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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 11, 1879

THE CALIFORNIA OFFICE.

A STATEMENT of the facilities now possessed by our publishing house on the Pacific coast, for doing all branches of the publishing business, will be of interest to all the readers of the REVIEW. The statement is given in the Pacific Press of August, 1879, issued from the Signs Office in Oakland, as follows:—

1. We pay no rent. The Pacific Press Publishing Association owns the buildings in which it operates, and owns the ground upon which the buildings stand.

2. We own our source of water supply, and no corporation exacts a toll on one inch of the water used in any of the departments of our concern.

3. We manufacture our type, leads, and rule, and supply these articles, of superior quality, to the trade.

4. We are our own importers of paper. All the stock used in our Book, News, and Job Room, and Bindery, is imported in large quantities by ourselves, thus saving the heavy commission which houses buying small lots from jobbers are uniformly compelled to pay.

5. We do our own designing, engraving, electrotyping, and stereotyping. And by this we mean that each of these departments is conducted under our own roof, and each is in charge of skilled and trustworthy artists.

6. We do our book-binding and paper-ruling, besides ruling job lots to order for the trade or individuals requiring exceptional work.

In the way of steam power and printing machinery, presses, etc., the establishment is abundantly supplied.

It is hardly necessary to add that we have our own machine shop, where all repairs are made, tools sharpened, and scores of little things attended to which effects a saving in every department, keeps our machinery in the best possible order, and facilitates work on every hand.

From this it will be seen that our facilities for doing printing of any kind are not excelled anywhere, and are not equaled upon this coast.