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While the lumber rnarket escaped a serious decline in the week ending October 4, Crow's Lumber Pric.e Index registered a drop over the previous fortnightly industry average. Green Douglas fir sagged the most due to drops in scattered items including cargo shipment; boards showed only strength. The dry fir segment declined at a slower rate, with major weakness in surplus offerings of randomlength dimension. Most buyers were reported wanting quick shipment of specified orders. Pine region declined the least, and this due to softness in white fir and fir and larch dimension, which reflects coast fir trends. The trade appeared to have accepted the new base Irvel on ,/+"-AD plywood The log market was stil1 slow due to unfavorable conditions for logging, mill closures for the deer season and a continuation of the general depressed market.

Lumber shipments of 487 mi1ls reporting to the National Lumber Manufacturers Assn. in the week ending Sept. 28 were 3.4/o below production but new orders were 2.5% above; orders were also 7.2/o above the previous week National production of lumber during August totaled an estimated 3,107,000,000 board feet, reported the NLMA. This was l4/o above July but l3/o less than August 1956; shiprnents rose l2/o over this July but were 4/o less than the prior August. Orders were up 4/o from the previous month but 6/o below the same 1956 month. National production of lumber in the year's first eight months was l7/o below the similar 1956 span but both shipments and orders so far this year were l/o greater than the 1956 output.

Shipments of 1M,697,98A feet at 160 mills reporting (122 operating) to the West Coast Lumbermen's Assn. in the week ending October 5 were 17.6Vo above production; orders were 3.4/o over production of 89,014,212 feet Orders of 87,589,00O feet were 9/o over production at 119 mills reporting to the Western Pine Association in the

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Welcome

In this issue, we welcome these new advertisers into the family of California Lumber "Merchant-isers":

Broyles Lumber Co. (J. J. Rea)

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Crown Lumber Company ... ' 56

Hexberg Lumber Sales ...77

Ostrom Lumber Co.

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