THE CALIFQR}.IIA How Lrumber lrooks

Lumber shipments of 499 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 4.9 per cent below production for the week ended January %, 1952. In the same week new orders of these mills were 23.9 per cent above production. Unfilled orders of the reporting mills amounted to 44 per cent of stocks. For the reporting softwood mills, trniilled orders were equivalent to 26 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks were equivalent to 55 days' production.

For the year-to-date, shipments of reporting identical rnills were 2.5 per cent below production ; o-rders were 18.9 per cent above production.

Compared to the average corresponding week of 19351939, production of reporting mills was 98.6 per cent above; shipments rvere 60.6 per cent above; orders were 88.0 per cent above. Compared to the corresponding week in 1951, production of reporting mills rvas 15'5 per cent below; shipments were 27.2 per cent belotv; and new orders were 7.0 per cent below.

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The \\restern Pine Association for the week ended January 26, 109 mills reporting, gave orders as 73,214,000 feet, shipments 53,468,000 feet, ancl production 45,917,00O feet. Orders on hand at the end of the rveek totaled 237,282,000 feet' * * *

The California Redwood Association for the month of I)ecember, 1951, sixteen companies reporting, gave orders received as 33,927,@0 feet, shipmnts 32,195,000 feet, and production 38,977,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the month totaled 41,170,000 feet. *{<*

'I-he Southern ary 2('t, 89 units

630,000 feet, shipments 16,982,00O feet, and production 17,946,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 44,553,000 feet. * >F *

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week endecl January 19,777 mills reporting, gave orders as lD,' 988,000 feet, shipments 101,655,000 feet, and production 111,209,@0 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 584,029,000 feet.

For the week ended January 26, these same mills reported orders as 120,2X),0AO feet, shipments 91,526,000 feet, and production 707,347,0W feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the rveek totaled 612,794,ffi f.eet.

Los Angeles Building Permits

Building permits issued during January in the city of Los Angeles numbered 3689, valued at $18,265,338, against 5482 in the like month a year ago, which had a $30,648,961 valuation.