How Lrumber Lrooks

Representatives of 167 lumber concerns were present at the Government lumber auction held at Portland, March 18 and 19, by officers of the chief of army engineers' headquarters.

Major J. C. Stowers was in charge, assisted by Robert V. English; James R. Flewharty, Vincent C. Hohman and Thomas J. Whelan.

Approximately 40,000,000 feet was purchased, the greater part of which was for the Corvallis, Oregon, cantonment.

San Francisco, March ?A.-A large amount of lumber was bought last week to build eight assembly centers in Northern California from which enemy aliens will be routed to semi-permanent camps. It was indicated the assembly centers will be in operation by next week. They will provide temporary living quarters for 37,00O evacuees, most of them Japanese and Japanese'Americans.

The centers listed by the Army's Wartime Civil Control Administration are as follows: One mile south of Marysville, Wallergo, north of Sacramento, Stockton, Turlock, Merced, Fresno, Pinedale (six miles north of Fresno), Tulare.

A considerable footage of construction lumber was supplied by yards at the points named, but mosl of it is being rushed from the mills.

The National Lumber Manufacturers Association for the

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week ended March 14 reported 461 mills produced 237,LO7,000 feet of hardwoods and softwoods combined, shipped 280,805,000 feet, and booked orders for 273,D$@0 feet.

Lumber orders reported for the week by 379 softwood mills totaled m34,W feet, shipments were 269,236,W feet, and production was 226,6n000 feet. 95 hardwood mills for the week gave new business as 12,958,000 feet, shipments 11,569,000 feet, and production 10,478,000 feet.

Seattle, Washington, March 12, tg4z.-According to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association in its monthly survey of the industry, the weekly average of West Coast lumber production in February (4 weeks), was 164,495,m0 board feet, or 90.0 per cent of estimated capacity. Orders averaged 177,517,W board feet; shipments, 173,005,000. Weekly averages for January were: production, 159,348,000 board feet (80.9 per cent of the 192619n average); orders, 19I,374,ffi ; shipments, 173,005,000.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 894,341,000 board feet at the end of February; gross stocks, at 967,824,W.'What's ahead of the lumber industry after the installation of the nation's war plant is substantially finished? This is the great question on the horizon of West Coast lumber as the war market now approaches its peak.

The war market at present is taking 75 per cent of the

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