UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BULLETIN No. 768 
Contribution from the Forest Service 
HENRY S. GRAVES, Forester 
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Washington, D. C. 
PROFESSIONAL PAPER 
April 5, 1919 
PRODUCTION OF LUMBER, LATH, AND SHINGLES 
IN 1917. 
By Franklin H. Smith and Albert H. Pierson, Statisticians in Forest Products. 
CONTENTS. 
Page. 
Introduction 1 
Total lumber production 2 
Lumber production by classes of mills 4 
Lumber production by States 12 
Lumber production by kinds of wood 13 
Yellow pine 16 
Douglas fir 17 
Oak 17 
White pine 18 
Hemlock 19 
Western yellow pine 20 
Spruce 21 
Cypress 22 
Maple 22 
Red gum 23 
Redwood 24 
Birch 24 
Chestnut 25 
Larch 25 
Yellow poplar 26 
Beech 27 
Page. 
Lumber production by kinds of wood— Con. 
Cedar 27 
Tupelo 28 
Elm 29 
Basswood 29 
White fir 30 
Cottonwood 31 
Ash 31 
Sugar pine 32 
Hickory 32 
Balsam f 33 
Walnut 34 
Sycamore 34 
Lodgepole pine 35 
Minor species 35 
Production of lath 36 
Production of shingles 37 
Lumber values 38 
Detailed summary 39 
Alaska lumber production 42 
INTRODUCTION. 
In this bulletin, which is one of an annual series covering the period 
1904 to 1917, inclusive, with the exception of 1914, 1 are detailed 
statistics of the 1917 production of lumber, lath, and shingles in the 
continental United States, 2 with comparative figures from previous 
annual reports. 
The collection and compilation of the statistics for the Western 
States was done through the district offices of the Forest Service at 
Missoula, Denver, Albuquerque, Ogden, San Francisco, and Port- 
land. The figures for New York State were furnished by the New 
York Conservation Commission. The work in all of the other States 
east of the Rocky Mountains was done by the Office of Industrial 
Investigations of the Forest Service, Washington, D. C. 3 
i A detailed summary of the 1914 lumber production is given in Bulletin 506, which contains the figures 
for 1915. 
2 The production statistics for 1917 were summarized in a preliminary statement issued in May, 1918. 
8 Acknowledgment is made for assistance in the compilation and review of this bulletin to A. B . Strough, 
New York Conservation Commission; and to J. E. Keach, Miss Ina M. Jenkins, Miss Frances R. Waters, 
Miss Frances Veitch, D. M. Lang, Quincy Randies, E. H. Hall, C. L. Hill, Miss Alice M. Gray, Thornton 
T. Munger, and A. G. Jackson, of the Forest Service. 
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