PRODUCTION OF LUMBER, LATH, AND SHINGLES IN 1918. 9 



The relative importance of each State in the aggregate cut of lum- 

 ber is indicated in Table 4, which shows the cut by classes of mills ar- 

 ranged by States. Of the 777 class 5 mills reporting their output 

 for 1918, 105 were located in Louisiana, 54 in Mississippi, 47 in Texas, 

 38 in Arkansas, and 29 in Alabama. From this group of States 273 

 class 5 mills reported in 1918, or a decrease of 18 per cent in compari- 

 son with the 332 mills reported in 1917. In the Lake States group 

 were 40 in Wisconsin, 30 in Michigan, and 20 in Minnesota, a decrease 

 of 18 per cent in number from 1917. In the western States 132 were 

 in Washington, 72 in Oregon, and 40 in California and Nevada; the 

 class 5 mills in these States in 1917 numbered but 221, so that there 

 is an increase of 10 per cent. 



In the 12 States mentioned above, the 607 class 5 mills reporting 

 form 78 per cent of the total reporting from all States. From the 

 four general producing regions embraced within these States comes 

 the bulk of the soft wood cut. 



Of the 11,437 mills reporting a cut of from 50,000 to 1,000,000 feet 

 each, 1,089 were in Virginia, 979 in North Carolina, 977 in New York, 

 677 in Pennsylvania, and 632 in Tennessee. The 4,354 class 1 and 

 class 2 mills in the five States constitute 38 per cent of the two classes 

 of mills reporting for the entire country. 

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