BENSON LUMBER COMPANY

San Diego, California

Operates the only sawmill cutting special timbers in Southern California.

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Approximately 20 million feet of Fir logs available for immediate crrtting.

Also big stocks of piling and poles.

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Big Southern Firm to Develop New Mexico Timber

The Lutcher & Moore Lumber Company of Orange, Texas, large lumber manufacturers of the South, and New Mexico inine operators, have secured frcim the McGaffey Company, the contract for approximately a billion feet of Arizona pine situated on about 150,000 acres of the Defiance plateau northwest of Gallup, N. Mex., considered one of the most attractive logging and lumbering propositions in the country. This company, through W.-H. Slark, of Orange, had previously entered the development of New Mexico resources in a large way in the Hagen Coal mines, Hagen Power & Electric Company, and the Rio Grande Eastern Railroad, near Albuquerque. The devolopment of the timber tract will involve, it is understood, the installation of a large modern sawmill, planing mill, box factory, and possibly a sash and door factory in Gallup, or other suitable site, to which logging railroad lines are being surveyed by the company's engineer, C. P. Stevens of Hagen. The A. B. McGaffey Company will continue to opeiate their mills at McGaffev. N. Mex.

National Forest Revenues Grow

The net revenue received by the Federal government from the 18 national forests in the California District (California and southwestern Nevada) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, was $1,419,140, according to report of the United States Forest Service in San Francisco. This is an increase of $62,410 over the receipts for the previous fiscal year, and the largest return ever received from the national forests in this State.

The sale of over-ripe and mature timber from the forests netted $958,560; fees-from the grazing of cattle and sheep, $198,794; special recreational and commercial uses, $133,539; and water power, $74,325.

Under act of Congress, the States of California and Nevada will receive one-quarter of this total revenue, or approximately $350,000, for distribution to counties in which the national forests are located, for roads and schools. An additional 10 per cent of the receipts will also be spent by the Forest Service in these counties on roads and trails, making a total of nearly $500,000 returned to the States in lieu of taxes on Federal forest lands.

Lumberman Dies at Fire

James W. Fowler, vice-president ahd general superintendent of the Eastern & Western Lumber Co., Portland, died on September 7 oi a heart attack while looking over a forest fire in the company's holdings near Molalla, Ore. Mr. Fowler was 59 years old, and came to the Eastern & Western Lumber Co. as general superintendent in 1906. He is survived by his widow, a son and a daughter.