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The lumber market continues strong. The freight car shortage is curtailing lumber shipments into the California market. Gross stocks and unfilled orders are being built up at the mills, and operators report they are only getting about 25/o of their normal supply of cars. Some inland mills are trucking their cut to tidewater for re-shipment by water. A few mills in the Northwest have had to shut down, and it is believed that others will have to close before the car shortage is relieved.

Lumber shipments of 398 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 6.7 percent below production for the week ending August 2, L947. In the same week new orders of these mills were 3.6 percent above production. Unfilled order files of the reporting mills amounted to 72 percent of stocks. For reporting softwood mills, unfilled orders are equivalent to 32 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks are equivalent to 41 days' production.

For the year-to-date, shipments of reporting identical mills were 3.1 percent above production; orders were 6.9 percent above production.

'Western Pine Association reports orders of Idaho white ine, Ponderosa pine, sugar pine and associated species for week ended July 26 stood at 63,167,000 board feet as against 68,740,AN for previous week and 67,135,000 for same week a year ago. Similar comparisons for shipments are 65,116,000 feet, 62,9n,0U feet and 72,949,0ffi. For production figures are 72,4X),O00 feet,71,464,000 feet and 77,780,000. For year to date orders are l4/o more than same period in 1946, shipments are up ll/o and, production up r0%.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended August 2,84 units (113 mills) reporting, gave orders 26 28,129,000 feet, shipments 18,448,000 feet, and production 17,991,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 83,925,00O feet.

The \A/est Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended July 26,141 mills reporting, gave orders as 111,766,000 feet, shipments 75,776,000 feet, and production 92,359,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 565,000,000 feet.

For the week ended August 2, l4I mills reporting, gave orders as 1O2,534,000 feet, shipments 87,554,000 feet, and production 92,486,000 f.eet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 572,290,4ffi feet.

Elected Mcyor oI Long Becch

Burton W. Chace of the Eighth Councilmanic District was elected Mayor of Long Beach at the organization meeting of the new City Council on July 29. He rn'as re-elected at the recent election. Mr. Chace is the owner of the Chace Lumber & Supply Co. at Long Beach.

HOBBS WALL LUMBER CO.

4O5 Montgomery Streel, Son Froncisco 4 lelephone GAl,lield 7752 lor Angclcr Offcc-Rubr Boilccu, llonogcr 606 5o. Hill Sr.-T.l.phonc llAdiron 6-4576