How l-rumber Lrooks

Lumber shipments of. 394 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 17.4 per cent above production for the week ended December 27. 1947. In the same week new orders of these mills were 35.8 per cent above production. Unfilled order files of the reporting mills amount to 52 per cent of stocks. For reporting softwood mills, unfilled orders are equivalent to 25 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks are equivalent to 46 days'production.

For the year-to-date, shipments of reporting identical mills were 2.3 per cent above production; orders lvere 2.4 per cent above production.

Compared to the average corresponding week of 193539, production of reporting mills was 27.7 per cent above ; shipments were 15.2 per cent above; orders were 18.1 per cent above. Compared to the corresponding week in 1946, production of reporting mills was 28.4 per cent above;shipments were 11.8 per cent above, and ner'v orders were 33.3 per cent above.

Western Pine Association reports orders for Ponderosa pine, Idaho white pine, sugar pine and associated species for the week ended December 27, totaled 56,933,000 board feet. That compares with 65,046,000 the previous week and 39,956,000 the same week of 1946.

Shipments were 43,179,000 feet, as against 69,370,000 feet the previous week and 40,517,000 the previous year.

Comparisons of production are 38,025,000 feet, against 61,165,000 feet and n,758,000 in 1946.

For the year to date, orders are up l2/o compared rvith 1946, shipments are lp 9% and production up 5/o.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended December 27, 87 units (98 mills) reporting, gave orders as 9,034,000 feet, shipments 10,979,000 feet, and production 10,753,000 ieet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 64.995.000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended December 20, 156 mills reporting, gave orders as 93,880,000 feet, shipments 98,900,000 feet, and production 105,960,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 496,492,040 feet.

For the rveek ended December 27,156 mills reporting, gave orders as 74,462,000 feet, shipments 68,707,000 feet, and production 53,897,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 505,905,000 feet.

Lumber Mcnulcrcturing Co. Granted Milling In Trcnsit Privileges

Lumber Manufacturing Co., whose plant is at 225 In' dustrial Street, San Francisco 24, has been granted milling in transit privileges. The telephone number is JUniper 7-1760.