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Name and location of repository
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Item
Title
617-17B
Date(s)
- 1932 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
ca. 1932. Earl Rogers, Vice President of St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company, standing on a pile of square timbers to be used to make fabricated wood products. Earl Rogers was the first lumberman in the world to have this piece sawn; claiming that it was a good product and the industry could produce all that the market could take. The Houston Treated Wood Co. was owned by Tacoman Ross Houston and their product, the Houston Fabricated Street Gutter, was patented in the US and Canada. (filed with Argentum)
Lumber industry--Tacoma--1930-1940; St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. (Tacoma); Business people--Tacoma--1930-1940; Rogers, Earl; Houston Fabricated Wood Co. (Tacoma);