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How Lumber Looks

511 mills, reporting for the rveek ended May 27, prodttced 23397O,W feet of softwoods and hardwoods combined; shipped 235,164,W feet; and booked orders of 227,809,W feet, according to the National Lumber Manufacturers Assoclatl0n.

Revised figures for the preceding week were mills, 539; production 240,524,W f.eet; shipments 232,512,W feet; orders 231,978,00O feet.

Lumber orders reported for the week ended May 27 by 425 softwood mills totaled 218,ffi4,W feet; shipments were 225,72O,W0 feet; and production 227,351,ffi feet.

Reports from I02 hardr,r'ood mills for the same week gave new business as 9,145,000 feet; shipments 9,444,00O feet; and production 6,619,0@ feet.

A total of 143 down and operating mills in Oregon and Washington, reporting to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended May 20, produced 98,387,156 feet; shipped 103,810,937 leet; and nelv business was 104.447,@4 feet. The unfilled order file at these mills stood at 336,611,974 feet.

The same number of mills, reportin€J for the rveek endecl May 27, produced 98,769,5n feet ; shipped I1O,O37,823 f eet ; and new business was i01,798.386 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 328.108,509 feet.

The Western Pine Association for the week endecl June 3, lI4 mills reporting, gave production as 75,478,ffiO feet; shipments 66,277,000 feet; and orders 67,361,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the r,veek totaled 189,375,000 feet.

The California Redwood Association reported production of 13 mills for the week ended Mav 27 as 7,518,000 feet; shipments 7,L96,W feet; Week-end orders on hand and new bttsiness 7,166,000 feet' totaled 32.299.0N feet.

The Southern Pine Association, 125 mills reporting for the r,veek ended June 3, gave production as 30.231,000 f,eet; shipments 34,522,W feet: and orders 39,597,NO feet. Orders on hand at the end of the rveek totale d 79,ffiZ,ffi feet'

With lumber schooners mostl)' in the North Pacific during the week ended June 10, lumber cargo arrivals at Los Angeles Harbor for the vi'eek totaled 12,634,m feet, compared *ith 23,863,000 feet for the rveek ended June 3.

Unsold stocks of hrmber at Los Angeles Harbor on June 8 totaled approximately 20,000,000 feet. With the present activity in building construction in Southern California, the unsold stocks are actually equivalent to about one week's supply.

53 lumber vessels were operating in the coastu'ise lumber trade on June 8; 33 vessels were laid up

Appoints New Field Men

George M. Graves, formerly rvith Union Mill & Lumber Company, Santa Barbara, and Donald Bufkin, formerly assistant manager, Building Material Exhibit, Los Angeles. have been appointed field men by the California Redwood Association, rvorking out of the Los Angeles office.

Back From Business Trip

Walter G. Scrim, Los Angeles, exclusive distributor for Findlay-N{illar Timber Co., N{anila. P. I., has returned from a business trip through the South, Middlelr'est and East rvhere he visited the lumber consttming centers.