PRODUCTION OF LUMIJRK, I.ATII, AND SHINGLES IX L0L6. 19 



Table 10. — Reported production of whit pin lumber, 1916. 

 [Computed total production In United States, 2,700,1 b.m.] 



United States 



Minnesota 



Idaho , 



Maine 



Wisconsin 



New Hampshire 



Massachusetts , 



Washington 



Michigan 



New York , 



North Carolina 



Pennsylvania 



Vermont 



West Virginia 



Montana 



Connecticut 



All other States (see summary, p. 38) 



Number of 

 aotl ve 

 mill:; re- 

 porting. 



.1,212 



154 



36 



476 

 2.37 

 272 

 218 

 30 

 155 

 753 

 126 

 322 

 100 

 53 

 10 

 63 

 207 



tn re 

 poi ted. 



Feet b. m. 



2, 330, 



982,765, 



304,055, 



272 035, 



187,447, 



184,728, 



L01, 51 I I 



64,128, 



64,040, 



50,145. 



32,833, 



31,732, 



13,924, 



11,619, 



10, 497, 



10,283, 



29, 033, 





100.0 



41.3 

 13.0 



7 



'I 



8 



4 



8 



7 



2 



1.4 + 



1.4- 



.6 



. 5— 



.5- 



.4 



1.2 



value per 



119.16 



I- 61 



19.00 



17.72 

 16 62 

 16.62 



23.17 



15.54 



21.07 



19.92 

 16. to 

 19.64 



HEMLOCK. 



Hemlock is cut in both the Eastern and Western States, the prin- 

 cipal species being Tsuga canadensis and Tsuga Tietero-phylla in the 

 respective regions. The wide distribution of the species is indicated 

 by the number of States listed in the tabulation. 



Table 11. — Reported production of hemlock lumber, 1916. 

 [Computed total production in United States, 2,350,000,000 feet b. m.] 





Number of 

 active 

 mills re- 

 porting. 



Quantity re- 

 ported. 



Percent. 



Average 



value per 



M feet, 



f. 0. b. milL 





3,538 



Feet b. m. 

 1,986,653,000 



100.0 



$15. 35 









234 

 229 



80 



429 



133 



439 



1,007 



23 

 212 



73 



42 

 270 

 117 



58 

 115 



527, 465, 000 



324,720,000 



267,313,000 



243, 810. 000 



161,554,000 



96,300,000 



79, 880, 000 



70,014,000 



43,165,000 



42'. 916, 000 



35; 952, 000 



25,977,000 



25,257,000 



15.770,000 



15:649,000 



10,911.000 



26.6 

 16.3 

 13. 5- 

 12.3 



8.1 



4.8 



4.0 



3.5+ 



2.2 



2.2 



1.8 



1.3 



1.3- 

 .8 

 .8 

 .5+ 



15.53 





15.40 





10.23 





19.40 





17.01 





15.91 





19.18 





10.04 





15.80 





14. S3 





14.84 





13.32 





16. N - 





17.48 





15.86 













A decrease of slightly less than 2 per cent in the cut was actually 

 reported in comparison with the 1915 figures — 1,9S6,653,000 feet in 

 1916 and 2,026,460,000 feet in 1915. Wisconsin produced more than 

 one-fourth of the reported cut of all the States, the figures indicating 

 an increase of 53,000,000 feet over 1915; Michigan's cut decreased 

 48,000,000 feet for the same period. Hemlock production for the 



