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FORESTRY INVESTIGATIONS IT, S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 



Besides these mills, such other establishments of woodworking industries as use wood 

 directly from the forest in log or bolt size, like the wood-pulp industry, the cooperage industry, 

 etc., and the requirements of our railroads for ties, bring the total cut surely to 5,500,000,000 

 cubic feet of wood of superior quality, to furnish which continuously at least 350,000,000 acres 

 must be kept under efficient forest management, as may be figured by inspecting the record of 

 experience in Germany in another part of this report. 



This total annual cut, including all material requiring bolt or log size, is estimated at 

 40,000,000,000 feet B. M. It is made up of the following kinds: 



FEET B. M. 



White pine * 12, 000, 000, 000 



Spruce and iir 5,000,000,000 



Hemlock 4,000,000,000 



Longleaf pine 4,000,000,000 



Shortleaf and loblolly 3,000,000,000 



Cypress 500,000,000 



Bedwood 500,000,000 



All other conifers.. 1,000,000,000 



Total conifers 30,000,000,000 



Oak 3, 000, 000, 000 



All other hard woods 7,000,000,000 



Total 40,000,000,000 



In this cut the various regions participate in the following proportions : 



FEET B. M. 



3STew England and North Atlantic States 6,000,000,000 



Central States 5,000,000,000 



LakeKegion v 13, 000, 000, 000 



Southern States 13,000,000,000 



Pacific States 4,000,000,000 



Miscellaneous 2,000,000,000 



If we add other materials furnished by the forest supplementing by estimates the data 

 furnished by the census of 1890, we come to the following statement of our total annual wood 

 consumption: 



Amount and value of forest products used during the census year 1890, 



Classes of products. 



I. Mill products : & 



Agricultural implem ent stock feet, B. M. 



Bobbin and spool stock do. . . 



Carriage and wagon stock do . . - 



Furniture stock do . . . 



All otlier sawed lumber do. - - 



Total sawed lumber do... 



Laths pieces- 

 Pickets and palings do. . . 



Shingles do... 



Staves do... 



Headings sets. 



Total lumber and cognate products, directly fiom logs , 



II. Kailroad construction: 



Ties c pieces . . 



Kound and hewn timber used lor bridges and trestles 



Telegraph poles 



Total. 



Quantity. 



30, 000, 000 

 40, 000, 000 

 66, 000, 000 

 94, 000, 000 

 27, 630, 000, 000 



27, 869, 000, 000 

 2, 365, 000, 000 



110,000,000 

 9, 276, 000, 000 

 1, 178, 000, 000 



183, 000, 000 



80, 000, 000 



Estimated cubic 

 contents of forest- 

 grown material, a 



Cubic feet. 



4, 000, 000, 000 



200, 000, 000 

 300, 000, 000 

 175, 000, 000 



4, 675, 000, 000 



400, 000, 000 



80, 000, 000 



5, 000, 000 



485, 000, 000 



Value. 



$582, 000 



688, 000 



1, 306, 000 



1, 435, 000 



310, 818, 000 



314, 829, 000 



3, 709, 924 



750, 000 



17, 000, 000 



7, 762, 000 



4, 934, 000 



348, 984, 924 



40, 000, 000 



a Estimated by the Division of Forestry. 



6 These data have been compiled by Mr. Priest from the reports of 21,011 establishments (representing probably 70 per cent in number 

 and 95 per cent in value of product), of which 18,064 manufactured sawed lumber as principal product, 702 manufactured shingles exclu- 

 sively, 438 manufactured staves and headings exclusively, and 1,807 used logs or bolts in the manufacture of the various classes of products 

 stated under the head of "Miscellaneous,'' and corrected by the inclusion of the quantities used for customs sawing not given m the census 

 figures. 



c Canvass of Division of Forestry. 



*This figure is by this time (1899) greatly reduced on account of the waning supply of White Pine, the deficiency being made up by 

 increase in other materials, especially Southern pine. 



