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BULLETIN 768, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. 
Table 24. — Reported production of cedar l lumber, 1917. 
[Computed total production in the United States, 265,000,000 feet.] 
Number of 
active mills 
reporting. 
United States . 
Washington. 
Oregon 
California . . . 
Idaho 
Virginia 
Tennessee 
North Carolina 
Maine 
Michigan 
All other States (see Summary, p. 39) . 
34 
51 
26 
160 
Quantity- 
reported. 
FeetB. M. 
258, 005, 000 
135,820,000 
42,088,000 
21,310,000 
15, 319, 000 
9,017,000 
7,713,000 
7,462,000 
6,821,000 
5,954,000 
6,501,000 
Per cent. 
100.0 
52.6 
16.3 
8.3 
5.9 
3.5 
3.0 
2.9 
2.7 
2.3 
2.5 
Average 
value per 
1,000 feet 
f. o.b.mill. 
$19. 40 
18.16 
22.85 
17.50 
14.29 
15.44 
33.44 
22.98 
20.85 
17.14 
26.70 
1 "Western red cedar ( Thuja plicata) is cut in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. 
Port Orford cedar ( Chamsecyparis laicsoniana) is cut in Oregon. 
Yellow cedar ( Chainaecyparis nooikatensis) is cut in Washington. 
Incense cedar (Libocedrus decurrens) is cut in California. 
Northern white cedar (or arborvitse) ( Thuja occidentalis) is cut in the Lake States and the North- 
eastern States. 
White cedar (or juniper) (Chamxcyparis thyoides) is cut in the Atlantic Coast States. 
Red cedar (Juniper us virginiana) and southern red juniper (Juniperus barbadensis) is cut in Tennessee, 
Florida, and Alabama. 
TUPELO. 
Nearly all of the leading tupelo-producing States, the exception 
being Virginia, reported a heavier cut in 1917 than the year before, 
the total for the country being 249,992,000 feet, or 17 per cent in 
excess of the 1916 figures. The cut was larger in Louisiana by 12 
per cent than the year before, 14 per cent in Alabama, nearly three 
times as large in Mississippi, and more than twice as large in North 
Carolina and South Carolina. Forty more mills reported cutting 
tupelo in 1917 than in 1916. In each one of the last 10 years there 
has been a growth in the output of tupelo. 
There was a decided upward tendency in the average value, which 
reached $18.06 per 1,000 feet, an increase of 39 per cent over the 
1916 average value of $13. 
Table 25.— Reported production of tupelo 1 lumber, 1917. 
[Computed total production in the United States, 265,000,000 feet.] 
United States. 
Louisiana 
Alabama 
Mississippi 
North Carolina. 
South Carolina. 
Virginia 
Missouri 
Tennessee 
Arkansas 
All other States (see Summary, p. 
Number of 
active mills 
reporting. 
43 
54 
51 
18 
42 
29 
80 
56 
230 
Quantity 
reported. 
Per cent. 
Feet B. 31. 
249,992,000 
Average 
value per 
1,000 feet 
f. o. b. mill. 
$18. 06 
127,210,000 
50. 9 
25, 528, 000 
10.2 
21,974,000 
8.8 
18, 179, 000 
7.3 
16,933,000 
6.8 
9,009.000 
3.6 
7,746,000 
3.1 
5,115,000 
2.0 
4,788,000 
1.9 
13,510,000 
5.4 
18. 30 
19.26 
18.68 
16. 16 
18.28 
15.22 
17. .54 
17.69 
15.76 
18. 06 
1 Tupelo (or cotton gum) (Nyssa aquatica) is cut in the Gulf States. 
Black gum (or pepperidge) {Nyssa sylcatica) is cut in the Atlantic and Central States and is sold both 
as tupelo and black gum. 
Water gum( Nyssa biflora) is cut to a small extent in the Southern Atlantic States. 
