T\TENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The California Lumber Merchant September 15,1931

A. J. "Gus" Russell, manager of the Santa Fe Company, San Francisco, suggests in this issue that industry get together on a "use Wood" campaign. "By doing so, you are directly helping the lumber and the I-ord knows it needs it."

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H. C. White of White Bros., San Francisco, writes in this issue the "History of the Hardwood Industry on the Pacific Coast." He says that it began in 1849 and 1850 when clipper ships carried hardwood lumber around the Horn and stocked in San Francisco. Most of this early hardwood was for building wagons and coaches.

The Sugar Pine Lumber Co., Pinedale, Calif., is making up a solid trainload of pine lumber, mostly sugar pine, to be distributed over the eastern states and Canada.

An article appears in this issue written by F. A. Hofheins, Snark of the Universe of Hoo-Hoo, titled:."When the Depression Is Over-Then What?" (Little did the writer know that the depression then was only started and would run for years. )

In this issue is a full-page picture and historical sketch of

H. Sewall Morton of San Francisco, in which is stated the fact that his grand-uncle, Reuben Morton, built the first railroad in the streets of San Francisco, a horse-drawn line that ran out Turk street to Lone Mountain.

Paul Masters, Petroleum Building, Los Angeles wholesaler, announces that he is quitting the lumber business at once and engaging in the bond business.

R: W. Smith of the Trade Extension department of the California Redwood Association, is making a series of talks on the uses of redwood at various civic clubs throughout northern California. The talk is illustrated with motion pictures.

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United States Plywood Corporation reports that its consolidated net profit for the three months ended July 31, 1956. amounted to $2,629,600 after estimated income taxes of $2,087,100. This compared with $2,654,700 net profit ir-r the same quarter of 1955 after $2,312,600 income taxes. Consolidated sales for the three months ended July 31 were $51,O12,000, compared with $49,019,00O in the corresponding three months of 1955.

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Sepfember Criticol Time for Forests ond Foresters

Getting new forests started on National Forest areas destroyed by raging forest fires just a year ago depends, ironically, on how many forest fires start in the next fe'w' weeks. This statement was made Augrist 24 by Chas. A. Connaughton, regional forester of the Forest Service in San Francisco.

This is a good seed year, and seed supplies are sorely needed to replenish short supplies now in the cold-storage seed bank at Mt. Shasta nursery. Good seed years occur only at intervals of three to five years, he said, and r,ve need all we can collect this year for the expected lean years ahead. A large portion of the seed collected this year will go toward reforesting the Hay.stack burn on the Klamath National Forest and tl-re McGee burn on the Sequoia National Forest.

It is only during a short period of about tlvo weeks in September that seed is ripe in the cones before the cones start to open. Then it is too late for picking. "We have to rely to a large extent on our field forces for collection, and most of these are fire-going personnel," Connaughton pointed out. The critical period coming as it does over the Labor Day holiday, and extending into the beginning of the late deer-hunting season, adds greatly to the risks of fires starting from people vacationing in the National Forests and other wildland areas of the state.

(Tell them. you sazn it in The California l-umber Merchant)