NOTES. 481 



Million dollars. 



1897 39-6 



1898 37.5 



1899 41-5 



1900 50.6 



While imports have remained nearly stationary and usually 

 below $20,000,000 in value ; of the exports less than 25 per 

 cent are manufactured articles. 



The census compiler furnishes the following table, attempt- 

 ing to show the change in proportions of the total lumber 

 product furnished by geographical divisions from census year 

 to census year : — 



1850 

 i860 

 1870 

 1880 

 1890 

 1900 



Pacific 

 states. 



3-9 

 6.2 



3-6 

 3-5 

 7-3 

 9.6 



These figures represent only the reported mill cut with all 

 the uncertainties accruing from diiferences in their collation, 

 but bring out sufficiently clearly the change in supplies, 

 namely, the steady decrease in the northeastern states, the 

 beginning decline in the Lake states, the increase in the 

 southern output, and the slower increase in the Pacific states, 

 mainly for home consumption, hence in relation to increase 

 of population. 



The different species are reported to have participated in 

 the total cut as follows, arranged according to the relative 

 position in the supply, verifying the writer's estimate, that 

 three-fourths of our consumption is of coniferous wood, the 

 pines alone furnishing 50 per cent of all lumber cut : — 



