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Air-Conditioned Office is Last Word in Comfort
The yard is built in the form of a hollow square, with lots of shed room so that there is never any congestion, and any item can be picked out without delay, each pocket being arranged for a certain size of lumber.
Particl view ol one ol the gheds.
The hardware department is office.
Indirect lighting of the most in the lobby of the main modern type is installed throughout.
In the drafting room fluorescent lighting is used in addition to the indirect lighting. The walls of this room are finished in Redwood pattern lumber treated with gray stain. Ceiling is Fir-Tex Tile.
The customers-contractors' room has Fir-Tex planking on the walls, Fir-Tex Tile ceiling, and wood wainscoting of the company's own pattern, in three tones of Eucalyptus green coloring.
The floors in these two rooms are of No. 1 Common Oak.
The wash room has walls of blue tile and white tile on the floor.
The Ross Lumber Company's yard is at 7th and E, Streets with a frontage of more than M feet on 7th Street, runinng back over 300 feet. There is plenty of room for loading and unloading. All lumber is under cover.
The yard is entirely surfaced with oil and rock. It has its own private railroad spur, and an intercommunicating telephone system connects the office with all parts of the yard.
A complete line of lumber and building material is carried.
Mr. Ross opened this yard in 1923. He was formerly associated for many years with the Central Lumber Company, Hanford, Calif. He is the third generation of lumbermen in his family. His son, Richard, who does the architectural work for the firm, is the fourth generation. His father was a lumberman and his grandfather was in the lumber business in Pennsylvania in the early davs.
Melvin Schrader is outside salesman; Ray Keller is office manager and Miss June Rose is assistant in the architectural department.
Mr. Ross extends a cordial invitation to lumbermen who may be passing through the San Joaquin Valley to visit the Ross Lumber Company plant.
