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Graves Sash Balance Becomes Big Business Success

Probably nothing connected with the building industry of Southern California is a rnore pronounced and decided success than the Sash Balance Department of the Frank Graves Sash, Door & Mill Company, of Los Angeles. Five years ago this department, manufacturing and distributing the Graves Sash Balance (very successful substitute for and improvement on the old fashioned sash weight method of sliding window control) was more or less an experiment. fts owner, Ralph Imhoff, head of the Graves concern had faith in it, however, and put the pressure behind it.

He employed Mr. B. H. Wilkinson, an able and experienced hardware man, to take charge of the Sash Balance Department, and under the particrrlar direction of this gentleman, this department has 'more than gtown-it has boomed. They installed their own factory in their big Los Angeles plant, and that factory has likervise grown into noble proportions. They are making and selling more Sash Balances every tlvo weeks than they used to make in a year, and the business is still in its infancv.

Conforming as it does to the latest type of window construction, fitting into stock windows, allowing practically no showing of hardware, and giving the most complete satisfaction as to use and wear, this product has a great future. It is plated tvith non-rust materials, and while the factory guarantee is from five to ten years, the factory tests show that this Sash Balance will last fiftv to seventy-five years.

Merced Lumber Co. Buys Yards of West Turlock Lumber Co.

Merced Lumber Company, Merced, recently purchased the four yards of the West Turlock l,umber Company, and took possession August 1. These yards are located at Turlock, Ballico, Delhi and Hilmar. This gives the Merced Lumber Company a total of eight vards, their own yards being located at Merced, Atwater, Le Grand and Livingston.

O. A. Baker is president of the companyr and Ralph P. Duncan is vice-president and general riur,.g"..

State Convention to Be Held In San Francisco

The California Retail Lumbermen's Association will hold their annual convention in San Francisco in November, it was decided at a recent executive meeting of the directors. The dates rvill be announced in the near Juture. HARRY

Harry Aisthorpe, Griswold Lumber Co., Chico, motored to Los Angeles and Agua Caliente, Mexico, on his recent vacation trip. ,