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Shabta-Cascade Hoo-Hcio Club Hears Forestry Speaker

The Shasta County Hoo-Hoo Club held their regular monthly dinner meeting at La Porta's. V. A. Parker, Supervisor of Lassen National Forest was the guest speaker of the evening. He spoke on the subject of "Forestry Angles in Marketing Government Timber." Mr. Parker outlined forest service practice and in addition, touched upon the subject of the tremendous amount of timber, a great deal of which is mature and ready for harvesting, not only in Lassen National Forest but in other National Forests located in the counties of Siskiyou, Shasta, Trinity, Humboldt and other areas. He stated that it has been conservatively estimated that on a sustained yield basis, approximately 470 million feet could be harvested annually, with a great deal of this timber available for mills in Redding and nearby points. At the present time only about 85 million feet is being harvested annually from these areas. After his talk, Mr. Parker answered many very interesting questions.

The next dinner meeting will be held at La Porta's in Redding on Saturday, December 29. President Erv Bartel appointed Coy Brown, Chairman, with Carl Knauer and H. K. Ludington as a committee to arrang'e details for Ladies Night. Dancing will follow the dinner.

Preparations are being made to hold a Concatenation on February 16. Exact details of this meeting will be completed at a later date.

Plywood Plant To Be Built ln Juneau, Alaska

Announcement was made recently by Thomas A. Morgan, president of Columbia Lumber Company of Alaska, Juneau, that his company will build a plywood plant in Juneau which will give constant employment to about-200 workers. Construction costs of the plant are estimated in excess of $1,000,000.

Mr. Morgan estimates that the plant will be completed about the middle o{ next summer. Full production schedule calls for three million feet of finished plywood to be turned out each rronth.

The announcement followed the successful bid of the Juneau conlpany oI $418,275 f.or 777 niillion feet of topgrade timber in a stand on Kosciusko Island. The U. S. Forest Service announced the awarding of the contract October 24.

The main building of the plywood plant will occupy all area of 80,000 square feet. The building will be 4OO feet long by 200 feet wide.

The timber stand recently acquired by the company col'rtains high quality spruce, hemlock and cedar.

Alaskans will have first ,call on the plywood produced at the nerv factory. The balance will be shipped to eastern markets in the United States, Mr. Morgan said.

White or true firs make beautiful Christmas trees. The seecls and bracts of the cones fall, leaving a candle-like core.