The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13
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SHINGLES
MAN WHO HAS FO11cun
WASHINGTON PRODUCT
CONVERTED.
G. w. Hotchkiss, of Illinois =
'auential in Eastern Lumbs,
Markets, Has Been Investa,t.
ing and Will Recommends H.
Washington Brand.

Seattle, Aug. AFTER .tt,,
Washington shingles for severa, w.
G. w. Hotchkiss, secretary of tbo ~.
nols Lumber Dealers Association, and
one of the best known men in 49,,
retail and wholesale lumber circles IN
the United States and Canada sto.
yesterday that after studying condi
lions among Washington mill,
will, upon his return to the East ur ~
the purchase of Washington sbinole'
Inspected by the Washington sbina1s
Grading Association just as earnest1v
as he has attacked them in the nas.
says the Post-Intelligencer. ''
Mr.: Hotchkiss has been IN ~.
Coast for more than month u
has visited, he says, more than ona
half the single and lumber mills bo
tween Grays harbor and Bellingham
making a careful study of the man
ner in which mills are now manufoo
turing lumber and shingle.
What impressed Mr.. Hotcbkiss moot
was the great improvement in tbo
grades of shingles now being put out
by the mills that are members of the
Washington Single Grading Associa.
ton. The association employs larpa
number of inspectors, and all stock
that comes up to the proper test NAV
be sold as the Purple" brand
Il am satisfied said Mr.. Hotcbkiss
"that the inspection system of the
| Washington Single Grading Assoca-
ton is correcting many of the evils
l have found in Washington shingles
in the past, and that the Purple
brand now ranks as high as any shin
giles that can be made. The inspect
ors are doing excellent work, and as
soon as our people in the East learn
that the brand backed by the Wash
ington Single Grading Association, is
reliable and can be depended upon
am sure they will purchase it in pref.
erence to the British Columbia shin.
gle, which has driven the Washington
stock out of many portions of the Mid
die West in spite of the fact that the
latter cost from 20 to 30 cents per
thousand more.
Il propose to go back home and
recommend to my people that they
buy nothing but the Purple brand
shingles. l believe that my recon-
mendations will reach at least lo,W
retail lumbermen in the Middle Nes,
and that it will have much to do WIN
increasing the demand for the nns
shingles I now find being mace Ill
| Washington mills in the grading d.
ISOLATION. OF course, there are olle'
mills outside the association pu'uns
out good stock, but these mills as
rule, have a definite place to dlspoS
of their output, and their shingles az, u,
not thrown on the market to De SUN
to anyone who offers the best plie,' :.
"As soon as our retailers nla DA'
they can secure what they really pu
chase, Washington shingles Oh s ~.
quality will bring better prices -, ~
retailers will buy Washington s ua
if it is as good as that made Ill O''
ish Columbia. IN
IT do not look for much resn' al
buying, however, until late tnls
after the crops are all harvester hi,
Mr.. Hotchkiss is not only seels '',:
of the Illinois Retail LUMBER D' - n,
Association, but he is preslaen' 10,
Lumber Secretaries Assocla.ion' had
resenting sixteen states anu az y
10000 retailers.