KILN.DRIED SUGAR PINE

lnstollqtion of o lorge bottery of Moore Cross-Ventilotion Dry Kilns ot our Anderson, Colifornio, plont hos been rushed to completion-lo meet your needs for increosed supplies of occurolely monufoctured ond groded Sugor Pine, lhe premier wood for the millwork induslry, poltern workers ond foundries.

The kind of lumber you wonl, when you wont it, occurolely monufoclured "from our own forests qnd mills." Uniformity of grode ossured by using groders certified by the Western Pine Associotion.

Orders being occepted now for prompt shipment. Send us your inq uiries.

We manufo,clure ond speciolize int

Furniture Dimension o Glued-Up Srock o Cqrpenlers' qnd Speciol

Mouldings o lndustricl Shook o Venetion Blind Slqts, Rqils qnd

Fqscia o Lqdder Stock o Reqdy-to-Assemble Furniture Ports

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We Monufocture ond

Wholesole:

Ponderosq Pine, Incense Cedqr

Douglos cnd Whire Fir

West Coigt Buying Ofilce: 9IO U. S. Nqlionol Bonk Bldg., Poitlond 4 Oregon, Colifornlo Scler Dlvlslon: Anderson, Colif., Soler Agents: New Mexico, Arizono qnd Wcsf Texosr

M. R. Smith Lumber & Shingle Co., Box 1854 Seottlc l, Wosh. Alember, lYestern Pine Association

" Ab"" Lincoln Candidat e (or Assemblyman 15th District

Luther H. "Abe" Lirrcoln. president of the Lincoln I-umber Co., Oakland, California and Vice-Chairman of the Oakland Planning Comrnission is a candidate for Assemblyman from the 15th District.

"Abe" decided to run for the office upon the urging of large numbers of voters as rvell as many business groups in the 15th District. He has filed on both the Democratic and Republican tickets in vierv of this response ancl is on record as not seeking or u'elcoming I. P. P. support. His further endorsement by the Alameda County Republican Central Committee, as well as many other organizations and individuals composed of both Democratic ancl Republican supporters speaks well for his candidacy. "Abe" has long been associated rvith all forms of civic activity, holding high office in many of the organizations, so that he is well known for his enterprise and ability beyond the confines of the lumber industrv.

A practical business man, "A,be" is well thought of in labor circles and deserves and should have the support of every citizen who wants good government and fair, impartial representation. The lumber industry can well look forward to having a man in Sacramento who is sympathetic to its many problems, whose experience in the building industry has kept him abreast of the tremendous growth of his state and district and has acquainted him first-hand with its long-range needs.

In a recent conference Mr. Lincoln stated : "If elected I shall support the program of Governor Warren and pursue the needs of the people of my State and District u'ith vigor and dispatch. I am directly opposed to any person or group whose policies endanger our democratic way of life. I am opposed to any party that is influenced by forces from countries beyond our borders, and who would seek to destroy us from within."

Those rvho know "Abe" feel confident that he means just that and those in the lumber business should feel proud to sponsor the candidacy of "one of their own" rvho is so r,vell qualified to hold ofifice.

Congrctulations

Mr. and Mrs. Wenclell Paclucttc are being congratulated on the birth of their first child, Janice Angeline, in Burlingame, Calif. May 5. Mr. Paquette is manager of the Lumber Division of Lumber Terminal Co., Inc., San Francisco.

That biblical injunction has always been taken to refer to the human race. The other day as I sat and listened to a great forester talk on his favorite subject, the thought came to me that maybe it wasn't humans at all, but trees the Creator had in mind; or, of course, it could have been both. *i.*

The speaker was Col. W. B. Greeley, America's favorite forester, until recently Manager of The West Coast Lumbermen's Association, and now back in the forestry business in a far bigger way than ever before, as Chairman of the Board of American Forest Products Industries, Inc.

