1 minute read
California Redwoodrrlg2g
By R. F. Hanmatt, Secretary-Manager Cdifornia Redwood Association
1929 showed an increase over 1928, in Redwood shipments of certain identical mills, of 18 million feet, BM. This group of mills, for which comparable figures were prepared by the California Redwood Association, represented 72/o of the total shipments for the entire industry. It is, therefore, reasonable to suppose that l9D shipments for the entire Redwood Industrv exceeded those of 1928 by some 25,000,000 feet board m6arote.
Examination of the geographical distribution of this increase is both interesting and gratifying. Northern California territory leads with approximately 44/o of the increase; Southern California comes second with 33/o ; the balance (23%) is pretty evenly divided between the "Eastern" market and the "Western" (or Pacific Coast States other than California).
An analysis of these same comparative shipment figures by months indicates that:
