ENGELMANN SPRUGE

ENGELMANN SPRUCE is a lishtweight wood, straight of grain, non-resinous and fine textured. Thus, it handles, works and nails superbly-providing maximum on-the-job economy. lts high insulation value makes it ideal for roof decking, sheathing and subflooring.

Engelmann Spruce's sturdiness, resilience and comparative strength fit it for studding, joists, framing-and other residential and light commercial uses.

DEPENDABLE - Engelmann Spruce from the Western Pine Region is milled, seasoned and graded to rigid standards. Association mills are ever improving and expanding their facilities to provide even more consistency and uniformity in the manufacture of the naturally fine woods of this region. You can recommend ENGELMANN SPRUCE with complete confidence.

RIGHT-FOR-C0L0R-One idea can sell more paneling. Make your idea paneling of Engelmann Spruce finished in color. lt's a custom touch recognized by readers of American Home and Better Homes & Gardens, where rooms like the one above are appearing in full-color advertisements rooms paneled in the right-for-color woods of the Western Pine Region.

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Lower Insuronce Rotes for Fire-Retqrdsnt Lumber

Many fire-insurance rating bureaus are now classing Baxco Pyresote fire-retardant 2" Douglas Fir roof decking as incombustible. This development has opened an important new market for fire protected lumber. As an example, the Western Actuarial Rating Bureau, of Chicago, which advises a large number of midwestern states on rates and other insurance matters, now recognizes Baxco fireretardant Douglas Fir lumber as incombustible material when used for roof decks and supports.

Revisions made in their analytical system during June 1958, state that lumber treated by impregnation and listed by Underwriters' Laboratories, Inc., as having a flamespread classification not exceeding 25 with no evidence o{ significant combustion in tests of 3O-minute duration, has been assigned the incombustible insurance rate.

The incombustible classification by Western Actuarial is limited to minimum deck thickness of 2" nominal, and minimum beam thickness of 4" nominal. Of the 20 midwestern states subscribing to the Western Actirarial Analytic system, 17 have followed their recommendation and are classing fire-retardant treated Baxco roof decks and supporting timbers as incombustible.

Another break-through came in July 1959, when Washington Surveying and Rating Bureau, Seattle, extended their incombustible fire insurance rates to approved fireretardant pressure treated lumber. The Washington Bureau's attitude towards the Baxter-type fire-retardant lumber is more liberal than that of the Western Actuarial Bureau, as under their provisions the fire insurance rates for any building constructed of incombustible pressuretreated wood would be exactly equal to a similar building built of unprotected steel. Similarly, a concrete or brick walled building with a Baxco incombustible treated wood joisted roof and l" rool deck of low combustibility hazard would rate as a fire resistive building-the same treatment now afforded to a concrete or brick walled building with allsteel roof.

The importance of this action, to all connected with the lumber industry, is clear. For now, with much more favorable and competitive insurance rates, wood can be specified in the construction of many commercial buildings, where formerly the prohibitively high insurance rates precluded its use.

It is anticipated that other insurance groups will follow the lead of those'noted above. In the meantime, those interested should check with their own insurance agents to learn just what savings on fire insurance are now possible through the use of Baxco fire-retardant lumber in new construction.

Rounds Nomes Ellingson fo Outside Sqles Territory

Galen Ellingson, former production and sales coordinator at the Rockport Redwood Company plant at Cloverdale, was moved into the field, December 1, and will be servicing Rounds Lumber Company accounts in the East Bay area as well as the Upper San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys. Rounds Salesmanager Jim Knox, in making the announcement, noted that Ellingson had been with the Rockport organization for the past six years and previously had operated a millwork business in his native Wisconsin.

R & L lumber Compony Esfoblished

Rey Ortega of Huntington Park, and Jack Lee of Anaheim, have formed a new Los Angeles retail and wholesale lumber business. Located at 4200 Bandini Blvd., the new partnership is called R & L Lumber Comoanv.