The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, August 26, 1925, Image 12

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Newspaper Page TextI S 11 I M m Pi it w i s H 1 i m m ii I . s I ii ' i is t i I i it . ' m Mm I 5 I i . Ml I fib' ' ft. ' m - ; m I K ttfijj PAGE TEN Cost Of Lumber Is Small Item In Making Liveable Modern Home, Writer Says WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 Romance and tradition have invested the dear old homes of our ancestors with a wealth of poetic charm. How we love to enter the vine-encumbered garden gate and give free rein to rap turous imagination over the subtle beauty of the weather worn buildings. From room to room we wander reani mating Uiem with the life and laughter of by-gone days. What a thrill the great kitchen gives us with its smoke darkened beams, its deep worn tiles, and the roses peep ing in at the quaint old casements. There through an arch doorway we have a glimpse of the dining-room that many times rang with bounteous hospitality. Beyond is the ancient "parlor," darkened and austere, with its stiff haircloth furniture frowning out of the chill of a seldom-invaded sanctuary. And above are the low ceiling bedrooms, prim and precise, yet with an air of restful invitation to untroubled siumoer. Yes, we rhapsodlic over these rare old homes of our forefathers, but would we live in them os they are? We would not. BUI and Mary of the modern day view the old home from different angles, but both agree that a lot of things must he "done'' to the place to make it livable. Bill lookB sadly at the garden and spec ulates about the garage. It would have to be where the withered grape vines cling to weary old trellises. The driveway must run straight out to the street and that would re quire cutting down ' some apple tres. .Mary begins with its plumb ing. There Isn't any. and of course it must be put in.. Then there is no wiring, or electrical fixtures, no heating system, no screens, no kitch en gas and no sun room. The kitch en range is picturesque but that won't do. And. the tile floor must be covered fur comfort. Indeed. . there is so much to be done that the task seems almost hopeless. Uomance and sentiment are all right when the poetic fancy is on, but living in the place is distinct ly something else. The comforts and conveniences of the old house were few, while they are distinctly dominating in the modern residence. , And just here we have practically the exact ratio of the cost of mod ern homes over old ones. Most of us have little patience with cost statistics, which ordinarily are as drab and proslac as n row of milk cans. Hut we are compelled at times, to take a furtive peep at the price tags. Mrs. Grace J. !,andon. statistician of the National Lumber Manufac turers Association, loves abandon ment to aesthetic speculation as, "well as anybody, but her practical mind snaps us back to certain "facts and figrues" that are quite significant. She says, after a study of dwelling cost data made by com petent authorities, that nearly thirty per cent of the cost of the present day home is expended for "modern conveniences" comforts that the last generation did not know or was just beginning to learn about. According to one such tabulation which averaged the cost of nine or ' ten houses, costing from $9,000 to $23,000 each, the following per centages were spent: Percent of For: . total cost Sanitary Ware and Plumbing 9.3 ' Electric Wiring and Fixtures 2.7 Heating System 7.0 Screens 9 Landscaping 3.0 J Architect's Fee 4.5 27.4 Add to this, that part of the car pentry cost which goes into sun parlors, sleeping porches, hardwood floors and into built-in pantries, buf fets, etc.. and thirty per cent is a constructive figure. "And yet who wants a house now without an up-to-date, bathroom, built-in laundry tubs and perhaps a lavatory or two comforts our parents may not have known in their youth?'' usks Mrs. Landou. "Electric lighting is such a con venience, so clean, effective and safe, thut we almost forget that the first incandescent lights were put into operation in the early 80's, not much more than 10 years ago, replacing the odorous kerosene lamp and the 'dangerous gas jet, and hat prior to 1900, electricians were so fuw in number as not to be sep arately listed even in detailed cen sus reports. "The parents of the youngest of us will remember the buseburner- forerunner of the modern furnace, und will recall that hot water and steam hentlng was not generally adopted in this country until thirty or forty years ago. And in kitchens, coal and wood were burned with their consequent dust and smoke. "If screens were in use in those not-So-far-away limes they were homc-mado and were not included in the general building bill. Land scaping with Its necessary grading anil sodding of I lie grounds, with ,H..ra. wtm.