INCREASE IN 1907 LUMBER CUT 



FIGURES of the lumber cut in complete than ever before. The figurrx 



1907, compiled by the Bureau of disclose some interesting facts, 

 the Census and the Forest Serv- In 1907, 28,850 mills made returns, 



ice, showed the largest total ever re- and their production was over forty bil- 



ported in the United States, exceeding lion feet of lumber. This is believed to 



Table I. Production of lumber by states, lumber cut 1907-1906 



by over seven per cent, the cut re- include ninety-five per cent, of the ac- 



ported for 1906, until then the record tual cut. In 1906, 22,398 mills reported 



year. This does not necessarily show about thirty-seven and one-half billion 



a larger actual cut than in 1906, for the feet. Since, according to these figures, 



returns obtained last year were more nearly twenty-nine per cent, more mills 

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