THE WISE WILL BUY DEALER NOW!

There will be the heaviest curtailment of mill production in the Northwest during December that has ever been known. N; doubt about it. Stocks will be much lower January first than they are now. The rra,tional lumber situation is very much stronger than it has been all year. Our opinion is that the Fir market will be much stronger in 1926 than in 1925; a purchase at present prices is a good bry.

Los Angeles Hoo Hoo Plans forChristmas Party To OrPhans

B. W. Byrne, of the \Mestern Hardwood Lumber Comoanv. Los -Anseles, as chairman of the Christmas Party 'Cotimitt.. of ihe Los Angeles Hoo Hoo CIub, assisted-by Harry Hanson, Roy Stanton, Herrnan Rosenberg, Gus Hoover and Paul Hillingby, have completed arrangements for the monster affair, to Ui: neta at the Elite Cafe, at noon, December 23rd.

They will entertain three h,undred and fifty.orphans from ."netai institutions in Los Angeles, poor kiddies who otherwise would have no Christmas cheer.

The party is being financed thlgugh the sale of tickets to the lumbeimen of Southern California, each ticket costing $1.00 and providing for a splendid luncheon and entertainment for oae child.

The boys will go to various homes at eleven o'clock on the morning of the 23rd, pick up their 'family' and take the children tolhe Elite. Each man rvill act as a daddy to his flock of poor love-hungry mites, and will see to it that they have the time of their lives.

The advance sale of tickets, according to Mr' Byrne, assures the committee that they will be able to take care of the above stated number, and he suggests that more money will be welcome, to take care of the entertainment features.

All lumbermen are invited and urged to attend the meetirg.

Change In Los Angeles Yard

J. K. Sine has sold his interest in the Dolan-Sine Lumber Company, 83rd St. and Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, to Mr. J. C. Dolan.

Barge Lumber will be ShiPPed to Florida City

Lumber, sawed, fit and ready for assembling into seven barges, is being loaded on schooners Alvena and Irene at Gray's Harbor for shipment to Miami.

These barges will constitute the nucleus of equipment for a branch of the Crowley Launch and Towboat Company in the Florida boom port, according to Thomas Crowley, president of the company.

The shipment of the barges on the schooners will be followed by the dispatch from California of six other larger barges in tow of two Red Stack tugs for Miami. These barges will be used for lightering purposes. The need for them, it is explained, is pressing owing to the fact that the channel from the sea to the city is shallow and that vessels drarving more than 16 feet of water cannot at present navigate the channel.

Dispatching of California tugs and lighters to Florida is causing much discussion in coast shipping circles. It is pointed out that calls have been made on Nelv York, Boston and other Atlantic ports for tugs for lightering equipment to relieve the congestion, especially of lumber awaiting discharge from ships at Miami, but either for the reason that there is a shortage of this equipment on the_east coast or that the tuboat and lightering companies fear that Miami's phenomenal expansion is only a bubble soon to burst, the companies have not entered the field.

APPRECIATING THE MANY COUR. TESIES EXTENDED IN THE PAST, AND ANTICIPATING HARMONIOUS BUSI. NESS RELATIONS FOR THE COMING YEAR, WE SINCERELY SEND OUR VERY BEST WISHES TO OUR OLD FRIENDS FOR A

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A NEW YEAR

FULL TO O'ERFLOWING WITH HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY

MARK W. LILLARD, Inc, 6493 Stanford Avenue .LOS ANGELES

Leading Species in the Several Lumber States

The state of Washington produced more Douglas fir in 1923 than any other one state produced of a single species, or 5,047,712 M feet. Louisiana ranks next with a 2,598,754 M feet cut of Southern yellow pine. Of the hardwoods

Michigan produced more maple in 1923 than any one state produced of a single hardwood species or 360,523 M feet.

Arkansas's production of oak, D5,418 M feet, comes next on the list for hardwoods.

Kinds of wood in the production of which the specified state ranked first in 1923 are as follows:

Arkansas ....Oak, hickory, sycamore

California Western pine, redwood, white fir, sugar pine

Colorado Lodgepole pine

Louisiana..Yellow pine, cypress, red gum, tupelo, ash

Maine ..Balsam fir

Michigan ...Maple, beech

Minnesota White pine, cottonwood

Montana Larch

Ohio .... Walnut

Oregon Spruce

Tennessee Yellow poplar

Washington ....Douglas fir, hemlock, cedar

West Virginia . ..... Chestnut

Wisconsin Birch. elm. basswood

San Pedro Sets Record

November 24th saw another record broken at the port of San Pedro, when thirty lumber vessels were repoited unloading at the various docks. This is the largest number of lumber carriers at dock at this port, in one day, in the history of the city.

INCREASE IN RE-INSPECTION CHARGES

Effective January l, 1926, re-inspections of lumber from mills not members of the California White and Sugar Pine Association will be charged for at the rate of $25 per day plus expenses. This increased charge was made necessary by the fact that some of the smaller mills have been taking advantage of Association Re-inspection Service by calling for re-inspection on stock that has been poorly graded, or not graded at all at the mill. The call for re-inspectiorr by non-member mills has reached such large proportions that it has become a severe drain oq Association Inspection resources, besides being handled ordinarily at a loss.

If such mills would join the Association, thereby securing the benefit of its regrilar mill inspections, or would employ competent graders, this charge would not be necessary.

The California White and Sugar Pine Manufacturers' Association is interested only in seeing that the lumber products from its. territory, regardless of origin, are held to highest standards of grade and manufacture, as any shipment below standard refects on the good name of the region.

C. STOWELL SMITH, Secretary-Manager.

State Contest Winner

Miss Rhoma Brokaw, a Campfire Girl of Eureka, Hurnboldt County, was singularly honored as the leading contestant and winner of the State Prize of fifty dollars, awarded by the California White and Sugar Pine Manufacturers' Association in connection with the state-wide Stop Forest Fires Campaign.

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Main Saler Officc

Hobrrt Bldg. SAN FRANCISCO

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