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FOREST PRODUCTS 



The following table ' shows the quantity of each kind of lumber cut 

 in this country in the years 1916 and 1899. The change in the amount of 

 each of the different species cut is brought out very strikingly in the 

 interim of the seventeen-year period. It represents the decline of the 

 mor e important species cut in the East and is not only a reflection 

 of the conditions which have obtained in recent years in this Country, 

 but it also portends the developments which are likely to take place in 

 this country in the next few years. Our virgin forests are being rapidly 

 cut, and the center of lumber production is rapidly shifting from the 

 yellow pine forests of the southeast to the heavy Douglas fir, spruce, 

 pine and redwood forests of the Pacific Coast. 



LUMBER PRODUCTION BY SPECIES 



Kinds of Wood. 



igi6 

 (Bd. Ft). 



1899 

 (Bd. Ft). 



Yellow pine 



Douglas fir 



Oak 



White pine 



Hemlock 



Western yellow pine . 



Spruce 



Cypress 



Maple 



Gum 



Yellow poplar 



Chestnut 



Redwood 



Larch 



Birch 



Cedar 



Beech 



Tupelo 



Basswood 



Elm 



Ash 



Cottonwood 



White fir 



Sugar pine 



Hickory 



Balsam fir 



Walnut 



Sycamore 



Lodgepole pine 



All other kinds 



Total. 



15,055,000,000 



5,416,000,000 



3,300,000,000 



2,700,000,000 



2,350,000,000 



1,690,000,000 



1,250,000,000 



1,000,000,000 



975,000,000 



800,000,000 



560,000,000 



535,000,000 



490,850,000 



455,000,000 



450,000,000 



410,000,000 



360,000,000 



275,000,000 



275,000,000 



240,000,000 



210,000,000 



200,000,000 



190,000,000 



169,250,000 



125,000,000 



125,000,000 



90,000,000 



40,000,000 



30,800,000 



40,351,000 



39,807,251,000 



9,657,676,000 

 i.736,S°7,ooo 

 4,438,027,000 



7,742,391,000 



3,420,673,000 

 945,432,000 



1,448,091,000 

 495,836,000 

 633,466,000 

 285,417,000 



1,115,242,000 

 206,688,000 

 360,167,000 

 50,619,000 

 132,601,000 

 232,978,000 

 1 

 1 

 308,069,000 

 456,731,000 

 269,120,000 

 415,124,000 

 1 



53,558,000 

 96,636,000 

 1 



38,681,000 



29,715,000 



1 



514,721,000 



35,084,166,000 



^ Not separately reported. 



^ From statistics published by the U. S. Forest Service. 



