PRODUCTION OF LUMBER, LATH, AND SHINGLES IN 1917. 25° 
CHESTNUF. 
The chestnut-lumber production of 382,652,000 feet was a slump of 
9 per cent from the total of the year before. The cut im West Virginia. 
of 107,410,000 feet was 24,782,000 feet, or 19 per cent less than that 
of 1916. A slight increase occurred among the mills in North Caro-. 
lina, Virginia, Connecticut, Tennessee, and New York. <A decreased 
cut in Pennsylvania dropped that State from second to fourth rank 
in order of State production. 
The average value of chestnut was $21.54 in 1917, an increase over » 
the 1916 value of $4.49, or 26 per cent. 
TaBLE 20.—Reported production of chestnut } lumber, 1917. 
{Computed total production in the United States, 415,000,000 feet.} 
| 
| Number of | Average 
active mills) @Uantity | Der cent. | Value per 
reporting. reported. 1,000 feet 
f.0. b. mill. 
| Feet. BM. : 
MEONBL SUINeS oles Bet cas een ekedaceeseqesdse 3, 061 382, 652, 000 100.0 $21. 54 
SUES FIR ee ee ee eee 295 107, 410, 000 28.1 22. 87 
LUT ety Cn) iS per oe eee see Cee eae aoe eaee Bem 223 47, 277, 000 12.3 20. 76 
“CRRTI 1 1 22 Bo a ee eee 292 42, 073, 000 11.0 19. 38 
erry WAM eee i 2 2 = P22 ee 2 602 40, 149, 000 10.5 21, 49 
(ULE UE Tie. Se Pepe BL Se ee ea ree 134 33, 149, 000 A i a) 
[OEE DES STi... 2! Le ee et oo SR ee eis eeeianes 281 32, 738, 000 8.6 20.35 
New York... -.- 410 17, 153,000 4.5 23.28 -. 
Massachusetts 126 16, 863, 000 4.4 21. 53 
Kentucky....-- 263 13, 231, 000 3.5 20.27 
wf OV ARG. - ste ce eee Bee a ae eee a 75 9, 337, 000 2.4 19. 99 
(CEG. .- 2.75623) NeR ee poe eee 184 6, 795, 000 1.8 23. 29 
LET LESS ay Ss eee ae 2 68 5, 405, 000 1.4 23. 66. 
MipwernInpSbIEe |. -- 52 2 5-2 === - v2 Spe eeEEESE 2 :| 37 4,778, 000 1.2 20. 29 
LETT IEG) Ba Gs Ie a GEA Sig Geert | 20 4, 718,000 1.2 24.70 
All other States (see Summary, p. 39).-----..-.------ 51 1, 576, 000 4 18. 64 
1 Chestnut ( Castanea dentata) is the only species included in chestnut lumber. 
LARCH. 
Larch production declined 11 per cent from 1916, the total cut 
being 336,640,000 feet in 1917 and 376,731,000 feet the year before. 
In Montana the decrease amounted to 17 per cent and in Idaho to 
7 per cent. These two States cut 72 per cent of the total in 1916 and 
70 per cent in 1917. Wisconsin’s output was 40 per cent and that of 
Michigan 11 per cent under the 1916 figures. The quantity milled in 
Washington was 12 per cent greater than the year before; in Oregon 
it was 63 per cent greater. Minnesota’s total showed an increase of 
17 per cent from the year before. . 
The fact that Jarch shared in the advance in price with other of. 
the western woods explains, in part, the greater output in Washing-, 
ton and Oregon. The tamarack, or larch, of the Lake States has 
always returned the operators a higher average value, as will be noted 
from the figures shown in the accompanying tabulation, than the 
western product. 
The average mill value for all larch was $12.49 in 1916; in 1917 it 
was $16.21, an increase of 30 per cent. 
