PRODUCTION OF LUMBER, LATH, AND SHINGLES IN 1918. 



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BASSWOOD. 



Basswood production, reported as 174,661,000 feet in 1918, was 8 

 per cent below that of 1917. In Wisconsin the cut was 7 per cent 

 greater than the year before, and the State's proportion of the entire 

 output of the country increased from 35.5 per cent to 41.5 per cent. 

 Michigan's production decreased 22 per cent and West Virginia's 

 19 per cent. 



An increase of $8.04 per 1,000 feet— from $25.96 in 1917 to $34 in 

 1918 — took place in the average mill value for basswood. The 

 increase is 31 per cent. 



Table 27. — Re-ported production of basswood 1 lumber, 1918. 

 [Computed total production in the United States, 200,000,000 feet.] 



State. 



Number of 

 active 

 mills 



reporting. 



Quantity 

 reported. 



Per cent. 



Average 

 value per 



1,000 feet 

 f. o. b. mill. 



United States . 



Wisconsin 



Michigan 



West Virginia. 



New York 



Virginia 



Tennessee 



Indiana 



Ohio 



North Carolina. 

 Kentucky 



Pennsylvania 



Vermont 



Minnesota 



All other States (see Summary, p. 42) . 



259 

 162 

 141 

 539 

 57 



63 

 100 

 138 

 65 

 65 



140 



117 

 77 

 179 



Feet b. m. 





174, 661, 000 



100.0 



72,462,000 



41.5 



29, 788, 000 



17.0 



17, 195, 000 



9.9 



12,265,000 



7.0 



5,895,000 



3.4 



5,013,000 



2.9 



4, 805, 000 



2.7 



4, 775, 000 



2.7 



4, 718, 000 



2.7 



4,249,000 



2.4 



3, 437, 000 



2.0 



3,286,000 



1.9 



2, 968, 000 



1.7 



3, 805, 000 



2.2 



»34. 00 



34.68 

 36.04 

 35.34 

 33.12 

 35.13 



32.00 

 34.13 

 32.34 

 30.09 

 28.94 



29.33 

 32.33 

 23.11 



28.07 



1 Basswood (or linn) (Tilia americana) is cut in the Lake States. 



White basswood ( Tilia heterophylla) is cut in the Appalachian Mountain region. 



Downy basswood ( Tilia pubescens) is cut in limited quantity in the Southern States. 



ELM. 



The reported cut of elm in 1918, amounting to 166,481,000 feet, 

 is 13 per cent smaller than that for the preceding year. The cut in 

 Wisconsin, the leading State in production, was less than 1 per cent 

 smaller than in 1917. A decrease is recorded of 20 per cent in Mich- 

 igan, 14 per cent in Arkansas, and 25 per cent in Indiana. 



The upward trend in prices carried the average mill value from 

 $23.89 in 1917 to $28.19 in 1918, an increase of $4.30, or 18 per cent, 

 per 1,000 feet. 



