How Lumber lrooks

Seattle, Washington, July 13, 1943.-The weekly average of West'Coast lumber production in June (5 weeks) was 163,279,W board feet, or 107.5 per cent of. 1939-1942 average, according to the West,Coast Lumbermen's Association in its monthly survey of the industry. Orders averaged. 174,476,@0 board feet; shipments, 165,502,000. Weekly averages for May were: Production, 168,621,000 board feet (111 per cent of the1939-1942 average); orders, 180,251,000; shipments, 166,355,000.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 1,111,311,000 board feet at the end of June; gross stocks, at 5O4,664,000.

The drive of the industry for maximum production continues. The logging camps have obtained several hundred more men; and tidewater log inventories increased nearly 5O million feet during June.

Lumber production dropped slightly below May, on account of holidays, vacations with pay under the terms of current working agreements, together with log shortages at some of the mills.

'War demands for West Coast lumber continue heavy, with special emphasis upon box and crating, barge material and stockpiles for overseas bases. The Central Procuring Agency is buying between forty and fifty per cent of the West Coast production for war requirements. More lumber is flowing into civilian uses, especially for railroad and agricultural requirements.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended July

17,98 mills reporting, gave orders as 85,125,000 feet, shipments 75,55q000 feet, and production 89,481,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled, 478,710,M feet.

The Southern Pine Ass;ciatio; for the week ended July lO, I7l mills reporting, gave orders as 72,9A6,0ffi feet, shipments 23,487,0W feet, and production 2I,978,W feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 141,499,000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended July 3 reported orders as 130,433,000 feet, shipments 125,m4,000 feet and production 114,489,000 feet.

For the week ended July 10 orders were reporti.d as 92,212,ffi0 feet shipments 82,361,000 feet, and production 76,051,000 feet.

Herb Klass Goes East

Herb Klass, assistant to the president of The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, left July 23 to visit the offices of California Redwood Distributors in Chicago and New York. He expected to be gone about three weeks.

Back From Oregon

W. E. Cooper, president of W. E. Cooper Wholesale Lumber, Los Angeles, returned a few days ago from a two weeks' business trip to Oregon.