Sterling Lumber Company Exhibits at Mountain View Exposition

One of the most popular exhibits at the recent Prune and Apricot Association Exposition at Mountain View was the exhibit of the Sterling Lumber Company advertising "Sterling Quality" building material products. The booth was constructed of Schumacher Wall Board and one of the many points of interest to the visitors were the two rnodel homes ihat they had on exhibition. The floor of the booth was made of octagon shingles. Hand colored wall pictures, bungalow books, and photognaphic plan books, together with wooden shingles and the various grades of building lumber were on display. They were awarded the stcond prize, a beautiful hand painted blue ribbon, by the_exposi' lion com,mittee. The exhibit was in charge of E. H. Dean'

WALTER JOHNSON NEW SECRETARY SPLrr REDWOOD ASSOCIATION

Walter Johnson, has been appointed secretary o{ the Redwood Split Producing Association, and is now in charge of the association's office, in the Imperial Hotel Building, at Fortuna. The association meets every two weeks and their 'membership comprise about 80 per cent of all the split redwood operators in the Humboldt County District.

E. W. Haight, the well known Humboldt County redwood lumberman, is president of the association.

manager of the Sterling Lumber Co. yard, at Mountain View.

The Sterli.ng Lumber Co. are progressive and active lumber rnerchantJ of California and are constantly pushing the "Own Your Own Home" idea forward. They have all their yards equipped with a complete 9u!ta!19 l!l-:_eryice arrd are stiong boosters of BETTER HOME BUILDING. F. G. Dutlle, with headquarters in San Francisco, is the president of the Sterling Lumber Co., who own and operati twelve retail lu'mber yards in the Santa Clara, Sacramento, and Sonoma ValleYs.

STRONG MEN WEEP-

when houses shrink,. doors refuse to shut, windows jamb and drawers get stuck,-all because owners did not know that RED-' WOOD seldom swells or shrinks, remaining unaffected by the dampest or driest weather.

That is only orre of the'virt'u'es of REDWOOD,-but it is one worth harping on.

You can show yout custorner plenty of examples in point, and you may give hlm, besides, the report of the Forest Service, Unlted States Department of Agriculture, where the government puts itself on record" about the resistance of REDWOOD to climatic changes.

Advise that customer to take a walk around, look at roofs.and elde walls, porches, pergolas and framed openings. Show htm that the REDWOOD eiding and shingle never humps, splits, curls nor stafurs; that Redwood columns neither warp nor check; that openings. framed in Redwood are truly framed forever.

That's the best way to answer his question-

MEMBER MILLS

ALBION LUMBER COMPANY

DOLBEER & CARSON LUMBER GO.

GLEN BLAIR REDWOOD CO.

HAMMOND LTMBER @MPANY

J. R. HANIFYGOMPANY

HOBbS WALL & COMPANY

HOLMES ET,'REKA LI'MBER CO.

LITTLE RI\rER REDWOOD CO.

MEND(rcINO LI'MBDR COMPANY

NORTIIWDSTERI{ REDWOOD CO.

TIIE PACIFIC LUMBER CO.

T'NION LT]MBER COMPANY

C.ALIFORNIA REDWOOD ASSOCIATION

24 CALIFORNIA ST.

SAI{ FRANCISCO

WEBSTERT "Assistance rendercd, duty performed."

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