- 111'iwi.imintaJ. jlunUi u ot shrubbery, is one ir Hie iniWiM'H y' liomc-blllhjliii; Appurtenant1 "Prominent architects are author ity for the statement that the pro portion of dwelling house construc tion thirty or forty years ago that was put up in accordance with archi tects' plans was almost negligible, as compared with present day prac tives. Sun parlors and sleeping porches make for better health, hardwood floors mean elimination of the unwieldy and unsanitary car pets and al seem well worth the extra cost." Although today's home builder will not wish to eliminate or over look any of thesis ''modern con veniences" which mean so much for the health and well-being of his family', he must remember that it is they, making up nearly one-third of the cost of his home, which largely account for the difference between that cost now and what it was some years ago. The lumber built house costs more than it did. the brick house costs more, the stuc co house costs more, partly because building materials are somewhat more expensive, because labor costs all along the line are heavier, and particularly because the house itself is incomparably more convenient, comfortable and wholesome than it was a generation ago. Information Service. National Lumber Manufac turers Association. Coos Veneer Plant Opens; 40 Working Factory Produces Bat tery Separators Only MARSHFIELI). Aug. 26. The Pacific Veneer plnnt opened this morning with 40 employes after being cDsed sin?;e the first of July. The company will manufacture battery separators exclusively, and Frank Lowe, president and manager reports that some time will be re quired to fill the orders now at hand. The pa; roll of the plant nrlB not be Increased immediately, he Baid, but additional employes will probably be taken on later in the year. Night Shift Plan of Shingle Plant TEN1NO. Wash. With improved market 'conditions, a nighj shift will soon be put on at the Russell shingle mill, according to announcement by Mrs. Ella Russell, who has managed the business since the recent death of her husband. A new shingle ma chine was recently installed in the mill. Eighteen men are employed. PLANT AIIOLT READY Mt. Emily Lumber Co., La Grande has Hi sawmill about complete and contemplates starting operations in September. The building is 210x 144 feet. The capacity will be 150 000 "feet daily. ' The company Is building a logging railroad ',t miles into the timber. i, gs will be brought over this road to Hll yard, where transfer will be made to the Union Pacific for shipment to la Grande. Sam, walking in tho woods late one night was surprised hy a wild cut which proceeded to chase him to the top limb of a large oak tree on the edge of a deep canyon. The wildcat was climbing us fast as Sam and soon bad forced him perilous ly near the decaying end of a large limb extending beyond the edge of a precipice. Sum decided it was time to remonstrate. "Wildcat," he said Impressively! "wildcat, does , - uiWmju. juiuuik, 'ii- V, tW" fc '."(ClnT 'te -e'lrlffMr' " o' flUppftl," T Eddie Off the New Lumber Company Is Incorporated Cottage Grove Firm Has Large Holdings COTTAGE DROVE, Aug. 20 Fred W. Bradley, of Hay City. Mich., who owns large tracts of timber! land in the vicinity of t'ottage Drove, has become associated with W. A. Woodward, lumberman of that city, and the W. A. Woodard Lumber company has been incorpor ated with a capital stock of $1.600. 000, of which $500,000 is common stock and $500,000 preferred stock. The articles were filed in the office hf the. county eler her vesteritiiv. Mr. Woodard owns two mills near Cottage drove, besides seven miles of lumber flume and logging rail ways. One of the- mills, which has a capacity of S5.o0w feet of lumber dally. ;":i now in operation. The third incorporator is f'harles A. Hardy, of Eugene, his name being used to make a full board of di rectors. Extensive improvements art ex pected to be made in the two mill plants and the logging plant, and the I second null Jpay soon be placed in operation, according to announce- I ment. Tlie Noti Lumber confpun-y yester day filed articles of ineorpation in the office of the county clerk. The incorporators are Carl Fischer, George McOill and V. A. Smith, and thp capital stock is i 10,000. The principal place of business is Noti. Klamath County Mill and Manutactur ersy Directory Ackley Bros., Klamath Falls. Algoma Lumber company, Algoma. Anrifi Creek Lumber company, Fort Klamath. . -Big Lakes Box company, Klamath Falls. Bryant Mountain Lumber company, Malin. Christy Lumber company, Kirkford. Campbell-Towle Lumber company, Sprague. Chiloquin Lumber company, Chiloquin. Ewauna Box company, Klamath Falls. Illinois Lumber company, Langell Valley. Kitts Lumber company, Bononza. Kruse Lumber company, Klamath Falls. Klamath Lumber and Box company, Shippington. Long Pine Lumber company, Bonanza. Lamm Lumber company, Modoc Point. McCullom Lumber company, Keno. Modoc Pine company, Chiloquin. Nine Lumber company, Klamath Falls. Pelican Bay Lumber company, Pelican City. Shaw-Bertram