condition and position today. He would years ago have lost every vestige of conspicuousness. flis neighbors would wave at him, as at other men, blow horns at him, as at other men; shout "fore" at him, as at other men; his children could play in his front yard, like those of the rest of the neighborhood. And perhaps now and then a neighbor might point him out to someone and say, "There's that fellow Lindbergh-you remember, don't you? He flew across the Atlantic alone one time." And that would be all.
The Federal Home Loan Bank Board has announced that the llome Loan Bank for the Twelfth District comprising California, Nevada, Arizona and Hawaii rvill be located at Los Angeles. The capital of the Los Angeles branch will be $10,000,000. The estimated total of home mortgages in the district is $650,000,000. Chairman Franklin W. Fort of the Home Loan Bank Board has set October l5 for starting operation of the system.
Other Home Loan Banks will be located at Cambridge, Mass., Newark, N. J., Pittsburgh, Pa., Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Cincinnati, Ohio, Indianapolis, Ind., Evanston, Ill., Des Moines, Iowa, Little Rock, Ark., Topeka, Kansas, and Portland, Oregon.
Daylight robberies have recently been committed at the Bauer Lumber Company, Compton, and the Osbeck Lumber Company, at Encinitas. These burglaries have both been made under the same. circumstances when the manager stepped out into the yard with a prospective customer leaving the office unoccupied. It is believed that an organized gang is working this racket, timing their visits when only one person is at the yard and should he leave the office, they immediatety enter ancl rob the cash register.
The Hammond Lumber Company is manufacturing at their Los Angeles plant a Monoplane Surfboard that is very popular with bathers at the various beaches. The sufboards are 16 inches wide and 5 feet long, and made of 1x6 inch clear redwood boards glued with a waterproof glue that stands all the elements. The boards are furnished both in attractive red and yellow colors. The follorving instructions on how to use the surfboards accompany each board:
"Ride the rvaves ! Grasp the surfboard about l8 inches from the rear end; keep your body weight on the rear third or half of the board-never further forward. Your head rvill then be at about the middle point of the board, or slightly ahead of it. Keep nose of board up; you can do this by pressing the rear down with your hands. Don't get any rveight, or put any pressure, on the front half of the board. You can thus avoid nose dives, and prevent the front end sticking in the sand in shallow water with consequent ramming of board against 4bdomen or legs. Wait for the wave, holding the board at an angle with the rear end alongside of you (not pressed against your body in front). Shove off with a spring just before the crest of the rvave reaches you, then slide the board under you, and vou can ride dozens of yards in to shore."
The state directors of the California Retail Lumber Association held a business session at Santa Barbara. Calif.. on Sattrrday, August 27.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 9.-The Census Bureau report of. 691 identical sawmills reporting lumber production for l93l and 1930, indicates total lumber production in the United States last year of approximately 16l billion feet compared with 26 billion feet in 1930 and nearly 37 billion leet in t9D.
The 1930 reports of. 691 mills (mostly the larger mills) show 58 per cent of the total cut of all mills that year. The 1931 reports show 33.5 per cent decline as compared with 1930. On this basis, the 1931 production would be L7,367; 000,000 feet but the Census Bureau states that it is likely that the percentage of decrease in the total production of the country in 1931 was larger than shown by the 691 reporting mills since a larger proportion of the small mills than of the large ones were idle in 1931. In 1930 the production of small mills (those cutting less than 5 billion feet each) was about 25 per cent of the total cut.
The Federal Reserve Board some months ago estimated lumber production in 1930 as 16,400,000,000 feet, which assuming a larger decline in the aggregate output of the small mills than of the large ones, would be an approximately accurate estimate in the light of the recent identical mill report.
The decline of 33.5 per cent which the Census Bureau shows in the production of the 691 mills is within less than one per cent of the percentage of decline which the National Lumber Trade Barometer published by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association showed for 1931 as compared with 1930. On the basis of the first six months reports for 1932, and the percentage of decrease of the National Lumber Trade Barometer's figures as compared with the first six months of 1930, the 1932 production of the United States will be less than 1O billion feet, assuming some further curtailment in the small mill cut over that of the large mills.
In 1889, the lumber production of the United States is given by the Census Bureau as 18 billion feet; in 1879. as 12,755,000,000 feet. In no intervening years from 18'89 on. has it fallen below 20 billion feet.
Following are the identical mill reports just issued by the Census Bureau:
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Washington, August l5.-Notwithstanding a drop in prices of over forty per cent and a decrease of two-thirds in demand since 1929, the lurnber industry is slowly but surely putting its house in order but needs primarily to continue drastic policies of restraint practiced in by most units of the industry during the past year and a half, according to the lates! quarterly report to the U. S. Timber Conservation Board by its special Lumber Survey Committee.
fn accordance with previous recommendations of the Committee, surplus stocks have been reduced more than four billion feet since the peak in the latter part of 1930, it is pointed out. This would have been adequate to balance demand and supply under more favorable circumstances, but the continued drop in demand from an annual requirement of 35.5 billion feet in 1929 to an indicated annual rate of 12.4 billion in the first six months of 1932 indicates need for further reductions in surplus stocks.
The Committee recommends reductions to the extent of 3/a billion feet. As one means to this end it urges avoiding unnecessary production of items already in surplus and the pooling and exchange of stocks and consolidation of sales. It further recommends, as an emergency measure, devising of regional plans for common management of principal operating properties, not to the exclusion, however, of wisely planned regional consolidation, where practicable, of timber ownerships and operations as previously recommended by the Committee. The Committee also suggests the possibility of securing needed credit, in connection with plans for control of production and distribution, through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Present price levels threaten industry solvency and the soundness of individual concerns unless a continued policy of restraint is followed, the Committee reports, in urging banks to avoid forcing lumber company patrons to liquidate on an indifferent market. In this connection the report says:
"The financial soundness and, to a substantial extent, the ultimate solvency generally of the individual lumber companies largefy depend upon tlg effectiveness of present efforts at industry.stabilization and folthe restoration of lumber consumption. The banks should, we believe, refrain, from encouraging or facilitating additional or new production of lumber for which there is no market; and in general should avoid forcing the liquidation of lumber stocks with the resulting inevitable impairment of capital assets. The stability and financial security of the industry and of individual manufacturer will be substantially aided by reasonable encouragement on the part of the banks to their lumber company patrons to follow the course of action, with respect to production and stocks, recommended bv the Timber Conservation Board."
