WTST OREGOTT IUMBTR GO.

WESTERN SASH GO.

DOUGTAS FTN PORT ORFORD CEDAR PONDEROSA PINE RED CEDAB SHINGLES

SDTH I.. BIJTLBR

WHOI^ESAIE TITMBER

214 Front Street, Scrn Frqncisco ll

Phoue GArfield 0292

Representing DANT & RUSSELL, Inc.

Modesto Oflice

W. H. WINTBEE

420 Myrtle Ave., Modesio 3874

Wholesale to Lumber Yards

Sash - Windows

Gasements t Doors, etc.

Our usuql lree delivery to Lumber Yards cnywhere in Southern Ccrlilornic

HATEY BR0S. -. SAIITA ilollloA

Los Angeles Phone: AShley 4-2268

Scrntcr Moniccr Phones: 4-32984-3299

L. t.

Ca/iifornio

CARR & CO.

Sugor and Pondercs Pine

Scrlee Agents For

SACRAMENTO BOX & LUMBER CO. Mills rdt Woodleaf, Calif.

SACBAMENTO LOS ANGEI.ES

P. O. Bor 1282 \l[f. p. punning

Tcletype Sc-13 tl38 Chcmber ol Commercc Bldg.

Weyerhaeuser Ready to Produce Plastic Molding Compoundt

For the first tim€ \\-cst ('oast manufactrtrers of rnolded plastic products are to h:rvc a local sottrce oi- rlolcling compounds- The \\'everhacuscr 'finrlrer Conrpanr-. rine of the larger \\'esterrl r )rganiziitiorrs crrgagccl in iorest ln:rnagernent, l,rgging an.[ the manui:rctrrre of forcst lrrorlrrcts, rvill shortlv begin smal1 capacity- prodrrction o[ nrolrling pou'<lers ior conrmercial nrarkets.

l"irst procluction facilities u'ill be estrLblishcd at I-ongvierv, \\'ashington. u'here the cornpany has an cxtcnsive site on tl.rc ('olurribia River ancl r,r.here nrarrtrf;rcturer of Iumber, u'ood 1rulp antl other iorest prodttcts has ltccrr carried on f, rr ncarlv tu'o clecades.

The ncu' r:ornpounds s'hich rnark the entrr- of tlie companr- into a hithcrto rrntorrchecl field, are another product of tl'rc comp:rnr.'-* I)er-elopmerlt l)epartment n'hich has been u,orking quietlr- in its orvrr cspecially designed laboratory at Longr-icu- for somcn'h:rt less tliar-r t\\-o vears. Ground rvas brrrken for the ncu' lalroratorr on _June 4. 1912, and the brrilding u-:rs irrst lrartiallv occupied in November of the sarne t'e:ir.

Tl.re der.elr;,Pnrerrt n'ork has lrcen unrler thc clirection of C. C. Heritage, technical clirector of the c()1rpanv, n'ho describes the neu'procluct as an cntirell'r'ren'type of thermosctting plastic molding conrpottnd. NIr. lleritage has announcecl that explorator,r' phases of develolrruent have been satsilactorilv cor.rcluded arrcl that cxperimcntal nroldings of marrr- t1-pes have alreadt" been tnacle u.ith very satisfactory results.

It is cl:rin'red bl the \\'elerhaettser organization that the ncs- rrr:Ltcrial u-ill rrrovicle :r number of advantages for nrolrlers in their procluction of finished pl:tstics. 'Ihe new cor.r'rpounrls arc saicl to be superior in certain respects to stanclard phcnolics arrd it is stated that their use u'ill perrnit thc prorhrction oi a full range of molded iterns n'hether clesignccl for gcncr:tl tlse or high irnpact.

The nr:Lnufacture oI nrolcled piastic prodtrcts is not new to the \\-cst ('oast arrrl is alreaclv an established industry of fair size, lrrrt hcrctoforc \\'cstcrn rnolders have had the cor-npetitive clisadvantagc oi higher freight rates because the only sources of molcling porvclers ar-ailable to them were located in the clistant eastern slates. IJou'ever, it is not believed that interest in \\-cr crh:ieuser's nerv product r,vill be confined to l'estern molclers inllsnrrrch as the physical qualities of the nel' tl.pe nrolclirrg coltlpouncls in vietv of the rvide range oi aclaptabilitv claimed for thenr, u'ill make them of interest to mol<lers in all parts of the country.

40 Yecrrs in Lumber Business

This 1''ear ,\rthur Tt'oh1-, Trvohy Ltrmbcr Co., L.os Angeles, is celelrrating his -10th 1'ear in the lunrber business in California. ^\rthur u,ent to San Francisco in 19O4 irom \.\raterloo, Iou-a, and aftcr spending a vear in the lumber business there, hc put in tl-re next fir'e years at The Pacific Lumber Companr"s piant at Scotia. I-Ie then came to Los Angelcs u'hcrc hc has lrccn zrssociated u'ith the inclttstrrfor thirtr'-[or1r \-ears.