HARDWOOD RECORD 



35 



TOTAL FOR urn TED STATES 



softwoods""^ 



HARDWOODS 



WENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 EST SERVICE 

 GRAVES FORESTER 



BER BY STATES AND KINDS 



tDAR YEAR 1910 



F PBOOUCTS B* THE OFFICt OF GEOGRAPHY 



th« Bufeau of the Census aod Ihe Forest Seivice in I9II- 



>afd Tieasu'e u reoresenied by thi« sauare 



(H> bii a vertical dividing line 



ttt class by herinnlal dividing lines which with their 

 •n the table 



vn (or each kind nl lumber in the summaiv dia^rarp 



L-ARCH 9s 



$11 as 



CEDAR 8- 

 t/5 S3 



YELLOW PINE I 

 tl3.B9 



DOUGLAS FIR 2 

 tl3. OS 



WHITE PINE 

 »/a 93 



HEMLOCK A 

 t/3BS 



WESTERN PINE 6 



r?l?Rl^ 



S^r 



ISO SI 



t/e e2 



of HE 



OAK II 

 */5 76- 



MAPLE 12 

 S/e 16 



ALL OTHER 20 



rULIP POPLAR la 



RED GUM 14 

 $1126 



CHESTNUT 15 

 ■I6B3 



BEECH 16 



3IRCH n$/737 



BASSWOOD 18 



ELM 19 $/B67 



t^oat 



Graphic Map of Lumber Pro- 

 duction 



In the issue of Hardwood Becord of Oc- 

 tober 10, 1911, was published a map for 1909 

 in which the latest statistics of himber cut 

 for the United States was shown by figures 

 and diagrams. A similar map for the year 

 1910 is shown in this issue through the cour- 

 tesy of O. T. Swan of the United States 

 Forest Service. The figures given are the 

 official returns and were collected and tabu- 

 lated by the Bureau of the Census in co- 

 operation with the Forest Service. Statistics 

 of this kind are necessarily a year or more 

 late, because of the great labor involved in 

 collecting the information. The map as issued 

 by the Forest Service is in colors, each one 

 of the leading woods being shown by a sep- 

 arate color; Vjut it is impracticable to repro- 

 duce the colors in the accompanying print, and 

 the diagrams are depended upon to tell the 

 story of lumber cut. A square inch diagram 

 on the accompanying map represents four 

 billion, the map herewith presented being only 

 one-fourth the size of the original. 



The map is largely self-explanatory, but 

 some of the facts may be emphasized by 

 calling attention to special features. The 

 letter S accompanying the diagi"am means 

 softwoods, and H hardwoods. 



Figures refer to species, the first ten nu- 

 merals to the softwoods and the second ten 

 to hardwoods. Or, more specifically, 1 is 

 southern yellow pine, 2 Douglas fir, 3 white 

 pine, 4 hemlock, 5 spruce, 6 western pine, 7 

 cypress or redwood, depending upon the re- 

 gion, the redwood being found only in Cali- 

 fornia, 8 cedar, 9 larch or tamarack, 10 all 

 other softwoods. 



Among the hardwoods 11 is oak, 12 maple, 

 13 yellow, poplar, ll red gum, 1.5 chestnut, 16 

 beech, 17 birch, IS basswood, 19 elm, 20 all 

 others. 



The total for softwoods is 31,161,000,000, 

 and for hardwoods 8,857,000,000 ; grand total, 

 40,018,000,000. For the sake of comparison, 

 the totals for the year 1909 are given: soft- 

 woods 33,897,000,000, hardwoods 10,613,000,- 

 000; grand total, 44,510,000,000. There was 

 a falling off in total cut from 1909 to 1910 

 of 3,492,000,000 feet, of which 2,756,000,000 

 feet was softwood and 1,756,000,000 was hard- 

 wood. 



The falling off was doubtless more ap- 

 parent than real, the census for the year 1909 

 being much more complete than that for 1910. 

 In the former year reports were received 

 from 48,112 nrills, and in the latter year from 

 only 31,983. The 16,129 mills from which no 

 reports were received for 1910 were generally 

 small concerns, yet if their average annual 

 cut was only 220,000 feet, they would more 

 than make up the apparent decline in lumber 

 output from 1909 to 1910. It is therefore 

 reasonable to conclude that there was no 

 actual falling off in cut. 



The apparent decline in hardwood cat was 

 proportionately greater than in the softwoods. 



