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the first eight rnonths of 1959 is tp 3.5/o rvhile the total of trrrits involved is up I.47o.

Citing figures compiled by the Chamber's research department, Fishburn stated that this trend was even more evident during the month of August, when residential valuation was uo 8.97o.

For the january-August period, residential valuation totaled $443,307,800, as compared to $428,429,|ffi for the comparable period last year. Total units for the eight months of '59 numbered 45,694, rvhile a year ago the figure was 45,054. During August, resider-rtial valuation was $57,814,600, involvir.rg 5,475 units, with last year's 5,673 units valued at $53,102,200.

Total valuation of all building in the corlnty during the eight-month period covered by the Cllamber report lvas $982,261,800, while in '58 it totaled $923,921,900. This represents a 6.3/o climb in construction industry activity.

Single-month figures for August shorv 1959 vis 7.I/o ahe3ct of last year, with valuation of all building totaling $717,291,300, as cornpared to $109,549,900.

WCLA Opens Eqstern Offices

Ne'lv branch offices l-rave been openecl in Neu' York ancl Ft. I.arrclerclale, Floricla, for the West Coast Lumbermen's Association ancl the West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau. "These of6ces," reports H. V. Simpsori, executivc vice-president of \\ICLA and manager of tl-re inspection burean, "will enable us to give speedy on-the-grogncl service to orlr member mills and their custor.ners in these thickly populated areas of the natiorr.

"Large quantities of Douglas fir, rvest coast hen.rlock ancl urestern red cedar lumber are usecl in the eastern states," Sirnpson pointed out. "We have put trvo experieuced lumbermen in charqe of tl-rese oflices."

Arvid Johnson u'ill be manager of the Neu' York offrce. He is former chief inspector of tl-re inspection bureau. lVlarion Spring will be in cl-rarge of the Ft. Lauclerclale office.

LMA Signs Ensley lumber Compcny

Tl-re Ensley Lumber Company of 202 Santa Cruz Ave., X'Iodesto, took out a full membership with the Lumber NIercl.rants Assn. of Northern California last month. The yard, formerly operating as Ensley-Duncan Lumber Co., is o'n'rrecl by O.

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