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Table 9. — Rcportcil prod net lu it of liemJock lumhcr, 1915. 

 [Computed total production in United States, 2,275,000 M feet b. m.] 



State. 



Principal species cut. 



United States 



■\Yisconsin 



Michigan 



Washington 



Pennsylvania 



"West Virginia 



New York 



Maine 



Oregon 



North Carolina 



New Hampshire 



Vermont 



Virginia 



Tennessee 



Massachusetts 



Kentucky 



All other States (see Summary, 

 p. 38). 



Eastern. 



do... 



Western. 

 Eastern.. , 



do... 



do... 



do... 



Western. 

 Eastern. . 



do... 



do... 



do... 



do... 



do... 



do... 



Number 

 of active 

 mills 

 report- 

 ing. 



3,739 



256 



251 



91 



494 



134 



1,038 



431 



27 



80 



236 



281 



86 



56 



125 



63 



90 



Quantity 



reported, 



M feet 



b. m. 



2,026,460 



Per 

 cent. 



100.0 



474,371 



372, 512 



306, 570 



259,914 



160, 923 



93, 008 



69, 568 



61, 963 



46, 546 



39, 262 



29, 589 



25, 935 



23, 252 



21, 671 



18, 041 



23, 335 



23.4 



18.4 



15.1 



12.8 



7.9 



4.6 



3.4 



3.1 



2.3 



1.9 



1.5 



1.3 



1.1 



1.1 



.9 



1.2 



Average 



value per 



M feet 



f. o. b. 



mill. 



$13. 14 



13.17 

 13.34 



9.43 

 15.41 

 14.73 

 15.26 

 14.35 



9.58 

 12.62 

 14.22 

 14.87 

 13.90 

 12.14 

 15.28 

 14.11 



SPRUCE. 



Several spruces are cut for lumber, but red and Sitka spruce 

 furnish the greater portion. Red spruce {Picea rubra) is the 

 important species in the Xortheast and Appalachian region, and 

 Sitka spruce {Picea sitchensls) on the northern Pacific coast. In 

 the Northeast black spruce {Picea mariana) and white spruce {Picea 

 canadensis) are cut to a small extent, while white spruce furnishes the 

 lumber cut in the Lake States. Engelmann spruce {Picea engel- 

 mann'i) is the source of spruce lumber in the Rocky Mountain region. 

 The annual cut of spruce in the Northeast and Northwest is fairly 

 uniform. However, in the Appalachian region, the West Virginia 

 tracts are being cut oat, and new tracts are being opened in North 

 Carolina. The 1915 reported cut of spruce in West Virginia was 

 less than one half as much as in 1912, while in North Carolina the 

 mills reported cutting fifteen times as much as in 1912. 



Table 10. — Reported prodnetion of sprnce lumher, 1015. 

 [Computed total production in United States, 1,400,000 M feet b. m.] 



State. 



Princijial species cut. 



Nnmber 

 of a«tive 

 mills 

 report- 

 ing. 



Quantity 



reported, 



Mfeet 



b. m. 



Per 

 cent. 



Average 



value per 



Mfeet 



f. 0. b. 



mill. 



United States 





1,573 



1,193,985 



100.0 



$16 58 





Red.. 





Maine 



302 

 49 



138 



25 



8 



278 

 20 

 91 



232 

 41 



329 



362, 704 

 196, 203 

 112,904 

 91, 780 

 83, 601 

 69, 134 

 65, 327 

 58, 472 

 53, 185 

 34,. 389 

 66, 286 



30.4 

 16.4 

 9.5 



7.7 

 7.0 

 5.8 

 5.5 

 4.9 

 4.4 

 2.9 

 5.5 



17 28 



Washington 



Sitka... 



14 08 



New Hampshire 



Red 



17 67 



West ^'irgmia 



do... . 



17.97 



North Carolina 



\'ermont 



Oregon 



Minnesota 



New York 



do 



17. eb 



do 



17.10 



Sitka 



13.56 



AVhite.... 



17.78 



Red.. 



17 97 



Ma,ssachu setts 



do 



17 85 



All other States (see Summary, 







p. .38). 







