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Who Bachs the RoofingYou SeII?
You know the responsibility of the Weaver Roof Company. You know that the name. "'Weaver" gtande for honest, eincere quality. You know that anybody to whom you eell "'Weaver" Roofing ie going to get full and complete satisfaction.
There is a great senge of satisfaction selling such roofing. It helps you to build solidly and enlist public confidence.
Thete is a "Weaver" Roofing for every type of building.
John R. SpauldinE Goes With W. R. Pickerin$
Kansar City, Mo., Deccmbcr 8th.-In connectio-n wi!! thc rtcady devciooment ind clpangion of its cxtcnsivc Wcrt Coast manu' tactuiihe ooerations. ilrc W. R. Pickcring Lumbcr Company of this city annluiccs thc'aPpointmcnt of- John D. Spaulding as W-cstern Sales Manager with hcadquartera in thc company's homc omcc at Kansas City, effective December lrt.
Mr. Soauldins comet to the Pickcring'organization direct from thi-California Sugar and Whitc Pinc-Company of San Francisco, Cal.. where he haiserved for the paet five ycars as General Manager in cirargc of the salcs for the outpirt of the dozen or morc mills composing that enterPrise.
'-'iBe"fore selectinc a man to fill this important position," eaid Walter Robiaon, Vice-President of the Fickcring- Company, "wc rnade a careful sttidv of all the requirements essential to proPcr qualifications. and aftir full consideration, decided upon Mr. Spaulding as the riran for whom wc were tooking." ---i"ttn
O, Spauldinc is a practical lumberman of seaso-ned experi.ni,u.-- tri-l6ti the-son of a Wisconsin lumber manufacturer,-he 6;;;; hi;-;;ei grading lumber in his father's planls.- His first "iEcutivi-oosition was ta-[<en in 1893, when he assumed the management of the Chippewa River & Menominee Railroad Company' a Weyerhaetrser eritirprise of Appolonia,Wis., which manufactured ;iliri ,0,000,000 feei per yeai'of hardwood-lumber. Remaining ittcre tor'ab6ut six yeirs, he was subsequently associated in-turn with the Frederick W. Upham interests of chicaSo and the ratne Lumber Company, Ltd., Oshkosh, Wisconsin' and it-is Parttcular-ly durinc the ten viars of service with the Paine organization that.he acquiied his practical-knowledge of sash, .door aud millwork lumber ;i.t[ t;q;n"';-nts, for which much California White and Sugar Pine is now used, - F;om the Paine operations, he went directly to the generat n".1ac.itiii oitnJ California'Sugar and White Pine Companv-in l9l9' t.'-"-iniirg lttCre until assumi-ng his new duties with the Pickering Company. -Tii.'W. R. Pickering Lumber Company is among the. pioneer tumber manufacturers of the United States. For nearly a halt ce.nturv it has been a prominent factor in the southern pine regjon' w-ith larie pine and hardwood mills in Louisiana and Texas. About hve ycers .go, whilc yct e mejor southern pinc cnterprirc, thc combany, looking to futurc timbcr cupply by which to continuc itt -oPcraiioni. ourchered thc Stendard Lumber ComDeny'-opcr.ting millr and fectoiier et Stendard snd Sonore, Californir. Thir conccrn, ittclf, hrd bccn promincnt in wcotcrn lumbcr production for neerly tw9ltty vearu and-thc opcration todav has bchind it a timbcr rupply which will providc thiriy yeerr' cutilng at currcnt menufrcturing crpecity. Thc -eaw mill ii lbcatcd at Standard, Cal., in the hcart of the romantic Sierras of '49 gold rush fame- It ig on the wcstcrn rtope of this range, and at anlltitude of 5,5fi) feet, wherc the megnrfrccnt stands of Pickering-owncd Catifornia Sugar and White Pinc .timber are tocated. It ii at this 'particular altitudc that timbcr of thcse soecieg attains thc createst degree of softness and finc texturc. Indicd the oroduct oithesc trcei is considcred thc full equat, and for certain usis, the euperior, of the old Northern Whitc Pinc.
Productioir of thi Standard mill is rated at 70,0fi)'000 0cat.rer year, running about forty pcr cent Sugar Pinc, forty per cent Wht(q Pine, twelve per cent.California White Fir, five per cent California-r Cedar and three per cent Douglas Fir, Thc heavy proportion of uppers in the White and Sugar pine varieties provides an unusually larce oercentace of 2-inch and thicker Factory and Better.
Siupilementins the saw mill at Standard is ehed storage for 18,000,000 feit at one iime, kiln capacity of 135,0@ feet per day and commensurate planing mill facilities for cut stock, Additional saw and ptaning miil equlpment includes a plant of 20,000,000 feet annual oroduction at Macdoel, California.
' At Sonora, California, is the Pickering factory manufacturing standard miliwork products with a capacity for turning out 1'000 doors and windows respectively, each day.
With such extensive-timber-holdings in northern Catifornia, the Pickering management is tentatively considering additional saw mitt plants, which may be erected tt
Sun Lumber Company To Open Yard At Ventura
Frank L. Burnaby, of the Sun Lumber Company, Bgterly Hills, has just completed a deal for a three acre site at Ventura, where he will install a modern yard and mill, starting the construction about the first of Feb-ruary Mr. Burnaby left Beverly Hills on the 4th of this month for an extended eastern triP.