I have often remarked in the past, and now repeat, that Col. Greeley, never an orator, can make one of the best, most practical, most understandable, and most convincing speeches of any man I know. And the speech I heard him make to the annual convention of the Southern Pine Association in New Orleans, was the best speech he ever made. That was largely because it was the most stimulating subject he ever had.

Since that day I have been advising every lumberman f meet, whether he be retailer, wholesaler, or manufacturer, and regardless of where located, to read that speech; read it thoughtfully, and it will be found a textbook on forestry past and present such as has not previously been. available. Any man interested in the future supply of lumber-any lumber-will do well to read Col. Greeley's speech, and file the facts in his memory. Whether you are now interested in Western or Southern woods, or both, his facts are vital.

I{e was speaking to Southern timbermen about Southern timber, but don't forget, Southern timber supply is vital to the future of the entire lumber industry; and there were lessons to be learned for all concerned in what he said. He told the story of the miracle of forestry in the South in the last thirty years. And he said about present forestry affairs-"throughout the United States from ocean to ocean, forest industry today is in the most dynamic, creative period since Capt. John Smith rived the first clapboards in Tidewater, Virginia."

Of Southern timber ," n"*"lrr, he said: "I know of no parallel in world history of a forest recovery so rapid and carrying with it such industrial progress as that of the South during the last 30 years." He gave the particulars to prove that statement. He told of his first visits to Southern forests in 1904 when the U. S. Forest Service sent him South. Then in 1916 he attended the Southern Forest Conference. At that time only three states had forestry departments. Organization against fire was just starting, and it was an old habit to burn over Pine forest lands frequently. The entire attitude of the Southern lumber industry u/as defeatist concerning timber supply. It was agreed by practically all concerned that burning the woods (which killed all the young growth of trees) cor4ld not be stopped; that it took so long to grow trees that only the Government could afford to do so; that the Southern Pine lumber industry would be a thing of the past, the virgin forests gone, by 1930; and that all the Southern mills could hope to do was cut their timber and save out enough to move West and start over. That was the Picture

And, brave man that he w4s, Col. Greeley plead guilty to being one of the fatalists, dince he published a book in 1917 to somewhat that effect, and he said: "I confess to being 'particeps criminis'in those timber famine reports in 1921. We could not see the little trees behind the stumps of the big trees," he added. Then he told of the comeback of the Southern Pine forests, a come-back that probably no lumber manufacturer in the South saw and predicted except Henry Hardtner.

"Gloomy forebodings were knocked into a cocked hat by the marvelous come-back of the pine forests. The little pines themselves had had the last word. More than that they have brought to pass an industrial miracle. For, after 1930, after Southern Pine was through according to the book, one of the greatest industrial developments has taken place. This was the expansion of wood pulp into a major forest industry of the South, an expansion which has now reached one-half of our national production of wood pulp, and is going on. The industrialization of Southern woodlands, running into billions of invested capital, was not drawn here by standing timber. It carne South because of the millions of acres of fast-growing little trees-and the research of Dr. Herty and others, which had shown how to make white paper, as well as ibrown paper, out of all the Southern Pines."

Then Col. Greeley gave a resume of present-day Southern forests, which were written off by practically all men from twenty to thirty years ago, and here is what he finds:

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"There are 171 million acres of forest land in the eleven Southern states. This land now produces yearly some 12 to 13 billion feet of softwood and hardwood timber; millions of hewn cross-ties; 7/z million cords of pulpwood; 15 million cords of fuel ; and quantities of piling, poles, veneer, cooperage, naval stores, and other forest products. THE SOUTHERN FORESTS ARE SUPPLYING NOTW A GREATER

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Do you wonder, lumber friends, that by this time Col. Greeley had the folks at the Southern Pine convention sitting forward on the front of their chairs, and grasping for the import of such facts and figures?

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He declared that the yearly growth of timber in Southern forests today is 6 billion cubic feet (that's 72 billion board feet of everything, although of course, only a part of this growth would make sawlogs or bohrds). He hazarded the opinion that the South could grow 30 billion additional feet of saw timber by the general application of the protection and cutting practices already in widespread use in the South.

