FUTURE DEMAND FOR TIMBER 



437 



Table 253. — Apparent consumption oj woodpulp by grade in the United States, selected years, 1869-1956 



[Thousand tons] 



Year 



Total ' 



Sulfite 2 



Sulfate 



Soda 



Ground- 

 wood 



Semichem- 

 ical ' 



1869 - - -- 



1 



23 



306 



1, 216 













1879 













1889 













1899 













1904 



2 



2 



2 



2 



3 



3 



3 



4 



4 



3 



4 



4 



3 



4 



5 



5 



5 



6 



5 



6 



6 



6 



5 



5 



6 



6 



6 



7 



8 



7 



8 



9 



11 



11 



10 



10 



11 



12 



14 



14 



13 



17 



18 



18 



19 



19 



22 



091 

 832 

 358 



857 

 032 

 239 

 556 

 079 

 149 

 870 

 114 

 696 

 544 

 756 

 149 

 214 

 588 

 092 

 957 

 232 

 690 

 412 

 952 

 194 

 139 

 099 

 687 

 779 

 645 

 503 

 881 

 703 

 205 

 642 

 685 

 962 

 786 

 373 

 138 

 955 

 848 

 138 

 683 

 202 

 533 

 935 

 413 













1907 













1908 













1909 _ - - - -- 













1910 













1911 . _ _ - - - -_ 













1914 









1, 511 





1916 









2 

 2 

 2 

 1 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 2 



771 

 815 

 550 

 721 

 817 

 450 

 700 

 868 

 889 

 943 

 068 

 856 

 860 

 911 

 859 

 660 

 392 

 408 

 486 

 546 

 703 

 819 

 492 

 673 

 804 

 084 

 090 

 003 

 946 

 049 

 202 

 359 

 466 

 169 

 495 

 792 

 622 

 602 

 668 

 961 





1917 -- - - 





194 



265 



271 



389 



316 



574 



591 



645 



772 



913 



997 



1,218 



1,358 



1,372 



1,453 



1,403 



1, 818 

 1,782 

 2,079 



2, 533 

 2,873 

 2,961 

 3,602 

 3,879 

 4,573 

 4,720 

 4,251 

 4,582 

 4,858 

 5,060 

 6,046 

 6,621 

 6,581 

 8,380 

 9,348 

 9,213 



10, 285 

 10, 543 

 11,952 







1918 









1919 -. __ - - -- 





448 

 439 

 470 

 495 

 485 

 486 

 519 

 474 

 376 

 291 

 391 

 361 

 425 

 487 

 510 

 402 

 447 

 533 

 494 

 477 

 434 

 419 

 441 

 496 

 512 

 534 

 519 

 556 

 479 

 453 

 463 

 468 

 481 





1920 







1921 .. ._ - 



2," 068' 



2, 193 

 2,248 

 2,348 

 2,569 

 2,562 

 2,596 

 2,805 

 2,639 

 2,331 

 2,017 

 2,419 

 2,380 

 2,536 

 2,933 

 3,259 

 2,506 

 2,969 

 3,045 

 3,481 

 3,559 



3, 159 

 3,011 



3, 348 

 3,487 

 3,957 

 3,959 

 3,329 

 3,937 



4, 160 

 3,878 

 3,851 

 3,755 

 4, 163 





1922 





1923 - - -- 



49 



1924 





1925 - 



55 



1926 



46 



1927 - - - 



57 



1928 - - - 



72 



1929 - - - 



97 



1930 -- -- --- 



68 



1931 - -- - - 



133 



1932 



91 



1933 - _____ 



102 



1934 -- _ .. - 



90 



1935 _- _ 



102 



1936 - _ - _ __ 



123 



1937 



183 



1938 - _ _ - - 



142 



1939 



190 



1940 _ - __ -- 



442 



1941 _ _ _ _ _ 



573 



1942 



796 



1943 _ - _ 



838 



1944 



1, 004 



1945 



1,089 



1946 - _____--- 



1, 128 



1947 - _ _-- - _ _ - __ _ 



1,264 



1948 --- _ _ - 



1,374 



1949 



1,250 



1950 - _ - - 



1,769 



1951 - -- - - - 



1,904 



1952 - . . __ _ 



2,036 





2,331 



1954 - _ - __ . . 



2,505 



1955 - - -- -- 



2, 856 















' Data for individual years may not add to totals because 

 of rounding. 



2 Includes dissolving and special alpha grades of pulp. 



3 Includes semichemical, defibrated-exploded, screening, 

 and miscellaneous. 



Source: 1869-1938 and 1940-1942, United States Pulp 

 Producers Association, Wood Pulp Statislics, reporting 

 statistics of the Bureau of the Census. 1939 and 1942- 

 1955, U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the 

 Census. 



paper products, the medium requirement for new 

 woodpulp in 1975 is estimated at 2 million tons, 

 or more than double the consumption in 1955. Of 

 this total, 1.3 million tons might be sulfite and 0.7 

 million tons sulfate. By the year 2000 further 



increase is anticipated. The medium estimate for 

 that year is 3 million tons and the upper estimate 

 is 4 million tons. These requirements are in addi- 

 tion to the previous estimates of woodpulp re- 

 quired for paper and paperboard. 



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