Evening star., 1923-01-20
LUMBER ACTIVE
| DESPITE SEASON
last Week Second Only to
! Peak Period In
| May, 1922.

There has been no customary mid
Tinter slackening UP in the lumber
industry, according to reports OF ac-
tsvity last week received at head
charters here Of the National Lumber
Manufacturers Association.
sDefying all lumber trade traditions
a. nlidwinter dullness. new business
Pr last week was the second only
to a Peak week last May in the recent
chronicles OF the industry. Shipments
&ere near the record. too. being ex-
Aeded within year by only those
od few weeks last summer. On the
olher hand, owing TO weather condi-
tsons and repairing operations. pro-
dAIction was about the same as q year
sego. The result OF these varying rae
tbts is that for all the 1862 mills re-
iprting this week shipments were
IES per cent and orders 1bS per cent
q production. For the southern pine
ialls the percentages were III ana
1856, respectively, and Tor west coaSt
mills 133 and 15c.
,-ActuaI Production. IS Per Cent.
As compared with their normal pro-
6tlction for the week 3S6 of the re-
pprtiug mills gave actual proooction
aSi1S per cent. shipments loS per cent
saln orders 126 per cent.
SFaking the country py regions .nS
Nnrthern Pine Manufacturers AS
sNciation reports from Minneapolis
lhst of the nine mills reporting only
fpur are saving.
aThe Western Pine Manufacturers
association wires from Portland, ore"
II at of thirty-four identical mills IN
GUIDED in the reports sixteen, INC
sal me as last week, are operating.
Western pine orders increased Il per
can't. shipments so per cent ana pro
ohnction u per cent compared Win the
rkNvious week. The predomInatlng
d6mand is for mixed stocks for re-
tail yards.
9From San Francisco the California a
Redwood Association reports that the
csrder file Of its member mills is the
largest for any week IN nSe years;
Win production we'll in excess OF
1Srmai and shipments satisfactory.
SThe Southern Pine Association re-
rSnrts from New Orleans that the
Seek's new business for its member
rSills reporting totals the eXceptlohal
figure Of 111.9S6.SS2 feet.
q Western business Heavy.
a,rom Seattle the west Coast Lum-
hfrmen,S Association reports that itS
mills took on the heaVlest NoluHle
tie fr-producing industry, the total
haing 1876, 900 feet. Of which Ss
ukr cent was taken for future water
delivery. Domestic cargo oroers
atnounted to Si.,7sI.oo0 feet ane ea-
Taents also broke all previous Week
III records. with a total OF O.SOo, ,oeo
feet, of which 81 per cent moved oy
wa ter Production was Is per cent
below normal. due to continued heaVy
rams and UNPRECEDENTED high water.
which has prevented getting logs
from the camp booming grounds 10
the mills. In the coast producinG
region it has been raining for thirty
days. On the Columbia river last
week only three mills were able to
operate on account of high water.
The untitled orders at west coast
mills slightly exceed 100000. .0o0 feet.
From Cadillac, Mich, the Michigan
Hardwood Manufacturers Assocla-
exceeded production by 40 per cent
and that the outlook for the 1nput
or logs exceeds the cut or last year
hy is per cent. On account or ex-
1ives have been put out of commits
sion, being in such a condition that
they ought to go to the scrap heap,
and the supply OF cars is not good.
Last Year Set Record.
In view of the vigor the lumber in
dustry shows in the first weeks of
1928, 1t is significant that, according
to a revision of the estimated output
OF lumber of all sorts in the United
States in 1922. made by the depart
ment of economics of the National
lumber Manufacturers Association,
production in 1922 was probably
about 4,000, 100000 feet larger than
slated in a release" issued on De-
cember 80, based upon incomplete re-
turns The 1922 output of the mills
of seven associations reporting week
ly to the national association was
II 200. 100000 feet, and in view OF the
preliminary census report on lumber
output in 1921, published yesterday,
and other data, il is believed that
this amount is 81 per cent of the
total, which would III that case be
approximately $4,000. 100000 feet,
roundly. 1t is probable that when
the final estimates are compiled a
year or so hence by the census bu-
reau and the forest service they may
so as high as $1,000. 900 900. but not
lower than $1,000. 100000 feet. En-
cept in the industrial census years,
ali figures on total lumber output in
the United States are estimates based
on reports from a. part of the mills.