PEODUCTION" OP LUMBER, LATH, AMI) SHINGLES I N 1916. 



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red <USM. 



Kcd gum (Liquidarnbar styracijlua) , the sapwood of which is aLso 

 commercially called "sap gum," was reported cut to the amount of 

 651,879,000 feet. The output was 36.3 per cent greater than that 

 reported for 1915. Tlio increase is partially accounted for by or- 

 ganized exploitation of uses for the wood. 



Each one of the leading producing States, with the exception of 

 Tennessee, Missouri, and South Carolina, measurably increased its 

 cut, the output in Arkansas increasing 35.3 per cent, that in Mississippi 

 49.6 per cent, and that in Louisiana 92 per cent — a combined in- 

 crease in cut of 145,000,000 feet. 



The computed total production was 800,000,000 feet in 1916 

 655,000,000 feet in 1915. 



Along with the enlarged cut of gum there was an advance in the 

 average mill value from $12.54 per 1,000 feet in 1915 to $14.64 in 1916. 



Table 16. — Reported production of red gum lumber, 1916. 

 [Computed total production in United States, 800,000,000 feet b. m.] 



United States 



Arkansas 



Mississippi 



Louisiana 



Tennessee 



North Carolina 



Texas 



Alabama 



Missouri 



South Carolina 



Virginia : 



Georgia 



All other States (see summary, p 



Number of 

 active 

 mills re- 

 porting. 



1,845 



2-15 

 174 

 77 

 186 

 141 

 49 

 92 

 60 

 43 

 111 

 43 

 624 



Quantity re- 

 ported. 



Feet b. m. 

 651,879,000 



207, 



164; 



75. 

 23, 

 23, 

 23, 

 22, 

 21, 

 20, 

 16, 

 12, 

 3! I. 



148,000 

 949, 000 

 926, 000 

 917,000 

 647, COO 

 592,000 

 813, 000 

 951,000 

 297, 000 

 008. 000 

 306,000 

 325, 000 



Percent. 



100.0 



31.8 

 25.3 

 11.6 

 3.7 

 3.0 

 3.6 

 -3.5 

 3.4 

 3.1 

 -2.5 

 1.9 

 6.0 



Average 



value per 



M feet, 



f. o. b. mill. 



S14.G4 



14.14 

 16.19 

 14.01 

 16.27 

 15.13 

 14.75 

 12. OS 

 14.81 

 13.57 

 12. ,-0 

 14.80 



YELLOW POPLAR. 



Yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) production statistics show 

 a tendency since 1909 toward a restricted output. The cut actually 

 reported in 1916, 394,854,000 feet, was 4.6 per cent greater than 

 for the year previous. 



Kentucky dropped in rank as a producing State from second to 

 fourth place, Tennessee and Virginia moving up proportionately. 

 Ohio, once a large source of poplar timber, occupies eighth place as 

 against sixth place in 1915. 



The computed cut of 560,000,000 feet was larger than that of 

 1915 (464,000,000 feet) and that of 1913, but below the reported cut 

 for a series of years. 



While practically all other woods show statistically an advance 

 in average mill value for 1916, the poplar figures of $21.89 indicate 

 a slight loss. 



