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Lumber production during the week ended March 1, 1941, was 3 per cent less than in the previous week; shipments were 6 per cent greater; new business one per cent greater, according to reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association from regional associations covering the operations of representative hardwood and softwood mills. Shipments were 12 per cent and new orders l l per cent above production. Compared with the corresponding week of 1940, production was 2l per cent greater, shipments 24 per cent greater, and new business 19 per cent greater. The industry stood at 136 per cent of the average of production in the corresponding week of 193539 and 127 per cent of average 1935-39 shipments in the same week.

During the week ended March L, 47O mills produced 231,262,W feet of hardwood and softwoods combined; shipped 259,U4,m feet; and booked orders of 255,616,M feet.

Lumber orders reported for the week ended March 1 by 392 softwood mills totaled, 245}42,W feet; shipments werc 248,96,000 feet, and production r,r'as 221,556,0ffi feet. Reports from 91 hardwood mills for the week gave new business as 1O,474,W feet; shipments 10,858,000 feet; and production 9,706,000 feet.

Seattle, Washington, March 10, 1941-The weekly average of West Coast lumber production in February (4 weeks) was 167,196,000 board feet, or 105.0 per cent of estimated capacity, according to the West Coast Lumbermen's Asso- ciation in its monthly survey of the industry. Orders averaged 165,056,00O board feet; shipments, 158,602,@O. Weekly averag'es for January were: production, 150,095,000 board f.eet (76.2 per cent of the l92GI9n average); orders, 147,930,000 ; shipments, 151,365,000.

9 weeks of. 1941, cumulative production, 1,479,261,M board feet; same period, 19&-1,125,901,00O; 1939-992,468,000.

Orders for 9 weeks of I94I break down as follows; rail, 71I,5?6,m board feet; domestic cargo, 474,8L2,AM; export, 33,809,000 ; local, 179/29,000.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 7AI394,AA0 board feet at the end of February; gross stocks, at 889,172,000.

A combination of large order files and an open winter has had the effect of expanding West Coast logging and lumber manufacture to more than the estirriated capacity of the industry. Small portable operations have multiplied, and some mills with one-shift rating have been operating two shifts. As a result, West Coast lumber production reached an exceptional peak in February.

The sustained heavy volume of West Coast orders is due to the continued expansion of defense construction, ranging from shipyards to industrial housing, from new Army camps in the States to defense building of many types in Alaska and other national outposts. Defense requirements represent from zCI to 50 per cent of the current demands on West Coast mills.

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