The Committee reiterates the warning contained in the recent report of the U. S. Timber Conservation Board against the present uneconomic method of taxing standing timber as a land improvement and thus forcing its liquida- tion. Suggesting the preferable substitution of .,an equitable system of income or yield taxation for the present prevailing system of property taxation," it says:
"This fact should be directed to the attention of state authorities in confirmation of the imperative need of concerted action, in the principal timber states, to secure such modification of systems of timber taxation as will efiectively avoid the pressure to premature liquidation of standing timber."
It is further recommended that the survey activities of the committee in the interest of economic stabilization of the industry be continued. The Lumber Survey Committee rvas appointed by the Timber Conservation Board on July 9, 1931, and consists of Thomas S. Holden, economist, F. W. Dodge Company, New York; Dr. Frank M. Surface, Assistant Director, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce; M. W. Star, lumber and coal economist, Columbus, Ohio; Calvin Fentress, President, Baker, Fentress & Company, Chicago; and Wilson Compton, secretary and manager, National Lumber Manufacturers Association. The committee serves voluntarily in cooperation with the work of the Board in its study of the economic situation in the forest products industries and makes its reports to Secretary of Commerce Lamont, as Chairman of the U. S. Timber Conservation Board.
Recreational visitors to the 150 national forests in the United States during 1931 totaled 8,073,917 actual users of the forests and 24,154,696 transient travelers, a grand total of. 32,228,613 people, according to report just issued by the U. S. Forest Service. Of this total number, D,836,412 or 92 per,cent were motorists.
California's national forests lead all States in recreational use with a grand total of 17,454,748 visitors, of which 3,992,64O were actual users and 13,62,18 transient motorists. The San Bernardino and Angeles National Forests in southern California were the most popular mountain playgrounds, with 1,684,000 and, 1,125,@4 forest users, respectively. The most popular northern California forests were the Tahoe, 155,400 visitors; Sequoia, 133,950; and Eldorado, lI2,7S0 visitors.
Washington, August 10.-More wages are paid to the lumber and timber products industry in California than to any other manufacturing industry, according to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. The petroleum refining industry, which in California'in 1929, reported value of products as seven times that of the lumber industry, paid only half the wages, and the canning and preserving industry, with a larger number of wage earners than any other industry, ,paid about 70 per cent of the wages paid in sawmills and logging operations.
In 1929 the lumber and timber products industry reported 2t,822 wage earners (ranking second in the state after the canning industry) ; 932,465,4O4 wages paid, and $65,197,608 value of products. Planing mills not ,connected with sawmills employed, 7,159 men, paid $11,087,017 in w'ages and reported value of products as $50,562,173.
Reported lumber production in California to the U, S. Census Bureau reached its highest in 1926, when 2,187,959,000 feet were cut in 180 mills; 1923 was the next highest year. Lumber production in 1929 was 2,063,229,000 feet, reported by 169 mills, and in 1930, 1,5L4,263,W feet, reported by 155 mills, including one mill from Nevada each year. Of the 1930 production, 400,108,000 feet, or 26 per cent, was of redwood; 844,206,ON feet, or 56 per cent of pine (Ponderosa and sugar pine) ;244,031,W feet, or 16 per cent of fir (Douglas and white); 25,104,00O feet, or 2 per cent, cedar; only 325,000 feet, hardwoods (cottonwood).
California is a state of large sawmills. Of the 155 mills reporting in 1930, seven cut more than 50,000,000 feet each; 26 cut from 15,000,000 to 50,000,000 feet each; 39 cut from 1,000,000 to 15,000,000 feet each, and 83 cut less than 1,000,000 feet each. California is next after Washington and Oregon in number of mills cutting over 50,0@,000 feet each. Nearly one-half of the lumber consumed in wood-using industries of California in 1928 was in wooden box manufacture. Sash and doors and planing mill products consumed about 40 per cent. Car construction and furniture
are also important wood-using industries of the state. In 1930, California was the fourth state in shingle manufacture; in 1929, the third, being exceeded by Washington and Oregon.
Of California's domestic distribution of lumber, approximately 65 per cent is moved to points within the state; lO per cent goes to the four states of Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin; 7 per cent to New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania, and 6 per cent to Missouri, Texas and Oklahoma.
About eight per cent of the total softwood freight bill of the country is paid on lumber shipped to California. New York and Illinois are the only states, according to the U. S. Forest Service, whose softwood lumber receipts show higher total transportation costs.
Of total lumber sales by California sawmills in l9D, of 1,617,265,W feet, valued at $49,693,000, 43.6 per cent is reported by the Census Bureau as made through wholesalers and commission houses; 23.3 per cent through retailers; 19.5 per cent to manufacturers;4.4 per cent for export; and 9.2 per cent through all other agencies, including 4.6 per cent local sales.
T. P. Hogan, Jr., president of the Hogan Lumber Co., Oakland, doesn't believe in losing any time when he decides to go hunting. He recently flew from Oakland in company wi(h Dr. F. M. Shook to hunt deer on the Eden Valley Ranch, which is 35 miles northeast of Willits. The plane in which the trip was made is owned by Dr. Shook, who is a prominent Oakland physician and an experienced aviator. The journey, which takes eight hours by automobile, was made in I hour, 35 minutes. The Glenn Valley Ranch is a 33,000 acre cattle ranch, owned by the Henshaw family, who are closely identified with the Riverside Portland Cement Co.
