Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-05
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State MineraIogiSt Starts Cam
paign Against Architects for
Specifying Foreign Stone
LAYS BLAME TO IGNORANCE
Aubury Asserts Too Much Money
Leaves State Through the
Lack of Education
LAYS BLAME TO IGNORANCE

Work has begun on what promises
to be one of the most interesting ex-
hibits of structural and industrial ma
terials ever arranged from California
material. The display is to be placed
in the State Mining bureau at San
Francisco and State Mineralogist Lewis
e. Aubury is now engaged in arrang-
ing its details.
In writing of the matter the state
mineralogist says
"I believe such an exhibit will be
productive of much good and will lend
encouragement to the struggling infant
industries of California which are
allied with it's mineral interests.
There is entirely too much Cali
fornia money being expended outside
the state for material which we pro-
duce The main fault lies with our
architects, who have of late years come
to California and who are unacquaint-
ed with the quality of our products. A
campaign of education will be initiated
and as soon as the exhibit can be ar
ranged Dr. c. T. Deane A. H. Ward
and w. j. Barrett, trustees of the bu-
reau, and myself will arrange a get
together" meeting of the architects,
builders and contractors and producers
in order that the different interests
may be brought in touch with each
other; also that q practical demonstra-
ton will be at hand which will illus
trate all the different classes of ma
terial which will be available.
"A large space has been reserved for
the exhibit and the whole state will
be canVassed for produced in Cali
fornia material" Further efforts will
be continued toward enlisting tie aid
of builders in having it distinctly spec
flied with their architects that Calltor-
mia material must be given preference.
The builder nowadays is lax in this
respect, and is too prone t. leave af-
fairs to his architect. Should the lat
ter be a late arrival in California he
invariably specifies material from for
eign sources.
CAPITAL CAN CORRECT
'It is mainly through the person who
puts up the capital for buildings that
this can be corrected. See that the
brand produced in California" is
stamped firmly in the mind of your
architect, and remember that Cali
fornia produces the best qualities of
granite, sandstone, marble, slate, ce-
ment, brick, tiling, terra Gotta and
other clay products, gypsum, 1nfusorial
earth, limestone, oynX, traVertine, pum-
ice stone, volcanic tufa and great
variety of other materials which enter
into building construction.
FOR some time L nave Dctu liidAliiS
a fight at Washington for the use OF
California materials to be used in gov
ernment buildings in this state. Here
.tofore the treasury department. has dis
criminated against California material
in almost every instance where it was
possible to bring 1t from outside points.
In the Los Angeles postoffiCe Wyoming
sandstone was specified, and it was the
intention of the government to con-
struct the building of this stone until
l showed up the jobbery and demon
strated that a superior California sand
stone could be procured FOR $4,000 less
than what was proposed to be paid. In
the Santa Rosa postofiice Indiana lime
stone, Vermont marble and spanish til
ing from Missouri besides other foreign
materials which could have been pro-
cured here We're used in the construc-
tion.
"Were our prices higher for the same
grade Of materials says Aubury,
''there could be no objection, but our
prices, if anything, are much lower
Everything is so specified by the
Washington architects that our pro-
ducers are shut out from cor:petition.
tives have given me their assurance
that they will do what they can in the
matter. OF course there is nothing
compulsory on the part of the govern
ment to give us a square deal, but
there is no reason in my opinion why
the person who is doing business in
California should not preferably pat
ronize a home industry"