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...LUMBER PRICES DROPPED 3% on wholesale market in past three months, Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates. Some dealers report retail prices for home-construction grades are 5% to 10% below last year, due largely to fewer housing starts...
Under Faris' unobtrusive leadership, the Jicarillas began to regain their pride. Instead of letting outsiders lease and buy their land, Superintendent Faris persuaded them to cultivate it themselves. They cleared and fenced it, began raising sheep, cattle and horses. They started getting royalties on the lumber they owned. By the time Faris left in 1923, the tribe had begun to increase...
...Lumber: 681 million board ft. v. 385 million board...
Housewife Peggy Nelson stared moodily at the mosquitoes swarming up out of the stagnant pond near her home in the little lumber town of Snoqualmie, Wash, and came to a decision: either she or the wretched puddle must...
FREIGHT-CAR SHORTAGE will be eased by Federal Court decision against "slow freight" merchandizing by lumber companies. Upholding ICC, court ruled it illegal for shippers to send lumber to Eastern markets by roundabout routes while still negotiating sales with prospective buyers, thus using freight cars as rolling warehouses...