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Eureka Lumber Co., San Francisco, at the recent convention of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, featuring mainly sandblasted wall plaques and panels, attracted a lot of attention from visiting lumbermen.

"This display brought home to many lumbermen the possibilities for using sand carved wood for interior finish, and thus making popular a new style to the advantage of the lumber industry," said Fred V. Holmes, sales manager of this concern. "As an accommodation to our many customers and to help this movement along, we have included art wall plaques'and panels as a part of our HE service. Our salesmen will carry with them a complete set of what we consider the best from two sources of supply.

"ft is my belief," said Mr. Holmes, "that if the sale of these plaques for wall and over the fireplace decoration be encouraged by retail lumbermen, the effort will be well repaid, as people will thus'be given new ideas as to the beauties and possibilities of wood grain for interior finish."

The sandblasted plaques shown in the picture reproduced here of the exhibit mentioned above were manufactured by the California Sandkraft Company of San Francisco, and the Chicago Lumber Company of Washington, Oakland.

D. J. BALLANTYNE VISITS CALTFORNTA

D. J. Ballantyne, sales manager of Cobbs & Mitchell, Co. of Portland, Oregon, was a recent visitor to California, when he spent two weeks traveling all over the Northern California territory in company with C. H. Terrell, salesman for Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland.

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. Mr, Ballantyne says that his firm enjoys a very fine business in kiln-dried clears in the San Francisco Bav district and the Northern California territory, and annouiced that they anticipate entering the mixed yard car business in the near future, which they have not particularly catered to in the last few years.

While calling on the trade in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys and the Coast Counties territory, he noted especially the formation of local lumbermen's associations which are doing so much to better conditions for the lumber merchant.