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WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF ARKANSAS. 



Table 18. — Annual lumber cut compared with amount further manufactured by the 

 wood-using industries in Arkansas. 



Kind of wood. 



Yellow pine . . 



Oak 



Red gum 



Cypress 



Cottonwood . . 



Hickory 



Ash 



Maple 



Elm 



Tupelo 



Sycamore 



Yellow poplar 



Basswood 



Walnut 



Cherry 



Birch 



Beech 



All other 



Total... 



Lumber cut. 1 



Feet b. m. 



1,313,668,000 



358,556,000 



200, 953, 000 



55,012,000 



54,507,000 



45, 133, 000 



33,212,000 



18,500,000 



13,056,000 



6,084,000 



5,406,000 



4,484,000 



605, 000 



544, 000 



332, 000 



138,000 



78,000 



1,032,000 



2,111,300,000 



Amount fur- 

 ther manu- 

 factured. 



Feet b. m. 



952,314,000 



97,552,000 



96,923,000 



12,030,000 



15,623,000 



42,934,000 



16,588,000 



114,000 



5,081,000 



5,222,000 



1,602,000 



30,000 



15,000 



55,000 



10, 000 



17,000 



10, 000 



5 452, 000 



1,246,572,000 



Per cent 

 further 

 manu- 

 factured. 



72.49 

 27.21 

 48.23 

 21.87 

 28.66 

 95.13 

 49.95 



.62 

 38.92 

 85.83 

 29.63 



.67 

 2.48 

 10.11 

 3.01 

 12.32 

 12.82 

 43.80 



59.04 



Average 

 value at 

 sawmill. 2 



$13.16 

 19.18 

 12.59 

 16.35 

 18.99 

 30.85 

 24.35 

 14.08 

 14.92 

 13. 73 

 15.27 

 ( 4 ) 

 ( 4 ) 

 ( 4 ) 

 ( 4 ) 

 ( 4 ) 

 ( 4 ) 

 ( 4 ) 



Average 

 cost at 

 factory.s 



$11. 31 



15.84 

 11.46 

 14.78 

 12.51 

 19.10 

 32.78 

 24.05 

 12.14 

 8.91 

 11.04 



i Lumber cut from United States census report (Forest Products, 1909). 

 2 United States census, 1909. 

 s Reported by manufacturers for 1910 and 1911. 

 4 Not separately reported for Arkansas by the United States census. 



6 Includes white pine, mahogany, sugar pine, cedar, osage orange, persimmon, hackberry, and locust, 

 most of which are imported into Arkansas. 



A fact to be borne in mind in comparing the total lumber cut with 

 the amount of wood used by the factories is that a considerable 

 quantity of the wood which the factories use never passes through 

 sawmills, but is received in the form of logs or billets. Except for 

 this, practically all wood used by factories comes from sawmills in the 

 form of rough lumber. 



A comparison of the values given in the columns headed " Average 

 value at sawmill" and " Average value at factory" shows the 

 remarkable fact that, except for ash and maple, the factory cost of 

 rough lumber is lower than the sawmill value. The figures in each 

 column are averages from hundreds of reports and can not be con- 

 sidered exceptional. 



The unusual showing that lumber is cheaper in Arkansas when it 

 reaches the factory than when it leaves the sawmill may be explained 

 in part by the way the values are estimated. The sawmill man's 

 value is presumed to be what he expects to ask for the lumber when 

 he sells it. The factory's cost is what it pays. It frequently happens, 

 particularly with large manufacturers of finished products, that the 

 factory is owner of the sawmill which supplies the lumber. It buys 

 from itself, or one branch of the business charges the other with the 

 lumber at just what it cost at the mill yard. Thus, if yellow pine 

 costs the factory $11.31, but is valued by the sawmill man at $13.16, 

 it means that the owner who transfers the material from one depart- 

 ment of his plant to another figures no profit in the transfer; but if 





