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West Coast Monthly Survey A. J. Castell Sells Interest in Company

Seattle, Washington, March 11, 1940-The weekly average of West Coast lumber production in Februarv A weeks) was 127,034,000 board ieet, or 64.5 per cent oi the weekly average f.or-.I926-I929, the indusiry,s years of highest capacity realization, accordins to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association in its moithlv survev of the iq{":Jty. Orders averaged 130,595,000 ieet; shipments, l?9,07-3:W:- ^Weekly averages for January *ire: produc- tion, 123,553,000 feei (62.7 per cent -of the highest clpacity realiz-ation index) ; orders, 131,169,000; shipments,' 120; 155,000.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 513,349,000 feet at the end of February; gross stocks, at 961,000,000.

^ February wag q month of marking time for the West Coast lumber industry. Extreme dold rveather was a blockade in the building market of the Midwest and East. The movement of WesiCoast lumber to the Atlantic Coast was impeded by scarcity of shipping space; and during Iebruary thls same sho_rtlge was extended to the industry's Coastwise trade with Caliiornia.

While the extremely open February enjoyed in the industry's producing region provided excepiional operatins conditions, the slow market and space difficrrlties trita nacE lumber shipments. The industry has been compelled to follow a conservative course in production.

A considerable number of mills in February had to reduc-e operqting schedules from 5 days a week io 4 or even 3 days. Some mills were compelied to close down for occasional _periods, because of in-ability to ship lumber by water to the Atlantic Coast.

The industry has kept its stocks and order files in reasonably good shape. At the end of the month there rvere indications of a resumption of activity in Midwest and California markets, where lumber buying has been de- layed. Exports remain at lorv ebb.

A. J. Castell, for the past sixteen years manager of the California Lumber Company at Montebello, Calif., has sold his interests and has retired from the firm.

Mr. Castell and his family came to Southern California in L924, and they have lived in the vicinity of Montebello during the time he was in business there.

Before coming to Southern California, Mr. Castell was in the lumber business in Colorado for a period of twentytwo years. After being in business for thirty-eight years, he feels that he has earned a much needed vacation. He and his wife live on a ranch near Rivera and he states it is an ideal place for a home. In a few months, Mr. Castell expects to be actively engaged in looking after other interests in the Montebello district.

Holds Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of the Santa Cruz Lumber Co., Santa Cruz, Calif., was held February 20, and the officers elected were: J. R. Williamson, president; Don Ley, vicepresident, and E. E. Carriger, secretary.

Directors re-elected: Samuel Leask, Walter Byrne, Otto Jensen, J. R. Williamson, and Don Ley, who succeeds his father, the late George Ley.

MRS. GENEVIEVE ADAMS

Mrs. Genevieve McDonald Adams, rvife of Irving Adams of the Noah Adams Lumber Company, Oakland, passed away in Oakland, February 28, after a long'illness. Funeral -.ervices rvere held in Oakland. March 1.