Arrowheod Lumber Co. Mqrks 5 Yeors' Growth; It's o Big Boy Now

The Arrowhead Lumber Co., a bustling baby of the business in Southern California, is celebrating its fifth birthday this year. No words can sum up the policies of this energetic San Bernardino youngster in our industry as well as the letter the officials themselves sent out to their many customers for the occasion:

Gentlemen:

We are celebrating our Fifth Anniversary. It has been a successful five years and we want to thank you for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed. If it were not for fine friends like you, we could not have had the success that you have made possible for us. 'We have great plans and hopes for the future. We will strive in every way to continue our policies of good service and fair dealings and improve them wherever possible. We look forward eagerly to serving you for many, many years ahead.

Yours with appreciation,

Arrowhead Lumber Company

The original three at the start of the wholesale firm on July 1, 1951, were George W. Gibson, his brother C. Dungan Gibson, and R. F. (Bill) Ilelbron, who was in charge of sales. The Gibson boys had come on west from Colorado in 1931 and bought the San Bernardino Lumber Co., a downtown retail yard there, and operated it successfully for N years.

After discussing it with their friends in the sawmill industry in the Northwest, the Gibsons decided to devote the major part of their time to a wholesale and distribution yard operation, and that's how the Arrowhead yard was born. "We feel our growth has been due to our friends," George Gibson says these five years later.

The usual slow start of any new business was followed lAechqnicol hondling aquipmeni speeds cu5lomGt scnicc qnd yord rtorogc

&rowhrcd ir pioncering mqny new ideor in irs rnodcrn yord hondling rncthodr for the Arrowhead firm by a steady growth until its present sales territory today encompasses Southern California from the Tehachapis to San Diego and Mexico, Las Vegas and Clark county, Nevada; Arizona, and Albuquerque, N. M. Sonie growth !

"We enjoy ir ver;/ happy relationship rvith both our customers and competitors," George Gibson declared. A look at that sales area proves it ! Many of the yard's original retail yard accounts five years ago are still its friends and customers.

Arrowhead's first few months of operation were primarily out of the distribution yard. Carload sales were started early the next year, in 1952. "The desert area around us was really 'serviced' in those early years," said Bill Helbron.

Today Arrowhead Lumber Co. makes "scheduled deliveries." This super service includes not only the Pomona Valley but Yuma, Arizona. The firm has several good accounts in old Mexico.

The by-then booming business lvas moved to its present yard and office location on a busy highway, Waterman avenue, in May 1953. By February of this year more property was needed-and added-and the yard now covers 3rf acres and employs three lift trucks.

"Arrowhead Lumber Company is a team and works as a team," George Gibson said. "We attribute our success to teamwork and hard work !" This team of Arrowhead employes are stockholders in the company, too. Besides George and Dungan Gibson and Bill Helbron, the Arrowhead Lumber Co. "team" today consists of Kent Hayden, who came from the W. M. Dary Co. in 1952; and

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