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SCHATTR BROS. IUI}TBER & SHITIGID CO.
Home Office-AberdeetL Wash.
Manufaclurers ol Douglas fir and Red Gedar Shingles
Wcrter cnrd Rcril Delivery
Stecmrers-Annq Schder and Mcrgcret Schder
Buying Office-Reedsport, Ore.
Sdes Represenlative ol Robert Gray Shingle Go., Inc. and Gudiner Lunhr Go.
More Trailers Authorized (or California Federal Timber Sales Set All-Time Record Defense \(/orlcers and Families
San Francisco, Oct. l5-President Roosevelt, upon the recommendation of Charles F. Palmer. Coordinator of Defense Housing, today authorized construction of an additional 300 trailers in California for defense workers and their families, according to Washington, D. C., advices.
Two hundred trailers were authorized for San Diego and 100 for Camp Roberts, in the San Miguel-Paso Robles area. The War Department requested the latter trailer project be established near Bradley, California, but if utilities are not available there a site adjacent to the military reservation should be selected so that the camp utilities can be used.
Farm Security Administration has been assigned to construct both projects.
In the San Diego area the government has previously approved the building of 5,700 family dwellings, 1,750 dormitory units and 500 trailers. In the San Miguel-Paso Robles area approval had previously been given for the construction of 150 homes and 74 trailers.
Pacific Coast to Build 646 Vessels
Contracts for the construction of. 646 vessels, costing $L,ffi6,952,IO7 have been let on the Pacific Coast since the start of the present merchant and naval shipbuilding program, the Marine Exchange, San Francisco, reported in a special bulletin to its membership, October 22. Contracts are divided among the shipbuilding districts as follows:
San Francisco Bay area, $678,925,918; Puget Sound, $47 3,155,O29 ; Southern California, $336,452,098, and Columbia River, $118,419,112.
CINGUT,ATIOX KILNS
2)/o to 5Oy'o aore capacity due to solid edge.to.edge stacking. Beaer quality drying on low tenperanrrec with a fast rcvcrribic circulation.
Lower ctacking costs-just solid edge.to-edge stacking in the simplest forrn.
National Forest returns to the Federal Treasury from timber sales reached an all-time high in the fiscal year 1941, the Department of Agriculture has announced. Receipts were $4,789,04O, ,compared with $4,389,893 in 193O, the previous record.
The total income from National Forests during the year was $6,681,825, slightly under the record of $6,251,553 set in 1930.
In addition to timber sales, the national forests' l94l receipts included $1,4D,@l grazing fees, and special use fees of. $383,477 for summer home sites, resorts and other private or semi-private developments permitted on federal lands. Water power permits returned $77,587, special fish and game permits conducted in cooperation with the states yielded $2,250, and trespass cases added several hundred dollars.
Revised Directory of Membership
Portland, Oregon-The Western Pine Association has just published a revised directory of membership corrected to September 10, replacing the one issued April 1, 1941. A hundred and forty Western Pine member mills, located in ten Western States and British Columbia, are listed alphabetically by states. The directory shows the location of individual plants and sales offices and percentage of production of Idaho White Pine, Ponderosa pine, Sugar Pine and associated species. Standard and factory products and specialties, as manufactured at each mill, are also indicated in convenient tabular form. Copies of the revised directory of membership will be sent free by the Western Pine Association, 510 Yeon Building, portland, Ore_ gon.