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BULLETIN 426^ XJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUEE. 



(7) Whenever possible, take down lumber as soon as it is dry. 



(8) Pile each length of lumber separately. 



(9) Surface stickers when blackened by stain. 



(10) Whenever possible, saw 8/4 and thicker pine stock either all 



sap or all heart. 



MARKETS. 



Sugar pine is being called upon more and more each year to take 

 the place of eastern white pine (P. strohus), which for the past two 

 centuries has represented the standard of excellence, not only in 

 America, but in many foreign markets as well. The development of 

 new markets in recent years has made possible the introduction of 

 sugar pine in South America, the islands of the Pacific, and the 

 Orient, and, wherever introduced, it is meeting with the same general 

 success which has characterized its entrance into the markets once 

 wholly supplied by white pine. In large dimensions it has already 

 largely supplanted the latter. Its uniformly high quality is gradually 

 gaining for it well-merited recognition in many specialized industries. 

 The leading manufacturing industries along the Pacific coast, from 

 Seattle to Los Angeles, are dependent largely upon sugar pine for the 

 high-grade products for which white pine has been essential in other 

 parts of the United States. The wood-using industries of the coast 

 consume nearly 60,000,000 feet annually, the manufacturing plants of 

 California alone working up 35,000,000 feet (exclusive of bridge con- 

 struction, sluicing, dimension stock, and general building material). 

 Fifteen million feet are shipped annually into the territory lying 

 between the Rocky Mountains and the Atlantic seaboard, and 

 10,000,000 feet go to foreign ports. 



USES. 



In 1908 the amount of white pine manufactured was 33 times the 

 amount of sugar pine; in 1911 the ratio was reduced to 27 to 1, 

 primarily because of the decrease in the supply of white pine and m a 

 lesser degree because of an increase in the cut of sugar pme. In 

 1911 sugar pine ranked twenty-fourth in the United States in the 

 amount of sound lumber produced. 



Table 14. — Amount of sugar- pine lumber used in various California industries in 1910. 



Industry. 



Boxes and packing 



Brushes 



Elevators 



FLxtiures 



Frames and molding 



Furniture 



Musical instruments 



Instruments, professional 



and scientiiic 



Machine parts 



Patterns 



Planing-mill products 



Feet used, 

 b. m. 



20, 536, 

 3, 

 15, 

 150, 

 2, 

 364, 

 4. 



4 



59 



1,317 



Per cent 

 of total. 



68.763 

 .010 

 .043 

 .430 

 .OOS 

 1.043 

 .014 



.001 



.012 



.113 



3.770 



Industry. 



Sash, doors, blinds, general 



millwork 



Ship and boat building 



Tanks 



Trunks and valises 



Vehicle parts 



Wood carvings 



AVoodenware and novelties 

 Miscellaneous 



Total 



Feet used, 

 b. m. 



11,930,303 



75,000 



10, 750 



11,000 



1,000 



3,000 



418, 563 



40,000 



34,946,950 



Per cent 

 of total. 



34.140 

 .220 

 .031 

 .031 

 .003 

 .IJ08 

 1.200 

 .120 



99.9 



