THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

How Lumber Looks

National Lumber Manufacturers Association reported shipments of 495 mills vgere 2.9/o above production in the National Lumber Trade Barometer for the week ending May 12. Nerv orders were 6.4"/o belorv production. For the vear to date, shipments were 2.5o7o and new orders 3.9/o above production, West Coast Lumbermen's Association reported for 152

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It has been brought to the attention of The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT that unauthorized persons representing themselves as members of the staff of this magazine have been soliciting the local building materials industry to have photographs taken by these persons for reproduction in The MERCHANT. This magazine has authorized no one to solicit photography for its pages. Our own news and cameramen are well known to industry members, and should you ever be solicited by anyone whose name is not known to you or does not appear on The Merchant's masthead, please call the Los Angeles publicatio,n office (VAndike 4565) immediately and report it to us. We are sincerely sorry that at least one wellknown Los Angeles plywood firm was so victimized last month on the pretext that its efficers' photos would appear in the recent convention issue. We will'thank you for your cooperation in the apprehension of these phonies.

mills in the week ended May 19: production, 108,826,000 feet; shipments, 119,438,000 feet; orders, 108,909,000 feet. Orders were 8.2/o above the previous rveek and 11.1 /o above the similar rveek a year ago; unfilled orders totaled 459,030,000 feet.

Western Pine Association reported for 115 mills in the u'eek ended May 12: production, 83,214,000 feet ; shipments, 86,387,000 feet; orders, 83,375,000 feet. Orders were O.2/o above production and 5.2/o above the previous week. Shipments rverc 3.8/o above, production. Unfilled orders at rveek's end n-ere 267,375,UJ0 feet.

Southern Pine Association reported for 100 mills in the u'eek ended N{ay 12: production, 19.975.000 feet; shipments, 19,427,000 feet; orders, 17,.951.000 feet. Production rvas 8.37% and shipments 5.10/o above the three-year average. Douglas Fir Plywood Association reported production of (Continued on Page 83)