INCREASE IN 1907 LUMBER CUT 





Table \\.-Lnmber Cut, by Stales, 1907 



State 



i:nii..ii. Board 



reported last year than the year before, 

 while the increase in production was 

 a little over seven per cent., it 

 t he th"ii^ht that the amount ac- 

 tually manufactured must have hivii 

 greater in the earlier year. This, how- 

 ever, would be a t<><> hasty inference, 

 for it is almost wholly annnii; mills of 

 small individual output that the gain 

 in the number of establishment^ report- 

 ing has been made. 



A classification of the returns by 

 statrv and region^ thrown additional 

 light on the situation. Individual 

 change^, as. for example, the remark- 



able rise of Texas from eighth to third 

 place among the lumber-producing 



states, arc doubtless accounted for pri 

 niarily by the greater accuracy of the 

 i<i<>7 figure-: but in the majority of 

 cases the advances and decline- can be 

 traced to specific intluein 



I'.efore the year closed the general 

 business depression \\;i- 'y felt 



ill the lumber industry. It was 

 however, the most important cause of 



'ailing off in tlu > |>ro luctioii of tin- 

 year when.' a falling off occurred. For 

 decline in production took place only 

 in certain ie^i"ii<. Tin- South is the 



