PRODUCTION OF LUMBER, LATH, AND SHINGLES IN 1918. 21 



Table 10. — Reported production of white pine 1 lumber, 1918. 

 [Computed total production in the United States, 2,0)0,000,000 feet.] 



State. 



United States 



Minnesota 



Maine 



Idaho 



New Hampshire 



Wisconsin 



Massachusetts 



Washington 



New York 



Michigan 



Vermont 



Pennsylvania 



Virginia 



Connecticut 



Tennessee 



North Carolina 



All other States (see Summary p. 42) 



Number of 

 active 

 mills 



reporting. 



2,638 



154 

 376 

 34 

 247 

 194 



194 

 31 

 594 

 124 

 101 



240 

 89 

 50 

 39 

 44 



Quantity 

 reported. 



Feet b. m. 

 1,968,474,000 



830,439,000 

 237,466,000 

 208, 749, 000 

 188,569,000 

 126, 228, 000 



99,377,000 

 65,856,000 

 59,842,000 

 46,664,000 

 25, 722, 000 



24,615,000 

 9,410,000 

 8,597,000 

 8,017,000 

 7, 437, 000 



21,486,000 



Per cent. 



100.0 



42.2 

 12.1 

 10.6 

 9.6 



6.4 



5.0 

 3.3 

 3.0 



2.4 

 1.3 



1.3 



.5 

 .4 

 .4 

 .4 



Average 

 value per 



1,000 feet 

 f. o. b. mill. 



D.84 



30.77 

 28.21 

 32.84 

 28.78 

 35.48 



26.72 

 25.45 

 32.51 

 35,47 

 29.41 



35.34 

 25.70 

 34.09 

 29.55 

 27.71 



27.28 



1 White pine (Pinus strobus) is the white pine cut in the Lake States, the Northeastern States, and the 

 Appalachian region. 



Norway (or red) pine {Pinus resinosa), though botanic-ally a yellow pine, is cut in the Lake States and 

 largely marketed with white pine. 



Jack pine (Pinus banksiana) is cut in the Lake States. 



Western white pine (Pinus monticola) is cut in Idaho, Montana, Washington, and Oregon. 



OAK. 



The production of oak in the United States has decreased annually 

 during the last 10 years and more, as a result of the depletion of oak 

 timber and the wider use of a greater variety of hardwoods. In 

 1918 the reported cut was 1,658,714,000 feet, in comparison with 

 1,967,694,000 feet in 1917, a decrease of 16 per cent. The 1917 cut 

 was 9 per cent less than that of 1916. The shifting center of oak 

 production is indicated by Arkansas taking the place of West Vir- 

 ginia as the principal producing State. Arkansas, Louisiana, and 

 New York were the only States in which the cut was larger than for 

 the preceding year, all of the other States showing decreases ranging 

 from 1 per cent in Pennsylvania to 34 per cent in Kentucky. The 

 oak cut is 32 per cent of the aggregate cut of all hardwoods. 



The average value of oak for the year was $31.11 per 1,000 feet, 

 an advance of $6.62 per 1,000, or 27 per cent, over the year before. 



