How Lrurnber Lrooks

Portland, Oregon, Nov. 22-All time lumber productiorr and shipment records for the Douglas fir industry are destined to fall this year.

With ten months already completed, Douglas fir sawmills l:ave cut 9.510 billion board feet of lumber and shippecl 9.413 billion feet.

Harris E. Smith, secretary of West Coast Lumbermen's Association, said output and shipments for November ancl f)ecember should remain high, Mills have cut over 600 million feet more lumber in the first ten months of 1951 than they did last year when they broke all records, Smith said. In the same ten months period fir mills have shipped 420 million feet more this year than last.

Shipment and production forecasts made last January by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association are close to industry performance, Smith pointed out.

The weekly average of West Coast Lumber production in October was 219,650,000 b.f or 122.2/o of the 1946-1950 average. Orders averaged 207.549,000 b.f ; shipments 216,6.c0.000 b.f. Weekly averag'es for September were: Productron N8,761,000 b.f. (116.1/o of the 1946-1950 average); orders 202,5W,000 b.f.; shipments 200,993,000 b.f.

Forty-four weeks of i951 cumulative production 9,510,.. 539,000 b.f. ; forty-four weeks of 1950, 8,884,673,000 b.f. ; fcrrty-four weeks oI 1949,8,154,100,000 b.f.

Orders for forty-four u'eeks of 1951 breakdown as follows: Rail and truck 6,137,083,000 b.f.; domestic cargo 1,7I9,912,W b.f.; export 524,162,0M b.f.; local 551,166,000 b.f.

The Industry's unfilled order file stood at 400,574,000 b.f. al the end of October, gross stocks at 891,201,000 b.f.

Lumber shipments of 491 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 4.4 per cent belorv production for the week ended November 10, 1951. In the same r,veek new orders of these mills t'ere 10.7 per cent below production. Unfilled orders of the reporting mills amounted

Appointed Mana get o( \Testern Industrial Salet

Masonite Corporation has promoted John R. Nunn frorn assistant manager of its industrial division to manager of industrial sales, western division, with headquarters in San Francisco. Employed in the corporation's sales department since 1934, Mr. Nunn successively was a dealer salesman at Jackson, Mich., a captain in the army engineering corps, industrial salesman for the state of Michigan, and assistant central division manager in charge of industrial sales, prior to becoming assistant manager of the corporation's industrial division in 1948.

Succeeding Mr. Nunn is Joseph J. Allegretti, who for 18 months has been assistant manager of industrial sales for the central division. IIe previously was an industrial sales engineer in the northwest division for two and a half years. He has helci various engineering positions with other companies.

to 39 per cent of stocks. For the reporting softwood mills, unfilled orders rvere equivalent to 23 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks were equivalent to 56 days' production.

Iior the year-to-date, shipments of reporting identical mills 'rvere 1.4 per cent above production; orders were 1.4 per cent below production.

Compared to the average corresponding week oJ 19351939, production of reporting mills vvas 85.3 per cent above; shipments were 97.6 per cent above ; orders were 84.3 per cent above. Compared to the corresponding r,veek in 1950, production of reporting mills was 1.5 per cent above; shipments lvere 2.3 per cent above; and nelv orders were 2.7 per cent belor.v.

The Western Pine for the week ended November 10, 108 mills reporting, gave orders as 62,528,000 feet, shipments 67,345,000 feet, and production 25,156,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 201.443,00O feet.

The Southern Pine for the week ended November 10, 91 units (110 mills) reporting, gave orders as 18,899,000 feet, shipment 18,481,000 feet, and production 17,_ 567,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the r,veek totaled 53,088,000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended November 3, 186 mills reporting, gave orders as 111,920,000 feet, shipments 121,621,000 feet, and production 122,484,O00 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the rveek totaled 579.150,000 feet.

For the week ended November 10 these same mill reported orders as 103,289,000 feet, shipments 117,878,000 feet, and production 121,376,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the u'eek totaled 565,315.000 feet.

Timber Engineering Lab Employs Biologist

Washington . . Donald V. Robertson, biologist, has joined the laboratory staff of the Timber Engineering Company, it \vas announced by Carl A. Rishell, Director of Research.

A native of Washington, Mr. Robertson is a gracluate of the University of Maryland where he majored in forestry an<l biology. He served four years in the navy during World War II. For a time he was a forest ranger in the Shenancloah National Park.

