Wooden Shingle Champion and Prominent Composition Roofing Manufacturer Invade Arizona Together

A. J. Russell

We started to take for the text of these remarks that quotation from the Scriptures about the lamb and the lion laying down together, but when we got to think it over we couldn't decide rvhich was which in this case, so we decided to drop that particular text.

Much has been said and written about the "New Cornpetition", and the friendliness and good will and co-operation that has crept into our modernized building eftorts, even between the most sincere and enthusiastic competitors. This condition was probably'never better illustrated than by a recent visit to Atizona made in close harmony and companionship by two outstanding citizens of the building industry of California.

The gentlemen referred io are Sylvester Weaver of Los Angeles, one of the big composition roofing manu.facturer-s and-exponents of the Pacific Coast, and A. J: "Gu9"- Russell of SanFrancisco, avowed and proven champion of the cause of wooden shingles in the State of California.

They met in Los Angeles, made up a party, and together they journeyed to Nogales, Arizona, where in concert and harmony they attended the annual convention of the Arizona retailers of lumber. And in that same manner they returned.

Enemies though they be in a business way, they made a fine team. Both are big, trvo-fisted, smiling, enthusiastic humans. Both are fine public speakers, and impressive personalities.

History does not yet record whether any converts were made on the tfip. If Sylvester convinced Gus that composition roofing is the right rooftng to use on California homes; or if Gus induced Sylvester to turn his roofing plant into a shingle mill; deponent sayeth not.

But they made a red hot team, and their trip probably convinced many that-"co-operation, not competition, is the life of trade-and it's SOME life."