THE CALIFOR}IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

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Scrambling For Lumber

They are actually scrambling for lumber in Southern California; and doing practically the same thing in the Northern part of the state. It's the keenest softwood market in years. Only once before. since good old pre-depression times have they had such a situation, and that was when the dock strikes kept the lumber out.

Today there is nothing keeping the lumber out. It is being brought to California and distributed as fast as possible but right now there is more demand than there is supply, and whenever that happens everyone wants lumber right now. IJnusually brisk demand for Fir, together with the fact that forest fires have closed so many camps and thereby shut down so many mills in Washington and Oregon, is the answer to the present red-hot market. The most pessimistic wholesaler in Southern California today admits that lumber is scarce for immediate delivery, and that the problem of the moment is to get a supply of key items. At the Los Angeles docks the stocks are down to bed rock, and there are no key items left.

In the Northwest some of the mills are getting logs and getting started running, and others are getting ready to, and the tenseness of the situation will soon relax. But for the time being it's a lively situation.

A1l over the country the softwood industry is booming. Everyone is feeling the effects of the upward surge. From the South comes reports that Southern hardwood demand has improved tremendously, although not nearly so good as softwoods.

The last week reported by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association shows production 81, shipments 95, and sales 104, in millions of feet.

Western Pine for that week is more closely balanced, with production 73, shipments 7O, and sales 93 million feet.

Southern Pine for that week showed production 28, shipments 30, and sales 34 million feet.

California Redwood showed production 7.1, shipments7.4, and sales 9 million feet.

Southern hardwoods showed production 4, shipments 5.4, and sales 6.7 million feet.

Total reported by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association was production 203, shipments 221, and sales 229 million teet.

California Redwood was the only species that reported having sold more lumber than in the same rveek last year.

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