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A major story in The Portland Oregonian, a leading newspaper in the Pacific Northwest, attracted a lot of attention. Encouraged by the response, Ted L. Boyce, owner ofNuLines and inventor of the products used, is looking to expand further into the West Coast this year. Southern pine CCA treated to .40 ground contact by Temple Inland Industries, Diboll, Tx., is used exclusivelY in the product.

While these companies are the forerunners in shipping pressure treated southern pine products to the western states, they are not alone. Other southern pine producers are eying the western market as a potential user of some of the 13.5 billion board feet ofsouthern pine projected to be produced annually by 1995.

Julie Davis, a pine sales reP at Potlatch in Warren, Ar., has made one sales trip to the West Coast and keeps in touch with possible customers. She found definite, positive interest, but no takers, primarily because of unfamiliarity with southern pine and concern about freight costs. She feels acceptability of southern pine in the west is coming, but "not tomorrow." Potlatch does ship car loads of 2xl0 southern pine for scaffolding into the western market.

The Southern Forest Products Association in response to requests from builders and architects has conducted southern pine information seminars in the western area. Retailers as well as distributors are contacting southern pine producers, asking about treated southern Pine.

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Pressurc treated southem pine cracks western market for special projects rollercoasters and playgrounds use limited quantities... modular deck project aK)uses interest... SFPA encourages sales with seminars.

Home Depot will relocate its Colma, Ca., store to a new 9 acre site: a 100,0m sq. ft. store and 15,000 sq. ft. outdoor garden center

Branson-Cross Lumber Co., Lathrop, Ca., is looking for a buyer or will voluntarily liquidate the firm...

Three Atlied Stores Inc. loca- tions, T-Bird Home Centers. Truth or Consequences, Ruidosa and Alamogordo, N.M., are being sold to Foxworth-Galbraith, Dallas, Tx.; the first two will be new locations for the chain with the later replacing a store destroyed by fire.

Jerryb Home Improvement Cenre4 Eugene, Or., has undergone a complete overhaul, including the addition of u0,0ffi sq. ft. of retail space...Dave & Susan Mefbourn have acquired Albeni Falls Building Supply, Oldtown, Id., from Blackie Ockert.

Cottier Warehouse, lnc., San Francisco, Ca., opened its fourth branch, in Rohnert Park, Ca., with 3,510 sq. ft.of warehouse, retail and office space . Molalla Hardware, Molalla, Or., has changed its affiliation from Coasr to Coast to Ace Hardware

Meeks Lumber Xard, Redding, Ca., had estimated losses of half a million in a late 1990 fire ll/'estern Woods, Inc., Chico. Ca., opened a new Fresno. Ca.. office and distribution yard; rngr. is Chris Hedland, formerly with Weyerhaeuser in the area for l0 years.

(Jniversal Forest Producs has opened a sales office in Santa Rosa, Ca., at 2455 Bennett Valley Rd., David Ponts in charge, as additional support for the Arcata, Ca., redwood opera- tron... 'rll

Bear Forest Products moved its offices to Riverside, Ca., and the yard to Valley Reload, Fontana, Ca., where they provide covered storage and ATSF and SP Rail-

Products is a new Portland, Or., ["Tq{concept r^r,nr new so. ca. ;;;;rr ,*;;; sales oflice is in new quarters in figs.) rose 9.3% Temecula, Ca. . . Dooley Indus- adiusted rate of I tries, Inc., Pasadena. Ca.. has wilh a 102% suru Pasadena, Ca., has a I02% surse been formed by Dennis Dooley starts. . . singlE and will^use the name Dooley dropped 9.8%-anc Lumoer Lo. . .. mits slipped 1.4%.