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Reduced rail rates on hardwood lumber from Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas to California. Ten cents a hundred is the amount. By this reduction the railroads hope to get a greater share of the hardwood freight from the territory mentioned, cutting in on the water business which has grown very heavy. Which probably will mean that water rates will drop to meet the rail reduction. Both crowds want this heavy hardwood tonnage. **,i

I know a softwood lumber distributor, a very good lumber seller and sales thinker; who writes across the bottom of all his business letters-"My business is good. How is yours?" IIe wants to set the example of optimistic thought as opposed to the pessimism so prevalent in some places. And a very good scheme. SAYING your business is good, won't make jt good. But saying it is good will make you hustle to MAKE IT GOOD, and there comes the good result.

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The "creeping, crawling things" of the earth have always been referred to with dread and disdain. But the other day I watched several creeping, crawling things doing marvelous work in a logging operation. They were creeping, crawling caterpillar tractors, for hauling logs. They represent a pendulum swing. To begin with men logged with animals, wagons, carts. Then they took to power loggrng, power engines dragging in the logs, ponderously, powerJully, but destructively. Everything in their way was squashed. And now we go back again to logging that allows the young trees to stand. These creeping tractors can go wherever a team can, and worlds of places where a team cannot, and their use is becoming the rage in logging.

Woods of the Orient. Some day we will be using lots of them in this country, when our own hardwood begins to get thin.. And hardwood timber disappeals much faster than softwood, as all lumbermen I know. A man showed me the other day samples of hardwoods from the Orient, strange in 4ame, appearance, and use. But beautiful and useful looking woods, of many tints, many degrees of hardness, etc. Some day we will try them out, and put them to our own uses.

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