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APPENDIX. 



Number of establishments ( 



ing?) . 

 Capital invested 

 Salaried officials, 12,530 

 Wage earners, 283,260 

 Miscellaneous expenses 

 Cost of materials used 

 Value of products, total 



Saw mill 



Planing mill 



Timber camps 

 Quantity of sawed lumber, M ft 



eporting or exist- 



$422,812,061 

 107,622,519 

 36,398,404 

 B.M. . 



33,035 



$611,611,524 



1 1 ,260,608 



104,640,591 



17,731,519 

 317,923,548 

 566,832,984 



35,084,166 



The Chief Statistician of Manufactures, commenting on 

 these statistics, which show an increase in lumber product of 

 30 per cent over that reported by the eleventh census, writes : — 



'' The consumption of wood in the industries is increasing 

 at a much more rapid rate than the population, in spite of the 

 fact that in many articles metals are substituted for wood. 

 While the timber is Deing used more and more economically 

 and the waste is being diminished year by year, still the rate 

 of destruction of the forests is yearly increasing." 



The figure of $318,000,000 represents the cost of the logs 

 and other raw materials at the various mills which produced 

 the 35 million feet of lumber and whatever other products 

 were produced in the mills. Discrepancies between the re- 

 ported output of the logging camps (26 billion feet), and that 

 of the sawmills, amounting to over 36 per cent ( !), are explained 

 by the compiler as due to failure of small concerns reporting 

 on the former and to increase in the scale at the mill. 



The sawmills alone seem to have produced from logs, 

 bolts, and cords of wood valued at $135,000,000 a product 

 valued at $423,000,000. In addition to the 35 million feet of 

 umber valued at $390,000,000,1 representing 92 per cent 



1 In another table this is reported as ^385,298,304. 

 tabulations do not always agree. 



Altogether the 



