Show lumber mills are busy as prices mount payrolls increase and production shows gain new orleans long faces in the southern pine lumber industry which ranks second to king cotton as the big shot ot of dixie pay rolls are brightening employment has increased prices have gone up and the plies piles of 0 lumber weathering in the mill yards have diminished mini shed after the stock market crash the industry under urgings from the white house not to create unemployment by reducing manufacturing output ud and assured that prosperity was just around the corner carried on during 1031 1931 the price of lumber under the weight of piled up unsold u unwanted lumber in mill yards slumped rapidly operators offered their wares at lower and lower prices in an effort to move the product and raise cash to meet pay rolls bank obligations and taxes in january 1933 the southern pine association reported that for one week feet of lumber were manu factored but only feet shipped unfilled orders totaled only feet then the nation went off th the e gold standard and by may 27 the file of unfilled orders had risen to feet a clear gain of feet or almost twice the shipments of the first w week eek of the year shipments for tile the year to date feet have surpassed production by feet reducing piled up stocks by that amount the stock decrease combined with the increase in unfilled orders shows a total gain in business of over feet feel during the week ot of may 27 the mills reported they shipped feet or more than the totals of the first two weeks of 0 the year during that same week production was feet an increase which brought more employment and bigger pay rolls to be spent with the merchants |