Greatest Pine Holding on Earth Belon$s to Red River in California

Who owns the biggest stand of commercial timber on earth ?

That is a question in which all lumbermen everywhere will probably be interested.

There may be some chance for discussion on that subject. No one knor,r's jurst how much the Weyerh.aeuser interests still own on all parts of the American continent. The Long-Bell Lumber Company, with their stands of Southern Pine, Southern Hardwoods, \Mestern Fir and Western Pine, own a tremendous quantity of stumpage, and is continually adding to its holdings.

But-there ii no question as to who owns the greatest stand of Pine timbei on earth. That honor belongs to the Red River Lumber Company and is all located in California.

Many wild estimates are often made on horv much this timber holding consists of, and often there is much exaggeration on the subject.

- The actual facts need no exaggeration. This concern owns in the near neighborhood of 1,000,000 acres of virgin pine timber in California, and the timber runs somewhere between sixteen and twenty billions of feet. Think those figures over.

\ever before in American history has any concern owned anything like that amount of virgin Pine. Thb Red River Lumbei Company, an old Minneapolis concern' orvned by the Walker-intirests, seeing far ahead the possibilities of California, invaded the Golden State many years ago, and went all over the pine territory. They picked out this tremendous holding of timber land, and bought it outright.

They have sold some, but have bought more, so that today they own an empire of white and sugar pine.

What it will be worth a ferv years from now is just a matter of opinion. When you stop to consider that sales of Southern Pine timber have been made in the past two years as high as $17.50 per thousand, you have lots of leeway for gulssing.

The Red River Lumber Company is manufacturing this stock very slowly. They have only one mill, located at the southern end of their holdings at Westwood, Calif. This plant could probably operate perpetually in this stand of timber, but, of course, there is little likelihood that it will be cut in that fashion permanently.

It is said that this timber can be sold on the open market today for about one hundred times what it cost originally.

..LUMBER CAPITAL'' SHOWS ELKS REAL LOG

"Tacoma, the f,umber Capital of America," read the attractive bronze sign that adorned a healthy log giant of Douglas Fir, which was ohe of the features of the mammoth parade during the National convention of Elks, at Portland, Oregon, last month. The float was arranged through the instrumentality of the Tacoma Lumbermen's Club, an organization which has attracted country wide attention by its conduct of a three year hational advertising campaign to boost Tacoma as a great lumber-producing center.

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