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Planing Mill And Lumber Yard For Sale

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Position Wanted

Planing mill and small lumber yard in Santa Rosa for sde. Lumbei stock 8O000 feet, and miscellaneous building material. Ccrugated steel mill building in good condition.

Address Chris M. Wininger, Trustee, 415 Pacific Building,610 16th Street, Oakland. Calif.

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-665, California Lumber Merchant.

For Sale

Lumber yard 30 miles from Los Angeles. Established 15 years. Stocks of merchandise and one truck $3,000. Will lease ground and buildings for $80 a month. Also other yards for sale. Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers, 549 Petroleum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 8746.

Young man experienced in retail and wholesale lumberin yard, office, credits and saleg desires position. Not afraid of work. Address Box C-664 California Lumber Merchant.

Retail Lumber Yard. FoR

Southern California. 2007o volume gain last year.

Reason-Other interests.

Sale

Address Box C-663, care California Lumber Merchant.

California Opportunity

Desire to retire makes available profiiably operating retail yard equipped with modern planing mill. Excellent location in San Francisco Bay area. Full particulars will be given to bona fide principals only. Unusual opportunity for the right party with available capital"

Address: Box C-666, care California Lumber Merchant.

For Sale

Modern well located millwork plant established 20 yearsLargely confined to wholesde trade supplementing jobbing business-active territory. Present owner desires to retire owing to ill health, or will sell substantial interest. Business averaging $200,000 yearly. Address Box 887, Tacoma, Wash.

U. S. Lumber and Log Exports and lmports

Total exports of hardwood and softwood lumber (including sawed timber and logs) for the first two months of 1937 totalled, 182,8L4 M board feet as compared with 27I,723 M feet for the corresponding period of L936, a loss of 32.7 percent according to figures just released by the Forest Products Division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. The decline is largely accounted for by the maritime strike on the West Coast which was not settled until February 3. Of the 1937 amount L66,962 M feet was of sawed material as compared with 2I0,lM M feet for 1936, a loss of 20.5 percent. The L937 exports of logs and hewn timber amounted to 15,852 M feet as against 61,619 M feet f.or 1936, a loss of. 74.3 percent.

In the sawn softwood group Southern pine was by far the most .important species exported, totalling 67,5m M feet for the first two months ol 1937, a gain ol 16.9 percent as compared with the corresponding period of. 1936. Douglas fir, hemlock and redwood registered particularly sharp losses on the same basis of comparison, Douglas fir shipments falling to 23,M7 M feet for the first two months of 1937, a loss of 73.4 percent. Hemlock shipments fell to 70 M feet for the first two months of. 1937, a loss of 95.5 percent over the corresponding period of 1936 and redwood ihipments fell to 2,123 M feet, a loss of 56.7 percent. Expoits of Cedar, Spruce and "White Pine" showed losses of 17.8 percent; 21.9 percent and 14.1 percent respectively for the 1937 period compared with the 1936 period, the actual shipments for the 1937 period being 819 M feet, 2,462 M feet and 4,887 M feet respectively.

In the "logs" group, imports of cedar logs for the first two months of 1937 accounted for 5,056 M board feet or 41.0 percent of the total; mahogany accounted for 3,351 M feet or 27.2 percent ; and fir, spruce and Western hemlock accounted f.or 2,259 M feet or 18.3 per cent.

The reciprocal trade agreement signed by the United States and Canada allotted Canada'an annual quota of 250,000 M board feet of Douglas fir and Western hemlock, to enter the United States at a $2.00 duty and excise tax. From January 1 to February 27, 1937, imports of these woods subject to this quota totalled 8,356,059 board feet, according to the preliminary figures supplied by the Bureau of the Customs of the Treasury Department.

Shingle imports for January and February, L937, totalled D4,787 squares compared with M,738 squares for the comparable period of 1936. Of the 1937 total, red cedar shingles amounted to 288,95 squares.

Detailed monthly statistics on the U. S. exports and imports of hardwood and softwood logs and lumber are compitea Uy the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce ind are available from the Bureau on a subscription basis. Special statistics covering imports subject to quota- are compiled by the Customs Bureau and are made available to the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.