92,430,000 Feet of Lumber Entered Los Angeles Harbor in June

Cargo receipts of lumber in I-.los Angeles harbor for the month of June were among the heaviest in history, aggregating 92,430,000 feet.

Of this volume 78,305,000 feet consisted of Douglas Fir, Pacific Ifemlock, Red Cedar and. other species frono. the Northwest, while 14,125,000 was Redwood from Nor.thern California.

For the first 12 days of July the receipts of Fir and other Northwestern woods were 27,500,000 feet, and of Red.wood 2,975,000 feet. At this rate the mionth of July will not be quite as heavy as was June. Ifowever, the lumber movement is irregular and so long as the demand in Southern Califoruia continues the producers will keep on pouring lum-ber rnto the harbor.

Sipce the demand for Fir in the East and Middle 'West has fallen ofr, it is probable that the California supply, through the rest of the summer, will be much easier than it was in the spring and early summer.

This condition will be modified only by the possible cur- tailecl production in the Northwest due to shortage of logs and closing of mills caused by forest fires.

The big lumber distributors are preparing to go after the Southern California trade even more intensively than ever. This is indieated by the plans just completed by the Coos Bay Lumber Company for direct service with their own boats, from their miills at Marshfield, Oregon, to San Pedro. The Hammond. Lumber Company, the E. K. 'Woocl l-rumber Company and J. I[. Baxter & Co., all catering to the Southern California territory, each has bought a Shipping Board vessel within the last few weeks to be used. in the coastwise trade.

Reports of the Pacific Irumber Inspection Bureau on lumber cargo shipments from Oregon, 'Washington and. British Columbia for the first three months of. 1922 show the molrement of 763,065,695 feet, as compared with 329,626,956 in the same period of 1921.

Of the 1922 movement an aggregate of 329,133,23? feet went to California, 207,958,243 feet to Japan, 45,512,355 feet to Australia, and. 42,495,579 feet to the Atlantic Coast.