SHOBTLEAF PINE : IMPORTANCE AND MANAGEMENT. 



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more than 10,000,000 feet annually of longleaf and loblolly, but 

 practically no shortleaf ; in Iowa, shortleaf is second only to white 

 pine in total quantity used ; in Illinois in 1912 it stood second in car 

 manufacture, first for sash, door, and blind, and also box manufac- 

 ture, and entered into the leading classes of wood products. The 

 most intensive market area lies from New York through the north- 

 eastern, central, and southern prairie States. The best available 

 estimate of the quantity of shortleaf further manufactured by the 

 wood-using industries of the United States annually during the 

 period of 1910 to 1912 is, in round figures, 3,500,000,000 board feet 

 (Table 11), valued at about $52,740,745 f. o. b. factory. Of this 

 amount about 2,500,000,000 feet were converted into planing-mill 

 products, and the balance largely used for sash, doors, blinds, and 

 general millwork, boxes and crates, car construction, agricultural 

 implements, vehicles and parts, fixtures, furniture, and shipbuilding. 



Table 11. — Quantity and value of shortleaf pine used annually oy the wood- 

 manufacturing industries of the United States. 1 



Industry. 



Quantity 

 used. 



Aver- 

 age 



value 



per 



M 



feet. 



Total 

 value. 



Industry. 



Quantity 

 used. 



Aver- 

 age 

 value 



ST 



feet. 



Total 

 value. 



Planing-mill prod- 

 ucts and general 



Boardfeet. 

 2,501,189,960 



327,830,625 

 349,094,714 

 212,913,493 



37,132,070 

 14, 499, 455 



Dolls. 

 212.26 



23.30 

 15.52 

 25.02 



26.84 

 21.46 



Dolls. 

 30,653,669 



7,639,295 

 5,419,004 

 5,327,034 



996, 653 

 311,208 





Boardfeet. 



9,864,765 



7,651,800 



5,173,762 



79,401,264 



Dolls. 

 30.34 



18.38 

 23.88 

 23.05 



Dolls. 

 299, 298 

 140 645 





Sash, doors, and 



Shipbuilding 



Total 



Total exclusive 

 of planing-mill 



123,531 

 1,830,498 



Boxes and crates . . . 

 Car construction... 

 Agricultural imple- 



3,544,751,908 

 1,043,561,948 



14.88 

 21.17 



52,740,745 



Vehicles and parts. . 



22,087 076 







i This is a tenative table, compiled from the various State wood-using industry reports, published by the 

 State organizations and lumber-trade journals, in cooperation with the Forest Service. Figures are for 

 the period 1910 to 1912, or an average about 1911. Although reported as true shortleaf, it seems likely that 

 the amounts are somewhat high because of the tendency to include some other material than shortleaf 

 under this head. 



' Very low average due to extensive planing-mill industry of producers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, 

 North Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas, where supplies are secured without cost for transportation. 



3 Includes chiefly sporting and athletic goods, machine construction, caskets and coffins, wooden ware 

 and novelties, printing material, kitchen cabinets, refrigerators, elevators, frames and molding, tanks, 

 and silos. 



LUMBER PRICES. 



The average mill-run price of shortleaf pine lumber does not differ 

 much from that of the other southern yellow pines. In the Gulf 

 States it holds closely to that of longleaf and in the central Atlantic 

 States to loblolly. The factors which govern this more than any- 

 thing else are location, cost of transportation to the larger markets, 

 and- average size of mill output. For example, in 1912 the average 

 mill-run of "North Carolina pine" was $14.22, while yellow pine 

 in Arkansas was $14.78. Mississippi, where the percentage of long- 

 leaf in the cut is as high as anywhere, showed an average mill-run 



