New Redwood Mill in Op"ration at \Tiflits

Hobbs Wall Lumber Co. to Handle Sales

Announcement was made in the December 1 issue that the new sawmill of The Sage Land & Improvement Company at Willits, Calif., rvould start operation about December 15.

This mill has been under construction for approximately a year, and is complete in every detail. It will manufacture Redwood and Fir lumber from timber owned by the Sage interests west of Willits. It wiil cut about 70.000 feet per day on one shift.

The owners of this operation, The Sage Land & Improvement Company, a New, York corporation, have had a very interesting history.

H. W. Sage & Company was founded by H. W. Sage of Ithaca, New York, which had acqrrired extensive White Pine timber lands in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. They operated a sawmill at Bay City, Michigan, during the 7Os and SOs, and also acquired a considerable acreage of Pine timber in Mississippi and Alabama. Dean Sage and W. H. Sage, became associated with their father in the business during this time.

In 1893 The Sage Land & fmprovement Company was incorporated in New York State for the purpose of taking over and administering the business of H. W. Sage & Company. The main office was moved to Albany, New York, which was then a distributing center of lumber and and timber products coming from the Great Lakes area by way of the Erie Canal. Upon the death of H. W. Sage, his son, 'W'. H. Sage became president of the company, and Henry M. Sage, his grandson, became active in the business. The Michigan timber was finally cut out and the company began liquidating its timber lands in the South, the greater part of which were disposed of by 1916. ing with The advantages of builds with wood are beina being told to government and in-dushial executives, architects, engineers and builders in their business papers -Business Week, Ar;hitectural Forum, Encrineering News Record, Aro-erican Builder & Building Age. Advertisements lifte tfiis one reproduced here point to the added value qained by buil&ng with loni-lived Wolmanized Lumber. rn.gdltcred Trado Ma:l

In the meanwhile proceeds of the sale of the Southern timber were invested in Redwood timber in California. During the period I9O5-192O the company purchased approximately 100,000 acres of Redwood timber lands. Some of these lands were subsequently disposed of so that The Sage Land & Improvement Company now owns 85,000 acres of Redwood and Fir timber, principally in Mendocino and Humboldt Counties.

Present officers of the company are: Dean Sage, president, New York; A. G. C. Sage, first vice-president, New York; E. O. Holter, Jr., vice-president and general manager, San Francisco. The mill manager is John S. Ross, Jr., Willits.

Hobbs Wall Lumber Company, San Francisco, will handle the sales. This concern's name is one that is favorably known to most of the retail lumber dealers in all parts of the country.

For seventy years we have suPP[ied hardwoods of every commercial kind to Pacific Coast users. We, [i[ee the rest of the X.umber furdusffiyrare directing affi outr energy toward the war effort untiX. fula[ victory!

Treated lumber is giving a splen&d account of itsell during these days when every available man is needed for vital war production. Construction in which Wolm.rrir6d f.,r m her was usd, is requiring only a minimum of attention for maintenance. It is establishirg a reputation which will earn an important place for this long-lived l"mber in postwar markets.

Wobnanized Lumber is distributed nationally through regular trade chanaels. We are counting on you to handle the postwar demand. American Lumber & Treating Company, 1648 McCormick Building, Chicago, Illinois.

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Christmas D.y Should be Observed Says \fPB Chairman Nelson

Washington, Nov. 27.-Donald M. Nelson, WPB Chairman, today issued the following statement:

During this year of war there have been no full holidays in war production. With patriotic zeal, management and workers in our mines and factories have made even such traditional holidays as fndependence Day and Labor Day days of steady unbroken production. It has been necessary to do this, because of the overwhelming need to turn out munitions and essential equipment in the greatest possible volume without delays or interruption, and the country has recognized this need and has met it.

Now we come to the Christmas holiday. I believe that this day should be the one exception to the rule which has been observed thus far.

More than ever before in our lives, I suppose, we need this year to pause from our labors on Christmas Day and think deeply and humbly about the faith by which we live, in order that from the profound promise of this day we may draw the hope and the vision which we must have. On the birthday of the Prince of Peacc we can and should rest from the production of the weapons of war.

Therefore, except for such maintenance and stand-by crperations as are necessary for best productive efficiency, I hope that in all war plants where it can possibly be done Christmas Day this year will be observed as a full holiday. After the holiday, we must drive ahead with renewed energy for the increased production job of 1943-a bigger job than we have ever faced before.

Hoo-Hoo Club No.39 Christmas Party Senate Committee Hearing3 on Propored Forest Products Service Plan To Be Held December 18

Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 will hold its annual Christmas Party on Friday evening, December 18, in the Hotel Leamington Bowl, Oakland.

Vice-president D. Normen Cords is in charge of the program, and vouches for the quality of the entertainment, which includes 13 bigtime vaudeville acts. These will include Leonard Auletti's Band, Sonia Shaw, NBC song stylist, Emil & Evelyn, "the King and Queen of the Teeterboard," formerly with George Jessel's show, and other stars, headed by Billy Grant as master of cere- monies.

Washington, Dec. l-A proposal by the U. S. Forest Service to employ $100,000,000 of Commodity Credit Corporation funds with the avowed purpose of augmenting lumber production for war needs by financing and otherwise assisting hundreds of small lumber mills in the South and East, came under the scrutiny of Senator Truman's committee investigating the war program in hearings here November 24 and 25.

The proposal, known as the Forest Products Service Plan, with the joint endorsement of Secretary of Agriculture Wickard and WPB Chairman Nelson, is now before President Roosevelt for approval. Spokesmen for the lumber industry have freely characterized it, and the proposed plan of federal control of forestry practices with which recently it was coupled, as a covert attempt by the Forest Service to obtain, by executive order and without open public debate and consideration. a wide measure of domination over the country's private forest industries.

President George Clayberg estimates there will be an attendance of about 2@, and, suggests bringing along a Service man as a dinner guest.

January 1 Deadline On Tire Certificates

Washington, Dec. 1.-Commercial vehicle operators who have applied for certificates of rvar necessity but have not yet received them may qualify for tires until January I under a ruling today by the Office of Price Administration. OPA said it made the ruling in order to give the Office of Defense Transportation more time to put certificates into the hands of operators.

Fha To Build 8oo Homes In Richmond

The Federal Housing Authority in San Francisco announced November 30 that a contract for $1,310,475 had been awarded for construction of 800 temporary family units at Richmond near the shipyards. The contractor, who will begin work immediately, is the G. W. Williams Company of Burlingame.

The plan would set up in the Forest Service a new unit to be known as the Forest Products Service and would endow it with broad authority to "procure, produce, store, and sell forest products."

Ben Alexander, WPB lumber coordinator; Arthur lJpson, director of the Lumber and Lumber Products Division, WPB; Col. W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association; H. C. Berckes, secretary of the Southern Pine War Committee, and S. V. Fullaway, secretary-manager of the 'Western Pine Association, testified before the committee.

Housing

Housing accommodations rented to the National Housing Agency for remodeling and cortversion into war workers' dwelling quarters are exempt from Federal rent regulation, OPA announces; rents charged by NHA to war workers subletting the dwelling remains subject to maximum rent regulations, however (Supplementary Amendment 11 to Maximum Rent Regulations), effective November 24. oPA-tt74.

Len Cooper In Navy

Len Cooper of the Portland office of Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, has been called into the U. S. Navv.

On this our Eightieth Christmas, we of r\DOtBEER & GARSON'' join with you in Pledging Ourselves to do all we can to make Future Holiday Seasons

More Joyous