"Build Right--Bottle Tight" is Slogan for New Redwood Septic Tank

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New Septic fank is Described in the

Followins A*icle by Morton B. Smith Chief Engineer, Technical Department, Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco

The Hammond Lumber Company is now placing on the market, through retail lumber dealers a complete line of Redwood septic tanks which have attracted unusual interest wherever offered and have received enthusiastic endorsement by sanitary engineers, health authorities and physicians. The Company maintains a stafi of engineers constantly on the alert for developing a wider field for the use of Redwood in industrial and engineering fields, and to combat the efforts of manufacturers of competitive materials to usurp fields in which wood is naturally suited.

They have many noteworthy achievements to which they may point with pride, two outstanding examples of which are the largest wooden tank ever built, which was the subject of an article in the California Lumber Merchant some time ago, and the largest atmospheric cooling tower ever built, which has just been completed. The former was in. stalled by the City of Pasadena, California, for the btorage of sewage after extensive investigatiori of the relative merits of various materials for the purpose. The cooling tower has just been built for the Passotex Petroleum Corporation in Texas in connection with their enormous refining plant. This tower is 54 feet high, over 1000 feet long and contains over 800,000 board feet of all heart Redwood, 6000 pounds of copper nails and $10,000 worth of brass bolts. It was designed by the engineers of the Hammond Lumber Company to withstand the frequent Texas Gulf hurricanes and before completion was tested by a recent severe storm lvhich did no damage, although a portion of the complete system of bracing was as yet not installed, thus proving the adaptability of wood construction for major projects. The tremendous forces which the structure was designed to resist called for considerable originality in wood framing construction and engineering analysis to obtain the very critical approval of the engineers employed by the customer.

This tower received a great amount of local publicity and accomplished considerable toward advancing public understanding in that locality of the unique characteristics of Redwood and its superiority for many applications. One amusing newspaper story stated that all the Redwood for this tower was obtained from one single giant redwood tree.

The natural advantages of Redwood for septic tanks has been demonstrated by wide experience, and that Redwood is a very superior material to resist the attack of sewage has been recognized by engineers was demonstrated by the choice of Redwood for the Pasadena tank by the municipal engineers.

In many instances aggressive producers of steel, concrete and other competitive materials have induced their substitution for wood by exaggeration of unimportant advantages which have blinded the consumer to many important advan- tages of wood construction and thereby induced the consumer to "choke on a gnat and swallow a cam,el."

In addition to the great superiority of Redwood as a material for septic tanks, the Hammond Lumber Company recognized the desirability of having the design of the tank equally superior in engineering and hygienic phases and their Technical Department has devoted its talent to the production of a simple septic tank answering these requirements.

The Company makes many claims of the unique advantages of their septic tank, stressing the fact that it is "bottle tight" and is designed to have inherent strength and rigidity following correct proven engineering principles, which, together with the natural durability of Redwood and its resistance to attack. by sewage, warrants their definite guarahtee for an extended period of time and assurance that it will last many years beyond its guarantee.

Executive Committee Meetg

Ralph Duncan, Merced Lumber Co., Merced, chairman of the executive committee of Retail Lumber & Building Material Code Authority (Northern California), presided at a meeting of the committee held in San Francisco July 6. Elmore King, King Lumber Co., Bakersfield, member of the executive committee of the National Retail Code Authority, who recently returned from spending two weeks in Washington, D. C., attending the meeting of the executive committee there, gave an interesting report of matters discussed at that gathering.

'\(/. \(/, Peed

William Walker Peed, owner of the Los Gatos Lumber Co., passed away in Los Gatos, July 2.

Born in Plattsburg, Mo., 56 years ago, Mr. Peed became a logging engineer, and spent 25 years of his business career with the Hammond Lumber Co. He was their logging superintendent for a number of years, and served several terms as president of the Pacific Logging Congress. He was the author of a book on logging that is used as a college textbook. He was later associated with the Monterey Bay Redwood Co., and entered the retail business five years ago when he purchased the Los Gatos Lumber Co.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. May Belle Peed; a daughter, Miss Margaret Peed; a son, William Peed, Jr.. and his mother and a sister.

Max Price On Trip To Dakotas

Max Price, manager of the Roscoe Lumber Co., Roscoe, is on a motor trip to the Dakotas.