THE PRODUCTION OP LUMBER IN" 1913. 



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Table 19. — Birch lumber sawed. 



State. 



Number 

 of active 

 mills re- 

 porting. 



Quantity 

 (M feet 

 b. m.). 



Per cent 

 of distri- 

 bution. 



United States 



Wisconsin 



Michigan 



Maine 



Vermont 



New York 



West Virginia 



New Hampshire.. 



Pennsylvania 



Minnesota 



Massachusetts 



Maryland 



All other States 1 . 



2,218 



378, 739 



100.0 



292 



161 



262 



234 



549 



67 



128 



232 



71 



60 



6 



156 



164,612 



51,814 



40, 842 



31,608 



28,569 



16, 899 



14,732 



13,152 



4,532 



3,733 



2,553 



5,693 



43.5 

 13.7 

 10.8 

 8.3 

 7.5 

 4.4 

 3.9 

 3.5 

 1.2 

 1.0 

 .7 

 1.5 



1 Includes establishments distributed as follows: Arkansas, 3; California, 1; Connecticut, 31; Illinois, 10; 

 Indiana, 11; Iowa, 10; Kentucky, 8; Missouri, 24; New Jersey 3; North Carolina, 20; Ohio, 8; Rhode 

 Island, 1; Tennessee, 9; and Virginia, 17. 



BEECH. 



There is only one kind of beech native to the United States (Fagus 

 atropunicea) . It is found in all States east of the Mississippi, and 

 from Missouri southward it is found west of that river. Beech lumber 

 is cut in nearly all the hardwood-producing States. 



Table 20. — Beech lumber sawed. 



State. 



Number 

 of active 

 mills re- 

 porting. 



Quantity 

 (M feet 

 b. m.). 



Per cent 

 of distri- 

 bution. 



United States 



Michigan 



Indiana 



New York 



Pennsylvania 



West Virginia 



Ohio 



Kentucky 



Vermont 



Tennessee 



New Hampshire. . 

 All other States l . 



3,696 



269 

 470 

 821 

 402 

 182 

 492 

 348 

 160 

 161 

 74 

 317 



365,501 



86, 637 

 54, 827 

 40,313 

 38, 700 

 37,937 

 33, 763 

 26, 026 

 14, 825 

 10,268 

 6,908 

 15,297 



100.0 



23.7 



15.0 



11.0 



10.6 



10.4 



9.2 



7.1 



4.1 



2.8 



1.9 



4.2 



i Includes establishments distributed as follows: Alabama, 10; Arkansas, 2; Connecticut, 16; Georgia, 2; 

 Illinois, 25; Iowa, 3; Louisiana, 3; Maine, 71; Maryland, 16; Massachusetts, 35; Minnesota, 2; Mississippi, 

 7; Missouri, 4; New Jersey, 3; North Carolina, 34; Rhode Island, 1; Texas, 3; Virginia, 53; and Wis- 

 consin, 27. 



CEDAR. 



A number of species contributing to the country's lumber supply 

 are grouped under the common name cedar, though the relationship 

 between some of them is not very close. 



Incense cedar (Libocedrus decurrens) grows among the mountains 

 of Oregon and California. 



Port Orford cedar (CJiamsecyparis lawsoniana) is confined to a 

 restricted area of northwestern California and southwestern Oregon. 



Yellow cedar (CJiamsecyparis nooikatensis) is a Pacific coast species 

 extending from Alaska southward through British Columbia into 

 Washington. 



