fII.I.ING YOUR onDDns

No dealer more than a retail lumberman knows the necessity of having his supply orders filled promptly and accurately. NOYO knows this too and bears it in mind throughout every step from registering your order to final tallying. Care alone, however, is not enough! NOYO has the facilities-timber, stock, equipment and trained personnel-to give the kind of service that keeps true "Once a NOYO DealerAlways!"

Hoover, A. L.

Johnson Lumber Corporation, C. D.--------------19

Koehl & Son, fnc., John lV..------------------------.25

Kuhl Lumber Co., CarI H.

Lamon Bonnington C,ompany------- -----------------24

Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co. - -- ----- - O.F.C.

Lumberments Credit Aeeociation.------------------*

MacDonald & Flarrington, Ltd.-------.----- *

MacDougall Door & Plywood Co. -----------------23

Macklanburg-Duncan Co.------------------

Marshall Inc, John A.----- -- -----

Michigan-California Lumber Co.-------------------*

Monolith Portland Cement Company Moore Dry Kiln Co.-------- --------.21

Pacific Lumber Co., The----------------------------------- 7 Pacific Mutual Door Co. --------------- ----------------1I

How Lumber Looks

Lumber production during the week ended August 17, 194O, was 2 per cent less than in the previous week; shipments were 5 per cent greater; new business 7 per cent greater, according to reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association from regional associations covering the operations of representative hardwood and soitwood mills.

During the week ended August 17, 498 mills produced 2ffi,39O,@O feet of softwoods and hardwood combined; shipped 265,963,ffi0 feet, and booked orde{s of 319,401,000 feet. Revised figures for the previous week were: mills 512; production 27I,547,WO feet; shipments 254,332,6O feet; orders 297,ffi8,00o f.eet.

Lumber orders reported for the u'eek of August 17 by 416 softwood mills totaled 307,051,000 feet; shipments were 255,625,000 feet; and production 258,791,@O feet.

Reports from 95 hardwood mills for the same week gave new business as 12,350,000 feet, shipments 10,338,000 feet, and production 7,599,000 feet.

Seattle, Washington, August 12, lgn.-The rveekly average of West Coast lumber production in July (5 weeks) was 126,712,Un board feet, or 64.3 per cent of the weekly average for I926-79n, the industry's years of highest production, according to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association in its monthly survey of the industry. Orders averaged 162,298,00O board feet ; sh ipm ents, 136,925,000. Weekly averages for June were: production, 141,477,W board feet (71.8 per cent of the 1926-l9D average); orders, 132,705,00o ; shipments, 145,730,000.

Orders for 31 we€ks of 194O break down as follows: rail, 1,954,384,000 board feet; domestic cargo, 1,539,99O,000; ex' port, 257,1@,00O; local, 537,932,WO.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 509,829,000 board feet at the end of July; gross stocks, at 900,000,000.

There was a strengthening of lumber demand during July, due principally to requirements of the national defense progr.am. West Coast lumber has shared in this demand, along with the woods of other regions of the national industry.

A secondary influence has been the awakening of the retail yard tride to the fact that the Government will require large quantities of lumber, making it advisable for dealers to lay in stocks to supply regular local demand. A considerable volume of advance buying for fall trade has anticipated the usual period by several weeks.

Another factor of July lumber strength has been in the l'esponse of timber-using industries, particularly the railroads, to national defense needs, in mobilizing their facilities for the program.

Fortified from these three main sources' all markets for West Coast lumber improved in July, except export which remained at the low level of the first six months of.194O.

The current use of lumber in ordinary building retains its momentum but residential building permits lagged in June as compared with both May of this year and June, 1939,

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