UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
f BULLETIN No. 1119 
Washington, D. C. 
PROFESSIONAL PAPER 
April 25, 1923 
LUMBER CUT OF THE UNITED STATES, 1870-1920. 
By R. V. Reynolds, Forest Examiner, and 
Albert H. Piersox, Statistician in Forest Products, Forest Service. 
CONTENTS. 
Page. 
Introduction 1 
Part I. Significance of declining lumber production 3 
Part II. Statistics of production 24 
Lumber production 24 
Total 24 
By classes of mills 24 
By States and groups 29 
By species 35 
By States and species 55 
Lumber values, by States and species 60 
Lath production, by States 61 
Skingle production, by States 61 
INTRODUCTION. 
This report, so far as it relates to lumber production in 1920, is 
the latest of a series that had previously covered the period 1904 to 
1918, inclusive, with the exception of 1914.^ It is of wider scope 
than the rest of the series, for it contains not merely detailed statis- 
tics of the 1920 production of lumber, lath, and shingles in the conti- 
nental United States, but comparable figures from previous reports 
of the Forest Service and the Bureau of the Census back to 1870. 
In its interpretation of the significance of the decline in lumber pro- 
duction it goes far beyond its predecessors because of the growing 
need for emphasizing the effect of forest exhaustion upon the high 
prices and the diminishing production of lumber. 
In the decennial year 1920 the effort has been made to provide, 
in Tables 4 and 6, the most complete possible statement of compara- 
ble quantitative data for lumber production, by States and species. 
Table 4 is summarized to show production of the several lumbering 
regions for 50 years. In the years previous to 1870 lumber production 
was enumerated only by valuation, and Table 4a exhibits these 
1 A detailed summary of the 1914 lumber production is given in Department of Agriculture Bulletin 506, 
which contains the figiircs for 1915. 
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