The RED RIVER LUMBER CO.

MILL FACTORIES and SALES, WESTWOOD, CALIFORNTA Dirtributing Yardr, CHICAGO and I.oS ANGELES SALES OFFICES:

Monadnock Bldg, t07 Hcnncpin Avc., 361) N. Michigen Blvdr' 702 E. Sleuron Avc, SAN FRANCTSCO MINNE.APOLIS CHICAGO .LOS ANGELES

MORRILL & STURGEON MANAGER VISITS SOUTH

Mr. C. W. Buckner, manag'er of the Morrill & Sturgeon Lumber Company, Portland, lvas a recent visitor in Southern California.

While in Los Angeles he made his headquarters with W. W. Wilkinsog, Southern California representative for Morrill& Sturgeon.

..MOST ASTONISHING TRANSFORMATION IN ECONOMIC HISTORY''

Washington, Dec. 6.-The annual report of the Department of Commerce has Christmas cheer for homebuilders; says the economist of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association. The part made public today shows that while potential home builders have been increasing their earnings, the cost of building materials has decreased. Since 1920 Union wages have increased 39 points and general prices have decreased 76 points. Since 1923 general prices have decreased 4 points and wages have increased 17 points. In the latter period frame-house materials, at retail, have declined from an index of 198 in L923 arid 206 in I924to L95 in 1926. In the same period building materials as a whole, at wholesale, have declined from 188 in !923 and 182 in 1924 to 174 in 1926.

The Secretary of Commerce says of the simultaneous increase in wages and still grreater decreaSe in prices of commodities during the past six yearp,: "Thanks to the eliminationof waste and other contributing factors we can as a nation show one of the most astonishing transformations in economic history."

Yes, They Enjoyed the sixty-nveserr-assertedl*-t*gi}*f "9h;I3.1fJ

ber 2nd Los Angeles Hoo Hoo Club meeting, when Leo Rosenberg presided at one of the most unique programs that has ever been presented to the club.

Leothunk up theidea all himself, set the stage, furnished the prizes, and led the rough-neck stufi that-lasted until close totwo o'clock-

The party had been billed as a "Rough-Neck Meeting," so Leo had the tables arranged inregulir camp style. No cloths, the ice water was in beer botfles. knivei and forks were just paddles made from California Sugar Pine, the coffee was in tin cups and the table decorations were beautiful carrot and onion tops, in old rusty tin cans.

The food was a box-lunch, and the napkin was a long strip of various colored materials that had been sewed to-gether, a strip about a foot wide and long enough to reach around the table.

The Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company won the prize for the represented by the large'pt number of Roughnec_ks, there being six there from this company.

Cliff Estes won the title of the Roughest frough-neck, !'rank Curran was judged the Youngest Rough-neck and Bobbie Byrne had no opposition in the race for being the OIdest. Appropriate prizes were awarded.

A Grand Prize had been announced for the man who couldprove that he was rougher than Gus Hoover, but this e-vent was postponed as Gus was out of the city and therefore not able to defend his title.

The Committee on the December 23rd Orphans Partv had the floor for some time and were successfll in selling a large number of tickets to the boys. Al Koehl is handling the finances for this affair, and reports that the money is coming in daily, and that they eipect to reach theil goal.

HOO-HOO HEADQUARTERffi-OCCUPY LARGER OFF'ICES AF"TER DECEMBER 15

The International Headquarters of the Order will be moved from the Arcade Building to the Central National Bank Building, in St. Louis, about December 15.

Favorleasing Of Tidelands For Yards

San Diego, Nov. 27.-Directors of the San Diego realty board are in heartv accord with the citv harbor commission's plans for leaiing city tidelands to iocal lu*Uer companies, they stated in a letter filed today with the city council, in which they urge the council to adopt the commission's plans.

Scilendficall5r Seasoned

)Douglas Filr Lum.ber

/-ronnECT seasoning of Long8ell trade\-, marked Douglas Fir lumber is assured by Long-Bell methods. The dry-kilns at Longview, '\UTashington' -the largest in the Pacific Northwest-are scientifically controlled. Men of skill and experience supervise this important work.

The lumber is seasoned in classes-one class to the kiln room. It is stacked fl.at,seasoned flat and stays flat.

The high standards of production that have given Long-8e11 lumber its reputation are rigidly observed. i :

The name Long-Bell on the end of the piece is a mark that lumber buyers respect.

THE LONG,BELL LUMBER COMPANY

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(Continued from Page 20) changed product. High pressure salesmanship is introducing inferior material while the better material rots in the forest.

Changes Are Slow

It is a serious mistake to make people believe that the universal displacement of wood is just a matter of time. Such fundamental changeb do not take place suddenly. There are 20,000,000 automobiles in the United States with the power of 300,000,000 horses; but the number of horses and mules has fallen o4ly 5,000,000 since 1910. Suppose some eloquent prophet had persuaded people to stop breeding horses and mules in 1900 ! Even now, despite farm tractors and trucks by the mlUions, our wagon factories are still providing the farmers with about half as many wagons as ever-mostly wood.

Wood in its natural condition will never be entirely displaced until men have learned howartificially to make wood, or something with its prized and loved qualities and attributes. Not even the tiniest step has been taken in that direction. In the meantime, substitutes of a different nature, some better and some inferior for their purposes, necessarily will gradually corne in, as population increases and thc relative timber supply' decreases, but we shall have pressing uses forall the lumber and other adaptations of rvood that agriculture will leave to nature's myriad ceaseless wood factories. And the by-products of the shaping of wood for utilization will be sufficient to take care of all the legitimate demands on cellulose for decades to come.

The owners of the $10,000,000,000 of interested capital, and the 1,200,000 persons engaged in the lumber industry and the 60,000,000 people that live in frame houses need not despair of their capital, their jobs and their home values. On-the whole, the substitutes, including formidable steel itself, will in the long run displace lumber only as fast as the supply.of lumber is inadequate to the preferential de- mand upon it. It wil be a slow evolution or devblution, if you will, and one that may have some sharp turns. Even while Professor Wendt was predicting the ousting of lumber by steel for walls and frames of houses, another scientist was writing that even for huge buildings alloys will take the place of steel. Still another was urging the economical substitution of aluminum for steel in engines and cars.

Rot and Fire Enemies of Wood

Rot and fire are the chief enemies of wood. Preservative chernical processes have already multiplied the lives of ties, posts and poles by three or more. Incombustible paints and impregnatidns have made a start in opposition to fire, bnt a great field is here. This is something the chemists can do today, now. To make wood slow-burning and eliminate the fire-hazard will confer a social service of universal benefit.

Economies in the manufacture and utilization of lumber may long defer the necessary advent of substitutes. The log can be inade to yield more lumber, more logs can be made bome out of the forests, and the lumber may be made to go further and last longer on the building job and in the factory. The growing use of veneers and plywood may be fruitful of great economies. In plywood, even newer than the resinoids, lve have a sort of improved lumber-a lumber that, while retaining the admirable natural characteristics of wood, gives better service for many purPoses than solid wood.

Economies and manufacturing changes may do more to make wood persist than synthesis can do to oust it.