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Anyone knowing the address of C. W. White, who was auditor for Rounds & Porter T,umber Cornpany in 192I, communicate with R. L. Davies, Hollis. Oklahoma.

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Tourists who visited the Pacific Coa3t this summerwere interested and amused by the slogan of a candy maker in a Coast city. On posters and in newspapers it ran:

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Be that as it may, developments recently at .Tacoma, "The Lumber Capiial of America," prove -that there ii something else "they" cannot do in New York; .they cannot cut up a stick of Douglas Fir measuring 48x4&72. Here's the story:

During the Great War the A. C. Dutton Lumber Corporation had an order for a dredge spud of heroic size. The specifications were sent to "The Lumber Capital of America" in due time, a majestic Douglas Fir, aged anyw.here from 350 to 500 years, was selected and felled. When trimm'ed this dainty little match stick measured, 48x4&72 feet long. It was shipped; but the uncertainties. of wartim'e movement of freight of all kinds intervened and thd Armistice was signed before it reached its destination.

The need for which it was originally intended having been removed, the big stick was left ,on hand in the yard of the Dutton Corporation at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. There it reposed for two years in the water awaiting a buyer. But, in the East, at least, customers for timbers of the proportions of this are few and far between.

Unable to sell the stick at a reasonable price, the Dutton

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Corporation decided to work it up into smaller dimensions. But, here ,again they m€t a snag. No mill on the Atlantic Coast could handle such a huge timber. And the difficulties didn't end there. Seeking to load the timber for shipment to some mill that was equipped to cut it, its owners experienced trouble in finding a place where it could be loaded. They also learned that only one spot on the Pacific Coast was capable of unloadingl it. That spot was Tacoma.

And so, a week or so ago, the steam,ship Andrea Luckenbach'brought the big timber home to "The Lumber Capi- tal of Am,erica" and unloaded it at the fine Lumber Dock there. ft is now being delivered to the huge mill of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lum,ber Company for re-manufacture.

Just what will be made of the huge timber is not yet decided. It weighs 57,4& pounds and will ,cut about 14,080 feet, or almost a carload, of lumber. It is probable that one piece of 32x32 or 36x36 will be got out of it and the remainder re-sawn to advantage. In reduced dirnensions it will eventuallv find its way back to the Atlantic Coast.

INTENSIVE FORESTRY WILL ADD MILLIONS TO CALIFORNIA'S WEALTH

The practice oI intensive forestry will increas'e the an,nual growth of sawtimlber in California from its present low rate of 156 million board feet to 3.600 million board feet, according to experts of U. S. Forest Sen'ice. The present growth in the pine region of the State is estimated at 76 million feet per year, which can be raised to 21@ million feet by the scientific management of the 16,800,000 acres of poiential forest in this region. In the redwood belt, on the 400,000 acres of forest land, intensi'i'e forestry should produce 900 million board feet a year.

This stupendous increase, foresters say, shows the grea! need for an experiment station in California, where the methods which will result in thiS increased growth may be developed and worked out. Our agriculture was largely a hit or miss proposition until the agricultural experiment stations developed new methods of haqldling the land and new practices which greatly increased the production per acre. Forest expgrimen't stations, it is asserted, will do the same thing for forestry, and the time to develop intensive methods is now while California still has many thous. and acres of virgin forest in which, with proper methods of manag'ement, plarrting will not have to be done as in a great part of the forest regions of the East.

Crude forestry, or merely fire protection' on our forest lands after cutting, will not produce the desired increase in growth, it is said. Under the crude methods of forestry now practised in our California timber, we can get only about 120 ntillion board feet of pine by 1950, and about 240 million feet of redwood, a total of 3,60 million feet. This is but one-tenth of the growth that is possible under the best forest management. With an average value o{ a $30 a thousand fert for lum,ber, crude for-estry would produce an annual growth worth $10,800,000 or more 'than double what is being grown at the present time. Under intensive forestry such as would be worked out at a forest experiment statio,n, the tim,ber lands of the State sliould grow annually a produce worth $81,000,000 in the pine region, and at least $27,000,000 in the redwood region along the coast. With such wealth possible under intensive forestry, the small arnount of money necessary to maintain a forest experiment station in Calif6rnia would be a most promising investment for the future prosperity of the State, say the Forester.