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f've got a five year old grandson who is quite a talkative guy. I can't imagine where he gets it. But anyway, when he has something important he wants to say, he always starts out by askitg-"You know what?" You answer, "What?" And then he springs the gag.

Made up my mind a lot of years back that only a sucker would attempt to predict the lumber market a year in advance. Gave up doing it in these columns long ago. But now, with the prefacing remark that only a sucker would do it, I'm going to stick my neck out-plumb out-and try and delve a bit into the future; 1954 I mean.

I think business is going to be good. I think the building tide may grow even larger than that of 1953, in spite of general predictions of a mild decline. And I'll tell you why.

In the first place the population of this country is growing at a rate that seems utterly fantastic when you read the prediction figures. It is growing so fast that it would take a whole battery of the biggest sawmills to supply the lumber needed to build the shelter that the oncoming

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Edwin Carlson has been promoted from superintendent to manager of California Fabricators, at Arcata, California. He succeeds Alf Westberg who has become resident manager for the,Holmes E,ureka Lumber Company. Mr. Carlson is a native of Humboldt County, and has been in the lumber business all his life.