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cent, respectively, of the total. Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi 

 together produce more than half of the country's output of cotton- 

 wood, though the industry has steadily declined since 1399. Besides 

 yellow pine and cypress, Louisiana also leads in the production of 

 tupelo. 



Table 6 shows the output of cypress and hardwoods for 1909 in 

 each of the four groups of parishes for which estimates of standing 

 cypress and hardwoods were made. 



Table 6. — Output of cypress and hardwoods in different portions of Louisiana. 



Groups of parishes. 



Cypress. 



Mills. 



Lumber 

 output. 



Hardwoods. 



Mills. 



Lumber 

 output. 



North Mississippi River parishes 



South Mississippi River parishes 



Red, Sabine, and Pearl River parishes 

 Other parishes 



Total for State 



Number. 

 31 

 91 

 24 



7 



1,000 bd. ft. 



25,565 



568, 977 



12,402 



1,910 



Number. 

 49 

 67 

 58 

 16 



J, 000 bd. ft. 



62,934 



99,845 



36, 499 



7,030 



153 



5,854 



L9I 



206, 308 



On the basis of the figures given in the table and the estimates of 

 standing timber, the supply of virgin cypress in the south Mississippi 

 parishes, for example, should be exhausted in about 25 years. This 

 prediction, however, is subject to the same limitations as was that 

 for yellow pine. 



The total production of laths in Louisiana in 1909 amounted to 

 377,708,000 from 101 mills. East of the Mississippi 8 mills cut 

 48,820,000 laths. North of the Eed River 24 miUs cut 85,025,000, 

 and in other parishes 69 mills cut 243,863,000. Practically all of the 

 laths were of yellow pine. 



One hundred and fifteen mills produced in Louisiana, in 1909, 

 757,868,000 shingles, chiefly of cypress. In the north Mississippi 

 Eiver parishes 14 mills cut 3,625,000 shingles, and in the south Mis- 

 sissippi River parishes 61 mills cut 24,881,000. In the Red, Sabine, 

 and Pearl River parishes 20 mills cut 642,408,000, and in other 

 parishes 10 mills cut 86,954,000. As will be seen, about 85 per cent, 

 of the shingle output came from the Red, Sabine, and Pearl River 

 parishes. 



The output of slack staves in Louisiana, in 1909, was 24,300,000, 

 of which 12,659,000 were of red gum and 7,460,000 of cottonwood. 

 In addition, 17,228,000 oak staves were manufactured for tight 

 cooperage. In the same year 2,162,000 slack barrel headings were 

 produced, chiefly made up of cottonwood and tupelo, and 14,805 

 hoops, chiefly of pine and red gum. In addition, 864,739 sets of 

 headings for tight barrels were manufactured. Of the 3,164,000 feet 

 of veener cut, more than three- fourths was cottonwood. 



