CRAIG.\TOOD LUMBER COMPANY

840 Rcalty Street, \(ilmington, California

Phone Collect: Tcrmin al 4-1177

State Senator Jack B. Tenney Speaker

1946 Treated Timber Output Up 10% At Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Meeting

State Senator Jack B. Tenney of I-os Angeles, chairman of the California Legislative Committee on un-American Activities, was the speaker at the luncheon meeting of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club at the Mayfair Hotel, Thursday, October 30. He gave some of the highligl-rts of the various meetings his Committee has held to investigate subversive activities in the State, also he commented on the Congressional hearings on un-American activities held in \lrashington. He received a fine ovation at the conclusion of his talk from the large turnout. J. \\'. Fitzpatrick introduced Senator Tenney.

President Paul Orban presided. Short talks rvere made by C. D. Le Master of Sacramento, Past Snark of the Universe and Seer of the House of Ancients, and Roy Stanton, 'n'ho reported on the meeting of the Supreme Nine held at Milwaukee last month.

Huntly \\rark reporte<l on the concatenation to be held on November 18, and President Orban announced that thc Christm;rs party and golf tournament .ivill be held at tlre Oakmont Country Club, Gler-rdale, on December 11.

New lssue Of Reference Book

The November 1947 issue of the Reference lJook of the I-umbermen's National Red Book Service is just o11 the press. It is the 132nd issue of the Book, rvhich is a senriannual cor-rsolidation of that service's tn'ice-a-u.eek lrulletin rif changes irr the luntber and u'oodn'orking industries.

Lumbermen's Credit .\ssociation, Inc., Chicago .5, Illinois, and Nerv York.5, N.\t., pulrlishers of this service, advise that as compared u-ith the issue of six months ago, there are an unusual number of changes allecting the various branches of the industry including many neu'ly listed sawmills, some of r,vhich are brand new sources of lurnber, others are mills rvhich tave resumed their operations. Also, there are listed numerous changes in busirress classificatior-rs as well as in credit ratings.

For the past 71 vears, this service has been nsed br. lunrber shippers and shippers in rnany c,rther inclustries rvho rnarket through retail lumber clealers, or rvho sell to furniture and other u'oo<lrvorking factories, as their guicle in credit and collection u,ork, and aicl in sales promotion and guide to sotlrces of lumber and allied products.

Figures on the amount of l'ood treated and preservatives consumed in the Unitcd States in 1946, just released, show an increase of 10 per cent orrer the previous year. The quantity of r.vood treated in 7946 rvas about 3,700,000,000 board feet, an increase of more than 340,000,000 board feet over the 3,353,399,208 board feet treated in 1945. Statistics on the output oi treated rvood are compiled annually by the U.S. Forest Service in cooperation rvith the American \\/ood Preservers' Association, and in 1946 were based on reports received trom 236 treating plants in operation. Of these, 197 were commercial treating plants, 22 were railroad plants, and 17 were private plants operated principally by public utilities and mining companies.

Frorn 1915 to and iriclucling 1945, these figures \,vere prepared annually by It. K. Helphenstine, Jr., of the U.S. Forest Service, but follou ing his retirement from Government service in the past year this u'ork u'as ltlacecl nnder the direction of Henry Il. Steer of the same department. The gratitude and appreciation of the rvood-preserving inclustry are due Mr. Helphenstine for the care and accuracy u'ith which he compiled these figures for thirtv-one consecutive years from reports made by individual treating plants. It was a laborious task, rvell done, and one of real significance to rvood preservers, for only through reliable statistics of this natrtre could the grorvth of the industrv fror.n year to year be accuratelv measurecl bv those most interested in its progress.

The item slrou,ing greatest increase in 1946 l'as poles, the total number trcatecl beirrg (;,516,11fr, a gairr ol 2,319, 330 poles, or 5'1.8 l)er cent or.er those reltorted in 1945. The species ranking highest rvas sciuthern pine, numbering 4,765,195 pcles, or 72.8 per cent of the total treated. Ranking next in number .lvere Douglas fir, totaling 797,331 ; rvestern red cedar, 410,195; and lodgepole pine, 345,25I. Of all poles reporfed, 3,186,926 were treated with creosote, 1,503,120 u.ith mixtures of creosote-Detroleum-pentachlorphenol, 9g7,357'witl"r creosote-petroleum solutions, 690,856 rvith creosote-petroleum-copper naphthenate, 153,569 rvith petroleum-pentachlorphenol solutions, and 14,288 rvith miscellaneous preservatives. About 85 per cent, or 5,553,065 poles, \\rere pressure treated and the remainder, 993,051, were g'iven non-presstlre treatments.