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Title: San Francisco : its builders, past and present : pictorial and biographical
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: S.J. Clarke Publishing Company
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Publisher: Chicago, (Ill.) : S.J. Clarke
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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ng at other enterprises, yet he has never had astrike among his emploj^es nor has there been any dissatisfaction withthe treatment they received or the wages paid. For years the saw-mills in the northwest were operated eleven and twelve hours a day.Mr. Walker, however, never had the men in his mills work more thanten hours and paid them the maximum wages that have prevailed.This kind and considerate treatment of his employes has naturally re-sulted in his securing the better class of men and a larger return inprofits from their labors than any other employer in the northwest. Although in his seventy-third year, the march of time has scarcelyleft a noticeable trace. Clean living, health of mind and body, kindlynature, generous in all his dealings with his fellowmen, these simplebut admirable qualities have kept him hale and hearty, clear of eye,vigorous of speech, active at a time when most men already see the veillifting beyond the purple hills to greet another of the eternal caravan.
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