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Annual Lumber Cut and Values 



Editor's Note 



Preliminarv fleuips of the lumber output by states in 1911 were publisbed in Hardwood Record Jan. 10 1913. 

 The article which follows contains the same statistics with much additional information including the relative 

 rank of states in production, per cent of increase or decrease per cent of distribution and a table in which for 

 the first time, figures are brought together showing the values of lumber by species for the twelve years from 1899 

 to 1911. inclusive. 



The Bureau of the Census, in co-operation witli the Forest Serv- 

 ice, has published statistics of the output of lumber, lath and 

 shingles in the United States for the year 1911. One of the first 

 things to attract attention in e.\amining the report is the fact that 

 the number of sawmills from which reports were received in 1911 

 was 20,000 less than the number reporting in 1909. The remark- 

 able decrease in number is explained by the method pursued in 

 collecting the slat iisl its for tlic two periods. In 1909 — that being 

 the year of the decennial census — every mill in the country that 

 could be reached was included; but in 1911 it was decided that no 

 attempt would be made to include mills whose output was less than 

 50,000 feet a year. The decline of 20,000 in the number of mills 

 was not actual, but only apparent. If all of those small mills had 

 been included, the showing of the total lumber cut would not have 

 been increased 3 per cent, for it is the large mills that cut the 

 bulk of the lumber. 



Apparently much of the fluctuation shown in statistics of lumber 

 output for the past dozen years has been due to the different 

 degrees of completeness of the returns, though there doubtless have 

 been considerable differences in the actual cut. 



The following table summarizes a large amount of lumber statis- 

 tics for the whole country, covering three years. 

 Lumber, Lath and Shingles — Number op Active Mills Reporting 

 AND Quantity of Lumber Cut, With Per Cent op Increase 

 AND Per Cent Distribution, by States: 1011. 19in 

 AKD 1909 



PRO. 



DUC- 

 TION. 



United 8latc« 



Washington 



LouislAnB 



Uisslssippi 



Oregon 



Nortb Carolina. 



Arkansas... 

 Wisconsin.. 



Texas 



Hinnasota.. 

 Uicbigan.. . 



West Virginia.. 



Vireinia 



Alabama 



Calilomia... 

 Pennsylvania. . 



Florida 



Tennessee 



Maine 



Georgia 



Idaho 



Kentucky 



South Caroiisa. 



New York 



Ohio 



Missouri. „ . . . 



New Hampshire 



Indiana 



Massachusetta... 



Vermont 



Montana. 



Maryland 



Oklahoma.... 

 Coimecticut, . 



llUnols 



Colorado 



New Mexico.. 



Artiona 



Iowa 



Wyoming 



New Jersey... 



Delaware 



South Dakota. . 



Utah 



Rhode Island. . 

 Allotherstat68» 



26 26 



27 27 



28 30 28 

 2g2e29 

 30 28 30 



36 31) 



38 38 



"36 



42 



40{«3(l 



31,934 



777 

 502 



eos 



622 

 2,071 



1,12: 

