ID MARIIN Rerne,nbers

It was interesting in the early years of The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT to watch the changes in the retail lumber yards of the state.

Lumber dealers were rapidly becoming building merchants. The dealers began re-doing their offices and plants for better advertising and merchandising of their wares. Plate-glass fronts arrived by the hundreds, sales rooms, display rooms, plan-book departments and other modern innovations appeared inall directions.

As dim fronts disappeared and were replaced by store

Lumber in Arizono Forests WouldFill 6,8OO-Mile Trqin

Ii ai1 sau-tinrber standing in Arizona forests rvere sal'ed into lnmlrer, it tvonld filI a train of boxcars 6,800 miles long. Ancl this amount of iumber, says T. B. Edens, a spokesm;rn for the Arizona- lumber industry, rvould be arnple to ltuild a fir'e-room frame house for glery_ man, \\:omar.r :rnd child nol' lir.ing in Arizona, Nerv Xfexico. Ner.ada and \\'yorning.

Irdens said latest grx'ernment srlrveys shorv that Arizona's comnercial f()rests todav c,,nilin 2O billion board feet of san'timber-trees laige enoueh to make ir.rto lumber.

"Tl-re forests are a mainstay of Arizona's economy," the indrrstry man s:rid. "liesides :uplllying r".,,u i"terial for a large part of the state's indLritriil life, they exert an imltortant influence cln many othcr segntenti of the state's ecoflom1r."

One irr _(.\ ery nine enrplol cs irr rnanrriae turing indrrstrres t-ri the Grand Canyon State n,orks irr plunts depenclent <in n'ood for rau. material. said Ecleis.

Over half of tl're state's lrrivatc timberl:rncls are certified in the irrclustrv-olrerirtcd Trce Farm movernent to .assure -perltetual production of timber crops in Arizona's forests.

fronts to display the wares within, so did great changes come to the storage ends of the retail plants. IJp went roofs, out came blank walls, and lift trucks began moving the stocks in and out. New ways of storing, loading, and unloading lumber in and out of the yards were seen everywhere. Change was on the way, and it is still going on.

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MERcHANT, there came into existence a product that was to play a most prominent part in the lumber and building world. It was soon named "plywood," and slowly but surely it became a giant in the building industry.

It used to be said that a wooden board could be no longer or thicker than the log from which, it was cut. And then came plywood, and there was no longer any limit to the length, width, or thickness of ,a wood board.

It has been interesting indeed to watch these mighty changes and developments.

Hedlund Moves Bcry Areq Offices

The San Francisco sales ofifices of Hedlund I-umber Sales, Inc., formerly located at l,alo Alto, have been moved to N{t. Vien', California, according to Hedlund Representa- tive IJolr Bonner. The nerv office arltlress is 13116'Franklirr -,\ve., and the phone number is YOrkshire 8-ll7l.