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FOREST PRODUCTS 



The following table 1 shows the quantity of each kind of lumber cut 

 in this country in the years 1916 and 1899. The change in the amount of 

 each of the different species cut is brought out very strikingly in the 

 interim of the seventeen-year period. It represents the decline of the 

 mor e important species cut in the East and is not only a reflection 

 of the conditions which have obtained in recent years in this country, 

 but it also portends the developments which are likely to take place in 

 this country in the next few years. Our virgin forests are being rapidly 

 cut, and the center of lumber production is rapidly shifting from the 

 yellow pine forests of the southeast to the heavy Douglas fir, spruce, 

 pine and redwood forests of the Pacific Coast. 



LUMBER PRODUCTION BY SPECIES 



1 Not separately reported. 



1 From statistics published by the U. S. Forest Service. 





