UTILIZATION OF ELM. 13 



Table 5. — Number of mills reporting lumber cut of elm in the different States. 



state. 



1905 



1907 



1908 



1909 



1910 



1911 



1912 



1913 



1914 



1915 



Total . 



1,937 



13,400 



14,771 



8,028 



5,785 



5,159 



5,573 



3,034 



2,665 



2,730 





Wisconsin 



Michigan 



ArVa.Tisas 



254 

 254 



54 

 299 

 316 



199 

 175 

 136 

 605 

 520 



(') 

 283 

 161 



a 



a 



66 

 296 

 212 



221 

 a 



a 

 a 

 a 



a 

 a 



a 

 a 

 a 



a 

 a 



569 

 504 

 107 

 666 

 620 



388 



236 



11 



74 



195 



320 



245 



89 



236 



119 



78 



10 



64 



2 



34 



19 



17 



13 



3 



7 



30 



46 



47 



17 



2 



680 



700 



220 



914 



920 



850 



810 



400 



28 



86 



298 



436 



395 



282 



308 



134 



80 



21 



88 



23 



61 



15 



45 



17 



5 



31 



38 



56 



42 



38 



2 



1 



1 



545 



567 



126 



648 



650 



605 



527 



293 



21 



77 



236 



281 



286 



146 



204 



130 



64 



13 



71 



12 



46 



17 



40 



19 



4 



20 



34 



41 



38 



16 



1 



492 



515 



100 



537 



675 



696 



445 



220 



18 



57 



211 



231 



218 



137 



197 



125 



60 



18 



60 



8 



36 



10 



25 



16 



7 



11 



41 



34 



42 



10 



1 



502 



488 



119 



597 



703 



684 



462 



268 



24 



64 



222 



284 



252 



131 



233 



130 



60 



23 



60 



9 



36 



20 



27 



16 



5 



16 



33 



40 



39 



15 



1 



315 



305 



69 



307 



322 



758 



243 



124 



22 



43 



35 



126 



93 



82 



48 



34 



13 



9 



16 



11 



9 



5 



6 



4 



4 



5 



7 



8 



4 



2 



265 



208 



68 



329 



301 



640 



175 



169 



30 



51 



61 



86 



33 



21 



78 



43 



10 



7 



20 



1 



10 

 4 

 16 

 2 

 5 

 1 

 11 

 8 

 5 

 2 



264 

 217 



72 

 293 

 319 

 570 

 135 

 116 



26 





Ohio. . 



New York. . 





72 





Louisiana 





Mississippi 





49 

 60 

 63 







TIliTinis 





Kentucky. . 





79 

 64 



Iowa 





Pennsylvftnia 





119 



Vermont 





77 



Mainp 





53 



Texas 





9 



Oklahoma 





17 



North Carolina 





8 



West Virginia 





21 



Georgia 





g 



Alabama 





15 



New Jersey 





15 



South Carolina 





3 







11 



Connecticut . 





17 



Massachusetts 





11 







13 



Maryland 





6 



Rhode Island 







Florida 



















1 









1 





Utah 









1 

 1 

 4 





























Kansas and Nebraska 





a 

 1526 



3 



3 



6 



9 



5 



4 







3 688 























1 New York not included. 



2 No report. 



3 Including 26 other States. 

 * Including those marked "' 



AMOUNT CONSUMED. 



Since little elm is used in the rough for building construction, ties, 

 poles, etc., practically all of the elm timber cut (except that used for 

 fuel) eventually reaches the factory, in the form either cf logs or 

 lumber, to be manufactured into various products. The annual 

 demand for elm by factories in the United States, according to the 

 most recent statistics, amounts to about 365,000,000 feet board meas- 

 ure, including all forms of raw material. This figure applies more 

 particularly to the year 1911. There has probably been some diminu- 

 tion in the amount used since that time on account of the waning 

 supply. Considerable elm wood is used for fuel each year, but no 

 estimates are available. 



Table 6 shows the amount of elm used in the factories of each 

 State. The States bordering the Great Lakes, also Missouri and 

 Arkansas, use the largest amounts. Kentucky, Tennessee, Missis- 

 sippi, and Louisiana use considerable ehn. A comparison of Tables 

 4 and 6 shows that in general those States leading in lumber pro- 

 duction also lead in amounts used by factories, indicating that 

 industries using elm do not generally get their raw material at any 



