TWIN HARBORS TUMBER GOMPANY

Aberdeen, Woshington

Monufqclurers qnd Disiributors of West Coqst Forest Products

525 Boord of Trcde Bldg. PORITAND 4, OREGON Phone ATwoler 4142

MENTO PARK

Bob Mcrcfie, Jim Rossmon

1618 El Cqmino Reql

DAvenport 4-2525

ENT. I'0036 from Bay Arec & San Jose

Colifornio Represenlolives

5O3 Professionol 8ldg. EUREKA, CATIFORNIA

Hlllside 3-1674 tOS ANGELES 15

C. P. Henry & Co.

714 W. Olympic Blvd.

Rfchmond 9-6524

Rlchmond 9-6525

Texos Lecrds Hike in Redwood Shipmenls

(Continuecl from I'age 18) trvo sets of figures. The figures from the trvo reports are more closely together than they have been for any'previous year.

For the second consecutive year, shipments rvere made to each of tl're 48 states and to the J)istrict of Colurnbia. Increases compared r,vith the preceding year were general, but there u'ere six states east of the Itocky Mountains as u'ell as ldaho and Arizona that shorved small decreases.

There l-ere eleven states each taking more th:rn 10 million feet in 1955. The ten top states rvere the same in 1955 as in 1954 and 1953. The trvo regions shorving the most radical percentage increase are regions 7, the three Gulf Coast states of rvhich Florida took 68/o of 1955 shipments, and region 8, the fir,e Lor,r'er Mississippi states of rvhich Texas accounted for 707o, and Oklahoma and Texas together, 90/c of last 1.ear's shipments.

The percentage distribution has changed radically since 1939. The greatest changes are in Regions 7 and 8, the East Gulf and Lou'er Mississippi states, rvhich took 24/o of reds'ood shipped east of the Rockies in 1955, as compared with less than 8/o in 1939. Compensating decreases rvere scattered, but heaviest in the Nliddle Atlantic and I-ake states, regions 2 and 3, rvhich together took 38/o in 1939 but only 260/o in 1955.

Lumbermen in the Happy fornia have been building a to replace one rvashed out in

Ca,mp area of northern Calibridge across the Scott river the December floods.

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Dee Essley has been named district governor of Rotary International. The president of D. C. Essley & Son, Los Arrgeles, will be head man of Rotary District 162, which covers 40 clubs of the service organization in southern California.

Bob Leishman, partner in the A. L. lloover Co., San Marino, spent the first two weeks of April at Scotia. En route, he passed Gus Hoover on the highway heading horne. Bob declares the lumber firm is ready for the spring rush.

Bert Hasselberg is back on the job at Arcata Redwood Co. in San Francisco but minus a few parts; he said "good riddance" to his appendix following an emergency operation March 15.

Harold M. Frodsham, president of South Bay Lumber Co., Hawthorne, Calif., will be back on the job next month after recuperation from his recent illness. Before hitting the South Bay saddle, however, he will first make a railroad tour to visit friends in tl.re east and midwest and go into almost every state, Canada and Mexico.

Ray Turner, who travels the coast counties and Redwood Empire regions for Hill & Morton, Inc., is non' home in Concord recovering from a broken back which resulted from a skiing accident at Dodge Ridge the first of March. Jerry Mashek reports that Ray is showing steady improvement and should rejoin the firm soon.

Harold New, Pasadena wholesale distributor, visited northern California and Oregon mills last month.

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