PRODUCTION OF LUMBER, LATH, AND SHINGLES IN 1917. 23 
Table 16. — Reported 'production of maple l lumber, 1917 
[Computed total production in the United States, 860,000,000 feet.] 
Number of 
active mills 
reporting. 
Quantity 
reported. 
Per cent. 
Average 
value per 
1,000 feet 
f. o.b.mill. 
United States. 
3,944 
FeetB. M. 
802,089,000 
100.0 
$23. 16 
Michigan 
Wisconsin 
West Virginia 
New York 
Pennsylvania 
Ohio 
Indiana 
Vermont 
Missouri 
All other States (see Summary, p. 
219 
261 
427 
328 
340 
206 
91 
1,060 
349, 
154, 
67, 
45, 
42, 
26. 
23, 
16, 
14, 
61, 
688,000 
570,000 
471,000 
024,000 
903,000 
244,000 
324, 000 
870, 000 
135,000 
860,000 
43.6 
19.3 
8.4 
5.6 
5.3 
3.3 
2.9 
2.1 
1.8 
7.7 
24.11 
21.10 
25.90 
23.91 
20.68 
22.34 
27.50 
21.50 
19.93 
21.02 
1 Sugar (or hard) maple (Acer saccharum) is cut principally in the Northern States. 
Silver (or soft) maple (Acer saccharinum) is also cut in the Northern States. 
Red (or soft) maple ( Acer rubrum) is the principal species cut in the Southern States. 
.Mountain maple (Acer spicalum) and striped maple (Acer pennsylvanicum) are cut in the Eastern States. 
Oregon maple (Acer macrophyllum) is cut in the Pacific Coast States. 
RED GUM. 
One of the few woods for which a gain in production was made in 
1917 was red gum, the total output reaching 730,662,000 feet, or a 
12 per cent increase over the 1916 total of 651,879,000 feet. The cut 
in 1916 w T as 36 per cent greater than for the preceding year. Organi- 
zation of the efforts of the operators in finding new markets and in 
handling their product is responsible for the enlarged output and 
consumption of red gum. The quantity cut in Arkansas, Mississippi, 
and* Louisiana was slightly in excess in each instance of the 1916 
output, the total for the three States amounting to 68 per cent of all 
the gum reported cut. Tennessee's production almost trebled in 
1917, being 64,356,000 feet. The 1916 cut was 23,917,000 feet. It is 
significant that the number of mills which reported cutting red gum 
in 1917 was 1,949, while but 1,845 reported in 1916. 
A higher average mill value was obtained in 1917 than in 1916, 
the average value of $19.56 in 1917 being an increase of $4.92 per 
1,000 feet, or 34 per cent. 
Table 17. — Reported production of gum 1 lumber, 1917. 
[Computed total production in the United States, 788,000,000 feet.] 
Number of 
active mills 
reporting. 
Quantity 
reported. 
Per cent. 
Average 
value per 
1,000 feet 
f. o.b.mill. 
1,949 
FeetB. M. 
730,662,000 
100.0 
$19. 56 
284 
204 
89 
212 
49 
230, 964, 000 
169,847,000 
94,671,000 
64,356,000 
26,342,000 
31.6 
23.2 
13.0 
8.8 
3.6 
19.92 
19.96 
19.22 
24.42 
16.80 
117 
60 
32 
116 
48 
25, 147, 000 
24,981,000 
19,883,000 
12, 866, 000 
12,392,000 
3.4 
3.4 
2.7 
'1.8 
1.7 
15. 06 
17.23 
17.93 
15.78 
16.75 
163 
122 
453 
10,084,000 
9, 165, 000 
29,964,000 
1.4 
1.3 
4.1 
16.80 
15.91 
19.19 
United States 
Arkansas 
Mississippi 
Louisiana 
Tennessee 
Texas 
Alabama 
Missouri 
South Carolina 
North Carolina 
Georgia 
Kentucky 
Virginia 
All other States (see Summary, p. 
1 Red (or sweet) gum (Liquidamber styraciflua) is the only species that goes into red gum lumber, 
morcial sap gum is the sapwood of the red gum. 
Com- 
