THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

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Lumber shipments of 413 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 12.4 per cent above production for the week ending November 26,7949. In the same week new orders of these mills were 10.7 pet cent above production. Unfilled orders of the reporting mills amount to 36 per cent of stocks. For reporting softwood mills, unfilled orders are equivalent to 2l days' production at the current rate, ald gross stocks are equivalent to 55 days' production.

For the year-to-date, shipments of reporting identical mills w'ere 4.8 per cent above production; orders rvere 5.5 per cent above production.

The Western vember 79, 96 feet, shipments feet. Orders on 743,N0 Ieet.

Pine Association for mills reporting, gave 71,O25,0W feet, and hand at the end of the rveek ended Noorders as 66.446,000 production 68.990,000 the rveek totaled 2i0,-

The Southern Pine Association for the rveek ended November 26,86 units (116 mills) reporting, gave orders as 13,579,000 feet, shipments 15,888,000 feet, and production 15.820.000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 48,147,0O0 feet.

The California Redwood Association for the month of October, 1949, twelve companies reporting' gave orders

: received as 38,179,000 feet, shipments production 40,113,000 feet. Orders on the month totaled 43.259.000 feet.

41,936,000 feet, and hand at the end o{

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended November 19, 167 mills reporting, gave orders as 116,803,000 feet, shipments 13O,O72,@0 feet, and production 110,837,000 feet. Unfilled orders at end of the week totaled 429,389,N0 feet.

For the week ended November 26, these same mills reported orders as 106,606,000 feet, shipments 104,503,000 feet, and production 9I,452,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 429,943,N0 feet.