NOTES. 475 



lumber industry, but also a map showing the distribution of 

 that industry over the country by values produced per square 

 mile. This shows the most intense concentration of this 

 manufacture in the northern section of Michigan, Wisconsin, 

 and Minnesota ; in the middle west of New York and Penn- 

 sylvania, in Maine and New Hampshire, and, on the Pacific 

 coast, in Washington and on a small territory in Oregon 

 along the Columbia River, while the centres of intensive pro- 

 duction in the Southern states are more widely scattered 

 with reference to shipping ports along the coast and Missis- 

 sippi River. 



Statistics of Wood Consumption. 



The eleventh volume of the Twelfth Census, containing re- 

 ports on " Selected Industries," reaches the writer in time to 

 give the following brief resume of the lumber interests. 



The census of 1900 for the first time seems to have secured 

 tolerably full although still incomplete statistics of the lumber 

 industry of the United States, which show that the estimate of 

 the writer of 40 billion feet B.M. (see pp. 40 and 349) annual 

 consumption is as near the truth as it can possibly be stated, 

 including all material requiring log and bolt size, for the saw- 

 mill product alone is placed by the census at 35 billion feet, 

 precisely the amount which the writer deduced from the re- 

 ported sawmill capacity in 1898.1 The allowance of 5 billion 

 feet for staves and headings, railroad ties, round and hewn 

 timber used locally, telegraph poles, etc., is, indeed, hardly 

 sufficient. Since, however, in the census statistics there are 

 undoubtedly duplications, we may perhaps still adhere, for all 

 purposes of economic discussions, to our round figure of 

 40 billion as representing fairly our present annual consump- 

 tion. The summary of the census (1900), mixing up sawmills, 

 planing mills, and timber camps, stands as follows : — 



1 H. R. Doc. 181, 55th Cong., 3d sess., p. 119. 



