THE GLIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

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Incclrated udc lhc l,an of Califmia

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How Lumber Looks

Lumber production during the week ended September 28, 1935, was only about 3 per cent lower than in the preceding 1935 peak weekl new business at the mills and shipments were approximately 7 pq cent below the high records of the week before according to reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association from the regional associations covering tfie leading softwood and hardwood mills. Reports from 566 mills fon the week showed production 278r78Or0OO feet, shipments 21615581000 feet, and orders 2\4r539rOOO feet. These figures include estimates of hardwood totals, reports belng unavailable due to reorganization of the Southern Hardwood reporting

The lVest Coast Lumberments Association for the week end. ed October 5 reported 0or 2O2 mills in Oregon and Washington new business as 1O3,1321644 feet, shipments 103t778r495 feet and production 10218941759 f.eet. A group of. 2O2 identical mills whoae records are complete for both periods shows total orders of 1935 to date of. 311921696,000 feet as compared with 21607,3981000 feet for the same period in 1934, an increase of 22'4 Per cent'

The Western Pine Association reported for 11O mills for the week ended October 5 new business 5216181000 feet, shipments 57,249,OOO feet and production 681787,OO0 f.eet. New business was 23.5 per cent below production and 8 per cent below shipments. Shipments werc 16.7 per cent below production. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 180,983,000 feet.

The California Redwood Asociatiotr reported production for the week ended September 28 for 15 mills as 7r9O5rO(X) feet, shipments 8r46trOOO feet, and new business 7g27gOO f.eet. Orders on hand at tlre end of the week totaled,29rl94r000 f.eet.

Change in

Namc

The California Department of the Puget Sound Associated Mills has been separately incorporated and in the future will condu,ct the business under the name of the South Sound Lumber Sales, In,c. C. I. Courtney, with headquarters in Seattle, is manager, and Geo. S. Melville, rvith offices at 626 W. M. Garland Bldg., Los Angeles, is Southern California representative.

Plywood Man Visits San

Arthur J. Gram, treasurer, Vancouver Co.. Vancouver, Wash.. was a recent San Francis.co.

15 identical mills reported production 14 per cent greater and new business 17 pet cent greater than for the same week last yeat.***t<

The lumbet business throughout California continues on the upgrade. Building permits in 75 Southern California districts for the first nine months of. 1935 totaled $53,2831377, a gain of f28r625rt07 over the same period in 1934.

More than 3r1OO longshoremen were reported back at work on 47 vessels clearing up t{re cargo tie-up on the San Francisco waterfront on October 12. A further check on the needs of the port will be made before demands for additio'nal longshoremen are made, employers indicated at a meeting of the labor relations board on October 11 according to news dispatches.***'&

Unsold lumber stocks on the public docks at Los Angeles harbor on October 7 totaled,Tr6lgrooo f.eet. Cargo arrivals fot the week ended October 5 at Los Angeles harbor totaled 15,M7r@O feet which included 15 cargoes of Fir carrying 15'3671000 feet, and 2 cargoes of Redwood with 801000 feet. 59 vessels were operating in the coastwise lumber service on October 7,38 vessels were laid up.

There is no weakening of the market as far as Douglas Fir uppers are concerned. Some items of Common are showing weakness on account of the scarcity of orders, for cutting. Red Cedar shingle pdces are holding their own. Lath prices are firm.

The Redwood market retains its strong tone. Demand is active both in California and the Eastern States. Stocks of Redwood dry shingles are low. Production is being naintained, and there are ample stocks of No. I green shingles available.

S. F. Homc Buildins Sets 4-Year Mark

A four-year recorcl for home builcling in Sair Francisco was set when residential permits totaling $376,500 were issued during September. In addition 334 modernization projects were started, amounting to $198,543.

Back From Oregon Trip

J. E. "E,ddie" Peggs, sales manager, W. R. Chamberlin & Co., San Francisco, returned October 8 from a business trip to Marshfield and Portland.

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Plywood & Veneer business visitor to

Visits Redwood Mill

Ray Shannon, of the sales department of the Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, recently spent several days at the company's mill at Fort Bragg.

Rail Executives Will Make Decision on Personnel Changes Announced by Reduction of Southern Pine Freight Rates Hammond Lumber Company

New Orleans. La.. Oct. 8.-Exectttives of Northern and Eastern railroads at their joint conferen'ce in New York on October 3 with executives of the Southwestern and Southern lines on the application of the Southern railroads and l,umber manufacturers for reductions in freight rates on Southern lumber to Northern and Eastern territories comparable with the reductions recently granted to Pacific Coast lumber to those territories through the new 72cblanket transcontinental rate, decided to take the matter under advisement until a later conference of railroad executives in New York on October 16. Information to this effect has just been received by the traffic department of the Southern Pine Association.

According to the advices received here the railroad executives at their conferences in New York on October 16 rvill make definite decision on the matter of reducing rates on Southern pine and other species of lumber in the South to Northern and eastern points. The conference of railroad representatives which previously had ,been scheduled for O,ctober 10. has been deferred until October 16.

ROY DAILEY VISITS S. F.

Roy A. Dailey, of Seattle, manager, North Coast district of the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association, left San Francis,co October 4 after spending a r,veek there calling on the wholesalers.

The I{ammond Lumber Company announces that L. C. Hammond, vi,ce president of the Hammond & Little River Redwood Company and the Hammond Lumber Company has been appointed general sales manager of both companies, with headquarters in San Francisco.

Announcement is also made of the appointment of H. W. Cole, vice president of Hammond & Little River Redwood Company, as manager of the mill and logging operations of said company, with headquarters in Samoa, California.

Will Call on Retail Trade

Harvey W. Koll is now associated with John Olson, Los Angeles rvholesaler, and will call on the retail trade in the Southern California territory. Mr. Koll has been connected with the lumber business in Southern California for a good many years and is well known in retail lumber circles.

Making Good Rpcovery

Caspar "Ifex" IIexberg, Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, was back in his office on part tinle within a week or so of an accident in which he broke one of his leg bones, September 28.