lieoemb^r 25, 1820 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



1/ 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



THIRTEEN BAND MILLS 

 SIX PLANING MILLS 

 ELEVEN FLOORING UNITS 



Annual Capacity 

 130,000,000 Feet 



Oak Lumbe 



OAK is callctl ■'Tlu- Wurld's instinctive symbol of 

 Strength, Enditrance and Dignity." 



OAK is described as "The Silent Partner of Architecture 

 and the Arts, throughout history," 



OAK is the standard for all comparisons of other woods, 

 used or sought to be used, in the same fields of consumption. 



OAK is the finest, most durable, most satisfactory cabi 

 net wood in the world. 



OAK has its competitors, but for these competitive woods 

 it cannot be claimed that they are better than oak. For 

 some it is claimefl that they are "just as good." that they are 

 cheaper, that they can he made to sail under false colors, by 

 imitating expensive, desirable woods; but oak has stood for 

 ages upon its own merits of quality, of substance, texture, 

 beauty, durability. 



Of course all oak is not of equal desirability. Oak that 



grows ill terming led with soft woods is less valuable than 

 that produced from a pure hardwood area. 



Generally speaking, the thicker the stand of oak the 

 better the quality,— the more perfect the texture. 



Our hardwood forests in the Appalachian area are un- 

 excelled. 



The actual cut of our saw mills in this territory 

 shows that our stand of oak is from 30'^ to i>y.'f of the total 

 stand of the timber, — figures which bran<l our production of 

 oak as in a class by itself. So perfect is the oak timber in 

 some of this area that 25^r of the total production of oak 

 lumber is Is and 2s and H'^c Xo. 1 Common. 



Many dealers and users wlio have once used our oak 

 prefer to purchase only our manufacture. 



VV^ith such SUPERIOR LUMBER and the EFFICIENT 

 SERVICE we render, we can adoquately sujjply every need 

 of \\\ our customers. 



W. M. RiTTER Lumber Co. 



COLUMBUS, OHIO 



iii tho mauageuient (if liis torcst land arc iiuw befort' Cuiigri'ss. Ono 

 pioposes strict coutrol tlirough the federal government; the other 

 relies more on cooijeration with the private owner, through the 

 medium of legislation by the individual states. Action will soon be 

 taken on one or the other of these proposals, or on some combina- 

 tion of tho two. Whatever legislation is passed by Congress will 

 intimately affect every timberland own^r. 



There is still opjMirtunity for all persons or corporations that own 

 iir control timberland to inform themselves on this question and to 

 bring influence to bear on Congress in favor of one or the other 

 "f these programs. But in doing so they ought to keep clearly in 

 mind that the problem of a national timberland policy has now 

 reached a stage where it can and will only be settled by legislation 

 that recognizes frankly the ultimate welfare of the people as a 

 whole. 



Chief Forester Recommends National Action to 

 Protect Forests 



A demand is growing on the part of the wood-using industries 

 and the pubUc at large for a national policy of forestry which wiU 

 insure adequate future supplies of timber and other forest products, 

 according to Chief Forester W. B. Greeley, in his annual report just 

 made to the Secretary of Agriculture. Figures gathered by the 

 Forest Service this year, the report states, showed the extent of 

 the depletion of the nation's forests, and have served to focus atten- 

 tion on the fact that the country is short of growing forests and 

 that something must be done at once. The acute shortage and sky- 

 rocketing prices of lumber and newsprint early in the year also 

 lontributed to the growth of the movement. 



The Forest Service is advocating a program based on the convic- 

 tion that the problem is national and not local, and must be handled 



as such. -Nation-wide protection from forest tire tor all classes of 

 forest laud. Col. Graves states, is the first and most essential step. 

 It is his belief that the police powers of the states offer the best 

 means of enforcing reasonable requirements against forest destruc- 

 tion. 



Legislation Needed 



The expense of Hre protection, the Forester says, should be borne 

 jointly by the landowner and the public. He holds that federal 

 legislation is ueaded to provide for a comprehensive plan of coiipera 

 tion with the states in fire prevention and the development of for 

 estry practice, and the extension of the national forests throush 

 purchases, through the inclusion of other timberlands now in fed 

 eral ownership and through exchange. 



There are still large quantities of timber in the United States, 

 the report states, but they are not in the right jjlace. More than 

 t!0 percent of wliat is left lies west of the Great Plains, far fron> 

 the bulk of the country's population, agriculture and manufacture. 

 The country is taking alunit 26,000,00U,000 feet of wood from forests 

 each year and is growing only 6,000,000,000. 



".We have used uj) our forests without growing new ones," says 

 the report. "At the bottom of the whole problem is idle forest 

 land. The United States contains 326,000,000 acres of cut-over 

 or denuded forest containing no saw timber; 81,000,000 acres of 

 this amount have been completely devastated by forest fires and 

 methods of cutting which destroy or prevent new timber growth. 



' ' The area of idle or largely idle laud is being increased by f roTic 

 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 acres annually as the cutting and buruing of 

 forests continues." These facts, together with the steadily increas 

 ing distance between the average savnnill and the home builder, 

 "have had a vital bearing on the high cost of lumber, which dur 

 ing the year reached a prohibitive figure for many uses and checked 

 the building of homes which is so urgentlv needed.'' 



