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Lumber Exports to United Kingdom of Statc Housing Act

Pacific Wire Products Co., Los Angeles, manufacturers of insect screen, sent to the trade last month a copy of a letter written to them by L. T. Mott, Supervisor of Housing for the State of California, which read as follows:

"Please be informed that Section 69 of the State Housing Act requires that whenever it is deemed necessary for the health of the occupants of any building-apartment house, ho,tel or dwelling-or for the proper sanitation or cleanliness of any such building, that metal mosquito screening of not less than sixteen (16) mesh, set in tight fitting removable sash, be provided for each exterior door, window or other opening in the exterior walls of the building.

"This is a protection to home owners and occupants of any building-apartment house, hotel or dwelling-and we shall be pleased to have the cooperation of screen manufacturers and other interested persons in seeing that the law is complied with."

This firm sent a news item based on Mr. Mott's letter to various trade papers. They also wrote to the Pacific Coast Building Officials Conference suggesting that this information be passed to the Conference members. This was done without delay with the result that all cities operating under the Uniform Building Code were quickly made acquainted with the new law.

In their own letter to the trade Pacific Wire Products Co. pointed out that while it is not illegal for them to sell coarser than 16 mesh, it is nevertheless illegal to place insect screens of coarser than 16 mesh in windows, screen doors or other openings in exterior walls of habitations, and that therefore they assume no responsibility for screening sold of coarser than 16 mesh per inch fo'r purposes as set forth in Section 69 of the Housing Act of the State of California.

In six months of 1938, the United Kingdom imported 474,m,W board feet of softwood lumber from Canada, a gain of one-third over the same mo.nths last year.

The United I(ingdom's import of softwood from the United States was only 39,000,0@ feet. The American gain was only 300,000 feet. It is, however, known that July-August receipts will show a greater United States gain in rush business ordinarily Canadian but which could not be shipped quickly.

European softwood shipments received in England in the six months were 767,ffi,000 feet compared to 7M,000,000 last year. But the situation of low European supplies of softwood available for export, considering the British pressure this year for quick deliveries, is shown by comparison with 1937. That year British six months' import of European was 999,00O,000 feet. This year it was 23 per cent less.

Convention Dates

Sept. 14-17-Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Association, Palace Hotel, San Francisco. Annual.

Sept. 2l-22-National Hardwood Lumber Association. Lord Baltimore Hotel, Baltimore, Md. Annual.

Sept.ZS-D-United States Building & Loan League, Atlantic City, N. J. Annual conference.

Oct. fu2|-Florida Lumber & Millwork Association. Ponte Verda Beach, Florida. Semi-annual.

Nov. 23-25-Society of American Foresters, St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco. Annual.

Jan. 9-1l-Indiana Lumber & Builders Supply Association. Indianapolis, Ind. Annual.

Jan. 3l-Feb. 1-Z-Michigan Retail Lumber Dealers Association. Detroit. Mich. Annual.

Los Angeles Manufacturer Says it F. H. A. Sets upNewLow Down Payment Pays to "Acclimate" Lumber Loan Plan for Low-Cost Homes

A check of the moisture content of the lumber used in all their products, while in the storage sheds, is made by West Coast Screen Co., Los Angeles, manufacturers of the Hollywood combination screen and metal sash door. A double check is made before the lumber is put on the production line. Thus the possibility of warping, shrinking and end-checking is reduced to an absolute minimum, according to Francis G. Hanson, head of this concern.

Washington, August 30-A boost f'or new 1ow-cost home construction has just been given by the FHA to the man who has little or no cash and a small monthly income.

New regulations effective September '1st were issued in Washington on August 28 covering Class 3, Title I loans. This means new structu.res for residential purposes costing less than $2500.

The gist of the new regulations, which make it easier for low-income families to buv a new house than a nerv car, afe:

1. Loan period has been extended to 15 years.

2. Owner equity in the entire property, including house and lot, need be only 5%; and this may be represented by money already paid on the land or other services pertaining to the property. Even survey and title costs may figure as part of the 5/o equity.

3. Interest will be about Sr/a%, which includes FHA mortgage insurance premiums.

4. Houses financed under this system may be built anywhers-in town, in the country, or the seashore, or in the mountains.

