FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

in The California Lumber Merchant August 1,1931

In the solid trainload of 18 cars of Redwood products that left Northern California for the Eastern markets on July lst, two cars were loaded with Redwood bark fiber consigned by The Pacific Lumber Company to the Certainteed Products Corporation. This is one of the nelv products of Pacific and is used by the buyer in the making of roofing felt.

Freight rates on lumber from Willamette Valley points in Oregon to principal shipping points in California travel under reduced rates that became effective Tulv 15, the reductions ranging from l0 to 17 percent.

San tr'rancisco building permits for an increase of $119.980 over the totals in that city, has been elected president o{ the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce.

June 1931 showed for June 1930.

The Findlay Millar Timber Company sawmill at Kolambugan, in the Philippines, was destroyed by fire on Jdy 4, according to report. This r'vas the second largest mill in the Islands, r,vith a daily capacity of 100,000 feet of Philippine hardu'oods. The mill will be rebuilt.

In this issue appears an interesting article entitled "My Early Recollections of Lumbering," written for The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT by Captain Robert Dollar of San F'rancisco.

Nfost of the prominent Pine manufacturers of California and Oregon held a meeting at Klamath Falls, July 22 and 23, lor the purpose of creating a ne\\r association to replace the defunct California Sugar and White Pine N{anufacturers Association. The Western Pine Association was created for that purpose, to include all Pine-producing territory from Mexico to Western Canada. It u'as decided to use the name "Poderosa Pine" as a common trade name for the products of Pinus Ponderosa. No change rvas made in the name of California Sugar Pine and Idaho White Pine, both being genuine rvhite pines. B. W. Lakin, general manager of the McCloud River Lumber Company, 'll'as elected first president of the new association.