Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club

'fhe regular monthly meeting of the Sacramento Valley Lumberm-en's Club was held at the Travelers' Hotel, Sacramento, on Saturday, October 18. .; ;

President H. C. Chapman presided at the meeting. Secre-1 tary I. E. Brink, read an interesting letter from A. L' ' Poiter of Spokane, Waihington, Secrelary-Manager of the Western Retdil Lumber Association. Mr. Porter gave a general expiession of'business conditions throughout the isricultural, districts in 'ttrc Middle West ahd the -Nprth- *-eit. With the Dawes Plan going into efiect in Europg he stated it would be benefieial to the Middle West farmers by giving them further markets for their crgPs which in turn- would increase their buying Polver. He stated that'business conditions in the Northwest have showr-r much improvement and that the retail lumber business in that secti,on has increased accordingly. With the election over and the country settling down to normalcy, he predicted that the next four or five years would be very prosperoLrs ones to the lumber industry.

Bert Neylatt, J. L. Hall, and G. R. Bleecker gave short talks on lumber conditions and C. D. LeMaster also'gave a talk on lumber conditions in the Sacramento Valley and San Joaquin Valley sections.

Stite Forester M. B. Pratt gave a short talk on the functioning of the State Forestry Department. IIe referred to the fire hazard in the forest lands of the state and the fire protective system employed by his departme-nt in reducing [he fires. He also made. special mention of the splendid work that is being'done by the Redwood manuficturers in reforesting cut-over lands and in fighting forest fires. Mr. Pratt stated that his department wanted to co-operate with the lumbermen of 'the State and that -his offici rvorrld be pleased to give them.any informatioir they desired pertaining to Forestry matters.

President Chapman then turned the meeting over to ]ack Butler, Jr., of the Sacramento Lumber Co. Mr. Butier, rvho is a- graduate of the Forestry Department of the University of:California, in fitting words introduced the speaker oi the day, Emanuel Fritz, Professor of Forestry at the University of California.

Professor Frit2 spoke on the timber resources of the country and in addition to the privately owned timber lands, he stated that the Government had 160 million acres of timber lands under the supervision of the National Forests that would play an important part in the future -suqqly of the country. -Hi referred to thi original stand of white pine of the Northeast and Lake States, which when cut out the operators moved to the Southern Pine Be-lt -to supply the great eastern markets with lumber. Within ten via.s he figured that the large supply of' Southern Yellow i"ine *o,tli be largely goni, when the eastern markets would have to look to tfie Pacific Coast and Inland Empire, for their future supply of lumber. Althou-gh the total ii-b.t supply in the country has been figgt.-d to last for sixty veari, Mr. Fritt said that he was optimis-tic and- drre to the fact that second grolvth timber would be used for lumber before manv years, he thottght that the present stand of timber rvould last longer thah the sixty year period.

- He also discussed the reforestation of cut-over lands, stating that many areas reproduce naturally but in other instanies nature is not given a chance.to reproduce naturally an<l to secure a forist growth it is ndcessary- to plant .e.dling.. He described the methods employed by the U. S. -Forest Service in their ntrrsery and reforestation rvork. In regards to reforestation, he said that 'he was