 771 

 430 

 467 

 796 



994 

 2,006 

 1,112 



222 

 1,630 



2«S 



1,636 



817 



962 



aoo 



t,4i2 

 641 



1,520 

 1,009 

 1,112 



218 

 ISO 



48,112 



951 

 497 



1,061 

 574 



2,368 



1,260 

 872 

 466 



1,060 

 2,286 

 1,358 

 252 

 1,847 



346 

 1,774 



856 

 1,285 



229 



1,660 

 663 

 1,468 

 1.I4R 

 1,325 



474 

 i,tM4 

 459 

 642 

 140 



431 

 234 



266 

 462 



186 

 81 

 156 



37.003,207 



1,143 

 668 



1,796 

 696 



3,307 



2,060 



1,241 



719 



745 



1,323 



1,,524 

 3,511 

 2, 188 

 305 

 3,054 



491 

 2,643 

 1,243 

 2,083 



304 



2,372 

 1,048 

 2,308 

 1, 632 

 2,070 



708 

 1,604 

 643 

 725 

 IKO 



729 

 3»0 

 420 

 827 

 260 



LUUBEB .<:aWED 



Quantity (M feet b. m J 



40,018,282 44,509,761 



4,064,734 

 3,666,456 

 2,041,616 

 1,803,698 

 1,798,724 



1,777,303 

 1,761,986 

 1,681,080 

 1,485,015 

 1,466,764 



1.387, 



1,359,790 



1,226,-212 



1.207,561 



1,048,606 



983,824 

 914,579 

 828,417 

 801,611 

 766, 670 



632,415 

 684,872 

 526,283 

 427, 161 

 418,686 



388,614 ■ 

 360, 613 

 273,317 

 239,254 

 238,416 



144.078 

 143,869 



124, oei 



»6,«SI 

 96,908 



83,728 

 73,139 

 .59,974 

 33,309 

 28,639 



23,863 

 13,046 

 10,673 

 9,016 

 11,786 



3,862,916 -0.8 



Per renl of 

 inci«ase.i 



I91l> 

 to 

 1911 



-10 1 



3,551,918 

 2,572,069 

 1,898,995 

 2,177,715 



2,111,300 

 2,025,038 

 2,099,130 

 1,561,508 

 1, 889, 724 



1,472,942 

 2,101,716 

 1.691,001 

 1. 143.507 

 1,462,771 



1,201,734 

 1,223,849 

 1,111,565 

 1,342,249 

 046,800 



860.712 

 897, 66<) 

 681,44tl 

 542,904 

 660,159 



649,006 

 656,418 

 361,200 

 361,571 

 308,682 



267,939 

 225,730 

 168,371 

 170, 181 

 141,710 



01,! 

 62, 



132,021 

 28,602 



-4 5 



-3 8 

 ■ 13.5 



0.8 

 ■17.7 

 -16.3 

 -3.8 

 -15.5 



-0.8 

 -10.0 

 -3.7 

 -23.0 

 2.6 



-16.1 



55,440 

 31,067 

 12,038 

 25,489 

 16,946 



-12.5 

 -14 



14 3 

 -16.0 

 -28.4 



-5.8 

 -12.6! 



-0.4| 

 -14.8 

 -21.0 



2 



law 



to 

 1910 



Per cent 

 distriljulion. 



0.1 

 6 I 



-17 S 



0.8 



-16.2 



-12.6 



-6.6 

 -10.21 



-6.6 

 -11.0 



-6.5 

 -21.4 

 -13.3 



9 

 -15 1 



-17.4 

 - 16, 9 

 -22,6 

 -22 4 

 15.6 



61,620-21.6-40,7 



-48.9 



-20.2 



-10.3 



37.4 



-6.4 



-9.7 

 -24 



-24.0 

 -33 

 -19 

 3 4 



-42-3 

 -27.1 

 -24.9 

 -33.3 

 -14.3 



-9.2 



15.8 



-42.9 



-6.7 

 -43.5 

 ■21 



3.6| 



8.7 

 8 



4.7 

 4.6 

 4.7 



3.5 

 4.2 



3.8 

 2.6 

 3.3 



2.7 

 2.6 

 3.0 



0.6 

 5 



4 



3 



0.2 

 0.1 

 3 



A minus sign ( - ) denotes derr«aae, > Less than one-tentli of I per cent, 



* Includes Kansas, Nebraska, and Nevada, 



The name yellow pine includes a number of species cut in nearly 

 thirty states. The largest cut oomes from the three southern pines, 

 longleaf, shortleaf and loblolly; but ether trees contribute, among 

 them being Cuban pine, scrub pine, pond pine, sand pine, spruce 

 pine and pitch pine. The combined yellow pine output exceeds 

 that of any other group of trees. Douglas fir, which is second in 

 quantity, is a single species, and white pine includes not only the 

 wood always known by that name but alstj Norway and jack pine. 

