44 BULLETIN 1119, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table 9. — Reported production of oak ^ lumber in 1920. 
[Computed total production in the United States, 2,500,000 M feet.] 
State. 
United States 
Arkansas 
Tennessee 
West Virginia 
Virginia 
Kentucky 
^Mississippi 
Missouri 
Louisiana 
Pennsylvania 
Ohio 
North Carolina 
Indiana 
Alabama 
New York 
Texas 
Georgia 
AH other States (see Table 37, p. 56) 
Number 
of active 
mills 
reporting. 
8, 552 
477 
551 
383 
813 
532 
320 
377 
104 
715 
454 
625 
375 
425 
625 
73 
239 
1,464 
Quantity reported. 
M feet b . m . Per cent 
1,853,580 
225,422 
221,260 
202,499 
166, 667 
141,588 
115, 399 
101, 667 
92, 725 
88, 729 
85, 131 
82, 071 
79, 640 
46,646 
32, 157 
27,074 
26, 003 
118,302 
100.0 
12.2 
11.9 
10.9 
9.0 
7.6 
6.2 
5.5 
5.0 
4.8 
4.6 
4.5 
4.3 
2.5 
1.7 
1.5 
Average 
value per 
1,000 feet 
f.o.b. mill. 
$46.88 
43.42 
46.00 
59. 51 
51.07 
44.25 
41.35 
36. 95 
39.84 
45.11 
54. 21 
45.07 
62.74 
33.26 
53.88 
42.43 
37. 79 
43.41 
i Commercially the oaks are classed as white and red. The principal commercial oaks are as follows: 
White oaks. — White oak (Quercus alba) is the white oak common throughout the eastern half of the United 
States; chestnut (or rock) oak (Q. prinus) is found in the Appalachian region; post oak (Q. minor) and 
bur oak (Q. macrocarpa) are common throughout the eastern naif of the country; overcup oak (Q. lyrata) 
and cow (or basket) oak (Q. michauiii) are the principal southern white oaks. Red oaks— Red oak (Q. 
rubra) is the red oak common in the eastern part of the United States; Texan oak (Q. texana) is the pnn- 
cipalred oak sawed in the lower Mississippi Valley; pin oak (Q. palustris) is found in the Eastern and Cen- 
tral States; scarlet oak (Q. coccinea) is the northern and northeastern red oak; yeUow (or black) oak (Q. 
veluiina) is common in most States east of the Rocky Mountains; willow oak (Q. phellos) is cut mostly in 
the Southern States. 
Table 10. — Reported production of western yellow pine ^ lumber, 1920. 
[Computed total production in the United States, 2,290,000 M feet.] 
State. 
Number 
of active 
mills 
reporting. 
Quantity reported. 
Mfeetb.m. Percent 
United States 
Oregon 
Cahfornia, including Nevada 
Idaho 
Washington 
Montana 
Arizona 
New Mexico 
South Dakota 
Colorado 
All other States (see Table 37, p. 56) 
900 
180 
141 
124 
148 
67 
19 
53 
44 
81 
43 
2, 270, 898 
630,326 
509, 471 
366, 857 
278, 573 
173, 507 
119,406 
104, 059 
45,033 
37, 191 
6,475 
100.0 
27.8 
22.4 
16.1 
12.3 
7.6 
5.3 
4.6 
2.0 
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Western yellow pine (Pinus ponderosa) is the one species cut as such. 
