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portance. 1 It was not possible to establish a dividing line, within the 

 parishes for the two kinds of timber as was done with the different 

 species of pine, but the general groups, while lacking in detail, show 

 the relative abundance of the two kinds of timber in different parts 

 of the State. About 97 per cent of all the cypress is in the group of 

 South Mississippi parishes; the larger stand of hardwoods is in the 

 North Mississippi parishes. The group of " other parishes " consists 

 of those outside the alluvial region and contains almost no cypress and 

 but little hardwood. The dots on the map indicate the location of the 

 27 cypress and hardwood mills, each of which cuts 10,000,000 board 

 feet or more annually. Twenty-five of these mills cut cypress almost 

 exclusively. 



Each year the assessors of the different parishes submit to the 

 State board of equalization the acreage of each class of land within 

 the parish. On the basis of the figures for timberland submitted by 

 the assessors for 1909, and assuming an average yield per acre, an 

 estimate was made of the standing timber of the State for the pur- 

 pose of comparison with the estimate made by the Bureau of Cor- 

 porations. The result, including an increase of 25 per cent to allow 

 for the difference between the mill cut and the log scale, gave a total 

 stand of 97,640,000,000 board feet. This amount is about 22 per cent 

 less than that estimated by the Bureau of Corporations, a result that 

 might be expected on account of the probable inaccuracy of the 

 assessors' information and the arbitrary stand per acre assumed for 

 each class of timber. 



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Exceptionally complete figures showing the extent of different 

 forest industries in Louisiana were collected in 1909 by the Bureau 

 of the Census and the Forest Service, the usual method of securing 

 information by correspondence being supplemented by the work of 

 special agents for the quinquennial census of manufactures. Table 4 

 gives the amount and value of lumber cut in Louisiana in 1909. 

 Table 4. — Lumber cut in Louisiana, 1909. 



Species. 



Lumber 



cut, 

 United 



States. 



Lumber 



cut, 



Louisiana. 



Rank. 



Louisiana's 

 proportion 

 of total cut. 



Average 



price, 



Louisiana. 



Total 



lfiOOb&.ft. 



44,509,761 



16,277,185 

 955,635 

 4,414,457 

 265,600 

 706,945 

 96,676 

 291,209 

 333,929 



1,773,711 



l,000bd.ft. 

 3,551,918 



2 



Per cent. 

 8.0 



l,000bd.ft. 







Yellow pine 



2,736,756 

 608, 854 

 74,490 

 47,509 

 34,499 

 24,703 

 11,200 

 7,704 



6,203 



1 



1 

 15 

 2 

 6 

 1 

 12 

 11 



16.8 

 63.7 



1.7 

 17.9 



4.9 

 25.6 



3.8 



2.3 



12 47 





20.62 

 18.63 

 17.99 

 12.91 

 12.39 

 21.75 

 39.24 



Oak 





Red gum 



Tupelo 



Ash 



Hickory 



Other hardwoods (chiefly elm, sycamore, beech, 

 and yellow poplar) 











1 Acadia Parish contains some cypress and hardwoods, but not enough to merit con- 

 sideration. 



