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sawed and air dried, accounts recall. The dried boards were Put through the kilns with the shook milled to six different sizes to meet the needs of the cigar box manufacturers. Although written recollections are vague, pictures record that a sawmill, veneer plant and dry kiln plant operated at San Blas. The early oPeration was housed in tents and then moved into wooden structures. Probably the sawers and millworkers were paid about a third as much as they were Paid in Nogales, Az.

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The firm also maintained a shiPyard with a fleet including the motorship Nogcles, a tug and a barge. Lumber was moved by water to Mazatlan, approximately 100 miles north, where it was loaded into Southern Pacific boxcars for shipment over the border to Nogales, Az. For manY years approximately 70,000 b.f. was shipped daily from the fuizona location to New York City to be assembled into finished cigar boxes.

Mexican cedar, also known as Spanish cedar, was used for all types of sash, door and millwork, as well as cigar boxes. The aromatic wood was said to resemble Philippine mahogany in color and texture.

The Roy and Titcomb mill at Nogales, Az., also milled amapa, huanacasta, cioba, venedia, ceba and PoPoilla. The latter two hardwoods, which resemble balsa, also were used for cigar boxes.

Although cigar boxes may have been the most romantic Product of this adventurous episode of lumbering, the millwork of some of Arizona's finest homes and buildings including El Conquistador Hotel in Tucson can be traced back to RoY and Titcomb's Mexican venture.

Said to be the most complete mill west of the Mississippi, the Arizona operation closed in 1932.

We are indebted to pioneer Arizona lumberman Jay O'Malley, retired chairmon of the boord, The O'MalleY Cos., for his help in preparing this story. Accounts written by Gus Michaels, who later become executive vice president of the Arizona Lumber and Building Supply Associotion, also were helpful-ed.

Home Center Show Speaker

J. Peter Grace, chairman and c.e.o. of W. R. Grace & Co., will address the lOth annual National Home Center Show general session, 8:30 a.m., March 20, in the auditorium of the Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Ga.

Grace, who will discuss the findings of "The President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control," was chairman of a group commissioned by President Reagan to study efficiency in government.

Keynote speaker will be Georges A. Hanzi, president and c.e.o., Homecrafters Warehouse, Inc., at the opening general session, 8:30 a.m., March 18. Theme of the March 17-20 show will be "Opportunities '85."

A total of 1,300 exhibitors will occupy the recently+xpanded, 345,000 net square-foot, World Congress Center. The annual exposition is structured specifically to meet the specialized needs of home center and do-it-yourself retailers, their wholesalers and suppliers.

The number of business management seminars has been reduced to permit segmentation into topics for "small town,/rural home centers" and "multi-store chains." Seminars will explore the opportunities homecenter retailers have with people, computerization and merchandising.

Other highlights will include the 4th Annual Innovator and llth Annual Home Center of the Year awards competitions, and the 2nd Annual induction ceremonies for the Home Center Hall of Fame.

REC0GNITI0N of service and involvement award t0 Edward C. Cole, southern regional sales manager for Schlage Lock Co. in Atlanta, Ga., (lett) lor his work as a director of the Doors and Hardware Institute. John E. Bachand, DHI president, (right) made the presentation.

Hardwood Mfrs. First Annual

First annual meeting of the newly formed Hardwood Manufacturers Association will be March ?I-22atthe Royal Sonesta, New Orleans, La.

A report on a market study being developed to investigate new uses for hardwoods as well as speakers and topics covering economics and other subjects of current interest to the lumber industry are scheduled, according to Robert L. Moore, president, Hammermill Hardwoods, August, Ga., who is chairman.

The Southern Cypress Manufacturers Club will hold their annual meetings in conjunction with HMA.