HARDWOOD RECORD 



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(luantity went to Europe, almost a third to 

 Xorth America, about a fourtli to Soutli 

 America and small quantities to Oceania, 

 Asia and Africa. 



.loists and scantling in l!Mi(i were shipped 

 t« the extent of 29,119,U(IU feet; three-fifths 

 iif this amount went to North America and 

 1 1 lie-third to South America. Africa and 

 Kurope received consideralile quantities of 

 this line also. 



A very creditable showing was made in the 

 I'-xports of sliingles, box and other shooks, 

 >taves and heading, the same countries as 

 mentioned in the foregoing cases receiving 

 the largest percentage of the shipments. 



Timber and unmanufactured wood was ex- 

 ported during 1906 to the value of $55,361,- 

 641!. Estimating the equivalent quantity for 

 items upon which the Bureau of Statistics 

 gives no information, it can safely be as- 

 sumed that the total quantity exported was 

 over 2,300,000,000 board feet. This quan- 

 tity probably required about 400,000,000 

 cubic feet of wood for its production. Esti- 

 mating the amount of wood cut for all pur- 

 |ioses in the United States in 1906 at 20,000,- 

 11110,000 cubic feet, it follows that the quan- 

 tity exported was 2 pet cent of the total 

 wood cut. The amount of wood exported in 

 the form of hewed or sawed timber and lum- 

 lier was about 5 per cent of the total lumber 

 rut of the Ignited States in 1906. 



Imports. 



The circular gives statistics of the imiiorts 

 of forest ])roducts during the fiscal years of 

 19113, 1904, 190.5 and 1906, and a table is 

 herewith presented giving a summary of the 

 imports for 1905 and 190C. There has been 

 a noticeable annual increase in the total of 

 all imports: during 1903 the total reached 

 $74,578,674 and in 1906 $100,065,394, an 

 increase of slightly over 34 per cent during 

 the four years. As in the ease of the ex- 

 ports, the increase in the total value of the 

 products does not indicate a corresponding 

 increase in the quantity, as prices have ad- 

 vanced considerably. 



A slight decrease in the importation of 

 maliogany during these four years is noted. 

 In 1903 imports of this wood amounted to 

 48,3.97,000 feet, valued at $2,783,679, or about 

 $57 per thousand ; in 1906 they reached 36,- 

 619,000 feet, valued at $2,470,072, or about 

 $67 per thousand. 



The hewed, sided, or squared timber im- 

 ported in 1903 amounted to 207,554 cubic 

 feet, valued at $41,131, or 19.8 cents per 

 cubic foot, and in 1906 to 256,180 cubic feet, 

 valued at $46,770, or 18.3 cents per cubic 

 foot. In 19tl3, 720,937,000 board feet of 

 boards, planks and other sawed lumber, valued 

 at $10,673,317, or $14.82 per thousand, were 

 imported; in 1906 the imports of this class 



IMPORTS OF FOREST PRODUCTS. 1905-1906. 



Material. 



Bark, hemlock cords. 



Charcoal bushels. 



Chemicals, dnigs, etc. : 



Cinchona bark pounds. 



Dyewoods— 



Logwood tons. 



Logwood, ixtnict of pounds. 



Allothcr 



Gums— 



Arabic pounds. 



Camphor, cniilc do... 



Chicle do... 



Copal, cowrie, etc do... 



riambier, or terra j.ipouica do.. . 



PhellHC, do . . . 



All other 



.SiinKic, ground pounds. 



Cork wood or hark, iiumnmifnctured 



lndi:i rul>l)cr. etc. : 



lialata , pounds. 



Cutta-pcrch.i do. . . 



(iiitta joolatong do. . . 



Indifi nibhpr do.. . 



Ivory, vegetable do... 



Palm leaf, natursi 



Tunning ir.atc rials, n. c. s 



Tar find pitch of wood barrels. 



Turpontuic. spirits gallons. 



Wood, and ni;<niifactiircs of: 

 Unmanufarlu red- 

 Cabinet woods— 



Miilioganv M feet. 



All iithcr'. 



Logs .ind round timber M feet. 



Timber, hewn, squared, or sided . .cubic feet. 

 Lumber- 

 Boards, plank, deals, and other sawed, 



M feet 



Shingles M. 



All other 



All other unmanufactured 



Manufactures of — 



Cabinet ware or household furniture 



Wood pulp tons. 



All other manufact\ired 



lOOij 



Quantity. 



13,511 

 .0,043 



4,251,809 



35,514 

 3,436,042 



3,G51,J44 



1,904,002 



5,000,106 



25,(iS7,7t)2 



.32,192,7:11 



10,700,817 



15,583,334 



Total. 



605,217 

 10,104,911 

 07,234,250 

 10,688,913 



574 

 43,003 



31,844 



97,306 

 184,742 



710,538 

 758,725 



167,504 



Value. 



