290. BULLETIN 426, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
(7) Whenever possible, take down lumber as soon as it is dry. 
(8) Pile each length of lumber separately. 
(9) Surface stickers when blackened by stain. 
(10) Whenever possible, saw 8/4 and thicker pine stock either all 
sap or all heart. 
MARKETS. 
Sugar pine is being called upon more and more each year to take 
the place of eastern white pine (P. strobus), which for the past two 
centuries has represented the standard of excellence, not only in 
America, but in many foreign markets as well. The development of 
new markets in recent years has made possible the introduction of 
sugar pine in South America, the islands of the Pacific, and the 
Orient, and, wherever introduced, it is meeting with the same genera] 
success which has characterized its entrance mto the markets once 
wholly supplied by white pme. Im large dimensions it has already 
largely supplanted the latter. Its uniformly high quality is gradually 
gaining for it well-merited recognition in many specialized industries. 
The leading manufacturing industries along the Pacific coast, from 
Seattle to Los Angeles, are dependent largely upon sugar pine for the 
high-grade products for which white pine has been essential in other 
parts of the United States. The wood-using industries of the coast 
consume nearly 60,000,000 feet annually, the manufacturing plants of 
California alone working up 35,000,000 feet (exclusive of bridge con- 
struction, sluicing, dimension stock, and general building material). 
Fifteen million feet are shipped annually into the territory lying 
between the Rocky Mountains and the Atlantic seaboard, and 
10,000,000 feet go to foreign ports. < 
USES. 
In 1908 the amount of white pine manufactured was 33 times the 
amount of sugar pine; in 1911 the ratio was reduced to 27 to 1, 
primarily because of the decrease in the supply of white pine and in a 
lesser degree because of an increase in the cut of sugar pine. In 
1911 sugar pine ranked twenty-fourth in the United States in the 
amount ci sound lumber produced. 
TaBLE 14.—Amount of sugar-pine lumber used in various California industries in 1910. 
Feet used, | Percent | 
Spee ee ees 5 Feet used, | Per cent 
Industry. b.m. | of total. | industry. b.m. | of total. 
Boxes and packing. 2-22-22 20, 536, 000 58.763 | Sash, doors, blinds, general 
IS EUSWES Sees ohsescm clases) 3,440 20100 ||) enti works 25 Sse 11, 930, 303 34. 140 
II GV AUOLSE sae sae e eee oe Sue 15,000 .043 || Ship and boat building..... 75, 000 . 220 
PREG IMT OS ete cere yep eye 150, 000 ee} al ed Een gee eo ee 10,750 . 031 
Frames and molding...-..-. 2,730 .008 || Trunks and valises......... 11,000 - 031 
PET FUNC Re aoe ake oe ees 364, 410 0435) > Viehicle pants== erases 1,000 . 003 
Musical instruments..-..-..-- 4,700 014: ||] Wioodtcarwingsease ee een. 3,000 - 408 
Instruments, professional Woodenware and novelties. 418, 563 1.200 
aNGESClen Git Mare seas ae 500 001 |) MascellancouSs2ts24s-4ee ee 40, 000 . 120 
Machine parts =s62=s. see 4,000 -012 | ee 
IPAtCeRnS ses ss- eS eee 59, 350 113 | Total ss eee .| 34,946, 956 99.9 
Planing-mill products-...--. 1,317,060 3.770 | 
