Random Editorial Ramblings

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mentalism could ever be blended. However, if you went to the polls on election da5 you discovered that woman is no longer a chattel, regardless of pagan or theological dictum. She's the balance of power, the boss of the job today, as she rightfully should be.

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All men are novy pretty well agreed that energy is the chiefest characteristic of success; that an average man who possesses great diligence, will do more than a genius who won't work. And diligence, mind you, is from the Latin, diligere, which means "to love." The diligent man is the man who loves to work. See?

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Col. Greeley, Secretary of The West Coast Lumbermen's Associatioq tells of a single sawmill of moderate size in the Northwest which in 1927 realized $50,000 from the conversion of mill waste into pulp chips, selling materialthat had formerly cost them money to get rid of. Col. Greeley indicates that the time is probably coming when the by-products of thd lumber mills of the North-

Long-Bell Cuts Last Louisiana Log

- The Long-Bell Lumber Company cut its last log in the State of Louisiana about two weeks ago, when its Lake Charles mill blew its rvhistle for the last time, and then shut down.

This marks the ending of one of the greatest timber deals in history, when, about 1905, Mr. Long bought the greatest stand of Long Leaf Pine in existence, and built a great battery of mills to cut it up.. These mills have been passing for the_past four years, until now the last one is gone. Thi Lak_e Charles plant produced about 20O,000 feet of pine lumber daily.

Not only was this the last Long-Bell mill in Louisiana, but it was also the last mill left in Lake Charles, which city twenty years ago was the biggest sawmill town in the entire South, with thirteen mills operating in its limits. Not one remains of the many historic plants that ran there.

west will bring more profits than their lumber business. He reports that five pulp mills onthe Columbia River alone used 17,000,000 feet of hemlock, spruce, and white fir logs for pulp in the month of August, 1928. Spruce and hemlock are the twobigpulp woods of the Northwest, adaptable to the leading paper making processes in use there, while Douglas Fir mill waste is thus far limited to plants that manufacture sulphate and soda pulp. Broad experimentation now under way will probably increase the use of the t"la.t. *

Dr. Wilson Compton says that the most widely diversified group of industries ever gathered under a lumber banner will participate in the 1929 advertising and trade extension campaign of the National .Lumber Manufacturers' Association. In the group will bethe big lumber manufacturers, timber owners, loggers, lumber wholesalers, wood box and crate manufacturers, wood preservers, flooring manufacturers, furniture manufacturers, millwork manufacturers, and shaft and handle makers.

Earl White to Manage Madera Yard

Earl E. White has succeeded J. M. Chase as manager of The Little River Redwood Company's yard at Madeia.

Mr. White is a well-knowh lumbeiman, and needs no introduction to San Joaquin and Sacramento Valley lumbermen, as he traveled this territory for the Califoinia Door Co. when he was associated wiih this concern for many years as manager of their yard at Folsom. He recently sold out his interest inthe East Bay Lumber & Mill Co., Oakland, v/ith which he has been connected for some time. He is a director of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, and has always taken the keenest interest in association work.

CARL H. RALKE IN SAN FRA,NCISCO

Carl Hl. Ralke, Sales Manager of H. V. Cowan & Company,_Los Angeles. is attending the annual cohvention of the California Retail Lumberman's Association at San Francisco and expects to be gone a couple of weeks.

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