PRODUCTION OF LUMBER, LATH, AND SHINGLES EN 1917. 147 
DOUGLAS FIR. 
The reported Douglas-fir + production, 5,351,025,000 feet, was 3 
per cent greater than that of the preceding year. The computed 
total production of 5,585,000,000 feet is the largest recorded annual 
eut for any year for which there are figures. The cut reported was 
for 1,024 mills; 1,175 mills reported in 1916. A change took place 
in the relative proportion produced by the mulls of the two leading 
States, Washington’s total beg 6 per cent less than in 1916 and 
Oregon’s total 12 per cent more than in 1916. 
The average value of $16.28 per 1,000 feet is an advance of 51 per 
cent over the 1916 value and a 15 per cent advance over the for mer 
record price of $14.12 in 1907. 
TABLE 9.—Reported production of Douglas-fir } lumber, 1917. 
[Computed total production in the United States, 5,585,000,000 feet.] 
| | i 
Number of | so ks "| Average 
active mills Quant | Per cent. value Der 
reporting. | ‘ported. 2000 feet 
I f. 0. b. mill. 
Feet B. M. 
1,024 | 5,351, 025, 000 100.0 $16. 28 
337 | 3,320, 044, 000 62.0 16.15 
3 1, 759, 044, 000 32.9 16,44 
88 156, 083, 000 2.9 18. 00 
131 66; 663, 000 1.3 14. 78 
Faas, : | 73 38, 600, 000 ag 16.40 
All other States (see Summary, p. 39)..--..-..------- | 69 10, 501, 000 «2 16.24 
1 Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga taxifolia) is the principal commercial species. 
OAK. 
There has been an almost unbroken annual decline in oak production 
in the United States during the last ten years, and 1917 proved no 
exception to this tendency. The reported cut of 1,967,694,000 feet 
was 9 per cent smaller than the 1916 output, with reports from 8,839 
mills in 1917 and 9,400 in 1916. The decreasing cut can be ascribed 
to the fact that oak stumpage is not so plentiful as it was a decade 
ago and that the use of a wider variety of hardwoods has affected 
the demand for oak. 
Several changes in the relative positions of the States in order of 
production occurred in 1917. ‘Tennessee rose to second from third 
place in the amount cut because of an increased cut over 1916 amount- 
ing to 5 per cent, displacing Arkansas. Mississippi dropped from 
sixth into eighth place, North Carolina moving into the former 
position. Missouri advanced to seventh from tenth place, owing 
to an increased cut amounting to 18 per cent over the previous year. 
The figures for ‘Tennesse 0, Missouri, and Indiana are the only ones 
» Psevudoteuga tazifolia. 
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