THE WHITNEY COMPANY

Garibaldi, Oregon

(Continued from Page 12) at any timp, wit$gut ePJ 'trouble, whereas' with: an old fashioned frame'you''Uatle to'perform a'rmaior carpentering operation to make a change that is often necessary.

The carpenter can buy a Lrrock-down frame, of clear, beautiful lumber, perfectly worked, ready for the pulleys and nails, for less money than he can buy the lumber from which to cut them. The carpenter uses his dollar-an-hour time cutting up clelr lumber to make frames, when the knock-down frame can be put tightly together by anyone with a hammer and nails, in the fewest minutes. Every part fits perfectly.

The dealer can make at least as much profit on selling the frame as he can selling the lumber from which to make the frame, and he saves the builder that dollar-an-hour charge, and gives him a better product for his home.

Some dealers have a man making frames in their own yards. They can undodbtedly give their trade a better proairct by selling high grade knock-down frames instead, and makg as much or more profit for themselves.

The knockdown frames are made from "shop lumber." The knots and defects are sawn out entirely. The only defects in a knock-down frame of quality, are where there is no exposure. Every exposed part is clear lumber' every edge and end perfect. The frame planSs can make twenty complete frames while the carpenter is boring the pulley holes for a single frame.

The store room necessary for the average retailer to carry a stock of frames, is very modest. The frame parts .are tightly bundled together, and held in place by machine- applied metal bands. They don't come apart. With a small stock of knock-down frames the dealer can furnish an assortment of window or door sizes. He is not confined to a single siza He can make difrerent length and width com' binations for difierent size openings. Any frame factory can show the dealer how to carry a comparatively small amount of frame stock, and yet be able to supply a large assortment of sizes.

The frame proposition is one that every lumber dealer, greater or small, should thoughtfully investigate. As a merchant seeking for his customers the best of service along building lines he should get away from the old fashioned method of making frames by hand. It is economically wrong, costs the customer more money, makes no mqre for the dealer, and assists in the use of an inferior product' Clear, straight-grained, perfectly fitting, perfectly manufactured frames can be had in every building, through the lumber dealer, to the great advantage of the builder.

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT would welcome a discussion of the subject by its readers.

Three Everett Plants Burn

Among recent sawmill fires in the Northwest the most serious loss was sustained by the Walton Lumber Co.. at Everett, Wash., rvhen their main plant and 7,000,000 feet of Itrmber were destroyed JulY 26.

The Willamette Lumber- Co.'s mill at Dallas, Ore', was damaged to the extent of $50,000 by fire of unknown origin August 1st.

F"ire believed to be the work of a pyromaniac caused a loss estimated at $285,000 to the Lansdown Lumber Co. a.nd Everett Millu'ork Co., Everett Wash., August 1.