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Lumber shipments of 501 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer in the week ended November 27 were 2.7/o above production; new orders were l.l/o belou'. Unfilled orders were 39/o of stocks. For the year to date, shipments were 1.2/o above production; new orders 1.5/o above. In the week ended November ZA, 522 rl'llls reported shipments 5.4/o below production; new orders 6.0/o below.

Lumbermen's Association. for 168 mills the week ended November 27. reoorted

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\rV. C. L. A. I O-Months' Figures

The weekly average of West Coast lumber production in October was 212,643,000 b.f., or 110.6/o of the 1949-53 average. Orders averaged 190,883,000 b.f., and shipnrents 205,157,W0 b.f., compared with these September figures: production, 176/13p00 b.f. ; orders, 155,502,000 b.f., and shipments, 175,773,000 b.f. Ten months of cumulative production for 1954 were 7,660,882,000 b.f., compared r'vith 8,770,228,000 for ten months of 1953, according to statistics for the Douglas fir industry released by Harris E. Smith, secretary, West Coast Lumbermen's Association. The industry's unfilled order file stood at 717,843,N0 b.f. at the end of October; gross stocks at 839,678,0@ b.f.

production 96,100,758 {eet, shipments 103,136,093 feet (7.3% over production), and orders 93,080,281 feet (3.1/o under production). For the year to date, shipments were 1.3/o and orders were 2.5/o over production. In the week ended November 20, production was 129,098,231 feet, shipments 121,158,726 feet, and orders 119,520,048 feet.

The Western Pine Association, for 122 mills in the ended November 20, reported production 84,918,000 shipments 78,831,000 leet (7.2/o belo'rv production), (Please turn to Page 61) week feet, and