PRODUCTION OF LUMBER, LATH, AND SHINGLES IN L916. 



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In other years, as in 1916, the work was conducted almo i e clu lively 

 by mail. The tabulation shows a reported cut in L916 almost 

 4,000,000,000 feet greater than in 1915, but smaller Hum in any 

 other year since 1908. The estimated cut for 1916 is the smallest 

 for any year shown except 1915. 



Table 1. — Quantity of lumber reported, number of active sawmills reporting, and , :i- 



mated lolul cut, 1904-1916. 



Year. 



Reported eut 

 of lumber. 



Number 

 of active 



mills 

 reporting. 



cul of 



lumber. 



1899 



Board feet. 

 35,084,100,000 

 34,135,139,000 

 30,502,901,000 

 37,550,736,000 

 40,256,154,000 

 33,224,369,000 

 44,509,761,000 

 40,018,282,000 

 37,003,207,000 

 39,158,414,000 

 38,387,009,000 

 37,346,023,000 

 31.241,734,000 

 34,791,385,000 



31,833 



2 18, 277 



11,666 



22,398 

 28,850 

 31,231 



* 46, 584 

 2 31,934 

 2 28, 107 

 2 29,005 

 2 21,668 

 2 27, 506 

 2 16, 815 

 2 17, 209 



Board feet. 

 35,084,166,000 



43, 000, Of i0, 000 

 43, .500, 000, 000 

 46,000,000,000 

 46, 000; 000,000 

 42,000,000,000 



1904 i 



1905 



1906 



1907 3 



19083 



1909 



1910 3 



44, 500, 000, 000 



1911 3 



1912 



45, OOo' 000^000 

 44, 000, 000, 000 



1913 . 



1914 1 



1915 



35000'ooojooo 



40,000,000,000 



1916 





1 Custom mills excluded. 



2 Mills cutting under 50,000 feet excluded. 



3 Including mills which manufacture lath and shingles exclusively (1.500 estimated). 



i Includes 4,543 mills cutting less than 50,000 feet, and all cooperage, veneer, millwork, box, furniture, 

 and other factories cutting any lumber at all in 1909. 



LUMBER PRODUCTION BY CLASSES OF MILLS. 



As in previous years, the mills were arbitrarily divided into classes 

 according to the quantity reported cut. These classes are shown in 

 Table 2, with the computed 1 number of mills and production (p. 

 ■ — ■) and with comparative data for other years. 



The figures in Table 2 indicate the relation between the mill classes 

 and production, and this feature is emphasized in figure 1 (p. 4). 

 It is especially significant that 925 mills, or 3.08 per cent of the 

 number computed as operating, cut more than 23,000,000,000 feet, 

 or 58.56 per cent of the computed total production. The smaller 

 mills — 21,037 operations — constituting 69.93 per cent of the com- 

 puted number, cut but 4,027,912,000 feet, or 10.12 per cent of the 

 total output of all the mills. 



All of the mills which reported for 1916 have been classified ac- 

 cording to production and further arranged by States in Table 3 

 (p. — ). The tabulation well illustrates the extended character of 

 the lumber manufacturing industry and at the same time shows the 

 concentration of large units in a few States in the principal producing 



1 "Computed" is used in this bulletin to characterize results which were obtained by an extension of 

 the figures compiled from actual reports, so as to give the totals for approximately all mills, including 

 those from which no reports were received. 



