L. E. Harris Lumber Co.

U/oalac.lo Arralren

West Coast Forest Products

Suite l0l - 3757 Wilshire Blvd.

tOS ANGEI.ES 5, CALIFORNIA

Telephone FAirlcrx 2301

George R. Kendrick, sdles manager, Pope & Talbot, Inc., T,uryrber Division, San Francisco, made a round trip by air to Los Angeles on business last week.

E. \V. (Gelre) Hall, manager, Building Material Distributors, Stockton, left January 6 for a business trip to Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. He was accompanied by Mrs. Hall. They will be gone about three weeks.

Henry H. Harding, Gosslin-Harding Lumber Co., Orick, Calif., spent a few days at the company's main office in Oakland, first week in Tanuary.

W. G. Kahman, district sales manager, Shevlin Pine Sales Co., San Frarrcjsco, and G. F. Wetzel, resident manag.er, McCloud River Lumber Co., IVIcCloud, Calif., left San Francisco January 9 to attend a sales conference of the Shevlin Pine Sales Co., at Minneapolis.

R. T. (Bob) Evju, Evju Lumber Products, San Francisco, made a business trip to Seattle and Portland .in December.

Installs End-Mcrtching Flooring Mcchinery

Western Custom Mill, Inc., 4200 Bandini Blvd., Los Angeles, has installed complete high-speed end-matching flooring machinery which turns out 8 to 10 thousand feet per day. The machinery was shipped to them by E. L. Bruce Co. of Memphis, Tenn.

The firm does all types of custom milling, has complete facilities for remanufacturing lumber in transit, and is located in a spur of the Los Angeles Junction R.R. in the. Qentral Manufacturing District. F. B. Schoeneman, president, and E. C. Jensen, production manager, have been associated with the lumber business in Los Angeles for a number of years.

Probable First Quarter1947 Production-Consumption of Western Pine

Portland, Ore., Dec. 3I,1946.- An analysis of the fourth quarter L946 manuf.acture of Idaho White pine, ponderosa Pine, Sugar Pine and associated woods and probably first quarter 1947 production-consumption was released today by S. V. Fullaway, Jr., secretary-manager, Western Pine Association. The statement in full is as follows :

"It was predicted last September 30th that the 1946 performance of the Western Pine industry would surpass that of any peace-time year in its history. preliminary figures indic4te even greater accomplishment. The estimated 1946 regional production of 5Bd0 million feet not only exceeds that of any year prior to l94l but equals the average annual output of the five war years 1941 to 1945 inclusive. The 1946 shipments of 5230 million are also greater than those of any peace-time year and are only about 5/o under the annual average Lor l94I to t94S inclusive when shipments were greatly in excess of production due to the more than 900 million feet reduction in stocks during that period.

"Regional stocks on December 31, 1946 will appargntly total 104O million feet. This is an increase of 132 million, or about 15/o; over those on hand a year ago. Elowever, current stocks are only 57/o of. December 3I, lg10 inventories and bat 42/o of those on the same date back in 1929.

"The general business outlook over the short term is not definite. The decontrol of prices, the rapid elimination of other controls, and the improved stature of the nerv Congress are encouraging factors. 'As for lumber, these will not so much effect total output as the production bf needed items and as the logical distribution of the pro_ duct. Based on general factors and all other available information, it now seems probable that during the first quarter of.1947, shipments'(consumption) of lumber by the 'Western Pine industry will approximate l?-A0 million feet or about 25/o more than for the same 1946 quarter.,,