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billion feet. The cut of all these States is now decreasing, though 

 the falling off has been most striking in Michigan, where the output 

 in 1907 was less than 2 billion feet, the smallest in nearly forty years. 

 The changes which have taken place in the relative lumber pro- 

 duction of ten of the leading States are brought out graphically in 

 figure 6. In 1880 these States furnished 53.8 per cent of the total 

 cut, and in 1907, 52.4 per cent, practically equal proportions; but the 

 changes which have occurred in the output of individual States are 

 most significant. Michigan, for example, furnished 23 per cent of the 

 total in 1880, and only 4.5 per cent in 1907. Louisiana supplied only 

 0.7 per cent of the total in 1880, and 7.4 per cent in 1907. Wash- 

 ington cut only 0.9 per cent of the total in 1880, and 9.4 per cent in 

 1907. This diagram shows in vivid fashion the manner in which, 

 with the cutting out of the virgin timber in the North and East, we 

 have turned to the forests of the South and West for our lumber. 



Table 6. — Lumber production, lumber prices, and stumpage prices in the United States, 



by species, 1900 and 1907. 





Lumber cut. 



Mill price of 1 

 Mfeet 



umber. 



Stumpage price, 

 Mfeet. 



Stump- 

 age 

 price in 



Species. 



1900. 



1907. 



Per 

 cent in- 

 crease. 



1900. 



1907. 



Per 

 cent in- 

 crease. 



1900. 



1907. 



Per 



cent in- 

 crease. 



per cent 



of mill 



price in 



1907. 



Walnut 



Mhoardft. 



38,681 



96,636 



• 269,120 



1,115,242 



495, 836 



4,438,027 



308,069 



53, 558 



7,742,391 



232,978 



456, 731 



415, 124 



360, 167 



132, 601 



1,448,091 



206,688 



633,466 



8,225 



944, 185 



3,420,673 



Mhoardft. 

 41, 490 

 203,211 

 252,040 

 865,536 

 757, 639 



3,718,760 

 381,088 

 115,005 



4, 193, 787 

 251,002 

 260, 579 

 290, 574 

 569, 450 

 387,614 



1, 726, 797 

 653,239 

 939, 073 

 113, 433 



1,526,116 



3,373,016 

 146, 508 

 68,842 

 430,005 



4,748,872 



689,200 



13,215,185 



211,076 



7 



110 



aQ 



a 22 



53 



a 16 



24 



115 



a 46 



8 



a 43 



a 30 



58 



192 



19 



216 



48 



62" 



ol 



$36.49 

 18.78 

 15.84 

 14.03 

 13.32 

 13.78 

 12.84 

 12.30 

 12.69 

 10.91 

 11.47 

 10.37 

 10.12 

 12.50 

 11.27 

 13.37 

 11.83 

 8.73 

 9.70 

 9.98 



$43.31 

 29.50 

 25.01 

 24.91 

 22.12 

 21.23 

 20.03 

 19.84 

 19.41 

 19.14 

 18.45 

 18.42 

 17.70 

 17.37 

 17.26 

 17.04 

 16.84 

 15.71 

 15.67 

 15.53 

 15.45 

 14.48 

 14.30 

 14.12 

 14.10 

 14.02 

 13.07 



19 

 57 

 58 

 78 

 66 

 54 

 56 

 61 

 63 

 75 

 61 

 78 

 75 

 39 

 53 

 27 

 42 

 80 

 62 

 56 













$3.' 03" 

 2.81 

 1.58 



&3.18 

 1.50 



$6.69 

 7.58 

 4.64 

 4 37 

 ^52 

 6.79 



""'156' 



65 



177 



105 



353 



23 





30 



Yellow poplar 



Cypress 



19 



20 



Oak 



31 



Basswood 



34 



Sugar pine 



White pine 



Cedar 





3.66 

 1.32 

 3.30 

 1.45 

 1.06 



'2." 26' 

 2.71 

 2.66 



8.09 

 4.63 

 4.94 

 3.97 

 2.35 

 4.40 

 C5.49 

 4.97 

 2.50 



121 

 251 

 50 

 174 

 122 



'"'143' 



83 



ad6 



42 

 24 



Elm 



27 



Cottonwood 



Redwood 



22 

 13 



Bircli 



25 



Spruce 



32 



Chestnut 



29 



Maple. . 



15 







Western pine 



Hemlock 



'2.hh' 



1.66 

 «4.51 



76* 



11 

 29 



White fir 





Tupelo 













1.27 

 3.56 

 1.44 

 2.46 

 3.16 



87" 



46 

 182 



9 



Beech 













25 



Douglas fir 



Red gum 



1,736,507 



285, 417 



9,658,923 



42,394 



173 



141 

 37 

 398 



8.67 

 9.63 

 8.51 

 8.00 



63 

 46 

 65 

 63 



.77 

 1.68 

 1.12 



10 

 17 



Yellow pine 



23 















Average mill price of all lumber in 1900 *11- \^ 



Average mill price of all lumber in 1907 o 10 



Average price of all stumpage in 1900 2. 13 



Average price of all stumpage in 1907 ^- 1* 



Stumpage price in per cent of mill price, 1907, all species 25 



a Decrease. 

 ^ White oak. 



c Eastern spruce. , . ,^„- 



<i There was evidently some mistake in the calculation of the average value of maple stumpage m 1900 

 or in 1907, since there is no reason to think that a decrease actually occurred. 

 «Eastem hemlock. 



[Cir. 166] 