The best recent story going the rounds in financial circles is that of the Arizona Indian who went into a bank near the rescrvation and asked for a loan of two hundred dollars.
"What have you got for security, Chief?" asked the banker.
"Me got two hundred ponies," replis6 the Indian, whereat the proper papers were made out giving the ponies as security for the loan, and the Indian took his two hundred dollars and left.
J. H. Bloedel, president of the Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills, Seattle,'Wash., was a recent visitor at the company's Los Angeles office where he conferred with J. H. Prentice, the company's Southern California representative. Mr. Bloedel also spent a ferv days in San Francisco on business.
W. B. Wickersham, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is back at his desk follorving a rveek's vacation spent in the High Sierra. Mrs. Wickersham, and their son, Bailey, accompanied him on the trip.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Koll of Los Angeles, have returned from a five rveeks' honeymoon trip spent in the Northwest where they visited the many points of interest in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. Mr. Koll married Miss Leila Blackwell of Los Angeles on June 27. He is connected rvith the A. J. Koll Planing Mill Co. of Los Angeles.
Sixty days later the note was due, and the Indian walked in, hauled out a roll of bills containing several trhousand dollars, peeled off a couple of centuries, and paid the note, then stuck the roll back in his pocket and started out of the bank.
"ltrfait a minute, Chief," said the banker, "how about letting us kcep that roll for you?"
The Indian stopped, thought seriously for a moment, and then asked:
"You got any ponies?"
Harry E. West of Los Angeles, who recently underwent an operation at the Angelus hospital, is convalescing nicely and expects to be back again on his territory soon. Mr. West is a representative for the Bookstaver-Burns Lumber Co., of Los Angeles.
Lumbermen n'ho recently visited San Francisco included the follorving: R. O. Deacon, Deacon Lumber Co., Lemoore; Carl Hagge, Superior Lumber & Fuel Co., Sacramento; John Ross, Ross Lumber Co., Modesto, and Chas. G. Bird, Stockton Lumber Co., Stockton.
W. G. Kahman, district sales manager, Shevlin Pine Sales Company, San Francisco, visited the company's Los Angeles office during the month of August. Accompanied by L. S. Turnbull, the company's Southern California and Arizona representative, they spent several days calling on the trade.
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A 50,000 case apple storage plant recently completed in Watsonville was insulated with Palco Redrvood Bark Fibre, and a 25,000 case plant norv under construction there rvill also be insulated rvith this material, according to a statement by Edric E. Brown, in charge of the by-products division of The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco.
Mr. Brown says the owner of a Marysville apartment house, the roof of which was insulated'a felv months ago rvith Redwood Bark, declared after the recent hot spell, rvhich he considered a real test, that he rvouldn't sell the material used in this insulation job for three times rvhat it cost him if he was unable to replace it.
The company wishes to drarv the attention of all lumber dealers to the fact that they have a fine chance to make profits on sales of this material, which has a place in refrigeration of all kinds, and in most kinds of construction- They rvill gladly give dealers all possible assistance in making sales.
Chds. B. Lyons, Hammond Lumber Companl', Los Angeles, was the lolv gross rvinner at the Orange County Lumbermen's golf tournament held at the Hacienda Country Club, Whittier, on 'Wednesday afternoon, August 17. D. E. Liggett, Santa Ana retail dealer, rvon the lorv net prize. R. E. Hostetler, Costa Mesa Lumber Co., Costa Mesa, and Art Kelly, Brorvn & Dauser Co., Fullerton, tied for blind bogey honors.
The following took part in the tournament: Bob Leishman, W. Wright, S. R. Larabee, A. C. Baker, D. E. Liggett, W. A. Godshall, C. B. Lyons, A. J. Kelly, G. G. YounC, W. Muchenthaler, W. B. Koehler, R. M. Mack, R. E. Hostetler, C. C. Barr, R. E. Servard, E. Steffensen, and Ed. Martin. The prize winners were awarded golf balls donated b1' the Schumacher Wall Board Corporation.
Ed Peggs, sales manager of W. R. Chamberlin & Co., San Francisco, returned recently from a week's trip to Portland and Marshfield.
Effective August 15, the Sones Lumber Co. took over the Valley Lumber Company yard at El Centro, Calif. The Sones Lumber Company, rvhose headquarters are at El Centro, will be moved to the present quarters of the Valley Lumber Company rvith Charles E. Sones in charge of the business. The Valley Lumber Company was established in 1903, and J. S. Jones, who rvas manager and part owner of the business, will devote much of his time to the interests of the Imperial Valley Building Association of which he rvas the organizer and is at present secretary of the organization.
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Seattle, Washington, August ll.-Trustees of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, in a meeting at Tacoma, during the week directed that a careful study be made.by the Association, in cooperation rvith other interested agencies, of the possibilities of some gradual and equitable application of the yield tax on commercial timber in the Douglas fir region.
This action.is in line with the recommendation of the United States Timber Conservation Board released last week to the public and with a condition long recognized in the northwest as one of the causes of over-production in lumber and instabilitv in the lumber industry.
In its instruction to the Association, the Board emphasized the serious difficulties in adopting the yield tax on commercial timber lands, due to the fact that any such undertaking must fairly provide for the usual revenue needs of timber counties and for the equities of other groups of tax-payers. The West Coast Lumbermen's Association will not recommend any application of a yield tax unless it is satisfied, after full study, that the particular application meets these requirements.
The Board believes the time is ripe for a thorough study of the possibilities of a yield tax for the follorving reasons:
1. Public recognition, through the Timber Conservation Board has been given to the fact, long known to lumbermen and county officials, that the prevailing tax system is a source of over-production in lumber and of financial demoralization rvithin the industry.