Lumber company, Klamath Falls. Shasta View Lumber and Box company, Klamath Falls. Sprague ,Eiver Lumber company, Chiloquin. Topsy Lumber .Co., Topsy, Ore. (P. 0, Dorris, Cal.) Wheeler-Olmstead Lumber company, Klamath Falls. Planing Mills and Remanufacturmg Plants Big Basin Lumber company, Klamath Fills. Lakeside Lumber company, Klamath Falls. Klamath Moulding company, Klamath Falls. Swan Lake Moulding company, Klamath Falls. .White niic Moulding company, Muniiilb FiUlp. H R r, U II H E RLOG Field r.ddie ni.in.ie.or Chicago Sox. nothing Collins, of the White r n i o y . better & good than of toll- after a tahv hunt day on the lull Held. II lliuts It Netful rcci cation. Ed die. by the way. is quite a curd ahtu-k und c.m hold his own with uny of them. The above photo was taken in the cast Just after the White HQ h.ul ilnlshcd a tough .-erics. ahlle seotr.s to l u In a o o p tbouuht over the next play- Young Lumberman Sues; Says Fraud Caused Huge Loss . WASHINGTON. A suit for $S93. 850 damages against the Seattle Hardware company, the Ctivano Log ging company, the Andron Logging Compari tint! four Individuals has been filed here hy Frank K. Day. 19-year-old president of tho Day Lumber company of fllg Lake, who charges that he has been plunged into bankruptcy because of "false representations, deceit and violution of a trust agreemeut." Resides the three companies, he names Mr. anil Mrs. ('. S. Willis and Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Anderson us defentlants. t The young Skagit lumberman usks $689,ST,0 for loss of his equity In the Day Lumber company, which he inherited from his father, and $2iH. 'd00"ior personal liabilities. Two old Scots were discussing the domestic nnhapplness of u mutuut friend. ' "Aye." said one. "a salr time has Donald wT that wife of his; they say they're aye fechtln'." "What eL.e'can ye expect?" chim ed in the other scornfully. "The pulr feckless, creature tnarrlt after ooortin' for only seven years. Man. be Bad nao chance to ken the wo man in sli'h a short time. Why, when I was coorllrt', I cborted for twenty years." An amused listener ventured to ask whether this long courtship had insured connubial bliss. "I tell ye I coorted for twenty years." tin- obi Scotchman retorted, "and In that time I kent what wo man was and so I dlnna marry." Sawmill, Planing U E French Won't Buy U. S. Box Shook, N American States "An Investigation of the box shook Hlluutiiiu In three fourths of Fraiice shows that at present there In uo opportunity for the u of Amori- can boxes In Francos, even consider-, ling the drawback provjslou of the il nlled States tariff regulations." said Axel II. Oxhol. chief of the lumber division, department of Com merce. "In the first place the tariff on box shook In France Is prohibit live and It seems thai box shook are tint received from any foreign COOP1 try. not even from northern Europe. Resides. France bus very Important timber resources of lis own Well suited for the manufacture of box es. This material Is so cheap that I do not Hro how any foreign shook can cotnpeic. I hnvti Just vlslieif tho most Important lumber regions in I Southwest France and It is my ttu ! dci-standing that the raw material is available at about tf.o to 100 francs yer cubic meter illt; to $22 per M feet i . It Is easily seen that Utile can be expected in the way of u shook present. It Is also safe lo assume that In the future the French will en deavor to utilise Ihclr own lumber to the greatest possible extent and I have been Informally told by com petent people that should any for eign shook be Imported in the com ing years the lumber Interests of France will immediately sin to It U that the duty on box shook will be raised. In talking with people repre senting central, eastern and north European producers of box shooii I have been given to understand that they are nut looking forward lo any market at all In France In the fu ture for this material. For this reasou I believe is would be advis able for American shippers of box shook to disregard the French mar ket at the present lime." I'lltES ON (UT-OYSR AttKA The State Hoard of Forestry and tho California Forest Protective As sociation are co-operating n the work of obtaining accurate infor mation regarding the results of for est tires on private logging oper 'tttlott'.i. Forms have been printed and distributed to operators, upon which ii record CSn be kept of all fires occurring each mouth, and n request made that a copy of each monhly rep-rt be forwarded to the California Forest protective Asso ciation for compilation. The -report from provides for recording the date, locution, cause, ureu, cost, damages, discovery and control of each fire. Tho ncrurate record of fire, fire causes und fire losses that will be obtained will be of cal value to the lumber industry, es pecially in the event of excessive newspaper reports of fire dtimuge. Vernonia Mill to Run Double Shift 6 Days Per