UICTl| R Eigh Eatly Sltength PORTIAND GEMENT

Gucncrnteed to meel or exceed requirements ol Americqn Society lor Testing Materiqls Specificq' tions lor High Ecrrly Strength Portlcrnd Cement, <rs well cs Federcrl Specificcrtions lor Cement, Portlcrnd, High-Ecnly-Strength, No. E-SS-C-201 cr.

EIGf, DART.Y STRIIIGTH

(28 dcrv concrele etrengths in 2l hours.)

SI'TPf,ATD RESISTAIIT

(Besult ol compound composition cnd usuclly lound only in specicl cements desigmed lor this pur.: pose.)

DIII|ilIUM

(Extremely severe cuto-clcrve test results consistently indiccrte prcrcticclly no expcnsion or contrdction, thus elimincting one oI mosl rlifiiqqll problens in use oI c high ecrrly strength cement.)

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PAPDR SACf,

(Users' csaurcrnce ol lreEh gtoclc unilonnity cnd proper regultg lor concrete.)

Mcmulactured by ql our Vidorrillo, Cqlilornia, "Wet Proces!" Mill

Weel Sevcnth Street Lor Aagelcr. Cclilprdc

I rvould like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on the splendid Christmas issue of The California Lumber Nferchant. In calling on the dealers in our territory I l.rave heard manl' complin.rentary remarks on this issue.

Jack F. Pomeroy llxecutive Vice-J'resident Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California

You rvill find enclosed a check for scription to your swell magazine. I find it very ne\rrsy and up-to-date that a good lumberman should knol'. to a year of s'ivell reading.

I.lnclosed for another l)ark,

A. J. Bourkarcl Nk-,nterey

herervith check covering nr.v subscription year of good reading.

Paul Revert I-os Angeles,

Your editorials in the Lumber N{erchant are alu'avs greatly appreciated by us. We r'vere especially glad you reprinted in the Christmas issue your editorial of a year ago concerning the Christmas Story by Doctor Luke. Last year's issue we passed along to manl' friends to read until rve finally got it lost. This year \\:e are nou, making a number of copies of the fore part of this to hand out to other friends. \\re just especially 'ivanted to pass this along as a l\ferry Cl.rristmas to vou.

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H. Macy

X'Iacy l-umber' C--or.n pauy Orland. Calif.

\\rhat a thrill to get your Christmas edition of the "N{erchant." I have looked it over tu'ice now, and rvill no doubt again-for in it, did I see several things of ir-rterest particularly also your page on 25 years ago in the Merchant. Thanks again, for much pleasant reading. Yes-I even enjoyetl the ads-for, for originality and design, they are reallv an achievcm e n t' 1\{ ore Po\\re r tnri""ott' ".r, clricksorr Nerv York. N. \'.

1'our Christmas Issue 'ivas the biggest and ever had.

Ed LaFranchi Pacific Forest Prodttcts,

Inc. Oakland, Calif.

A new building to house the Los Angeles area retail sales and service organization for Hyster industrial trucks will be opened about January 1 at 5301 Pacific Blvd., Huntington Park, according to an announcement from Ray Ronald, western division sales manager of the Hyster Company, Portland Oregon.

The reinforced concrete structure, designed by Henry L. Eggers, architect, covers 7500 square feet, including a large showroom, a parts and service department, and several offices. A plate glass window fronts the display section, and the entrance is finished in field stone. Adjoining in the back is a 40 x 75 foot outside storage area.

Mill Adds New Equipment

American Lumber & Mfg. Co., 9th Avenue Pier, Oakland, recently added a Woods .1&{B ball bearing, double profile matcher to its custom milling equipment. The mill has a capacity of 125,000 feet per shift.

New Retail Sales and Service Building

Formerly located at 2700 S. Santa Fe Avenue in Vernon, operations rvith a staff of fifteen people are under the management of L. W. (Jack) Barclay. Sales personnel includes: Harold Berg, Warren Burman, Victor Hunt, and Donald Imhoff.

The organization is exclusive distributor of Hyster materials handling equipment such as lift trucks, straddle trucks, and mobile cranes in thirteen southern California counties, including: Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Tulare and Ventura.

ElectedColCPresident

J. R. (Bob) Raymer, of Yosemite Builders Supply Co., Merced, Calif., was elected president of the Merced Chamber of Commerce at a meeting of that organization held December 15.