2. Over-production and demoralization bring rvith them wholesale unemployment and serious difficulties to lumber communities; and
3. Delinquency of timber taxes is also becoming a serious problem along the West Coast. The effect of non-tax payments by timber-owners on local revenues is not 1'et known but it will undoubtedly add to the difficult problem of how to conserve the public revenue from timber resources.
The West Coast Lumbermen's Association does not knorv that the yield tax system is the answer to the present and future economic problems of the industry in Washington and Oregon, but it does believe the yield tax system, in line with the recommendation of the Federal Timber Conservatlon Board, should be carefully examined. Perhaps the yield tax contains the answer.
The study will be undertaken immediately by the Association staff under the direction of Colonel W. B. Greeley, Secretary-Manager.
Following is a statement of the timber taxation situation in the United States and a recommendation for consideration by states of yield tax by the Timber Conservation Board.
Memorandum: Recommendation on "Taxation of Timber" made public by the Timber Conservation Board, Washington, D. C., August t, 1932. (This is one of several recommendations in the particular report.)
"The present and prospective annual burden of taxation on mature standing timber distinct from the land upon which it grows is the most important single present factor forcing the sale or cutting of timber without due regard to the current market demand for forest products. This condition is basic and its adverse effect cumulative. It is not a result of the general depression; nor will it be corrected by general economic recovery. Its economic importance varies widely between regions and between individual ownerships in each region. But it has becorne a controlling factor in a sufficient proportion of timber ownerships to efrect and to involve the entire range of forest products industries.
"The present and future security of private ownership of merchantable standing timber as well as the maintenance of reasonably current balance between production and consumption of forest products, requires the substitution, in the principal timber states, of an equitable system of income or yield taxation for the present prevailing system of property taxation.
"Forest taxation, as generally in effect in the United States, also constitutes a major obstacle to the practice of forestry on private lands in that it effectually discourages the methods of cutting and silvicultural and protective measures necessary to keep forest lands continually productive.
"It is not practicable or necessary that the Timber Conservation Board seek to formulate in detail the sound and practicable methods of taxation most desirable in each State or in each locality or under all circumstances. The Congress of the United States, recognizing the magnitude and seriousness of this problem, has provided for a thorough nationwide study of forest taxation principles and practicable methods of application by regions and under varying conditions. This study is now under way and nearing completion through the,Forest Taxation Inquiry of the U. S. Forest Service.
"Accordingly, it is recommended that the earnest consideration of the principal states be invited to the public need of such modification of present prevailing methods of timber taxation; that the Forest Service be urged to make available at the earliest practicable time the conclusions and recommendations resulting from its investigations in this critical economic problem; and that consideration be given to the possible desirability and the practicability of enlisting concerted State interest and securing concerted
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Henry Fiske Faull, sales manager of the Hammond Lumber Company, San Franeisco, died suddenly from a heart attack while on a hunting trip in the mountains east of Merced in Inyo County, Tuesday, August 23. Mr. Faull and his party, which included Ralph P. Duncan, general manager of the Merced Lumber Co., Merced, left on Friday, August 19, for Crystal Crag, with the intention of packing into the high Sierra from that point. It was necessary to bring the body out on a pack horse for 2O miles to the automobile road-
Mr. Faull was one of the best known lumbermen on the Pacific Coast, and he had a host of friends all over the country. He had always enjoyed the best of health and his passing was a great shock to all who knew him.
He was born in San Francisco August 10, 1879, and was in the service of the }lammond Lumber Company for 30 years. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Maude S. Faull; one daughter, Mrs. Helen Faull Lueschner, of New York; trvo sisters, Mrs. Joseph Gerould and Mrs. Willard O. Wayman, and a brother, John A. Faull. The funeral service, held on Friday morning, August 26, was attended by a large and most representative gathering of lumbermen.
Max Cook, Oakland, Calif., was a recent Los Angeles visitor where he spent several days on business.
Hugh W. Handley, sales manager of Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned August 14 from Los Angeles where he attended the Olympic Games. Mr. Handley was particularly interested in the diving and swimming events, and reports that much interest was manifested by swimming coaches from all over the world, as lvell as by the competitors in the Brandsten International and Intercollegiate Official Spring Board used in the diving events. This board with its new fulcrum equipment is manufactured and sold exclusively by Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co. The new adjustable fulcrum, invented by Ernie Brandsten, head coach of the American Olympic diving team, adjusts the amount of spring a diver desires in a board, and the diver adjusts it by turning a wheel with his foot.
The Gieb Lumber Co. has moved its San Gabriel yard to its nerv location at 6ffi444 South San Gabriel boulevard on property owncd by the firm; the lease on the old site expiring this month. Claude Wilson is manager of the San Gabriel yard. The Gieb Lumber Co. head offices are at Huntington Park, Calif.
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State action through a conference of the Governors of the principal timber States.
Actio,n Recommended:
(a) Consideration by principal timber States to the need for modification of timber taxation.
(b) Prompt and wide-spread release of the Forest Service Inquiry;
(c) Consideration of a Conference of Governors. By Whom:
(a) Timber States;
(b) Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture;
(c) The President of the United States."
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Seattle, Wash., August lt, 1932.:the month of July Marked a slight improvement in the condition of the lumber industry, according to a summary by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. A somewhat better situation is attributed to sales and shipments being considerably greater than production during the month, inventories decreasing and unfilled orders climbing.
During July mills in the Douglas fir region reported sales at 127 per cent of their production; shipments at nearly 116 per cent of the cut; inventories decreased 2.6 per cent; and the unfilled order file increased more than 2O per cent. Inventories are 12.2 per cent less than at this time last year and stocks are becoming more poorly assorted.
Operations at the close of the month rvere at t9.2 per cent of capacity compared with an average of.23.I per cent since January 1. Of the 321 mills reporting during the latest week, 211 were down and 110 were operating.
