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LUMBER AND TIMBER PRODUCTS, 1909. 



Av. No. Value Added 



No. Plants. Wage Val. Products, by Man'f ture. 



Earners. 



Total No. Plants 1647 33.397 $ 42,792,844 $ 28,.586,2i6 



Less than $5,000 . . 805 2,610 1,698,24.5 1,319,164 



$5,000 and less than $20,000 455 4.644 . 4,766,790 3,614,497 



$20,000 and less than 100,000 299 8,460 12,495, .579 8,679,012 

 $100,000 and less than 



$1,000,000 88 17,683 23,832,230 14,973,574 



Per Cent of Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 



Less than $5,000 48.9 7.8 4.0 4.0 



$5,000 and less than $20,000 27.6 13.9 11.1 12.6 

 $20,000 and less than 



$100.000 18.2 25.3 29.2 30.4 



$100,000 and less than 



$1,000,000 5.3 52.9 55.7 52.4 



TURPENTINE AND ROSIN, 1909. 



Av. No. Value Added by 



No. Plants. Wage V.al. Products. Manufacture. 

 Earners. 



Total No. of Plants 64 2.573 $1,474,629 $1,125,520 



Less than $5,000 13 47 42,164 24,135 



$5,000 and less than $20,000 32 526 372,174 284,150 

 $20,000 and less than 



$100,000 16 889 552.123 461.729 



$100,000 and less than 



$1,000,000 3 1111 508,168 35o,506 



Per Cent of Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 



Le.ss than $5,000 20.3 18 2.9 2.1 



$5,000 and less than $20,000 50.0 20.4 25.2 25.2 

 $20,000 and less than 



$10,0000 25.0 34.6 37.4 41.0 



$100,000 and less than 



$1,000,000 4.7 43.2 34.5 31.6 



The lumber industry showed an increase from 1,206,265 

 M. feet board measure in 1899 to 2,572,669 M. feet board 

 measure in 1909. The entire cut for 1909 showed that 

 82.2 per cent was yellow pine. Other principal varieties 

 sawed, in the order of their importance, were oak, gum, 

 Cottonwood, cypress, poplar, hickory, ash, tupelo, and elm. 



From the above table it will be seen that more than 43 

 per cent of the turpentine and rosin in 1909 was produced 

 by a few large plants. This is in large measure due to 

 the habit practiced by the large lumbering plants of boxing 

 their trees for tw^o or three years before cutting. Exper- 

 ience seems to prove that boxing pine timber for two or 

 three seasons immediately before cutting does not injure 

 the quaHty of the cut, while the amount of turpentine 

 recovered adds very materially to the income of the com- 

 pany. 



