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over 130,000 cords for wood distillation, and vast quantities 

 of rough lumber, railroad ties, poles, posts, cooperage and 

 tannin stock, fuehvood, etc. 



2. The annual Inndier bill alnne of the State is over 

 $60,000,000. A good share of this (about two-thirds) goes 

 out of the State. New York should produce, within its own 

 borders, all the lumber and wood it requires. 



3. About one-fourth of all our luir.ber used in the State 

 is white pine. Spruce is next, with nearly ten per cent, of 

 the total consumption ; then white oak with over seven per 

 cent., and then southern yellow pine. Vast quantities of 

 southern and western tindiers are shipped into the State 

 every year. New York should produce more of the lumber 

 and other products of the forest that ure used annually. 



4. The average prices paid at the mill or factory for the 

 principal woods growing in the State are as follows (price 

 based on rough lumber delivered, per thousand board feet) : 



White oak $46 25 



Cherry 46 22 



Hickory 43 03 



Yellow poplar 40 47 



Red oak 38 49 



Ash 38 49 



Birch 30 07 



Chestnut 28 56 



Elm 28 37 



White pine 27 70 



Basswood 27 36 



Sugar maple 27 07 



Spruce 21 31 



Beech 20 54 



Hemlock 19 82 



New York State tn the Luimber Industry 



New York for a long time was the great leader in lumber 

 production in this country. After the earliest colonial times, 

 Maine was the center of lumber production but it rapidly 

 moved over to New York State and for about one hundred 



