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LUMBER. 



The cut of lumber, by kinds, in 1907 is shown graphically in figure 

 4, the total being 40,256,000,000 board feet. Yellow pine was in the 

 lead with 32.8 per cent of the total; Douglas fir ranked second, with 

 11.8 per cent: white pine tliird, with 10.4 per cent; oak fourth, with 

 9.2 per cent; and hemlock fifth, with 8.4 per cent. Spruce and west- 



SPEDIES 

 YELLOW PINE 

 DOUGLAS FIR 

 WHITE PINE 

 OAK 



HEMLOCK 

 SPRUCE 



WESTERN PINE 

 MAPLE 

 POPLAR 

 CYPRESS 

 RED GUM 

 CHESTNUT 

 REDWOOD 

 BEECH 

 BIRCH 

 BASSWOOO 

 COTTONWOOD 

 ELM 

 ASH 

 CEDAR 

 LARCH 

 HICKORY 

 WHITE FIR 

 SUGAR PINE 

 TAMARACK 

 TUPELO 

 SYCAMORE 

 WALNUT 

 ALL OTHERS 



BILLIONS BOARD FEET 



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Fig. 4.— Lumber cut by species, 1907. 



ern pine furnished 4.3 and 3.8 per cent, respectively. These seven 

 are the only woods which annually produce more than a billion feet 

 of lumber each, and, taken together, they furnish more than four- 

 fifths of our annual lumber supply. 



The softwoods as a group supplied 77 per cent of the lumber cut 

 in 1907, and the hardwoods 23 per cent. The softwood cut, there- 

 fore, was nearly 3 J times as great as the hardwood cut. In 1900 



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