Si"rro Redwood Compony

J. H. Boxter & Co. Begon in the Romqnfic Dcys of Sqiling Ships

Back in the late 1800s, when sailing ships were the very lifeline of commerce to the small towns strung along the West Coast from San Diego to Vancouver, two compauies, J. H. Baxter & Co. and West Coast Wood Preserving Company, had their beginnings. The parent companies of West Coast Wood Preserving were the J. M. Colman Company, founded in Seattle in 1884, and Pacilic Creosoting Company. About the same time, a young San Franciscan, Johu H. Baxter, was in the business of operating sailing vessels in Pacific Coast waters, carrying lumber from the Northwest, and returning from the South with citrus fruits and other needed cargoes.

Some 50 years ago these three pioneer companies started a business relationship that was to culminate in 1959 witlr a business partnership. At that time, J. H. Baxter became sales agent in California for the J. M. Colman Company and the Pacific Creosoting Company.

So great was the demand in California for treated wood from Seattle that the Baxter Company, with its ships, devoted more and more of its efforts to the wholesaling arrd freighting of creosoted poles, cross ties, and piling. In the 1920s, J. H. Baxter & Co. built its first wood-preserving plant at Long Beach, California. Since then, it has built modern wood treating plants at Alameda, California, Eugene, Oregon, and Renton, Washington. In addition, it operates a plant at The Dalles, Oregon.

A Word of Coution-

If you find a mistake in this paper, please consider it was put there for a purpose. We publish something for everyone, and some people are always looking for mistakes. (-Courtesy of The San Diego Aztec.)

lnsuronce ond Housing Cost

In the light of very sharp increases in home building costs during the last decade, a full-page advertisement in national magazines recently was addressed to. home owners by a prominent insurance company. The text pointed out that the $14,000 home of 1947 would now cost $21,000 to build. The owners of such properties were urged to review their insurance policies and to increase them where necessary to provide adequate protection in the event of destruction of the property.

That is sound advice and good business. But what about the man or woman that's going to build or buy a new house? Fire, flood and storm insurance now provide only partial protection. A house may go as long as 40 years or more without being destroyed by any of those agencies. On the other hand, decay and termites work around the clock, day in and day out most of the year in most communities throughout the USA. Damage from these destroyers of wood often goes unnoticed until the owner is faced with very heavy repairs. This has happened in thousands of homes that were less than 10 yeais old.

Architects, builders, and home owners, however, are