PRODUCTION OF LUMBER, LATH, AND SHINQLES IN 1916. 17 



Because of the better facilities for securing data on Douglas fir 

 production, which insured reports from all but a few mills, the com- 

 puted production figure is only slightly larger than the cut actually 

 reported. 



The average value for 1916 is $10.78 per 1,000 feet, an advance of 

 but 19 cents from 1915. The increase in value did not keep pace wi I li 

 the greater output; nor does the sum mentioned approach the 

 advance in the f. o. b. mill value of some competitive woods. 



Table 8. — Reported production of Dour/Ins fir lumber, 1916. 

 (Computed total production in United States, 5, 416,000,000 feet b m.) 



Number of 

 active 

 mills re- 

 porting. 



Quantity re- 

 ported. 



Percent. 



Average 

 value per 



Mfeet. 

 f. o. b. miil. 



United States 



Washington 



Oregon 



California and Nevada 



Idaho 



Montana 



All other States (see summary, p. 38) 



1,175 



Feet b. m. 

 5,413,431,000 



100.0 



$10.78 



349 

 430 

 100 

 140 

 59 

 97 



3, 546, 532, 000 



1, 572, 469, 000 



141, 200, 000 



80, 632, 000 



56,845,000 



15, 753, 000 



65.5+ 

 29.0 



2.6 



1.5- 



1.1 

 .3 



10. .85 

 10.28 



xi.U 



11.28 

 13.88 



Oak ranks third in importance in the production of this country's 

 woods, and has a wide distribution. Commercially the oaks are 

 classified as red and white, though there are more than 50 species hi 

 the United States. Statistically it is impracticable to do more than 

 show the production of all the oaks together. 



The cut of oak is declining, but some of the older producing regions 

 continue to saw annually a surprisingly large quantity. The pro- 

 duction figures for 1916 show 2,164,633,000 feet actually reported by 

 9,400 mills, as compared with 2,070,444,000 feet by 9,517 mills the 

 preceding year. The per cent of increase is 4.5 



The production rank of the several States shifted to a considerable 

 extent between 1915 and the succeeding year. West Virginia and 

 Arkansas remained in first and second places, respectively, in 1916; 

 Kentucky succeeded Tennessee in third place; Mississippi moved up 

 from tenth to sixth position, displacing Ohio, whose rank became 

 ninth; and North Carolina took Pennsylvania's position hi seventh 

 place. The trend in oak production is further indicated by the 

 increase in cut during 1916 in Virginia, North Carolina, Mississippi, 

 Alabama, and Texas. 



The computed cut for 1916 is placed at 3,300,000,000 feet, 



There was a substantial increase in the average value, $1.33 per 

 1,000 feet— from $18.73 in 1915 to $20.06 in 1916. 



