i8 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



ing in aU to about 150,000,000 feet annually, 



proportioned as follows: 



Timber Annual 



holdings. cut. 



Feet. Feet . 



Babcock Lumber Co 325,000,000 60,000,000 



Babcock Bros. Lumber 



Co 300,000,000 24,000,000 



Babcock Lumber & Land 



Co 900,000,000 



Babcock Lumber & Boom 



Co • 450,000,000 



Tellico River Lumber 



Co 480,000,000 



35,000,000 

 30,000,000 



Mr. Babcock was married four years ago to 

 Miss Mary Arnold of Beading, Pa., who is one 

 of Pittsburg's social leaders and handsomest 

 women. He is the proud father of Miss Doro- 

 thy, aged three years, and Master E. V., Jr., 

 aged one year. He is very popular socially and, 

 although a member of the Duquesne Club, 

 the Country Club, the Matinee Club and the 

 Masonic fraternity of Pittsburg, can usu- 

 ally be found at home when business engage- 

 ments do not interfere. With his family Mr. 

 Babcock is spending the season at Hemlock 



Lodge, Ashtola, Pa., his attractive summer 

 home, which is located on the crest of the 

 Allegheny mountains, and at the time of go- 

 ing to press is touring the New England 

 states in his handsome forty-five horsepower 

 Pierce Great Arrow car. 



A great quartette are the Babcock broth- 

 ers, and " E. V., " as he is familiarly known 

 among his friends, is their chief. A stalwart, 

 clean cut, genial, lovable man, he makes 

 staunch friends as easily as he makes money, 

 and it is a noteworthy fact that his best 

 friends are those from whom he has made 

 this money, because the business relations 

 have invariably been profitable to them, as 

 well as to him. E. V. Babcock, while stUl a 

 young man, has not only placed himself 

 among the millionaire lumbermen of the coun- 

 try, but has laid, carefully and gradually, a 

 foundation that will enable him to estimate 

 his material success in eight figures in the 

 next few years. 



Exports and Imports of Forest 



Products. 



The Forest Service has just issued a bul- 

 letin under the above title giving interesting 

 .statistics covering the exports and imports 

 of forest products of the United States dur- 

 ing the fiscal years 1903, 1904, 1905 and 

 1906. The material in this circular was taken 

 largely from the report of the Bureau of 

 Statistics of the Department of Commerce 

 and Labor on "The Foreign Commerce and 

 Navigation of the United States for the Year 

 Ending June 30, 1906." 



Exports. 



The total value of the exports of this coun- 

 try during these four years was $70,906,994 

 in 1903, $81,888,068 in 1904, $74,686,008 in 



1905 and $89,602,637 in 1906; the increase 

 in the value from 1903 to 1906 being over 

 26 per cent. It must be remembered, how- 

 ever, that an increase in value does not 

 necessarily imply an increase in the amount 

 of products exported. For instance, the en- 

 tire quantity of sawed timber exported in 



1906 was but little greater than that ex- 

 ported in 1903, but the value per thousand 

 had advanced considerably — from $14.07 in 

 1903 to $19.17 in 1906. There was relatively 

 little change in the quantity of hewed tim- 

 ber exported in the various years, and the 

 average value remained about the same — be- 

 tween 23.9 cents per cubic foot in 1903 and 

 24.9 cents per cubic foot in 1906. Boards, 

 deals and planks to the extent of 1,065,711,- 

 000 feet were exported in 1903, the average 

 value of which was $19.68 per thousand feet; 

 in 1906 the amount reached 1,344,607,000 

 feet, and the average value was $21.34 per 

 thousand feet. 



A summary of the exports for the fiscal 

 years of 1905 and 1906 is given in a table 

 in connection with this article. 



The Showing for 1906. 



The Atlantic ports led in importance as 

 exporters of forest products, in 1906 45 per 



cent of the total going out from this region. 

 The Gulf ports are next in importance, ship- 

 ping 36.1 per cent of the total ; the Northern 

 border and Lake ports sent out 8.7 per cent; 

 the Pacific ports 6.7 per cent and the Mexican 

 border ports 3.5 per cent of the total. 



