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ucts, the revenue earned shows the same picture, 

 although the relative importance of agricultural products 

 is considerably increased. The same is true of the 

 manufactures and miscellaneous and the less than 

 carload classifications. Perhaps the most striking 

 dift'erence in relative miportance is to be found in 

 agricultural products in Washington. Although agri- 

 cultural products constituted only 11 percent of the 

 tonnage in Washington, they contributed an estimated 

 27 percent of the total revenue earned on traffic 

 originating in that State. This is largely to be ex- 

 plamed by the relatively high freights paid by fruit 

 products, which constitute a rather high proportion of 

 the total tonnage of agricultural products moved in 

 the State of Washington. The general picture for 

 revenue earned may be seen from figures 7 and 10 

 (and Appendix 2, table J). 



From figure 11 (and Appendix 2, table L) it is possible 

 to get an impression of the relative importance of differ- 

 ent commodity groups in the revenue earned on traffic 

 originathig on the difterent railroads. Forest products 

 are most important for the Southern Pacific Railroad, 

 contributing 68.4 p.ercent of the total revenue earned on 

 tonnage originating in the Pacific Northwest. The 



HORSEPOWER Irated capacity^ OF POWER 

 EQUIPMENT IN-FORESfpRObucts 

 «- --I MAMUf ACTtmitJ© 1N©tiSTfttES 



IN PAClEid KORTHWEST 

 1929 



corresponding percentages for the other roads were: 

 The Milwaukee, 58.4; Canadian Pacific, 58.2; the 

 Northern Pacific, 39.0; Great Northern, 26.3; and the 

 ITnion Pacific, 22.3. For railroads whose operations 

 were confined to the Pacific Northwest, the total 

 revenue earned on forest products was 56.6. The aver- 

 age for the Pacific Northwest was approximately 40 

 percent. The strongest competitor to forest products 

 as a source of revenue for the railroads was agricultural 

 products, which, in terms of revenue, are more important 

 than forest products onlv for the Great Northern and 

 Union Pacific railroads. For all the railroads combined, 

 agricultural products originating in the Pacific North- 

 west provided about 26 percent of the revenue earned 

 on all trafiic originathig in this Region.' 



The relation of the forest products' industries to rail- 

 road transportation may be summarized as follows: No 

 other group of commodities is so important to the rail- 

 road industry as forest products. They provide more 

 than six-tenths of the tonnage origmating in the Region, 

 and four-tenths of the revenue earned on such tonnage. 

 Without the forest mdustries, the traffic and revenue 

 situations of all the railroads would be vastly changed, 

 and on some railroads the remahiing traffic would be so 

 snuill that the maintenance of transportation by rail 

 could probably not be economically justified. 



Importance of Forest Products' Industries to Inland 

 Water Transportation in the Pacific Northwest 



Internal movement of goods hj water is another form 

 t)f transportation greatly dependent upon the forest 

 industries in the Pacific Northwest. Estimates of this 

 internal movement by classes of commodities in 1929 

 are shown in table III. Forest products constituted 

 almost 87 percent of the tonnage of hiland water car- 

 riers in the Pacific Northwest, movement of other com- 

 modities bemg of relatively little importance. 



Importance of Forest Products' Industries to the 

 Electric Power Industry 



An incidental measure of the importance of a manu- 

 facturing industry is to be found in the power equipment 

 used in its operations. The accompanying chart, figure 

 12 (and Appendix 2, table U), compares the rated capac- 

 ity of power equipment in forest products' manufactur- 

 ing plants with the capacity installed in all other man- 

 ufacturing establishments in 1929. Except in Montana, 

 forest products' manufacture utilizes more power equip- 

 ment than all other manufacturing industries combined. 

 The z-elative importance of forest products' industries 

 by this measure is greatest in Oregon, where almost 77 

 percent of the rated capacity of power equipment in 

 manufacturing is found in plants processing forest 



" Detailed statements of tonnage originating in each state, and revenue earned on 

 such traffic by railroads and commodity groups, are to be found in Appendix 2, tables 

 M to T, inclusive. 



