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proposed that there be statements of present conditions and needs.

A. Forest Protection.

B. Adjustment of Taxation for Private Reforestation.

C. Forest Research Work.

4. Nearly all activities-economic and otherwis+in the West are more or less dependent for their future prospcrity

Cc. #7 upon the permanent maintenance of forests, through Reforestation. To some of these Reforestation is ext-remely important.

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I.t.is proposed that a number of the more important activities be dealt with briefly, to show the importince of Reforestation to the interests hamed.

A. Railway Tonnage and Reforestation.

B. The Livestock Industry and Reforestation.

C. Hydro-electric Power ind Reforestation.

D. The Great Cities of the Northwest and Reforestation.

E. Banking and Reforestation.

F. Recreation and the Aesthetic as related to Reforestation.

5. Reforestation is a comparatively hew problem in Western United States, because it is a new countrv. of recent .development, with enormous forest resources- still remarnlng.

The West has not yet seriously felt the pressure of disappearing forest resources, but now, while there is still plenty, preparations must be made for the time when orig- inal-growth forests will be exhausted. While many who have not given thought to the future, consider Reforestatioh more or less of a fad, it is an exceedingly important and generally-recognized business in many other parts of the world which have been highly developed foi many years. As an example of the situation existing where forestry is an important business, there will be a description of Reforestation in Japan. (Signed) DAVID T. MASON.

srARKs sEArrLE lRT&"8rtrArN pLANr ro BE

The new plant which r.r'as installed a fer,v months ago at Seattle by Starks Shingle Stains, Inc., for the staining of red cedar shingles, will be enlarged in the near future to more than double its present capacity. The original Starks Shingle. Stains will be manufactured by the company, which will use exactly the same formula and materials used by Starks Mfg. Co. of Kansas City for more than 12 years. These stains u'ill be sold to regular distributors of paints and stains, and to shingle mills using the Starks improved staining machine.

The firm has secured staining-in-transit privileges and is now doing custom staining of carload lots. They also stain any part of a car as required. John J. Starks has located permanently in Seattle and lvill give his permanent supervision to the plant. Donald H. Clark formerly secretary of the shingle branch of the West Coast l.umbermen's association, and manager of the Rite-Grade Shingle association is interested in the company and is acting as manager.

Recent Purchasers Of Lumber Carriers

Southeast Portland Lumber Co., Portland, has added a Miller Gas Lumber Carrier to its yard equipment.

Silver Falls Timber Co., Silverton, Oregon, has added the sixth Miller Lumber Carrier to its present fleet.

Lewis-Peters Lumber Co., Eugene, Oregon, has purchased a Miller Lumber Carrier for use at the re-manufacturing plant.

BURGLARS BLOW OPEN SAFE AT RIPON LUMBER CO.

A robbery was committed on the night of October 28 when burglars entered the office of the Ripon Lumber Company at Ripbn and blew the safe open. The explosion that blew the safe was terrific, as it awakened G. F. Green, manager of the local telephone exchange, who notified Constable J. W. Garrison and Under-Sheriff Art Stuart, but the burglars had made their escape. The company suffered no financial loss as the safe contained only the company's office records, books, and stamps.

T'IADI MARI(

THE T()UISYILTE 1IENEER MITTS

louisville, Ky, U. S. A.

Manufacturers of

HARDWOOD P^A,NFLS AND VENEERS

We might go into a lot of detail telling you just how superior our products arebut would you be convinced) For 35 years we have been cutting veneers and building plywood, and we have hewn out an enviable reputation for quality.

One order will convince you more than all we could say on paper. We have told others this and they are now our customers. let us show you.

Superior since '89

E. L. Blackman Lumber ComPanY Celebrates BirthdaY

The entire force of the E. 1,. Blackman Lumber Company assembled at the company's office, East Fourteenth street and Forty-seconcl a.'enue, on Sunday, October 26, at the Hotel Oakland, u'here a banquet and addresses rvere held, celebrating the twenty-sixth annivers,ary of the establishment of th*is company. A picture of the grotlp' standing in front of the offici, was talien, and then a bus ride around the lakeside rvas indulged in. The members \l'ere seated according to seniority of service. -Welcome address u'as made b/President E. L. Blackman, who later introduced Attorney John T. Wentz as toastmaster.

Addresses 'rvere made by President E. L. Blackman, Vice President E. A. Blackman, Director C. Blackman, Secretary F. Anderson, Auditor A. I-ambie and Attorney John T. Wentz.

Closing address by President E. L. Blackman. Disband.

Officers of E. L. Blackman Company are:

E. L. Blackman. president.

Ernest A. Blackmin, vice president.

Frederick Anderson, secretary.

Clarence Blackman, director.

Alexander Lambie, auditor.

John T. Wentz, attorney.

Office employes:

Frederick Anderson, 23 years of service; Clarence Blackman, 10; Christ. Christenson, 7 ; Caroline Noia, 5 ; Norman J. Danielson, 5; Flore Giambroni, 2; Florence Morrison, 2.

Interesting Figures on 'Water Shipments

Lumber receipts by rvater at the ports of San Francisco and Los Angeles during the past sixteen years are as follows:

MASON E. KLINE LEAVES FOR NEW YORK

Mason E. Kline, sales manager of the Creosoting Department of Chas. R McCormic[ & Co., San Francisco, has left for Nerv York, where he will be connected with the company's Nerv York office. On his way east, he went ovei thi Northern Route, and prior to his departure from the Northwest, he was a visitor-at the Company's Portland Office and spent a fes' days calling on the mills in the Portland and Puget Sound Districts.

Whv SelI Redwood?

nNE of our'good dealer fricnds in a reccnt letter jolingly Vremarked that from his standpoint one of Redwood's big disadvantages is its permanence-its great durabilirty makes reptacements unnecess:rry. Nothing short of a cycloa rill destroy Redwood. Fungus does not rot it and sorms and insects leave it alone. It is a stow burner. Thorougbly painted, it tooks well a long time. Evco rmpaintcd' it sti[ resists decay. A Redwood house nceds little repairingBut this dealer keeps right on ordering Redwood. He 6nds that telling these sad facts about Redwood to his customers does not drive them away.

Sometimes he even ventures to remark that according to the U. S. Government Report entitled "Physical, Mechanical and Chemical Properties of Reduood" there isn't any other wood, either soft or hard, that averages as high on dtrbaility, lach of shrinhage, strength as a beonr or post, ease of glueing, a,orhabilit! and ability to "stay put."