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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Exports of Lumber 



The exports of lumber and other forest products from the United 

 States to the countries of eastern and southern Asia for 1913 are 

 shown in the following statistics: 



Round timber amounting to 11,000 feet, board measure, was shipped 

 to Hongkong, while Japan bought 753,000 feet. Hongkong bought 

 14,000 feet of square timber, and Japan 241,000. Lumber shipments 

 to the various countries are hei'e shown: 



DOUGLAS FIR 



Country Feet 



China 80..t10,000 



British India 14.098.000 



Jap.Tn 14.:n2,000 



Hongkong G.760,0i:0 



Straits Settlement 228,000 



Korea 1.55.000 



Siberia W.uOO 



Total 125.082,000 



China purchased 37,000 feet of shortleaf pine lumber, 78,000 of 

 spruce, and 319,000 of all other kinds, and Hongkong bought 123,000 

 feet of miscellaneous kinds. Redwood found purchasers in the fol- 

 lowing amounts: British India 2,000 feet, Hongkong 15,000, Japan 

 64,000. Forty-one thousand shingles were shipped to Japan. 

 CooPEiiAGE Exports 



The countries of eastern Asia are good customers of American 

 boxes and cooperage, as the following figures of exports for 1913 

 shows: 



BOX SHOCKS 



Country Value 



Straits Settlement ?2,40e,632 



Hongkong . . . 



China 



Japan 



British India. 

 Siam 



541,750 



304.948 



172.000 



5,922 



36 



Total $3,491,288 



BARtlEL SHOOKS 



China $174,638 



British India 2,854 



Hongkong 100 



Japan ^ 100 



lota] $177,092 



STAVES Number 



China 220,780 



British possessions 1.54,298 



'I'ota! 375,078 



KMPTV BARIIEI.S 



China ^20 212 



Bri tish I ndla 16,600 



Hongkong 73 



Japan 



38 



Total 



.$36,923 



China 



OTREll COOPERAGK 



$ a, 



British India g 



J:ipan _ _ o 



Siberia 



Hongkong 



Korea ' 



221 

 444 

 687 



57 

 25 

 10 



Total 



.$20,444 



SASH AND DOOKS 



Korea jsj 



Japan 



British 

 China . 

 Siberia 



India. 



,796 

 029 

 450 

 175 

 36 



Total 



. $3,086 



British India 



China 



Straits SettlemcDi 



Japan 



Korea 



French China. . . 



Hongkong 



Siam 



Japanese China.. 



Ft'UNITrilK 



74, 

 25, 



15, 



11, 



6, 

 4, 

 3, 

 2, 



,900 

 ,125 

 ,422 

 ,830 

 ,812 

 ,791 

 ,532 

 ,056 

 991 



German China 352 



Siberia 209 



I'ersia 133 



Total $146,153 



TRIMMINGS AND MOLDINGS 



British India , $5,591 



Japan 1.008 



Korea 1,385 



Straits Settlement 525 



China 483 



Total $9,592 



ISCUBATOBS 



British India $470 



China 286 



Japan 122 



Straits Settlement 50 



Total $928 



W'OOUENWARE 



British India $4,175 



China 2,258 



Straits Settlement 623 



Korea 50 



Total $7,106 



WOOD pcLp Pounds 



British India 84,158 



(Hhrr British possessions 9,052 



Straits Settlement 6,701 



Total 99,911 



OTIIl;lt .MANIFACTCBES OF WOOD 



Japan $ 84,978 



China 13,155 



British India 10.133 



Hongkong 7,342 



Korea 2,615 



Straits Settlement 2,418 



Siberia 716 



Arabia 281 



Slam 258 



Total $121,797 



Eastern and southern Asia are qualified to carry on a large timber 

 trade with the United States. They have abundant products to ex- 

 change with us, and many ways in which they can use American lum- 

 ber. Nearly or quite one-half of the world 's population is contained 

 in the countries of eastern and southern Asia. This enormous popu- 

 lation is not found on the immediate coast only, but it is within 

 trading distance of the coast, if means of inland communication were 

 modernized. That will not be fully accomplished for many years; but 

 in the meantime there is room for a great expansion of our lumber 

 trade in those regions. 



Distance From Markets 

 Asia is no farther than South America from the Tacific coast of the 

 United States. The distance from Seattle to Japan is 4,200 miles, 

 and from San Francisco 4,536. Of course when the coast of Asia 

 has been reached, it is still a region of "magnificent distances." 

 The markets of China, Siam, and India are far beyond Japan, but 

 the distance is easily and quickly covered by the fast ships that dis- 

 tribute our Pacific coast lumber to many remote parts of the world. 

 Distance is not a serious problem in tlie lumber trade when trans- 

 portation follows the routes of the higli seas. 



The shipment of furniture, cooperage, and other manufactured for- 

 est products from the eastern, middle and southern states has been 

 greatly helped by the opening of the Panama canal. Cargoes can 

 now be sent by water from origin to destination, which formerly were 

 shipped by rail to San Francisco or Seattle, and transhipped from 

 those ports by water. 



The eastern coast of Asia, principally China, is anxious to find in- 

 creased markets for tea, rice, silk, furs, chinaware, and certain kinds 

 of woodenware and furniture. India has much the same class of arti- 

 cles to sell, with others in addition. With these commodities they 

 can pay for lumber and other forest products which we sell them. 

 Trade is seldom one sided. There must be an exchange of commodities. 

 Those regions of Asia are as anxious to sell to us as we are to sell 

 to them. When that condition exists, the way is easily opened for 

 profitable trade both ways. Ships that go loaded one way are not 

 under the necessity of returning in ballast. 



