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ply, the more important wood-using industries are driven out of Illinois 

 or forced to close, the tendency will be to ruin the markets for the more 

 valuable products and take the cream off of the profits of forestry. 



STATES AND REGIONS EXPORTING LUMBER TO ILLINOIS 



The question as to where this enormous quantity of lumber, amount- 

 ing to 98.16 per cent of the quantity used annually in the state, is ob- 

 tained and whether such importation ■ can be continued is one of vital 

 interest to its citizens. For convenience, the states exporting lumber 

 to Illinois have been assembled in ten groups, to conform to the group- 

 ing used in Bulletin 1119 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture on the 

 Lumber Cut of the United States, 1870-1920. Only those states within 

 each group which shipped lumber to Illinois in 1920 were included. 

 The groups, ranked in their relative importance as sources of lumber ship- 

 ped to Illinois, and the states from which lumber was imported in that 

 year are as follows : 



1. Southern 'Group: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louis- 



iana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas. 



2. North Pacific Group : Washington, Oregon. 



3. Lake states Group: Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota. 



4. North Rockies: Idaho. 



5. Central : Indiana ; Kentucky, Missouri. Teiniessee, West Virginia. 



6. South Pacific: California. 



7. South Rockies: Arizona, Colorado. 



8. North Carolina Pine: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina. 



9. Northeastern : Maine, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania. 

 1 0. Prairie : Kansas. 