In his new duties in the lumber industry laboratory Mr. Robertson is making biological tests to evaluate the efficiencv of a one-step treating ancl drying process for railway ties. He is also assisting in furniture investigations and he is making quality control tests of glued laminated wood parts sent to the lab by shipbuilding companies.

Novembet 7th Marked 10th Anniversary Of W:llamette Valley Tree Farms, Inc.

November 7th marked the 10th anniversary of Oregon's most unique experiment in private forest management.

On that day Tree Farm Management Service at Eugene completed its first decade of pioneer forestry service to eight industrial forest landowners of the upper Willamette valley.

Started as Willamette Valley Tree Farms, Inc. in 1941 as a cooperative forest consulting agency, serving five companies, the firm nai lu;tt up a long record of pionee. accomplishments. The firm is an outgrowth of the tree farm movement which got under way in western Washingtorr a few months earlier and which in ten years has spread to 29 states covering more than 23 million acres of private forests.

' Original firms sponsoring the organization were: The Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, Snellstrom Lumber Company, Lewis Lumber Company and Row River Lumber Company, all of Lane county, and C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation, of Lincoln ,county. The Weyerhaeuser Timber Company joined shortly after the the group was incorporated.

Leaders of these firms, enthusiastic over the drive to intensify and improve forestry on private lands, decided to go even further with their own lands. Headed by Edmund Hayes, president of Row River Lumber Company. Willamette Valley Tree Farms was organized. Hayes remained as its president for ten years, being succeeded in December 1950 by Eliot Jenkins, who is head of Booth-Kelly.

Walker B. Tilley became first chief forester and was followed within a year by Paul Sanders who managed the firm from 1942 to the spring of 1951 when Verne Bronson took over direction.

With a force of from six to eight graduate foresters on the staff, Tree Farm Management gives the member companies highly competent forestry supervision.

It pioneered in use of aerial photographs in type mapping, road location and inventory estimates. ft was one of the early users of helicopters for direct seeding of non-stocke<I forest lands. It has conducted experiments in spraying of roadside brush and weeds. It conducts a .continuing field research project on member companies' lands to determine best methods of maintaining maximum forest growth. One research project includes study of natural seeding of cutover lands, through several years. Seed traps are checkecl to determine extent of seeding in good and poor seed years.

Its principal duties includes a basic forestry consulting service available only to its present eight member companies. Included are forest land examination studies. inventory studies, fire protection planning, management plans covering harvesting, slash disposal, reforestation and salvage.

Under its constant direction the eight firms have developed some of the outstanding forest management programs on taxpaying forest lands in the nation.

Original area included in the Willamette Valley Tree Farms was 200,000 acres. Membership now covers 550,000 acres, all certified West Coast Tree Farms. Membership now includes Valset Lumber Company, Oregon Pulp & Paper Company, Western Logging Company, The LongBell Lumber Company, Roaring River Tree Farm, and three of the original firms, Booth-Kelly, C. D. Johnson and Weyerhaeuser.

\(/ood Conversion Company Pays

Tribute

to 25-Year Employees

Wood Conversion Company paid tribute to 31 twentyfive years employees at a banquet at the Kitchi-Gami Club in Duluth, Thursday, September 13.

The accumulated service of the 31 employees amounted to well over 700 years. The organizational meeting was the first for the Twenty-Five Year Club. The company was founded in January of 1921.

ll. \\r. Davis, president of the firm, and D. M. Pattie, vice president and general manager, spoke at the meeting and later on passed out the arvards.

Among those to receive the award were: J. D. Spencer, Myrtle Hjelm, E. S. Swanson, L. N. Harrison, M. M. Welshons, D. M. Pattie, and E. W. Davis of the St. Paul office: A. L. Spafford, I. R. Lund, Florence Vnuk, A. F. Jenkins, A. O. Anderson, George Anderson, J. Ur. Nelson (Posthumous), L. R. Larson, C. E,. Westlund, R. W. Ridlington, J. N. Larson, Rudar Hanson, F. A. Amlotte, J. H. Webb, Arne Bru, J. E. Anderson, F. C. Enlund, J. J. Gleason, B. A. Carlson, G. R. Norgren, and A. J. Golen of the plant at Cloquet, Minnesota; as well as H. W. Hintze of Peoria, Illinois; W. W. Craig of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and R. W. Horvard of Northbrook, Illinois.

Cclled Into Service

Ed Metzger, salesman for Southwest Plywood Corp., Inglewood, Calif., was recently called into service with the Navy Air Corps. He is a pilot.