PRODUCTION OF LUMBER, LATH, AND SHINGLES FN L016. 

 MINOIt SPECIES. 



35 



Tho production figures of a Dumber of woods, both native and 

 foreign, which are not of sufficient importance to tabulate and discuss 

 separately, are given in Table 36. Tho foreign woods, such as ma- 

 hogany, Spanish cedar, and Japanese oak, reach tho United States 

 largely hi the form of round or squared logs. Not infrequently, some 

 of the native species listed arc mixed with and sold by sawmill opera- 

 tors as more commonly recognized woods, though several of the 

 minor species have special uses, for which a ready demand exists. 



Table 36. — Minor species, 1916. 

 [Computed total production in United States, 40,351,000 feet b. m.] 



Kind of wood. 



Quantity 

 reported. 



Average 

 value per 



M feet, 

 f. o. b. mill. 



States reporting. 



Total 



Feet b. m. 

 32,879,000 



$57. 29 











13,244,000 

 7,872,000 



3,161,000 

 1,900,000 

 1,610,000 

 1,359,000 

 712,000 



553,000 

 500,000 

 495,000 



421,000 

 300, 000 

 140,000 

 123,000 

 119,000 

 81.000 



si ; 000 



69,000 

 64,000 

 35,000 

 18,000 

 13,000 

 6,000 

 3,000 



107. 47 

 28.34 



15.44 

 21.08 

 13. 76 

 14.41 

 19.29 



62.00 

 30.00 

 20.62 



15.30 



40.00 



14.96 



20.66 



12.55 



112.00 



12.09 



i 50. 00 



i 12.00 



19.34 



80.00 



21.46 



25.00 



23.33 



La., Cal. 





W. Va., Pa., N. Y., N. C, Tenn., Mich., Ind., 





Ohio, Va., Mass., Kv., Wis., Conn., X. H. 

 W. Va., Term., N. C, Va.. Ky., Ala., Ohio. 

 W. Va., Pa., N. Y Ohio. 







La., Miss., Pa., N. Y., Ky., Ark., Tenn. 







Pa., Ark., W. Va., N. C, 111.. La., Va., Ind., 





N. Y., Ky. 

 Cal. 





Cal. 





W. Va., N. Y., Ind., Mass., Wis., N. C, Ohio, 





Vt., Va., Iowa, Pa., Tenn., Mich. 

 Ark., La., Mo., Ind., Ohio, Ala., Term., Oa., HI. 





Cal. 





Ark., La. 





Miss., S. C, Ga., 111., Ark. 





Wash., Oreg., Cal. 





Oreg. 

 da. 







Cal. 





N.C.,I11. 



Holly 



Ala., La., Tenn. 





Cal. 





Tenn., S. C. 





N. H. 





Ga. 







i Arbitrary value assigned. 

 LATH. 



Lath production in 1916 increased 15 per cent over that of 1915, 

 1,770 mills reporting a cut of 3,163,029,000 pieces. The enlarged 

 output may be ascribed mainly to the 22 per cent increase in the value 

 of building operations of the country in 1916 over the year before, 

 which indicates a larger consumption of building materials, and to 

 the higher cost of substitutes for lath, which led to a return to the 

 more commonly used product of the sawmill. There was sub- 

 stantial enlargement of lath production in Maine, Michigan, Wiscon- 

 sin, Oregon, and Idaho. The production in detail is given in Table 37. 



The making of lath as a by-product of the larger operation is 

 indicative of the closer utilization of timber. 



