16 Th Newi Review, Roieburq, Or Friday, July 20, 19S1
Forest Products
Market Report
Willamette VilUy Art
Sawlog priced wer steady, and
demand continued good in the Wi
lamette valley during the week
ending July j.4. Most mills con
tinued to buy their normal volume
even though the lumber market
remains unsettled. Pulpwood, poles
and piling, and other forest prod
ucts were also unchanged, accord
ing to the weekly farm forest prod
ucu market repn.H, prepared by
tne utj extension Service from
data supplied by State Farm For
esters and other information.
DOUGLAS FIR LOGS: Second
growth Douglas fir sawlogs at Wil
Jamette Valley Mills remained
steady at $.10 to $41 a thousand
board feet, mostly $35 to $.18. De
mand was Bind. Eight-foot logs,
duwn to six-inch diameter wore
also in good demand at $15 to
$18 a cord, or $15 to $38 a thousand.
Old-growth Douglas fir saw Iocs
were $32 to $58 a thousand, mostly
$.18 to $45. Peelers ranged from
$70 to $110.
Second growth Douglas 1 1 r
Ktumpage prices have been un
changed for soma tim at $7 in
$16 a thousand, mostly $10 go $12.
PULPWOOD: Pulpwood prices
were unchanged during the week.
Northern and central valley pulp
mills offered $20 a coid for peeled
spruce, and $19 cord for peeled
Douglas fir, white fir, noble fir,
and hemlock in 4 and 8 foot lengths
down to 4 inch diameter. Unpecled,
these species brought $2 less. a
POLES AND PILING: Douglas
yfir poles and piling remained
steady, with good demand for all
except short barkie poles. Peeled
poles ranged from 9 cents to 45
cents a linear foot. Fo example,
30 foot peeled poles were 11 to 12
cents a foot, while 60 foot poles
ranged from 32 to 40 cents. Darkies
brought from 9 cents to 4! cents
a food for lengths from .10 to 80
feet, and were only 2 cents under
peeled prices at one central valley
yard. Piling prices ranged from 15
cents to 42 cents a foot for length
from 20 to 100 feet.
HARDWOOD LOGS: Hardwood
mills paid $30 to $40 a thousand
for alder, $30 to $45 for ash and i
maple, and $24 $?8 for rnlloitv
wood. There was a limiled demand '
for oak and chinquapin" $37.50 :
a thousand in the Eugene iea.
OTHER FOREST PRODUCTS:
Dry cascara btrk was unchanged!
at 15 to 17 cents a pound during j
the week. Swoid fern was also un- j
changed at 16 cents a bunch.
Water Diversion Stops ;
County Road Damage
Damage to a county road
through seepage from a mill pond
has been stopped, the county court i
announced Wednesday'
The pond, about a half-mile west i
of Oakland and belonging to the '
Martin Brothers Box company, had ;
been seeping water onto Slearns
lane, a county spokesman said.
With perforated pipe supplied by
the company, a county crew has
been installing culverts which will
divert the water inlu the I'alaponia
creek. Work was expected to be
finished today.
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minimal
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" miwPO compart rwrrvAPNt. ott toa
can cause
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You can join in the fight to prevent forest fires by getting the break
ing habit . . . snapping a ma'tch in two before you throw it away.
Thn you know it can't possibly start a fire
which may destroy thousands of trees and con-
tr-bitfe-to our annual $40,000,000 forest fire
toll. This isJmpoPrant whether trees are large
orsmal I, for yodng seedlings are our forests .
of the futisre. '
Keeping Oregon green is a task or all,for forests contribute greatly
to our comfort and security!
One Tree Will Make Millions of Matches . . .
One Match Will Destroy Millions of Trees .. .
This advertisement sponsored by the following firms of Douglas County
n
Robert Dollar Lumber Co.
PugetTimber Co. of Oregon
E.K.Wood Lumber Co.
Wilbur Lumber Co.
Associated Plywood Mills, Inc.
Smith River Lumber Co.
Riddle Manuafacturing Co.
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Roseburg Lumber Co.
L.and H. Lumber Co.
Fir Manufacturing Co.
Youngs Bay Lumber Co.
Umpqua Plywood Corp.
Engle& Worth Lumber Co.
Griswold and Sons Lbr. Co.
Empire Millwork Co.
Harbor Plywood Corp.
Nash Lumber Co.
Rolling Hills Lumber Co.
Lucas Bros.
Kruse Lumber Co.
E. G. Whipple Poles and Piling