HARDWOOD RECORD 



19 



Feet 



Mexico 1-4,688,000 



Panama 503,000 



Honduras 81,000 



Costa Itioa 62,000 



British Honduras 30,000 



Guatemala 16,000 



Total 15,380i000 



Sawed Lumber, 

 Both hardwoods and softwoods are included in the lumber exports 

 to Mexico and Central America, but the softwoods are sent in much 

 larger quantities. Oak and red gum are the principal hardwoods in 

 that trade. The purchases of gum in 1913 by Nicaragua amounted 

 to only 1,000 feet, and Mexico bought 58,000. The purchases' of oak 

 follow : 



Feet 



Panama 443,000 



Nicaragua 172,000 



Honduras 8,00ff 



Mexico 7,000 



Guatemala 5,000 



Total, oak 635,000 



LONGLEAE PINE 



Feet 



Panama 20,5."2,000 



Mexico 18,995,000 



Honduras 3,843,000 



Costa Rica 3,587,000 



Nicaragua 689,000 



British Honduras 625,000 



Total 48,291,000 



CYPRESS 



Feet 



Honduras 637,000 



Panama 205,000 



Mexico 155,000 



Nicaragua 18,000 



British Honduras ■. 18.000 



Guatemala 12,000 



Costa Rica 9,000 



Total 1,114,000 



Douglas Fir. 

 The Pacific coast of tlie United States ships Douglas fir to the 

 countries which front on the Pacific ocean. That includes all of them. 

 There is not an independent country from Panama to the Arctic ocean 

 which has not a coast on both the Atlantic and Pacific, except Salvador, 

 which fronts on the Pacific only. 



Feet 



Panama 14,729,000 



Mexico 14,058,000 



Salvador 646,000 



Guatemala 554,000 



Costa Rica 220,000 



Honduras ; . . . 104,000 



Total 40,311,000 



WHITE PINE 



Feet 



Mexico : 17,277,000 



Salvador 184,000 



Panama 85,000 



British Honduras 35,000 



Costa Rica 9,000 



. Total 17,590,000 



Shortleaf pine lumber was bought by only three countries, but. the 

 total was comparatively large. Salvador took 7,000 feet, Panama 

 ,54,000, and Mexico 29,010,000. 



OTHER YELLOW PINE 



This wood listed in our exports to Mexico and the Central American 

 states is various yellow pines which are not specifically named, but 

 consist of several species. The shipments in 1913 were as given below 

 in feet: 



Mexico 26,845,000 



Honduras 1,814,000 



Panama 1,523,000 



British Honduras 1,218,000 



Nicaragua 381,000 " 



Guatemala 181,000 



Costa Rica 43,000 



Total 32,005,000 



REDWOOD 

 Shipments of redwood- g(r sonthward-by- water from- California, and 

 the totals for 1913 in feet are shown, below: 



Mexico 1,504,000 



Panama 830,000 



Guatemala 386,000 



Salvador 36,000 



Honduras . . .• 23,000 



Costa Rica 7,000 



Total . 2,786,000 



ALL OTHER LUMBER. , ... 



Ten thousand feet of spruce and 269,000 of yellow poplar were sent 

 to Mexico, and the following shipments of other woods were reported: 



Feet 



Mexico ..:..... 3,772,000 



Honduras 217,000 



Salvador 22,000 



Panama 18,000 



Guatemala 8,000 



British Honduras 5,000 



Total 4,042,000 



The whole export of lumber from the- Un-ited States to Mexico and 

 Central America last year amounted to 144,178,000 feet, and of round 

 and square logs 39,209,000 feet. There were shipments of other forest 

 products. Mexico bought 9,262,000 feet of joists and scantling, and 

 Panama 33,000. The purchases of shingles from the United States 

 by Mexico totaled 4,684,000, Panama 116,000, Guatemala 54,000, 

 Honduras 48,000. Nine shingles are approximately equivalent to one 

 foot of lumber. 



RAILWAY TIES 

 Last year we sold railway ties- to the countries south of us as fol- 

 lows: 



Mexico 685,594 



Panama 244,477 



Costa RicMi 87,971 



Honduras 71,043 



Guatemala 47,928 



British Honduras 6,325 



Salvador 5,000 



Nicaragua 1,185 



Total 1,149,523 



A railroad tie is equivalent to thirty-two feet of lumber. 



COOPERAGE 



A fairly large quantity of manufactured products of %vood is ex- 

 ported to the countries south of us. Most of the lumber is used in 

 the rough for bridges, trestles, mine buildings, wharves, warehouses, 

 and the like. When manufactured wooden articles are wanted, they 

 are generally purchased ready made, because facilities for manufac- 

 turing are not the best in those countries. Eeady-made barrels were 

 last year bought as shown below: 



Value 



Mexico $116,729 



Panama 12,378 



British Honduras 1,765 



Honduras 724 



Nicaragua 161 



Guatemala 42 



Total $131,799 



Mexico imported onr staves.' and bajrr«t . shoohs to the amount., of 



.$216,087, Panama $1,200, Hondnras $176, and Nicaragua $100. In 



the group classed as '^'aU, otiier etu^eiage'-' we sold Mexico $72,467, 



Panama $25,280, Niearagna. $1477;; Gnaleinala $803, British Honduras 



, $852, Costa Rica $375, Salvador $5. 



The export of box shooks ought to become a large part of your busi- 

 ness with those countries in course of time. Fruit and vegetable, 

 shippers will need them. The number of box shook exported last year 

 to Mexico and Central America is given below: 



Number 



Mexico 4,565,969 



Panama 54,472 



Costa Rica 26,288 



