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Decrease in Lumber Production

Washington, D. C., Nov. 27-Lumber production in September totaled 2,196,A45,On board feet, which is 17.6 per cent less than the production of. 2,&t3,534,000 board feet in August, the Civilian Production Administration said today.

The decrease was general throughout the country except for the North Central region, which showed an increase of two per cent over A.ugust. All other regions showed decreases ranging between seven and 21 per cent.

Although production in September was seriously curtailed in the West by labor negotiations, the greatest reduction in comparison with August was in the South, which dropped 21 per cent.

For the first nine months of 1945, production totaled 2,017,193,000 board feet, a 12.9 per cent decline from production during the comparable period of. 1944.

Softwoods accounted f.or 1,642,931,000 board feet of September 1945 production, a decline of 19.3 per cent from August, 1945, and a drop oI 23.1 per cent from September 1914.

Total production of softwoods in the first nine months of 1945 amounted to 17,184,858,000 board feet, \vhich was I1.9 per cent less than the similar period of 1944.

Hardwoods produced in September amounted to 553,114,000 board feet. Total production oi hardwoods in the first nine months of 1945 was 4,832.335,000 board feet, a drop of l6.l per cent in pro<luctiorr comparecl to the same periocl of 1944.

With Tccomcr Lumber Scrles

Willard R. Ivarson recently became a member of the sales department of Tacorna Lumber Sales, Los Angeles, following his discharge from the service. He was a lieutenant in the USNR, and was a dive bomber pilot based on the U.S.S. Enterprise in the Pacific area.

He is a graduate of the School of Forestry of the University of California, and before entering the service was rvith the Wolf Creek Timber Co.. Greenville. Calif.

A Douglas 6r recently felled had grown an average of 106 board feet of wood each year for many years, rrntil maturity slowed its growth rate.