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Some of the uses of wood that show increases in the last fifteen years (1913-1928) are:

Machinery and apparatus, electrical Pipes-tobacco

Baskets and fruit packages, boxes and crates Brushes and in 1930 less than 25 per cent. The condition of the farmer for the last several years is common knowledge and building on the larm durlng that period has been very much below normal. So the building material industrylumber and all other materials used in building construction-suffered because of this lack of demand. However, it is just as true that, because of this underbuilding for the last three years-taking the country as a whole-there is a shortage of homes, and wher,eas up to 1928 we were approximately a year ahead, we are now a year behind. This can mean but one thing, that is, that when public confidence returns there will be a period of intensive building.

While at this time the prices of all building materials are very low and labor is plentiful, when both are in greater demand prices will be higher, all of which points to the fact that now is a good time to build, modernize or repair.

The depression has affected the lumber business just as it has affected the business of all producers of building materials, such as cement, steel, plaster, wallboards, patent roofings and many others. All of these industries d,epend to a large degree upon the condition of the construction industry: It has been seen from the figures given earlier in this article that 5O per cent of the lumber produced is used in home building and farm buildings. For several years preceding 1928 there was an era of intensive home building; in fact, we overbuilt, so that by 1928 the country was nearly a year ahead of its n,eeds in the building of homes. In l9?3 but 50 per cent of the normal number of homes built annually were built; in L9?9 about 40 per cent,

Lumbermen Make Vacation Trip On Chamberlin Boat

Emmet Anderson, of the Anderson & Middleton Lumber Co., and Reg. Anderson, of the Bay City Lumber Co., Aberdeen, Wash., accompanied by their wives, have returned to Aberdeen after making a round trip on the W. R. Chamberlin, Jr. to Los Angeles. When in San Francisco they were callers at the office of W. R. Chamberlin & Co.

LUMBERMAN ADVE.RTISES RODEO

Earl Johnson, of the Independent Lumber Co., Livermore, brought a band of 6O cowboys to San Francisco to invite San Franciscans to visit the Livermore Rodeo on July 3, 4 and 5. Earl, who is president of the local Chamber of Commerce, with his gang entertained at the Shrine luncheon with Rodeo stunts.

From the standpoint of the value of materials that go into building construction each year, lumber easily holds first place. The latest available figures appearing in the U. S. Commerce Year Book for 1930 and which are for the year 1927 confirm this statement. Seventy-five per cent of the homes in this country are built either entirely or mainly of wood, as are 95 per cent of the buildings on the farm. When the question of permanency arises, it is well to remember that the oldest homes in the United States in use are built of wood, and that most so-called permanent buildings outlive their period of usefulness, become out of date and are either torn down and replaced or they are modernized. When it comes to modernization, a building built of wood is more susceptible to improvement at reasonable cost and such modernization, if directed by competent architects, can be done more readily without destroying good architectural lines if the original product was wood and the product used in modernizing is wood.

SA,N FRANCISCO SHOWS GAIN IN BUILDING PERMITS

San Francisco building permits totaled $2,351,799 in June, an in,crease of $119,980 over June, 193O. For the six months period ended June 30, permits valged at $12,676Stl6 werC issued, showing a gain of. $132,677 over the same period last year.

Lumberman Making Good Recovery

Bill Wright, of the Wright Lumber Company, Slockton, is convalescing in the Providence Hospital, Oakland, after having had his hip broken in a bad fall.

Bill says you can't keep a good man down for very long, and he wishes his many friends in the lumber business to know he is well on thC way to recovery' and will be able to receive callers in a week or trvo.