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Wants Position

Lumberman experienced in lumber, hardware and buitding material business open for a poeition. Southern California experience. Willing worker. Good references. Address Box C-700, Catifornia Lumber Merchant.

For Lease

\ll/arehouse suitable for lumber storage or building material business. 80x135 feet, with 20-foot head clearance, Santa Fe Railway trackage, equipped with office space and 15-ton unloading electric hoist. Will lease for five years. Roy E. Harrington, 1109 Main Street, Venice, Calif. phone Santa Monica 64993.

Experienced Lumberman

Yotrng, married, thoroughly capable and aggressive lumberman desires connection with manufacturer, wholesaler or retail line yard concern. Experience includes West Coast and California sawmill, eight years manufacturer's representative in East, and five years retail selling, buying and office experience. Address Box C-701, California Lumber Merchant.

Lumber Yards For Sale

Lumber yards for sale. Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers, 801 Petroleum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 8746.

U. S. Lumber and Los Exports and Imports Efeven Months 1937

Total exports of hardwood and softwood lumber (including sawed timber and logs) for the first eleven months of 1937 totalled 1,474,M M board feet as compared with l,519,838 M feet for the corresponding period of 1936, a loss of about 3 per.cent, according to figures just released by the Forest Products Division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Of the 1937 amount, 1,311,405 M feet was of sawed material as compared with 1,199,039 M feet for 1936, a gain of nearly 10 per cent. The 1937 exports of logs and hewn timber amounted to 162,8O3 M feet as against 3n,799 M feet for 1936, a loss of approximately 5O per cent.

In the sawn softwood group, Douglas fir was the most important species exported, totaling 531,038 M feet for the first eleven months ol 1937, a gain of 9 per cent as compared with the corresponding period of 1936. Southern pine totalled 322,535 M feet as compared with 3n,n6 M feet for the corresponding period of 1936. Other woods in the group recorded gains at the end of the nine months period were: The "white pines" up 19 per cent over 1936 and spruce up 22 per cent. Redwood and cedar were only slightly above the 1936 volume. Woods in this group recording losses were hemlock down 34 per cent, and cypress down 1O per cent.

Sawn hardwoods totalled 337,222 M feet for the first eleven months ol 1937, as compared with D0,572 M feet f.or 1936, a gain of 16 per cent. In this group all species except hickory, chestnut and mahogany made gains, the largest footage gains being made by oak, ash and poplar.

Softwood log exports this year amounted to 14O,894 M feet compared with n7,217 M feet in 1936, whereas hardwood logs amounted to 21,9@ M feet against 23,582 M feet in 1936.

Total imports of hardwood and softwood logs and lumber (including cabinet woods) for the first eleven months of. 1937 totalled 768,808 M feet as compared with 69P,ffi

M feet for the corresponding period of 1936. Of this 1937 amount 136,738 M feet were logs'(hardwood and softwood), 524,M2 M feet were softwood lumber,, and 108,028 M feet were hardwood lumber and sawed cabinet woods as against 93,307 M feet of logs, 521,982 M feet of softwood lumber, and 84,315 M feet of hardwood lumber and sawed cabinet woods for the comparable period of 1936.

In the "logs" group, imports of cedar logs for the first eleven months of 1937 amounted to 25,534 M board feet; mahogany accounted f.or 21,798 M feet; and fir, spruce and Western Hemlock for 78,484 M feet.

In the softwood lumber group spruce was by far the most important species imported, totaling n5,812 M feet. The second most important segregated species imported was pine with imports of. 8O,324 M feet, whereas fir and hemlock totaled together 133,832 M feet.

The reciprocal trade agreement signed by the United States and Canada allotted Canada an annual quota of 25Q0OO,O00 board feet of Douglas fir and Western hemlock to enter the United States at a $2 duty and excise tax. From January 1 to November 27, 1937, imports of these woods subject to this quota totalled 131,5O5,816 board feet, according to preliminary figures supplied by the Bureau of the Customs of the Treasury Department.

The quota on importations of red cedar shingles from Canada, established under Executive Order No. 7701 of September 3, 1937, which limited importation of this commodity to 892,373 squares during the last six months of the calendar year 1937 , was filled on Novemb er l, 1937

Detailed monthly statistics of the U. S. exports and imports of hardwood and softwood logs and lumber are compiled by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce and are available from the Bureau on a subscription basis. Special statistics covering imports subject to quota are compiled by the Customs Bureau and are made available to the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.