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high-quality birch products. But more important than the rar,v materials are the craftsmen needed to cr-rnvert the best of rvoods into the best of proclucts. "The Rodclis employes, u.hose ancestors ciriginally came from Ciernrany after the Franco-Prussian \\'tar, are," H:rmiltor"r ltoddis insists, "tlie best caltinet makers and n oodl'orkers engaged in the plyu'ood business."

The firm at first applied itself to the manufacture of single thick veneers, cheese boxes, cheese box headings, and only a small amotlnt of plynoo<1.

In 1903 the company began to acquire extensive timber tracts in Ashlancl, Irorr and I)rice counties in northern \\risconsin. With the coustruction of a sau,mill at Park Falls, the narne of the firm rvas changed to the Roddis I-umber zrnd Veueer Co. to drarv attention to thc lumber

Every step of the Calavera s n1 anu facturir^r g process is under careful laboratory control. The uniformity of the resulting high quality prod- uct is your protection against customer com- plaints. You take no chances with Calaveras Cements!

Orderthese fine cement products today from a single source: Calaveras regular, Calaveras plasffc and Calaveras white.

,IIADE IN THE WEST FOR THE WEST aspect of the bnsiness. That name rvas to continue rrrrtil 1951, 'n'hcn the firm became the Roddis ltlyrvoocl Corp.

\Villiam H. Roddis continued ir-r the capacity of president of tlre firm untrl 7920, s'hen his son, Hamilton, the reins. His father died in November o{ that year.

Not only the United States, but several {oreign govern-