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PEGGY STIBUNG Asrirtcat Editor

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Lumber shipments of. 490 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 16.0 per cent below production for the week ended July 28,1951. In the samc weel< new orders of these mills were 16.4 per cent below production. Unfilled orders of the reporting mills amounted to 50 per cent of stocks. For the. reporting softwood mills, unfilled orders were equivalent tcr 26 days'production at the current l-ate, arrcl gross stoc'-s were equivalent to 48 days' production.

For the year-to-date, shipments of reporting identical mills were 1.5 per cent above production; orders were the same as production.

Compared to the average corresponding week of 1935-1939, production of reporting mills was 70.4 per cent above; shipments were 47.4 per cent above ; orders were 43.3 per cent above. Compared to the corresponding week in 1950, production of reporting mills was 8.0 per cent below; shipments were 21.4 per cent below; and nelv orders were 27.3 per cent below.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended July 21, 104 mills reporting, gave orders as 73,483,000 feet, shipments 62,252,000 feet and production 75,890,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 238,302.000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended July 28, 89 units (109 mills) reporting, gave orders as 14,631,000 feet, shipments 15,984,000 feet, and production 18,169,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 38.935.000 feet.

Advertiring Bates on f,pplicction

The California Redwood Association for the month of June, 1951, sixteen companies reporting, gave order5.received 41,483,000 feet, shipments 48,372,000 feet, and production 59,764,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the month totaled 49,473,000 f.eet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended July 21, 182 mills reporting, gave orders as 123,765,000 feet, shipments 104,437,000 feet, and production 113,309,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 624,552,No feet.

For the week ended luly 28 these same mills reported orders as 112,518,000 feet, shipments 106,063,000 feet, and production 126,273,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 628,581,000 feet.

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