Table 19. — Production of lumber by species and mill capacity class. South Carolina, 1942'' 



Mill-capacicy cla 



oods 



oft 



Cedar 



Cypress.... 

 Hemlock... 

 Pine, white. 

 Pine, yellov 



Total.... 



Hardwoods.- 



Ash 



Bass wood 



Beech 



Birch 



Chestnut 



Cottonwood... 

 Elm 



Hickory 



Maple 



Oak 



Sycamore 



Tupelo and bla 



Walnut 



Yellow-Poplar. 

 Other 



Total. 

 All specii 



16 

 4.478 



M bd. ft. 

 18 

 664 

 12 

 315 

 74,967 



M bd. ft. 

 13 



275 

 153.687 



M bd. ft. 



10 



11,225 



1 



153 



471,038 



M bd. ft. 



29,594 



692 



1 



65.579 



M bd. ft. 



46 



59,942 



1,226 



828 



821,045 



75,976 



482,427 



95,866 



35 



1,411 

 152 

 59 



3,926 

 113 

 373 



4,065 

 50 



11,373 



85 



895 



7,209 



266 



7,778 



251 



5,495 



22 



10,006 



85 



2,637 



23,121 



145 



2,470 



8,817 



1,083 



6,996 



5 



5,469 



148 



4,310 

 26 

 43 



33 



1,525 



654 



47,763 



520 



2.924 



11,265 



685 



7,657 



2,474 

 253 



35,045 



61,383 



(3) 



(=*) 

 .5 



8.1 



.1 



.6 



3.3 



.2 



2.4 



(3) 



1.5 



(3) 



76.006 1,079,351 



1 Data obtained by the U. S. Forest Service in cooperation with Statistics Division, War Production Board, and the Bureau of the 

 Census. 



2 Class cut 1-49 M board feet annually; class 1, 50-499 M board feet; class 2, 500-999 M board feet, class 3, 1,000-4,999 M board feet; 

 class 4, 5,000-9,999 M board feet; and class 5, 10,000 M board feet or more. 



^ Negligible. 



Of the 1,488 mills in the State in 1942, 98 percent 

 averaged 8 M board feet per day or less (fig. 38), 

 while 2 percent averaged 30 M board feet or more 

 per day. Small mills produced 72 percent of the 

 lumber cut in South Carolina in 1942 (table 20). 



Table 20. — Production oj lumber in South Carolina by mill-capa- 

 city class, 1942 



Mill class, annual 

 production 

 (M bd. ft.) 



Mills 



Average 

 daily pro- 

 duction 



Average 



days 

 operated 



Production 



1- 49 



50- 499 



Number 

 262 

 429 

 236 

 314 

 17 

 9 



M bd. ft. 

 3 

 4 

 5 



31 

 70 



7 

 54 

 «3 

 207 

 248 

 279 



Percent 

 0.5 

 7 7 



50O- 999 



15.4 

 47.9 

 12.2 

 16.3 



1.000-4.999 



5,000-9,999 



10,000+ 





Total 



11,267 







100.0 









The number of large sawmills is decreasing as the 

 old-growth timber accessible to them diminishes. 

 In 1936 there were 18 operating band mills with 



Does not include 221 mills idle during entire 3 



Figure 38. — Portable sawmill cutting shortleaf pine on the pied- 

 mont, capacity 6 M board feet a day. 



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