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While the Storm Howls!

The moaningwind in the tree tops, and rain in the night, beating a€,ainst the window pane, are music to the farmer with a Redwood shlngled house and a barn roofed with shakes of Redwood.

He turns over in bed with a si$h of relief, knowing the stabled livestock to be as warm' and comfortable as is his family. He knows, too, that his Redwood roof is $ood for years to come-that shingles and shakes will be flat and true throu!,h summer suns and winter weather.

It is 87 years since General Mariano G. Vallejo rooied his house at Sonoma with Red- wood shingles, and they are still in good condition.

How much lonPer the modern Redwood "Bungalow Shlngle" wlll last' no man can say. With its butt a full% lnch in thlckness, with a length of 2 feet and a uniform width . of 6 inches it provides, for country home or city residence, a roof that will turn the worst of storms.

And for a dlfrerent side wall-a solid substantial and home-like side wall-it can't be beat. Redwood shingles. shakes and sheathin$, in stock and "ready to wear" $o a long way toward answering the question

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