New Markets for Northwest Forest Products Increase

Seattle, Washington, January 10, l938.-Airplane hangars in Vermont, a great highway bridge in Ohio, an automobile carloading dock in Detroit, oil derricks and walking beams in Kansas, wood water pipe in Pittsburgh, piling and timbers for the construction of the New York World's Fair, earthquake-resistant school buildings in California, a ski jump in Soldiers' Field, Chicago-such are a few of the highlights of the use of Pacific Northwest forest products throughout the country in 1937, according to Seattle officials of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association.

"The great economic contribution of the lumber industry of Western Washington and Oregon to the nation is in the field of home building," said Association heads, in a statement issued yesterday. "Heavy construction, however, is especially dependent on the Douglas fir region for wood. In 1937 the development of designs in timber engineering greatly increased the use of wood in heavy structures, replacing more costly materials. Metal ring connectors, adding tenfold to the strength of bolted timber joints, and new methods of laminating lumber in a variety of truss forms, have been the main factors of growing demand for West Coast timbers in heavy construction."

"This lamination principle has also been applied to large timbers, as for oil well walking beams," the statement continued. "Wood, because ofits low rigidity, is preferred for the job of pumping oil from great depths. By uniting three timbers in a new design, we now have walking beams that safely support center dead weight of 90,000 pounds and more and have the flexible strength required for dependable pumping of oil from a mile below ground surface. Timber engineering has made the wood derrick the modern-type derrick of the oil industry. This is one example of a market that was greatly enlarged for Oregon and Washington forest products in 1937."

There are more than 6@ standard commercial items in an averag'e Douglas fir log, while forest products labora- tories list 25,W uses for wood, the Association officials said, in pointing out the possibilities of new markets for the forest products of the Pacific Northwest.

"With the two states of the region containing the nation's greatest supply of big timber, and with the values of our woods now proven by examples of use over long periods, sales of our forest products should increase steadily for years," the Association statement concluded. "For example, ten years ago the world's largest hotel, the Stevens of Chicago, was built, with Douglas fir heartwood sash being used in the structure's 5000 windows. The hotel architects had specified this wood because of an actual use test of seventeen years' duration in another Chicago building. Facing the blasts of Lake Michigan winds, the sash in these 5000 windows remains as good as new, a giant testimonial to the durability of woods grown and manufactured in the Pacific Northwest. Another example is the satisfactory service given for seventeen years by three l3-foot pipe lines made of Douglas fir staves, in carrying the entire flow of the Androscogging River at Berlin, New Hampshire, to a paper mill. As such examples multiply, and as their years of good service increase, the market value of Oregon and Washington wood is steadily enhanced.

WITH MARIS PLYWOOD CORP.

Harry Dodge, formerly with Harbor Plywood tion, Hoquiam, is now a member of the sales Maris Plywood Corporation, San Francisco. He ing on industrial sales.

San Francisco Visitors

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Roy Bleecker, general manager of the Westfir Lumber Co., Westfir, Ore., was in San Francisco over the holidays. He was accompanied by Mrs. Bleecker, and they attended the East-West football game at Kezat Stadium on New Year's Day.

Heads Rose Parade Golden Jubilee Committee

Lathrop Leishman, Crown City Lumber & Mill Co., Pasadena, and vice-president of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association, has been named chairman of the Golden Jubilee Committee which will have charge of next year's event, when the fiftieth anniversary of the Parade of Roses will be celebrated.

Mr. Leishman states: 'lWe contemplate two weeks of brilliant celebration starting New Year's Day, 1939. Although only extremely sketchy at present, our plans call for a historical pageant of even greater proportions than in past years. A football tournament will also be included and the celebration will continue a fortnight."

HELPS PUT G-M MEN BACK TO WORK

Ray Julien, Los Angeles salesman for E. K. Wood Lumber Co., is doing his bit to get the General Motors' mechanics back on the payroll again. He is now covering his territory in a new 1938 Buick. His initial trip in the new machine was on New Year's day when he drove to Santa Anita to take in the races.

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John C. Light, Light's Lumber Company, Miami, Arizona.

San Francisco Visitors

J. W. Thompson, of the Thompson Lumber & Piling Co., Portland, recently spent a few days in San Francisco on business.

J. Walter Kelly, Kelly-Smith Calif., and Mrs. Kelly, were Christmas holidays.

Bates Smith, manager of the Donald & Harrington, traveled the Christmas holidays. He Smith.

Lumber Co., Wilmington, in San Francisco for the

Los Angeles office of Macto San Francisco to spend was accompanied by Mrs.

Sugar Pine Panels Used for Modernizing Building

Portland, Ore.-Modernizing of stores and shops, both exterior and interior, has been quite the vogue the past year. Progressive concerns realize the distinction and advertising value of keeping their places of business smart looking and abreast of the times. An outstanding example of what can be accomplished in the modernization of old buildings has recently been completed in Portland, Oregon, for Milton L. Gumbert, one of the city's leading furriers at 816 S.W. Morrison St. Several unusual decorative features were incorporated during the remodeling program that are interesting and worthy of mention. On the black and silver facade of the building, over the main entrance on Morrison Street, is a mammoth glass brick square with a silver fox designed and hand wrought from a single piece of aluminum by L. Dietchman of the Arts and Crafts Society of Portland.

In the colonnaded main salon are displayed five large hand-carved pine panels, each depicting a fur-bearing animal-a leopard, beaver, bear, skunk and seal. They were designed and carved in low relief by Fritz von Schmidt, well known Portland artist and decorator. Sugar Pine, one of the Western Pines, was selected by Mr. von Schmidt for the panels because of its excellence as a wood carving material and its availability in clear pieces of large dimensions. The panels, which separately measure approximately three feet by six feet in size, form the basic decorative motif for the interior of this firm's new quarters. Abbott Lawrence, of Lawrence-Holford & Allyn, was the architect, and the construction was under the supervision of Robertson, Ifay & Wallace, Portland contractors.