Mr. George S. Long's Timber Viewpoint

By Jack Dionne

Mr. George S. Long, of Tacoma, Washington, is an au- that he used to hear about, are pretty well exhausted. He thority on timber.

It might be much fairer to say that Mr. Long is THE authority on timber.

Because Mr. Long is the executive head of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, which concern owns more standing timber than any other concern on earth owns or ever did own. How much they own, all told, everywhere, I cannot even estimate. Up in Washington they are just opening for logging one unit that contains from forty to fifty billion feet of virgin timber.

Mr. Long made a talk not long ago to a bunch of lumbernren, and his subject was timber, and he made the very interesting statement that there is more timber standing in the forests of this country today than has been cut since the Revolutionary War, and that well advertised conflict took place more than 150 years ago, and rnen have been busy cutting from ocean to ocean, and from Gulf to Canada, ever since.

This way of putting out timber reserves into a picture is a very good one that will appeal to the average man to whom the word'million or billion is very vague when it comes to really meaning something.

The average man knows that the old timber reserves

R. G. KIMBELL A PACIFIC COAST VISITOR

R. G. Kimbell, in charge of building code work for the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, is on the coast, visiting several cities in connection with his work. In company with A. C. Horner, the Association's 'Western Division head, Mr. Kimbell will attend the 6th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Building Officials Conference, at Phoenix, Arizona, October 18 to 21.

knows that the old forests of the east, of the New England states, of Pennsylvania, of Michigan and Wisconsin, of Minnesota, of Indiana and Illinois, of Missouri, etc., have been pretty well depleted. He knows that the timber of the South has been going fast, and hears that it will soon be gone.

And he naturally comes to the conclusion that the timber supply is about gone. To this individual, the statement of Mr. Long puts our forest situation in an entirely new light.

You see, there is four times as much Pine standing in California today as there was in Texas before we ever cut a tree. There is more softwood standing in Oregon today than there was in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia combined, fifty years ago. There is more timber standing in Washington than there was in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota combined before they began cutting in those formerly great timbered states.

And there is much timber in the Inland Empire, and in Arizona and New Mexico, to say nothing of the remaining stands South, the North, and the East.

Mr. Long's picture was a very interesting one, and should be widely distributed.

Gentlemen:

Pasadena, Sept. 10th, 1927.

We always look forward with a great deal of interest to each issue of The California Lumber Merchant. Keep up the good work Jack, we need your wit and sagacity in the lumber business.

With best wishes, Faulkner-Meyer

Lumber Co.

By: Chas. A. Strutt.