The Ralph L. $mith Lumber Go.

has Consolidated its Remanufacturing Facilities ANDER.SON, CAUFORNIA

Now a T horougbly Modern and Integrated Plant Produciog

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New Mattison Moulders-Turner Rip & Resaws-Jones Trim Tables -Years of Experience have given us the "know how" in moulding ptoduction.

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All of the Modern Machinery from Pendosa Pine Co' of Elgin, Oregon and several of the key personnel have been moved to Anderson, assuling the same high quality and precision manufacturing.

GLUED PANELS crnd CUT STOCK

Gillespie Electronic--Plycor & Clamp Carrier Glueing Equipment makef it possible to furnish unexcelled- panels-specializing in Furniture Parts-Drawing Boards--Luggage-etc. Shaping to Pattern on Onsrud Automatic Shaper and sanding to a smooth finish on Yates Sander. Turning lathe work performed on Mattison \7ood Lathe.

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High Quality Shook, both Calif. Fruit & Vegetable and Industrial, is being Produced in the Factory.

Our Outn Large Timber S"|PU makes

as a Dependable Source of Supply

"When the season of warm weather begins, trees put on clothes. When the summer heat sets in, they put on the thickest clothes obtainable. When the season becomes cooler, they begin to remove their clothes. And when winter arrives they take*off* all their clothes.',

The above quotation, marked "Anonymous,,'can be found in the little book, "Verses I Like," compiled by the late Major Bowes. The statements are true with regard to lots of trees, but not to a vast percentage.

They apply to all the trees that the commercial lumber industry knows as hardwoods, and to the great majority of shade trees, but not at all to the vast forests of evergreens whose leaves are in the form of needles. When the layman speaks of the leaves of trees, he has in mind those more or less flat, shapely, and sizable leaves of the deciduous species, which are green in summer, take on other colors when frost comes, and then fatl ofi to be born again when spring comes. ***

He has no thought of the Pines, the Firs, the Cedars, the Hemlocks, the Redwoods, and all the other coniferous types of trees that are evergreen. On these trees the leaf is merely a needle, yet it plays the same part in the life of the tree that the broader leaf does with the hardwood types. And while these needles do fall off, they are constantly replaced by younger growths of needles, and the tree remains always green. Only on a dead tree do the l'eaves lose color and fall off, leaving the branches bare. ***'

So the anonymous poet went too far when he declared that "when winter arrives they (the trees) take off all their clothes." In the good name of the beautiful forests of evergreens, this slander must be denied. The stately Firs, clinging to the mountain slopes of the Western states; the towering Pines that lift their crests toward the skies in so many regions of this country; the mighty Redwoods which live through generations and centuries with never a lessening of their deep coloring; and all their kinfolks of the evergreen tree world, declare in their modesty that it just isn't true. So long as they live, they are always well and colorfully clothed with leaves. * ft makes no difference what the season is, or what the thermometer has to say. The evergreens never shed their raiment, or change the charm of their coloring. No professional forester is the writer of this piece, so no details will be attempted. It is true that the ground under a forest of Pines is sometimes well matted with dry and brown needles. Maturity had come to them, and they had fallen in the season when nature called; but already younger leaves had grown into their place, and the ever-greenness of the mother tree is unimpaired. Modest is the name for evergreen. ***

Please understand also that this is no slander against the many useful and beautiful types of trees that do as the poet says; wearing their heaviest clothes in summer, and none at all in the cold winds of winter. Trees do as mother nature decrees, in this as in all other things. And no doubt the Oaks, the Maples, the Gums, and all the other innumerable species of trees which grow their leaves in the spring and shed them again in the fall, are just as modest and respectable in their way as the evergreens. No doubt about it at all. *

Speaking of trees-and we shall continue to do so throughout this piece-if you would welbome a quick, thorough, and interesting education on the subject of forestry, reforestation,commercial tree growing, etc.,you should sit for an hour with that greatest of all living foresters, Col. W. B. Greeley, and just listen while he talks. He will give you a run-down that covers the whble field of forestry, having all the interesting facts at his fingertips, and likewise the ability to discuss them colorfully and impressively.

He walked in the otfr"r.a"lr, J", ao*n, and started talking about trees, and forests, and the new philosophies of the lumber industry, and when he had finished we deeply regretted as we had done so often before, our lack of ability to write shorthand. What a wealth of interesting facts we could have gathered. Some of his highlights naturally clung to our memor'' * * ,<

For instance, he told of talking to a sawmill man who is about to build a big new mill. He said to the man-"How much will your mill cut?" and the man simply replied"That depends on how much timber our land will grow." "That," said Greeley, "is the new philosophy of the lumber industry, a philosophy never dreamed of just a few short years ago."

He talked of the competition that exists between the makers of pulp in the Southern parts of the United States, and those of Canada. "The South has one supreme advantage over their Canadian competitors," said the Colonel. "fn Canada where the winters are severe and the growing season short, they can only harvest an average of one-sixth