3 1914 



of Forestry 

 of Ca Vf r : 



HE WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF CALIFORNIA. 



INTRODUCTION. 



This study of the wood-using industries of California was undertaken 

 r ith two main objects in view : 



1. The determination of the kinds and amounts of wood demanded by 

 ic industries manufacturing finished products, with particular refer- 

 ice to the amount produced in the State. This is intended to be an 



lid toward the adoption of a rational state forest policy, inasmuch as it 

 lows what kinds of woods ought to be produced for home consumption. 



2. The dissemination of information to the buyers and sellers of wood 

 the State. 



Accordingly, this publication covers only the woods worked up into 

 dshed products within the borders of California, disregarding cross 



;ies, lath, mining timbers, shingles, telegraph and telephone poles, rough 

 iber used in building operations and other structural work, and 



dressed lumber, manufactured elsewhere, which is used in the State 



without further preparation. 



PRODUCTION OF LUMBER IN CALIFORNIA. 



The last available returns of the United States Census, taken in 1910, 

 show that in the production of lumber California ranked fourteenth in 

 the list of forty-five states. Her 252 mills, in that year, produced 

 1,254,826,000 feet, board measure, or 3.1 per cent of the total cut of the 

 United States. The composition of this total was as follows : 



*The study upon which this report is based was undertaken by the State of Cali- 

 fornia in cooperation with the Forest Service, the work being done under the direction 

 of C. Stowell Smith, Assistant District Forester, Forest Service, United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. The statistics were compiled from data collected during a 

 period of about one year, beginning August 1, 1910. By the terms of the cooperative 

 agreement, the State is authorized to publish the findings of the investigation. 



