Yard, Mill, Office and Road

What Live California Lumbermen are Doing

ATI.ANTIC COAST CONDITIONS VERY SATISFAC. TOBY, SAYS WOODS OF COOS BAY LUMBEB CO.

"The Atlantic Coast is especially busy with the receipt of fir cargoes from the West, " says W. H. 'Woods, sales manager for the Coos Bay Lumber Company, who has just returned from a two months' trip to the Micldle West and Atlantic seaboard.

Mr. Woods went East with the idea of gathering firsthand knowledge of business conditions in that part of the country and reports that he found prospects very satisfactory.

Through his efforts the Coos Bay Lumber Company disposed of a large quantity of Port Orford cedar shop lumber in various cities from Milwaukee east as far as Pittsburgh; the company also placed a quarter million feet of shop ced.ar in New York.

"Practically all the cities in the Micldle West are busy with house building," is Mr. Woods' further comment. "Yard stocks are quite low."

TAfT ENJOYS COOD BUILDING SEASON

. Buitding permits at Taft reached. a total valuation of $400,000 in -September and the same rate of activity is reported for October. Many new public buildings are being erected, but a substantial volume of new business represents private homes.

w. M. GUNTON, FORMER CALTFORMA LUMBEBMAN, IIIOTORS OUT FR,OM CIIICAGO

W. M. Gunton, a Chicago lumberman, is visiting his son

H. M. Gunton, sales-manager of the Santa Fe Lumber Company. Prior to his loeating in Chicago, Mr. Gunton was in the lumber business in San Franeisco, anct is well known among the lumber trad.e of the state.

Ile made the trip by automobile and was accompanied by his wife. After a short stay in San Franeisco, he will return cast by way of Southern California.

REDWOOD ORDERS GBOWING EEAVIER,

. Redwood orders for the week ended September 30 inereased by approximately 1,000,000 feet over any total attained during any weekly period for the month of September, &ccording to figures compiled by the California Redwood. Association. These figures show new Redwood business totaling 8,245,000 feet, with shipments of 9,294,000 feet and production of 8,812,000 feet, all for 14 mills, and for the week ending Saturday, September 30.

MUCE BIILDINC AT OROVILLE THIS I'ALL

A' aggregate of $40,443 in builcling permits is reported from Oroville for the month of September. This is one of the best builtling months in the recent history of that enterprising cit5'. The same builcling boom is continuing through the present month.

We bave ready for prompt rhipment fron our Bay Point, Cal., plant, a conriderable quantity of