Colifornio Redwood Assn. Shows Production Down in 1955

Annuol RepoE, t955

Again this year, forms were sent to each mill in the Redwood Region whose production was believed to be 25M feet or more per day, asking for figures on production, shipments, orders, stocks and other incidental information, if our information indicated that they u'ere producing redwood lumber. Usable reports for 1955 rvere received lrom 37 companies, of whom 31 also furnished figures for 1954. The attached table gives statistics for the 37 companies for 1955 and comparative figures for 1955 and 1954 for the 31 companies. So few mills reported for more than two consecutive years that a comparison for a longer period is not feasible.

Annuql Stqtistics 1955 Compored wirh 1954

(a) Shipments are net for the industry. inter-company shipments har.e been deducted. Shipments of factory products included as footage of finished product, not as lumber delivered to factory.

(b) Company Use is lumber used for construction and maintenance of the reporting companies' plar-rts and logging operations.

These figures include sawn shingles, shakes aqcl lath produced at these lumber mills.

The 1955 redwood r;roduction for the 37 comoanies includes 739,941M leet of lumber and 2,852M feet of by-products, mostly lath, shingles and shakes.

_CALIFORNIA REDWOOD ASSOCIATION

Some of the figures were estirtrates rather than actual but are believed to be close enough to be included in this report. Figures on company use, factory rvaste and other disposals were supplied by 15 companies only. The computation of closing stocks on the basis of opening stocks adjusted for production, sl-ripments, etc., do not check exactly with reported figures but neither indiviclual mills nor the group as al,vhole show enough difference to affect the statistical usefulness of the figures.

The figures in the attached report are not directly comparable with those shown for twelve months in our monthly