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The Use of W^ood in Illinois 



Kinds or Wood. 



1 Longleaf yellow pine . 



2 White oak 



3 White pine 



4 Shortleaf yellow pine.. 



5 Red gum 



6 Sugar maple.. 



7 Red oak ... . 



8 Cottonwood.. 



9 Sweet birch . 

 10 Cypress 



1 1 Basswood 



12 Yellow poplar . 



13 Douglas fir. . . . 

 Henilock. 



14 



15 White aah.. 



16 Hickory 



17 White ehn ... 



18 Norway pine . 



19 Chestnut 



20 Soft maple.... 



21 Western white pine . 



22 Paper birch 



23 Shppcry (rock) elm. 



24 Beech 



25 Black ash 



26 Tupelo 



27 Maliogany 



28 Sycamore. 



29 Walnut (black).. 



30 Sitka spruce. . . . 



31 Bahn of Gilead . 



32 Chestnut oak. . 



33 Black spruce . . 



34 Sugar pme 



35 Balsam fir 



36 Western red cedar. . . 



37 Tamarack 



38 Western yellow pine. 



39 Red Cedar 



40 Padouk (vermilion) . 



41 

 42 

 43 

 44 

 45 



Spanish cedar 



Engehnaoo spruce 



Loblolly pine 



Redwood 



Cherry- 



46 Spanish oak 



47 Bur oak 



48 Cucumber 



49 Northern white cedar. . 



50 Butternut 



51 Post oak. . . 



52 WiUow .... 



53 Hack berry . 

 64 Persimmon. . 

 S5 Water oak . 



56 Black gtnn 



57 Cuban pine 



58 Rosewood 



59 Pecan 



60 (Circassian walnut . 



61 Koko 



62 Teakwood 



63 Willow oak.... 



64 African cedar. 



65 Tonquin 



66 Osage orange. 



67 Prima vera. . . 



68 Black oak. . . . 



69 Ebony. 



70 Moro 



71 English oak 



72 Lodgepole pine . 



73 Marolewood. . . . 



74 Satinwood 



75 White holly . . . . 



76 Locust. 



77 Madagascar tulip 



78 AustraUan plumwood. 



79 African walnut 



80 Snakewood 



81 West Indian boxwood . 



82 Cocuswood 



83 Amaranth 



84 Doneella 



Total. 



QuANTTTT Used 



Annttallt in 



Illinois. 



Feet 

 Board Measure 



295,098,000 

 181,299,110 

 175,664.500 

 162,907,000 

 128,801,580 



101,487,000 

 72,971,000 

 63,880,660 

 61,516,700 

 54,516,000 



60,905,500 

 48,201,830 

 45,279,000 

 44,318,000 

 42,695,000 



28,746,420 

 26,900,000 

 24,794,000 

 21,989,000 

 21,785,000 



19,636,000 

 19,312,000 

 16,726,000 

 10,145,000 

 9,936,000 



9,771,500 

 6,651,350 

 5,308,500 

 4,340,350 

 3,774,000 



2,775,000 

 2,636,000 

 2,624.500 

 2,290,000 

 1,160,750 



1,054,000 



1,025,000 



1,000,000 



986,670 



694,000 



677,600 

 664,000 

 656,000 

 621,000 

 484,000 



390,000 

 345,000 

 309,000 

 200,000 

 183,000 



170,000 

 170,000 

 166,000 

 150,000 

 128,000 



120,000 

 100,000 

 84,790 

 65,000 

 40,500 



32,000 

 31,000 

 30,000 

 29,000 

 29,000 



27,000 

 26,000 

 25,000 

 19,750 

 19,000 



15,000 

 8,000 

 4,000 

 2,600 

 2,200 



2,000 

 1,500 

 1,500 

 1,330 

 1,250 



1,100 



1,000 



750 



330 



1,781,636,120 



Used Annually in Chxcaoo. 



Feet 

 Board Measure. 



173,032,000 

 113,632,110 

 149,380,000 

 107,720,000 

 36,991.580 



83,172,000 

 44,250,000 

 31,281,660 

 48.777,700 

 16,871,000 



41,690,600 

 32,500,830 

 35,972,000 

 28,421,000 

 20,447,000 



7,127,170 

 14,654,000 

 21,364,000 

 12,466,000 

 14,310,000 



18,585,000 

 17,312,000 

 9,441,000 

 8,687,000 

 6,336,000 



1,435,500 

 5,535,850 

 1.166,600 

 1.161,350 

 1.091,000 



2,476,000 

 1,836,000 

 1,659,500 

 1,090,000 

 460,000 



235,000 

 750,000 

 1,000,000 

 93,670 

 694,000 



533,600 

 664,000 

 346,000 

 202,000 

 243,000 



120,000 

 70,000 



150,000 



30,000 



6,000 



4,000 

 2,600 

 2,200 



2,000 

 1,500 

 1,500 

 1,330 

 1,250 



1,100 



1,000 



750 



330 



1,116,855,120 



Per 

 Cent. 



58.6 

 62.7 

 85.0 

 66.1 

 28.7 



82.0 

 60.6 

 49.0 

 79.3 

 30.9 



81.9 

 67.4 

 79.4 

 64.1 

 47.9 



24.8 

 54.5 

 86.2 

 56.7 

 65.7 



94.6 

 89.6 

 56.4 

 85.6 

 63.7 



14.7 

 83.2 

 22.0 

 26.8 

 28.9 



89.2 

 69.7 

 63.2 

 47.6 

 39.6 



22.3 

 73.2 



100.0 

 9.5 



100.0 



78.7 

 100.0 

 52.7 

 38.8 

 50.2 



60.0 

 38.3 



58.2 

 17.6 

 3.6 



100.0 

 100.0 

 100 



100 

 100.0 

 100.0 

 100 

 100 



100.0 

 100.0 

 100.0 

 1000 



62.6 



Used Annually in Illinois Out- 

 side or CmcAQO. 



