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D&R supplies dimension lumber, precision-trimmed studs, cedar siding, shakes, shingles, moldings and many other specialty lumber items throughout the West .. . by the most eff icient transport rail, truckor ocean barge.

For nearly 70 years Dant & Russell has marketed forest products f rom the Pacif ic Northwest manufactured for the western construction market.

In Southern California, call our representative, A. W. "Art" Neth at 872-1280 or 783-0544

Dodge Co. Forecast

Construction of new housing units in the third quarter of the year totaled 520,013, lTVa below the year-ago figure, reports F. W. Dodge Co.

The third-quarter housing unit figure, after adjustment of seasonal variations, showed a97o dtop from the preceding quarter, according to Dodge's George A. Christie, v.p. and chief economist. "[n the third quarter the rate of home-building fell below the two million level for the first time in two yearsa period of the most extraordinary volume of housing output ever experienced. While early signs of improvement in the mortgage market are now beginning to appear, the decline of housing starts still has a while to run. We are forecasting a turnaround in homebuilding in the spring of 1974, and a recovery that will bring the rate of starts back near the two million rate by the end of next year."

According to Dodge, these western cities were among the ten standard metropolitan statistical areas that lead the nation in housing construction during the third quarter: Second: Los Angeles-LongBeach, 10,528 units; third: Phoenix, 7,3'14 units; tenth: San Diego' 6,183 units.

More Hardwood Available

According to Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers. Inc. . an eight-state association of lumbermen harvesting high-grade mountain-grown timber in the Southeast, there is more hardwood available today than at any time in the last 50 years.

Due to modern, intense forest management practices, they are able to make fuller utilization of harvested trees, saw more of the trees into merchantable timber and market more grades to the consumer, according to James Gundy, exec. v.p. of AHMI.

"While this timber is in reserve," Cundy says, 'owe are in danger of losing availability. For years we have been harvesting less than the new annual growth. Now, we have built a tremendous backlog of standing timber both on National Forests and on private lands.'o

Gundy warns, however, that this supply is in jeopardy. "Instant ecologists who do not understand the regeneration processes of the forests are now attempting to influence the Congress to set aside huge portions of de facto commercial forest lands on our National Forests as preserves. These preserves, he explained, will be wilderness areas, study areas and other untouchable, unharvestable acreages in which the forest will be left to nature's fickle and often disastrous reqeneration system.

Pufford to AFP Exec. Veep

Arthur E. Pufford has been elected an exec. v.p. of American Forest Products Corp., according to president J.T. Guyol.

He joined the San Francisco headquartered manufacturer and distributor of building materials and shipping containers in1972 as v.p., finance and treasurer. Prior to that he had been an officer of the Wickes Corporation.