UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
| BULLETIN No. 758 
Contribution from the Forest Service 
HENRY S. GRAVES, Forester 
Washington, D. C. 
PROFESSIONAL PAPER 
January 30, 1919 
PULPWOOD CONSUMPTION AND WOOD-PULP 
PRODUCTION IN 1917. 
By Franklin H. Smith, Statistician in Forest Products. 
CONTENTS. 
Page. 
Introduction 1 
Pulpwood consumption and wood-pulp pro- 
duction, 1917 2 
Pulpwood consumption 2 
Annual wood consumption and cost 3 
Consumption of wood by species and 
States 3 
Consumption of wood by processes of 
manufacture 3 
Average and total costs of wood 4 
Range of pulpwood prices 4 
Quantity and cost of wood by condition . . 4 
Pulpwood consumption— Continued. 
Condition of wood by species 5 
Distance of pulpwood hauls 5 
Wood-pulp production 6 
Imports and exports of pulpwood, wood 
pulp, and paper 7 
Imports of pulpwood 7 
Imports of wood pulp 7 
Exports of wood pulp 7 
Imports of newsprint and other paper 8 
• Exports of newsprint and other paper 8 
Appendix 9-19 
INTRODUCTION. 
This bulletin covering the year 1917 is the second of a series pre- 
senting detailed statistics on pulpwood consumption and wood-pulp 
production in the United States. The first was for 1916, and the 
figures for the two years are directly comparable. Similar statistics 
were compiled by the Forest Service for 1905 and for the period 
1906-191 1 in cooperation with the Bureau of the Census. The Bureau 
of the Census published figures for 1914 in connection with the census 
of manufactures. 
The cooperation of the News-Print Manufacturers' Association in 
the collection and compilation of the statistics in 1916 was continued 
by the News-Print Service Bureau in 1917. 
A return was made by every pulp mill solicited to make a report. 
The complete and cordial cooperation of the mills, particularly in 
view of the additional calls for information and the reduced clerical 
forces, is an evidence of the need of such statistics and of the conven- 
ience to the manufacturers of the form in which they are presented. 
Note.— Acknowledgment is made for assistance in the collection and compilation of the statistics and 
in the review of the report to R. S. Kellogg, secretary of the News-Print Service Bureau, and Albert H. 
Pierson, of the Forest Service. 
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