T\TENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The California Lumber Merchant July 1 , 1930 depression, this issue reports that market are better than anywhere

John A. Johnson, of Phoenix, reports in this issue on the history of the lumber indus,try in Arizona. FIe says that the first important mill to operate in the state was built in Flagstaff by Edward Ayers. ft was taken over shortly after bv Riordan Brothers, who continued to operate it as the Arizona Lumber & Timber Company.

While in the midst of conditions in the lumber else in the nation.

1929 shipments of California Redwood exceeded L928 by some 25 million feet. those of

The new tariff law went into effect June 17, and the Lawrence-Philips Lumber Company, Los Angeles, received the first shipload of lumber to enter Los Angeles harbor under the new rates. The steamer Quinalt brought the cargo.

Total lumber production figures for California far 1929 just released show the following: Redwood, 454,451,000 feet; whitewoods in Redwood region, 107,881,000; Ponderosa Pine,

7 85,102,000 ; Sugar Pine, 291,255,000 ; White Fir, 146,423,0M ; Douglas Fir, 56,712,0N.

A story with pictures of the modern building materials store of the Cutter Mill & ,Lumber Company, at Sacramento, appears in this issue. C. A. "Chet" Minard is manager.

Announcement is made that airplanes are to be used in scouting fires in the national forests of California. Contracts have been made with two commercial airplane firms to provide the ships.

Shipments of Philippine hardwoods into the United States during the first quarter of 1930 amounted to 10,242,000 board feet, an increase of about 3 million feet over the same period of the previous year. In addition, slightly more than one million feet of thin lumber and veneers of Philippine were received in Pacific Coast ports.

In this issue Dee C. Essley, manager of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, reports on the activities of that organization.