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came, however, through the rapid exploitation of the western 

 part of the yellow pine territory, and by 1904 Louisiana 

 attained first rank, which position it has since held undisputed. 

 Texas is still in second place, while Mississippi has advanced 

 to third place, Georgia has dropped to sixth, and North 

 Carolina to seventh place. Since 1880 at least 150,000,000,000 

 feet of yellow pine lumber has been put upon the market. 

 The cut of 13,000,000,000 feet in 1907 is the largest annual 

 output yet reported. But the capacity of the yellow pine 

 mills is so great that this total may be surpassed [it was surpass- 

 ed, seemingly, in 1909 by 3 billion feet] in any year in the near 

 future which offers good market conditions. While the center 

 of production will undoubtedly be in the West for some time, 

 it does not seem improbable that with the exhaustion of the 

 virgin stumpage in that region the utilization of the rapid gTow- 

 ing loblolly pine of the Carolinas and Virginia will eventually 

 bring those states again into greater prominence, as second 

 growth white pine has done for New England. 



The cut of oak in 1900, 4,438,000,000 feet, was the largest 

 yet recorded, and doubtless it will never be equaled in the 

 future [It was equaled, seemingly, in 1909]. The output in 

 1908 was but little more than three-fifths of the production in 

 1900. In 1900 Indiana was first in oak production, with nearly 

 four times the cut reported in 1908, and Ohio was second, 

 with a cut almost three times as great as eight years later. 

 Even Kentucky and West Virginia, which advanced from 

 fourth and fifth place in 1900 to first and second place in 1908, 

 fell off in total output. Small increases have occurred in Mis- 

 souri, Mississippi, Virginia, and North Carolina, but these have 

 been too slight to retard greatly the downward sweep of 

 the curve. 



Hemlock, our fifth wood in point of total lumber production, 

 has also passed its maximum. In 1908 the output was but 

 three-fourths as large as in 1900. In 1908 Wisconsin dis- 

 placed Pennsylvania and ranked first in hemlock cut for the 

 first time. Pennsylvania, which as long as memory runs, had 

 been the leading hemlock state, produced but 36 per cent 

 as much hemlock lumber in 1908 as it did in 1900. The day 

 of hemlock is surely passing, for there is no rapid second 



