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12 PUat W tb Aw WUu Uad uri C4ar Weeks, Dttnit, Mich. "ACME QUAUTTY" 000 pounds of white lead; 1.500,000 gallons of high- The enormous plant of the Acme White Lead and Color Works, of Detroit, Mich., an illustration of which grade varnish; 3,500,000 pounds of`dry color: 4,000,000 pounds of red lead, and 1,500,000 pounds of kalsomine. appears herewith, stands as a monument to the efforts of two men---William L. Davies and Thomas Neal. It was back in 1834, in the town of Grand Rapids, that Davies and Neal began the manufacture of paints. Their factory at that time consisted in the main of makeshift apparatus arranged in the rear of their small store. Davies was employed in a wholesale drug store at the time, furnishing a share of the capital, and. with his knowledge of chemicals, incidentally giving out some bits of advice concerning the manufacture of their product. Neal, also interested in the capital of the firm, conducted the factory until it was fairly on its feet. The methods employed in the manufacture of the paints and varnishes in those days were primitive-- not greatly improved upon since the early method of the Greeks--that of casting buttons of lead, which were placed in unglazed pots, at the bottom of which were pools of acetic acid; the pots were then exposed to a process of slow, natural heat, and the gas and acid thus obtained gave the desired result This process of corrosion, however, required from seventy to ninety days' time,, to say nothing of the large number of pots and' apparatus for the making of so small a quantity The Downey-Cavasso Glass and Paint Company, established in Oakland about a year ago, is now carry ing representative lines of the leading manufacturers on the Coast, and has become one of the leading job bing concerns of the cast bay section. The company distributes the products of the Bass-Hueter Paint Com pany, and is the agency for Beaver Board and Liquid Stone paint. Bird Xeponset Roofing and Jap-a-Lac and Keystonia finishes. In connection with the paint and varnish business, they operate one of the largest and most complete mirror manufacturing plants in the West. They maintain their own factory, which is equipped with the most up-to-date facilities for beveling and resilvering. They also deal extensively in highgrade lubricating oils. They are located at 3C8-370 Twelfth Street, near Franklin. Ben Nedderman, the jovial representative of the company, has returned from a successful trip thru the valley, and states that things look to be in very good condition. CaJ H. Severing, formerly with the Talbott Paint Company, of East Oakland, is now associated with the Downey-Cavasso Glass and Paint Company. of paint. It was, therefore, too expensive to be prac tical. With the early manufacture of paint in this Under date of June first, we are advised that the country, however, "spent" tanbark was added to the heat-producing element, and a series of further improve ments were perfected. Cbadeloid Chemical Company of New York, owner of patents' covering the Neutral paint and varnish re movers (made and* sold bv many of the leading manu In 1907, after a continual round of improvements facturers of paint and varnishes, as licenees), has t and expansions, the Acme .White Lead and . Color Works, already having attained the station of one of the leading manufacturers of paint and varnish in the brought suit against the Wilson Remover Co. for al.leged infringement. This action was filed in the United States District Court of the southern district i ; world, purchased a patented discovery of an inventor of New York, and an order has been entered requiring by the name of Rowlev, of St. Louis. -This invention defendants to show cause why preliminary injunction completely turned the methods employed in the past should not issue. topsy-turvy, and opened wide the gateway to larger and better things in the manufacturing world for the owners of the enterprise. According to the annual report, of the California Where there were two men doing the work at Development Board for 1912, the year 1911 was the the time of the business inception in 1884, today the best yet. the mineral, agricultural and manufactured plant is operated by a corps of 300 men and women, and products of the State exceeding one billion dollars in where the capital was formerly $2,800, today it runs value. The addition of this vast sum of the most sub into the millions. Their output for one year at the stantial credits must result in a largely increased de present rate of producing, is as follows: 1,500,000 gal mand, accelerated trade activity, and upon most sub lons of liquid paint; 3.600.000 pounds of paste; 10,100,- stantial business conditions. j 0007-SWP-000005329