Man-Made Redwood Forest Growing Grandly On Mountain Side in Hawaii

There recently appeared irr the columns ol The Los Angeles Tinres, a most interesting report on a m:rn-made forest of California Reclu.oocl that gron.s on zr mountainside on the Islancl of llaui in Han.aii. It rvas r,r,ritten by one of the Times editors, Kyle l,aln.rer, n,ho made :t slrecial trip from Honolrrlu to r.ieu' this forest rvhich is practicalll. unknou.n, even in the Islands. \\rith the Times storr- there also appearecl severzrl excellent pictures of tl.ris neu' forest, olre lricture shorving a I{edn'oocl tree 22 inches in cliemeter.

Accorrling to NIr. I'ltlmer he flen'lrv plane for about:rn hour frorl Honolulu tri NIaui. then l,ent by automobile up the sicle of the extinct volcano of Haleakala. to an altitrrde of about .5,000 feet, and then they traveied on foot into the forest t.hich grou.s frorn the 5.000 to the 6,200 foot lcvel. Accorrling to his storr', there is a long half-rnile rvide belt that girdles the northn'estern slope of the monntain, ancl here :r marr-planted iorest is grou-ing, ancl grorving u.onderfulll'. lt seems that this forested belt rvas originallv covered u'ith harriu'ood trees called Nl:rmane, ltrrt thnt lire and grazing l'ipecl orrt this gro.n,th, leaving the :rrea denudecl, ar.rd suffering ior the protection that forests gir-e.

So, sorne 25 years ago, tn'o island leaders nar-necl \Vm. Crosby ar.r<1 Ch:r.rles Judd. deciclecl on an cxpcrinient to make th;rt mountain area once m()re a forest. Tl-re area lies n'ithin the limits of a perpetual moisture-laden fog, much lil<e conditions in the California ltedn'ooil belt. So on the Kul;r Forest Ileserr-c n'hich u'as crcated forty years ago ior th:rt i:eneral region. they planted seecl from tr,hich has gro\\'n irl)orlt one million trees, of u'hich about 55,000 are Recln-oorls-Sequoia Senrpervirens. Other trees grou'ing profusely n'ith the ltedr,r'oocls are tropic:rl ash, stone-pines, Port Orf rrd Cedar, and Japanese Sugi Cedar. llased orr the success of this reforestation effort, the Island authorities are planning to sct aside 20,0@ to 30,000 lnore acres on u'hich to plant more l{edn,oods, ancl ten pounds ,,f llumlrol<1t lledu.oocl seecls, enough to cover thousands of acres, :rre lteing plantcd at the present timc. Ilcrln'oorl gror.,'ing prornises to lte an inrportant inclustry on the Islands fronr norv on. lIr. l'eimer reports tlxrt on their retrrrrr trip they reached the foot of the nrountuin, and ktoking u1t could not see e\-en:r sign of the ruagnilicent forest thcy ltr<1 jrrst inspected.

The l{erln'oods. norr-25 r.cars old. st:rncl from rl0 to 100 feet in hcight. according to XIr. I'almer, irnd are u.onderfu11,r' str-,rng' ancl healthr'-looking trees. What rr.as a denuded tiurbcr belt is no\\' ir tnagnificent forest, thus rnaking one of the most successful refrlrestation ellorts in timber history. Tropical ash, of unknou'n origin, groNs as lvonclerfully as thc ltedn-oods in this ne'n' forest, reaching a eirth of {r0 inchcs :rncl more at this time.

Representing The Mcrtin Bros. Box Co.

Alan A. (Al) Shively of Glendale, Calif., has been appointed representative for The Martin Bros. Box Co. of Oakland, Oreg., for their lumber and plywood sales in California and Arizona. He formerly represented the Davis Plywood Corporation.

Martin Bros. is building a new mill at Oakland that will have complete new equipment including dry kilns. The mill is 18 miles north of Roseburg. The company has its headquarters in Toledo. Ohio.

Herb Farrell, formerly with the California Builders Supply Co., of Richmond, is now with the Hogan Lumber Co.. Oakland.

Gale Bell of the Bell Lumber Company, Sacramento, is proud of an ancient Buick. He likes to display this relic of the past in auto caravans along with other fellow hobbyists.

Ben Franklin, of the Ben Franklin Lumber Co., Chicago, was a recent vi3itor to the offices of Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc., San Francisco. Robert K. Hood, city sales manager, was his host at the last nreeting of l{oo-Hoo Club No. 9 at the Palace Hotel.

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Dale'Goodwin has joined the Ward & Harrington Lumber Co. organization and has been named manager of their Fullerton, Calif., yard. He was formerly purchasing agent for the E. K. Wood Lumber Co. at Los Angeles.

Art Penberthy, Tacoma Lumber Sales, Inc., of l-os Angeles, left last week for an extended stay at his mill in Arcata, California.

H. \M. "Harvey" Koll, well known to all Southern California lumbermen, recently completed the fourth building of his Gardena, California Industrial Center. In addition to a planing mill he has a chair manufacturing concern and other wood-working industries located in the area. Several acres have been set aside for future grorvth and develop-

Noed Purchcsing Agent

Percy I. Merithew has been appointed purchasing agsnt for the E. K. Wood Lumber Co. at Los Angeles, succeding Dale Goodwin who resigned. Percy has been associated urith the E. K. Wood organization in an executive capacity for many years. He took over his new duties on April l.

Frank Biggs, president of Shadowood, Inc., of Van Nuys, California, returned last week from an extended trip to Eureka, California, where he arranged a working agreement with M and M Wood Working Co. to manufacture his wall surfacing in volume to meet the Southern California demand. "The Van Nuys plant has been expanded during the past year but we are still unable to keep up our production in sufficient guantity to service the southwest retail lumber dealers," declared J. H. Kiffmeyer, secretary-treasurer of the panel manufacturing concern.

- Joe Tardn Los Angeles wholesale lumberman, recently completed a trip to Old Mexico where he called on the retail lumber trade.

Tom Sawyer, of Hilmar Lumber Company, Hilmar, Calif., and Willis Kelley of Kelley's Lumber Yard, Riverbank, Calif., were in Oakland last month to look over the Oakland Home Show.

Tom Ross and Dennis Gilchrist, Angelus Fir and Pine Salds Company, of San I\Iarino, spent the first trvo rveeks of this month in Northern California and Southern Oregon. While in the north they spent considr:rable time at tleir extensive mill operations near Arcata, California, planning future production and shipments of materials to the southwest.

Preston T. Coursen, buyer at Eugene, Oregon for Bonnington Lumber Co., San Francisco, recently visited the home office and called on a number of the company's customers in Northern California.

ment and in the meantime Harvey will raise a few white faced cattle on the side to keep the land busy until building time arrives.

Buys Controlling Interest

The Hicks Lumber Co. of Salinas has purchased a controlling interest in the Union Supply Co. of Monterey. It will be known in the future as the Hicks Lumber Co. This makes three yards owned by the company, the third one being in Greenfield.

Free BooHet

The Institute of Forest Products, University of \\rashington, Seattle, has published a booklet entitled "N{ore

Wood Per Tree by Careful Felling and Bucking." The booklet *'ill be mailed free on request.

On Europecnr Tour

Mrs. Fred V. Holmes, wife of the head of the Holmes Eureka Lumber Company, is making an extended tour through Europe with other ladies from San Francisco. At the present time she is in Spain. Mr. Holmes is consoling himself by going fishing in La Paz, Mexico.