THE CALIFOR}IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

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Douglas fir, Pine and Redwood mill prices are firm. The market has not 'changed a great deal in the last two weeks but there is more resistance by the dealers to paying the high prices. Douglas fir uppers, both green and dry, have definitly strengthened in price; the same also applies to Pine uppers. Fir lath is firm at $18 mill and are very scarce.

Red Cedar shingle mill prices are reported very firm at $12 for No. 1, $9.50 for No. 2, and 4.50 for No. 3 and No. 4.

Portland, Oregon, January 15, Lg47-December water shipments of lumber from Oregon and Washington seaports to other parts of the United States totaled more than 70,000 tons, H. V. Simpson, executive vice president of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, announced today.

Reflecting a return to normal peacetime distribution, the volume was a jump of 130 per cent over November, and 123 per cent over December, 1945, Mr. Simpson said. Tonnage shipped amounted to 47,997,N0 board feet.

"A large proportion of this tonnage, which is restoring Pacific Northwest ports to their normal level of activity, will go to the lumber-starved Eastern Seaboard," Mr. Simpson explained. "This area has been harder hit during the past shortage period than any other region."

December's average weekly production was 104,985,000 board feet, the Christmas vacation having caused a slight

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reduction from November's 115,217,A00 board feet. Total production for the year was a record 6,133,409,000.

December orders averaged 110,278,@O; shipments 112, 549,000. Weekly averages for November were: orders lL2,?O2,000 ; shipments 1 1 1,545,000.

Orders f.or 52 weeks of t946 break down as follows: rail, 4,112,583,000 b.f.; domestic cargo 713,438,000; export 28i),896,000; local 739,458,000.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 513,707,000 b.f. at the end of December', 1946; gross stocks at 448,252,440.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended January 11,81 mills reporting, gave orders as 50,974,00O feet, shipments 42, 454,W feet, and production 33,158,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 154,517,0@ feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended January ll, 74 units (10O mills) reporting, gave orders as 17,241p@ feet, shipments 14,989,000 feet, and production 11,859,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 65,180,000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended January 18, lD mills reporting, gave orders as 88,799,ffiA feet, shipments 72,83,000 feet, and production 80,3@,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 437,437,0N f.eet.