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RETAIL YARD F'OR SALE

Located in San Bernardino Valley, doing good volume at good prices. Established on cash basis over 90Vo cash sales. Finest location in valley, no city taxes, no city license. Especially low lease. Good buildings and equipment, small mill. Address Box C-650 California Lumber Merchant.

Experienced Lumberman Wants Position

Experienced lumber and building material man, wholesale and retail, would like position with well established lumber company in Los Angeles or vicinity. Married man. Has had experience in all branches of the industry and has managed retail yards doing large volume of business. Address Box C-646, California Lumber Merchant.

A Real Opportunity

For sal+-established lumber yard on the Coast, in fastest growing community in Southern California. Location of property not suited to present owner. Will sell stock and equipment to bona fide buyer. Principals only. Will lease property. $8,000 to $10,000 capital will handle. Address Box C-644, California Lumber Merchant.

For Sale

Cash and Carry lumber yard on Boulevard near Los Angeles. fmprovements and equipment $1,200. Stock $3,000. Leased ground. Also other yards for sale. Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers, 549 Petroleum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 8746.

Position Wanted

Experienced man, 33 years of age, desires position as accountant, bookkeeper, cashier, clerk, salesman with retail lumber, building materials, building hardware or planing mill business, being thoroughly familiar with all details appertaining to the above lines. Will go anywhere. Address box C-653, California Lumber Merchant.

Lumber Yards For Sale

Lumber yards for sale at Turlock and Hilmar; Creditors' Committee liquidation.

For detailed information call George C. Faulkner, 1306 Hobart Building, San Francisco, California, DOuglas 8268.

Wanted

Young man with practical retail experience to sell over counter and in yard with a well established firm who has a large pick-up trade. Must be capable of selling and measuring up jobs for Built-In-Fixtures, etc. Must have some knowledge of builders hardware and paint. Unless you are interested in a good steady position do not answer this ad. Yard located in Central Coast section. Replies confidential. Address Box C-652, California Lumber Merchant.

For Sale

For Sal+Lumber yard, ideal location, good sized town, Southern California. Write box C-655, California Lumber Merchant.

Cold \Tinter Aids Pine Beetle Control

The western pine beetle, subject of Congressman C. F. Lea's $50,000 insect control bill, suffered a mortality of from 15 to 80 per cent during the sub-zero January weather in the Lassen and Sierra National Forests according to J. M. Miller, Senior Entomologist, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. More detailed studies will be made to determine the extent and effects and its bearing on prospective timber losses for the 1937 season, estimated by some authorities as being $10,000,000 a year to ponderosa pine timber of California.

In a letter to Regional Forester S. B. Show, of the U. S. Forest Service, Mr. Miller stated that the immediate effect of the severe cold of this winter combined with a low point in the insect infestation cycle throughout the State last year, will eliminate the necessity for any large control program for the coming season. This will permit the proposed research program advocated by the California State Chamber of Commerce to get started and to prepare for future attacks of the pine beetle.

Mr. Miller believes the best that can be expected from the 1937 freeze is a temporary setback of the pine beetle population for about one season. He bases his opinion on the effect of former cold weather occurrin g in 1924 and L932. Insect damage in the pine timber regions was low in each of the following years but the next two years were in both instances characterized by widespread timber losses. Accordin$ to Miller only similar cold spells occurring every winter could be expected to result in permanent control of the bark beetle. Entomologists explain the failure of severe cold weather to wipe out the western pine beetle by the probable survival of some of the hardy individuals among the bug population who come back strong after a year or two.

The Forest Service reports that several private lumber companies undertake the control of the pine bark beetle on their own lands. Since 1925 the McCloud Lumber Company has treated 11,365 trees on over half a million acres of their holding at a cost of $76,679 or $6.75 a tree or fourteen cents an acre.