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LUMBER CUT IN 1920 



The lumber rut of the United States in 

 19^ was 33.798.800,000 feet, which is 2.2 

 per cent less than in 1919, and 27 per cent 

 less than the peak in 1907. 



The averaKi' price of lumber at the mill 

 increased to $'W -42 p-.-r thousand, which is 

 a rise of 150 per cent since 1910. The ag- 

 srogate value of the cut is $1,299,000,000. 

 These are the highest annual valuations 

 ever recorded, but do not indicate present 

 conditions. They merely reflect the ex- 

 tremely high peak in the post-war lumber 

 prices which was passed in the first <juar- 

 tcr of 1920. 



These are the principal statistics ob- 

 tained by the Forest Service, United States 

 Department of Agriculture, in its 1920 can- 

 vass of American sawmills. They are 

 based upon reports from 15.978 active mills 

 out of 23,243 estimated to have been in 

 operation. , Several thousand mills cutting 

 less than 50,000 feet were not tabulated, 

 though allowance was made for their cut. 

 Comparisons with 1919 are published by 

 permission of the Bureau of the Census, 

 United States Department of Commerce. 



The tables show that the States which 

 increased their cut are all in the Pacific 

 Coast group and the Rocky Mountains. 

 Washington is first, as usual. Oregon at- 

 tains second place for the first time, dis- 

 placing Louisiana from a position held for 

 15 years, while California takes rank 

 among the first five, displacing another 

 southern ye'low pine State. 



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VAST AREA OF IDLE TIMBERLAND 



"The United States produces more than 

 half of the entire lumber cut of the world," 

 says Col. W. B. Greeley, Chief of the For- 

 est Service, United States Department of 

 Agriculture," and uses 95 per cent of that 

 amount right here at home. The exhaus- 

 tion of our timber supply is coming about, 

 not because we have used our forests free- 

 ly, but because we have failed to use our 

 timber-growing land. The problem in a 

 nutshell is the enormous area of forest 

 land which has been so logged and burned 

 that it is producing little or nothing. We 

 have more than 80.000,000 acres, an area 

 greater than all the forests of France, Bel- 

 gium, Holland, Denmark, Germany, Swit- 

 zerland, Spain and Portugal, which have 

 been denuded to the point of absolute idle- 

 ness so far as the production of any timber 

 of commercial value is concerned. We have 

 other enormous areas of cut-over land now 

 growing but a fraction of the amount of 

 timber which they might produce. And we 

 are adding to these areas of idle or largely 

 idle land from 10,000.000 to 15.000,000 acres 

 every year, as destructive logging and still 

 more destructive burning progress. 



"This situation," the Forester points out, 

 "can not long continue without grave con- 

 sequences. If we are to remain a Nation 

 of wood users, we must become a Nation 

 of wood growers. By some means or other 

 we must see to it that forest lands not 

 needed for agriculture are not allowed 

 to lie idle, but are kept at work growing 

 timber. 



"Where Americans need more forests," 

 states Col. Greeley, "is largely on these 80,- 

 000,000 timber-denuded acres which could 

 be made productive again with proper atten- 

 tion and protection against fires." Some 

 of the chief reasons why these forests 

 are needed are as follows: 



Our manufacturing centers are drawing 

 at an enormous rate upon our timber sup- 

 ply from two to four times as fast per 

 capita as the country at large. 



"Our railroads require 125,000,000 wood- 

 en crossties annually to maintain their road- 

 beds in fit condition and take care of new 

 construction. 



"Our average .American uses 125 pounds 

 of paper a year made largely from wood 

 and the growing circulation of our news- 

 papers and inagazines is increasing that 

 very generous per capita allowance. 



"Our average well-kept farms, using the 

 Upper Mississippi V'alley as an instance, re- 

 quire 2,000 board feet of lumber annually 

 for repairs and improvements. 



"Our Florida citrus crop alone, for mar- 

 keting, takes 13,000,000 boxes of sH board 

 feet each, every year." 



