CPR 97 - Ceiling Prices lor Pacific Northwest Logs

Washington, D.C., Nov. 20-The Office of Price Stabilization today issued dollars and cents ceilings for all standard grades of logs produced from nine major species of trees in the Pacific Northwest.

One-fourth of the lumber and two-thirds of the plywood produced in the United States is manufactured from the logs cut in this important logging area, which embraces for thJmost part western Washington and Oregon and the extreme northwesterly part of California.

Tlr" new ceilings are set at approximately the same general level as current prices for logs in the Pacific Northwest-. This level is the same as that which existed during the period fronr January 25,1951, to February 24,195I, inclusive. - at other points of delivery are the spelled out ceilings less the cost o{ moving the logs to the appropriate point where the spelled out ceilings would be applicable.

Premiums are provided for logs over 42 feet in length, and deductions for logs shorter than grade requirements.

On sales at ceiling prices sellers must pay half of the grading and_scaling_fee. On other sales the price and any fees paid by the purchaser for grading and scaling may not exceed the ceiling price plus one-half of the scaling and giading fee.

A list of accredited graders and scalers will be issued by the Office of Price Stabilization in a separate order. A buyer or seller acting in good faith will not be held accountable for-errors in the scaling and grading of logs by accredited graders and scalers, but the grading need not be done by accredited persons.

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.'The new ceilings, spelled out in Ceiling Price Regulation 97, effective November 24, 195I, vary slightly in five difierent prescribed districts-Puget Sound, Columbja River, Grays Harbor, Lane-Douglas, and Oregon-Caliornia.

Slightly higher prices prevail in the three northern districts where more consuming mills are concentrated and where water transportation is the rule, with the prices highest in the Puget Sound district. In the two southern districts rail and truck transportation predominates. Lowest prices are prescribed in the Oregon-California district. The difierentials reflect the price relationships which have existed in those areas by reason of prevailing economic factors.

Peeler logs suitable for making veneer and plywood cornmand substantially higher prices than saw logs.

Following are the prices spelled out on Douglas Fir, the predominant species, for the five districts, per 1000 feet log scale:

However, both buyers and sellers will be held accountable for errors of graders and scalers who do not have accredited status. The OPS Regional Director in Seattle is authorized bv Delegation of Authorlty 30 to make additions to and deletion.s from the list of accredited graders and scalers.

Errors of more than 57o discovered bv rescales or checli scales w_ill be subject to investigation, and-scalers and graders responsible for such errors will be liable to removal from the accredited list.

Graders and scalers must keep records of their operations and provide scale and grade certificates or statements. Buyers and sellers likewise are required to keep records for OPS inspection.

The five districts are defined as follows: t$:,.. rlti;i;:labte, ffi.00; Sawmitl No. 1, 955.00; Sawmiu No. 2, 942.50; sawnrilt t"il: ?:fr"'.#elect' $85'00; Sawmill No' l, $60'00; Sawmill No' 2' $45'ir0; Sawmill Klr..Jttffi:elable,990.00; Sawmill No. 1, g70.00: Sawmiil No.2, g55.00; Sawmill Alder. .$45.00 Wood logs... -.......$20.00

Puget Sound-The Part of Washington west of the crest of the Cascade Mountains, except Grays Harbor, Pacific, Wahkiakum, Cowlitz, Clark and Skamanii Counties.

Grays Harbor-Counties of Grays Harbor and pacific, in Washington.

Sound district for other species: Douglas Fir 2d Growth and Red Fir-sawmill No. 2, g52.5O; Sawmill No. 3, g42.50. W^estern.-Il_e_mlock_-Peelable, 960.00; Sawmill No. 1,'gj5.00; Sawmill No. Z, $+Z.iO, Sawmill No. 3, $0.00.

*i|j: It;.r".&1able, 97.5.00; Sawmill No. 1, g60.00; Sawmill No. 2, g50.00; Sawmill Red Cedar-No. l. gll5.tu; No. 2, g60.00: Shinste. $40.u0.

Culls.................$ 1.00

Prices in the Columbia River and Grays Harbor districts on the seco_ndary species are equal to or slightly lower than the Puget_ Sound prices. The only species -besides Douglas Fir for which ceilings are spelled out in the two southern -districts are 'Western Hemlock and White Fir, which run g5.00 to $10.00 per 1000 feet below Puget Sound Ceilings.

L,ogs_must be graded and scaled according to standards set up in tbe respective areas by the independint Puget Sound, Grays Harbo! Columbia River, and Northern CaliTornia Log Scaling and Grading Bureaus. The I-ane-Douglas district ii s^uljgct tq the Columbia River Bureau rules, an-d the Oregon- California district to either the Columbia River or the Nortfiern California Bureau rules.

In the three northern districts ceilings are applicable to logs delivered boomed and rafted in towible wateis. Ceilinss it other -points of delivery are less the cost of transportatiSn to towable waters, and booming and rafting.

In the two southern districts ceilings are applicable to deliveries in towable waters, boomed and iafted; at a common carrier railroad shipping point, or a railroad or truck reload point, agreed upon by both parties; or at the buyer's mill. Ceilingi

Columbia River-Washington Counties of Wahkiakum, Cowlitz, 9lark, Skamania and Klickitat; Oregon Counties of Benton, Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Hood-River, Lincoln, Linn, Marion, Multnomah, Polk, Tillamook, Wasco. Washington, and Yamhill.

-Lane-Douglal , Th9 portjon of Lane County, Oregon, east of the crest of the Coast Range Mountains, ind the portion of Douglas County, Oregon, east of the crest of the Coast R.ange Mountains, having as a southern boundary a line running due east from Rice Hill to the western boundary of Lanc County, and running due west from Rice Hill to th-e crest of the Coast Range Mountains.

^ Oregon-California-The portions of Lane and Douglas Counties not included in the I-ane-Douglas district; the OrJgorr Counties. of Coos, Curry, Josephine, and Jackson, and "the California Counties of Del Norte, Humboldf, and Mendocino. plus the portion of Siskiyou and Trinity Counties in California which are west of the crest of the Coast Range.

Opens New Store

The Peoples Lumber Company, Fillmore, held open house at the opening of their new store and office building on November l-2-3. The new structure is completely modern throughout, and the large plate glass windows insure plenty of light. In addition to the large sales room where harclware and building materials are on display, there is :r private ofifrce for Manager Bert Roderick, who is now starting lris 26th year with the company. Many prizes were given away to those who attended.

The yard was originally owned by Curran Bros. lrnd in 1911 it was purchased by the Peoples Lumber Company.

The most spectqculqr iob in the woods ol the Pcrcific Northwest is thcrt ol the high rigger or tree topper. This mqn hqs climbed up cr Douglos {ir tree, qround which he hcrs llung q rope, qnd removed the brcrnches crs he went up. Then he cut oll the top ol the tree. This is known crs cr spdr tree, qnd rigged with cables it will be used to hclul logs Irom q surrounding crrec to cr point where they crre locded on rqilroqd cqrs or trucks.