Interesting Figures on Lumber and Building Statistics Kept by "Ted" Lawrence

"Ted" Lan'rence, of Los Angeles, Southern California manager for the Hart-Wood Lumber Company, is a thinking niember of the rvholesale lulnber fraternity lvho does no"t trust entirely to his own memory to keep posted-.on things of interest to himself and his company regarding Ium6er facts and figures, but prefers charts for t-hat purpose. In his office 6e has a ntlmber of verY practical lumber charts which he keeps strictly up-to-date, and prepared for immediate ready reference.

Trvo of those charts rvill be found reproduced rvith this article. The larger one shows the comparatir e relationship of three things. First, building permits in the city of Los Angeles beginrring rvith Januaty,-1923, and brou-ght up to the fresent mornent; second, lumber receipts- at San Pidro har-bor during that same period, shorving the-relationship maintained betrveen rvater shipments into L. A. and thi building permits of the city; and third' the price of three basic iiems of Douglas Fir lumber, as rvell as the item of lath, during that same period of time, to show that the price line of lttrnber keeps march lvith the rvater receipfs. and the Lrrrilding permits. 'The three lumber items Mr. Lawrence uses are one by eight and wider clears, rough common random, and trvo inch number three common rough.

Some very interesting deductions this chart.

may be drarvn from of six ) ears, and is shol'ing rvater borne shipments of lumber into the various ports of Southern California from January l9l8 up to the Present time, and the lower bracket shorving the building permits of Los Angeles during that same-period of tim'e.

This chart bears the follorving figur.es at the bottom on rvater borne shipments of lumbei inio Southern california: .For the year 1923, the chart gives the follorvins fisures of water borne lumber into Soutf,ern California as showed as follows:

For re24 tr,. -"nini, ;;;;. i., in.

January F-ebruary

March

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