^ttrizona Lumber Firm Completes Forty Years of Service

Add New Main Building to Their Operations

A new modern and attractive $50,000 main building is the most recent addition to the J. Knox Corbett Lumber & Hardware Company, which concern has just completed forty years as a business institution at Tucson, Arizona. This building material operation, which includes several other buildings in addition to the new main building, occupies an entire city block.

The new building houses the offices and display rooms. It is a concrete structure entirely fireproof with steel beams supporting the roof and has a floor space of 8000 square feet with only four pillars that are enclosed in Philippine mahogany. The ceiling is of Celotex panels set between rough pine rafters interspersed with Philippine mahogany beams. The interior of the building is finished in stucco, and Philippine mahogany is extensively used throughout the office for interior trim and in office fixtures and show cases. The interior of the private office of H. S. Corbett, president arid general manager of the company, is finished in beautifully figured walnut. Attractive hardware fixtures also add to the beauty of the office interior.

J. Knox Corbett, who founded the business now bearing his name, arrived in Tucson in 1880, just before the railroad into Tucson was completed. at the age of 19 years. He was born in Sumter. North Carolina, in 1861, and at the age of l7 was made manager of a lumber mill after three years' experience. During his early years in Tucson he filled various positions, and in 1884 he entered the cattle business. In 1890, just prior to his appointment as postmaster of Tucson, he sold out his cattle business and started a lumber yard on the corner of the company's present site. In 190? he.incorporated his business as the J. Knox Gorbett Lumber Company, and in 1919 followiirg the death of his brother, W. J. Corbett, the W. J, Corbett Hardware .\

Company and the J. Knox Lumber Company rvere merged. forming a new corporation known as the J. Knox Corbett Lumber & Hardware Company.

For sixteen years, J. Knox Corbett serve<t as postmaster of Tucson, having received appointments from President Harrison, McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft. While retired, he takes an active part in the business of the company and when in Tucson, Mr. Corbett is seen every afternoon at his desk. Ife norv divides his time between his home in Los Angeles where he spends approximately half his time, and the other half in Tucson.

H. S. Corbett, president and general lnanager of the company, has grown up in the business which his father founded. He was born in Tucson where he attended school and during his school vacations worked on the lumber docks at San Pedro, Calif., and for various l-os Angeles wholesale yards. ln 1XJ7 he became associated with his father, and in 1910 he became manag'er of the business. Upon his return from the army he became manager of the W. J. Corbett Hardware Company which was operated by his uncle, and in the latter part of 1919, he effected the consolidation of this company with the business he formerly managed under the name of the J. I(nox Corbett Lumber & Hardware Company

W. A. Bell, secretary and assistant general rnanager of the J. Knox Corbett Lumber & Hardware Company, came to Arizona during the summer of. l%)7 and worked in the mines at Bisbee. He had been studying mining engineering at the U,niversity of Illinois. He decided to locate in Tucson where he first became associated with the Pioneer Automobile Company, and later with Albert Steinfeld and Company as credit manager and in I9l7 he was appointed assistant retail manager. of this 'concern. During the war he enterecl the air service, and upon his returr-r to Tucson in 1919, he became associated with the W. J. Corbett Hardware Company as auditor, and joined the stafi of the J. Knox' Lumber & Hardrvare Company rt'hen these companies merged.

The J. Knox Corbett Lumber & Hardware Company carry all kifrds of building materials, excepting brick, nec-

Henry Hink Back From Southern Trip

Henry M. Hink, salesmanager of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco. returned recentlv from one of his periodical business trips to Southern Caiifornia.

While in Los Angeles he attended the meeting of the Retailers'-Manufacturers' Relationship Comrnittee held at the Jonathan Club on February 13.

essary for construction purposes. The various departments of the organization-lumber, sheet metal, hardlvare, plumb- ing, roofing, etc.-are in charge of specialists, many of rvhom have been connected with the company for many years, and include the follorving: Charles C. Taylor, J. Earl Kinnebrew, Neal B. Waugh, Max Klinger, Gustav RKnabe, Philip Goldberg, Joseph R. Hanson, William J. Cassel, Frank

Floyd Dernier Calls On Trade

Floyd Dernier, Lumbermen's Service Association, Los Angeles, was a recent San Diego visitor where he spent a few days calling on the retail trade. During the early part of March, he will call on the trade in the San Francisco bay district, Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley territories.

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