PARAMI]IO LUMBER GO.

Wholesale Distributors of Pacific Coagt Lumber

Pacific Northwest Lumber Exports

Seattle-A marked decrease was shown both in June and the first six months of this year in waterborne lumber exports from Pacific Northwest ports in British Columbia, Puget Sound, Grays-Willapa harbor, Columbia River and Oregon coast, Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau figures show. Domestic shipments increased, however.

The June export total was only 85.8 million board feet, as against 108.1 million the previous month and 176.4 million during Jane 1947. The June 1948 export figure was the lowest since October 1946, according to the bureau's records.

Total waterborne exports during the first half of 1948 were 610.7 million board feet, compared with 901.1 million for the corresponding period of. 1947,510.9 million for the first half of 1946 and.785.7 million for a like period of 1939. Floods and the boomrnen's strike were blamed partly for the reduced log movements.

Waterborne lumber shipments from Oregon and Washington ports to U. S. destinations totaled 87.4 million in June, more than twice the 39.8 million figure lor June 1947. Oregon and Washington each shipped 43.7 million in June 1948. Domestic shipments for the first half of 1948 totaled 611.8 million, nearly twice the 321.5 figure f.or a like 1947 period, 1,150 million for the 1939 period and 302.9 million for 1946.

During June 19,{8 British Columbia continued to make sizable lumber shipments to U. S. destinations-7.5 million to Atlantic Coast points and 1.1 million to California. This brings B. C. domestic shipments to 56 million for the first half of 1948, as against only 162,000 for the first six months of 1947 and another 24,000 for the rest of last year.

British Columbia exported 62.5 million board feet during June-about three-fourths of the month's total Pacific Northwest exports. This compares with 98.4 million exports for B. C. in June 1947. B. C.'s exports for the first half of this year totaled 395.1 million feet, as against 560.1 million for a like 1947 perioU.

Of B. C.'s June 1948 exports, United Kingdom received 38.1 million feet, Africa 13 million, Australia 5.6 million and China 2.3 million. Of Washington and Oregon's domestic shipments, 60.2 million went to the Atlantic Coast, 24 million to California, 1.4 million to Panama Canal Zc:ne, 862,522 to Hawqii and 7%),480 to Alaska.

tVill Represent Atkinson-Stutz Co.

Ray Van Ide has been appointed agent in Southern California for the Atkinson-Stutz Co., well known wholesale lumber concern of San Francisco. He has opened an office at room 102, Security Building, Pasadena, Calif. The telephone number is SYcamore 2-8192.

Ray has been associated with the lumber business in Southern California for a long period, and he was formerly rvith the Wilfred T. Cooper Lumber Co., of Pasadena.

Boards are defined as lumber less than two inches thick and eight inches or more wide. Dimension is defined as lumber that is two to four inches thick and any width.