The lumber trad.e of the area is feeling somewhat better because of the statistical improvement and the belief that the federal home loan bank system will lead to a revival of small house construction in many areas. With lumber and some other building costs at the lowest levels in twenty years and land for building greatly depreciated, the lumber industry is anticipating construction of homes as soon as a bottom is placed in the mortgage market.
Advices from sellers to the West Coast Association are to the effect that the lumber tariff of $3.00 imposed by the recent Congress with the added $1.00 countervailing on rough lumber has practically eliminated British Columbia mills from the California and Atlantic Coast water trades. The business formerly going to the Canadian producers in these trades is now being taken by Washington and Oregon mills and accounts for some of the recent improvement.
The London Timber Trades Journal of July 30 states in part in an editorial concerning British lumber consumption-Another month's consumption of the comparatively light stocks of European softwoods in England will bring supply and demand into nearer relationship and even if prices do not advance, there ought to be more business at current figures.
The editorial continues to say that:-not nearly so much European softwood lutnber has been sold as usual to France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, or Spain and stocks are very light in those countries. The London Journal states that if importers on the Continent begin to replenish their stocks, the reaction would at once be felt in England.
Fred V. Holmes, sales manager, Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., San Francisco, has returned from a hunting trip in Mendocino County. He reports having had a very pleasant time and considerable success.
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Washington, D. C., August n.-A protest against shipments of Russian lumber, reported by the Department of Commerce as being des'cribed as "Douglas Fir", has been lodged with the Bureau of Insular Affairs, War Department, by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. It was pointed out to officers of the Bureau that Douglas fir grows only in the Western United States and the species of fir produced in Russia compares unfavorably with Douglas fir in strength, durability and other important qualities. From the Association's standard set of commercial woods, blocks were shown to these officers demonstrating the distinct difference in quality between Douglas fir and the fir probably being offered by the Soviets. In the interest of the trade and for the protection of consumers, the Bureau was asked to communicate with the government of the Philippines urging it to take steps to prevent any effort of importers to sell the Russian wood as Douglas fir.
Reports to the Department of Commerce are to the effect that the Russians have offered large quantities of their fir .as low as $14 and $16 per thousand board feet. This would be well below quotations on any other lumber, domestic or imported.
The Philippine Bureau of Forestry has asked the local legi.slature for increased duties on all lumber imports into the Islands as a measure of opposition to the proposed Russian dumping.
The N. L. M. A. protest includes these paragraphs:
"Although the fact has not been confirmed, it is likely that the Russian lumber entering the Philippines comes from Siberia. There is no Douglas fir or any other species directly comparable with Douglas fir produced in Siberia. In fact, Douglas fir grows only in western United States and Canada. The principal softwoods produced in Siberia are pine, spruce, and two species of "true firs". The true firs compaie with "white fir" produced on the Pacific Coast of the United States, and are not comparable with Douglas fir for purposes where either strength or resistance to rot and decay are demanded; in fact, they are not suitable for such purposes. Douglas fir produced in the United States is particularly satisfactory for such purposes, so the misrepresentation of true fir as Douglas fir is grossly unfair. "Freight rates on lumber from the West Coast of the United States to the Philippines range from $11 to $15 per thousand feet. The impossibility of competition with lumber sold and delivered in the Philippines at from $l'1 to $16 per thousand feet is obvious."
Archie Bingham, of Bakersfield, has been appointed manager of the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. yard at Oceanside, Calif. He succeeds Jack Galbraith who has acted as mahager of the yard for the past two years. Mr. Galbraith has been appointed.riranager of the company's yard at Yuma, Arizona.
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The Rossman Mill & Lumber Co., Wilmington, Calif., has opened a yard at Long Beac[ at the location formerly occupied by the Coast Lumber Company. The yard will be under the management of Arthur Turner who has been associated with the Rossman Mill & Lumber Co. for the past several years.
John A. Howatt, sales manager of White Brothers, hardwood dealers, San Francisco, left August 13 for a month's trip to Eastern points. Mr. Howatt will combine business and pleasure on this trip and will visit a number of the hardwood producing centers on his way back from New York. He was accompanied by Mrs. Howatt.
Ralph E. Bacon, salesman for Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, sailed recently via the Panama Canal for a three months'trip to Europe. He will tour several of the European countries and will visit the battlefields in France rvhere he fought in 1918. He may decide to go all the way around the world, in which case he will be gone six months.
: At the semi-annual meeting of the Western Pine Association held at the Portland Hotel, Portland, Oregon, on .Thu/sday, August ll; the program recommended by the ;Economics Committee w1gra.dopted. The varioui sections qf the program were outlinia. "na discussed by Maj. David T. Mason, ?nanager of,the,Association. The treasurer's re4iort was made by C. L- .Isted. President B. W. Lakin bresided at the meeting.
Wilron Compton, Natiohal Lumber Manufacturers As- 'stociation; W. Bi Greeley, West Coast Lumbermen's Association; F. H. Morrill, Assistant Forrester, U. S. Forest '$ervice; John C. Merriam, National Timber Conservation Board, and W. C. Ruegnitz, Four.L Organization, also addressed the meeting
, In presenting the report of the Economics Committee, j. P. Weyerhaeuser, chairman, said:
, , "In the world at large we appear to be in a period of tiansition from the older order of things of the days before the war, to something new, we do not know just what. We see in Europe the experiments of fascism in Italy, com,munism in Rugsia,,the dole in England, and a more chaotic situation in some other countries. We see disorder in the Orient; in those courrtries with enormous masses of population, China and India. There is unrest in South American countries. Australia has gotten into financial difficulties through its social experiments. In our own country, also, we have a "noble experiment", which does not seem to be Working out well; but here there are problems of much greater importance than prohibition, such as employment and taxation. We are ip a pgriod of transition. To what kind of new epoch it is leading we cannot be sure, but we may be reasonably sure that it will not be an improvement tipon former conditions if we merely fuinble. 'We can p,robably crpate an improved general situation if we can firrget narrow individualism, stop drifting, use' our brains f6r thorough planning and cooperate in carrying out sou.r.r{ plans.
