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For Lease

Warehouse suitable for lumber storage or building material business. 8Ox135 feet, with 2O-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

Young, 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.

Wants Position

Lumberman experienced in lumber, hardware and building material business open for a position. Southern California experience. Willing worker. Good references. Address Box C-70O, California Lumber Merchant.

WHERE IS BUSINESS G(IING in 1938?

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For Sale

1 Yates B-3 double surfacers with direct motor drive and switches complete. Penberthy Lumber Company, 2055 E. 51st Street, Los Angeles. Telephone Klmball 5111.

MANAGER-ASSISTANT-B O O KKEEPER. ESTIMATOR

An experienced man who has been for 18 years in Southern California, can furnish the best of references, desires a position. Can qualify as yard marulger, assistant, bookkeeper, estimator, also has a knowledge of general office work, and sash, door, and interior mill-work. Address Box C-7,02, 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 LOG EXPORTS AND IMPORTS IN 1937

Total exports of hardwood and softwood lumber (including sawed timber and logs) for the year 1937 totalled 1,568,483 M board feet as compared with 1,583,110 M feet for the year 1936, a loss of approximately one per cent, according to figures just released by the Forest Products Division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Of the 1937 amount, 1,398,465 M feet was of sawed material as compared with 1,256,425 M feet f.or 1936, a gain of 11 pbr cent. The 1937 exports of logs and hewn timber amounted to 170,018 M feet as against 326,685 M feet for 1936, a loss of 48 per cent.

In the sawn softwood group Douglas fir was the most important species exported, totalling 558,859 M feet for the year 1937, a gain of nearly 14 per cent as compared with 1936. Southern pine totalled 355,77O M feet as compared with 344,118 M feet for 1936.

Sawn hardwoods totalled 365,806 M feet for the year 1937, as compared with 317,354 M feet for 1936, a gain of l5 per cent.

The reciprocal trade agreement signed by the United States and Canada allotted Canada an annual quota of 250,000,000 board feet of Douglas fir and Western hemlock to enter the United States at a $2 duty and excise tax. During the calendar year 1937, imports of these woods subject to this quota totalled 139,X)2,288 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. 77Ol 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 November l. 1937.