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That is why you'll find plastering contractors willing to pay you a premium for Truecon l-A and 2-A Metal [,aths. They know that the rigid ribs of Truscon "A" Laths prevent sag- ging-that the patented Truscon '.'A" Lath keys clinch the plaster and minimize droppings-and that these features enable their workmen to cover a given area in less time and at lower cost than on any other type of lath. And so they buy "A" Laths I

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Shipped to India ,

The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, recently f received an order for a Redwood Flower Urn to be shipped to Poona, India, and asking quotations for a quantity of these. This inquiry came from an ad-in the Florists' Review, a further proof of the old slogan, "it pays to advertise." An idea of the distance from San Francisco may be gained from the fact that transportation charges on this single urn costing $1.42 amounted to $4.68.

Sugar Pine Lumber Co. Opens Los Angeles Office

The Sugar Pine Lumber Co. have opened a Los Angeles office in the Petroleum Securities Building. Chas. Kendall will act as manager of their Los Angeles office. The Sugar Pine Lumber Co., manufacturers of white and sugar pine, operate.mills at Pinedale and Merced Falls, Calif.

A. C. Horner Visits Los Angeles

A. C. Ilorner, in charge of Pacific Coast field activities of the National Lumber Mairufacturers' Association, returned to his San Francisco headquarters June 8 from a week'S visit to Los Angeles, where he inaugurated a survey to obtain information Jrom individual retailers in California as to their desire to stock and. merchandise grade-marked and trade-marked lumber, and to bring to their attention the advantages of doing so. This is in line with the campaign already started by the National in Illinois, Ohio and New Jersey.

Each dealer will be offered the use of one orallof six mats advertising his company as headquarters for grademarked and tree mark lumber, and the association's publicity department will, if desired, place a good story in the local newspaper at the time the dbaler runs his advertisement.

Tree Products to be Featured in Newspaper Strips

Fact stories about American trees, told in pictures and text, will be featured in newspapers for at least one year, commencing next September. James W. Brooks, who is at the head of the Educational Features "strip" syndicate, located in Washington, that is now featuring "American History by Motor," which appears on automobile pages in many newspapers, is planning the "American Tree and Its IJses" strip, to follow the one on motor trails. Calvin A. Fader, artist for the Educational Features syndicate, whose illustrations of historic places to be reach.a ty highways, have attracted much favorable attention, will make the sketches for the new series.

Fifty-two "commercial" trees have been selected to be featured in the Brooks syndicate service-one tree each week for one year. Each strip will contain five panels in which will be told how each tree serves mankind.

The pictures of trees, their leaves, bark, etc., are being furnished by the U. S. Forest Service, together with information concerning growing trees. Facts concerning ,the product of trees-lumber and the many objects manufactured therefrom-are being compiled by the technical men of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association.