PRODUCTION OF LUMBER, LATH, AND SHINGLES IN 1918. 



Table 17. — Reported production of cypress x lumber, 1918. 

 [Computed total production in the United States, 630,000,000 feet.] 



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State. 



Number of 

 active 

 mills re- 

 porting. 



Quantity re- 

 ported. 



Per cent. 



Average 

 value per 



1,000 feet 

 f. o. b. mill. 





587 



Feet b. m. 

 578,026,000 



100.0 



$30. 56 









91 

 33 



32 

 123 



28 



45 

 61 

 55 

 53 

 20 



46 



296,986,000 

 85,376,000 

 41,836,000 

 40, 638, 000 

 28, 898, 000 



22,256,000 

 17,711,000 

 13,581,000 

 13,001,000 

 6, 008, 000 



11, 735, 000 



51.2 



14.8 



7.2 



7.0 



5.0 



3.9 

 3.1 

 2.4 

 2.3 

 1.1 



2.0 



30.60 





34.69 





30.90 





26.56 





33.62 





24.48 





30.52 





26.05 





24.13 





31.27 





27.19 







1 Bald cypress ( Taxodium distichum) is the one species cut as such. 

 REDWOOD. 



Kedwood production was reduced 44,000,000 feet from the re- 

 ported total of 487,458,000 feet in 1917, a decrease of 9 per cent. 

 Forty mills reported cutting redwood in 1918 and but 36 mills the 

 year before. The statistics given are believed to cover practically 

 all of the redwood cut. 



The average mill value of redwood was $21 in 1917 and $24.30 in 

 1918, an advance of $3.30 per 1,000 feet, or 16 per cent. 



Table 18. — Reported production of redwood 1 lumber, 1918. 



State. 



Number of 



active 



mills 



reporting. 



Quantity 

 reported. 



Per cent. 



Average 

 value per 



1,000 feet 

 f. o. b. mill. 





40 



Feet b. m. 

 443,231,000 



100.0 



$24. 30 









40 



443,231,000 



100.0 



24.30 







1 Redwood {Sequoia sempervirens) is the species chiefly cut. Bigtree (Sequoia wasMngtoniana) furnishes 

 a minor part of the redwood production. 



CHESTNUT. 



The reported total cut of chestnut, amounting to 344,929,000 feet, 

 was a decrease of 10 per cent from the 1917 cut. The decline in 

 West Virginia was 22,000,000 feet, or 21 per cent. That State pro- 

 duces approximately one-fourth of all the chestnut sawed into 

 lumber. Pennsylvania, with an increased output of 3,000,000 feet, 

 or 7 per cent, was the one State to show an advance in 1918 over the 

 year before. 



The average value of $27.31 per 1,000 feet reported for chestnut 

 is $5.77, or 27 per cent, over the 1917 value. 



