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DAVIS-HELLER-PEARCE COMPANY
A strong Stockton organization
devoted to architecture, construction and engineering is composed of H. Y.
Davis, H. E. Heller, and J. W. Pearce, one of the firms which show that
Stockton and the San Joaquin Valley have the brains and the man-power to take advantage
of the present exceptional opportunities.
This company has perfected a system for handling construction work and
has developed an organization of men expert in every line of the business which
insures the company a permanent position in the affairs of this great and
growing section. The company has to its
credit a record of achievements that is noteworthy, as its many clients will
testify. While specializing in the building
of industrial and commercial structures, this firm also constructs residences
and is equipped to handle construction work of any nature, anywhere.
One of the interesting contracts
handled by this company was the building of a great sawmill plant for the
Apache Lumber Company at Cooley, Arizona, in the heart of the pine timber
country, on the old Fort Apache Indian Reservation, 7,500 feet above sea level,
where very few white men had ever visited.
The lumber plant represents a $7,000,000 investment, and the
Davis-Heller-Pearce Company erected forty-two buildings there. It was necessary to send hundreds of men of
all crafts from San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento and Stockton, to do the
work. The Davis-Heller-Pearce Company
are supervising architects and engineers for the Stockton School District,
directing a $1,275,000 school building program, and for the College of the
Pacific, who are spending $750,000 for new buildings in Stockton. They are architects and engineers for the new
$200,000 Union high school building at Manteca, and, in association with two
other local firms, are architects and engineers for the new $600,000 Stockton
City Hall. The high character, native
ability and broad experience of the members of this organization account for
its success.
H. Y. Davis, who is in charge of the
architectural and engineering department of the firm, was educated at the
University of Illinois, and has been in active practice of his profession since
1910. He is a man of talent and vision, and while
constantly striving to perpetuate the best traditions of architecture, is
intensely practical in meeting present day problems.
H. E. Heller, who is in charge of
all construction work, has spent about twenty years in the business. He is a master of every detail of it, is full
of energy and initiative, inspires confidence, and is a natural leader,
resourceful and determined.
J. W. Pearce, who is in charge of
the business and financial interests of the company, has had a wide and varied
experience, having spent twenty years in the transportation and banking
field. He is conservative and sound in
his judgments, a far-seeing and broad-minded man who has the confidence and
esteem of all who know him. Mr. Pearce
made a splendid record as campaign manager of Liberty Loan and other activities
during the late War, takes a leading part in all public affairs of the Stockton
community, and is now an officer in many civic organizations. This firm should go far, and is certain to
contribute no small part to the life of this district.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1431. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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