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ECONOMIC BOTANY OF ALABAMA. 



TABLE 3. LUMBER, LATHS AND SHINGLES PRODUCED IN 

 1905 AND 1909. 



COMMON NAMES 



TECHNICAL 



NAMES 



Thousand 

 feet 



Value 



Thousand 

 feet 



Value 



Pine 



Cypress 



Cedar 



Walnut 



Hickory 



Cottonwood 



Beech 



Chestnut 



Oak 



Elm 



Poplar 



Sweet gum 



Sycamore 



Cherry 



Maple 



Basswood 



Tupelo gum 



Ash 



All other species 



Total. 



Pinus 



Taxodium 



Juniperus 



Juglans 



Hicoria 



Populus 



Fagus 



Castanea 



Quercus 



Ulmus 



Liriodendron _ 

 Liquidambar _ 



Platanus 



Prunus 



Acer 



Tilia 



Nyssa 



Fraxinus 



,116,118 



21,518 



70 



6 



2,790 



390 



$11,320,909 

 421,475 

 2,100 

 240 

 65,200 

 6,000 



400 

 50,588 



4,800 

 886,746 



35,206 



* 



575 



627,686 



* 



6,000 



*13,678 

 2,641 



81 



*161,268 



61,310 



1,506,863 



6,650 



2,869 



721 



7,076 



1,269 



1,125 



1,909 



86,557 



1,082 



38,324 



17,092 



721 



117 



1,041 



564 



13,074 



3,387 



862 



$20,267,307 



145,635 



76,602 



31,414 



194,165 



19,822 



16,808 



41,177 



1,707,770 



19,346 



814,385 



246,125 



31,414 



5,850 



19,717 



11,241 



166,432 



84,675 



64,810 



11,243,988 



$13,563,815 



1,691,001 



$23,938,627 



*The two or three kinds of "gum" were not returned separately in 

 1905. 



One should not lay much stress on the excess of the 

 1909 figures over those for 1905, for the enumeration for 

 1909 is probably much more accurate, having been made 

 in connection with the regular decennial census of 1910. 

 If the truth were known the production for 1905 might 

 have been the greater, partly because the area of wood- 

 land is steadily decreasing, and partly on account of the 

 panic of 1907, which must have affected the lumber busi- 

 ness perceptibly in 1909. 



The increase in average value of lumber shown by the 

 table, from a little less than $11 a thousand in 1905 to a 

 little over $14 a thousand in 1909, is significant, ho"wever, 

 and correlated with the decreasing supply. 



