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Fewer Sawmills, More Lumber Employes on Grcys Hcrrbor

One of the most impressive speeches made at the recent Portland meeting of the Pacific Logging Congress was by Congressman Russell V. Mack, of the third district in the state of Washington.

He said that 25 years ago the sawmills on Grays Harbor rnanufactured a billion and one-half feet of lumber from virgin logs annually. Today Grays Harbor produces only about onefifth that much lumber, yet by the addition of lumber remanufacturing plants, pulp and paper operations, plywood factories, furniture factories, and various other industries that use wood for their raw material, they now employ more people than they did 25 years ago, and use only one third as much wood. The first tree farm in the West was named in Grays Harbor County.

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Zeesman Plyrvoocl Co.,2316 S. Santa Fe, Los Angeles 58, is norv carrying a complete line of Pioneer Flintkote hardboards, in addition to its regular stock of Douglas fir plywood and doors.

Roy Forte Moves

Roy Forte, rvell known Los Angeles machinery dealer, has moved to 6918 S. Santa Fe Ave., Huntington Park. His new phone number is Klmball 290'1.

Sequoias in Britain

California gold has made its mark on the English countryside and on thousands of parks and gardens throughout the British Isles. The search for gold took men among the sequoias, and it was between 1846 and 1853 that seeds of both the giant sequoia and the redwood were sent to Britain for the first time. According to one story, the first pa.rcel was sent in a snuftbox by transcontinental pony exprtiss, the mail charge being $25 for two ounces.

There was some international disagreement about a scientific name for the giant sequoia because each country wished to. honor its national hero. Americans said the tree should be "sequoia rvashingtonia," but the English said that in England it would be "wellingtqni4"-3nd it still is ! Foresters and botanists refused to squabble; for them "Sequoia gigantea" was good enough, and the tree may now be seen nearly everywhere in Britain.

Already there are specimens exceeding 125 feet in.height but in Britain the timber is not good enough for the tree to be valuable in forestry.

The famous redwood, Sequoia sempervirens, is less well known and less widely grown as an "amenity tree," but British foresters value it much more highly. The heaviest stand of timber in all Britain is a redwood grove, not yet 100 years old. One tree, which cannot be more than 103 years old, h4s 'already exceeded 150 feet in height.

As the redwood seems to grow quite as well in Britain as in California, our successors may see in Britain trees as tall as any in the world.-Iohn D. U. Ward in Natural History magazine.