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feet. The annual lumber cut is about three-quarters of a billion feet, 

 of which Louisiana supplies two-thirds. Nearly If billion cypress 

 shingles are manufactured yearly, and also a considerable quantity 

 of poles and ties. 



REDWOOD. 



The commercial supply of redwood is practically limited to a small 

 strip of territory in California close to the coast, north of San Fran- 

 cisco. The estimated stand is 100 billion feet. The normal cut at the 

 present time is approximately one-half billion feet of lumber and 700 

 million shingles. 



WESTERN CEDAR. 



All the Pacific coast and northern Rocky Mountain cedars are 

 grouped under this head. The most important species are western 

 red cedar, which occurs in greatest abundance in Washington, and 

 incense cedar, of which there are heayy stands in California. The 

 total western cedar stumpage is, perhaps, 100 billion feet. The annual 

 cut is less than 200 million feet of lumber and about 7 billion shingles. 

 Most of the lumber and practically all of the shingles are of red 

 cedar. 



WESTERN FIRS. 



This term is used to coyer alpine fir in the Rocky Mountains, white 

 fir in the Rockies and on the Pacific coast, and noble and other 

 Pacific coast firs. The total stumpage of these species is yery 

 difiB.cult to estimate. It may amount to 50 billion feet. So far these 

 firs haye been little used for lumber. Nearly 150 million feet of 

 white fir was cut in 1907, more than half being supplied by California 

 and most of the remainder by Montana and Idaho. 



SUGAR PINE. 



The total stand of sugar pine may be 30 billion feet. Nearly all 

 of it is in the California Sierras. The annual cut is slightly more than 

 100 million feet. 



OTHER CONIFERS. 



Other less important softwoods, for which sufficient data for indi- 

 vidual estimates of stand are lacking, are eastern cedar, western 

 larch, eastern tamarack, balsam fir, western white pine, and several 

 other western pines. The total stand of these woods may be in the 

 neighborhood of 100 billion feet. The annual cut is less than 400 

 million feet. Larch and western white pine are cut chiefly in Mon- 

 tana and Idaho, tamarack in the Lake States, and balsam fir in 

 Maine. 



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