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Kent Moxey New Exec. Sec. Of Mountain States Assn.

Kent Moxey has been elected the new exec. secretary of the Mountain States Lumber Dealers Assn.. replacing Chet Nortz, who is phasing out of the MSLDA on a planned program over several years. Moxey has worked with Nortz since 1970 as a field secretary and has his offices at 5401 S. Prince St., Littleton, Co.

Nortz has been named treasurer of the association for a 2-year term ending Dec. 31, 1975. He is responsible for insurance programs, liaison, accounting and financial and continues to headquarter at 254 So. 6th East, Salt Lake City. This new arrangement also gives him more time for his personal business, Management Advisors, [nc.

As treasurer, Nortz remains on deck to offer counsel to Moxey and the members of MSLDA.

Mexican Rosewood

For the first time in more than 25 years, cocobolo rosewood is being imported into the United States from Mexico. It took more than two years of negotiation with the Mexican government to allow its exportation.

The importer is Cocobolo and Co., which has an office in Mexico City headed by Elias Breeskin, one in San Francisco (130 Walnut St., Mill Valley, Ca.) with his brother Eugene, and partner Hunter Clarke, and anotherin Los Angeles, manned by Shelley Chapman. Three tons of the wood are in a San Francisco warehouse to display to customers.

Western Lumber and Building Materlals MERCHANT was formed in 1890, it entered the redwoods in 1948 with the purchase of the Coast Redwood Co. of Klamath, Ca.

The wood is extremely heavy (62-76 lbs. per cu. ft.) and originally was used as a cutlery wood.

The firm is also importing capomo, goncalo alves, guanacaste, lignum vitae, prima vera and canalete (bocote) from Mexico.

CRA On Redwood Availability

In a message directed at architects and other specifiers, the California Redwood Assn. is running a full-page o'forest resource" ad in Architectural Record., the largest and most important architectural magazine.

The ad focuses on the lone-term availability of redwood. Architects are reminded that while there may be some temporary shortages of lumber, there is no shortage of redwood forests. Redwood is very much a renewable resource.

The institutional ad appears in January, May, and October issues and will be seen by over 64,000 architects, designers, and engineers.

Simpson and Redwood

Twenty-five years of redwood forest management and the production of quality redwood products is being marked in California by Simpson Timber Co., headquartered at Seattle, Wa. A major factor in the forest industry since the company

The purchase gave Simpson 400 employees, 23,000 acres of timberland, and one sawmill in the state, and marked the first o'outside" company to come into the redwoods.

In the northern part of the state, Simpson now has 280,000 acres of prime timberland, redwood sawmills at Klamath and Korbel, remanufacturing plants at Arcata and Korbel, plywood plants at Mad River and Fairhaven, the Arcata and Mad River Railroad, and half ownership in the Crown Simpson Pulp Mill at Fairhaven. Employment has reached more than 1,677 persons, an annual payroll in excess of $22 million.

The company is the largest producer of redwood plywood and a respected leader in forest management. Advanced technology in the plants and in logging has dramatically increased the amount of every tree Simpson uses.

A scoreboard over the past 25 years would read as follows:

Produced 50,000 rail cars of redwood lumber

Produced 37,500 cars of redwood plywood

Produced 30,000 cars of chips

Paid $22 million in local property taxes

Built over 600 miles of forest roads

Reforested 46,570 acres