THE CALIFOR}IIA LUMBERMERCHANT How Lumber Looks

Lumber shipments of 516 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer for the week ending June 12 were 1.4 per cent above production. 'C'rders were 8.6 per cent above production. For the previous week ended June 5, 520 rnills reported shipments 2.I per cent above production, while new orders were 1.4 per cent above production. For the year to date, shipments of reporting identical mills were 1.8 per cent above production; new orders 4.3 per cent.

According to figures released by Secretary Harris E. Smith, West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Portland, for the first five months of 1954 through May, cumulative production of Douglas Fir sawmills was 4,401,318,000 feet, as compared with 4,601,511,000 feet in the same months of 1953. At the end of the period, May 31, the industry's unfilled order file was 874,470,000 feet; gross stocks were 984,145,000 feet.

The Western Pine Association, reporting for ill mills in the week ending June 12, showed production 82,189,000 feet, shipments 77,737,000 feet, and orders 81,883,000 feet. For the week ended June 5, 119 mills reported production 77,625,000 feet, shipments 75,079,000 feet, and orders 77,304,000 feet. Shipments were 6.1 per cent below production, while orders were 0.4 per cent bblow production in the week ended Iune 12.

mills in tl.re week ending June 12, showed production 127,749,023 feet, shipments 140,011,588 feet, and orders 150,429,601 feet. In the previous week ended June 5, 170 mills reported production 114,240,960 feet, shipments 125,137,229 feet, and orders 125,408,883 feet.

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