124 



FORESTRY INVESTIGATIONS U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



material largely derived IVoui the forest: Naval stores, bark and tanniug extracts, ashes, ginseng, sumac, together 

 with matches, agricultural implements, carriages, ears, and musical in.struments. 



During the last two years a notable increase in exports has taken place, wliich brings the 

 figures for wood products and wood manufactures, with nearly $00,000,000, to more than double the 

 amount often years ago, and 40 per cent more than live years ago, when the exports amounted to 

 nearly $43,0(10,000. This increase unfortunately is mostly in raw materials, logs, and lumber, and 

 is probably due to a very active export trade, especially in oak, with Germany. The naval store 

 industry has also considerably increased in exports. 



To show how the various articles of export compare the following table will serve, in wliich 

 the exports of 1890 and 1897 are recorded: 



Exports of irood and wood products from Hie United States for the yean rndini/ lime ,'lfi, 1SHO anil 1897. 



1890. 



1897. 



Products. 



Total 46,006,781 



59, 329, 936 



a Not specified. 



While undoubtedly increase in prices influences somewhat these figures, the following diagram, 

 showing the range of prices for export materials, would indicate that this influence lias not been 

 appreciable, the prices remaining remarkably even, with the exception of the period after the war, 

 and lately showing even a sinking tendency, although probably only temporarily. 



Annual areraije export prices of wood and certain wood products for each of the ten yearn ending June 30 from 188% to 1891, 



and 1897. 



We find also by inspection of trade journals that, although many of the great staples have in 

 some regions been entirely exhausted and in others approach exhaustion, prices of lumber have not 



