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How Lrumber Lrooks

Portland, Oregon, April l6-Lack of orders to absorb production at Douglas fir saw'mills has caused unfilled order files to drop and inventories to climb substantially this spring.

According to Harris E. Smith, secretary, \\test Coast Lumbermen's Association. lumber inventories stood at 1,106,421,000 feet at the end of March. compared to 96ti,521,000 feet for the same period last year. Unfilled order files fell from 954,357,000 feet at the end of three months in 1952 to 921.857.0N feet March 31, 1953.

Shipments through March of 2,6O4,351,00O feet, Smith said, r,vere below both orders and production.

The lvgekly average of West Coast Lumber production in March was 723,325,000 b.f. or 117.6/o of the 1948-1952 average. Orders averaged 218,030,000 b.f.; shipments 217,088,000 b.f. Weekly averages for February were: Production 214,446,000 b.f. ; 1I2.9/o of the 1948-1952 average: orders 212,7ffi,W b.f.; shipments 204,461,000 b.f.

Three months of 1953 cumulative production 2,713,153,000 b.f.; three months ol 1952, 2,525,8W,W b.f.; three months of 1951, 2,62738f,W b.f..

Orders for three months of 1953 breakdown as follorvs: Rail and truck 1,772,650,000 b.f.; domestic cargo &3,l0l,000 b.f.; export 181,453,000 b.f.; local 111,859,000 b.f.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 924,857,0W b.f.. at the end of March; gross stocks at lJA6,4?1,000 b.f.

All 1953 figures have available. been adjusted to latest information

Lumber shipments of 498 mills reporting to the lriational Lumber Trade Barometer rvere 7.1 per cent above production for the l'eek ended April 11, 1953. In the same week neu' orders of these mills rvere 6.0 per cent above production. Unfilled orders of the reporting mills amounted to 45 per cent of stocks. For the reporting softrvood mills unfilled orders r,l'ere equivalent to 25 days' production at

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