The most important item of export is 

 boards, deals and planks. The larger pro- 

 portion goes from the Atlantic and Gulf 

 ports, and the value for all ports is 32 per 

 cent of the total value of the exports of all 

 forest products. Sawed timber, with nearly 

 12 per cent of the total value of all exports, 



is the item of next importance. Over half 

 of the sawed timber is shipped from the Gulf 

 ports. It consists principally of yellow pine ; 

 this is also true of the lumber and hewed 

 timber shipped from these ports. About 

 two-thirds of the exports of staves go from 

 the Gulf ports, to be used for alcoholic pack- 

 ages. The staves are almost exclusively of 

 white oak and form nearly one-quarter of 

 the annual production of white oak staves in 

 the United States. 



The exports of sawed timber in 1906 

 reached 552,548,000 feet, of which quantity 

 Europe took two-thirds. By far the heaviest 

 European buyer of this product was the 

 United Kingdom, which led with 54.8 per 

 cent of the total. Of the shipments to North 

 America 58.7 per cent went to Mexico and 

 32.2 per cent to Canada. The shipments to 

 Asia were absorbed almost entirely by the 

 Chinese Empire, which took 95 per cent of 

 the total. British Australasia took 65 per 

 cent, and the Philippines 30.4 per cent of 

 the exports to Oceania. South American 

 shipments went largely to Argentina and 

 Peru and over half those to Africa were 

 taken by British South Africa. 



Exports of hewed timber in 1906 reached a 

 total of 3,517,046 cubic feet. Three-fourths 

 of this amount went to Europe and about 

 one-fifth to North America. During the 

 same year logs and other timber were ex- 

 ported to the value of $3,866,300. Of this 

 amount it is estimated that 62 per cent of 

 the quantity went to Europe and 37.3 per 

 cent to North America. 



Of boards, deal? and planks, the heaviest 

 items of export in the way of forest prod- 

 ucts, a total of 1,344,607,000 feet was shipped 

 during 1906. More than one-third of this 



EXPORTS OF FOREST PRO'DUCTS. 1905-1906. 



Material. 



Bark for tanning pounds. . 



Bark extract for tanning 



Charco.al 



Naval stores: 



Rosiu barrels. . 



Tn r do 



Turpentine and pitch do — 



Turpentine, spirits gallons. . 



Wood, and mnnumctiircs of: 



Timber and unmanufactured— 



Sawed M board fcot.. 



Hewed ou bic feet . . 



Logs and other 



Lunilier-- 



Boards, deals, etc M board feet.. 



.Joist and scantling do — 



.Shingles M. . 



Sliooks — 



Box 



All other 



Staves 



Headings 



All other lumber 



Manufactures of lumber- 

 Doors, sash, and blinds 



Furniture, n. e. s 



Hogsheads .ind barrels, empty 



Trimming, molding, and finish 



Woodcuware 



Wood pulp pounds. . 



All other 



1905 



Quantity. 



2,310,275 



20,291 



24,971 



15,894,813 



486,411 

 3, 856, 623 



Total . 



1,283,406 

 47, .309 

 24,345 



872, 192 

 48,286,285 



23,703,906 



Value. 



o $552, 909 

 " "23,479' 



7,069,084 

 60, .5'20 

 74, 938 



8, 902, 101 



7,294,168 



913, 654 



3,040,846 



24,483,214 



704, 305 



69,251 



825, 145 

 1,278,972 

 3,613,635 



148, 042 

 3,068,115 



853,350 

 4,439,944 

 188,996 

 616,331 

 782,138 

 473, 585 

 5,209,286 



1906 



Quantity. 



4,973,237 



74,686,008 



2,438,556 



16, 821 



14,232 



15,891,253 



5.52,, 548 

 3,517,046 



1,344,607 

 29,119 

 26, 272 



1,060,2.53 

 57,586,378 



29,482,434 



Value. 



$75,084 



3.56, 847 



14,727 



9,890,080 



.55,302 



43, 875 



10,077,268 



10,649,310 



877,786 



3, 806, 300 



28,095,823 



501,711 



73, 035 



954,263 

 1,524,549 

 4,699,877 



201 ,-219 

 ,3,317,104 



805,577 

 5, 252, 230 

 243,955 

 632, 565 

 656, 1 19 

 587, 878 

 5, 540, 428 



89,602,637 



a Tanning extract combined with ba?K previous to 1906. 