.?04,181 

 478 



570,725 



444,824 



290,030 



77,751 



190,132 

 038,744 

 1,357,458 

 2,40:i,4.i8 

 1,112,0(» 

 3,743,180 

 1,094,809 

 225,030 

 1,729,143 



210,188 



041,319 



49,878,300 



410,883 



9,434 



923,949 



3,206 



1.1,540 



1,977,894 



1,077,723 



722,693 



28,912 



10,906,061 

 1,581,421 

 1,649,314 

 4,102,430 



738,229 

 4,500,955 

 2,278,085 



1906 



Quantity. 



7,467 

 774,501 



4,070,553 



37,313 

 3,390,316 



4,055,2.33 



1,668, 7.14 



5, 641,. 108 



20,448,703 



31,278,485 



15,780,090 



15,131,539 



374,220 



500,770 



21,390,110 



57,844,345 



21,076,508 



1,303 

 1.58,730 



.30,619 



100,592 

 25«>,!80 



949,717 

 900,856 



157,224 



95,696,869 



Value. 



?.35,860 

 42,8.56 



383,726 



400,551 

 290,179 

 109,515 



2:i2,715 

 Ifl8,440 

 l,495,:ii;0 

 1,914, Ilia 

 1,11s, '.110 

 5, 107,, 042 

 1,423,088 

 237,309 

 1,837,134 



l.i2,689 



1HH,1(,1 



7.33,074 



45,lI4,4.'-« 



.010, im 



8,114 



], 419, 902 



6,504 



.09,273 



2,470,072 



1,3.34,748 



773. 2<« 



4(i,770 



14,813,7.33 

 1,852,012 

 2, 700,. 005 

 4,353,034 



1,011,335 

 4,584,942 

 2,591,695 



100,065,394 



of material amounted to 949,717,000 feet, 



vahi.'d at $14,813,733, or $15.60 per tiiousand. 



The Hecord for 19116. 



During the year 1906 the Atlantic ])orts 

 received 75.8 per cent of the imports to this 

 country ; the Northern border and Lake ports 

 21.5 per cent; the Pacific coast ports 1 per 

 cent; the Gulf ports .9 per cent and the 

 Mexican and interior ports .4 per cent. 



The jiroducts received from other ports in 

 excess of those received through Atlantic 

 (lorts are lumber, shingles and unmanufactured 

 wood. Of these products the larger propor- 

 tion is received through the Northern border 

 .and Lake ports, coming of course from 

 Canada. It is interesting to note that the 

 quantity of sawed and hewed timber and 

 lundier imported through the Lake ports in 

 19116 was 72 per cent of the amount of the 

 same materials exported from the Gulf ports. 

 Of the total importations of forest products 

 during 1906 45.1 per cent of the value was 

 covered by india rubber, sawed lumber 14.8 

 per cent and all other unmanufactured wood, 

 principally pulpwood, 4.3 per cent. 



The total quantity of mahogany imported 

 during the year 1906 was 36,619,0110 feet, 

 three-fifths of this amount being furnished 

 liy North America and three-tenths by Eu- 

 rojje. Mexico supplied 21.3 ]ier cent of the 

 mahogany received from North America; 

 British Honduras supplied 21.3 per cent; 

 Nicaragua 14.2 per cent and Honduras 5.6 

 per cent. Practically all, 98 per cent, of the 

 mahogany from Europe came through the 

 LTnited Kingdom. No mahogany is jiroduced 

 in Europe, but nudiogany and other tropical 

 woods are shipped there and then distributeil 

 to other countries. All of the mahogany 

 from Asia was furnished by the East Indies 

 anil 98 per cent of that from South America 

 was received from Colombia. 



The importations of cabinet woods, exclu- 

 sive of mahogany, in 1906, reached a total 

 value of $1,334,748, of which North Americ;'. 

 furnished 61.6 per cent and Europe 31.1 per 

 cent. 



Cuba furnished more than half of the total 

 value of other calnnet woods received from 

 North America; Haiti, one-seventh, and 

 Mexico, one-tenth. The United Kingdom 

 siqiplied over half of the total value of the 

 iiiqiorts from Europe. Brazil led in South 

 .\iiierica with two-thirds of the value of im- 

 ports, followed by Colombia with one-fifth, 

 an. I Venezuela with one-sixth. 



A comparison of the value of exports and 

 imports of timber and unmanufactured wood 

 for 1906 shows that the total value of the ex- 

 ports of material of tliis class was $55,361,642, 

 or nearly two-thirds of the value of all ex- 

 ports of forest products; the value of the im- 

 ports in 1906 was $28,344,734, or 28.3 per 

 cent of the value of all imports of forest 

 products. The total quantity of wood im- 

 ported in 1906 was equivalent to about 

 1,500,11011,000 board feet, or approximately 

 twii-thirds of the quantity exported. 

 Figures for 1907. 



Late compilations prepared by the Bureau 

 of Statistics cover the exports and im- 



