Colif. Redwood Assn. Reports Stote of Industry

stat' 12

July 28, 1958

ANNUAT REPORT, 1957

4:.'' The reduction in the number of reporting companies this year due primarily to consolidations rather than reduced coverage.

Some of the figures were estimates rather than actual but are believed to be close enough to be included in this report. The closing stocks on the basis of opening stocks ad- justed for production, shipments, etc., do not check exactly

'with reported figures but neither individual mills nor the group as a whole show enough difference to affect the statistical use-

Since we cannot know in advance.what companies will furnish the annual figures, this method cannot be used in this report. The shipment figures shorvn are gross shipments less purchases from other mills. If rq>orts were received from all redwood producers, this method would properly show the amount of redwood shipped by the industry to distributors and consumers. Since all mills do not report, the shipment figures shown simply account for shipments to distributors and consumers from the lumber producbd by the 26 or 30 companies but not for shipments they may have made from lumber purchased outside these groups.

The other significant difference between the two reports is due to the fact that some companies report a gross production figure and a computed figure for factory waste on monthly reports but report a net production figure and no factory waste on aunual reports. If these companies had reported gross production on the annual report, redwood production and plant waste figures would have been about 13 million feet greater lor 1957 and 14 million feet greater for 1956.

The California Forest and Range Experiment Station l,as published the results of their survey of lumber production for 1956, based on practically lm% coverage. They showed production of 3,032 million feet in the Redwood Region, of which 1,079 nrillion was redwood and 1,824 million Douglas fir. Humboldt and Mendocino counties were the first and second in the state with cuts of 1,544 million and 874 million feet of all specres.

Our 1956 redwood production as shown by the December monthly mill report including purchases from non-reporting nrills was 663 million feet or 6l/o of the Experiment Station total. 1956 redwood production of the 26 mills shown on this report was 700 million or 65/o of that total.

The table shows that redwood production of the 26 companies was about 100 million feet less in 1957 than in 1956, but production of other species was about 87 million feet greater. During the year, redwood stocks increased 14 million f1et, or 3 per cent. Stocks of other species increased 12 million feet, neally doubling during the Year'

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August 11, 1958

(a) Shipments are net for the industry, inter-company shipments have been deducted. Shipments of factory products included as footage of finished product not as lumber delivered to factory.

(b) Company Use is lumber used for construction and maintenance of the reporting companies' plants and logging operations. Only 14 of the 30 companies reported Company Use in 1957.

(c) Only 8 of the 30 companies reported Plant Waste or Other Disposals in 1957.

These figrrres include by-products such as sawn shingles, shakes and lath produced at these lumber mills. The 1957 redwood production for the 30 companies includes 612,310M feet of lumber and, 3,246\[, feet of by-products, mostly lath and shingles.

The figures above are not directly comparable with those shown for twelve months in our monthly mill report for December 1957 and the difference between the two sets of figures does not represent the production, shipments and stocks of the additional four companies. The primary difference in the two sets of figures lies in the handling of inter-mill business.

The monthly reports are for a set group of mills whose identity is known in advance. Definite instructions are given for handling inter-mill transactions so that the volume of lumber moving between the reporting compa.nies is excluded; but the yolume of lumber purchased from others than reporting mills is included in both shipment and production figures. Redw:ood production figures for'twelve moirths shown 6n the monthly mill report for December 1957 included 39,N7M ft. of such purchases in 1956 and 26,895M ft. in 1957.

DISTR.IBUTION OF REDWOOD SHIPMENTSFtRSt HAIF OF r 958

This report shows the distribution of redwood shipments to each state and to various regions for the first half of 1958, compared with the first half of 1957, x reported by the mills which have reported regularly for the Monthly Mill Report.

Table No. I below shows the distribution to the regions used for the Monthly Mill Report. For 1958, two sets of figures are shown, one taken from the Monthly Mill Report and the other from the Distribution by States report. As has always been the case, there are differences in the two sets of figures but these are not great enough to have statistical significance.

DistribuJ;otu *riiol,nlyMill Distribution Report Report Report (InMft.)

Because these figures are for six months only, the only other figures shown are for the same period of. L957. Earlier, or annual figures, going back to 1954, were shown in our report Stat. 3, dated February 3, 1958.

The figures in Table I show that the decrease of 29 million

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Voncouver lo Gleor Slums

The oldest community in the Pacific Northwest became the first city in t6e state of Washington to obtain approval from Housing Administrator Albert M. Cole of its workable program for the elimination of slums and blight. The city is Vancouver, Washington.

Vancouver was first settled in 1825 bv the l{udson's Bay Company as an English fur-trading post. Logging and lumbering were for a number of years the chief resource of the community. Two large industries now located there are Kaiser Shipyards and an Alcoa Aluminum plant.

Vancouver's growth during the war years is indicated by the fact that its population increased ln% between 1940 and 1950. Its 1950 population was 41,664. Although Vancouver at present has a system of codes and ordinances regulating the construction of dwellings and other buildings, it recognizes that some of them are weak. It intends to correct them and also to adopt soon a few codes that it still lacks, including a housing Code. The city also plans to complete the essential elements of a general community plan by the end of this year. Neighborhood analyses are also in this year's piogram.

feet occurred mostly in California with 241 million feet, or 85/o of the total decrease. Eastern decreased 3 million feet or ll/o, and the others Il million and less, with the exception of U. S. Offshore, which increased about /3 of. a million feet.

