26 SEVENTH REPORT OF THE 



FT., B. M. 



Spruce, 2,730,780 



Hemlock, 18,659,026 



Pine, - - - - - - 9,340,448 



Hardwood, -.-- 25,876,089 



Total, 56,606,343 



Shingles, 4,871,500 



Lalh (pieces), ---------- 5,158,700 



Of the sawed hardwood, a good proportion is composed of chestnut and oak, 

 species which do not enter at all into the Adirondack product, but which are 

 abundant in the Catskills, where they are sawed largely into railroad ties. 



In addition to the lumber output, the chemical mills, which manufacture wood 

 alcohol and acetate of lime, consumed during the year 103,449 cords of four foot 

 wood, equivalent to 56,793,501 feet. All kinds of hardwood or broad-leaved trees, 

 large and small, are available in this industry. 



In the manufacture of excelsior the mills used 4,175 cords — equivalent to 

 2,292,075 feet — mostU' basswood and poplar. The mills engaged in this industry 

 manufacture e.xcelsior and nothing else. 



The furniture factories reported 1,330 cords as used last year, equivalent to 

 730,170 feet. Most of it was hard maple used in the chair factories at Chichester 

 and Shandaken, in Ulster county. 



The two pulpmills in the Catskill district consumed 2,503 cords, or 1,374,147 feet, 

 mostly poplar mixed with second-growth pine and basswood ; not much spruce. 

 The pulp from these mills is not used for making paper; it is dried and pulverized 

 for use as a carbon and absorbent in the manufacture of dynamite; and, also, as a 

 substitute for cork in making linoleum. 



The combined product of the Adirondack and Catskill forests amounted in 1900 

 to 651,135,308 feet, or more than the entire Canadian lumber import of that year to 

 the United States.* As the figures may convey little or no meaning to persons who 

 are not familiar with the lumber business, it may be well to explain, as done in a 



* The total Canadian import for iSgg was : 



Logs and round timber, .......... 198,135,000 feet 



Hewn and squared timber, ---...-.- 1,593,504 " 



Sawed lumber, board, plank, etc., ........ 423,705,000 " 



623,433,504 " 