Feet 

 Board Measure. 



122.066,000 

 67,667,000 

 26,284,500 

 55,187,000 

 91,810,000 



18,315,000 

 28,721.000 

 32,699,000 

 12,739,000 

 37,645,000 



9.215,000 

 15,701,000 



9,307,000 

 15,897,000 

 22,248,000 



21,619.250 

 12,248,000 

 3,430,000 

 9,523,000 

 7,475,000 



1,051,000 

 2,000,000 

 7,285,000 

 1,458,000 

 4,600.000 



8.336,000 

 1,115,500 

 4,142,000 

 3,179,000 

 2,683,000 



300,000 

 800,000 

 965,000 

 1,200,000 

 700,750 



819,000 

 275,000 



893,000 



144,000 



310,000 

 319,000 

 241,000 



390,000 

 345.000 

 309,000 

 80,000 

 113,000 



20,000 

 140,000 

 160,000 

 150,000 



28,000 



120,000 



39,500 

 65,000 

 9,500 



32,000 

 31,000 

 30,000 

 4,000 



27,000 

 25,000 

 25,000 



19,000 



8,000 



664,681,000 



Per 



Cent. 



41.4 

 37.3 

 15.0 

 33.9 

 71.3 



18.0 

 39.4 

 51.0 

 20.7 

 69.1 



18.1 

 32.6 

 20.6 

 36.9 

 62.1 



75.2 

 45.5 

 13.8 

 43.3 

 34.3 



6.4 

 10.4 

 43.6 

 14.4 

 46.3 



85.3 

 16 8 

 78.0 

 73.2 

 71.1 



10.8 

 30.3 

 36.8 

 52.4 

 60.4 



77.7 

 26.8 



90.5 



21.3 



47.3 



61.2 

 49.8 



100.0 

 100.0 

 100.0 

 40.0 

 61.7 



11.8 

 82.4 

 96.4 

 100,0 

 21.9 



100.0 



46.6 

 lOOO 

 23.5 



100. 

 100.0 

 100.0 

 13.8 



1000 

 96.2 

 100.0 



100.0 



100.0 



37.4 



QUANTITIES AND KINDS OF LUMBER ANNUALLY E.MI'LOYEn IN 

 ILLINOIS. WITH CO.MPARATIVE CONSUMPTION IX CHICAOO AND 



SIDE OP CIIICAfiO 



ItEMANUFACTL-RB IN 

 IN THE STATE OUT- 



The Department of Hortioulture of the 

 University of Illinois in conjunction with 

 the Forest Service, under the direction of 

 H. S. Sackett, chief of the oflBce of Wood 

 Utilization, has .just issued an interesting 

 book of one hundred and sixty-four pages, 

 by Roger E. Simmons, covering a study of 

 the wood-using industries of Illinois. The 

 work attempts to trace woods into the dif- 

 ferent channels of usefulness in which they 

 are employed with a view to determining 

 the kind and quantity utilized in the manu- 

 facture of the many commodities made in 

 the state. The study does not include cross 

 ties, telegraph and telephone poles, mining 

 timbers, shingles or laths, as they are re- 

 garded as rough forest products. Neither 

 does it include rough lumber which with- 

 out further manufacture goes into build- 

 ings and other structural work, or the large 

 quantity of dressed lumber for building pur- 

 poses that is shipped into the state. 



The report restricts its discussion to 

 woods that enter into factory manipulation 

 in the making of cars, boxes, doors, furni- 

 ture, interior tinish, agricultural implements, 

 ("otHns, refrigerators and the miscellaneous 

 utilization for which hardwoods are large- 

 ly employed. 



The work contains many comparative 

 tables, one of which is reproduced in con- 

 nection with this article, and this one 

 shows a summary of the woods employed in 

 the city of Chicago by kind and quantity, 

 together with a comparative statement of 

 those employed in the state outside of Chi- 

 cago. Just a glance at the table will as- 

 tound the average lumberman when he 

 realizes that while the remanufaeturing in- 

 stitutious of Illinois employed during the 

 year 1909, 1,781,536,120 feet of lumber, the 

 city of Chicago alone consumed in its fac- 

 tories 1,116,855,120 feet of this total. 



These figures clearly demonstrate that 

 Chicago leads by a long ways as the chief 

 lumber consuming city of the world, and 

 notably so in hardwood consumption. 



In later issues of Hardwood Eecoed, sev- 

 eral of the other tables will be reproduced, 

 showing quantities of lumber employed in 

 the various major and minor wood-working 

 industries, not only of the city of Chicago, 

 but of the entire state of Illinois. 



The work states that there are 1,216 wood- 

 using industries in Illinois, which consume 

 in their manufacturing lines lumber to the 

 value of $51,229,693. Of the quantity of 

 lumber involved in this total, 84.2 per cent 

 was grown outside of the state; 1.4 per cent 

 within the state and 14.4 per cent was of 

 unknown origin. 



Eighty-four kinds of wood are demanded 

 by the manufacturers of Illinois. Yellow 

 pine leads in quantity; white oak is second 

 in importance; white pine, third; red gum, 

 fourth; hard maple, fifth; red oak, sixth; 

 Cottonwood, seventh; red birch, eighth; 



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