J. H. Baxter & Co. Purchases Rights lor Weste]n States To Chemonite Process for \(/ood Preservation

C. A. Chadbourne, general manager of J. H. Baxter & Co., San Francisco, today announ,ced that J. H. Baxter & Co. has purchased from Dr. Aaron Gordon his rights to the Chemonite process for wood preservation for the states west of the Mississippi. Mr. Chadbourne says that the Chemonite process, developed over a period of years by Dr. Gordon and associates at the Universitv of Califbrnia, is the most outstanding development in the timber preservation field since creosote was first used for this purpose. It is suitable for the treatment of poles and piling as well as lumber.

Service records and tests by governmental agencies and private users show Chemonite to be outstanding in many particulars. Recent availability of improved chemicals, including technically pure copper hydroxide, permits the Chemonite process to produce treated material which is clean, odorless, paintable, and non-conductive to electrical current as well as being a permanently insoluble preservative. The Federal Government has included Chemonite in the new issue of the Federal Specifications, and manJ' prominent western utility and manufacturing organizations as rvell as American Association of State Highway Officials include it in their regular spe,cifications.