Business Outlook For 1936

A. J. RUSSELL, Manager, Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco

In the writer's opinion the prospects for lumber trade in the'coming year are excellent.

Conditions have automatically bettered themselves throughout the consuming territory and unless something very untilward is to put in its appearance, the consumption for 1936 should be easily 4O per cent over 1935.

If our country could rid itself of political bugaboos, false theory and labor unrest there rvould be no bottnd to our prosperity in the coming year.

J. H. SHEPARD, Manager, Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento

Just received your letter this morning, so will give you my ideas on the lumber business for the year 1936. -I think it's going to be big all over Caiifornia as rvell as in Sacramento and vicinity.

We have had lots of home-building here since July and I believe it's just getting started.

Several large projects are scheduled for 1936 in Sacramento, and with all the prospects for homes, I think it will be just what the doctor ordered for the poor lumber business.

L. R. BYERS, Secretary-General Manager, Citizens Mill & Lumber Co., Ventura

Relative to our opinion as to the outlook for business in 1936 in this territory, would say from the prospect file which we have and the indications generally, we predict a conservative increase of 3313 per cent over 1935.

L. C. HAMMOND, Hammond & Little River Redwood Co., Ltd., San Francisco

The outlook for Redwood business, both here and abroad, is excellent for the year L936. The three disturbing elements are: first, restless condition of labor on the Pacific Coast; second, lack of confidence in Congress; and, third, the demoralized price of Common Douglas Fir.

FRANK BURNABY, President, Sun Lumber Company, Beverly Hills

I do not know of anything that has to do with the future that is any more clear than the fact there will be a large amount of buiding and a good demand for lumber all through this territory during 1936, and probably for several years thereafter.

Practically every architect, builder and sub-contractor we know is busy working on proposed projects for the future, and everywhere rve find laymen enthusiastic about owning their own homes.

L. J. WOODSON, Wheeler Osgood Sales Corporation, San Francisco

Answering yours of December 20th in regard to the outlook for business in Northern California for 1936, I am glad to say it looks decidedly encouraging.

Building of individual family dwellings in Northern California, and particularly in the Bay Region, has gotten well under way the latter part of this year and it looks to us as if it is a mere drop in the bucket to what we may expect in the first quarter of 1936, and to continue throughout the vear.