INSECT SCREEN CLOTH

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Pacific Uire Products Go. COMPTON. CALIFORNIA

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Americon Bonk Bldg., Portlond 5, Clregon Phone BEacon 2124 Telerype PD43

Purveyors of Foresl Producls fo Cqlifornio Retqilers

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FROSTBRAND FTOORING

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Stop End Sptitting

"LUi BER SEA[" sqyes you mone/'by stopping end spliring. Eosy to opply by sproying, it costs you obout 254 per MBF. Stocks ore mointoined throughout the Pocific Coost. Write us for informotion.

Short Orders

An order for a bunch of shingles or lath, a closet shelf, an ironing board, or any such trifle, is often considered a nuisance in a lumber yard. However, it is in reality, a very important part of the dealer's business. The material may have been needed for some time and the ordering deferred, and the item may look a lot bigger to the purchaser than to the seller. A man rvho orders a board today may want a house tomorrow ; or his friend may; and the courtesy with which he was treated wl-ren he bought the board may be well remembered.

If his small order has been overlooked, or there has been a lack of attention or civility, it might well send him somewhere €lse when the time comes for him to buy something more important.

Indeed, the so-called "short orders" may be considered as a sort of selling by sample. And, if the same commercial parallel is perrnitted to hold good, these "sample" sales should be as nearly perfect transactions as possible. For, in fact, these short orders, or sample sales, or whatever you want to call them, are wonderful feeders for the bigger business you want.

Adds Salesmen's OIfice

Commercial Lumber Co.,8145 Beach Street, Los Angeles, has added a salesmen's office to accommodate five salesmen. The office is finished in knotty pine, with sound deadening material on the ceiling.

MR,. DEA[ER,:

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Commerce Depcrtment Reports On Building Mcteriql Shortcges

Washington-Building materials will continue in tight supply through September and October, but shortages will ease during the last two months of the year, the Commerce Department predicts.

The agency said manufacturers of materials would keep production going fairly high all year. Output will decline a little for seasonal reasons during the last two months, but not as much as it usually does. Consumption of materials by builders, including their buying for inventory, will falt off more than will materials output, the Commeice Department declared.

Production of lumber, brick, cement, gypsum board and other materials climbed to 174% of the 1939 average in June from 167/o in the previous month, according to the department.

Total lumber supplies this year, including stocks at the beginning of the year, production and net imports will reach 40 billion board feet. Lumber actually used in construction 'rvill come to about 27,2W million board feet.

Cement supplies will total about 212 million'barrels this year, about the same as consumption, the department estimated.

Brick production, plus imports, the agency forecast, will be around 5,850 million bricks, against 6 billion bricks thar will actually go into construction during 1950,

Commerce officials explained that shortages of cement, brick, gypsum board products and some other materials that have appeared thus far in 1950 haven't been due generally to a lack o{ productive ,capacity. They listed "several other factors" as causing the pinch-a higher-than-expected rate of homebuilding, strikes in some plants, and a shortage of freight cars. "Production of a number of building materials would have increased more rapidly during the early months of the year if the demand had been fully foreseen," the deoartment said.

Stcrndardbutg Predecorqted Wallboard

A Proposed Commercial Standard for Predecorated Panelboard has been circulated by the Commodity Standards Division, Office of Industry and Commerce, to manufacturers, distributors and other interested groups for their review and comment, the U. S. Department of Commerce reported today.

The purpose of this Commercial Standard is to establish definte criteria of physical requirements that should be possessed by this material and presents a basis on which performance guarantees may be made by the manufacturers for the guidance and assurance of home owners, architects or builders.

It provides minimum specifications for one grade of predecorated panelboard. It covers physical requirements and tests for strength, water absorption, linear expansion, hardness, and resistance to light, heat, humidity, acid, alkali, and staining.

A limited number of mimeographed copies of the Proposed Standard are available, and a copy may be obtained, as long as the supply lasts, from the Commodity Standards Division, Office of Industry and Commerce, IJ. S. Department of Commerce, Washington 25, D. C.

IROPICAl & WESTERX lUMBER COMPAilY

Starts Construction of New \(/arehouse

Davidson Plywood and Lumber Company, Los Angeles, California, manufacturers of Etchwood, recently started construction on a new warehouse at their present location. The new building will have 16,000 square feet of floor space.

An interesting feature of this new construction is that the concrete walls are being pre-formed on the slab floor and will be raised into place after curing. Natural lighting will be provided through skylights.

In addition to the new warehouse, another 18,000 square feet of land has been purchased for customer parking and truck loading. With this new expansion, Davidson will have 48,000 square feet of warehouse and office space and 73,W0 square feet of land.

The Davidson plant is conveniently located at 3136 E. Washington Boulevard.

Red Cedcr Shingle Unilorm Quotction Form

Distinctly unique is the latest service offered by Red Cedar Shingle Bureau of Seattle to the building materials fraternity of America. A uniform "Quotation Form," printed on mimeograph paper, the sheets 8f"xl4', is being offered free in quantities to all manufacturers, wholesalers, commission salesmen or retail lumber dealers selling Western Red Cedar Shingles.

As stated, this form is unique in that it combines on its one page blanks for individual quotations of various grades and sizes of red cedar shingles, and includes a digest of each grade and type of shingles.

"We have sensed a growing demand for a standardized pricing sheet," states W. \M. Woodbridge, manager of the Bureau, "particularly in recent years in sections of the United States where the acceptance of Red Cedar Shingles has rapidly grown. There is absolutely no intent or possibility of these forms being used in price fixing or stabilization of prices. They are ofiered free to anyone who can use them, in the belief that they will be a definite service to everyone quoting prices to the trade on our product.

"This form has been given the unanimous approval of the trustees of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, and individual manufacturers will use them in quoting to the trade. It is believed they will be particularly valuable to wholesalers and commission salesmen."

Second Growth Douglcs Fir Thinning Yields $180 Per Acre

Thinning of Douglas fir stands in the Voight Creek Cooperative Experimental Forest, some 20 miles from Puget Sound in Washington, yielded an average of $180 of forest products per acre, a-ccording to the Annual Report for 1949 of the Pacific Forest and Range Experiment Station.

The comprehensive thinning experiments are being conducted on a commercial basis in 38-year-old site III Douglas fir. Three severities of thinning are being tested. Trees cut range from six to 24 inches in diameter. Average cut per acre comes to 1087 cu. ft. Principal products are sawlogs, poles, car stakes, mine props and fence posts.