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Photographs: Chemonite piling at Long Beach Harbor.

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Cameron Buying CA Co.

Cameron Ashley Inc., Dallas, Tx., has signed a letter of intent to acquire CA Company, Inc., Lewiston.Id.

CA has revenues of approximately $75 million and 145 employees. Current management will continue to operate the business and all employees will be retained.

CA Co. operates wholesale warehouses with a full line of building products in Spokane and Tacoma, Wa., and Lewiston and just opened a specialty warehouse in Boise, Id., specializing in vinyl and steel siding and accessories. It will be the area's exclusive CertainTeed distributor, succeeding Alumax Building Products, which is closing its Boise DC.

Set to close Nov. 30, the acquisition provides the 65-branch Cameron with initial entry into the Pacific Northwest, Idaho, Montana and Southwestern Canada.

BMC Adds Bacon Locations

BMC West Corp., Boise, Id., has signed a definitive agreement to acquire three Henry Bacon Building Materials stores in Issaquah, Marysville and Kent, Wa.

Coming ln Dec.

Our next issue will include a Deluxe Industry Calendar listing scores of meetings, club events, association conventions and other industry events of interest to our readers.

The full color, 28 page calendar printed on heavy paper is designed to be removed from the magazine and hung on the wall.

A first for our industry, it will be a helpful and colorful office addition.

In July, Bacon closed Renton and Seattle locations, apparcntly to position the company for the sale. Its only other store, in Bellevue, is reported to be closing by year end.

BMC currently operates three stores in the area, Tacoma, Everett (which will be closed and relocated to Bacon's Marysville site), and Bellevue (to be relocated to Bacon's Issaquah location).

Set to be completed Nov. 7, the purchase would add about $36 million to BMC's annual sales.

BMC West signed tle agreement just days after purchasing Walker

Brothers Lumber, which operates a store and prehung door shop in Colorado Springs, Co.

Homeowners And Wasps

Responding to complaints to mills about horn-tailed or wood wasps coming out of lumber after it is installed in homes in Arizona and California, Western Wood Products Association's Technical Services Departrrent has prepared an informative publication.

Tech Note No. 2 - Wood Wasps explains the insects do not affect the structural capabilities of lumber and are not venomous. Insects in Western Wood, another WWPA publication, provides additional infonnation.

Portland Co. To Go Public

Crown Pacific Partners L.P., portland, Or., plans to go public early next year with a $208 million initial public offering.

The company, one the state's largest privately held timber firms, says it will use the money raised to restructure debt and buy out private investors. Crown Pacific Partners was fonned in 1988 to acquire about 257,000 acres of timberlands in Oregon and Idaho from corporate raider Sir James Goldsmith.

The company, which presently owns about 578,000 acres of timberland in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana and eight mills, has no pulp and paper interests. Peter Stott is president.

Mills Closer To Russian Logs

A consortium of 10 Northwest mills looking globally for new sources of supply are inching closer to long-temr contracts with Russia.

Global Forestry Management Group has committed $9 million to lease a million acres of timbefland and build a port. Working with Russian partners, the group began shipping logging equipment to the former Soviet Union Oct. 2.

The main obstacle, said member Kent Duysen, Sierra Forest Products, Terra Bella, Ca., has not been working with Russian officials, but satisfying U.S.D.A. concerns over pests.

The group hopes to begin importing Russian logs by late 1995, but has imported several trial containers of Russian pine and spruce (see The Merchanl, Jan. p. 25).

of-the Nfionth

"Without a doubt. the 103rd Congress has the worst environmental record of any Congress since Earth Day 1970."

- Dan Weiss Political Director Sierra Club

Ernst Courts Investors

Ernst Home Center Inc., Seattle, Wa., has boosted interest in its initial public stock offering by promoting a smaller-is-better expansion strategy during a rccent "road show" for analysts and investors.

In a l4-city, two-week series of presentations, the company shared its plans to expand into secondary markets. cities too small to attract its warehouse- sized competitors.

Ernst's initial announcement in June of a stock offering met with so little enthusiasm that in August the IPO was postponed.