Fairhurgt Lumber Moveg To New Quarters

Fairhurst Lqmber Company of California recently purchased and remddeled, es general offices, the building at the corner of. 7th and J Streets !n Eureka, California, formerly occupied by a business college.

The interior is completely redecorated and finished in both redr*-ood and fir, with executive offices and conference room on the second floor. Photographic sepia murals of logging and mill operations decorate the walls.

The Loggers Best Friend ls The Cat Buildins Oudook for 1953

Today's logger-unlike the legendary Paul Bunyanhas no fabulous blue ox to skid his logs to a landing. But he does have what is possibly the next best "animal": the "cat" or track tractor-the rnechanized ox of present-day logging.

No cat, be it either in fact or fiction, has ever performed on a logging show quite like Paul Bunyan's blue Babe. Babe once hooked onto a whole section of timber (64O acres of it) and dragged the works, land and all, down to a river. It's not likely-even in this age of atomic power-that any man-made tractor will ever equal that feat. But, nevertheless, the big diesel cats now useC on logging operations have a few things in common with Paul Bunyan's famous blue ox.

Like Babe, a cat has prodigious strength. It can walk over wind-felled trees and thick underbrush. It can move quickly from onc place to another to pick up logs and snake them off to a landing as if the;* were so many twigs.

The track tractor, in fact, can do a few things that might even startle the great Paul Bunyan. Paul's blui ox, for example, never gouged out a logging road with his nose. But the cat, fitted with a bulldozer blade, can do just that. The track tractor is a road builder, earth mover and log skidder rolled into a single machine. It is one of the loggerrs most efficient and versatile tools.

Strictly speaking, the "cat" is a track tractor manufactured by the Caterpillar Tractor Company of Peoria, Illinois. But loggers, construction workers and farmers apply the word "cat" to zrny sizeable crawler-type tractor made by any manufacturer. They dub the man rvho drives a cat a "cat skinner."

(From "Weyerhaeuser News.")

Washington, D. C., Dec. 28-The record breaking volume of light construction achieved in 1952 should be surpassed in the new year, H. R. Northup, executive vice president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, stated Saturday.

"New high marks are expecied in residential modernization and commercial construction as materials of all kinds once again become available in full supply," Mr. Northup said.

"Retail dealers' inventories are norrnal, and prices .of most building materials are below OPS ceilings at the present time.

"While new housing starts may fall slightly under the 1952 level, continued demand and greater availability of mortgage funds give gocid reason to believe that at least another 1,000,m0 nerv homes will be started in 1953.

"While the building industry will continue to meet the demand for smaller homes wherever it exists, a larger than usual percentage of three and four bedroom homes probably rvill be put under construction in the ne$'year to make up for the reduced number built in the last two years while tight construction controls were in effecr.

"Farm construction is likely to remain at a high level and there will be a sharp upturn in the construction of new stores, office buildings, warehouses, and other commercial buildings.

"Only in heavy industrial construction is there any question matk."

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With the exceptions of Connecticut, Delaware, New ferse;r, New York and Rhode Island, every state in the Union has one or more national forests.

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