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Figure 23. — Comparison of annual timber production of the three principal industrial-economic 

 districts in percent of the peak production for each district. The peak year for Coeur d' Alene-Sl. Joe 

 and /or Sandpoint was 1925; for Clearwater-Winchester it was 1929. 



is particularly worthy of attention, 15 ot these plants, shown maximum, and 



in figure 18 as having capacities of 10 million board feet percent. 



or more, produced 84 percent of the 

 lumber in that vear. 



It is interesting to note that the 

 largest of these mills, with an annual 

 capacity of something over 200 million 

 board teet — sufficient to have cut one- 

 halt ot the total lumber production in 

 northern Idaho during 1938— had not up 

 to 1940 produced lumber to its full 

 capacity. This points to another aspect 

 ot the general decline. In the decade 

 1929-39, the operations ot those mills 

 still running slowed to the point where 

 even in 1937 the differences between 

 actual production and potential capacity 

 were markedly greater than formerly. 

 For example, 10 selected mills, which 

 in the 5-year period ending with 1925 

 had produced at 67 percent ot their 

 capacity, during the 5 years 1934-38 

 produced at only 44 percent ot their 

 in 1937, the operating ratio was 57 



I'lGi'RE 24. — The Clearwater Plant of Potlalih Forests, Inc., at Lewistun, Idaho. Located in tifiirmiH^ ii>v*,t)tt miiiis Approximmttiy T5 mUtsfrwrn He. 



quarters, which is the center of this company's /nf.f "i.f operations. It was huilt in /<'.'" and is the Ur^est ami most moJfrM piattt ir ■» — .' r'.;^— . 



