CALIFOR}IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

How Lumber Looks

I-l:urler shipr.nents of 508 rnills reporting to the National l,urrtber Trade Rarorncter for the u-eek encling -June 26 were 22.0 per cent above proclttction. Orders u'ere 51.8 per cent above procluction. Unfilled orclers n.ere ,i2 per celtt of stocl<s. For the week ended June 19, 517 mills reported shipurents 9.8 per cent above production and new orders 4.4 per cent above. For the year to date, shiprnents were 3.0 per cent above procluction ; nel,v orders 5.6 per cent above.

'fire \\rest Coast Lumbermen's Association, reporting for 170 mills in the week ending June 26, showed production 4+,833,557 feet, shipments 75,758,924 teet (69 per cent over production), ancl orders 84,880,987 feet (89.3 per cent over production). In the n'eeli ended June 19, 170 mills reported procluction 127,477,423 feet, shiprnents 149,508,016 feet, a:rcl orclers 122.014.930 feet.

The California Red'w,ood Association, 20 companies reporting for the month of NIay, gave orders received as 51,753,001 feet, shiprnents 51,739,000 feet and production 54,640,000 feet. Orclers on hand at rnonth's end totaled 52,616 003 feet. I'flrduction for the year to date inclucleC 13,954 N'I. fect.

S, \,'. fiulla\\ray, Jr., secretary-managcr of t]:e \\Irst:rn It :c Association, released the report of the seconcl quarter, 19.5 l: slightly higher than the same 1953 period. l)relinrinary estinrates inclicate, for t're first six mo:rths of the vea-, pro(ltlcii.)n

3,.174 million feet, and shipn'rents 3,61.i nrillion fect. Stoclr,. at the r.nills u''ere estimated at 1,733 n'rillir,rir fect, cornlxrreii trr 1,577 rnillion June 30, 1953.

For the week endecl June 19, 111 rnills reporte<l to the \\,-estern Pine Association procluction of 84,370,000 feet, shiprnents 87,492,000 feet, and or(lers 95,383,0C3 fcct.

The Southern Pine Association, reporting for 113 n'rills iir (Continued on I'age 64) ln

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