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Save money by stocking Deep Swamp Cypress in place of redwood and cedar. This beautiful, versatile, all around species, for exterior and interior use, finishes better than cedar or redwood and is more stable than southern pine.

We mill to your specs-any pattern siding, plus finish, S4S, fine bevel/bungalow sidings, 1" sidings, paneling, ceiling, wainscot stock and flooring. All kiln dried, from finish to common grades. No order too small,

Elder Forest Products. Inc.

Plant: 1726 West Street, Crowley, LA 70526 ' (800) 256-7197 . (337) 625-8141 . FAX 337-625-5275

Associate Member - Southern CvDress Manulacturers Association

2003

Curtis Lumber, Queensbury, N.Y., received word that local contractor Steven Miles, who owes the company more than $200,000, has been arrested and is facing seven felony counts ofgrand larceny

Columbia F lo oring, Danville, Va., has signed on as a benefactor of the Hardwood Forestry Fund

Sprenger Midwest Whole sale Lumber, Sioux Falls, S.D., is now stocking Louisiana Pacific's SmartSide prefinished siding in nine colors

Lumb erme n s Merc handi sin g Corp., Wayne, Pa., is distributing Crestline windows and doors

Anniversaries: Sunshine Ace Hardware, Bonita, Fl., 30th Shepley Wood Products, Hyannis, Ma.. 25th ... Fayetteville Lumber & Supply, Fayett6ville, Tn., 10th.

Reincarnated Barn Timbers

A small Portland, Me., firm is recycling old-growth timber from centenarian barns and long-shuttered mills and turning them into profitable new building materials.

John Rousseau's nine-year-old firm, Barnstonners, has four employees and should bring in $300.000 this year. Nearly three-quarters of the company's reclaimed timbers are turned into flooring and millwork.

"There's a greater market for flooring and millwork than there is for bams," Rousseau said.

Rousseau says increasing numbers of contractors, architects and homeowners want to work old wood into their modern creations.

One example of Barnstormers' work is 46'xI3" square white pine timbers cut from old-growth trees. Rousseau said wood this size is no longer being produced and that the lumber's face was planed manually, not by machine.

The timbers were reclaimed from the Dana Warp mill complex in Westbrook, Me. Built in 1858, the mill was recently razed for a new office building. Barnstormers will sell the long pieces for $2 a linear ft. and turn shorter pieces into flooring or paneling, selling them for up to $8.50 a sq. ft. "These are a prize," he said. "It's like a treasure hunt, sometimes. You just don't know what you'll find."

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