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Show Gigantic Lumber Rafts. To compete successfully with the high-priced timber of the Southwest, a resourceful log Importer of San Diego has, it Is reported, adopted an Ingenious method of.lhlpptng lumber from Oregon to southern California. Gigantic rafts re made of the logs and they art towed down the Pacific coast behind small steamer.. The rafts are clgar-abaped and average 700 feet In length, 80 feet In depth and 70 feet across. Two-thirds of the raft Is ander water. The chains on a single raft weigh, 115 tons and cost $10,000. The first seagoing log boom made its 1,000-mile 1,000-mile trip twelve years ago, and since then more than sixty of the huge rafts bar feUewed that coarse. SMALL CARDS ARE N0TJP1LE Postal Officials Declare Under-Sized Greeting Cards for Xmas and Holiday Holi-day Season Delay Mail Efficiency. The Postal Bulletin, a daily paper published by the United States Pos- j tal Service, declares in its issue of Sept. 9 that the nse of small greeting cards for the holiday season should be discouraged. . The Bulletin goes on to say: "The efforts previously made along this line achieved gratifying results, and it is believed that if attention be renewed renew-ed to the many objections to the use of such small-sized cards and envelopes envel-opes the manufacturers and distributors distribu-tors of such matter as well as the public generally, will be glad to give their continued co-operation in the elimination of this practice. It should be explained that the use of cards and envelopes smaller than those generally used for mailing purposes pur-poses seriously retards and disarranges disar-ranges the work in post offices at a time when the postal facilities are taxed to the utmost. Such small-sized small-sized cards and envelopes frequently can not be run through the cancelling cancel-ling machines, thus necessitating canceling can-celing the stamps by hand and other extra handlings in the course of their facing, distribution, etc.; the address is likely to be obliterated by the cancellation can-cellation mark; they do not fit the separating cases in use : throughout the Postal Service, and cannot be tied securely with letter packages. Furthermore, Fur-thermore, there is not sufficient space for directions for forwarding, etc., in cases where it is necessary to forward such matter in order to reach the address. ad-dress. . . .. , , It should be suggested that in no case should cards and envelopes be smaller than 2i by 4 inches. A size somewhat larger is much preferable. |