APPENDIX E. 



Statistics of Alabama Forest Products. 



1"* HE following statistics have been extracted from 

 various recent publications of the U. S. Census 

 Bureau and U. S. Forest Service. They are all for the 

 whole state, no figures for separate counties, much less 

 for regions, being available. County statistics would be 

 somewhat misleading, anyway, for a great deal of timber 

 is sawn, dressed, or still further elaborated in a different 

 county from that in which it grew. 



Dressed and manufactured lumber. — The first two ta- 

 bles are compiled from the paper on the wood-using in- 

 dustries of Alabama by Harris and Maxwell, cited in the 

 bibliography. The figures are not copied directly from 

 this paper in every case, but have been re-computed so 

 as to exclude timber brought in from other states and 

 countries. They show the amount of timber manufac- 

 tured into something more elaborate than rough lumber, 

 laths and shingles (therefore excluding not only the 

 crude product of the small sawmill but also posts, poles, 

 cross-ties, fuel, etc.), classified first by kinds of timber 

 and then by products. The values given are those of the 

 rough lumber as it arrives at the mill where it is dressed 

 and manufactured, and not those of the finished product, 

 which may be many times greater. These values repre- 

 sent mainly the cost of logging, sawing into planks or 

 bolts, and transportation to the finishing mill. (Some 

 industries, especially those which use hardwood or make 

 veneers or excelsior, receive their timber in the form of 

 round logs, and eliminate the preliminary sawing.) 



The average value of each kind of wood can be obtained 

 if desired by dividing each total value by the correspond- 

 ing quantity given in the same line. Statistics of wood 

 industries have not yet been gathered as systematically 

 and thoroughly as have those of agricultural products or 



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