ARIZONA 



THE SITUATION IN 1962 



The output of all roundwood products originating in Arizona in 1962 totaled 65.5 million 

 cubic feet- -less than 1 percent more than in 1952 but over 6 percent more than production in 

 1960. These products included saw logs (for lumber), pulpwood, commercial poles, mine 

 timbers, miscellaneous industrial wood (converter poles, excelsior bolts, charcoal wood, and 

 house logs), posts, fuelwood, and miscellaneous farm timbers. 



Ninety-one percent of this total came from public lands; National Forests supplied 69 per- 

 cent and other public lands 22 percent of the total. More than half of the remaining 9 percent 

 came from forest industry lands. 1 Four-fifths of all products were cut from ponderosa pine. 



Arizona Timber Products Output by Species, 1962 



Ponderosa pine 



■ 81% 



Douglas-fir 





Engelmann spruce 



| 1% 



True firs 1 



J 4% 



Other species 



J 8% 



1 UVn/e. subalpine. and corkbark firs. 



Saw logs comprised 76 percent (342 million board feet) 2 of the total roundwood cut in 

 Arizona, all of which went to Arizona sawmills. 



The greatest concentration of sawmills is in central Arizona (see frontispiece). In addi- 

 tion to the mills shown there were an estimated two active sawmills in Arizona and 24 active 

 mills in New Mexico, all small, for which saw log reports were not received in the 1962 prod- 

 ucts survey. In Arizona these mills received less than 1 percent of the State's saw log output. 

 Such mills in New Mexico received about 9. 1 percent of that State's 1962 saw log output. Some 

 68 percent of the saw logs cut in Arizona came from public lands; ponderosa pine made up 

 86 percent of the total saw log cut. 



Lands owned by companies or individuals operating wood-using plants. 

 International |-inch log rule volumes are used throughout this report. 



