18 BULLETIN G73, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table 9.— Reported production of oak lumber, 1916. 

 [Computed total production in United States, 3,300,000,000 feet b. in.] 





Number of 

 act Lve 

 mills re- 

 porting. 



Quantity re- 

 ported. 



Per cent. 



Average 



value per 



M feet, 



f. o. b. mill. 



United States 



9,400 



Feet b. m. 

 2, 164, 633, 000 



100.0 



S20.06 







West Virginia 



459 

 441 

 729 

 563 

 857 

 269 

 841 

 750 

 513 

 357 

 431 

 90 

 345 

 100 

 229 

 664 

 109 

 1,653 



29S, 189,000 

 216,264,000 

 225,645,000 

 212,768,000 



184, 226, 000 

 129, 131)000 

 129,124,000 

 113,780,000 

 102, 405. 000 

 95, 850, 000 

 S3, 674, 000 

 71, 96S, 000 

 41,881,000 

 39,114,000 

 24,006,000 

 23, 926, 000 

 20, 972, 000 

 121, 710, 000 



13.8 

 11.4 

 10.4 

 9.8 

 8.5 

 6.0 

 6 

 5.3 

 4.7 

 4.4 

 3.9 

 3.3 

 1.9 

 1.8 

 1.1 

 1.1 

 1.0 

 5.6 



20.96 



Arkansas 



18.75 



Bfl 



21.06 



Kentucky 



21.21 





16.21 





19.86 





16 37 



Pennsylvania 



21.08 



Ohio.! 



26.00 





17.90 





29.71 





18. 79 





15.57 



Texas 



17. 10 



Georgia 



17.91 



New York 



25. 13 



Illinois 



19.91 











WHITE PINE. 



White-pine data as given here include four species: The white 

 pine (Pinus strobus) and Norway or red pine (Pinus resinosa) of the 

 Lake States, New England, and Appalachian regions; western white 

 pine (Pinus monticola) of the Inland Empire region; and jack pine 

 (Pinus divaricata) of the Lake States. To some extent Norway 

 and jack pine are mixed with the lower grades of white pine and sold 

 as the latter, since these species are as well adapted as white pine 

 for the purposes for which it is used. 



White-pine production continues without any remarkable change, 

 the reported cut of 2,330,831,000 feet in 1916 being an increase of 1.7 

 per cent over the 1915 figures of 2,291,480,000 feet. A reference 

 to the tabulation reveals Minnesota's share of the country's reported 

 cut to have been 41.5 per cent, which is an increase of 3.5 per cent 

 over the previous year. 



With the exception of the three leading producing States— Minne- 

 sota, Idaho, and Maine — and North Carolina, where the cpuantity 

 cut was almost doubled, the production of the several States listed 

 shows a decline from 1915, slight in nearly all instances, but none 

 the less significant. 



No change was made in the computed total production of white 

 pine for 1915, since it is generally conceded that this wood has reached 

 the maximum cut. 



The number of mills reporting in 1916 was less by 137 out of a 

 total of 3,212 than the year before. 



The average f . o. b. mill value was $19.16 per 1,000 feet, an advance 

 of SI. 72 per 1,000 feet. 