Here are other startl; ,;,. offered by Col. Greelev: there are 86 forESt operations in the South now on a sustained yield of production. There are over 9 million acres in certified Southern Pine Tree Farms. The production of small pines for planting stock was nearly 100 million trees this past year, and will reach 205 million next year. One man is planting a tree nursery to raise his own wood supply for a pulp mill not yet built. "I have seen some prett/ intensive practices in my glimpse of European forestry, but I had to come way down South in Dixie to find a gang of men notching and poisoning weed hardwoods, in order to grow more pine; or two men with a planting tractor setting out 15,000 young trees a day," said Col. Greeley.

These and many otrre, tt ingl or rite interest were included in Col. Qrteley's speech that make that speech a bible of foreslry* information. With regard to new uses for wood fi6ei, he was likewise enthusiastic. He said: "A new wave of industrial uses and processes for wood is flowing into American forests. It is adding new technologies and new products to our conversion plant. In addition to many processes for pulping wood, we now have a dozen mechanically-produced fiber boards. A wood-sugar industry is in the making, by hydrolysis of sawmill waste. Ethyl alcohol, stock foods and yeasts are ultimate products. A new plant on the Columbia River is converting Douglas Fir bark into plastic powder and fertilizer. Wood is now plasticized, molded, laminated, impregnated, and spun into such a variety of human uses that technicians are writing of it as the "universal raw material."

"ff you want to see an industrial miracle," continued the Colonel, "watch the spinning of rayon thread. On one hand is a tank of Viscose, derived from high grade pulp. It has about the color, consistency, and allure of axle grease. As this horrible looking stu.ff is forced into a vat of fixing liquor, it passes through little whirling thimbles. And from these emerge silver filaments, spun before your eyes into the most lustrous, shimmering silk you ever saw. And it is all from wood-Southern Pine or West Coast Hemlock."

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With this f am terminating my quotations from the great speech of Col. Greeley, made to the annual convention of the Southern Pine Association in April, 1948. But I am going to add some information on my own hook with regard to making rayon from wood. I have just read a very interesting article gn that subject in "Forest Echoes," a little booklet published by the Crossett Lumber Company, at Crossett, Arkansas, and edited by James D. Callahan, which intrigued me. Especially how it all started. A scientist and chemist named Count Hilaire de Chardonnet, gave us rayon. That was about the 1870's. He had watched silkworms eat mulberry leaves and then spin their threads of silk, and decided to find out how they did it, and see if it could be duplicated artificially. For, as the "Forest Echoes" story says, "there can only be as much silk as there are worms to spin it, but there can be as much rayon as trees are grown from which to make it." ***

Chardonnet learned the silkworms' secret. The mulberry leaves inside them become a sticky jelly, and this jelly the worms spin into siik through tiny holes called spinnerettes. So he set out to try and duplicate this jelly. He succeeded in making a very good substitute-out of wood pulp. Then he was on his way. How it is done is well told and illustrated in the "Forest Echoes" article. It is technical in the extreme. An ingenious device that acts almost like the silkworm spinnerettes was created, and after the wood pulp has been chemically translated into a gelatinous mass much like that inside the worm, it is forced through the mechanical spinnerettes, and, as Col. Greeley described, shining, beautiful threads are created, and called rayon. There are three processes known for manufacturing rayon out of wood, the Viscose, Acetate, and Cuprammonium. All are based on the same theory, but the first, the Viscose method is used for making the large bulk of all rayon manufactured.

The story in "Forest Echoes" concludes: "The manufacture of rayon in the United States on a commercial scale began in 1911 with a prod"uction of 320,000 pounds. In ten years it had increased to 15 million pounds. Since 1925 the annual production of rayon has doubled in poundage every five years. Rayon now ranks second among all the textile fibers in the number of pounds used yearly, and is used in more types of fabric than any other fibcr."

