UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



BULLETIN No. 845 



Contribution from the Forest Service 

 HENRY S. GRAVES, Forester 





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Washington, D. C. 



PROFESSIONAL PAPER 



April 13, 192*» 



PRODUCTION OF LUMBER, LATH, AND SHINGLES 



IN 1918. 



By Franklin H. Smith and Albert H. Pierson, 

 Statisticians in Forest Products. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Introduction 1 



Total lumber production 2 



Lumber production by classes of mills 3 



Lumber production by States 12 



Lumber production by kinds of wood 15 



Yellow pine 19 



Douglas fir 20 



White pine 20 



Oak..... 21 



Hemlock 22 



W estern yellow pine 23 



Spruce 24 



Maple 25 



Gum 25 



Cypress 26 



Redwood 27 



Chestnut 27 



Birch 28 



Larch 29 



Beech 29 



Lumber production by kinds of wood — Con. 



Yellow poplar 30 



Cedar 31 



Tupelo 31 



White fir 32 



Basswood 33 



Elm 33 



Cottonwood 34 



Ash 35 



Sugar pine ■ 35 



Hickory 36 



Walnut 36 



Balsam fir 37 



Sycamore 38 



Lodgepole pine 38 



Minor species 39 



Production of lath 39 



Production of shingles 40 



Lumber values 41 



Detailed summary 42 



INTRODUCTION. 



In this bulletin, which is one of an annual series covering the period 

 1904 to 1918, inclusive, with the exception of 1914, 1 are detailed 

 statistics of the 1918 production of lumber, lath, and shingles in the 

 continental United States, 2 with comparative figures from previous 

 annual reports. 



The collection and compilation of the statistics for the Western 

 States were done through the district offices of the Forest Service at 

 Missoula, Denver, Albuquerque, Ogden, San Francisco, and Portland. 

 The figures for New York State were furnished by the New York 

 Conservation Commission. 3 The work in all of the other States east 



1 A detailed summary of the 1914 lumber production is given in Bulletin 500, which contains the figures 

 for 1915. 



2 The production statistics for 1918 were summarized in a preliminary statement issued in May, 1919. 



3 Acknowledgement is made for assistance in the compilation and review of this bulletin to A. B. Strough, 

 New York Conservation Commission; and to C. N. Whitney, Miss Frances R. Waters, Quincy Randies, 

 N. J. Fetherolf, Miss Catherine Deneen, L. A. Nelson, and T. J. Starker, of the. Forest Service. 



