addition are the gum and wood naval stores industries 

 and a well-established if minor business in the curing of 

 Spanish moss. 



Miscellaneous Wood Products 



In 1937 the State contained at least 88 nonlumber 

 forest-industry plants (table 10), ranging in size from 

 large pulp mills using several hundred cords of wood per 

 day to small neighborhood shingle mills requiring only a 

 few thousand board feet of timber per year. More than 

 a third of these plants manufactured tight and slack 

 cooperage stock, principally from hardwood timber. Most 

 of them were in the Mississippi River Delta, where hard- 

 wood timber of suitable quality for cooperage is most 

 abundant. Veneer mills, 15 in all, were next in number. 

 There were also 12 treating plants, 7 small-dimension mills, 

 and several miscellaneous plants, including 8 naval stores 

 establishments. 



In general, the manufacture ot veneer, slack and tight 

 cooperage stock, poles and piles, export stock, and special- 

 ties — such as blanks for baseball bats and other other 

 athletic goods, shuttle blocks, and plugs for paper rolls — 

 requires a large proportion ot high-grade logs. Such 

 industries, with the possible exception ot those dealing in 

 export logs or in certain classes ot veneer, ordinarily 

 draw on the high-grade material in second-growth or cut- 

 over stands. They can do this mainly because they can use 

 timber of smaller average size or slightly lower average 

 quality than that required by the lumber and veneer 

 industries. Some of them, notably those making slack 

 cooperage material and package veneer, regularly use 

 species that are not utilized closely, if at all, by the saw- 

 mills. Some industries, particularly those producing tight 

 cooperage and specialties, can use short bolts and billets, 



which require only the simplest logging equipment; thus it 

 is practicable tor them to utilize short, clear lengths 

 between crooks unfit for lumber, and to log scattered 

 individual trees. The shingle, pulp, and tie industries, 

 because they do not require high-grade raw material, can 

 operate still more effectively on the kind of timber most 

 abuntlant in residual and second-growth stands. 



Tabi-f. 10. — Number of primary nonlumber wood-using 

 plants, b\ surie\ unit, 1937 



Wood-using plant 



North 

 delta 



South 

 delta 



.North 

 pine 



.south 

 pine 



All units 



Treating 





2 

 5 

 8 



5 

 2 

 5 

 4 



1 

 1 



5 

 6 

 3 



2 



12 



Veneer 



2 

 17 



1 

 2 

 1 



l.i 



.'Jtave and beading 



Pulp 



33 



Small dimension _ _ 

 Miscellaneous _ 



1 



5 



3 



7| 



Total 



23 



21 



18 



26 



88 



Pulp Mills 



The six sulfate pulp mills, situated at Bastrop (2), 

 West Monroe, Hodge, Elizabeth, and Bogalusa, in 193" 

 placed the State first in the South in pulp production. 

 Their annual capacity in operation was nearly 600,000 

 tons of pulp, which would require about 900,000 cords of 

 pulpwood. These mills were then operating at consider- 

 ably less than capacity, yet the production ot pulp ranked 

 second in value to that of lumber among the torest indus- 

 tries. Since then a new mill, the largest in the South and 

 one of the largest in the world, has been constructed 

 at Springhill, in Webster Parish. With this mill in opera- 

 tion, total consumption of pulpwood in 1940 was 838,000 

 cords. 



I'KHiRE 22. — Distribution of sawmills an,! 

 lumber production airorJing la mill- 

 capatily ilass, 1937. 



10-HOUR 

 CAPACITY 



LUMBER PRODUCTION AND NUMBER OF MILLS 







40 M boord 

 feet end more 



20 10 39 M 

 boord feet 



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 Percent 



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