368 



TIMBER RESOURCES FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE 



Table 203. — Estimates oj employment connected 

 loith the timber resource in 1952 



Class of economic activity 



Man-years of 

 employment 



-, 



Total 



Timber- 

 connected 



All economic activitj' 



Thou- 

 sand 

 1 63, 485 



Per- 

 cent 

 5.4 



Thou- 

 sand 

 3,398 



Timber-based industries: 



Forestry 



Lumber and timber basic 

 products 



Pulp, paper, and allied prod- 

 ucts 



Furniture and fixtures 



65 



655 



504 

 563 



100 

 100 



100 



55 



5 



20 



78 



15 



13 



8 

 3 



65 



655 



504 

 2 310 



Total 



1,787 



1, 534 



Timber-connected activity 

 elsewhere: 

 Farming, including farm 

 construction. 



Contract construction and 

 maintenance, nonfarm 



Synthetic fiber manufacture, 

 chiefly ravon 



5,731 



3, 622 



72 



1,199 



1,244 



879 

 11,816 



3 300 



^700 



56 



Textile mill products, in- 

 cluding ravon 



180 



Railroad transportation, 

 freight 



Highway and water freight 

 transportation 



Wholesale and retail trade 



158 



70 

 400 



Total 



24, 563 



1,864 



All timber-connected activity 

 listed above . 



26, 350 



3, 398 







Table 204. — Wages and salaries and national 

 income from timber-connected economic activities, 

 1952 



1 Not to be confused with labor force concepts pre- 

 viously discussed. 



2 Based partly on judgment because statistics for the 

 industry do not completely separate wood furniture and 

 fixtures from similar goods made of other materials. 



' May be low. 



^ May be too high for some kinds of construction but low 

 for residential construction. 



Source: U. S. Department of Commerce, National In- 

 come, 1954; Survey of Current Business, July 1953; Annual 

 Survey of Manufactures, 1952; Census of Business, 1948; 

 and U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Sta- 

 tistics, Construction During Fire Decades. 



the early 1930's, has averaged a sUghtly faster 

 rate of increase than input of all physical-structure 

 materials. 



The chief reasons for the strengthened position 

 of industrial-wood input relative to total input 

 has been the rapid increase in consumption of pulp- 

 wood and veneer products (fig. 112). In the early 

 1900's lumber comprised more than 70 percent of 

 industrial-wood input, pulpwood about 2 percent, 

 veneer logs and bolts less than 1 percent, and 



Class of activity 



All economic activity 



Timber-based industry: 



Forestry services ' 



Lumber and timber basic products _ 



Paper and allied products 



Wood furniture and wood fixtures. _ 



Total 



Timber-connected activity elsewhere 

 in the economy: 



On farms, including construction 

 and repair 



Contract construction, nonfarm 



Rayon fiber and other wood chemi- 

 cals 



Textile products from raj'on fiber.. 



Railroad transportation of timber 

 products 



Highway and water transportation 

 of timber products 



Wholesale and retail trade in timber 

 products 



Total 



All timber-connected activity 

 listed above 



Million 



dollars 



195, 423 



10, 835 



Na- 

 tional 

 income 



Million 

 dollars 

 290, 959 



147 



164 



1,944 



2,479 



2, 134 



3,144 



1,020 



1,213 



5,245 



7,000 



600 



898 



2,189 



2,845 



219 



286 



563 



681 



756 



934 



275 



356 



988 



1,528 



5, 590 



7,528 



14, 528 



' Adjusted upward to include wages, salaries, and na- 

 tional income from forestry services provided by public 

 agencies. 



Source: U. S. Department of Commerce, National In- 

 come, 1954; Survey of Current Business, July 1953; Annual 

 Survey of Manufactures, 1952; Census of Business, 1948; 

 and U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Sta- 

 tistics, Construction During Five Decades. 



minor industrial-wood products (poles, posts, 

 piling, round mine timbers, hewn ties, etc.), about 

 25 percent. By 1952, the pattern had changed 

 quite radically. Lumber comprised 62 percent of 

 industrial-wood input, pulpwood 27 pei'cent, 

 veneer logs and bolts 4 percent, and minor products 

 7 percent (table 206). 



Product Distribution of Timber Con- 

 sumed IN 1952 



The 1952 United States consumption of timber 

 products of all kinds, measured as volume of 

 roundwood removed from forests, amounted to 

 about 12.3 billion cubic feet, excluding bark 

 (table 207). Of that total, domestic forests sup- 

 plied about 91 percent. The other 9 percent was 

 received as net imports of lumber, pulpwood, 



