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Subrcription Price, $3.00 per Yecr

Single Gopie:, 25 cents eqcb

LOS ANGELES 14, CALIFORNIA, AUGUST 1, 1952

How Lrumber Lrooks

EDITOBIAL STAFF

Icck Dionne

I. E. Mcrtin

W. T. Black

P. Stirliug

M. Adams

SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE

W. T. Blqck tOO Morket St, Soa Frmcisco ll YUkoa 2-ll9l

Adverlising Rctes on Applicction

Shipments topped five billion board feet from Douglas Lumber shipments ol 459 mills reporting to the National fir sawmills during the first six months of the year, ac- Lumber Trade Barometer were 9.7 per cent above produccording to Harris E. Smith, secretary of West Coast Lum- tion for the week ended July 5, 1952. In the same week bermen's Association. new orders of these mills were 30.1 per cent above produc-

While below last year, Smith said, this believed to be tion. Unfilled orders of the reporting mills amounted to -1 record for any other similar period. Production for the 40 per cent of stocks. For the reporting softwood mills, first half of the year was 5,095,371,000 board feet. Ship- unfilled orders \vere equivalent to 22 days' production at the ments totaled 5,092,065,000 board feet and orders kept close current rate, and gross stocks were equivalent to 50 days' pace at 5,016,401,000 board feet.

Weekly averages of lumber cut picked up during June to 200,251,000 feet, a gain over May when time was lost tlue to the l7-day strike. The near-record lumber cut so far this year is running |ALT per cent of the last five year average, Smith stated.

The weekly average of West Coast Lumber production in May was 200,251,000 b.f. or lO7.O/o of the 1947-1951 average. Orders averaged 184,517,000 b.f.; shipments 189,331,000 b.f. Weekly averages for May were: Production

172,630,000 b.f . (92.2% of the 1947-1951 average) ; orders i65,191,000 b.f.; shipments 177,875,000 b.f.

Six months of 1952 cumulative production

5,095,371,000 b.f.; six months of 1951, 5,469,641,0A0 b.f.; six months of t950, 4,694,280 b.f.

Orders for six months oI 1952 breakdown as follows: Rail & truck 3,449,823,000 b.f.; domestic cargo 999,463pC} b.f. ; export 314,498,000 b.f. ; local 252,617,000 b.I.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 828,261p00 b.f. at the end of June, gross stocks at 963,024,U& b.f.

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