SHORTLEAF PINE: IMPORTANCE AND MANAGEMENT. 19 
more than 10,000,000 feet annually of longleaf and loblolly, but 
practically no shortleaf; in Iowa, shortleaf is second only to white 
pine in total quantity used; in Illinois in 1912 it stood second in car 
manufacture, first for sash, door, and blind, and also box manufac- 
ture, and entered into the leading classes of wood products. The 
most intensive market area lies from New York through the north- 
eastern, central, and southern prairie States. The best available 
estimate of the quantity of shortleaf further manufactured by the 
wood-using industries of the United States annually during the 
period of 1910 to 1912 is, in round figures, 3,500,000,000 board feet 
(Table 11), valued at about $52,740,745 f. o. b. factory. Of this 
amount about 2,500,000,000 feet were converted into planing-mill 
products, and the balance largely used for sash, doors, blinds, and 
general millwork, boxes and crates, car construction, agricultural 
implements, vehicles and parts, fixtures, furniture, and shipbuilding. 
TABLE 11.—Quantity and value of shortleaf pine used annually by the wood- 
manufacturing industries of the United States.* 
Aver- Aver- 
age age 
Quantity j|value| Total Quantity j|value| Total 
Industry. used. per | value. Industry. used. per | value. 
M M 
feet. feet. 
Planing-mill prod- Board feet. |Dolls.| Dolls. 
ucts and general | Board feet. | Dolls.) Dolls. HW EKGUEES 3 oiociaice's slo: 9, 864, 765} 30.34) 299, 298 
millwork ........ 2, 501, 189, 960/212. 26] 30,653, 669/| Furniture ......... 7,651,800] 18.38] 140, 645 
Sash, doors, and Shipbuilding. ...... 5, 173, 762} 23.88} 123,531 
blinds (202). ..: 327, 830, 625] 23.30} 7,639, 295)| Miscellaneous %..... 79, 401, 264) 23.05] 1,830, 498 
Boxesandcrates...| 349,094,714) 15.52) 5,419,004 ———_—— ———_. 
Car construction...| 212,913,493) 25.02} 5,327,034 Motalev< ec 3, 044, 751, 908) 14. 88]52, 740, 745 
Agriculturalimple- Total exclusive 
MIeNtS. 070550... . 37, 132,070] 26. 84 996, 653 of planing-mill 
Vehicles and parts. . 14, 499, 455] 21. 46 311, 208]| products......... 1,043, 561, 948] 21. 17/22, 087,076 
1 This is a tenative table, compiled from the various State wood-using industry reports, published by the 
State organizations and lumber-trade journals, in cooperation with the Forest Service. Figures are for 
the period 1910 to 1912, or an average about 1911. Although reported as true shortleaf, it seems likely that 
the amounts are somewhat high because of the tendency to include some other material than shortleaf 
under this head. 
2 Very low average due to extensive planing-mill industry of producers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, 
North Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas, where supplies are secured without cost for transportation. 
3 Includes chiefly sporting and athletic goods, machine construction, caskets and coffins, wooden ware 
: gue Oe printing material, kitchen cabinets, refrigerators, elevators, frames and molding, tanks, 
and silos 
LUMBER PRICES. 
The average mill-run price of shortleaf pine lumber does not differ 
much from that of the other southern yellow pines. In the Gulf 
States it holds closely to that of longleaf and in the central Atlantic 
States to loblolly. The factors which govern this more than any- 
thing else are location, cost of transportation to the larger markets, 
and average size of mill output. For example, in 1912 the average 
mill-run of “ North Carolina pine” was $14.22, while yellow pine 
in Arkansas was $14.78. Mississippi, where the percentage of long- 
leaf in the cut is as high as anywhere, showed an average mill-run 
