476 APPENDIX. 



Number of establishments (reporting or exist- 

 ing?) 33,035 



Capital invested ..... $611,611,524 



Salaried officials, 12,530 .... 11,260,608 



Wage earners, 283,260 .... 104,640,591 



Miscellaneous expenses .... 17,731,519 



Cost of materials used .... 317,923,548 



Value of products, total .... 566,832,984 

 Saw mill . . . $422,812,061 

 Planing mill . . 107,622,519 

 Timber camps . . 36,398,404 



Quantity of sawed lumber, M ft., B.M. . . 35,084,166 



The Chief Statistician of Manufactures, commenting on 

 these statistics, which show an increase in lumber product of 

 30 per cent over that reported by the eleventh census, writes : 



" The consumption of wood in the industries is increasing 

 at a much more rapid rate than the population, in spite of the 

 fact that in many articles metals are substituted for wood. 

 While the timber is being used more and more economically 

 and the waste is being diminished year by year, still the rate 

 of destruction of the forests is yearly increasing." 



The figure of $318,000,000 represents the cost of the logs 

 and other raw materials at the various mills which produced 

 the 35 million feet of lumber and whatever other products 

 were produced in the mills. Discrepancies between the re- 

 ported output of the logging camps (26 billion feet), and that 

 of the sawmills, amounting to over 36 per cent ( !), are explained 

 by the compiler as due to failure of small concerns reporting 

 on the former and to increase in the scale at the mill. 



The sawmills alone seem to have produced from logs, 

 bolts, and cords of wood valued at $135,000,000 a product 

 valued at $423,000,000. In addition to the 35 million feet of 

 umber valued at $390,000,000,* representing 92 per cent 



1 In another table this is reported as $385,298,304. Altogether the 

 tabulations do not always agree. 



