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BRUSH COATED STAINED sHAKEs ore monufoctured under rigid "Quolily" specificotions by one of lhe notion's leoding independent monufocturers of shingles ond shokes. Their high quolity meons eosier selling. more profif.

SIX PERMANENT BRUSH COATED COTORS

O Skookum Green O Skookum Burgundy

O Skookum Brown O Skookum Buff

O Skookum Groy O Skookum prime While

OLD GROWTH Western red cedor used in the mon. ufqclure meons losting quolity.

TRU-CUI processing meels the most exocling slond. qrds of modern croflsmonship.

BRUSH COATED wirh deep penetrorins srqin which gives losting finish.. ossures greoler-soles.

AVAILABIE in stroight or mixed cqrs from lhe SKOOKUM SHAKE COMPANY.

D;stributcd in Colifornio by BAKER HARDWOOD TUMBER CO. Scn Diego, Colif.

Paciftc Coast Lumber Exports Showed Increase in May

Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau reports that pacific Coast waterborne lumber exports and doinestic shipments in Nfay showed an increase over the previous month.

May exports totaled 140,436,426 btard feet compared ri'ith 133,522,322in April. The month's domestic shipments were 139,492,317 in N[ay against 229,916,762 ;n epril.

Exports for the first five months of 1951 totaled 6dg,0gg,_ 353 compared with 204,870,g01 tn 1950. For the same period domestic shipments were 642,527,943 in 1951 and 983,736,140 in 1950.

Ilritish Columbia's May exports totaled g9,000,1g9 against 89,769,198 the previ,ous month. British Columbia shiptents to U. S. ports totaled 4,Z87,}SA in May, compared with 8,015,982 in April. Five month British Columbia shipments to the U. S. were 64,7W,952 this year and 3t5,427,5bg tast )'ear.

The only shipments reported from California in Mav were exports of 519,192 to the United Kir-rgdom and 94,_ 519 to Hawaii.

Forests and Men--Fiftv Years Of American Forestry Progress

There will never be a timber famine in America.

_ These words are given strength and meaning in a new book, Forests and Men, authored by Colonel W. B. Greelev. form_ er chief of the U. S. Forest Service and a forester'who to_ day exercises a great influence on private forestry policies.

This book, just released by Doubleday & Co-i".,y, unfolds the fifty-year dramatic struggle for wise harvesting and man_ agement of America's forests_from 1910, the year of an epic forest fire which destroyed over three million acres of forestland in the Coeur d'Alenes region of ldaho, to 1951, when many of the forests have become insurable fire risks.

Colonel Greeley has played a major role in the expansion of forest conservation and public knowledge about forestry through promoting tree farming, Keep Alerica G.een, Trees for America and other great industrial and public forestry movements.

This reference book, well documented with facts on every phase of forestry growth, is packed full of anecdotes. incidents and stories of loggers, teresting people with whom tact over the years.

loresters, rangers, and other in_ Colonel Greeley has come in con- ment during the next

Lumber industry nificent story points leaders believe that Colonel Greeley's mag_ the way to even greater forestry develop_ fifty years.

Lqchlcn Mcrckenzie New M and M Vice President & General Mcncger

M and M Wood Working Company, portlancl, Oregon, has announced the appointment of Lachlan Mackerizie, former president of Eastern Stainless Steel Corp., as vice president and general manager of manufacturing opera_ tions. He will supervise plant activities of all M and M plants in Washington, Oregon, and California.

Tacoma lumher $ales, Inc.

714 W. Olympic Blvd.

tOS ANGEI.ES 15, CAIJF.

Telephone PBospect 1108

Brcrnch OIIice: 1030 G Street, Arccrtq, Cclil., Phone 705

GAAGO and RAIL FIR and REDWOOD

REPRESENTING

St. Pcrul & Tcrcomq Lumber Co.

Tccomcr, Wash.

Delicmce Lumber Co.

Tcrcomcr' Wash.

Dickmcrn Lumber CornPcrrY

Tqcomd, Wcrsh.

Kcrlen-Danris ComPcarY

Tqcomc, Wash.

Tacoma Hqrbor Lumber d Timber Co'

Tccomcr' Wcrsh.

G. t. SPier Co.

Arccrtc, Ccrlil. Also

Northern Ccrlifornicr crnd Southern Oregon

F'IR cnd REDWOOD MIIJ.S

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