INCREASE IN 1907 LUMBER CUT 



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Table ^.—Lumber Cut, by States, 1907 



state 



Billions Board Feet 

 2 3 



Washington 



Louisiana 



Texas 



Mississippi 



Wisconsin 



Arkansas 



Jlichigan 



Pennsylvania. . . . 



Minnesota 



Oregon 



Nortli Carolina . . 



Virginia 



West Virginia. . 

 California ........ 



Alabama 



Maine 



Kentucljy 



Tennessee 



Georgia 



New York 



Florida 



New Hampsliire. 

 South Carolina. . 



Missouri 



Ohio 



Idaho 



Indiana 



Vermont 



Massachusetts . . . 



Montana 



Maryland 



Iowa 



Illinois 



Oklahoma 



Connecticut 



Colorado 



New Mexico. . . . 



Arizona 



Delaware 



New Jersey 



South Dakota. .. 

 Rhode Island. . . . 



Wyoming 



Utah 



All others 



reported last year than the year before, 

 while the increase in production was 

 only a little over seven per cent., it 

 might be thought that the amount ac- 

 tually manufactured must have been 

 greater in the earlier year. This, how- 

 ever, would be a too hasty inference, 

 for it is almost wholly among mills of 

 small individual output that the gain 

 in the number of establishments report- 

 ing has been made. 



A classification of the returns by 

 states and regions throws additional 

 light on the situation. Individual 

 changes, as, for example, the remark- 



able rise of Texas from eighth to third 

 place among the lumber-producing 

 states, are doubtless accounted for pri- 

 marily by the greater accuracy of the 

 1907 figures ; but in the majority of 

 cases the advances and declines can be 

 traced to specific influences. 



Before the year closed the general 

 business depression was severely felt 

 in the lumber industry. It was not, 

 however, the most important cause of 

 a falling ofif in the production of the 

 year where a falling ofif occurred. For 

 decline in production took place only 

 in certain regions. The South is the 



