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(Continued from Page 18) service. Handsplit shakes have been made ever since those pioneer days in the "cedar country" of the North Pacific coast, he stated, but until recent years their use has been confined largely to local areas.

"Then came the ranch-style type of architecture and the swing toward natural and rustic building materials," Peterson said. "The handsplit cedar shake was suddenly and dramatically placed in the home-building spotlight, and there occurred a renaissance without parallel in the construction industry. Our architects literally re-discovered the handsplit shake, and in response to the burgeoning demand hundreds of shake-makers started operations in the Pacific Northwest.

"Focal point of this new market for handsplit shakes was along the West Coast, and particularly the state of California, where ranch-style architecture first took root. And, just as ranch-style and rustic home designs spread eastward across the U.S., the demand for handsplit shakes is mushrooming in far-fung parts of the nation."

Peterson pointed out that there are three basic types of handsplit shakes being marketed today, and which are recognized in the Bureau's newly adopted grading rules. These are the handsplit-and-resawn shake, the tapersplit shake, and the straight-split shake.

Peterson said that copies of the Bureau's grading rules for the various types of handsplit shakes are available free of charge upon request to the Bureau at 5510 White Bldg.,

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