5. Neighborhood, zo,ning, building code and utility requirements under Title 2 do not apply to this low-cost house financing. Houses may be built on unpaved streets without utilities.

6. There is no restriction concerning second mortgages. In other words, if a property costs $2800 it is permissible for the new owner to give a $300 second trust to enable him to build the structure.

"We give our lumber an extra 90 days' seasoning after it arrives in our storage sheds. We do this to 'acclimate' the wood and we have proved by actual test that this idea is scientific, and we know that it pays us to do it even though it means carrying much larger stocks," Mr. Hanson said.

Only the best Sugar Pine lumber is used in all of this company's products.

The instrument used to determine the proper moisture content of the lumber is the Moisture Register, made by the Moisture Register Company, 1029 N. Sycamore Avenue, Hollywood, Calif. The use of the instrument, which gives an accurate test in three seconds or less, is shor,vn in the illustration.

BUYS PARTNER'S INTEREST

Ed French has bought out his partner's interest in the Stockton Mill Lumber & Supply Co., 10O West Fremont Street, Stockton, continuing under the same name.

7. The FHA ofifices do not pass on the credit rating nor earning capacity of the prospective borrowers. This is the province of the lending institu'tion which applies for insurance on the mortgage.

8. It is easier for lending institutions to qualify as approved mortgagees under Title I than Title II. These new regulations mark about the last word in the liberalization of home financing for low-cost structures. Under this system it is possible for a man to buy a $2000 house with not over $125 in cash or equivalent in land value, on monthly payments of $17.00.

Attend Sales Conference

W. B. Wickersham, manager of the Los Angeles office, W. W. Davies, Phoenix, Ariz., Jim Berry, Stockton, and Geo. B. McGill, buyer, of Eugene, Ore., attended a sales meeting at the head office of Pope & Talbot Lumber Co., San Fra.ncisco, last week. Geo. R. Kendrick is manager of California sales.

Survey Shows Capacity of Fir Mills Greatly Reduced

Seattle, Washington. August 31, 1939-The annual operating capacitiy of West Coast lumber mills now in active operation is 7,950,000,00O board feet, in contrast to the rating ol 12,766,ffi,000 board feet estimated on machine capacity early in 1938, and the l9D machine capacity rating of I4l to 15 billion board feet, it was disclosed today by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, in announcing the results of a survey ol West Coast sawmills. The over-all figure of existing mills, down and operating, is approximately 8l billion board feet, the Association said, citing this as the estimated limit on the amount of lurnbei the industry can produce in one year.

"The disparity between new and old capacity ratings largely represents industry contraction, due to losses in both foreign and domestic markets," the Association stated. "Among Class A mills, the largest operations, 17 have been dismantled against one built since the 1938 survey. Mortality has been highest in tidewater districts, where the basis of lumber production is export trade and cutting business, with home building and other demand for small and finished items a minor factor. These districts also bear the brunt of Canadian competiti,on. The lack of markets for all but limited items also withholds new operations from entering the vast areas of mature and overmature timber in Southwestern Oregon just as it has put old operations out of business in other districts.

"The new capacity rating represents a change from the former method based on machine capacity to a more substantial rating of practical operation, taking into consideration interruptions due to weather, fire, holidays, and shutdowns for repairs.

"The survey divides West Coast mills into four capacity groups, which are as follows: 125 down and operating Class A mills, o,f over 80,000 per day;30 Class B mills, of 51,00O to 80,00O per day; 83 Class C mills, of. 26,0ffi to 50,000 per day; 724 Class D mills, with capacity of less than 25,000 per day; a grand total of 952 mills in western Oregon and Washington.

"Nearly seven billion of the eight and one-half billion feet annual capacity of the industry is represented in the Class A and Class B mills. Twenty-one mills in these two groups have passed permanently out of West Coast lumber production during the past eighteen m,onths. This is the strongest kind of evidence that the market problems of the West Coast lumber industry are a major economic problem of the Pacific Northwest."

Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 Meets Sept. 19

D. C. McGinness, San Francisco regional director of the FHA, will be the speaker at the dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 to be held at Lake Merritt Hotel, Oakland, on Monday evening, September 18. Dealers in building materials other than lumber have also been invited to attend this meeting.

New officers and directors will be elected and installed. President Shirley C. Forsey 'rvill preside.

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