Shevlin Pine Sales GomPanY

PITGHER IIISAPPEIRIilG II(l(lR$

DISAPPEABING DOOR FBAIUES AND HANGERS

We cre still using clecrr wood in plcrce ol steel, but still hcve q demcrnd lor the old steel lrqme. We cre plecrsed to scry we now hcve a promise ol steel deliveries in 30 to 60 dcys.

E. G. PITGIIER GOTPA]IY

600 l6th Streel Ocrkltrnd 12, Glencourt 3990

Fcrctory 8l4l Sevcn HiUs Bd., Ctratro Vclley, Hctywcrd

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A, G. PASCOE

HARDWOOD LI'MBER _ VENEERS ll5l South Brocdwcry, Los Angeles

PACIFIC COAST NEPRESENTATTVE

Wood-Moscic Co., Louisville, Ky, Ichabod T. Willicrms & Son, New York, N. Y. Veneer Productg Corporction

Penokee Veneer Co., Mellen, Wisconsin

Ghtistmas Grcetings

Reel Tumber Service

SUGAR PINE, WHITE PINE, SPRUCE HARDWOOD TI'MBER

1249 Ecst 63rd Street

Los Angeles l, Ccrhl. ADcms 5221

How Lumber Looks

Lumber shipments of 415 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 14.0 per cent below production for the week ended November 16, 1946, according to the statistical division of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. In the same week new orders of these mills were 10.5 per cent below production. Unfilled order files of the reporting mills amounted to 56 per cent of stocks. For reporting softrvood mills, unfilled orders are equivalent to 24 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks are equivalent to 4l days' production.

For the year-to-date, shipments of reporting identical mills were 3.3 per cent below production; orders were 0.8 per cent below produ,ction.

Compared to the' average corresponding week of 19351939, production of reporting mills was 19.6 per cent above; shipments were I3.2 per cent above; orders were 1.4 pdr cent below. Compared to the corresponding week in 1945, production of reporting mills was 75.5 per cent above; shipments were 62.5 per cent above; and new orders were 44.8 per cent above.

Production of Idaho white, ponderosa, sugar and associated species of pine for week ending November 23 totaled 63,205,000 feet, compared to 67,674W feet for previous week and 3I,526,Un feet during same week last year. Similar comparison of orders are 52,464,000 feet, 52,597,000 feet and 30,862,000 feet and of shipments: 58,660,000 feet, ffi,731,0}0 feet and 32,885,000 feet. Figures are compiled by Western Pine Association based on information from 106 identical mills.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended November 23,84 units (114 mills) reporting, gave orders as 15,620,000 feet, shipments 15,706,000 feet, and production 16,182,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 76.277.ffiO feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended November 23, I39 mills reporting, gave orders as 65,458,000 feet, shipments 71,465,000 feet, and production 80,573,00O feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 464.295.00O feet.