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Serving The Lumber Indvstry Since 1946

1926 Eqst 25th Srreer Los Angeles 58' Colifornin sure-treated lumber in residential and general building foundations.

N{any of the buildings in the quake slid off their foundations, resulting in partial or total loss due to the fact that rot ancl termites had rveakened the sills, rvhich secure a house to its foundations. Most of these honses rvould have been able to take the severe jolts except for this lveakness in the sub-structure. As a result of this tragedy, a high proportion of homes today in California are built lvith lJaxco pressrlre-treated mud sills u''hich give the needed protection against rot and termites.

J. H. Baxter & Co.'s first pressure-treating retort, the large iron cylinder in u,hich the treating process takes place, n as installed in the Long Beach yard in the early 1930s. Ser.erai vears later a pressure-treating plant u'as built at the Alameda yard.

Acquisition during the 1940s of a pressure-treating plant and yard at Eugene, and in 1950 at The Dalles, Ore., have further added to J. H. Baxter & Co. output of pressuretreated products.

From just a small beginning has grorvn the present r,r.ide-flung and diversified pressure-treating plants and methods u'hich have given J. H. Baxter & Co. the outstanding name it has today.

Forest products from Baxter's own stands of timber in Northern California and Oregon are shipped by rail and water to its yards for treating. This process is a lengthy one that has special requirements for each rvood variety, for