Forest

Fires Cause Heavy Loss of Life

Fourteen employees of the United States Forest Service lost their lives this year in the grim war that has raged between mari and fire in the national forests, according to repqrt of Major R. Y. Stuart, chief forester at Washington, D. C. Loss of life of Forest Service personnel on fires was heavier ]n 1929 than in anv vear since the disastrous conflagrations of 1910. The la,rgest number of deaths due to forest fires occurred in the North Pacific District (Oregon and Washington), where six Forest Service employees lost their lives. The Northern District (Montana and Idaho) has reported four deaths and the California and Eastern Districts two each.

With one exception, all of those who died as a result of fires on the National Forests were temporary employees of the Forest Service-patrolmen, guards or members of firefighting crews. One permanent employee, Douglas C. Ingram, assistant in range management in the District office at Portland, Oregon, and Ernani St. Luise, temporary employee from Chelan, Wash., met their death on the Camas Creek fire, Chelan National Forest, on August 13.

Other Forest Service employees whose lives weie lost as a result of fire activities during the year were: Norman K. Deem, forest guard, Santa Barbara Forest, California; Richard Gell, fire fighter, Trinity Forest, California; J. F. Marten, fire fighter on the Chelan Forest, Washington; W. P. Makeiff, fire fighter, Colville Forest, Oregon; Fred E. Gibson, cooperator, Mt. Hood Forest, Oregon ; Franz Frank, laborer, Rainier Forest, Washington; Joe Aiken, laborer, Pend Oreille Forest, Idaho; Archie White, fire fighter, Selway Forest, Idaho; Lester Rudd, fire fighter, Flathead Forest, Montana; Tom Gorman, fire fighter, Bitlerroot Forest, Montana; Robert Keys and Richard Cornett. fire fighters, IJnaka Forest, Virginia-Tennessee.

BuildinA Material Business Good at Modesto

At the regular monthly meeting of the directors of the United Lumber Yards. Inc., held at Modesto, Calif. on November 19, the regular semi-annual dividend of 4 per cerrt was' declared for the stockholders for the year 1929. This dividend is payable on January lst to stockholders on record December 15th.

This is the ninth regular semi-annual dividend paid by the United Lumber Yards, Inc., on its preferred Jtock ai the rate of 8 per cent per annum.

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^The company's business is very satisfactory for the year 1929 and Jtitite better'than 1928. The earnings are'satisfactory and allow an earning for the common Jtock equal to the dividend paid on the preferred.

R. H. TSCHUDY STOPS IN LOS ANGELES

R._H. Tschudy of the Tschudy Lumber Company, Kansas City, stopped in Los Angeles for a few days bn his way home from a trip to Vancouver.

Ben Ostlind Visits Los Angeles

Ben Ostlind, president of the Coos Veneer & Box Company, Marshfield, Oregon, manufacturers of "CO-VE-CO", an_ aircraft -p,lywood, spent several days in Los Angeles to take in the Western Aircraft Show.

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