D, C. Essfey &Son

New Tree Farms

(Continued from Page 80) pleton, 570 acres; Paul Caryl, Trout Lake, 280.acres; Rodger S. Coate, White Salmon, 16 acres; Earnest Hearn, White Salmon, 64 acres; Cecil Miller, White Salmon, 27 acres; Foster A. Morgan, Lyle, 26 acres; Carl pearson, Trout Lake, 18 acres; John S. Robinson, Lyle,375 acres; Dewey Schmid, 172 acres; John Schmid, Trout Lake, 40 acres; Adolph Schmid, Trout Lake, 56 acres; Tom Varnson, Lyle, 300 acres; Fred B. Wood, Trout Lake, 3l acres.

Trout Lake, Wash., Nov. l3-There,ll be timber forever in the state of Washington, if the Schmid family has its way.

Three of them, Adolph and John of Trout Lake and Dewey over in White Salmon, have brand new certified Western Pine Tree Farms of from 40 to l7Z acres each. John and Adolph are farmers aclding timber to their line of crops. Dewey,s full time job is enforcing forest conservation laws for the state.

A fourth Schmid, second generation, is in the logging business and has had a 160-acre Tree Farm near here since last summer.

His first name? Forest.

A feminine member of the clan, comely Nancy Pearson, drew nation-wide attention four years ago when she manned the Meadow Butte lookout in the top of a Ponderosa Pine tree near Glenwood. In the course of her duties she navigated an 8O-foot verti,cal ladder, up and down, five times a day, seven days a week.

Lumber Export Quotas for Fourth Quarter oi 1948

Washington-The Commerce Department will permit more lumber and lumber products exports in the final quarter of this year than during the previous quarter.

Fourth quarter export quotas for lumber total 327,g50,000 board feet, compared with 3lZ,6ZS,Offi board feet in the third quarter. fn addition, 20 million square feet of ply_ wood will be permitted for export in the final quarter, the same amount for which licenses were granted to export in the third quarter. An additional 10 million cedar batterv separator units will be allowed to leave this country during the last quarter. This is 2 million units less than the amount permitted for shipment in the previous quarter. About a500,000 square feet of cedar veneer would be used in the battery separator units which r4ay be shipped out in the final quarter.

The biggest increase in the export quotas of wood products appeared in railroad ties for which a quota was set at 50 million board feet, up 15 million board feet from the previous quarter and 30 million board feet higher than the second quarter quota. Another important quota increase, will permit I million board feet of oak to be shipped. This is 650,000 board feet higher than the quota foi-the third quarter.

Los Angeles Building Continues To Set Record-Brecrking Pqce

Los Angeles building permits totaled g324,O78,82I f.or the first 10 months of this year, as compared to $N4,I46,72? in the similar period of L947.

So far this year 20,462 housing units have been completed.

Permits for October were 4831 with a valuation of $19,752,649 as compared to 4888 and $23,094,627 in September, and 59ffi and $28,319,263 ior October, 1947.

However, 2927 housins units were completed in October, 540 more than in September.

Building Contrcctors Meet in Los Angreles

The Building Contractors Association of California held its 25th anniversary congress at the Elks Club, Los Angeles, on November 12-13. Officers were elected, and a series of resolutions aimed at solving problems of the industry were adopted.

The builders elected George Streit of Pomona, president for 1949; Marshall Tilden, Riverside, first vice president; C. J. William Millerburg, Sherman Oaks, second vice president; B. F. Jenkins, San Diego, secretary; Harry Hanson, Los Angeles, treasurer, and Edward M. Sills of Los Angeles was re-elected executive vice president.

Observation of trees and poles bent or broken by windstorms or in felling or handling as well as in tests of round timber shows that first failure often occurs between. rather than at knots.