,i "h the lumber induqtry. "plpp.wq are. going through a ,period of ,'terrific stormtatd'sttess. Ifere also we are passihg into a new epoch. The.belief in.an.approachirtg timber bfrortage, whlch sustained'ind enhaiiced timber values for !o mqny years, is about dernolished. We mu,St put ilew and safe foundations under our ihausiry. Many have been etudying the affairs of our industry, and have been makingfecommendations. The most notable study and set of rec<immendations for our industry yet made is that of the Timber Conservatign Board.
. "With these general recommendations before us, it has deemed desirable, from the point of view of the western pine lndustry, to study the situation thoroughly; to reach agreelnent as to which are our really vital problems; to agree
upon sound solutions for those problems and especially to select or devise machinery for applying efiectively the solutions to the problems.
"fn the past it has seemed that we have had too strong a tendency toconsider first this suggestion, and then that one,. to half forget some valuable recommendations while temporarily attending to others. Apparently we have failed to map out the job as a whole and to develop and agree upon a program covering all important needs-a fully balanced program. It is the purpose of the Economics Committee to present a program giving a birds-eye-view showing practi,cally at a glance (1) the vital problems, (2) the sound '.solutions, and (3) the machinery showing r,vhat we have to do and how to do it.
"Our committee in working rvith these problems had a feeling that in the past it has too often been the tendency to seek a solution for a given problem, and then in efiect to assume that the solution once found would apply itself, and the problem would be solved. Now we realize that a solution to any problem is of no use whatever unless we make sure that we have the right machitrery, with sufficient power to put the solution into efiect, and then see to it that the machinery acually works. In our Western Pine Association, and in similar associations in the industry, we already have this machinery, which constitutes such government as the industry has. We need a more effective, stronger government, and for the purpose we must strengthen our trade associations. In addition, it is clearly essential that there be strong cooperation between various economic groups, such as the lumber industry, banking, railroads, farming, mining, etc. For this inter-economic g'roup cooperation there must be built up effective machinery.
"T[e Economics Committee recommends for your adoption this broad program for our industry. This program is by ng.mehqs a-final finished job. We believe that it does set up as it is a sound frame work into which the essential detail rnay',be built, The more important of this detail 'we have indicg!!4:.,Tle program to be effective $,rust be p.living ,'thing,.to'be.,improved and adjusted to meet circumstances as w.g,gg,?lo"ng. It must be revised and adjusted tq permit effcctive'cooperation with other groups.
. ' "The committeem_en !p. approaching thiS work have tried 'to forget ti\eir individual interests and formulate a program w\!ch recognizes the interests of (1) the owners, (2) the 'employees, (3) the management of our industry, and finally, (4) the pubiic. We qsk that you also take this point of view."
The program adopted follows:
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ITalker & Eisen, architects, used moulded casing-trim for the corridor door openings of the Beverly - ITilshire ApartmentHotel at Los Angeles. The typical unit here illustrated is of Philippine, stained dark red.
Fluted pilaster casings and ornamental cap-trim form a delightful frame for this interior doorway in a private residence at Santa Monica. Jambs, trim and door are Sugar Pine, enameled finish. William E. Flannery, architectl Julia Morgan, associate.
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Upon Recommendation U "t";lll3;r Committec
a-Sawmill production control-present method unstable-temporary.
b-Timber control-fundamental-long time.
l. Readjust tax burden-see 4 below.
2. Sustained yield forest management, which automatically limits annual cut to capacity of forest units to produce continuously,
(a) Apply to all publicly owned or controlled forest land.
(b) Apply to private forest land so far as practicable. Increase practicability by (l) mergers, (2) economic selective logging, (3) timber tax reform, (4) improved protection, and especially (5) management of public timber in cooperation with private for this purpose.
(c) Extend public ownership of forest land by exchange, purchase, holding tax title land, etc. Do this with main purpose of bringing all forest land under sustained yield management (l) directly in public ownership, or (2) in private ownership assisted to such management as indicated in b-2-(b)-(5) above.
a-Pro4uct inrproved to meet competition bV (l) identification by species, grade and trade marking, (2) strict conformance to grade standards, (3) grade name revisior4 (4) proper seasoning with reasonable dryness standards as soon as practicable, (5) lumber inspection system co-ordinated by inter-regional conferences, (6) meeting consumer requtrements.
b-Improved marheting nethode, including (1) concentration of sales by mergor., sales agencies, elimination multiple representation in given market, (2) larger expendi- tures to improve results, (3) observance code lumber trade practice, with improve- ment of code, car cards, etc.
c-Treda promotion, including rclelrch, to meet competition. General tax reduction to encourage home building and farm construction; home financing. Development new products, new uses old products, etc.
a-Adjurt hours worL per week to produce to balance with market demand while employing full normal personnel
b-Minimum wagc rtandardr.
c-As safety valve-long time government planaing and budgeting, with central control of public construction.
d-Sustained yield forest management to improve and stabilize labor conditions.
a-Secure generat tax.reduction through government economy, eliminatingiunnecessary governmental activities and machinery, increasing efficiency, adjusting salaries and wages to changing conditions.
b-General tax reform to distribute burden equitably-especially relieve real estate by transferring burden largely to other forms of taxation.
c-Timber land tax reform-substitute yield tax.
a--4eneral reduction lumber ratcr accordance present W. C. L. A. and W. P. A.
b-Indreare r:ailroad net income and so reducc all rates bv:
l. Removal of U. S, as competitor, direct or indirect.
2. Public regulation of competing transport facilities.
3. Repeal portions of law imposing unreasonable economic burdens.
4. Reduction of taxes on railroads (a) by general reduction and (b) by equitable shift of taxation-especially to competitors.
c-Secure equitable rates on lumber compared other commodities.
a-By increasing or decreasing existing protection secure balancc of expected bencfitr. co3t against
b-q. S. pay 50Vo, state 25Vo and owner 25Vo tor protection private forest land.
c-Promote sustained yield forest managem€nt, automatically improving protection.
