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Lumbermen Scott A. Troxel

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'Ve now carry the following Baxco Pressure Tieated Foundation Lumber in stock at Alameda and Long Beach for immediate sbipment to dealers: Douglos Fir S45 AtS 2x4,2x6,2x8,2x1O, 3x4,3x6,4x4ond4x6.

Special sizes will be purchased from local stocks and pressure treated without delay.

'We offer prompt custom treating service at both our Alameda and Long Beach plants. Your lumber can be delivered to us by truck or treated in transit in carload quantities. Consult us for additional information.

Baxco Pressure Tieated Foundation Lumber is impregnated with preservative salts in accordance with Fed. Spec. TT-W-571c. It is approved by FHA, Uniform Building Code - P.C.B.O.C., State Architect for mudsills in School Construction, and IJ. S, Government Specifications.

Scott A. Troxel, known to his many friends as "Trox," r'vas born in Gallatin, Missouri. He went to school there, and his first job in the lumber business was with T. J. Siewart Lumber Co. His uncle was manager of the yard, an<i he had worked around the yard in school vacations. After '"vorking a winter in the yard he went into the ofhce to i;eep the books. Later he was five years with Long-Bell Lumber Co. in Oklahoma City.

He volunteered for service in World War l, and became quartermaster in the Army. He came back to Missouri after the n'ar. In 1923 he came to California, rvhere his first lumber job was with Shull Lumber Co. in Alhambra. After a year and a half he became associated u'ith Whitacre l-umber Co., Los Angeles, and rvas with this concern from 7924 to 1937. He then bought the Whitacre yard and operated it until 1946, when he entered the rvholesale business in Los Angeles under the name of S. A. Troxel Lumber Co. This company sells only redrvood, and takes pride in the qullity of its product.

Mr. Troxel rvas married inl9l7. He and Mrs. Troxel liave one son, Allen, who is a graduate of the Unive:sity of California, and is norv taking a postgraduate course in plant pathology at Riverside, Calif. There are tu,o granddaughters, 5, and 18 months.

Trox has one hobby, and that is fishing. He does a 1<-,t of cleep sea fisl-ring, and occasionally goes to the Coloiado I{iver and Lake Mead. I{e has fished for marlin in Mexican lvaters, and hopes to land one of the big fellor,r's in the near [uture. Visitors to his of6ce can see proof of the success of a number of his deep sea trips in the pictures displayed on the rvall.