PRODUCT] OX OF LUMBER, LATH, AND SHINGLES IN 1917. 25 
CHESTNUT. 
The chestnut-lumber production of 382,652,000 feet was a slump of 
9 per cent from the total of the year before. The cut in West Virginia 
of 107,410,000 feet was 24,782,000 feet, or 19 per cent less than that 
of 1916. A slight increase occurred among the mills in North Caro- 
lina, Virginia, Connecticut, Tennessee, and New York. A decreased 
cut in Pennsylvania dropped that State from second to fourth rank 
in order of State production. 
The average value of chestnut was $21.54 in 1917, an increase over 
the 1916 value of $4.49, or 26 per cent. 
Table 20. — Reported production of chestnut : lumber, 1917. 
[Computed total production in the United States, 415,000.000 feet.] 
Number of 
active mills 
reporting. 
Quantity 
reported. 
Per cent. 
Average 
value per 
1,000 feet 
f. o. b. mill. 
United States. 
FeetB. M. 
382, 652, 000 
100. 
$21. 54 
West Virginia. . 
North Carolma. 
Virginia 
Pennsylvania . . 
Connecticut — 
Tennessee 
New York 
Massachusetts. 
Kentucky 
Maryland 
Ohio 
New Jersey 
New Hampshire 
Rhode Island 
All other States (see Summary, p. 39 > . 
295 
223 
292 
602 
134 
281 
410 
126 
263 
75 
184 
68 
37 
20 
51 
107,410,000 
47,277,000 
42,073,000 
40,149,000 
33, 149, 000 
32,738,000 
17,153,000 
16,863,000 
13,231,000 
9,337,000 
6,795,000 
5,405,000 
4,778,000 
4,718,000 
1,576,000 
28.1 
12.3 
11.0 
10.5 
8.7 
8.6 
4.5 
4.4 
3.5 
2.4 
1.8 
1.4 
1.2 
1.2 
.4 
22.87 
20. 76 
19.38 
21.49 
21.50 
20.35 
23.28 
21.53 
20.27 
19.99 
23.29 
23.66 
20. 29 
24.70 
18.64 
1 Chestnut ( Costarica dentata) is the only species included in chestnut lumber. 
LARCH. 
Larch production declined 11 per cent from 1916, the total cut 
being 336,640,000 feet in 1917 and 376,731,000 feet the year before. 
In Montana the decrease amounted to 17 per cent and in Idaho to 
7 per cent. These two States cut 72 per cent of the total in 1916 and 
70 per cent hi 1917. Wisconsin's output was 40 per cent and that of 
Michigan 11 per cent under the 1916 figures. The quantity milled in 
Washington was 12 per cent greater than the year before; in Oregon 
it was 63 per cent greater. Minnesota's total showed an increase of 
17 per cent from the year before. 
The fact that larch shared in the advance in price with other of 
the western woods explains, in part, the greater output in Washing- 
ton and Oregon. The tamarack, or larch, of the Lake States has 
always returned the operators a higher average value, as will be noted 
from the figures shown in the aecompanjnng tabulation, than the 
western product. 
The average mill value for all larch was $12.49 in 1916; in 1917 it 
was SI 6.21, an increase of 30 per cent. 
