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PEGGY STIBIJNG itlraiatot Editor
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The National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Washington, D. C., reporting for 488 sawmills in all parts of the nation for the week ended August 25, showed shipments to be 5.3 per ,cent below production, and orders 8.7 per cent below production. Unfilled orders for the reporting rnills amounted to 46 per qent of stocks. For the reporting softwood mills unfilled orders u'ere equivalent to 49 days' production.
For the year-to-date shipments of reporting identical mills were 0.1 per cent above production; orders were 2..5 per cent below production.
Compared to the average corresponding week of 193.51939 production of reporting mills was 53.8 per cent above; shipments were 52.6 per cent above; orders were 50'1 per cent above. Compared to the corresponding week in 1950, production of reporting mills was 8..5 per cent belorv; shipments were 12.0 per cent below; and new orders were I4.4 per cent below.
The West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Pclrtlantl, Oregon, reports as follows: for the week ended August 18, l83 mills reported production 126,535,962 feet; orders 103.775,617 feet; shipments 111,739,601 feet. Orders were 18 per cent under production, and shipments 11.7 per cent under. For the week ended August 25, I83 identical mills reported production 116,226,445 feet; orders 109,106,255 ; shipments 113,533,006. Orders 6.1 per cent under production, and shipments 2.3 per cent under.
The Western Pine Association, Portland, Oregon, reporting for 106 mills for the week ended August 18, showed production 79,218,000 feet; orders 65,129,000 feet; ship- ments 67,132,W feet. For the week ended August 25, the figures from 102 mills were: production 74,457,000 feet; orders 6]44,W feet; shipments 66,827,000 feet.
The Southern Pine Association, New Orleans, La., reporting for 113 mills for the week ended August 18, showed production 77,401,000 feet; orders 19,A32,0M feet ; shipments 77,2np00 feet. For the week ended August 25 the figures from 115 mills are: production 77,348,000; orders 18,761,000; shipments 18,981,000 feet.
The California Redwood Association reports for the month of July, and for the year to the end of that month, for 16 sawmill companies. Production for July rvas, Redwood 33,684,000 feet; whitewoods 7,594,000 feet; all spe-
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