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How Lumber Looks

The National Lumber Manufacturers Association for the week ended September 10 reported that 495 mills produced 198,320,000 feet of hardr,voods and softwoods combined; shipped I85,426,W feet, and booked orders of 155,296,000 feet.

Due partly to the Labor Day holiday production, shipments and new orders for the week were all appreciably below the preceding week.

Lumber orders reported for the week by 431 softwood mills totaled 149,487,W feet; shipments were 179,3I2,m feet, and pr,oduction was 192,167,000 feet.

81 hardwood mills for the u'eek gave new business as 5,809,000 feet; shipments 6,114,000 feet, and production 6,153,00O feet.

151 mills in Washington and Oregon which reported to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended September 17, produced,9,627,143 f.eet. New business taken was 88,772.780 feet, and shipments were 97,533,770 Leet. The unfilled order files at these mills totaled 271,O23,161 f.eet.

128 mills reporting to the 'Western Pine Association for the week ended September 17 gave production as 82,458000 feet; shipments 69,603,000 feet, and new business 64,853,000 feet. New business showed an increase of 22.4 per cent over the previous weekly report. Orders on hand at the end of the week stood at 186.713.000 feet.

The California Redwood Association for the week ended September 1O reported production of 13 mills as 6,@7,000 feet; shipments 6,385,000 feet, and new business 4,097,000 feet. Week-end orders on hand were 26,482,4N feet.

127 mills reporting to the Southern Pine Association for the week ended September 77 cut 30,465,000 feet; shipped 30,759,000 feet, and sold 30,483,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 60,843,000 feet.

The new cargo rates on lumber from the Northwest to California ports went into effect September 21. Tfre new rates call for an advance of 50 cents per thousand feet. The new rate to San Francisco ports and Los Angeles harbor is $6 per M feet B.M., while the rate to San Diego is $5.50 per M feet B.M.

Union Lumber Company Announces Changes

Union Lumber Company announces that Ray Shannon will assume the duties of sales manager for Southern California and Arizona with headquarters at their Los Angeles office. He succeeds Mason E. Kline who will make his headquarters in the San Francisco offrce.

Mr. Shannon has been with the company for the past seventeen years. After spending some time at the mill, he went to the San Francisco office where he was connected with the sales department, and later he worked out of their Chicago office. Recently he has been covering the Sonoma Valley and San Francisco Bay areas. He will be in Los Angeles about October 10.

Mr. Kline will spend about sixty days with Mr. Shannon before going to San Francisco.

"styling Your Ho^e"

San Francsico, Sept. 26.-Style conscious home owners get a ne&' home planning aid this week as their local lumber dealers receive advance copies of the publication "Styling Your Home."

Produced by the Cali{or,nia Redwood Association, the booklet's 28 pages show 63 photographs of 41 difierent homes, selected from various price classes and geographical areas.

Lumber dealers receive sample copies free from the publishers, the California Redwood Association, 405 Montgomery Street, San Francisco.

Elmer E. Case

Elmer E. Case, president of the Case Cedar & Shingle Co., of Raymond, Wash., one of the largest operators in the Red Cedar shingle industry, was shot to death, August 31.

He was walking down a gang plank to supervise the loading of a barge when he was shot four times in the back. No reason is given for the tragic happening.

Mr. Case was 78 years of age, in excellent physical health and was active in the business in which he had been engaged for 45 years. He had been enjoying work, hunting, fishing and golf as well as short vacation trips. He is survived by his widow, two sons, Albert E. and Harold Case, and three daughters. The business will be continued by his son, Albert.