THE PRODUCTION OF LUMBER IN" 1913. 



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Table 5. — Quantity of lumber sawed, with per cent of increase and per cent of distribution, 

 by kinds of wood, 1913, 1912, and 1911 — Continued. 



Kind of wood. 



Quantity (M feet b. m.). 



Per cent of in- 

 crease. 



Per cent of distribu- 

 tion. 



1913 



1912 



1911 



1912 to 

 1913 



1911 to 

 1912 



1913 



1912 



1911 





149, 926 

 120, 420 

 93, 752 

 88, 109 

 40, 565 

 30, 804 

 20, 106 

 85,366 



132,416 

 122, 545 

 84, 261 

 122,613 

 43, 083 

 49, 468 

 22, 039 

 82, 145 



117,987 

 98, 142 

 83, 375 



124, 307 

 38,293 

 42,836 

 33,014 

 69,548 



13.2 



- 1.7 



11.3 



-28.1 

 -5.8 

 -37.7 

 -8.8 

 3.9 



12.2 



24.9 



1.1 



- 1.4 

 12.5 

 15.5 



-33.2 

 18.1 



0.4 

 .3 

 .2 

 .2 

 .1 

 .1 

 .1 

 .2 



0.3 

 .3 

 .2 

 .3 

 .1 

 .1 

 .1 

 .2 



0.3 





.3 





.2 



White fir 



.3 



Walnut... 



.1 





.1 



Lodgepole pine 



Minor species l 



.1 



.2 



1 See Table 34 for kinds of wood included and quantities of the more important kinds. 



YELLOW PINE. 



Yellow-pine lumber is cut from a number of species growing east of 

 the Rocky Mountains. Three of them furnish most of the material, 

 although the minor species are cut to a limited extent. There is a 

 growing tendency to purchase southern yellow pine under specifica- 

 tions which designate the quality of the wood desired for the pur- 

 pose, irrespective of species, to avoid the present confusion at lumber 

 inspection points. The several species with their ranges follow: 



Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) occurs on the coastal plains from 

 extreme southeast Virginia to Texas, and in the whole Florida peninsula 

 except the extreme southern part. 



Shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata) has its range north of that of longleaf, 

 as far as New York, but likewise extending from the Atlantic coast 

 to Texas and Oklahoma, and running northward to southern Mis- 

 souri, West Virginia, and New Jersey. 



Loblolly pine (Pinus txda) grows in approximately the same region 

 as longleaf, as far north as New Jersey, but not in as large solid bodies 

 and it is found farther north and west than longleaf pine. This and 

 the two preceding species furnish the bulk of yellow-pine lumber. 



Slash pine (Pinus Tieterophylla) , sometimes called Cuban pine, 

 ranges throughout Florida, northward to South Carolina, and west- 

 ward to Mississippi. 



Spruce pine (Pinus glabra) ranges through southern South Carolina, 

 the southern portions of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, south- 

 eastern Louisiana and northwestern Florida. 



Pond pine (Pinus serotina) is found along the coast and a hundred 

 miles or so inland from southern Virginia to western Florida, but not 

 in the southern half of the Florida peninsula. 



Sand pine (Pinus clausa) is confined almost wholly to Florida and 

 southern Alabama. 



Scrub pine (Pinus virginiana) occurs from northern New Jersey to 

 southern Indiana and southward to central Georgia. 



Pitch pine (Pinus rigida) occurs from Georgia to New Brunswick 

 and westward to Tennessee and Ohio. 

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