'_ PULPWOOD CONSUMPTION AND WOOD-PULP PRODUCTION. Ff 
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF PULPWOOD, WOOD PULP, AND PAPER. 
Tables 11 to 15, inclusive, are transcripts of statistics compiled by 
the Department of Commerce and are of importance in connection 
with this report because of their showing of the annual imports of 
pulpwood, and the imports and exports of wood pulp and paper. 
Revised classifications effected during the periods covered by the 
tables account for the omissions and regroupings. 
IMPORTS OF PULPWOOD. 
In Table 11 is shown the annual imports of pulpwood for the last 
eight calendar years. The figures given in the table showing impor- 
tations of 1,031,934 cords in 1917 are at variance with the figures in 
Table 1, giving the combined consumption of imported spruce and 
poplar as 867,301 cords. This difference is due to the fact that the 
Forest Service figures are for spruce and poplar consumption alone, 
while the statistics in Table 11 cover all pulpwoods imported. 
THOUSANDS OF TONS 
400 
MAINE eee 
PENNSYLVANIA. _______ 
CALIFORNIA, OREGON, 
AND WASHINGTON 
MINNESOTA 
Fic. 1.—Production of pulp in the United States, by States. 
Further, all of the pulpwood imported during one calendar year may 
not be used during the same year but stored for future consumption. 
The number of cords imported in 1917 was less by 65,643 cords, or 
6 per cent, than in 1916. The average value of $8.30 per cord for 
the imported wood for 1917 is an increase of 27 per cent over the 
previous year. (See Table 11, Appendix.) 
IMPORTS OF WOOD PULP. 
The total importations of wood pulp in 1917 (Table 12) were 1 per 
cent less than those of 1916, but in excess of any other one of the 
years for which figures are given. ‘There was a remarkable increase 
of 58 per cent—from $44.02 to $69.36—from 1916 in the average 
value per ton. ‘The value is more than double that for 1915 or any 
other of the preceding years shown. In sharp contrast to this, the 
average value of domestically produced pulp advanced only 22 per 
cent. (See Table 12, Appendix.) 
