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LOS ANGELES, CAL, SEPTEMBER I, 1942

How Lumber Lrooks

The National Lumber Manufacturers Association reported that lumber production during the week ended August 15, !942, was .4 per cent less than the previous week, shipments 4 per cent greater, and new business 2 per cent less'

During the week 443 mills produced 267,02I,W feet of hardwoods and softwoods combined, shipped 28l,96f.pffi feet, and booked orders of.271,765,ffi feet.

Lumber orders for the week reported by 361 softwood mills totaled 252,945,n0 feet, shipments were 267,762,W0 feet, and production was 255,040,000 feet. 97 hardwood mills for the week gave orders as 18,820,000 feet, shipments l4,n4,W feet, and production 11,981,0@ feet.

Seattle, Washington, August 14.-The weekly average of West Coast lumber production in July (5 weeks) was l&,822,WO board feet, or 85.0 per cent of estimated capacity. Orders averaged 222,979,0n board feet; shipments, 193,875,000. Weekly averages for June were: Production, 176,608,000 board feet (89.7 per cent of the 1926-1929 avetage) ; orders, N8,425,W; shipments, 198,760,000.

Seven months of. 1942 cumulative production, 5,223,389,000 board f.eet;7 months 1941, 5,104,163,000; 7 months 1940, 4,295,832,m.

Orders for 7 month s of. t942 break down as follows : rail, 4,ffi,432,m board feet; domestic cargo, 632,977,000; export, 71,428,000 ; local, 77 3,084,W0.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 1,173,161,000 board feet at the end of July; gross stocks, at 622,377,ffi0.

West Coast lumber has settled into a long, hard grind of war production, and in this situation it is a good pattern of what is taking place nationally in the war industries. The daily problem is, against growing labor shortages, to produce lumber items and orders required most urgently for war uses. These uses are taking practically all that undermanned West Coast sawmills and logging operations can produce. Until there is a decisive change in the situation' the war obligation of the West Coast lumber industry is to supply from its production the maximum'of the specialized items the Army and Navy require-stress timbers, aircraft lumber, battleship decking, timbers, decking and planking for Navy boats, and other high quality items on which war demand is more and more sharply focusing.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended August 15, 92 mills reporting, gave orders as 80,933,000 feet, shipments 92$45,0m feet, and production 96,815,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 442,664,W feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended August 15, Jb mills reporting, gave orders as 37971,000 feet, shipments 32,531,000 feet, and production 26,86O,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 173,719,0@ feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended August 8 reported orders as 152,785,000 feet, shipments 134,608,000 feet, and production \26,199,W feet. For the week ended August 15 orders were rePorted as 127,82,000 feet, shipments 132,761,W feet and production 126,159,000 feet.