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Angelus Fir and Pine Sales Co. Markets Products
lVhen Tom G. Ross completed construction of his big and modern new sawmill plant at Medford, Oregon, about three months ago, giving him a total of three sawmills and about 400,000 feet of daily lumber production, he joined forces with two other highly competent and experienced lumbermen and created a sales company to exclusively market the product of these mills.
fn partnership u,'ith Al. E. Hollivet and Dennis Gilchrist, the Angelus Fir & Pine Sales Company was organized, with brand new offices located in the Boothe Building, 475 Huntington Drive, San Marino, California. In charge of sales for the new concern is Dennis Gilchrist, 36 years of age, r,vho has 16 years of experience in the lumber sales field. For the past trvo years he has been sales manager for the Pope & Talbot mill at Oakridge, Oregon, with headquarters in Portland. Prior to that time he spent 14 years in the sales department of Pope & Talbot in Los Angeles.
Al Hollivet, partner of Ross and Gilchrist in this nen' enterprise, will also devote full time to the new concern locally. He is one of the best known lumbermen in Los Angeles territory, having spent 43 years in the business along Alameda Street, starting with the old L. W. Blinn Lumber Company. He is co-owner of the Angelus-Simmons Hardwood Lumber Company at the present time.
Tom G. Ross and Al Hollivet worked in the same of6ce together more than thirty years ago, and have been friends for more than a generation. Mr. Ross made an outstanding success of the lumber manufacturing business in Oregon in the last two decades, and capped his career with the construction of the nerv Medford plant, equipped with a modern sawmill and a mammoth modern planing mill. The planer is double the capacity of the mill, enabling him tcr bring in tl-re rough lumber produced at his other mills located at Prospect and Cave Junction, Oregon. Here the lumber from all three plants is now being seasoned, dressed, and prepared for market. The Medford plant cost one mil'lion dollars to build and equip, and is one of the most modern on the entire coast. Modern dry kilns are an essential part of the Medford equipment. The new plant covers 2l .acres of ground.
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The three Ross Lumber Company mills whose lumber products are now being exclusively distributed and marketed by the new Angefus Fir & Pine Sales Company, manufacture choice fir and Ponderosa pine lumber products, rvith the accent on fir, since that species furnishes a preponderance of their cut. They cut pine in the summer season, but fir the year around. These products are being ofiered in straight or mixed cars, or for truck delivery, to the retail lumber dealers of California, Nevada Arizona, Nerv Mexico, and Texas.
Mr. Ross commutes between tl-re mills in Oregon and his newly purchased home in San Marino by means of a private plane piloted by Dick Reidel. This enables him to spend part of his time in the nerv sales office in San Marino, and also to maintain finger-tip control over the mill operations, thus insuring best personal service to their customers.
Angelus Fir & Pine Sales Company is an important addition to the Southern California lumber industry.
"Our customers are assured of a constant source of choice, oh-the-grade fir and pine lumber," Mr. Gilchrist declared upon assuming his new position with Angelus Fir & Pine -Sales Company. "I have just completed a thorough inspection of the mills of the Ross Lumber Company in Medford, Prospect, and Cave Junction, and I can confidently say that Angelus is equipped to deliver the goods."
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