Op"n Tone Olfices Planing Mill Association

A zone method of handling dealer orders permitting closer contact with ,customers, which has proved so successful 'in the speeding up of deliveries and simplifying business relations in a number of industries, is being instituted in the lumber business by the Weyerhaeuser Sales C,ompany, according to an announcement by Mr.I. N. Tate, general manager.

On July 16th the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company opened three zone offices, each of which handles for its zone all accounting, invoicing, receiving of remittances, and all matters pertaining to credits. The easterfl zone office is at Newark, New Jersey, that of the central zone at Saint Paul, Minnesota, and of the western zone at Ta.coma, Wash.

"Not only do we look for an improvement in shipping service," said Mr. Tate, "but we also feel that all business matters will be simplified by this closer localized contact. Of especial interest to lumber dealers will be the fact that invoices for all pur,chases will be in the name of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company and will originate in the zone where the dealer is located. Heretofore invoices have come to the dealer from the individual mill making shipment, and this has necessitated the dealer's keeping a separate ledger account for each of the mills in the group from rvhich he received shipment."

Zone accounting and credit manag'ers have been appointed to foster a closer relationship between the buyer and seller and to establish a more intimate contact with spe,cial conditions prevailing in their particular zones.

Formed in San Francisco

J. A. Hart, J. A. Hart Mill& Lumber Co., San Francisco, was elected president of the San Francis,co Planing Mill Owners' Association, whi,ch was recently organized in San Francisco.

E. J. Nutting, Herring & Nutting, San Francisco, was elected vice-president, and H. W. Gaetjen, San Francisco, was elected secretary-treasurer.

The directors are L. J. Pierce, Pacific Manufacturing Co., Santa Clara; George T. Gerken, National Mill& Lumber Co., Oakland; H. W. Fennimore, Sudden Lumber Co., San Francis,co, and the president and vice-president.

The new association has endorsed the tentative code proposed by the Millwork Institute of California.

Just What is a Septic Tank?

A pamphlet recently published by The Pacific Lumber Company for distribution by dealers explains in concise and simple language the true requirements and functions of a septic tank. This phamplet, entitled "Safe Sewage Disposal at Low Cost", will be of great assistan,ce to dealers in selling the Palco Redwood Pre-Fabricated Septic Tank, which embodies the very latest developments in septic tank sanitation.

SALE.SMAN ON VACATION

Jerry Stutz, salesman for Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., with headquarters in Stockton, left San Francisco July 8 on the steamer Peter Helms, accompanied by his wife, for a business and vacation trip to the Northwest. While in Oregon and Washington he will visit the company's mills and offi,ces.