THE CALIFORf,.IIA s.,.flr*r.-i. LUMBE R ME RCHANT N"*" :'".*"

JackDiorne,futblishu'

How Lumber Looks

Lumber shipments of 491 mills reporting -to the National Lumber Trade Baronieter in the holiday wiek ending November 24 wete 0.24o above the corresDonding week in 1955' In the current week, shipments were 3.7/o ind new orders were 7.2/o below production' Foi the year-to-date, shipments were 1.9/o and orders 3'37o below production.

West Coast Lumbermen's Association reported orders of 86'931'533 feet in the week ended November 24 were 3.5% below production of 90,125,232 feet. Shipments of 89,850,735 teer were 0.3/o below production. Shipments were almost 10,000,000 feet above the corresponding week of 1955.

Shipments of 61,369,000 feet were 6.5V" below productio!o{ 65,630,000 feet in the week ended November 4, lrom reports-of 117 mills 'to the Western Pine Association. Orders of 60665,000' feet were 1.1/o below shipments.

The 20 mills reporting to the California Redwood Association for October showed -produition of 59,211,000 fe-et and shipm-ents of f,q82,00o f e.et. Attivity in'th-' preceding month, with produifion- -a1{-orders received slightly above 'Seotem6er. Pr6duction was 3,000,000 ftiet above October above Septem Fr6duction iSSS. Sftii-ents were nearly 9,000,000 feet less, and orders 3'000'0!0 feet less than the sa-e mbnth last year. The unfilled order file showed a further decrease and stocks increased compared with a year ago. Orders on hand October 31, 1956, wete 49,704,000 feet'

Southern Pine Associatior, ,.pl*J for 99 mills in the week ended November 24: production, 18,534,000 feet; qh-ig1ngnts, -1635-9'000 f.eet (11.2O/o belbw produition); orders, 16,162,000 feet (1.80% below shipments). All were below the 3-year average.

Orders of 78,104,000 feet fell below production of 83'894,000 feet in the holiday week ended November 24 for the first time in three weeks, reporied the Douglas Fir Plywood Association. Unfilled order'filei were 340,892,000 Ieet in the current week. Fir plywood orders for the year-to-date were 3'9/9 ab9y9 the same time last vear. Total 1956 production to date of 4,600,357,000 feet was 6.1/o lbove last year's tbtal to date, and also-for the year-to-date, orders were within almost 100,000 feet of overtaking production for the year.

1957, by Leo V.

Jock F. Pomeroy, LMANC