THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

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How Lumber Looks

Lumber shipments of 478 mills reported to the National Lumber Trade Barometer in the week ended Tuiv 28 were ,1.8% above orotluction: uew orders rvere 8.4/o below-ani unfilled ortlers were 3796 of stocks. Production was 3.2/o, shiprnents 16.9/o a:rr.l orders 0.5/o above tl.re previous week. For tl.re year-to-date, shipnrents lr.ere 1.5o/o irnd orders 0.5/o above production.

West Coast Lumbermen's Association reported for 762 mills (157 operating) in the week ended August 4: production, 109,9M,23.{ feet; orders, 114,744,266 feet (4.4/o above production); shipments, 109,286,914 feet. In the previous week, shipments had risen 77.8/o over production. For the year-to-date, orders were 1.3/o and shipntents 2.3/o above production.

Western Pine Association reported orders of 70,672,000 feet at 109 mills in tlre week ended July 28 were 22.14o below production of 90,694,000 feet; shiprnents of 82,450,000 feet were 9.1/. below. Orders were 3.9/o below the previous week. A1l were below 1955 figures.

California Redwood Association reported for 20 member mills for the month of June: production, 61,431,000 feet; shipments, 60,362,000 feet. This was a decrease in production of 2,885,000 feet, and in shipments of 416,000 feet compared to June 1955, and 3,282,000 feet and 4,089,000 feet, respectively, under May 1956. Orders on hanrl June 30 were 75,835,000 feet, compared to 86,.569,000 feet on the same date last year. Redwood stocks this June 30 were 368,8218,000 feet, compared to 341,408,000 feet last year Figures for the first half of 1956 slrow production at 344,592,M0 feet, about 4/o al>ove the 1955 fir'st half. Although 1956 shipnents were 1ow earlier this year because of the late-winter floods, the six-month total of 320,952,000 feet is less than 3/o under the 1955 first-half shipments.

Douglas Fir Plywood Association reporte<l orders of 81,515,000

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In this issue, rve \velcome these nerv advertisers into the family of California Lumber "Nlerchant-isers":