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THE CALIFOR}IIA LUMBERMERCHANT
Stained Shingle Firms Merge
Merger of the two largest companies in the United States dealing in stained shingles, the Creo-'Dipt Company of North Tonowanda, N. Y.and the Weatherbest Company, also of North Tonowanda, was announced recently by H. P. Kendall, president and general manager of the Creo-Dipt Company. Mr. Kendall said the Creo-Dipt Company has absorbed the shingle and stain business of the.Weatherbest corporation, and that the Weatherbest business will be continued as a division of the Creo-Dipt Company.
Mr. Kendall will continue as president and general manager of the combined company. The company's plants at North Tonowanda and Seattle will be enlarged. The Western branch of the company at Seattle is operated under the name of the West Coast Stained Shingle Company. Philip W. Bailey is manager. This plant will be greatly benefited by the merger as both Creo'Dipt and Weatherbest shingles will be shipped from it to all the Pacific Coast territory.
The Creo.Dipt Company was founded more than 25 yeats ago, and during the years 1922 to 1937 had an annual sales volume of about 3Vz million dollars. Weatherbest, also a pioneer in the business had an annual sales volume in the same period of about two million dollars. Plans are being made to merchandise the company's products along the lines that made the two concerns so successful in the l92o's, and an extensive advertising campaign will be carried on.
Creo-Dipt shingles are now distributed onthe Pacific Coast by the following firms: Southern California, Fisk & Mason, Pasadena; Northern California, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco; Oregon, Spaulding Building Materials, Inc., and Rowell Lumber Service, Inc.,
"Mort" Booth tVnh Campbell-Moore
Morton L. Booth has been appointed sales representative in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley territories for Campbell-Moore Lumber Co., Portland, wholesalers of West Coast woods.
Mr. Booth's experience is the lu.mber business is a varied one, extending over a period of 15 years. It includes sawmill, wholesale, export and lumber association experience, and several years spent in the lumber business in the Orient.
He received his first lumber training rvith the Tidewater Mill Company, Tacoma, Wash., s:tarting in L921. From there he went with the American Trading Company, lumber exporters, Seattle, for some time, and then spent three and a half years in the Orient, with the lumber division of the Robert Dollar Company in Shanghai, and W. L. Comyn, lumber exporter in Kobe, Japan.
Returning to the United States he worked for two years with the California Redwood Association as field engineer and on sales and promotional work. Following this he rvas a salesman for two years for Hobbs, Wall & Company, Redwood manufacturers, in the San Francisco Bay area.
His headquarters are at 2322 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley.
Mark D. Campbell, well known in California, is vicepresident and general manager of Campbell-Moore Lumber Co., which also has offices in Minneapolis, Minn., and Spokane, Wash., and a lumber treating plant in Spokane. Portland; Eastern Washington, McGoldrick Lumber Co. and Exchange Lbr. & Mfg. Co., Spokane. Utah distributor is Morrison-Merrill Co., Salt Lake City, and the Idaho distributor is J. G. Doerr, Boise.
