Miniature Golf Course Designs To Aid Local Dealers

Washington, Nov. 25.-Designs for nine all-lumber built miniature golf fairways and greens, for three compact courses that may be laid out on the home lawn or other limited area, a rest house and a golf course enclosure, are included in a folder for the benefit of lumber dealers iust published bythe National Lumber Manufacturers Association. The folder is Number 16 in the series of "Lumber Facts" sales aids being published for the benefit of progressive dealers and is entitled "Build Your C)wn Miniature Golf Courses."

Predictions of government experts and business economists who have been watching the development of this baby golf industry all indicate that with the coming of Spring there will be a definite swing toward installation of miniature courses in back yards and on front lawns of private homes, a la croquet. The nine hoJes shown in the new folder are suitable for either home or commercial construction. They are original in 'character, very "tri.cky" (which is the prime feature of a course) and can be framed and installed by any good carpenter.

In addition to working drawings of intricate parts, the folder contains a rough bill of materials and construction details for each hole. It also explains the manner of laying out the suggested compact courses so that one hole may be shot along several fairways, thus ,conserving lawn space. Hazards, sides, and ornamentation are all in wood construc- tion. It has been found in the growth of this baby industry that lumber for such purposes has proved easy to work and adapt to a.variety of designs, is readily available, attractive and readily movable.

Sample ,copies of "Build Your Own Miniature Golf Courses," which dealers can now begin to use as a part of their spring sales campaign, may be had on request to the Washington offi,ces of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

Lumbermen's Atlas of British Columbia

A valuable addition to the works of reference dealing with the lumber industry of British Columbia is the "Lumbermen's Atlas of British Columbia", issued by the publishers of the "British Columbia Lumberman". This work was prepared with the co-operation of theBritish Columbia Forest Service, who, realizing the service they were performing to the industry, made fully available to the publishers the essential and accurate information they possessed regarding the geographical location, nature and capacity of the operations within the jurisdiction of their various districts. The result is a comprehensive collection of no less than sixteen maps, indicating the position and proximity torail and steamboat points of iix hundred operations, large and small. Five hundred minor opera- tions are also listed. By means of a reference index-it is possible for subscribers to this Atlas to locate every mill and camp of any importance in British Columbia and estimate the cost of reaching them, two special maps giving railway and steamer fares to the principal destinations. -

No previous effort to map out so completely the operat- ing area of a far-flung major industrial irea lias e'oei beett attempted. Nor has a publication of this description so effectively visualized the vast extent of British Coiumbia's lumber industry. Copies may be obtained from the publishers, "Gordon Black Publications, Ltd., 909 Metrobolitan Building, Vancouver, B. C.," at a price of $2.00 per cbpy.