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The Western Pine Association for the week ended August 30, 78 mills reporting, gave orders as 45,360,000 feet, shipments 44,483,M feet, and production 49,639,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 156,394,000 feet.

For the week ended August 23, 108 mills reporting, orders were given as 65,305,000 feet, shipments 60,321,0@ feet, and production 7|,29,OOO feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 213.824.000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended August 23,80 units (101 mills) reporting, gave orders as 21,434,000 feet, shipments lg,nz,O$ feet, and production 17.768.000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 95.558.00O feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended August 30, 143 mills reporting, gave orders as 93,174,(Xn feet, shipments 86,037,000 feet, and production 93,V29,@0 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the u'eek totaled 569,825,@0 feet.

For the rveek ended August 23,141 mills reporting, orders were given as 95,043,000 feet, shipments 82,453,000 feet, and production 93,554,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 564.153.000 feet.

Visits Los Angeles Office

Frank Weaver. of the Roddis Lumber pany of Missouri, Kansas City, will be Los Angeles office from September 15 to

New Fabricating Plant at Arcata

California Fabricators is building a new $100,000 woodworking plant on a l2-acre site in Arcata, Calif. This concern rvill manufacture prefabricated structures for cooling towers, tank towers, trusses, and other industrial .items. The plant is expected to be in operation this month.

Principals in the new firm are Alf Westberg, formerly associated with the Little River Redwood Co., Crannell, and later with the Hammond Lumber Company at Samoa, where he was in charge of the factory, and Harry W. Cole, former president of the Little River Redwood Co., and later associated .ivith the Hammond Lumber Company as vice president.

Nqmed President oI Lumber Mart

E. W. Pease, l\{edford, Oregon, associated r,r,'ith the Trail Creek Lumber Co., has been elected president of the Southern Oregon Lumber Mart, recently formed at Medford for cooperative marketing, remanufacturing, kiln-drying, and by-products manufacture.

H. E. Brown, Brown Brothers Lumber Co., Grants Pass, was named first vice president; C. B. Graves, Cal-Ore Lumber Co., Ashland, second vice president, and Ben Dierks, Ben Dierks Lumber Co., Grants Pass, treasurer.

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L. L. Simpson rvas appointed secretary, and George Mooney, Medford, general manager. Offices will be opened soon in Medford and Grants Pass.

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Production of Conctruction Materials fncreased in First Half ol 1947

During the first half of 1947 the supply of most construction materials continued to improve mainly because of high levels of produ,ction, the Construction Division, Department of Commerce, announced August 24.

The Department's composite production index indicates that the averag'e for the first 6 months this year was 19.1 percent above output in the same period of 1946, and 5.4 percent above the monthly averag'e for 1946 as a whole. The composite index for June 1947 indicates a current rate of output 37 percent higher than the monthly average for 1939 and almost equal to that for 1941.

These figures are disclosed in a special feature on the outlook for construction materials which will appear in the August Construction and Construction Materials Industry Report of the Department.

As compared with monthly average production in 1946, the larger advances during the first half of this year were registered in hardwood flooring, softwood plywood, clay sewer pipe, cast iron soil pipe and fittings, gypsu.m board (including lath), asphalt roofing materials, concrete reinforcing bars, r,r'ire nails and staples, cast iron radiation, rigid steel conduit and fittings, warm air furnaces, and water heaters (except electric). Only tu,o items in the Department's indsx-mechanical stokers and range boilers

-showed a lower rate of output.

Exports of 13 constru'ction materials rose along with production during the first half ol 1947. Exports of all 13

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materials incr:ased in actual quantities. Although in part increases in exports can be attributed to the gradual relaxation of export controls beginning early in 1974, exports of materials remaining under strict control also increased.

Despite the increases, exports of 11 of the 13 materials still represent relatively small percentages of total production. The major exceptions are concrete reinforcing bars and fabricated structural steel.

Despite the encouraging over-all picture, there are a few materials for which supply has not caught up with demand, the report points out. For example, sheet steel, continues very short. Several other materials, notably millwork and flooring, cast iron soil pipe and pressure pipe, and electrical supplies in general, apparently are still short in several areas, indicating that areawise, at least, the flow of construction materials has not yet come into tralance.

"Since there is every reason to believe that the current high rate of output for most materials will at least be rnaintained during the rest of the year, area shortages should diminish," the report states. "Sheet steel, however, is likely to continue tight.

"By the end of the year there should also be further improvement in inventories in the hands of distributors. The main factor that may retard such improvement in the inventory situation is an apparent unrvillingness on the part of distributors to stock up at the current high prices.

"It seems unlikely, however, that construction material prices will decline during the rest of 1947. In fact, they may rise slightly because of the repercussions of the recent increases in the prices of 'coal and steel."

Detailed tables concerning the quantities of major materials used in construction last year and the anticipated usage during 1947 are carried in the complete report.

Copies of the Construction and Construction Materials Industry Report may be obtained on request from the Constru'ction Division, Department of Commerce, Washington 25, D.C., or from the Department's field offices.

30-Dcry Trcrining Course Postponed

The 3Gday retail lumber training course, sponsored by the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California, has been postponed from September l5 to October 6. Dealers planning to send a man should forward the application immediately to the Association of,fice, 1833 Broadway, Fresno. Calif.

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