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fact that basic industries such as those based on the 

 exploitation of our forest resources support a complex 

 superstructure of service industries. Unfortunately, 

 there seems to be no satisfactory way of determining 

 just what this superstructure contains. There are 

 undoubtedly businesses not included in the forest 

 industries' classification above, which find their market 

 entirely in the forest industries. There are other 

 concerns wliich do a large share of their business with 

 forest industries. Then, there are those who supply 

 these directly dependent businesses with goods and 

 services, and so on indefinitely. A similar chain is 

 made up of those supplying the emploj^ees of forest 

 industries with goods and services. Information is 

 not available for satisfactory estimates of the potential 

 effects of the disappearance of the forest industries, 

 and it is impossible, therefore, to give any short and 

 convenient answer to the question of their importance 

 to the economic life of the Region. 



One way by which some appreciation of the signifi- 

 cance of the forests to the Pacific Northwest may be 



TONNAGE OF NET EXPORTS 

 FROM THE 

 PACIFIC NORTHWEST STATES IN 1929 



IDAHO 



MONTANA 



OREGON 



WASHINGTON 



T 

 10 20 30 40 50 GO 70 80 



PERCENTAGE OF COMHODITy GROUPS 



1 FOREST PRODUCTS 



^AGRICULTURAL 

 PRODUCTS 



lANIMALS AND 

 PRODUCTS 



MANUFACTURES 



MISCELLANEOUS 



COPPER, LEAD, ZINC. 

 WASHINGTON-COPPER 

 ONLY 



AREA OF SQUARE REPRESENTS TONNAGE OF TOTALS OF 

 NET EXPORTS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST STATES - 

 21.3 MILLION TONS 



AREAS OF RECTANGLES REPRESENT TONNAGE OF NET 

 EXPORTS OF EACH STATE ACCORDING TO ABOVE LEGEND 

 NUMERALS ARE TONNAGE IN MILLIONS OF TONS 

 RECTANGLES WITHOUT NUMERALS REPRESENT A TONNAGE 

 LESS THAN .05 MILLION TONS 



Figure 3. 



Table II. — Average number of emplnyees and total salaries and 

 wages paid in forest industries and all other manufacturing, 

 1929 



Source: Census of Manufactures, 1929. 



secured is to consider their contribution to the process 

 of securing goods and services from other areas. The 

 Pacific Northwest is far from self-sufficient. It parti- 

 cipates in a process of geographical division of labor in 

 which products from other areas, and markets in other 

 regions, are indispensable to the maintenance of life in 

 the modern manner. The clothes worn in the Region, 

 the cars driven, the citrus fruits eaten — in fact a large 



ESTIMATED VALUE OF NET EXPORTS 



FROM THE 

 PACIFIC NORTHWEST STATES IN 1929 



IDAHO 



MONTANA 



OREGON 



WASHINGTON 



10 20 30 40 50 SO 70 80 



PERCENTAGE OF COMMODITY GROUPS 



^ 



FOREST PRODUCTS 



AGRICULTURAL 

 PRODUCTS 



MANUFACTURES 



lANIMALS AND 

 J PRODUCTS 



MISCELLANEOUS 



COPPER, LEAD.ZINC 

 WASHINGTON- COPPER 

 ONLY 



AREA OF SQUARE REPRESENTS VALUES OF TOTALS OF 

 NET EXPORTS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST STATES — 

 853.5 MILLION DOLLARS 



AREAS OF RECTANGLES REPRESENT VALUE OF NET 

 EXPORTS OF EACH STATE ACCORDING TO ABOVE LEGEND 



NUMERALS ARE VALUES IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS 

 Figure 4. 



