Country Produced 32,000,000,000 Ft. of Lumber in 1922

Production of both hard and soft wood lumber in the United States for the year 1922 is placed by the National Lumber Manufacturers' Ass'ociation at approximately 32,000,000,000 board feet, as compared with the estim,ated output of 25,026,WW f.or l92l and 33,798,800,000 feet for 1gZO. While 1922 did not come up to the 1920 level, which marks the high point of production in recent years, it is considered to have been a creditable and satisfactory achievem'ent in view of the extraordinary depr'essi'on of the industry in 1921.

In preparing its analysis of the progress of the industry for the year 1922 the National Association secured comments from executives of the various regional associatidns, and here are some of interest to lumbermen in California:

C. Stowell Srnith, Secretary California White & Sugar Pine Manufacturers' Association. Production of our mills will exceed last year's by probably 30 per cent. Inventories are generally normal for this season but far bel'ow normal oS corrlp2r€d to increased production, and the heavy stock carried over from last year, showing heavy shipments. Orders are the heaviest known, whereas at the be,ginning of the year they were probably the lowest in history. Prices have remained remarkably constant.

R. F. Hammatt, Secretary California Redwood Association. The close of. t922 finds the Redwood'industry in a very healthy condition. Producti'on and sales were about balanced, both being above normal and considerably in excess of. 1920 and I92t. The demand was good during the entire year and w,ell distributed throughout California ,the

We have ready for prompt ebipment ftom our Bay Point, Cal., pten$ a conriderable quantity of

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We are ready to take cutting onderr for & and 4-inch Common CedEr Wharf Plantring. Ceilar east and the export trade. The demand for December has been unusually -heavy and indications point toward a banner year for 1923."

Robert B. Allen, secretary-manager West Coast Lu'mbermen's association: All previous records of lumber production ,in the Pacific n,orthwest were broken by the 1922 output estimated at 8,715,763,000 feet by West Coast Lumbermen's Association. These figures apply only to the territory west of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon "1d Washington, which 6onstitutes the territory covered by the West Coast Association and which includes ninety per cent of the lum,ber pr'oduction of Washington and 79 per cent of the productibn of Oregon. The previous high cut record for the Douglas fir region was in 1920 when western Oregon and western Wa-hington pr,oduced 7,578925,W feet] This same region in 1922 shows a production increase of fifteen per cent over 1920. The 1922 lumber output exceeds that of the depressed year of l92l !l 58 per ient. New business booked by the mills of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association during 1922 was 44 per cent greater than in 1921 and, 42 per cent greater than in 1920. Shipments in l9Z2 were 45 per cent greater than in 1921 and 2l per cent greater than in 1920. Stocks unsold in the hands of West Coast mills at the close of t922 are reported very light in quantity and in poor ass'ortment as ,to.lengths and siies, a vlry different condition from that which prevailed at the close of 1920, when the previous year of record pr,oduction found the mills with over two billion feet of unsold stock on han'd. M'ills generally consider 1923 prospects encouraging.

ARIZONA"S LUMBER PRODUCTION IN T922 TOTALED 160,000,000 FEET

Unofficial estimates of the total volume of lumber cut in the state of Arizona ln the year just closed place the figure at 160,000,000 feet. This consists-mostly-of fi-r and plne native to the Rocky mountains. Ptactically all the iumber cut in the state is used locally. Much of it is cut into ties and used by the railroads serving Arizona.

It is estimated that 95 per cent of the entire cut is produced by five large mills, three of which are at Flagstaff and one each at Williams and Cooley'

FIVE REDWOOD MILLS DOWN FOR TEN DAYS

Secretary-Manager Ha,mmatt of the California Redwood Association reports that five of the association mills were closed temrporirily for about ten days after the New Year for repairs. The mills closing were Little River Redwood Co.. Northwestern Redwood Co., Holmes-Eureka Lumber Co., Bayside Lumber Co., and Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co.