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I'ortland, Oregon, July l2-Sawmills in the Douglas fir region cut nearly a billion more feet of lumber in the first six months of 1951 than during a corresponding period last year, Harris E. Smith, secretary of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association said today.

Mills of the region had run up a total of 5,831,898,000 board feet by the end of June, Smith said. Last year total pro(luction for the first six months was 4,973,982,000 board feet.

Shipments kept close pace with production, Smith statcd. and the first half year of 1951 sarv more than ltalf a billion feet loaded out than for the like period in 1950. Shipn-rents Ior six months of 1951 total 5,817,5D,0W feet compared to 5,313,585,000 feet in 1950.

The weekly average of West Coast lumber production irr June w,as 222,131,000 b.f. or 123.7/o of thc 1946-1950 average. Orders averaged 172,333pN b.f .; shipments 20,1,496,000 b.f. ; u'eekly averag'es for May were: Productiorr 234,375,Un b.f. (I3O.1% of the 1916-1950 average) ; ordcrs on Appliccrtion

215.967,AW b.f. ; shipments 226,023,000'b.f.

Tu'enty-six weeks of 1951 cumulative production 5,ti3l,89t3,000 b.f.; trventy-six rveeks of 1950, 4,973,982,000 b.f trventy-six weeks of 1919, 4,844,266,mO b.f.

()rders for twenty-six rn'eeks of 1951 breakdou,n as follorvs: ltail and truck 3,821,553,000 b.f.; domestic cargo 1,069,+79,000 b.f ; export 290,405,000 b.f. ; local 349,447,00O b.ft.

The industry's unfilled at the end of June, gross order fi1e stood at 58+.918.000 stocks at 798.343.000 b.f.

Lumber shipments oI 490 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 0.8 per cent above prodnction for the week ended July 7, 1951. In the sarne week new orders of these mills were 33.6 per cent al:ovc production. Unfilled orders of the reporting mills amounted to 5.1 per cent of stocks. For the reporting soft'uvood mills, unfilled orders were equivalent to 25 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks were erluivalent to 47 days' production.

For the year-to-date, shipments of reporting iclerrtical rnills w'ere 2.2 per cent above production; orders n'erc 0. 1 per cent above production.

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