Conservation Camps to Open Will Handle Sales lor Pacific in National Forests

Civilian Conservation Corps camps will soon be in operation in the national forests of California, according to report of the United States Forest Service headquarters in San Francisco. President Roosevelt on April X approved the establishment of. 166 camps in the 19 national forests of the State, distributed as follows:

Southern California: Angeles, 17; Cleveland, 9; San Bernardino, 16; Santa Barbara, 15; total, 57. Central California: Sequoia, 9; Sierra, 9; Stanislaus, 9; Eldorado, 6; total,33. Northern California: Tahoe,9; Plumas, 11; Lassen, 9; Modoc, 6; Shasta, 11; Klamath, T; Trinity, 8; Mendocino, 8; total, 69. East side of Sierra Nevada : Inyo, 3 ; Mono, 3; total, 6. One additional camp will be located in the California section of the Siskiyou National Forest of Oregon.

Regional Forester S. B. Show, chief of the California Region, U. S. Forest Service, will be in charge of the conservation corps activities in the national forests and will also coordinate all State, county and private C.C.C. projects in California. Mr. Show, who is now in Washington conferring with Robert Fechner, director of emergency conservation work, ahd Major R. Y. Stuart, chief of the U. S. Forest Service, is expected back shortly to direct the Federal forestry activities. C. B. Morse, assistant regional forester of the U. S. Forest Service at Ogden, Utah, will be stationed at the Presidio of San Francisco to act as liaison ofificer in coordinating the work of the Forest Service and Army throughout the Ninth Corps Area, comprising the states of California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.

California's national forest quota for the C.C.C. camps will be 33,000 men who will first be concentrated in Army posts where they will be clothed, fed and exercised for a period prior to their transfer to field camps. Thus {ar instructions are to enroll only unmarried men between the ages of 18 and 25 years, who are citizens of Cali{ornia and have dependents. Each applicant will be required to take an oath and sign an agreement to turn over a certain percentage of his $1 a day pay to his dependents. Recruiting will be handled by local relief agencies under the general direction of R. C. Branion of the State Department of Social Welfare.

The Army will have full charge of all C.C.C. camps, and will have an officer with necessary assistants stationed in each camp. It will also transport the men from the concentration posts to the field camps. All camps will be operated on the basis of 200 men.

The U. S. Forest Service will handle all men engaged on forestry work in the national forests, including their transportation between camp and work points.

The Roosevelt conservation program, according to Forest Service officers, will afford an opportunity for the accomplishment of productive work on the national forests, for which detailed plans have been prepared, but which otherwise could not be completed for many years because of the lack of government appropriations. The following constructive work will be done by the conservation corPs

Coast States

The Concealo Fixture Company, Inc., Oakland, Calif., announces that their sales Jor the Pacific Coast states are' now being handled by I. L. Walker, better known to the lumber trade as Lee Walker. Mr. Walker is putting into effect a wholesale only policy, and is ofiering many dealer helps in selling complete kitchens in both new and old homes.

Mr. Walker says that at present many lumber merchants are capitalizing on the fact that many people are unable to build that new home they have been wanting, therefore, they can be easily sold to the id,qa of a new kitchen and other improvements around the home. Lumber merchants who are specializing on kitchens find this to be the most advantageous point to approach their prospect, he states. Mr. Walker also aclds that when the woman of the house can be shown how her old work shop can be made into a beautiful and convenient place to do her work, the sale is just about made with a good profit to the dealer. The company also manufacture a large line of store fixtures and commercial refrigerators.

The Chicago and New York sales are being handled by W. R. Noack, president and manager of the company.

California Council Meets in Oakland

Lumber dealers from all over Central and Northern California were in attendance at the meeting of the California Lumbermen's Council held at Hotel Leamington, Oakland, April 21.

Legislative matters were discussed in addition to regular business.

George Burnett, Burnett Lumber Co., Tulare, presided at the meeting until the arrival of George N. Ley, Santa Cruz Lumber Co., Santa Cruz, president of the Council, who was delayed.

Sells Redwood in B.y District

F. "Tom" Tomlinson, well known San Francisco lumber salesman, who is doing a commission business in the San Francisco bay district, is now also handling Redwood for The Pacific Lumber Company in this territory.

workers: the clearing of firebreaks; development of camp grounds; erosion and flood control projects; building of lookout houses, telephone lines, guard cabins and administrative improvements; tree planting; improvement of the range by the construction of watering places and drift fences; reseeding of denuded ranges, and the eradication of poisonous forage plants; rodent control; construction of trails, bridges and secondary roads; control of pine beetle infestations and other similar projects.