PRODUCTION OF LUMBER, LATH, AND SHINGLES IN 1917. 
19 
States, and New Hampshire moved into fourth place, which was 
occupied by Wisconsin in 1916. 
The average value of white pine for the year was $24.81 per 1,000 
feet, an advance of $5.65 per 1,000, or 29 per cent, over the year 
before. 
Table 11.— Reported -production of white- pine 1 lumber, 1917. 
[Computed total productioi ii. the United States, 2,250,000,000 feet.] 
United States. 
Minnesota 
Maine 
Idaho 
New H ampshire . 
Wisconsin 
Massachusetts. 
New York 
Washington... 
Michigan 
Pennsylvania . 
North Carolina 
Vermont 
Connecticut 
Virginia 
West Virginia 
All other States (see Summary, p. 39 j 
Number of 
active mills 
reporting. 
148 
408 
T, \ 
37 
131 
207 
114 
54 
74 
57 
143 
Quantity 
reported. 
Feet B. M. 
2,050,360,000 
901,941,000 
256,014,000 
193,404,000 
171,547.000 
160,630,000 
90,797,000 
57,924,000 
56,955,000 
47,571,000 
25,756,000 
20,190,000 
18,884,000 
10,043,000 
9,144,000 
8,461,000 
21,099,000 
I'er cent. 
100.0 
44.0 
12.5 
9.4 
8.4 
7.8 
4.4 
2.8 
2.8 
2.3 
1.3 
1.0 
Average 
value per 
1,000 feet 
f.o.b.mill. 
$24.81 
25.86 
22.68 
25.56 
21.83 
28.34 
20.87 
26.89 
19.39 
29.47 
26.99 
22.13 
21.04 
23.11 
19.20 
20.89 
19.62 
i White pine (Pinus strobus) is the white pii.e cut in the Lake States, the Northeastern States, and the 
Appalachian region. 
Norway (or red) pine (Pinus resinosa), though botanically a yellow pine, is cut in the Lake States and 
largely marketed with white pine. 
Jack pine (Pinus banksiana) is cut in the Lake States. 
Western white pine (Pinus monticola) is cut in Idaho, Montana, AVashington, and Oregon. 
HEMLOCK. 
The curtailment in production in 1917 was less for hemlock than 
for any other one of the principal construction woods. The total 
reported production of 1,968,217,000 feet was smaller by only approxi- 
mately 18,000,000 feet, or less than 1 per cent, than the 1916 cut. 
The output of the mills in Wisconsin, the leading State in hemlock 
production, was enlarged by 7 per cent over that of 1916, which may 
be attributed to the exceptionally heavy demands made by the Gov- 
ernment for lumber for construction work. Michigan mills likewise 
increased their output, though less than 1 per cent of the total. 
Wisconsin and Michigan combined to produce in 1917 more than 45 
per cent of the hemlock cut of the country, as compared with 43 per 
cent in 1916. Washington's increased output was 19 per cent, 
amounting to nearly 50,000,000 feet. Slightly increased production 
alfeo took place among the New York and the Tennessee mills, and 
in the shifting of figures New York supplanted Maine in the sixth 
position in the relative rank of States. 
The average value of hemlock rose from $15.35 per 1,000 feet in 
1916 to $20.78 in 1917, an increase of 35 per cent. 
