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How Lumber Looks

Portland, Oregon. December 17-Shipmbnts from Douglas fir sawmills for the first eleven months of 1953 were only 53 million feet below production, according to Harris E. Smith, secretary of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association.

Smith pointed out, however, that orders rvere lagging behind both production and shipments for the period.

The unfilled order file stood at 717,W9,OOO board feet for the period, about even for the previous month. Lumber stocks climbed 17 million feet above October. Smith said. to 1,050,439,000 board feet.

The weekly averag'e of West Coast lumber production in November was 182,824,000 b.f. or 96.6% of the 1948-1952 average. Orders averaged 179,214,000 b.f.; shipments 178,768,000 b.f. Weekly averages for October \\rere : Production 190,759,000 b.f.; l@.8% of the 1948-1952 average; orders 187,828,000 b.f.; shipments 194,935,000 b.f.

Eleven months of 1953 cumulative production 9,530,993,000 b.f.; eleven months of.1952,9,3Q,678,0W b.f.; eleven months of 1951, 9,687,743,W b.f.

Orders for eleven months of 1953 breakdown as follows: Rail and truck 6,456,307,000 b.f.; domestic cargo 2,A13,700,000 b.f. ; export 485,888,000 b.f.; local 4I7,37t,CiUl_b.f

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 717,009,ffi0b.f. at the end of November, gross stocks at 1,050,439,000 b.f.

Lumber shipments of 489 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer r.vere 8.2 per cent belo'1"' production for the week ended December 12, 1953. In the same rveek nerv orders of these mills 'ivere 2.1 per cent above production. Unfi11ed orders of the reporting rnills amounted to 31 per cerit of stocks. For the reporting soft'rvood mills unfilled orders were equivalent to 19 days' production at (Continued on Page 64)

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