Hastest Sheathing

in Southern California.

Just tell us how many units you need of our top quality plywood sheathing. We'll have it ready and waiting for your prompt pick-up at Berth 190 in Wilmington.

Willamette keeps a huge supply of sheathing products right here in Southem Califomia so you won't have to. If you're a wholesaler or distributor in the Los Angeles area, and need a few units for a 6ll-in-or an entire truck-load-give us a call for a quote. Or an order. It's like having a sheathing mill right in your own backyard!

Phone us today at 503.926.7771.

Willamette Industries. Inc.

Lumber and Plywood Sales Division

Albany, Oregon 97321

The 1980 cut was only 600 thousand feet greater. Production at Vaughn, Or., was up 16 million to 58 million while Gardiner, Or., declined from 40 million in 1979 to 3l million in 1980. The Chelatchie, Wa., mill has been closed permanently. Gains in the East included Masardis, Maine, with a 23 million foot increase to 50 million feet; in the South, a new plant at Coushatta, Louisiana, sawed 34 million feet and the Beirne, Ark. site kicked out 28 million feet, double the 1979 total.

Champion International dropped back into sixth position from last year's fifth position. In 1980, its cut dropped to 518 million feet, from 1979's 746 million feet. The plant at McCloud, Ca., was shut down and sold. It had shipped 97 million feet of lumber in 1979. Moreover, a smaller plant at Roseburg, Or., was also shuttered. (These plants were sold to and are being operated as cedar sawmills by a Stockton, Ca., firm).

Nearly every plant of Champion's suffered during the decline. The Missoula, Mt., plant reduced cut was 77 million feet, off I I million, while the Anderson, Ca., sawmill dropped to 52 million feet from 81 million; Neal Creek, Or., dropped back to 37 million from 1979's 55 million feet. Silver City, Mt., was the only facility in the West to show an increase, uP 5 million from 1979's 29 million feet. Nearly all plants in the South and the Southeast showed setbacks, too.

With the disappearance of the old guard from what was formerlY U.S. Plywood Co., the role of the company in lumber production seems to be steadily declining. Current management is putting more emphasis on paper production. In distribution, warehouses are being closed and sales offices consolidated. During the past year, regional distribution offices in Burlingame and Chicago have been closed and consolidated in Denver, Co., with onlY a small staff there.

Dropping to seventh place this year from last year's sixth place is Potlatch Corp. Potlatch produces primarily dry lumber for shipment into the Midwest and Rocky Mountain states. Species include hem-fir, Ponderosa pine, Englemann spruce, and others. Of the 506 million feet it sawed in I 980, 75 9o was cut in Idaho. The balance of its production is (Please turn to pase