TaBLe 3.—Lumber production by mill-size class, Florida, 1948 
Mill-size class Active : : S 4 
(ied dice per wean) atts Pine Cypress Cedar Hardwoods Total 
Thousand Thousand Thousand Thousand Thousand 
Number bd. ft. bd. ft. bd. ft. bd. ft. bd. ft. Percent 
e200 meee Sc ree BaP ane a 404 29,710 3,620 84 2,069 35,483 6.2 
B00-A99 Marwan SRO Sg 68 21, 266 1,919 520 1,582 25,287 4.4 
BO0-999 scene aerate tere 68 40,677 3,221 45 1,706 45,649 8.0 
MOOS 2109 Osea SES MN gu cet a ces 104 152,858 14,297 186 5,348 172,689 30.3 
Bi OOO-AyO9O waza Ea 23 66,441 1,574) os eS aes 5,095 83,110 14.6 
B.000\and overs. 222 58S 17 137,376 54,781 15 16,356 208, 528 36.5 
qo tal ee enstie oy Sonnet 684 448,328 89,412 850 32,156 570,746 100.0 
cent of the total. The trend, however, is toward 1909, accounted for 55 percent in 1942 and 63 per- 
more of these smaller mills (table 4). As the old- cent in 1948. 
growth timber is cut out, the remaining small and The number of larger mills has not changed much 
‘scattered timber is more suitable for small portable- in the past few years, but the mortality rate of big 
mill operation. The result is that the small mills, mills was particularly high during the early forties. 
which as a group sawed 30 percent of the lumber in Between 1942 and 1948, four plants which had an- 
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Figure 4.—Medium-size and large sawmills cut a relatively high proportion of Florida’s lumber in 1948. More than a third 
was produced by 17 mills. 
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