Eighteen of thirty-eight states showed increases varying from the highest in Minnesota of almost 2 million feet, to the lowest in New Hampshire with 28M feet. The usual top three states 1. rn New Hampshrre wrth ZEM 'I'he f ' showed decreases, with Texas down 2l million, Ohio standing , firm down only 401M feet, but Illinois down 2 million. Minne-

, sota, with the highest increase as noted above, moved up to fourth place in this report, but Michigan was down 1 million and Indiana was down almost ll million. Iowa increased 1 - million to take 8th place. Canada, which since 1954 has always

,been under 1 million feet for the entire year, showed an in- crease of about 1 million for the first half.

The biggest change was in the Central states of lllinois, In- shire, Rhode Island and Vermont were down over 2 million. ,,, Lower Mississippi states were down almost 2 million and Middle Atlantic states down only 21M feet. The Prairie states, Lake states and South Atlantic states showed increases. with the ir:' Prairie states of fowa, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota and F$": South Dakota increasing over ll million. The Lake states fr''' increased over a million feet. i, diana, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee and West Virginia, ':', down 4 million, from the same period in 1957. The New Eng' land states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampi- There was not much change in the Rocky Mountain states and Western states dropped off- over a miili6n feet, most of it in i,', As has consistently been the case in recent years, shipments :r. ' were made to all states despite decreases. At this time there is nothing to indicate what to expect during the last half of 1958.

For the fourth consecutive year shipments have been made to each of the forty-eight states and to the District of Columbia. 1957 shipments to two-thirds of the states were lower than they were in 1956, and the increases to the other states were small.

1957 redwood shipments by reporting companies, as shown by the annual distribution reports in Table 1, decreased 88 million feet as compared with 1956 shipments. The operations covered are the same as for the two preceding years. The figures for 1955, 1956 and 1957 are probably more truly comparative than are the figures for 1954 and 1955, because of the nature of some company consolidations taking place in those years. Shipments to California accounted lor 43 million feet of this decrease and states east of the Rocky Mountains, 38 million. Shipments to the Rocky Mountain group decreased 2 million and U.S. Offshore shipments, 3 million. The percentage distribution of shipments to the regions shown on Table 1, show no significant changes in the distribution pattern.

There does not seem to be any pattern in the changes in volume shipped to various states. Three of the four largest decreases were to the three states that took the greatest volume in both years. Relatively heavy decreases seem to be scattered in all parts of the country and the states that showed increases were likewise widely scattered. The significance of the changes would be more apparent to someone thoroughly acquainted with the character of the redwood market in the individual states.

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Stat. 3

February 3, 1958

DISTRIBUTION OF R,EDWOOD SHIPMENTS

This report shows the distribution of redwood shipments to each state and to various regions for the years 1954, 1955, 1956 and, 1957, as reported by the fifteen mills which have reported regularly for the Monthly Mill Report.

. Table No. 1 below shorn's the distribution to the regions used for the Monthly Mill Report. For 1957, two sets of figures are shown, one taken from the Monthly Mill Report and the other taken from the Distribution by States repoit. As has always .been the_case, there are differences in the two sets of figures but these differences are not great enough to have any itatistical significance.

Texas, Ohio, Illinois and New York have been the top four states outside of California, in that order, for the past four years. The balance of the top ten for 1957, in order of volume taken, are Michigan. I\{innesota, Indiana, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Missouri. These are the same states that were in the top ten in 1956. Their ranks have changed, the most noticeable changes being Missouri's drop from seventh to tenth place and \Misconsin's climb from tenth to eighth. All except Wisconsin have been in the top ten for four years. Oklahoma was in this group in 1954, as tenth, and 1955, as eighth, but dropped below the top ten, as well as Florida and Arizona, in 1957 to become thirteenth.

60/o ol the decrease in shipments east of the Rockies was accounted for by the seven states in the Central States Region. This was the only one of the eight regions that showed a lower percent of total eastern shipments than 1956. Each state in the group showed a lower volume of shipments. They still took I of the shipments east of the Rockies and included four of the top ten states outside of California. The New England Region states and the three-state East Gulf Region showed increases over the previous year. New England took as much as I0/o of the much lower volume of shipments east of the Rocky Mountains in the mid thirties and then dropped off to less than lft/o in the forties. The 5.4/o of shipments east of the Rockies, taken by New Englandin 1957, is the greatest proportion shown for the last twentv vears.

Colorado and Utih, the two Rocky Mountain states taking the largest volume, showed appreciable decreases, while New Mexico and Wyoming increased their volumes. Arizona is the only one of the four 'Western states to show an increase.

Products from the forests of our region benefit each of us and our communities. Keep the Redwood Region Green!

MEET THE "B\INYAN BUGGIE"

It looks from here as if California Inventor Harold Manning has finally bested Paul Bunyan's blue ox "Babe" with a machine that will out-pull and maneuver even Paul's mighty helpmate. The new machine, designed to outdo any machine or method ever before used in any logging operation, is called the Bunyan Buggie and is to be manufactured by the Bunyan Buggie Manufacturing Co., with headquarters at 345 Grove Street in San Francisco, and plant at Rio Vista, California.

Manning, who has spent his entire working career in various California, Oregon and Washington logging operations, expects to have his first, full-scale model ready for demonstrations by early Spring, next year.

The Bunyan Buggie is driven by two 300-h.p. Diesels, one in each wheel, and both mounted on "A" frames in sort of a pendulum fashion. A gyrocompass in each wheel de-