West Coast Lumber Industry Survey Production Plans

_.Ta-corya, Wash., June 4.-A survey of production plans, district by district at a meeting of the Wbst Coast lumber industry here today, brought out the forecast that lumber production in the Douglas fir region is expected to be at from 55 to 6O- per cent of capacity during fhe coming two or three months and unlikely to rile much- above the li-igher figure d-urjng the remainder of the year. Reports 'i'ere given of the operating plans of morg than 80 per cent of the industry's,capacity. Many mills were reportid as down indefinitely _and practically ill others as operating on reduced schedules.

Col. W. B. Greeley, Secretary-Manager of the West Coast I-umbermen's Association ieported-that orders since the first of the year were 61 per ient of capacity and ZO per 'cent bglow new business in the same period of last I^"1:^lh.-industry, he stated, had produced ipproximately 500,000,000 feet less lumber this year than list and sold about 900,000,000 feet less. The excess lumber going into

George Robinson Visits Northwest

_ George W. Robinson, sales agent of the Booth-Kellv Lumber Co., with headquarters in Stockton, returned recently from a visit to the company's home office in Eugene, Ore., and the mills at Springfield and Wendling, {)re.

inventories had demoralized the industry and its markets, Colonel Greelev said.

Colonel Gre6ley urged the establishment, mill by mill, of a firm price basis for selling lumber, each mill to issue its own price list to be in force for all its selling until re. placed by a later or revised list. Buyers throughout the rail trade areas, according to Colonel Greeley, who recently returned from a trip to the Central States and the East, were in need of lumber but all were hesitating about buying as long as values were not stable. The firm price policy, properly presented to the trade and carefully adhered to, rvould, in his judgment, assist the industry great- ly by stimulating retail dealer buying.

Lumber conditions throughout the United States were reported on by J. D. Tennant, president of the West ,Coast. Lumbermen's Association. In the south. he said. weather was unfavorable to the small mills and slack markets were slowing down the larger units.

H. W. COLE LEAVES FOR EAST

H. W. Cole, vice-pre,sident and general manager of The Little River Redwood Company, Crannell, left San Francisco June 11 on a business trip to the east. He expects to be gone between three or four weeks.