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TABLE 18. SAWMILLS GROUPED ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF M FEET, B. M., OF LUMBER SAWED. 



The above table, which classifies lumber mills in ac- 

 cordance with the amount annually cut, shows that of 

 all mills, 68 per cent, or more than two-thirds, cut less 

 than half a million feet, and 81 per cent, less than a 

 million feet. These mills may, from their small size, 

 be regarded as supplying only local demands, while the 

 large mills, whose number is 19 per cent of all, supply 

 in the main the commercial trade. The mills of the 

 Northeastern states, where the lumber industry has 

 been long established and where the forests are largely 

 depleted, are small, the proportion of mills of commer- 

 cial size being less than the average of the country, 

 except in the case of New Hampshire. The mills of 

 the Lake region are much larger, the proportion of 

 commercial mills in each of the 3 states of Michigan, 

 Wisconsin, and Minnesota being greater than that of 

 the country, while Minnesota contains 3 of the 4 mills 

 of the largest class. In the yellow-pine region of the 



South there are comparatively few mills of the com- 

 mercial class in the easternmost states, as Virginia and 

 the Carolinas, but the proportion increases westward 

 in the states whose lumber industries have been devel- 

 oped more recently. Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and 

 Florida have high proportions of commercial mills, 

 much above the average of the country. The Central 

 hard wood states have small mills and comparatively 

 few of commercial capacity. The mills of the Pacific 

 coast states are larger, with higher proportions of those 

 of commercial capacity. The highest proportion of 

 commercial mills in the country is in Washington, 

 where 58 per cent of the mills saw more than a million 

 feet, board measure, each annually. 



PLANIN(; MILL&, 



Table 19 shows in condensed form the planing-mill 

 industry for the United States. 



