LUMBER CUT OF UNITED STATES, 1870-1920. 
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Table 15. — Reported production oj spruce ^ lumber in 1920. 
[Computed total production in the United States, 825,000 M. feet.] 
State. 
United States 
Washington 
Oregon 
Maine 
West Virginia 
New Hampshire 
North CaroUna 
ilinnesota 
New York 
Vermont 
Montana 
Colorado 
Idaho 
Michigan 
All other States ('see Table 37, p. 56) 
Number 
of active 
mills 
reporting. 
Quantity reported. 
M feet b.m , Per cent. 
1,241 805,320 
39 
244 
11 
94 
9 
74 
188 
205 
21 
64 
24 
67 
126 
192, 671 
16.5, 418 
1&4, 6.52 
48, 121 
43,835 
33,588 
31,492 
27,823 
25,962 
21,573 
13,859 
10, 572 
8,686 
17, 068 
100.0 
Average 
value per 
LOGO feet 
f . 0. b.mill. 
2r3.0 
20.5 
20.5 
6.0 
5.4 
4.2 
3.9 
3.5 
3.2 
2.7 
138.94 
i~. 70 
37.03 
40.6.5 
46.23 
39.80 
42.90 
34. 97 
44.33 
38. 92 
32. 98 
32.89 
42. 38 
39.79 
32.87 
1 Red spruce ( Picea rubens) is the principal species cut in the Northeastern States and the Appalachian 
region . Sitka spruce (P. sitcherms ) is the principal species cut in Oregon and Washington . Black spruce 
(P. mariana) is cut in limited quantities in the Northeastern States. White spruce (P. canademii) is cut 
in the Lake States, New York, and northern New England. Engelmann spruce (P. evgelmanni) is cut in 
the Rocky Mountain region. 
Table 16. — Reported production oJ cypress ^ lumber in 1920. 
[Computed total production in the United States, 625,000 M. feet.] 
Number 
Quantity reported. 
Average 
of ac tive 
value per 
State. 
mills 
1,000 feet 
reporting. 
M feet b.m. 
Per cent. 
f. o.b.milL 
United States 
656 
571, 674 
100.0 
$.51.02 
Louisiana 
90 
273, 116 
47.8 
54. fc4 
Florida 
40 
105, 329 
18.4 
52.27 
Georgia 
59 
45,863 
8.0 
53,18 
Missouri 
43 
41,0.53 
7.2 
39.93 
South Carolma 
33 
36,183 
6.3 
51.35 
Arkansas 
134 
34,790, 
6.1 
37. 78 
Mississippi 
63 
11,945 
2.1 
38. 97 
North Carolina 
54 
5, 913 
LO 
42. 48 
Tennessee 
45 
5, 737 
1.0 
4.3. 04 
All other States ("see Table 33, p. 56; 
95 
11, 745 
2.1 
40.00 
1 Bald cypress ( Taxodium distichum) is the one species cut as such. 
Table 17. — Reported production of redwood ^ lumber in 1920. 
[Computed total production in the United States, 476,500 M feet.] 
State. 
Number 
of active 
mills 
reporting. 
Quantity reported. 
Average 
value per 
1,000 feet 
f. 0. b.mill. 
M feet b.m. 
Per cent. 
United States 
43 
. 476,003 
100.0 
$46.90 
Cahfomia 
43 
476,003 
100.0 
46.90 
1 Redwood (Sequoia semperiirem) is the species chiefly cut. Bigtree {S. uashinffioniana) furnishes a 
minor part of the redwood production. 
