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Weaver Roof Co. Adds New Units to Plant

ttMore business demands more room."

This is the order of the day at the modern new plant of the Weaver Roof Company, I-,los Angeles, for two brand new buildings now are in course of construction and will be ready for use within the next 30 days.

Antl they are badly needed, too, for the present quarters are filled to capacity with the great volume of business that the plant is handling this fall.

One of the new buildings is designed for a rvarehouse and will accommodate an immense quantity of roofing. It is 100 by 60 feet and designed to handle stock both in-bound and out-bound with the greatest possible efficiency and at the least possible cost.

The other building is a machine hottse 50 by 80 feet, and will contain several batteries of the latest machinery designed. to manufacture high brade roofing material.

'With its present capacity the new -Weaver factory at Slauson avenue and Iron street can turn out four times as much roofing as the old plant that was destroyed by fire some time ago.

Saturday, October 28

Clever Poems Direct Notice to Conner Ads

Not every lumberman can write poetry, of course, so it would be indelicate to suggest that advertisements be written in verse, but every lumberman can use whatever talents he has to best advantage to serve his purpose.

That is what Mrs. A. M. Conner, wife of Fred Conner, of the Sacramento Lumber Company, is d.oing in the advertising she writes. Mrs. Conner is rarely gifted with a poet's genius, and she employs this matchless quality in develop- 'ing further desires for home ownership.

Here are some recent products from her ready pen-or typewriter:

Ilearts and Homes

The roses tlream of the dawn-Iight, The river longs for the sea, And for aye the birds are singing Of nests in the wild-wood tree. For the roses the dawn-light's splend.or, For the river the curling foam, For the bird a nest in the wild-woodFor the human heart-a Home. -A.

Seeking for a Home

A restless breeze goes straying Across the landscape fair; It whispers in the tree tops, It searches here and there. It rustles thru the grasses, It flies across the fenIt cannot "ss1 until it finds The little homes of men.

This is the professional "high climber" in a California Redwood logging operation. He is 160 feet from the ground, and it has taken him 3 hours to cut the top from this tree, which is 3 to 4 feet thick at this point. The topped tree will be used as a "spar for their over-head logging system.

The leading mill operators of Texas and Louisiana created this organization. It affords full protection under the California liws. Concernins our standing and reliability ASK THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

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