Huge Production of Building Materials in Los Angeles County

Rapid as has been the progress of general manufacturing in Los Angeles County, the lines concerned with the building industry have been notable for their volume and the diversity of their products. During the year 1930, over 635 manufacturers were engaged in making products going into construction. The value of their product was in excess of $90,500,000. Nearly 18,000 workers were engaged, and they were paid in salaries and wages, over $26,000,000. This tremendous payroll was a powerful influence on business conditions throughout the West, since it was spent for food and other products contributed by many states. Your own business was favorably influenced because of this huge payroll in Los Angeles County.

Five manufacturing groups engaged in the construction 'material field, each produced more than nine million dollars worth of products. Largest among these was the mill work industry, whose plants produced over $18,000,000 worth of doors, sash fixtures and similar products. Three thousand employees were engaged, and received nearly four million dollars in wages. With Los Angeles Harbor the largest lumber port in the world, the mills in Los Angeles County have available the wood products from the forests of every country. The result is that many mill products are made here, and shipped to the principal cities of the nation. Hardwood doors and trim, special partitions and sash are among the items which are widely distributed from this section.

The second group in point of production volume is made up of the manufacturers of architectural iron work and metal building specialties. Sixty-one firms produced ten million dollars worth of products, and employed over two thousand people. Included in the many diverse lines were fire escapes, grilles, spandrels, built-in metal specialties, such as mail-boxes, iron receptacles, milk receivers, and many others. The use of metal in residence and small store construction is increasing rapidly, and many innovations in the construction field are the work of Los Angeles County firms.

Close behind the metal manufa,cturers is the clay products industry. Probably the oldest of the building trades, yet. this group has shown a progressive spirit which is responsible for many new architecrtural and engineering

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NATIONAT I.UI'IBER forms and uses. Architectural terra cotta, face brick, slab brick, hollow tile, flag tile and decorative tile are all made and distributed from Los Angeles County. Particularly in the manufacture of decorative tile has this county developed as the acknowledged leader. New forms are constantly being developed, with the result that tile manufacture has in the past few years increased by leaps and bounds. During 1930, clay products manufactured in Los Angeles County amounted to $9,718,000 with 48 plants employing 3,00o people.

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Four large plants produced over nine million dollars worth of cement during 1930. In addition, there werc 75 plants making such concrete products as pipe, cast stone, building tile, etc., valued at $3,500,000. The total payroll in the cement and concrete industry was in excess of $3,400,m0, with about 3,00O employees.

Paint manufacture exceeded nine million dollars in value last year. A complete line of paint products is made in Los Angeles County. Particular leadership has been est6blished in such lines as stucco paints and colors, cement colorings and wood preservative paints. Fifty-eight plants are in operation.

Roofing material manufacturers produced nearly fivC mil-

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'Voild's Largets Mamtfact*nrs of Tetnessee Aromatic Rel Cedat lion dollars worth of rolled roofing, composition shingles and similar products, many of which are being sold in the principal markets of the country. Plumbers' supplies also approached five millions in value, and included gates, valves, fittings, and a very extensive line of enameled and vitreous china plumbing fixtures. Nine plants, with 1,100 employees, were so engaged.

Among other important groups are the following:

Sheet metal products, with an annual production of over four millions.

Sand and gravel, valued at nearly five millions.

Wall plaster, plasterboard, etc., valued at two and threequarter millions.

Metal doors and sash, valued at three millions.

Also, awnings, lime, marble and granite, s.creens and other items helping to make up the total of over ninety millions, representing one of the largest industrial productions concentrated in a single group any place in the country.

This tremendous manufacturing activity is turned out from the most modern factories in the countrv. Due to the fact that industrial growth in Los Angeles County has been fairly recent, most of the manufacturing plants are new, and are equipped with the latest in economical machinery. The result is that the building products you buy here are made correctly and sold to you at low prices.

Distribution of building specialties from Los Angeles County has already extended to the principal cities of the ' United States, and to many foreign markets. New products are constantly being developed. It will pay you to keep in touch with this great central market, in order that your business may have the benefit of a wide selection and the opportunity which comes from close contact with a progressive manufacturing center.

(From the California Plasterer.)

HILL & MORTON REPRESENTS BOOTH-KELLY LUMBER CO. IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

H. Sewall Morton, of Hill & Morton, Inc., well known Oakland wholesale lumber dealers, returned August 24 from a trip to Eugene, Ore., where he concluded arrangements by which his firm rvill represent the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company in Northern California.

In making this announcement Mr. Morton said it gave him great satisfaction to act as sales representative for Booth-Kelly Douglas Fir lumber, which is manufactured according to the best practice from some of the finest timber that grows, in the company's two modern mills at Wendling and Springfield, Ore.

George W. Robinson, who has up to now been sales agent for Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. in Northern and Central California, will continue to act as sales representative for Central California, making his headquarters as before in Stockton.