THE CALIFOR}IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

W. T. BLACK Advertising Mcncger

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Howl.rumber Lroolts

Lumber shipments of 411 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 8.4 per cent below production for the 'iveek ending September 27, 1917. In the same week new orders of these miills u'ere 5.0 per cent belorv production. Unfillecl order files of the reporting mills amounted to 60 per cent of stocks. For reporting soft'rvood mills, unfilled orders are equivalent to 3O days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks are equivalent to 47 days' production.

For the vear-to-date, shipments of reporting identical rnills rvere 1.1 per cent allove production; orders n'ere 3.5 per cent above production.

Compared to the a\rerage corresponding rveek of 1935-39, pro<luction of reporting rnills rvas 19.4 per cent above; shipments u'ere 8.1 per ceut above; orders were I1.6 per cent above. Ciomparecl to the corresponding week in 1946, prodttction of reporting rnills rvas 7.6 per cent above, shipments were 3.6 per cent above; and new orders tvere 4.8 1>er cent above.

\\r'estern l'ine Association relrorts orders for Ponderosa pine, Idaho rvhite pine, sugar pine and associated species frrr the rveek ended September 27 as 8,333,000 board feet. l'reviotrs week's orders were 61 ,264,000 feet as against 88,005,000 feet for the satne \\reek a year ago. Similar comparison of shipmrents are 60,718,000 feet, 58,800,000 feet previotrs week, and 72,899,Offi in 1946. Figures on produc- tion are 71,019,000 feet,70,'+13,000 pre,r'ious l'eek, ancl 75,905,000 in 1946. l'or the ye:rr to date, orders are 8.f above the samc period last year, shipments up 7% and production up 51. l.-rrr the u'eek ended Septernlrer 27. 117 mills reportirrg. gave orders as 93,880,000 feet, shiprnents 100,417,000 feet, and lrrodtrction 104,077,000 feet. Orders on hancl at the flrrl ()i thc u.eek totaled 5.10.979,000 feet.

'fhe Southern I'ine Association for the u.eek cnded Septer.r-rber 27, 82 units (109 mills) reporting, gave orders as 19,629,000 feet, shipments 18,581,000 feet, ancl production 17.963.000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the l.eek totaled 85,126,000 feet.

The \\'est Coast Lumbernren's .,\ssociation for the u'eek ended September 20, 143 mills reporting, gavc orrlcrs as ()1,426,000 feet. shipments 88,577,000 feet, and procluction lol .3tt7.0iX) feet. Orders on hand at the errcl of the n'cck trrtaled 554,7+1,000 feet.

Pilots Editor Through Redwoods

I'aul ()r'erencl, of the California Redu'ood Associatiorr, San Francisco, took Stanley Horn, editor of the Southern l,ur.nberman. and l\Irs. Florn, on a trip to the Redu'oods in Ilendocino ancl llrrmboldt Llounties, rvhen thev u'ere on a recent trip to the Pacific Coast. \{r. Olerend also took them through a number of the Reclwood mills.