California White and Sugar Pine Association Issues Facts

The following presen,tation of the present situation in the pine lum,ber industry of California and southern Oregon was recently issued by the Californ'ia White and Sugar Pine Manufacturers Association and will be found to be of much value to distributors and consumers of lumber from that region:

"The pine lumber industry of California and Southern Oregon has passed through exactly the same pe'riods of 'ups and downs as have applied to lum,ber rm'anufacturers generally throughout the country. The law of supply and demand is inflexible when applied to competitive commodities and invariably operates on lumber. In response to abnormal demands last year the industry naturally laid plans for full production in 1923. Ordinarily in this region the peak of production is reached during September or Ootober and from then on diminishes gradually to the end of the year. Indications are that this year the peak of productiorl, was reached in June and although the first half o0 thg year 1923 showed a substantial increase in lu,mber cut, the neQ result of the year's operations will probably be approxim.ately normal, due to this curtailment.

Shipments of lumber from this region up to August first have shown an increase over the first half ol 1922 although the rate has lately decreased as mid-summer always results in a cessation of buying. In spite of the very satisfactory volume of shi.pments, the exceptionally large production during the first six months of 1923 has resulted in slightly less than 25,/o increase in total inventories on August first as ,compared to the same date in 1922. In view of the fact that this region. is being called upon each year for a larger volume of lumber to replace the gradually diminishing supply in the ol'der lumber producing states, the amount on hand should be about right to take up this slack and from a statistical standpoint therefore, the local industry is in a very satisfactory condition. It is true that the percentage of different grades making up present inventories is somewhat out o{ line due to an exce:ptionally heavy local demand for box lumber and lumber for general building purposes. The slump in eastern building naturally reacted in increasing stocks of factory lumber to some extent 'but this merely delays the movement of these grades until such time as the backed up demand, which is certain to come, develops, Since the manufacturers have been so successful in'moving a large amount of low grade lumber they are not so vitally interested in, the' relatively small amount of upper grades which have accumulated.

From the lumber users standpoint, the present situation should be exceptionally satisfactory since the mills are in a'position to furnish well assorted and well seasoned stocks. Local lumber manufacturers feel that conditions throughout the country are fundamentally sound and that it is simply a :matter of time before_ the demand will again tax the industry to its capacity. The fact that this region produces such a large percentage o{ the total soft pine ivailable places the manufacturers in a particularly desirable position."

Redwood Facts

Redwood is one of tfie mort interesting of American commercial woods, probably sharing with Cypress the honor of being the most interesting and unusual of woods. In fact, in maDI respectr Redwood and CypreEa aeem closely akin, particularly in the direction of invulnerability to rot. Both Cypress and Redwood can remain in damp ground or dry ground, or exposed to dI the changes of tlle weather and the elements for a generation, without decaying. They eclipse all other woods in this characteristic, and are therefore both used for purposes where wood is exposed to the weat{rer, or to dampness. Both are great tank materials, and last indefinitely as liquid containers without showing any indication of decay. Redwood is somewhat lighter, and more brittle tfran c5rpress, and adapts itself to every sort of woodworking beautifully.

The fact that Cypress is fast disappearing from the face of the earth, and that Redwood ia going to be called upon more and more every day to filI in where Cypress has fomerly been used for a thousand purposee, in all parts of the United States, meanE much to the Redwood people for the future. There is only a handful of Cypres-cromparatively speaking -left in Louisiana, and only a very few billion feet of stumpage in Florida. In five years nearly eyery Cypress mill in l.ouisiana will be gone for good. There har been no re-growth, since the average mature Cypress t'hree ie more than a thousand years old.

The production of Redwood this year, including split stuff, will be approximately 650,(X)0,(X)0 feot, of which 76% is manufactured by twelve concernE.

Here is a map showing the location of the Redwood forects of California.

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In fact, that'g thb only kind of Redwood we sell---cxtra 6ne.

We havc as fine Redwood timber as th-e Lord ever planted in California, and we manufacture it for you just as we would like it made for ur if we were the buyera.