The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1920-09-30
PAINT MANUFACTURE
INTERESTING PROCESS
The Want Plant 0f W. T.. kullcd ~
Go. Paint Manufacturers, Color
Grinders and Corrodcrs OF
White Lead.


Chicago, with one Of the largest paint
factories in America, and with thir-
teen branch houses scattered at
strategic points from the Canadian to
Mexico. taking in the greater part OF
the Western American Continent.
The output OF the firm is enor-
nous, and its export range covers
China, Japan, ndia, Australia. New
Zealand Mexico. Central American
and South America.
The branch housese are situated
In the following cities, each fully
stocked with overy variety OF paints.
oils. varnishes and lead: Sacramento.
Oakland, Stockton. Los Angeles. San
Diego. Pasadena. Long Beach. Santa
Monica, Calf. Portland, Orc, Seattle,
Tacoma and Spokane, Wash, and
Boise. Ida.
THIS great firm Is part OF Cali
fornla, one OF It's institutions that
has grown up with the state from
carly days participating in IT'S for
tunes. and sharing In the glory Of
its achievements,
W. =, Fuller & Co. II not only old
IN are. It's exlstance going back for
over seventy years, but II Ia also old
In traditions, representing at its best
the creative spirit OF the great pio-
ueers, whose energy and brains built
up the West out OF the wilderness
and the dosert The founders OF the
firm belonged 10 the class OF early
Argonauts.
Saved IN Great Disaster
w, r. Fuller a c., under which
name the firm has been known since
tho Incorporation IN 1894. had only
been settled In their new home for
few months, when II was burned to
the ground IN the great disaster OF
1905. Still the firm was lucky IN
way, and In n much better position
than many another house. for Il re-
talned intact all its great stocks OF
raw materials and finished products
at Its factory site. several miles away
from tho flames. Fortunately. It's
purchasing agent bad accumulated a
vast amount OF supplies, and these
saved the day for San Francisco In
the first hours OF reconstruction. w.
p. Fulled & Co, even supplied COM
petitors with raw materials. and Il
IL TO their credit that not a cent was
added TO the previous market prices.
Tho Fuller factory for the manu-
facture of Pioneer white Lead,
Paints Colors. Varnlshes and subsld-
larry products, Is an immense lnsti-
tuition. IL Is situated at South San
Francisco on the Bay Shore Line and
covers over twenty acres OF ground,
immense warehouses are stocked to
repletion with manufactured goods
and raw materials.
Extreme care Is exercised In pur-
chasing raw materials OF the high
est quality. Every ingredient that |
enters into the manufacture OF w. p.
Fuller a Company Products. Is thor
oughly tested In their up-to-date
chemical laboratory insuring the sup
eriority OF the Fuller brands OF
Paints Oils and Varnishes.
w. p. Fuller & Co. are the premier
manufactures OF White Lead OF the
Pacific Coast, and their Pioneer
brand is without a peer for white
ness, opacity and spreading proper
ties II is produced by the old Dutch
process OF slow oorrosln. perfected
by years OF practical experience.
scientific methods and care, so that
chemically pure and impalpably fine
White Lead Is the result.
When is comes to the manufacture
Of yarnishes, the same eomprehen-
sive thoroughness is shown, Take
the latest achievement in this line,
the well-known Fullerwear Spar
Varnish produced TO solve an aero
plane problem OF the Government
during the war, but which is now
being placed on the general market
In response 10 a nationwide demand.
Fullerwear has given complete salts
faction to the Government, and has
excited the admiration OF the trade.
Primarily this leading place of w.
p. Fuller & Co, in its various lines
Of manufacture, has been due to the
high commercial ideals impressed up
on the firm by its pioneer founders,
and transmitted during the last sew
enty years to those who now control
It's destinies. II can be said that
there is no business firm in Califor-
MIA in which there is a more perfect
cooperation between employers and
employees than exists in this great
paint house. Certainly no California
firm has so many veterans in its ser
vice. There are men in the Fuller
Company who have been with 1t for
fifty years. Twenty-Five years is