38 
BULLETIN 768, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 
LUMBER VALUES. 
The average values for lumber shown in Table -±0 were determined 
for each species from the individual reports from mills representing 
every variation incident to the logging, transportation, manufacture, 
and sale of lumber. More than one-half of the mills in reporting 
their cut furnished values at which sales were made f. o. b. mill. 
These reports were carefully scrutinized and the figures are un- 
doubtedly representative. 
The table shows the average value of the different woods for 
specified years from 1S99 to 1916 and indicates the good, bad, and 
indifferent years of the lumber industry. The 1917 average value of 
$20.32 per 1000 feet established a record. It is 33 per cent higher 
than the 1916 figure and 23 per cent higher than the figure obtained 
for the profitable year of 1907. Every wood listed in the table 
shared in the advance, some to a much greater degree than others, as 
is revealed in the individual species tables. 
40. — Average value of lumber per thousand feet, :. 
specified years, 1899-191 7 . 
by hinds of uood. for 
jvi-d ::' " 
1915 1911 
1910 
1909 1907 1904 
All kinds *.. 
$■:: - : : 
Softwoods: 
Yellow pine.., 
Douglas fix.... 
White rjine . . . 
Hemlock 
Spruce 
rn yellow pine. 
Cypress.. 
Eedwood 
Cedar 
La::i :amara:> . 
White fir 
Sugar pine 
an fir 
Lodgepole pine... 
Hardwoods: 
Oak 
Maple 
Gum. red and sap . 
Chestnut . 
Yellow rx>plar ; 
Birch 
B asswood 
Elm 
Ash 
Cottonwood i 
Tuoelo. 
Hickorv .'.. 
. tat i 
Svcmore 1 
19.00 
16.28 
24 SI 
20. 7$ 
24.41 
19. 59 
23.92 
21.00 
19.40 
16.21 
17.16 
24.69 
20. 02 
18.34 
24.49 
23.16 
19.56 
21.54 
24. 07 
19. 58 
25.96 
23.89 
30.01 
23.19 
IS. 06 
29. 18 
72.99 
18. 68 
§15. 32 
$14.04 
14.33 
12.41 
10.78 
10. 59 
19.16 
17.44 
15.35 
13.14 
17. 38 
16.58 
14. 52 
14.32 
20. So 
. ■' 
13.93 
13.54 
15.24 
16.10 
12.49 
10. 7S 
12,25 
10.94 
16.77 
17.40 
16.49 
13.79 
15. 13 
13.57 
20.06 
18-73 
IS. 24 
15.21 
14.64 
12.54 
17.05 
16.17 
:: v 
22.45 
19. 59 
16.52 
16.20 
14.01 
21.05 
: • 
19.46 
16. 9S 
23. So 
22.15 
17.42 
17.36 
13.00 
12.25 
23. S4 
23.35 
42. 3S 
4S.37 
$15. 05 
13.87 
11.05 
IS. -54 
13.59 
16.14 
13.62 
20.54 
13.99 
13. So 
11.87 
10.64 
17 -. 
13.42 
12.41 
19.14 
15.49 
12.11 
16.63 
25.46 
16.61 
14.09 
19.20 
17.13 
21.21 
IS. 12 
12.46 
22.47 
31.70 
13. 16 
$15.30 
13.29 
13.09 
IS. 93 
13.85 
16.62 
14.26 
20.51 
15.52 
15.53 
12.33 
11.52 
18.68 
14.48 
14. SS 
IS. 76 
IS. 16 
12.26 
16.23 
24.71 
17.37 
14.34 
20.94 
18.67 
22.47 
17.78 
12.14 
26.55 
34.91 
14.10 
S15.3S §16.56 $12.76 Sll.13 
12.69 
12.44 
IS. 16 
13.95 
16.91 
15.39 
20.46 
14. SO 
19. 95 
12.68 
13.10 
15. 14 
13.99 
16.25 
1: " 
1: .: 
16.12 
25.39 
16.95 
13.25 
19. 50 
17.52 
24.44 
IS. 05 
11.87 
c : >: 
42.79 
14.77 
14.02 
14.12 
19.41 
15.53 
17.26 
15.67 
22.12 
17.70 
19.14 
13.99 
15.54 
19. S4 
16.16 
P) 
21.23 
i a 
14.10 
17.04 
24.91 
17.37 
14.30 
20.03 
IS. 45 
25.01 
IS. 42 
14.48 
29.50 
43.31 
14.58 
9.96 
9.51 
14.93 
11.91 
14.03 
11.30 
17.50 
12. S3 
14.35 
11.39 
P) 
C 1 ) 
P) 
P) 
17.51 
14.94 
10.87 
13. 7S 
IS. 99 
15.44 
C 1 ) 
16.86 
14.45 
IS. 77 
14.92 
P) 
23.94 
45.64 
8.46 
S.67 
12.69 
9.9$ 
11.27 
9.70 
13.32 
10.12 
10.91 
8.73 
P) 
12.30 
P) 
13. 7S 
11. S3 
9.63 
13.37 
14.03 
12.50 
P) 
12.84 
11.47 
15.84 
10.37 
18 _i 
36.49 
11.04 
Data not obtained. 