O'We wsnted a top-grade Decorative Wallboard for our trade, so Simpson combed the market and selected what we believe to be the finest product of its kind WalJite. We investigated markets where WalJite is being sold and found that it is a good seller in both the conmercial and home building frelds. That's why we say there's good news for Southern California lumber dealers. Here's a splendid product best in its field. that will fill out your line and provide increased

Appointed Sales Agents For Empire Redwood Company

Kline & Ruf, with offices at 625 Market Street, San Francisco, have been appointed exclusive sales agents for the Empire Itedrvood Company, with sa'rvmill at Gualala, California.

The plant of the Empire Redrvood Company is a new modern band mill, rvith a capacity of 65,000 feet in an 8hour shift. The company owns 26,000 acres of timber, and the cut is expected to run 90 per cent redrvood and 10 per cent fir. Grading will ,be under the supervision of the Department of Inspection and Grading of the California Redwood Association.

The principals in Kline & Ruf are Mason E. Kline and Arthur B. (Bat) Ruf. Mr. Kline has operated his own wholesale business, M. E. Kline & Company in San Francisco for the past year. He is an engineer, and a member of both the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and tl-re American Wood preservers Association, with 30 years' experience in selling treated and untreated forest products. lIe was sales engineer for Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., in both San Francisco and Nerv York for many vears, and resigned last year from his position as vice president and general sales manager of Union Lumber Company, San Francisco to enter business for himself.

Mr. Ruf was associated with the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. for some years in the North'n'est. He was with Edrvard Hines Lumber Co., Chicago, for a year, and then spent 15 years with Johns-Manville Corp. in Chicago, Houston, and Los Angeles.

During World War II he was a Captain in the Coast Artillery and the Army Transportation Corps for four years, and since he came out of the Army has been in the redwood logging business, and has operated a remanufacturing plant in Benicia, Calif The telephone number of the new concern is DOuglas 2-1387.

R. J. (Bob) Wright, executive vice president, and J. H. (Joe)'Kirk, vice president, of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California, recently spent a week in Washington, D. C., where they attended the annual meeting of the executive committee of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association. They made the round trip by air'

Plywood Firm Moving To New Location

Davidson Plywood & Veneer Co. is in process of moving to its new warehouss at 3136 East Washington Boulevard, Los Angeles 23. The office is to be moved July 1. The new telephone number will be ANgelus 3-6931, and a srn'itchboard is being installed.

The new .building is 140 by 180 feet. It is of gunnite construction, with 6-inch walls, and has a Summerbell truss roof. The unloading dock at the rear is 20 leet wide, and long enough to accommodate three railroad cars at once.

There is plenty of parking space, and lots of room for large lumber trucks. The paved area for truck loading is 20,000 square feet in extent.

The total area of ths property is 65,000 square feet. Plans have been made for landscaping the area in front of the offrce building and warehouse.

The office building contains a general offrce, a bookkeeping room, and three private offrces. The building is of brick construction. The offices will be paneled in various hardwoods. A complete air-conditioning system will be installed, that rn''ill include both cooling and heating.

Western Dry Kiln Co. Makes lmprovements

Western Dry Kiln Co., whose advertisement appears on anotl-rer page, has carried out a number of improvements in the past fe'iv months at their plant at 8221 San Leandro Street, Oakland 3.

The improvements include a new shed rvith a floor area of 4,500 square feet, in which loads can be piled 22 feet high with the lift truck. A new spur has accommodations for four cars at one time.

The plant is one of the most modern in the country. The tlvo kilns are of reinforced concrete construction, and with four tracks have a capacity of 95,000 f.eet of 8/4 per charge.

Another recent installation is a Potentiometer, with which temperature or humidity in 24 stations throughout the kilns can be read immediately. This instrument saves time, gives more accurate readings, and better uniformity.

W. A. Kinney is a partner and general manager. The telephone number is LOckhaven 8-3284.