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that chocolate sauce on it, see?"

"Sorry, lady," said the soda jerker, who was something of a kidder himself ; "we're all out of chocolate sauce. How about serving you that ice cream without any crushed strawberries? 'We've got them."

Lumber Industry Leads in California Lumberman Named New Mexico on National Committee

Washington, Oct. 10.-Thirty-five per cent of all the wage-earners in the manufacturing industries of New Mexico are in the sarvmills or logging operations (lumber and timber industry) and 25 per cent of all wages paid in the state in manufacturing are to these employees, according to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association in its survey of the lumber industry in various states. Wageearners in the industry'numbered 1,549 and received $1.430,ll7 in wages in l9D. Value of products lvas $4,198,302.

Lumber production in New Mexico was at its highest in 1927 when 73 mills reported cut of 172,517,ffi0 fieet. In 1929, 78 mills reported production of 148,287,N0 feet; in 1930, 76 mills of 142,885,000 feet. This production was entirely softwoods; 8O per cent of it in 1930 was Ponderosa pine; 13 per cent Douglas fir; the rest, white fir and spruce.

Per capita consumption of lumber in New Mexico in 1930 was 235 feet, compared with 190 feet for the country as a whole and 145 feet in Arizona. Of the 99,748,000 f.eet which the Forest Service reported as consumed that year 53 per cent was obtained within the state and the rest came from other states, practically none being imported. Aside from home consumption, more of New Mexico's lumber goes to Colorado, Texas and Missouri than to other states.

Box and crate manufacture is the principal wood-consuming industry of the state, followed by planing mill products and millwork.

A. S. Murphy, president of The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, has been appointed a member of a committee of prominent men in the lumber industry to aid the government in a move to put each rvood to its rightful and most economic use, according to an announcement made recently by Secretary of Commerce Chapin. George F. Lindsay, of St. Paul, Minn., who is associated with the Weyerhaeuser interests, was named chairman of the new committee.

The secretary said that nineteen leaders in the industry, representing substantially every species of wood grown in the United States, had agreed to cooperate with the department's national committee on wood utilization in preparation of a lumber manual.

C. B. Lyons \7ins Hammond Golf Trophy

Chas. B. Lyons was the winner of the Hammond Lumber Company Golf Club trophy at the golf tournament of the company's Los Angeles salesmen held at the Fox Hills Country Club, Culver City, Saturday afternoon, September 24. Nearly eighty, which included the Hammond salesmen and their guests, took part in the tournament. Mr. Lyons will have possession of the cup until the next tournament, which will be held at an early date.