WED,ry

I think that I shall never aee Such lousy looking number three

Each bocrd wcs lull ol big spike knots

With skips in dressing, too, in 6pota;

And on ecch piece there wos aome wcne

And there were wormholes, loo, qnd stoin.

Each bocrd wcs checked lor severol feet

And iust io mcke my ioy complete

The stock wqs crooked, too, cnd greenl

Such lumber I hqve never 3een.

It looked like number five to me

And only God could mcke it .TT{REE."

When you ore seeking lumber you will be proud to hsve in your inveniory-cnd sell to your cualomers-cqll ug. There will be no delcy in taking ccre oI your requirements promptly cnd elficiently.

The next dinner meeting of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 rvill be held at the Clarsrn6nl Hotel, Berkeley, on Monday evening, September 17. At this meeting the new officers will be elected. Lu Green is in charge of the progfam.

Sacramento, Calif.-If all the forest fiqes in California last year had burned in an area one mile wide along U.S. I{ighway 101, the burned area would stretch from San Diego to near the Oregon line. It would be 865 miles long, and a motorist would need about two days to drive through the 553,400 acres of devastated wild land.

Other state-wide totals of wildfire destruction in California in 1950, according to a study made by the California Division of Forestry and the U.S. Forest Service and announced recently, are:

Bcck From Hcrwciicrn Trip

Ham Payne of Sierra Wood Products, Pasadena, and his wife and tvvo sons, Lee, 16, and Robert, 8, returned recentlv from a four weeks' trip to the Hali'aiian Islands. They u'ent over on the Matson liner Lurline and flew back. A highlight of the trip was when Ham caught a 175 lb. swordfish at Kona.

Costs and damage totaled $25,023,000. The costs were $15,061,000, spent by all agencies on prevention, hazardreduction, fire detection and firefighting. These efforts protected 50 million acres of forest, range and watershed lands and held down the damage to a bookkeeper's total of $9,962,0N. The books don't show additional damage, such as the upsetting of normal water flow, the destruction of recreational values, or the future shutdown of woodusing industries whose timber sources have been diminished.

There were 4,766 forest and range fires. Human carelessness caused 3,392 of them, or 7l/o. Lightning caused the others.

Smokers were the leading cause of man-made fires (972). Second came causes listed under "miscellaneous" (summer cabin fires, power-line failures, children with matches, auto exhaust sparks, etc.). Next in order were debris burning, incendiarism (276 fires), railroad operations, lumbering, and campfires.

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(Continued from Page 2) cies 4I,278,000 feet. Orders for July were, Redwood 25,3I7,Ufi feet; whitewoods, 9,565,000 feet; all species 35,882,COO feet. Shipments for July were Redwood26,123,000 feet; whitewoods 9,580,000 feet; all species 35,703,000 feet. Redrvood Association figures for the year to the end of July shor',,', production, Redrvood 288,865,000 feet; whitelr.oods 72,341p00 feet; all species 361,206,000 feet. Orders for the period r.vere, Redrvood 245,108,000 feet; whitewoods 67,809.000 feet; all species 312,917,NO feet. Shipments for the period were, Redwood 255,133,@0 feet; rvhitewoods 66.720.0W feet; all species 321,853,000 feet.

Kenneth Martin of Martin Plyrvood Co., Los Angeles, flew to forva last month to visit his mother. He was accompanied on the trip by his 11 year old son Larry.

Fred Sweeney, salesman for several years for Orban Lumber Company, Paszrdena, and manager for six years of the W. Rorve Lumber Company, Rosemead, Calif., is norv assistant manager at Carter l{ill & Lumber Co., Los Angeles.

Destination of Redwood shipments for the first seven months of the year were as follows: to Northern California 90,.599,000 feet; to Southern California 58,177,0C/|.; to all Eastern points 95,145,00O feet; offshore 3,653,000 feet ; Western states other than California, +,252,N0 feet: Rocky Mountain States, 2,732,0W feet; export 575,000 feet; total shipments first seven months of 1951, 255.133.000 feet. as compared with 2;,61,285,000 feet for the same period oi 1950. Redrvood shipments to Eastern territory for this period rvas 95,145,000 feet, as compared rvith 88,917,000 feet last year, a.decided increase, but California shipments fell off 5 million feet to Southern California, and about 7 million to \orthern California.

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