7 UNFAVORABLE a-To meet sound criticism: PUBLIC ATTI- l. Sustained yield forest management. TUDE TOWARD
2. Economic selective logging, protecting residual stands. LUMBER
b-To meet unjustified criticism, educate public as to facts.
Machinery to rtudy, aolvc, and efrectively apply rolutionr to problems of mutual interest:
3. MACHINERY
Letters beloui indicate several kinds machinery defined at bottom or page.
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A-Lumber induetry coopcration-present system _which includes : (a) western pine industry cooperation through W. P. A.; (b) sales managers conferences-sectional, regional, national; (c) cooperation W. P. A. witti 4L; with Pacific Division-National Box, with W. C. L. A., with N. L. M. A., etc.
B-Intcr-economic Group Cooperation-, would include coopcration of organized unitr of lumber induetry (companies, regional associations, N. L. M. A., etc.) with similar units of other economic groupr such as railroads, banks, farming, mining, etc.
C-Public cooperation-incl_udqs cooperation ol_ olelnized t'lits -of lumber industry with organized units representing public, such as counties, states, IJ. S. Forest Service, U. S. Indian Service, U. S. Timber Conservation Board, etc.
To promote effective operation of above machinery this program urges:
l. Modification anti-trust laws permitting (under appropriate federal supervision) atreements to regulate production; and
2. Legislation authorizing (under appropriate federal supervision) indurtrial eelf-government, whereby an appropriate part of any -given industry (or logical sub-division thereof) may adopt rules of practice binding upon the entiie industry (or sub-division).
August, 1932
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Washington, August 23.-Carl L. Hamilton, vice-president and secretary of General Timber Service, Inc., of the Weyerhaeuser interests, has accepted his appointment by the directors of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association as chairman of the Trade Extension Committee of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.
E. L. Kurth, vice-president and general manager of the Angelina County Lumber Company, Keltys, Texas., has accepted the post of vice-chairman of the same committee.
Mr. Hamilton has been for a number of years the advertising and merchandising executive of the Weyerhaeuser interests and has rendered splendid service for several years as a member of the trade extension and publicity committees of the National Lumbgr Manufacturers Association. He is deeply interested in lumber trade extension efforts and considers tlrat group effort is indispensable no matter how active individual manufacturers may be in their own promotion work.
Mr. Kurth, in addition to his connection with the Angelina County Lumber Company, is president of the Angelina Hardwood Company. He is director of Longleaf Yellow Pine, Inc., New Orleans, and is an outstanding citizen of Lufkin, Texas, which is the banking center for the Keltys region. He is interested in three or four smaller lumber companies and is an active member of the Texas Forestry Association. He is chairman of the trade extension committee of the Southern Pine Association, and thus brings current experience and understanding of association trade extension problems to his new position.
Arthur E. Twohy, president of the Twohy Lumber Company, Los Angeles, will have four of his ancient "horseless carriages" in the moving picture, "The Conquerors," which the R-K-O studio is now shooting. They include a lXJ2 Pierce Arrow, 1907 Buick. 1912 Stevens Duryea and 1913 Cadillac coupe. Richard Dix, Ann Harding and Edna Mae Oliver are among the film celebrities who are appearing in the cast.
Mr. Twohy's hobby is collecting old automobiles and in his collection he has many prize specimens that have appeared in moving pictures in the past. Several of his ancient machines have been loaned to the Los Angeles Museum at Exposition Park.
W. F. Baird has been appointed sales manager of Michigan-California Lumber Co., Camino. Mr. Baird was formerly general sales manager of the Madera Sugar Pine Lumber Co., Madera.
I3uilding permits in 559 cities and towns of the United States during the month of July, 1932, amounted to $32,506,956, according to official reports made to S. W. Straus & Co. This figure represents a 14.2 per cent decline from June, 1932, when the volume of these cities was $37,901,513. Permits issued during July, 1932, fell 72.3 per cent below the same month of 1931.
California ranked third among the twelve leading states in building for July, 1932, with a total of $3,067,966. New York was first with a total of $7,509,486, while Massachusetts was second with a total of $3,232,658. Los Angeles was seventh among the cities of the country with a total of $1,011,811, San Francisco was tenth with a total of $616,1109, and Portland, Ore., was twenty-fourth with a total of $211,335.
Twenty-five cities reporting the largest volume of building permits for July, 1932, as'compared to the same month last year, follow:
Lester G. Sterett, secretary of the Millwork Institute of California, is spending six weeks in Northern California on business of the Institute. His headquarters are in the Institute's office, 45 Second Street, San Francisco, and his telephone number is KEarny 3910.
George W. Allport, died at Resear'ch Hospital, Kansas 'City, Mo., Monday, Augast 22. Death was due to cerebral hemorrhage.
Mr. Allport was born in Oswego County, New York, October 16. 1876. He married Mabel Parmelee. December 25, 1899. He is survived by his wife and two daughters, Virginia Burton and Fern Louise, all of Kansas City; two sisters, Mrs. R. E. Avent, Los Angeles, Cal., and Mrs. C. E. Everingham, Toledo, Ohio, and a brother, E. E. A1lport, Oswego, N. Y.
