Redwood Assn. Reports 1953 Production Record

The annual production report of the California Redwood Association was issued from San Francisco on May 26th, and the final conclusion arrived at is that "it seems certain that 1953 set a record for. Redwood production and tl-rat it n.ray have reacl-red 950 million feet or more."

That is a lot of Redwood. Production figures for other than Redwood lumber in the Redwood region are also very high. The figures in detail contained in the report are from 40 companies, and these do not represent all the lumber produced in the Redwood region, but only those that replied to the Redwood Association's request for statistics.

"There are no reliable total regional figures against which we can check our totals," says the report. "The Bureau of Census has published estimates based on salnpling. The sample used leaves a possibility of considerable

Col. Greeley Is Tree Fcrrmer

Colonel William B. Greeley was presented with an official tree farm certificate by Washington Governor Arthur B. Langlie and W. D. Hagenstein, Managing Director of the Industrial Forestry Association, at a recent forestry dinner meeting in Seattle.

The famed forester's 40 acres of residential and treegrowing property is across Puget Sound from Seattle, on the shore of historic Port Gamble Bay, where smoke has plumed from Pope & Talbot sawmills for nearly 101 years.

error. They estimated production of about 900 millior-r feet of Redwood, and 1248 million feet of other species in the lledwood region. . It seems certain that 1953 set a record for Redwood production, and that it ma1' have reached 950 million feet or more."'

The ,CI companies reporting to the Association showecl Redwood production of 658,658,000 feet, and shipments of 595,358,000 feet; white woods production 234,927,0N ieet, and shipments 218,950,000 feet, in 1953.

For the first four months ol 1954 ending April 30, mills reporting to the Association showed Redwood production 195,347,000 feet and white 'ivoods 39,698,00O feet; and shipments Redwood 181,841,000 feet, and white noods 35,619,000 feet; totals of both showed production 235.045,000 feet, and shipments 217,460,000 feet.

Mony College Housing Loqns

Applications for college housing loans were received during the month of April from 14 colleges and universities, the Housing and Home Finance Agency reports.

HHFA announced recently that, as a further step to encourage private participation in the financing of college housing construction, it would make available periodically a list of applications filed for such loans. This is to give investment bankers and other sources of private financing information concerning such projects from their inceptior-r.

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Roilroods Bought 176 Millions Worth of Wood

The amount of forest products purchased by the nation's Class I railroads in 1953 totaled $176 miliion. according to statistics on railroad expenditures compiled by the Association of American Railroads in Washington, D. C.

In a report prepared for the annual meeting of the A.A.I{. Purchases and Stores Division held June 7-9 in Chicago, the A.A.R. revealed that crossties accounted for the biggest portion of the railroads' expenditures for forest products.

The sum spent on treated and untreated ties exceeded $96 million, representing about 55 per cent of the total amount spent last year by the railroads for various kinds of rvood materials.

In addition to the purchase of crossties, the railroads paid out $25.4 million for switch and bridge ties and timber, $43 million for rough and finished lumber and 911.2 million for other forest products.

lombert Wirh AFPI

Appointment of Herbert G. Lambert, Jr., of New Orleans as district manager of the New Orleans office of American Forest Products Industries, Inc., has been announced by Charles A. Gillett, AFPI managing director, Washington, D.C.

Mr. Lambert will have charge of all AFPI activities in the states of Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi. His headquarters will be 1033 National Bank of Commerce Bldg., New Orleans.

Humboldt Industry 7l Percent Timber

Forest industries in Humboldt county comprise 7I per cent of the basic industry of the area. Forest land, timber and logging and milling'components provided 35 per cent of the county tax base in 1952. These vital facts were revealed in the preliminary report of the "Economic Appraisal of Forest Resources and Industries in Humboldt County" which the Humboldt County Forestry Committee received at a meeting in Eureka.

Hortford Forestry Foundofion

New Haven, Conn.-Some 300 acres of the Vall-ralla. N.Y., property of the John A. Hartford Foundation has been leased to the Yale University School of Forestry for a vast new program of research and education in forest biology.

The Foundation, founded by the late John A. Hartford who was President of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.. will also support the new science project with annual grants to Yale for the next 15 years. Amount of the grants will be determined later.

Don Higgins Soles Monoger

Don Higgins, for the past several years assistant sales manager for the Pickering Lumber Corporation at Standard, California, has been recently promoted to sales rnanager. J. C. Rassenfoss, president, made the announcement.