Week VKUNONIA Ore. Kleven million feet of finished lumber was Hhlpped by the Orenou American Lumber company's mill lal thin place durlnK the month of July, Mostly lo inld dlo twest and eastern pdlrits, Bridge timbers, cross ties and othor rail road material is reported as havlnif found ready sale to western roads. The mill Is about to ohanito from n five day to a six day week, oper ating two shifts, tile avcrUKu dally cut being approximately 600,000 feet. Coast Mill Makes Big 16-hour Cut HOQUIAM, Wush. The flruys Harbor Lumber company's mill set what is believed to bo u harbor lumber record by turning out 800, 004 feet in 16' hours. The mill's average eight-hour output ranges between 200,000 and 2IiU,000 feet. The cut was mude In two successive; eigbt-hoiir shifts, Work Proceeds on Long-Bell Plant I,0fiVIKW, Wash. ConslrittHlon Is progressing rapidly on the east fir unit of the I.nng-llelt Lumber! company plant with the head mill the hemlock stacker, cooling shedsj; dry kilns and unatackor sheds well under way. About two-thirds of the trusses for tno unslnekei- and one half of the trusses for Hie head mill urn In place, the siding has hell started on the hemlock stacker sheds and concrete rounds! Inns and wins nie in mi mivcu oi inn ury kilns. Ilarbnrii (saying her prayer)--; ...xJ'Aij ijbtivguUivldy MII, Mummy und innke them happy If Irfbyrn not loo old lor Dial SOfl of lliini;," No Falling Off In Demand , For Labor; Harvest Work J Supplants Fire Fighting PORTLAND, Aug. Wfli no fa'lUng off in the demand for labor last week, either on the West coast or in tho Inland Empire districts, axCordiHtf to the 4L weekly employment letter issued here today. Forest fire fighters have largely been released, the letter stated, but this has brought abount no unemployment because of the fact that calls for harvest and threshing help have not diminished, anil in some districts logging act ivity has has increased slightly. Employment conditions in various districts were re ported as follows: BUORNB, oie. Uthof demand and supply ll ICugeiie mid district ll about at a balance. The llooth' Kelly lumber opci'iUl ui al Weuill ing and Springfield have returBOd to It six duv week. Many w 'iker-. continue to migrate to and from the N.itivu cut-oft but them are few Idle men u this city, I'OKTl.ANH I.okkoik were hired ill Portland last M'ek lor al b-r,i tli i. mips which will resume MfOrli nt once. Labor turnover at caillpd Is lib. ml nOmAl, Forest files lime I ii subdued fur the pre-eui ,n least and there lire no fire J ibs list ed. The Natron QUt-Ofl continues to require I'eplltcemenlrt each week There are still plenty of Jobs I ir nil who want work. RAYMOND, Wn. Iibor condi tions on Wills p. i Harbor are g mil City paving and state highway work in this district still rOQOjri several large vrts, Fullers and backers have been put to w rk at several camps In this vicinity. I'ew Idle men In Ituymond or South Bapd at the present time. AIIEHUKEN - HUgi'lAM No change has i.ikeu place on (Irays Harbor In either logging camps Of is.iwiiilll operation. Labor turnover In eanpt and mills Is very low. I Hulii bus reduced file Siuinrd und put a stop lo calls for fire fighters. TACOM A. Few Jobs f any klttd were listed last week on local em ployment boards Sawmill operation I remains unchunged except thai lb For By 1925 Hupmobile Roadster Priced 400 Less Than First Cost New Car Guarantee and f Terms to Resoons- ible Phone i JACK SMITH H , Algoma, Or eg on Distributors C f " AMERICAN CAR 7 k PRODUCTS 4" ' Anything and everything JP for your car complete The most.complete auto accessory store in Southern Oregon DIX BROS. WEDNESDAY, AI.UUIST U)25 DoflAPDO Lumber cptttPgnfjl bus ad ded it second shift 00 Its plant here. ThlH are but few tiueiiiploveil Dion, skilled or nlhomvlso, In Ibis city. SKATTLH Logging u tlvllly in several Pugei Sound dltlHola bocamo more prouounctd tail ivoek. The St Paul Taoomu camps mi Hie KUlKhpD He '. ""I "f IN'lllllgluiui. rMQmsd operations and lallers and bucket's have b i pill to Work Ul other camps in the on ti ii I Bound district. Merrill King will re sume I igglng dm log the preseni Neek, H is reported Culls for for est lire fighters have ceased. SPOKANE foHowlpj a fw il ' of ralu forest NftS have CMSSd 10 rcintlre more than small patrols of watchers.' and many hiindieds .1 JlteU have been released from fire lighting work a targe majority oi (bet, however, have hired out ut the .voids Operations which are iradnilfr roumlni anlvliy after en formed Idleness There are morn available men In Spokane today than there have been for wenks. Advi-r ttsegnonta for men and woman to pick lipples III the Yilktma and We uotohce valleys have bt-gun to up peur in local paper. The berreai will start next week. The demand for wheal harvest hitlp Is greater than the number of men applying for tills kind of wok. Some marry for. better or worse ami some ii, talk. I I Sale Owner i Party. 4 or Write !