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Flood \(/aters Close Many Sawmills

The total estimated loss of lumber production by sawmills on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers forced to shut down by flood conditions exceeds 5,000,000 board feet per day.

All the mills from Portland to the Pacific Ocean on tl-re Columbia River are down, as are all the mills on the Willamette River from Portland north to the junction rvith the Columbia, either on account of being flooded or by orders of the Army Engineers. Long-Bell and Weyerhaeuser Longview Mills, for instance, are not flooded but the Engineers fear that the vibration of the mills if rttnning rvould help to weaken the dikes.

Among the Fir mills that are dttrvn and their dailv production in boarcl feet are: l-ong-llell Lumber Co., 500,0CD; Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., 1,500,000; Pope & Talbot. Inc., St. Helens, 600,000; Inman-Poulsen I-umber Co., 350,000; Wauna Lumber Co., 200,000; Shepard & Morse Lumber Co., Westport Division, 225,000; Portland Lumber Mills, 165,000; West Oregon l-umber Co., 150,00O; Jones Lumber Co., 150,000, and Kingsley Lumber Co', 150,000.

How long the mills will be dowrr depends on the amotlnt of darnage done. Sorne docks have floate<l an'ay and rvill have to be replaced. Other mills like those at Lot'rgvierv will start up as soon as the flood passes.

Flood waters on the Columbia River hal'e also closed many I'ine rnills in Easterrr Washington an<l the Trrlan<l Empire.

Westerr-r Pine about even rvith

Association rep()rts operations rurluing 1947 with orders almost exactly eclual for

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the year to date, shipments down 3/o and production up r%.

Orders for the rveek ended May 29 rvere listed at 51,375,000 board feet compared r,vith 51,369,000 the previous week and 54,709,m the corresponding rveek a year ago for Idaho lvhite pine, ponderosa pine, sugar pine, and associated species. Shipments rvere 51,872,000 feet against 48,384,000 the u'eek before and 52,872,ffi0 fcet the previous year. Production was 50,644,000 feet compared u'ith .18,053,000 feet and 56,535,000 in 1947.

The associati<ln pointed out that there rvere less n.rills than usual reporting as flood wilters had disrupted normal operations at some of them.

The Southern I'ine Association for the n-eck ended Nlav 29, 8l urrits (105 rniles) reporting, gave orders as 19,228,000 feet, shipments 1tt,8.53,000 feet, ancl production 18.355,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of tl.re n.cek totalecl 58,9.17,000 feet.

'.lhe \\'est Coast Lunrbermen's Association for the rveek crrdcd Miry 22, 16l mills reporting, gave orders as 103,.594,0(n feet, shipments 96,049,000 feat, and production 90,6.11.000 feet. Unlilled orclcrs at the cncl of thc n,cck totaled 5{).1.f74.000 fcet.

For the u'eck ended llar. 29, l(rl rnills relrorting, gave orclers as 78,874.000 feet, shiyrmerrts 9.5,973,000 feet, and procluction 89,.115.000 feet. Unfilled orclers at the end of the rveek totaled 546.001.000 feet.

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