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Portland, Oregon, June l2-During May, Douglas fir mills continued their'climb toward the greatest production year since 1929, H. V. Simpson, executive vice president o{ the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, announced today'

Douglas fir lumber production for the first 22 weeks of 1950 totaled 4,081,052,000 board feet-an increase of more than 81,000,000 feet above production for a similar period in 1949, Simpson said.

"Although production still does not match the recent record high set in 1948, there is an excellent possibility that the latter will be surpassed be{ore the end of the year," Simpson predicted. "The log supply is improving, new small mills are coming into production, and most longer established mills are working at full capacity."

"The Douglas fir industry is making every effort to provide an adequate supply of lumber to meet this year's unprecedented demand for housing and construction lumber.t'

The weekly average of West Coast lumber production

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Annuql Report-Redwood Region, 1949

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John [. Todd is 96 in May was 221,980,000 b.f. or 135.3/o of the 1945-t949 average. Orders averaged 2O7,128,000 b.f.; shipments 231,312,000 b.f. ; weekly averages for April were: production 223,839,000 (136.4% of the 1945-1949 average) ; orders 253,882,000 b.f.; shipments 225,898,000 b.f.

Twenty-two weeks of 1950 cumulative production 4,081,052,000 b.f.; twenty-two weeks of 1949,3,999,645,000 b.f.; twenty-two weeks ol 1948, 4,142,798,000.

Orders for twenty-two weeks of 1950 breakdown as follows: Rail 3,182,530,000 b.f.; truck 196,248,000 b.f.; domestic cargo, 1,016,946,000 b.f.; export 70,66,000 b.f. ; local 265,258,000 b.f.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 889,383,000 b.f. at the end of May;gross stocks at 652,411,000 b.f.

Lumber shipments of 419 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 1.4 per cent above production for the week ended June 10, 1950. fn the same week new orders of these mills were 3.9 per cent above

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