Estimated Consumption of \(/estern Pine

California Lumbermen's Accident Lumber for First Quarter o( 1949 Prevention Association Will Hold

Portland, Ore., Dec. 31-A report of 1948 production and shipments of Western Pine Region lumber and lumber products and an estimate of probable first quarter, 1949, shipments rvere released today by S. V. Fullarvay, Jr., secretary-manager of the Western Pine Association.

The report covered Idaho White Pine, I'onderosa Pine, Sttgar Pine and Associated Woods. The statement in full:

"Lumber supply apparently was overtaking demand as the year 1948 came to a close. I-argely responsible for this situation \vas tl-re greatest annual production of lumber in probably thirty years. Also involved rvas some slackening of demand due to the continued rise in the costs of home construction and to political uncertainties.

"A more nearly balanced supply-demand relationship shoulcl mean :r healthier economic atmosphere for the lumber industry. This situation could have been reached many months ago. Had OPA controls been removed promptly after VJ-Day, production by the active units in the industry rvould have been immediatell- stimulatecl and nerv an<l marginal units rvould have come cluickly inttt prodnction. Instead, the delay of 15 rnonths in reuroval of tl"re inadequate OPA lumber prices caused a decline of several ltillion feet in annual outpttt and greatly delayed the necessary expansion of production by nerv and marginal mills, rvhich is only r.rorv bringing supply atrd demancl into balance.

"The 1948 performance of the Western Pine industrv 'was homel hat erratic clue to floods an<l unusuallv 'n'et rveather during the spring and to early rvinter stortns aucl to some slackenir.rg of lumber demand torvard the end of the year. l)espite such factors, it is now estimated that the industry has again brokeu all previous records rvith an output for the year of 7 billion 230 million feet and deliveries of 63/4 billion feet. This compares with production of 6729 millton ancl shipments of 6552 million during 1947.

"Lumber stocks at the mills, rvhich as of December 31, 1948 are estimated at 1698 million feet, have increased 489 rnillion since a year ago. This in'r'entory volume, rvhich is at about the same level as 1941 stocks and considerably lo'il'er than those of previous years, n'ill permit more effective handling of the heavier current shipments. As rvould be expected, a very large part of this stock increase

Annual Meeting February 7 and 8

The next regular annual meeting of the California Lumbermen's Accident Prevention Association rvill be held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, February 7 and 8, 1949.

Derby Bendorf, The Pacific Lumber Company, Scotia. Calif., is president, and I). N. (Nat) Edrvards, \A'rood Prodtrcts Co., 1706 Broaclway, Oaklanrl 12, is secretarr'. Telephone number is Hlgate 4-6076.

This Association is a non-proflt organization of lumber companies, mills, reuranufacturers, retail yards, etc., rvho are chiefly concerned u'ith the eltcouragement of safe u'orking conditions in the forest products industries in the State of Caiifornia.

The Association had its beginnirrg tn 1923, ancl it has I{ro\\rl1 ever since until the present time t,hen it euconrl)asses the n.rajor lumber industries of the State as u'ell as manv of the smaller oDerators.

Ilecently the Association has l;een takirrg att active Part on the amending and re-s,riting of the Safetl' Orders of the Division of Inclustrial Safetr'. ....# ,...,,,...,',...,,,'..,,,...,,,...,,,.'.,,".i-".i;* is in the associated species u'hich are air seasortecl it.t cousiderable voluure.

"Some soft spots :rre appearing in our general ecoltolllY as the demand for certain goocls is being satisfiecl. Although such sigr-rs gir,'e inclications that the boom is ler-eling o1T, most economists predict a continued high level of ltusiness cluring the first half of 19'19. Construction forecasts for tl-rc corning year anticipate a level of total constmctiou eclttal to that of 1948 but there appears to be general agreeurctrt that residential builtling. althouglt contintting in relativcly large volume, n'ill be los'er in 1949.

"There appear to be more than the ttsual ttttccrtainties in the economic outlook and l'eather, in both the cot'tstttrring and producing areas, is more generally urrpredictable for the first quarter of the year. Hon'ever, ltaserl upon all available informatiorr, it trou' seenrs lrrobable that durirrg the first quarter ol 1919 shipments (consttr.nlttion) of 1umber by the Western Pine indttstrv u'ill approximate 1250 million feet or 10/o under those for the saure l9'18 period."