14 MONTANA FARM REVIEW 



The output of poles, piling, posts, hewn ties and round mining timbers was much 

 below normal in 1921. Some companies specializing in that business did not operate 

 at all. 



A census made by the U. S. Forest Service shows there were 2,575 wage earners 

 engaged in the production of lumber and timber products in 1921. Total expenditures 

 that year for salaries and wages, contract work and materials were $5,857,104. In the 

 value of products of industries in Montana, lumber and timber ranked as the second 

 largest industry, according to the 1919 census. 



The Forest Service has not completed the compilation of data for the 1922 lumber 

 cut in the state. The following data for 1922 is taken from a report of the Montana 

 Lumber Manufacturer's Association : 



Total lumber cut, 236,739,778 feet. Total shipments for the year were 9,667 cars, 

 or 255,378,460 feet, which was 18,000,000 feet in excess of the year's production. In 1921 

 according to the figures of the association the cut exceeded shipments by 53,687,333 

 feet. Of the lumber shipped in 1922, Montana consumed 89,636.275 feet. Illinois was 

 the second best market, taking 863 cars, Iowa 737 cars, Minnesota 718 cars, Wisconsin 

 414 cars, North Dakota 310 cars, Colorado 300 cars, Nebraska 374 cars, Michigan 296 

 cars and Missouri 252 cars. A total of 1,306 cars went to Atlantic coast states and 167 

 cars to other eastern states. 



The lumber cut of M;ontaua as far back as 1870 is given in Bulletin No. 1119, of 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture, as follows: 



1870 12,571,000 1911 .'. 228,416,000 



1880 21,420,000 1912 - 272,174,000 



1890 89,511,000 1913 357,974,000 



1899 255,685,000 1914 317,842,000 



1904 236,430,000 1915 328,000,000 



1905 189,291,000 1916 383,900,000 



1906 328,727,000 1917 350,000,000 



1907 343,814,000 1918 340,000,000 



1908 311,533,000 1919 287,378,000 



1909 308,582,000 1920 410,000,000 



1910 319,089,000 *1921 213,857,000 



•U. S. Forest Service. 