 The oaks are a group, and more than twent}' species contribute. 

 What is listed as western pine is principally the yellow pine which 

 grows west of the Rocky Mountains. In most instances the woods 

 listed in the tables are groups of tl'ees, not single species. This 

 is the case with cedar, hemlock, spruce, maple, birch, basswood, 

 hickory, elm, ash and Cottonwood. Not less than 150 species are 

 cut in the United States, but most of the lumber on the market 

 comes from fifteen or twenty. Among the minor woods sawed into 

 lumber are cherry, mahogany, buckeye, locust, magnolia, Japanese 

 oak, Osage orange, willow, African walnut, alder, apple, butternut, 

 Circassian walnut, cucumber, dogwood, eucalyptus, Honduras cork- 

 wooil, prima vera, mulberry, myrtle, persimmon, sassafras and sil- 

 verbell. 



The cut of shingles in the United States is shown in the table 



which follows: Shingles PKOnuCEn 



1911 1910 1909 — — 



Quantit.v Percent Quantity Percent Quantity Percent 



Killll of Wnoil 



(tliou- 

 i4tin<is). 

 Cedar 9,033,91 1 



Cypress 

 Yellow pine 

 Uethvood . . 

 White pine . 

 fhestnut .. 

 Hemlock .. . 

 Western pine 

 .Spruce . . . . 

 .Ml oili.'r 



1,230,«4,-, 

 650,332 

 o9.3,78G 

 S3,S()9 

 40,840 

 •JtJ.ITl 

 1.-..SS2 

 12.3S1 

 24,107 



distri- 

 bution 

 79. ."i 

 10.2 

 .-).4 

 3.3 

 0.7 

 0.3 

 0.2 

 l_l.l 

 (1.1 

 0.2 



( thou- 

 sands) 

 10,108,643 

 1,180,217 

 803,149 

 437,701 

 140,,'i .-.,-. 

 52.091 

 42,447 

 27,277 

 68,745 

 49,537 



distri- 

 liution 

 77.9 

 9.1 

 6.7 

 3.4 

 1.1 

 0.4 

 0.3 

 0.2 

 0.5 

 0.4 



(thou- 

 sands) 

 10,903,817 

 1.380,722 

 1,203,505 

 500,051 

 283,213 

 91,700 

 76,029 

 08,934 

 147,132 

 89,542 



distri- 

 bution 

 73.5 

 9.3 

 8.7 

 3.4 

 1.9 

 0.6 

 0.,'i 

 0,5 

 1.0 

 0.6 



lot:il 12,113,867 100.0 12,976,302 100.0 14,907,371 100,0 



The htth used by plasterers are largely a by-product at saw- 

 mills and are manufactured from slabs and crooked or defective 

 logs. Practically ever_y kind of wood which passes through saw- 

 mills may be made into lath, but it is impossible to segregate the 

 woods and determine how much is used of each of the various 

 kinils. The manufacture of this commodity is reported from every 

 state except Nebraska, North Dakota and Rhode Island. The prin- 

 cipal product is from ten states, as shown below: 



Minnesota 402.962,000 



Louisiana .355,516,000 



Wiishington 338,578,000 



WiMonsln 319,973,000 



Miiiue 199,002,000 



Michigan 178,404,000 



West Virginia 129,001,000 



Pennsylvania 118,923.000 



Mississippi _ 103,594,000 



..\rkansas 

 All other 



100.046,00') 

 723,911,000 



Total 2,971,110,000 



A valuable feature in the report of 1911 was not found in former 

 reports of lumber production. It is a summary of values at the 

 mill, and includes the years 1899. 1904, ]90(i, 1907, 190S, 1909, 1910 

 and 1911. Thirty of the country's leading woods are shown, and 

 Iv conip:iring values in 1S99 with those twelve years later, it is 

 found that the average value increased thirty-five jier cent in that 

 time. Tlie table follows: 



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