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BULLETIN 1241, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
over the 274,000-cord pulp-wood cut of 1922. There is no apparent reason why 
the use of these species in the Pacific Coast States for pulp wood should not 
become the dominant use. 
Washington, in which logging operations are most fully developed, contains 
by far the largest amount of spruce-fir-hemlock timber on the Pacific coast. A 
HUNDRED THOUSAND CORDS 
5 10 15 
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New England 
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Middle Atlantic 
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REGIONAL CONSUMPTION OF PULPWOOD 
BY PROCESSES, 1920 
Fig. 28 The pulp-wood cul Is now centered in the Middle A.tlantic, New England, an i Lake 
where, as ihown by Figure 27, I lie remaining stand of pulp limber Is relatlvelj small. 
field study Into the possibility of Becuring pulp wood from togging operation 
made in 1920 in the part of the State wesl of the Caseades. h ihowed the 
sibility of securing at that time approxima 000 cords a year of low-grade 
hemloekj Bpruee, and fir Logs, which have usually bees, difficult to sell and which 
could undoubtedly be used more advantageously for pulp. It was found that 
