PRODUCTION OF LUMBER, LATH, AND SHINGLES IX L8L6. 21 



The reported total cut of 1 ,1 29,750,000 feet is 5.4 per cent less than 

 in 1915. This decreased output of lumber is in a measure account! I 

 for by tho quantity of spruce timber which was cat for pulpwood 

 rather than for saw logs; New Hampshire's output was less by one- 

 half and New York's less by one-quarter than the reported cut of 

 1915. The two States mentioned furnish much spruco to pulp mills. 



The three leading States in the production of spruce — Maine, Wash- 

 ington, and West Virginia— enlarged their cut in 1916; but the in- 

 crease in these three States was not enough to offset the decrease in 

 the other States. A feature of the tabulation is the position of Ore- 

 gon in fourth place in importance of production, the State having 

 occupied seventh position in 1915. Oregon's greater cut, as well as 

 that of Washington, is attributed to the heavier demand during the 

 year for spruce airplane stock. 



The computed total cut of spruce is given as 1,250,000,000 feet, 

 which is a decrease of 10.7 from the year before. 



The average f . o. b. mill value of $17.58 is higher by exactly $1 than 

 the 1915 value. 



Table 13. — Reported production of spruce lumber, 1916. 

 [Computed total production in United States, 1,250,000,000 feet b. m.] 



Number 

 of active 

 mills re- 

 porting. 



Quantity 

 reported. 



Per cent. 



•Average 



value per 



M feet, 



f. o. b. mill. 



United States 



Maine 



Washington 



West Virginia 



Oregon • 



Vermont 



New Bampshire 



North Carolina 



New York 



Minnesota 



Colorado 



Massachusetts 



California 



Idaho 



All other States (see summary, p. 38) 



1,477 



Feet, b. m. 

 1,129,750,000 



100.0 



357 

 65 

 19 

 23 



264 



127 

 7 



223 

 72 

 42 

 38 

 2 

 22 



216 



376, 820, 000 

 221, 295, 000 

 111,965,000 

 96, 245, 000 

 66,812,000 

 51,337.000 

 45, 540, 000 

 41,551,000 

 25, 357, 000 

 18,614,000 

 14,638,000 

 13,871,000 

 13, 537, 000 

 29,138,000 



33.4 

 19.6 



9.9 



8.5+ 



5.9 



4.8 



4.0 



3.7 



2.2 



1.7 



1.3 



1.2+ 



1.2- 



2.6 



SIT. 58 



19.22 

 14.08 

 20.40 

 11.96 

 18.95 

 19.10 

 21.37 

 21. 25 

 17. 25 

 16. 35 

 19. U 

 14.44 

 13.42 



CYPRESS. 



Cypress (Taxodium disticTium) production, as reported, reached a 

 total of 945,330,000 feet, or 2 per cent more than the cut of the 

 preceding year. 



The output of the mills in Louisiana, North Carolina, and Missis- 

 sippi was slightly less in 1916 than in 1915. Louisiana, while still 

 the leading State of production, cut but 56 per cent instead of 61 

 per cent of the total reported cypress cut in all States, Cypress pro- 

 duction has been maintained at about the same rate since 1909, the 

 exploitation of timber in recent years in States hitherto little logged 

 tending to make up for the smaller output in the older cypress log- 



