THE RED SPRUCE. 7 



PRESENT STAND OF SPRUCE. 



The amount of standing spruce timber in the United States, 1 

 according to recently reyised estimates, is 116,500 million feet board 

 measure, or 4 per cent of the total standing timber of all kinds. 

 This stand is divided among the three commercial spruce regions as 

 follows: The eastern or red spruce region, 48.3 per cent; 2 the Rocky 

 Mountain or Engelmann spruce region, 30.3 per cent; and, the Pacific 

 coast or Sitka spruce region. 21.4 per cent. 



The commercial stands of spruce timber in the eastern spruce 

 region by States are given in Table 2. 



Table 2. — Stand of spruce in the eastern or red spruce region. 



State. 



Billions 



of board 



feet. 



Per cent. 





26.0 

 5.9 

 1.4 

 0.9 



13.3 

 0.2 

 8.6 



46.2 





10.5 





2.5 





1.6 





23.6 



Maryland 



0.3 





15.3 









Total 



56.3 



100.0 







VALUE OF SPRUCE AND SPRUCE STUMPAGE, 



In total value of annual lumber production in 1909 spruce stood 

 sixth among the woods, with 4.3 per cent of the gross output, and in 

 unit value of the manufactured product it stood fifteenth, with a 

 value of $16.91 per 1,000 board feet. It was surpassed in total value 

 by yellow pine, oak, white pine, Douglas fir, and hemlock; and in 

 unit value by walnut, cherry, hickory, yellow poplar, ash, oak, 

 cypress, cedar, oasswood, white pine, sugar pine, cottonwood, elm, 

 and birch. 



Table 3 shows the value of spruce stumpage by States, based both 

 on estimates and on reports of sales collected by the Forest Service 

 for the years 1907 and 1912. As a means of comparison the table 

 includes the values for spruce in the Lake States, Rocky Mountain, 

 and Pacific Coast States for these same years; also the census figures 

 for all spruce for the years 1899 and 1904. 



The range of 1912 values was from $1 to $11 per thousand, accord- 

 ing to estimates, and from $2 to $11, according to sales. The mini- 

 mum estimated value, $1, was reported from North Carolina; and 



1 Unpublished estimates of the " Standing Timber in the United States," prepared by the Section of 

 Computing, Forest Service, February, 1915. 



2 The amount of spruce of commercial size remaining in the Lake States was apparently too small to be 

 expressed in terms of billion feet. This is doubtless also true of other States, as those in the southern 

 Appalachians, omitted from Table 2. 



