INSTALI A I$OOR.E Cross-Circulolion DRY KILN on rhe Bcrsis of PERFORI$ANCE FACTS:

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Adequote reconditioning.

"The transcontinental railroads follow the lower valley and desert routes so when you go west by train you are impressed by how much of the land is not forested. However, there are ample timber reserves and growing capacity to maintain the present level of production indefinitely.

"About three-fourths of the commercial timber in our region is controlled by various government agencies. This is scarcely an advantage, so far as timber for sawmills is concerned, because some of these agencies, particularly the Forest Service, market the mature tim,ber so slowly that much of their virgin timber will die before it is harvested.

"Virgin stancls usually don't increase in volume because the overmature trees die as fast as new trees grow. Progressive private operators go through their mature stands just as fast as possible, logging overripe trees which might die before the next cutting. This leaves room for the younger trees to grow. Hoarding mature timber does not add to the supply. An old stand has to be logged, at least once over lightly, before it begins to gror,r'.

"1150 private timber owners have registered 5-113 million acres as Western Pine tree farms on which they will give the protection and manag'ement necessary to grow commercial forest crops. We know that many of the best managed timber lands in the west are privately owned.

"The great area of our region and the wide variety of climatic conditions found in it account for there being more species of commercial trees than are found in other softwood regions. Ponderosa Pine grows at moderate ele- vations throughout the region and both Douglas Fir and White Fir are widely distributed at higher elevations or where there is plenty of moisture. Sugar Pine and Incense Cedar are confined to California and southern Oregon. Idaho White Pine, Inland Red Cedar and Western Larch grow mostly in the Inland Empire, which is drained by the Columbia River. Engelmann Spruce and Lodgepole Pine are found in the higher country all dorvn through the Rockv Mountains."

R.ichord "Dick" Brown Wirh Getz Bros.

Getz Bros. & Co., 231 Sansome Street, San Francisco, announced the association of Richard "Dick" Brown with the Getz Bros. firm effective April 1, 1954. He is now covering the Bay Area territory for Getz Bros. & Co., and is assisting Mervyn Tobias, manager of the lumber products import division.

Mr. Brown is a veteran of three years with the Army Air Corps during World War II, and later attended San Francisco City College until 1946. He then rvent to Los Angeles rvith E. L. Bruce Co., specializing for 4 years there in the sale of hardwood lumber to furniture factories and industrial accounts. He then returned to the San Francisco Bay Area and until his present association continued active in hardwood sales to accounts throughout the Bay Area.

Ife continues to reside in Hayward, is married and has a little girl. Ife can be reached during the day by dialing Getz Bros. & Co.-YUkon 2-60@, or evenings at JEfierson 7-8425.