the sawmills in operation and indicates the kinds of timber the mills 

 purchase. Some mills may be omitted unintentionally. Also, a few mills 

 may own the source of all their raw material and hence are not listed 

 as buying raw materials. The true figure of sawmill population will thus 

 lie somewhere between those active mills given by the New Hampshire 

 Forest Market Reports and the total mills responsible for the annual 

 cut as shown by the New Hampshire Biennial Reports.* An exact figure 

 is difficult to isolate. The Forest Market Report list includes all large 

 and medium size plants and gives a minimum basis for operating saw- 

 mills. Their number by years since 1947 is shown in Table 1. The total 

 has been broken down into portable and stationary sawmills. These 

 figures were compiled from the names of sawmill owners listed each 

 year in the New Hampshire Forest Market Report. It can be seen that 

 both portable and stationary sawmills have declined from 1947 to 1961. 

 The bigger loss has occurred in the portable mills, but the stationary 

 sawmills have also undergone an overall decline. When the loss in 

 total active mills is compared to registered mills and all mills repre- 

 senting the annual cut (Table 2), the same trend is indicated; that is, 

 a general overall loss. In Table 3, a breakdown of the buyers of forest 

 products is listed. The total numbers listed from 1947 to 1961 show a 

 general decline. From the components, however, it can be seen that 

 while sawmills have declined, buyers and loggers have increased in 

 numbers. 



Table 1. Sawmill Population in New Hampshire, 1947-1961 



;ear 



Stationary 



1947 



1948 



1949 

 1950 

 1951 

 1952 

 1953 

 1954 

 1955 

 1956 

 1957 

 1958 

 1959 

 1960 

 1961 



258* 



256* 



266 

 278 

 268 

 259 

 254 

 264 

 236 

 241 

 214 

 206 

 205 

 185 



* Figure only available for period 1947-1948, and 1948-1949. 

 Source — New Hampshire Forest Market Reports. 



* The 1958 Census of Manufacturers (1961) lists an even more conservative figure 

 for active sawmills in a particular year. 



