THE SOUTHERN" CYPRESS. 



estimates, the relation of cut to the total standing timber is unaffected 

 by the lack of any figures for these smaller products. On the basis 

 of the estimate given above, the present annual cut amounts to 

 about 2.7 per cent of the standing timber. During the decade fol- 

 lowing 1S99 the annual cut practically doubled (92.7 per cent in- 

 crease), rising from a little less than 500,000,000 feet to 955,635,000 

 board feet. Table 2 shows the cut of the various States in 1913. 



Table 2. — Quantity of cypress lumber sawed in 1913 and in 1909. 





1913 



1909 



State. 



Quantity. 



Per 



cent 

 of total. 



Active 

 mills 



report- 

 ing. 



Quantity. 



Per 



cent 

 oftotal. 



Active 

 mills 



report- 

 ing. 





Boardfect. 

 744, 581, 000 

 100, 723, 000 

 74, SIS, 000 

 39, 895, 000 

 35,964,000 

 28,814,000 

 25, 782, 000 

 19,213,000 

 14, 502, 000 

 12,955,000 



67.9 

 9.2 

 6.8 

 3.6 

 3.3 

 2.6 

 2.3 

 1.8 

 1.3 

 1.2 



94 



41 

 57 

 43 

 98 

 49 

 54 

 62 

 44 

 65 



Boardfeet. 



60S, 854, 000 

 84, SI 1,000 

 27,517,000 

 36, 040, 000 

 55, 012, 000 

 32, S19, 000 

 41,666,000 

 34,506,000 

 8, 709, 000 

 25,629,000 



63.7 

 8.9 

 2.9 

 3.8 

 5.7 

 3.4 

 4.4 

 3.6 

 0.9 

 2.7 



153 



Florida 



85 





84 





55 



Arkansas 



309 

 125 





209 





150 





73 





261 







Total 



1,097,247,000 



100.0 



607 



955, 635, 000 



100.0 



1,504 





1 Includes mills in Maryland, Virginia, Alabama, Texas, Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky. 



For all the States the average production per mill in 1912 exceeded 

 a million board feet, in Louisiana it was 5,785,000 board feet. 1 This 

 is exceeded only in the manufacture of Douglas fir, redwood, and 

 southern yellow pine. In Louisiana, the average cut per mill in 1909 

 was 3,900,000 feet for 153 mills; in 1912, nearly 5,800,000 feet for 

 113 mills; in 1913, 2 7,900,000 feet for 94 mills. In the whole region 

 though the total cut reported increased about 15 per cent, the total 

 number of mills reported dropped from 1,504 in 1909 to 607 in 1913, 

 a reduction of about 59 per cent. 2 



In 1913 for the first time the annual cut reached 1,000,000,000 

 feet, over 1 00,000,000 more than the 1912 cut, the highest reported up 

 to 1 bat time. The number of active mills reporting in 1913, however, 

 was 372 less than in 1912. Increases in cut over 1912 were large on 

 the Atlantic coast, in South Carolina and Georgia, 3 and in the Missis- 

 sippi bash] in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. In the five 

 years ending in 1913, the annual cut very nearly tripled in size in 

 Georgia, Increased 25 per cent in Florida, and 67 per cent in Tennes- 

 see. Decreases of 1 1 per cent in North Carolina and 53 per cent in 

 Arkiin i occurred in the same period. 



' 1,018,000 board feet, as compared with 635,400 board feet Is 1900 



'Mi d SO 000 bet ol lumber annually not Included In 1913 statial to ; L909 Hgurea Dram 



complete deca 



I J'.-irily l,ecau so of the njxiiiliiK up of tho Olceflnokee Swamp. 



