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Yard Manager Wants Position

Connected with lumber business for past fifteen yeai's and familiar with all branches of the retail business and its many side lines. For the past ten years successful yard manager in California, especially managing yards previously losing money. Particularly interested in that kind of a job and of straightening out a 1'ard for creditors. References. Address Box C-443, care California Lumber Merchant.

Russia Offering Ready Cut Houses in Getm.ny

:\t the present time, according to "Der Holzaeufer" a German newspaper, Russia is striving to increase her exports of rvood in one form or another and has recentl-v a scheure to produce ready cut houses for settlements in and about the larger cities of Gerrnanv states a report fronl Tracle Commissioner E. G. Luebllen. Berlin. to the Lumber Division of the Departrnent of Corntnerce. 'l-hese settlement houses are of light construction atltl are built on a small plot of ground usttallv leasecl ll1 the o\\'ner rvhere he spends his weekends and many of the people l'ho ale unemplor-ed, their entire time, r'aising vegetables and attempting to live as cheaply as possible.

Tl-re Russiaus, according to the llewsPaPer. have plannecl to proclu,ce these houses using plyrvood in standard sizes. The frame rvork of ihe house, doors and n'itrrlorvs can all be put together ver-\' easily ancl the plyrvood nailed directll- on to the frame r,vork. It is stated tl-rat the qualitr- of the pl-r-u'ood is to be vert' n-ruch better than previously. '\ccor<ling to reports the hottses cau lte kept cotnfortalll-r' u':rrnt ancl oue more featnt'e of this ty'pe of cotrstntction is that it is cheap ancl on accottut of the light u'eight. freight charges are \-er,\' nonrinal frout proclttction point to n'here thel- are to be built.

To further assist in the export.progranr of Russian wood, furniture factories have also built special types of iurniture for these houses s'hich can lle purcha'sed at the same time lvher.r the house is bought. This furniture is to lrc of specific t1'pe and certain standards rvill be produced.

The Russian luurber industry intends to exploit the Gerrnan market as an excellent otttlet for these hottses and furniture. The German u'ood inclustry, is, of cottrse, the lle\vspaper states, up in arurs against this ner'v idea and it remains to be seen rvhat action the German government utill take against the import of this product. It is said in German circles that a hottse procluced rr-ith pl.r'n'oocl is not satisfzrctorv irt (lerrnanr' ()ll itccotlllt of the climatic conclitions.

Old estal;lishecl tion. Goocl clientele. l,umbcr Co., 3035 E.

For Sale

Iumber yard for sale. Fine locaNo reasonable offer refused. Coast Anahcim, Long Ileach, Calif.

B. C. Lumber Exports Show Increase

Total u'aterborne lumber exports frotrr Vancouver Islatrd, Nel' \\'estminster and Vancouver during the lirst four rnonths of 1932 totaletl 202,196,W board feet compared rvith 177A94,W feet the same perio<l of 1931, an increase of 14 per cent, state reports from Consuls Nelson P. Meeks at \rancouver and Itobert tr{. Nervcourb at \fictoria, made public br- the l,urrrber Dir-ision of thc Departmeut of Commerce.

Total 'rr-aterborne exports to the principal tuarkets during the first four rronths as colnpared u'ith the saure period of 1931, u'cre as follou's. 1932 cornpared rvith 19.31 respe,ctivell', in board feet:-to the United States 3-1.076.000 conrpared u'ith 71.1J77,000, a decline of 52 per ceut utrtlcr 1931;to the United Kingdonr and Continent 31,514,00Ct compared 'rvith 18,628,000 an increase <,,f uearll'70 per ccut; aucl to the C)rient (Japan and China) 91,122,M cotrrparecl rvith 70,332.000 an increase of 34 per cent; to Australia and Nerv Zcaland 36.941,000 comparetl u'ith 10,666,000, an increase of ncarlr' 250 per cent.

\\'aterborne luurlrer ,shipmetrts frour the ll. C. lon'er mainland to Canacliar-r Atlantic ports tluring the first four months anrountecl to oulr' 6.923.000 l;oar<l feet as colltpare(l u'ith 11,758,000 fcet in the same periocl of 1931.

llritish Colurnbia lurnber mills are reportecl to have increasecl operations slightly clttring April ancl u'ere operating at 50.15 pel'cent of nortnal as comPared u'ith 44.61 per cent in )Iarch. Shingle mill operations declinecl slightly in ;\pril to 3-1.1 per cent of ttorural. Logging operatiotls rvere reportecl at 35 per cent of normal in April. Logs scaled in April totaled 165,489,000 feet, an increase over the previous months.

On April 30, urrsolcl l<.rg stocks in the hantls of associated loggers (representing 70 per cent of unsold logs in ts. C.) of fir. r:edar ancl hemlocli u'ere 80,500,000 feet cornpared rvith 114,900,000 on APril 23, 1931.

Car loaclings of lrrnrber in Westeru Canada decreased fltrrrr -1.091 in April 1930 to'2,11(tin,\pril l93l and to 1,696 in April, 1932.