How Lumber Looks

Douglas Fir. A total of 349 sawmills reporting to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended' August 16 operated at 47.21 per cent of capacity, which compares with 46 33 per cent of capacity for the preceding week and with an av e rage of 63 per cent of capacity from January 1 to June 1. These 349 mills, representing practically the entire lumber industry in the Douglas fir region of Oregon, Washington and British Columb ia, have redu ced their output d 'uring the past twelve weeks by 537,504,000 feet. This is almost four weeks' production for the whole industry at present operating schedules.

Production, orders and shipments at 227 mills for the week ended August 16 were reported to the Association as follows: production 123,165,273 feet, orders 124,817,229 feet, and s hipments 126,291,291 feet. Orders were 1.34 per cent over production and shipments 2.54 per cent over the output.

The Cal ifornia mark et looks more encouraging than two weeks ago and some improvement has been noted. Further improvement is looked for during the month of September. Lath is very scarce and the market on this item is strong. Due to the recent reduction in the cargo freight rates to the Atlantic coast, the demand on the Eastern coast has increased and many of the mills are reported to have advanced their prices on commons for intercoastal shipment. Unsold stocks at San Pedro on August 27 totaled 9,456,000 feet. 51 lumber vessels in the coast-wise service are laid up.

The Redwood market has improved to quite a noticeable extent during the past two or three weeks over what it has been since June 1. The California Redwood' Ass,. ciation · reported production from 12 mills for the w ended August 16 as 5,547,000 feet, shipments 5,057 , ,

Pacific Adds to Picture

Th e P acific Lu mber Co., ?a n i s n ow eq uipp ed w ith a Be ll & Howe ll m ot10n p i c t u.re ca m era i n ad di t io n t o it s o th e r m o ti on p ic tu re and a nn o unc e m en t feet and orders 4,664,000 feet. The California White and Sugar Pine Manufacturers Association for the week ended August 16 report production from 20 mills as 26 227 000 feet, shipments 16,608,000 feet, and orde rs ts' 490' 000 feet. The Pine market showed' little the' past two weelrs, but manufacturers are anbc1pabr1g heavier buying during September.

Maintaining fair ratio with shipmen ts and demand, production has for !he sevent!t consecutive week remamed a level approx!mately th:aty per cent below !he cut durmg the sa!lle penod a ye,ar ago, it is indicated in reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. Through this. period has averaged about 6 per cent above sh.1pme?ts, ·c10d 1 o per cent above orders. current relationship of shipments and orders to produc!1on as reported by the regional associations to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association for the first 33 weeks of - 1930 is as fo';fows:

West Coast Luml..:>ermen's Association-Production 4, 978,829 M feet; Shipments 4,855,384 M feet; Orders 4, 787,316 M feet

. California and Sugar Pine Manufacturers Associatron-Produ:tion 626,220 M feet; Shipments 678,562 M feet; 68 7,895 M feet.

Cal· tornia Redwood Association-Production 225,376 M ft eet; Shipments 206,811 M feet; Orders 209,529 M ff.!el.

Southern Pine Association - Production, 1,876,406 M et; Shipments 1,738,443 M feet; Orders 1,709,748 M .!et.

Total Hardwoods-Production 1,374,360 M feet; Shipments 1,156,920 M feet; Orders 1,089,637 M feet.

Weyerhaeuser Opens Offices in California

Di s trict sa l es offices h ave b ee n o pen e d in S an Franci s co and L os Ang e l es b y th e W ey erhaeu s er Sa l es Co mpany , distribut o rs of W eye rh ae u se r fo r es t pro d uct s b y thi s they t ake pidur es o f 111t u a nd in s t a ll a ti o n s. Th ey ha t m ight b e o f s uffi c i e nt ge n e ral 111es t to b e ph o t o[ , rap fo r fut ur e ex hibiti o n wi th o ther

Re Wo od pk t u!"es.

W E Bar w ic k i s di s tri c t r e pre s entati ve at S a n Franci s co, w ith offic e a t 6 12 New hall Building , 260 California Street. T e l e ph o n e i s D A ve np o rt 5668.

W . H. l\t!'Jrr i so n i s di s trict manag e r at L os Angeles and w ill ca': e r th e S o uth e rn Cali fo mia and A ri zo na t e rritorie s . Hi s o ffi ce is a t 486 C hamber o f Co mm e r ce Bldg Te!P pht1ne W E s tm or e 6325.