THE CALIFOR}.IIA w.'r.;;ii How Lumber Looks

The National Lumber Manufacturets Association reports that the lumber movement from the mills during the -week ended_Februaty 16, 1935, was sotrewhat lower than during the pteced-i1g week which according to revised figures was- the secotrd highest week of the year in shipments and orders received and the heaviest week in production. New business durbg $: -week en{ed February 16 showed appreciable drop from the high record of the weeks ending February 9 and Janu- aty..l2. These comparisons are based upon reports of, -lro74 mills whose qroduction during the week .trd"d February 16 was 155165710@ feet; shipments, 168rE25rOOO feet; orders received, l7lr577rOOO feet. Revised figures for the preceding week rvere sff lr, 11182;,prduction, 176595 rOW feet;-shipmenlts, tEgr6g2r000 feet; orders, 207r?55rffi0 feet.

New business reported to the Vest Coast Lumberments Assoggd"o by 53E mills for the week ended February 16 was 8637729ojeet against ? production of. 891933,532 ieret and shipments of 8515011972 fent. Current sales were under production by 4 pel cgng _and- rlTp-"t t" were under productioniy 4.9 pet cenL Orders booked for the week by thii group of mills wire under the_ preceding week by about 5'OOqO-OO flet or approxi. mately 5.8 per cenc

Details of orders and shipments as reported by these 53E mills are: Orders-Rail, ?rrrl0.r5rsz feet; bomestic'Cargo, 33r9-\\r75O feet; Exporg I.01729,69 feet; Local, Sr121pfu'f.er:t. Shipments-Reil, 29r85tr440 f,eeti Domestic Cargo, iZ,tOOrZtl teet; Export, 1410221522 feet; Local, 815251299 f,eet.

The unfilled ordet file at these mifls stood at 4Z2rg7O,lgE feet, approximately 3r5O0rO00 feet under the week before. The aggtegate inventodes oI 438 mills are 1.7 pet cent more than at this time last year. ****

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended February 16, 165 mille reportingo Eeve new business aa 21p77r0fi) feei, ahipments 22r75Qr(n0 feet, and'pro{uction 24r5l0rOOO f.eet Or. |".tr t"919 13.19 per cent below production, and 6.47 per cent below shipments. Shipments wcre under production'by 7.lE Pef cent.

Orders on hand yer to be filled at these 165 mills on Februoy !6 totald 57rtt4r0/J,O feet, equivalent to 21729 cas. Total s_tocks on hand ar 156 4porring.nilli aggregated 4E0r5OEr0O0 feet on.February 161 9r l-l per-cnt of n"&mil and s per-cent aDove tata tme last yeef.

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The Vestern Pine Association for the eame week, lZ2 mille reporting., gave orders et 43rglgr}O0 feeg shipmetrB-44r61Er000 feet, and production 2lr7B4rOO0 Leet Orders were 101.6 per cent above production, and 1.5 per cent below shipments. Sliip- ment were. 1O4.E per cent abovl production. Or'ders on hand at the end of the week for this -group of mills totaled l7g,926,OOO f.eet.

The California Redwood Association for the week reported production from 16 mills as 618161000 ieet, shipments +r6bgrOOO feet, and new business 5,9491600- ieet. Oiaeri.on hand at'the end of the weeli totaled 32r61lruc/0 feet. Fifteen identical mills reported prodrrction 2 per ent less and new business 15 pet cent greater than for the same week last year.

Reports f.rcm 2o3 hardwood mills for the week-ended Februaty 16 g-ave new business llr385rfi)O feet or 12 pet cent above production, and shipments 919961000 feet or orr"'p". cent belo,n production. - Production was 101141,000 feet.

The lumber business in California has been much better in volume during the months of December, lanuary and Febru1ly as compared with a year ago. There is sonrc vadance in Fir-cargo mill prices but-the ofinion s€€ms to be if the usual lpriO business develops prices should strengthen. The California Fir rail businesJ is-quiet but the mills-are holding firm on prices.

Market talk in the Pine industry is quite optimistic. Manufacturers !1tok for price advances on Seie.ts, t' it. Shop, No. i, 2 and -3 Commono and Lath. Sugar pine is hard to get in wanted assottmenrs. The Pine demand is light on accoint of Eastern weather co,nditions.

I1r the first, twenty days of February, 1935, new construction in Los artg-"I_o totaled fgel,gZ\ as against'tEOSrj0E for the t1t9:p9ti4 last -year, while thJ total-for Jinluaty, 1935, was f2,187r816 as against f9BO,32g for January,1934. .- tlnsold stocks on the public docks at Los Angeles harbcr totaled 5,E4O'0OO feet on February lE as against 6VZT!I0/0,O ld lor tlre previous week. Cargo arivals at Loa Attg.lo hartor for the week ended February 18 amounted to 5rgI4grOOO feet, which included 12 cargoes of Fin 5E vesoels were opereting in the coastwise lumber i"tvi". on February lEi 42 "Lr"t" J"n" laid up.

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