Mr. Allport had more than twenty-five years' experience in the hardwood lumber business. lfe was employed by the Ozark Cooperage and Lumber Company of St. Louis for a number of years. In 19@ he went to'Arkansas and engaged in the hardwood lumber manufacturing business. In 1919 the Jefferson Hardwood Lumber Company of Pine Bluff, Ark., was organized and Mr. Allport was one of the owners of that business. When the Jefierson Hardwood Lumber Company had cut out its timber, Mr. Allport came with The Long-Bell Lumber Company, April 1, 1922, as Hardwood Supervisor, stationed at Pine Bluff, Ark. In August 1926 he was transferred to the main office of the company in Kansas City as manager of the Hardwood Department, his duties being divided between giving attention to the hardwood manufacturing features of the Long-Bell hardwood mills together with hardwood flooring factories, and with the sale of hardwoods and hardwood flooring. Funeral services were held at Kansas City, Wednesday afternbon, August 24th.
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Washington, August 3.-Lumbermen, great and smallmanufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, commission men, woodworkers-the whole big lumber family, will decide during the next month whether lumber shall be represented at the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition by a lumber-built house. No association, no group, nobody but the individual lumberman, will have the final responsibility for this momentous de,cision.
The decision will be in the form of dollar contributions.
The house and a large edition of a descriptive booklet will 'cost approximately $6,000.
If the 40,000 lumber 'concerns in the United States will vote that sum, lumber will be splendidly represented with pn exquisite home, the latest rvord in the building art "moderne", a fitting'champion of lumber for home construction.
Owing to the fact that no lumber association has any budgetary provision for financing the proposed house or can make any under prevailing fiscal conditions the fund must be raised by dire,ct contributions. Walter F. Shaw, trade extension manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, has assumed the responsibility of the initiative with the full approval of the Association, and it will donate its facilities to the direction of the campaign. While it is a matter of profound regret that there is no fund anywhere that can be drawn upon, Mr. Shaw makes the point that it is after all far better that the house that is to champion the merits of lumber shall be a direct free-will offering of thousands of individuals than the contribution of organizations.
Every type of association that is interested in lumber will be enlisted in the promotion of the campaign, but every cent will be an individual or ,company gift. The standard contribution will be one dollar, but larger subs,criptions will be accepted.
W. M. Ritter, vice-president and treasurer of the National Lumber Manufacturers Asso,ciation, has .consented to act as treasurer of the house fund. Checks should be drawn to "W. M. Ritter, treasurer." They may be forwarded to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, 1337 Connecticut Ave., Washington, D. C., or to the local or regional association which solicits the subscription. All checks will be held until the campaign closes on September 15. If by any mischance the $6,@O total is not reached, and the project fails, all contributions will be returned. The lumber trade press is also authorized to receive checks. Appeals for 'co-operation are now going out to ali lumber interested associations, and they are expected to circularize their members.
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E. B. (Ed.) Culnan, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is in camp with the 347th Field Artillery, United States Reserve Corps, at the Monterey Presidio. Mr. Culnan is a Major in the Field Artillery Reserve Corps. He will be in camp two weeks.
Retail lumber yard or factory site, corner Ravenswood Ave. and State Highway, Menlo Park, California, has spur track and heavy construction two story warehouse. Address R. W. Follmer, General Contractor, 465 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, Calif. Phone 7325.
Lumberman and shingle expert with years of experience, familiar with all details of the mill, wholesale and retail business, qualified to filI any position in sales department or in office, wants position. Will go anywhere. Address Box C-445, The California Lumber Merchant.
Lumberman with several years'experience in all branches of the retail lumber business desires position. Can furnish good references and will appreciate an interview. Address Box C-447. California Lumber Merchant.
Asheville, N. C., August 1.-Upon invitation of both parties to the litigation, Wilson Compton, secretary and manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, was an observer at the hearing today in the trial of the Federal government's case against Appalachian Coals, Inc. On the theory that that central selling agency recently arranged by certain coal companies will constitute a monopoly in restraint of trade and violate the Sherman Act, the government has brought action before the fourth circuit court of appeals sitting here for a permanent injunction.
The suit is, in a sense, a friendly one to determine the right of producers to ,combine to prevent overproduction and sales below the cost of production.
The outcome will test the validity of the general scheme of the National Coal Association to stabilize the bituminous coal mining industry. For this purpose the fields east of the Mississippi were grouped into eighteen districts, eight of which were subsequently united to form the Appalachian territory, "with the intent and result that not more than eleven common selling agents should control more than 70 per cent of the bituminous coal produced east of the Mississippi river."
As the lumber industry has given much study to the subject of common selling agencies as a means of avoiding wasteful and destructive competition it is vitally interested in the Appalachian case.
Young lady with several years' experience in the lumber business, wants position with Los Angeles lumber firm. Familiar with all office details. Address Box C-444, care California Lumber Merchant.
Wholesale selling connection wanted by salesman, age 30, with ten years' selling experience all Western lumber products. Familiar with both Northern and Southern California retail trade, and will accept position in either territory. Highest references. Address Box C-446, care California Lumber Merchant.
Experienced lumberman would like position managing country yard in Southern California. Familiar with all details of the retail business. Can furnish references. Would appreciate an interview. Address Box C-448, carc California Lumber Merchant.
Frank O'Connor, San Francisco, manager of the California Wholesale Lumbermen's Association, attended the directors' meeting of the California Retail Lumber Association at Santa Barbara, Calif., on Saturday, August 27. M. S. Lopes, manager of the Association's Los Angeles office, also attended the meeting and conferred with Mr. O'Connor on Association affairs.
Gas which came out of the interior of a tree with a "bang" and burned for a minute or more with a pale blue flame when ignited with a match was found recently by a party of foresters when boring several species of hardwoods in Hempstead County, Arkansas, according'to a report from the Southern Forest Experiment Station of the U. S. Forest Service. Timber growth studies in that region showed that out of a total of 100 hardwoods drilled with an increment borer for the purpose of measuring the annual tree-ring growth, at least 22 .contained gas. The species of trees were willow oak, black and white oak, southern red gum and shagbark hickory. The nature of the gas and the cause of its formation are unsettled questions. Several borings into the gas trees failed to prove that decay in the stem of the tree was responsible for the gas which was usually found in small pockets in the sound wood of the trunk.
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