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over 6,500 special order options are available within our specialized capabilities for kiln drying, surfacing, and profiling from a 34-million foot inventory devoted exclusively to redwood, cedar, and fir finish.

the latest technology in computer controlled dry kilns, totaling 100,000 foot capacity, provides customized facilities to kiln dry to exact specification.

fully automatic, seven spindle, state-of-the-art moulder teams with companion resaw and planing mill equipment to excel on a wide range of standard and custom pattern, profile, and surfacing requirements.

our broad spectrum of choice affords an outstanding opportunity to combine grades, patterns, dimensions, and drying specifications, with an experienced, single source of supply for redwood, cedar, and fir finish.

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Manufacturers and distributors ol Redwood, Cedar, and Fir Ftnish products

It's hard to beat the appearance of Western Red Cedar. That's why there's always a demand for residential and commercial uses.

Cedar siding outsells imitation wood siding. There's no co,mpanson jor looks and durability. In rehab construction, Cedar is often usedto upgrade artificial s-iding.

The i{ed Cedar siding shown in photo was milled at Ed Fountain Lumber. Southern 'I he Kecl uedar srcung srrown rn pnoto mrlleo ar Calitbrnia Pre-Stain applied the handsome wood finish.

It's hard to beat Ed Fountain Lumber for ordering Ce It's beat ountain Cedar products. We have one of the biggest inventories in Southern California. Cedar is dried here then milled to variouJpatterns. Orders are often ready the next day.

Cuslom milling includes siding, boards, patterns, cut stock and special m-ouldings. For iust-in-time orders call Ed Fountain Lumber. Our central location and huge For just-in-timi orders inventory make fast deliveries easy.

DAVID CUTLER editor- publisher

Why Not You?

I N OUR current period of iffy business lurks I great opportunity for those who will prepare for better times.

One of the positive features of a slow business period for retailers, wholesalers and distributors is the time to doall those things one never has the time to do. Wiser heads know that this gift of time should not be wasted on idle talk, standing around, pointless conversations about how bad business is, the manufacture of paper airplanes, complaints about the bumps and thumps of life and like topics. Now is the time to prepare for the inevitable coming of better times.

Preparation can take many forms, great and small, weighty and trivial. All canhelp to get an organization and its people ready to effectively serve the customer. It can be clerical: cleaning up a drawer in your desk, discarding a system no longer needed, updating a computer file or the like. Small things to some, but still obstacles to good customer service. It can be operations: deferred maintenance undeferred, inventories streamlined and purged of unprofitable items. spit and polish housekeeping for showrooms and warehouses. It can involve personnel: ensuring the right people are in the right joos, taking the tough steps to prune your organizational tree of deadwood, investing in education and training for your people at all levels, especially the best and brightest.

For management this also can be an occasion for constructive reflection. While no amount of plans canensure a company's profitability, conversely, no firm can long prosper without a sense of direction, without a strategy for the future.

Much preparation is simply common sense. Strategy and tactics canborder on tne philosophical, but still merit hard thought. Make no mistake, better times are ahead. Someone will earn that business. Why not you?

Standard isn tyour tlpical milltown. It's not even on most maps. Some folls probablywouldn t call it a town at all.

But we like to think of it as a wonderful mix of the verybest of both the old andthe new

We ve got a zip code, but no post office. Cattle grze on our property, right alongside our state-of-the-art hardwood plyvood facility. And the people wtro work here would just as soon spend a weekend fishing or panning for gold on the Tuolumne as they would driving the 150 miles west to see the pro team play in San Francisco. After all,we ve got the Curtis Creek Mustangs. Right here in Standard.

You see, there's a special brand ofpride in this small Califomia town that we doubt you'llfind anynhere else in the country

Mainly, because we like ufiat we do.

We think that you'll sense that the moment you begin worhng with our people and our product.

"l think our quality is the best in the business. Even if we were to charge more for our product, I don t thinkwe d lose but a customer or two. And I bet they'd be back before too long.

"We just have more pride, take more care, prepare our wood better, stand by our mles. Evenutere you can't see it.

Because we know ttrat when the end-user cuts open thatwood for cabinets orvtratever, there better not be any holes in it.

Armando Fregoso, Quality Control, l! years