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Douglas fir sawmills at the end of headed for their second all-time best cording to Harris E. Smith, secretary men's Association.

July appeared to be production year, acWest Coast Lumber-

Smith said fir manufacturers had cut 5,890,383,000 board feet by the end ofJuly, slightly below 1951 record outPut. Orders for West Coast lumber topped both production and shipments, the lumber executive stated, but all three were closely bunched in a neck-and-neck race.

Gross stocks at July's end stood at 988,949,000 board feet, while unfilled orders were two million feet higher, Smith observed, calling it a healthy balance.

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STUDS, BOARDS, DNTENSION 1UTIBER

PIIANK' iltnBERS, RAITROAD flEs, INDUSTNIAT GUTTINGS

WHO1ESAU AND DIRECT MItt SHIPffIENTS in July was L7L,992,000 b.f. or 91.9/o of the 1947-1951 average. Orders averaged 195,731,000 b.f.; shipments 160,544,000 b.f. Weekly.averages for June were: Production 200,534,000 b.t (107.170 of the 1947-I95L average) ; orders 186,859,000 b.f.; shipments 191,684,000 b.f.

Seven months of. L952 cumulative production 5,890,383,000 b.f. ; seven months of 1951, 6,152,310,000 bf'; seven months of 1950, 5,457,003,000 b.f.

Orders for seven months of. 1952 breakdown as follows: Rail & truck, 4,1&,15},ffi0 b.f.; domestic cargo, 1,L79,365,000 b.f.; export, 307,280,On b.f.; local, 86,554,A00 b.f..

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 990,122,W b.l' at'the end of July, gross stocks at 988,949,000 b.f. Industry figures adjusted to latest available information.

Lumber shipments of. 478 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 6'3 per cent, below production for the week ended August 9, 1952. fn the same week new orders of these mills were 6.8 per cent below productioir. Unfilled orders of the reporting mills amounted to 45 per cent of stocks. For the reporting softwood mills, unfilled orders were equivalent to 25 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks were equivalent to 5l days' production.

For the year-to-date, shipments of reporting identical mills were 4.7 per cent above production; orders were 4.6 per cent above production.

Compared to the average corresponding week of 1935-

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