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ALBTON LUMBER, COMPANY rN PR,OGRESSM MOVE PEOPLES LUMBER CO. AT VENTURA PLANS TO BUILD TO TRADEIIIJA,RK ITS PBODUCT 4 MODERN STORE AND SERVICE ROOM

The Albion Irumber Company is going to start immedi- /AnotherCaliforniainstitutionisabouttoembarkuponthe ately to tradembrk its lumier. ,. FtJgt a_nd nlost modern methods of selling lumber' Chas. l'. Flynn, the general manager of the miII at Albion, V The ieoples Irumber Compaay, of Ventura, hav-e comwas in San Francisco i week o" .o igo and after conferring pleted plans and specifications for a new and up-to-the-min" with Theo. Lerch, sales manager, the! decided on this morn"l ute store. They will start to work within the next few 'llhe trade mark will be in the sLape of a diamond with the weeks-and. expect to_have construction completed before the rvord. ,,Albion" across the face olf it. They will use this end of the year.. The store will be equipped with service means of iclentification for all their redwood timbers. rooms, plan service and all other essentials of a modern

"l['e are so.proud of our prod.uct that we are willing to merchandising establishment. sign our narne to it," says Mr. Lrerch.

W. R. SPALDING AND WITE TO TOUR EUBOPE

W. R. Spalding, head of the retail enterprises that bear his name, accompanied by Mrs. Spalding, will leave late in September for a trip to Continental Europe. They wiII embark at San Francisco and travel through the Panama Canal. They expect to be gone three or four months. This is the first extended vacation Mr. Spalding has had in several years.

STERLINC LIIMBER CO. TO IIAVE SER,VICE BOOM

The Sterling I-rumber Company, at l-.ios Gatos, is getting ready to build a modern service and display room. Plans are yet incomplete, but General Manager Duttle in the San Francisco office has decided to go ahead.

CHAS, S. KEITII VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

Chas. S. Keith, of Kansas City, head of the Central CoaI & Coke Company, has been in San Francisco for the last few days on business connected with his new timber operations in Oregon. The company is getting ready to erect a mill at Veronia, Oregon, to cut 250,000 feet of fir per day. Meanwhile logging operations are in progress.

PARAFFINE COMPANY TO PUT OUT NEW LINE OF PAINT, THBOUGII BETAIL TBADE

The Paraffine Companies, Inc., who for years have been {anufacturing a high grade line of industrial paints, have just announced that they soon will place on the market a similar line of paints, varnishes and enamels to be sold to the retail trade.

The new line will bear the trarle name "Pabco"'

JUNIUS BR,OWN IN CALITOR'MA

Junius Brown, general sales agent at Chicago for the Pacific Irumber Company, has been in California for the last week visiting the big general offices in the Balboa Building, San Francisco. He also is including a trip to the mill at Scotia in his itinerary. Mr. Brown reports that the demand' for high grade redwood was neYer better in the Midclle West and East.

. O. F. FOTSOM JOINE EAGLE LUMBEB CO. FORCE

O. F. Folsom has joined the sales force of the Eagle l-.lumber Company, 16 California street, San Francisco. He will be assistint to G. B. Bleecker, who opened the San Francisco office early in the spring. The 'Eagle Lumber Company operates a big fir mill at'Westimber, Oregon, and ships most of its products south bY rail.

M. L. Euphrat'of the 'Wenclling-Nathan Co., wio is on a buying trip to the Northwest, ad.vises Roy Hills in the San Francisco office that despite the apparent overprod.uction every week, lumber is hard to get and the mills are holding for higher prices. Wendling-Nathan have some excellent mill connections, however, and Mr. Euphrat is succeeding in placing his ord.ers. He is accompanied on the trip by " Gus " Hoover of his Los Angeles ofrice.

W. M. Beebe of Seattle, president of the Burton-Beebe Lumber Company, is in California on business. The company maintains its southern ofiice in Los Angeles, in charge of Rollins A. Brown.

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