Seasoning \7ide Boards

also made of California Sugar Pine-thus the entire table is made of wood.

West Side Lumber Company owns a large body of timber in the heart of the great Sugar Pine belt in the High Sierra, about 6,000 feet above sea level just north of the Yosemite Valley and near the famous Placerville gold mines that were so famous during the Gold Rush of '49. This soft-textured timber grows very large and averages 959 feet to the 16foot log-it's big timber !

The annual capacity of this mill is 70 million feet. Their output is seasoned in Moore Cross-Circulation Kilns, and much of the lumber is used for pattern stock. W. R. Thorsen of San Fernando is president; Eugene M. Prince, San Francisco, vice-president; Fred Ellis, Tuolumne, manager; W. J. Hanlon, superintendent of logging and transportation; William C. Holm, plant superintendent; and P. L. Heron, sales manager.

The large timber supply will keep this plant in operation for many years.

Appointed Manager o( Paint Department Army Lifts Ban on Foreign \(/oodt

San Francisco, September 24.-L. K. Bishop, employee of The Paraffine Companies, Inc., for eighteen years, has been appointed manager of the Pabco paint department effective September 15.

He started his service with the company in 1923 and since then has been salesman, paint sales supervisor in Los Angeles, assistant manager of the paint department and manager of the Central District.

Fort Mason, San Francisco, Calif., Sept. 12-Affecting manufacturers interested in marketing their products to national defense establishments, Army Regulations have been revised lifting the prohibition on use of 143 different materials from other than domestic sources.

Included in the list is balsa, cork, lignum vitae, mahogany, and teak, also paper and pulp, and gums and resin (natural).

Northwest Forest Industries to Grow 21,500,000 Trees in New Nursery For Planting on Burned Lands

Tacoma, Washington, September 22, 1941.-Bulldozers, graders and carry-alls will be making the dirt fly next week on a tree nursery and tree-planting project that rvill round out the conservation program of Northwest forest industry, operators who are cooperating in the enterprise announced today. Preparation of the nursery soil for seeding will soon begin on 40 acres of Nisqually Flat, adjoining the Pacific Highway, 8 miles north of Olympia, according to the operators. Industry expenditures, they said, will be close to $200,000, on the basis of initial commitments n.racle on the nursery and on plantings.

"The nursery is a cooperative enterprise of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association and forest land orvners in the Douglas fir region," Corydon Wagner, president of the Association, stated in Tacoma toclay. "The nursery is planned to produce at least 5,000,000 trees per year. Already contracts have been made for 21,500,000 trees, tvhich represent over 8 per cent of the total capacity of the nursery for the first five years.

"The magnitude of this undertaking requires group action. Many companies have sought to restore growth on fire-denuded areas of their lands, but no planting stock has been available for private purchase. The new cooperative tree nursery is a logical development in meeting a longexisting need. The whole project u,ill be fortified by experience gained in the operation of smaller nurseries by several farsighted companies tvho have tried out, over long periods, the growing of trees for planting.

"The new nursery is of a capacity that best meets reqttirements for economical operation and effective production. It has been made possible by the determination of a number of practical operators to regrow their timber, and by their willingness to meet the West Coast Lumbermen's Association halfway in advancing the cost of acquiring and developing the nursery. We expect many other operators to join us. It is highly probable that our nursery production rvill be oversold. In this event, more ground is available for the extension of this nursery, or similar nurseries may be established on other sites, in both Washington and Oregon.

"It is important to keep in rnind that thiS project is a rounding-out of the conservation program of the forest in. dustries of the Pacific Northwest-that it is by no means a first requisite of reforestation on cutovers. For every tree we plant, ten or a dozen will be planted by nature from seecl trees left in logging for this precise purpose. And-keeping fire out of growing trees remains our No. 1 task in reforesting the lands that have yielded their harvest of old trees for the production of homes and of vital material for national defense.

"The companies are agreeing to put $85,000 into the planting stock itself," Mr. Wagner concluded. "They will spend at least another $100,000 in setting the young trees out on their lands. Other charges are calculated to make the project a $40,000 forest industry enterprise."

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