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UNItlN LUMBER Ctl.

Total lumber production in British Columbia during 1931 amounted to 1,948,4M.000 board feet compared with 2,63,751,000 feet in 1930, a decrease of.7I5,347,W feet or about 27 pet cent, according to official returns made to the forestry branch of the Department of Lands, states a report from Trade Commissioner E. G. Babbitt to the Lumber Division of the Department of Co_mmerce.

Saw log production.in B. C. during 1931 amounted to 1,719,n8,W board feet compared with 2,331,798,ffiO feet in 1930.

Total waterborne (by vessel) shipments from B. C. during 1931 aggregated 592,343,877 board feet, of which 566,LDpfu feet was lumber and sawn timber and 26,214,677 feet was in logs and bolts. The total for 193O amounted to 757,363,586 feet of lumber, logs and bolts, showing a decline during 1931 of aboat 2l per cent under 1930. Data covering log raft shipments to United States Puget Sound points are not available.

A total of 358,343934 board feet of sawn stock and the ?6,2L4,627 feet of -logs and bolts were in 1931 exports to destinations other than the North A.merican continents, a d'ecline of about 9 per cent under 1930.

Waterborne exports of B. C. sawn lumber and timber to continental United States ports during 1931 amounted to 176,493,986 feet compared with 258,88,206 feet in 193O, a decline of 31 per cent under 1930. The United States Atlantic coast received 8O per cent and California 20 per cent of 1931 B. C. exports as above shown. Data on rail shipments from B. C. to the United States are not available.