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WHOTESATE DOUGTAS FIR, PONDEROSA AND gUGAR PINE

Tacoma lumber $ales, Inc.

714 W. Olympic Blvd.

tOS ANGETES 15, CAI"IF.

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Cooperation Among Foresters Key to Vast Aerial Spray Project

"The forests have an enemy * * * more menacing than fire-the spruce budworm t< * *." Thus did the SEATTLE TIMES editorially summarize on June 24th the mighty battle waged here in the Northwest forests against a pestiferous little insect which threatens to destroy the vast Douglas fir forests unless checked.

Brtrnch Oflice:

1030 G Street, Arcatc, Ccrlil., Phone 705

CABGO and EAIL fIR and REDWOOD

NEPRE"SENTING

St. Paul d Tacoma Lumber Co.

Tcrcomcr, Wash.

Delicnce Milt Co.

Tccomcr, Wcsh.

Dickman Lumber Compcny

Tcrcomcr, Wqsh.

Kcrrlen-Dcnris Compcnry

Tccomc, Wcrsh.

Tacomc Hcrbor Lumber & Timber Co. 'Tccomcr, Wastr.

G. I.. Speier Co.

Arccrtcr, Cclil.

"There is hope that the budworm epidemic can be brought under control in one more season," the same editorial hopefully points out.

The story of the organization,the fund raising and the actual spraying of more than 2,000,000 acres of our forests in the last three years, and the contemplated treating with aerially applied DDT of another million acres in 1952 is a story of cooperation.

A Spruce Budworm Action Cornmittee, formed in 1949, and including foresters frorn private, state and federal agencies is the backbone of the great fight to save our forests frorn ruin. From this committee of hard-bitten men of action carle the drive and irrpetus needed to pry funds loose from a strangely tight-fisted lJncle Sam, to get large sums equallv from private owners and the states of Oregon and \vashingtor.r. These men also got DDT when red tape threatenecl to engulf the project.

This is evidence of the efficacy of on-the-job handling of the forests, one long-time forester states. These men, these foresters, whether employed by private industry, the states or the federal government, were here on the job. They l<nerv the seriousness of this threat. They cut the interminable recl tape of the Washington bureau method of procedure in u,hat nray stand for many years as a monutnent to indir,,idual initiative.

How Lumber Looks

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The Western Pine Association for the u'eek ended October 13, 102 mills reporting, gave orders as 4,298,000 feet, shipments 67,008.000 feet, and production 77,802,0@ feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 203.844,000 feet.

The Southern Pine

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for the rveek ended October 13, 93units (116 mills) reporting, gave orders as 19,503,000 feet, shipments 19,083,0@ feet, and production 18,187,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the n'eek totaled 56.434.000 feet.

The West Coast Luml;;.'lAssociation for the *'eel< ended October 6, 185 mills reporting, gar,e orders as 107,323.000 feet, shipments 118,874,000 feet, and procluctiorr 108,643,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the l'eek totaled 589,731,000 feet.

For the r.veek ended.October 13, these san-re mills reported orders as 126,655,000 feet, shipments 114.067,000 fect, and production 120,709,000 teet. Unfilled orders at the end of the u'eek totaled ffi2.$4.A00 feet.