UNITED STATES STANDARD FOR RED CEDAR SHINGLES

(oeptnruenr oF coMMERcE)

National Forests Do Big Business

A total of $986.646 was turned into the U. S. Treasury from the National Forests of California during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, according to statement by the San Francisco headquarters of the United States Forest Service, These receipts accrued from sales of Government timber, grazing fees, special use permits and miscellaneous business.

IJnder existing laws, 25 per cent of these receipts, or $246,1@. will be returned to the State for road and school funds. An additional 10 per cent, or $98,464, will be available for use by the Forest Service for road and trail work in the National Forests.

This percentage of receipts returned to the State is an interesting contrast to some of the European countries lvhich have Crorvn or National Forests. In Sweden, for example, only 3 3-10 per cent of the Crown Forest receipts are returned to the local communes.

In addition to the 10 per cent fund for roads and trails, the Federal Government rvill also expend, this fiscal year, the sum of $1,60O,000 on National Forest road construction and development work in California.

Destroys Infected Plants

Klamath Falls, August 15.-T. D. Mallery and R. B. Farren of the United States Department of Agriculture found and destroved 135 English Black Currant bushes, carriers of the *'hite pine blister rust scourge. The infected bushes rvere all found in the Merrells Malin section, and the owners offered no protests when the order for destruction rvas given. The Fort Klamath section is now under inspection and it is hoped work will be completed in about ten days.

E. dc Rcynler H. B. Generrton

REYNIER LUMBER CO.

426-42E-130 Santa Marina Building ll2 Markct Strcct SAN FRANCTSCO

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Our rcprerentativec in Southern Califomia are Williug and Cooper, 215 Wert Sixth Srreet, Loa Angeles

WE Offer WISCONSIN HARDWOODS

Ash - Birch - Maple - EIm - Basswood

Either air dried or kiln dried.

C-an be shipped in straight or mixed cars with "KORRECT-MAKE' Birch and Maple Flooring -the world's best.

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.FIRE-PROOF'' TERM IS TABOO

It has been contended for years by qualified engineers that there is no such thing in common residential building practice as "fire-proof" ionstruction. No doubt -many lhousands of American families are today living in socalled "fire-proof" homes under the delusion that they are immune to the hazards of fire, Such stress has been laid tupon the "fire-proof" quality of certain building materials, that the Committee on Building Construction Specifications for Private Residences of the National Fire Protection Association, has made the folloluing notation in its recent reDort :

?'The use of the terrn 'Fire-proof is recommended to be cliscontinued. This general term has been erroneously applied to buildings and materials of a more or less fireresistive or incombustible nature. Its indiscriminate nse has produced much misunderstanding and has often engendered a feeling of security entirely unrvarranted."

The term "fire-resistive" gray be applied to any standard building material when corlectly used. The fact that the material itself is incombustible does not mean necessarilv that a structure of which it is the major part is fire-proof or fire-safe. The arrangement and protective features of construction are of paramount importance. Any constrnction which rvill pass a fire test made in accordance rvith the tentative specifications of the American Engineering Standards Committee for Fire Tests of Materials and Construction is "fire-resistive" whether of stone, steel, concrete, lumber or brick.-Bldrs. Exchange Bulletin, L. A.

EAST TURNING TO WEST FOR LUMBER, SAYS GUEST

Eastern dealers in lurnber are turning to the Pacific Coast for material and the day when the Southern states supplied the demand of the Atlantic seaboard region is rapidlv rvaning, it tvas declared by Frank L. Luck- enbach of Philadelphia, lumberman' upon his arrival at [-os Angeles.

JOSEPH BORDEAUX, PIONEER LUMBERMAN' DIES

Joseph Bordeattx, pioneer lumberman of Wash_ington, di;d af his home in Seattle, September 4. He was born in Quebec in 1854, and at the age of 17 located at Chippewa Falls, Wis., coming to Puget Sound the same year that the Northern Pacific railroad crossed the Cascade mountains. Mr. Bordeaux entered into partnership with his brother Thomas at ll-rat time, and this partnership rvas onlv terminated bv his death.

The main operitions of the companv are lumber and shingle mills at Bordeaux and Malone, Wash., the Mason County Logging Co., and the Mumby Lumber & Shingle Company, Seattle.

Portland Firm Buys Timber

The timber holdings of the Kerry Timber Company in Columbia and Clatsop counties, Oregon, have been purchased by a newly incorporated firm in which the stock is held jointly by the Penninsula Lumber Company of Portland, and the Knappton Mills Company, Knappton, Wash. The consideration u'as about $3,000,000'

Rodent Control In California

The area infested with ground squirrels in California exceeds 10,000,000 acres, of which, 3,000,000 acres were covered in co-operative rodent control operations during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, according to report of the Bureau of Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture. In these operations, 1,330,000 pounds of poisoned grain and carbon bisulphide were distributecl, at a cost of $298,500, with an estimated resultant saving to farmers and orchardists of $1,578,000.