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THE SOUTHERN CYPRESS. 5 
estimates, the relation of cut to the total standing timber is unaffected 
by the lack of any figures for these smaller products. On the basis 
of the estimate given above, the present annual cut amounts to 
about 2.7 per cent of the standing timber. During the decade fol- 
lowing 1899 the annual cut practically doubled (92.7 per cent in- 
crease), rising from a little less than 500,000,000 feet to 955,635,000 
board feet. Table 2 shows the cut of the various States in 1913. 
TABLE 2.—Quantity of cypress lumber sawed in 19138 and wn 1909. 
1913 1909 
State. Per Reve Por oe 
-s cent mills vf mills 
Quantity. | oF total.| report- Quantity. cent |, ep One 
: of total. 
ing. ing. 
Beard feet. Board feet. 
MG OUASTAT aie t eee elt rae eee ae oui 1 Le bree 744, 581, 000 67.9 94} 608, 854, 000 63. 7 153 
PTO RTC ase stapes Seay ore fase AN eS _ 100, 723, 000 9.2 41 84, 811, 000 8.9 85 
(Giron esa Fe eS ae ee shea ea AN ned Sev 74, 818, 000 6.8 57 27,517, 000 2.9 84 
South (Caro lian siete ees re ee Pe a Wea ea Ie 39, 895, 000 3.6 43 36, 040, 000 3.8 55 
INGA VST IER RO GIN ca) area ara: SRL nee Wega ta 35, 964, 000 Bho 98 55, 012, 000 5 7 309 
AVIS SO UITGTE I: MMi uye aap NCe LRAT ORIG VRC PMN Sau 28, 814, 0CO 2.6 49 32, 819, 000 3.4 125 
IMEI SSISS 170 Ui eeetays ese esses Seen Ae ae 25, 782, 000 2.3 54 41, 666, 000 4.4 209 
North Carolina is SUSE aslo apa eee EP RD aN ae 19, 213, 000 1.8 62 34, 506, 000 3.6 150 
FR ENMESSCO Winey pe rape era ie ae rains at 14, 5€2, 000 lee, 44 8, 709, 000 0.9 73 
SINTTIL OST ONSTAR aye of aed EI is oot A iON Cel tn 12, 955, 000 Lee? 65 25, 629, 000 i 261 
AIO ay a i i as A i ala se a A et 1, 097, 247, 000 100. 0 607 955, 635, 090 100. 0 1, 504 
1Jncludes mills in Maryland, Virginia, Alabama, Texas, Indiana, Tlinois, and Kentucky. 
For all the States the average production per mill in 1912 exceeded 
a, million board feet, in Louisiana it was 5,785,000 board feet. This 
is exceeded only in the manufacture of. Douglas fir, redwood, and 
southern yellow pine. In Louisiana, the average cut per mill in 1909 
was 3,900,000 feet for 153 mills; in 1912, nearly 5,800,000 feet for 
113 mills; in 1913,? 7,900,000 feet for 94 mills. In the whole region 
though the total cut reported increased about 15 per cent, the total 
number of mills reported dropped from 1,504 in 1909 to 607 in 1913, 
a reduction of about 59 per cent.? 
In 1913 for the first time the annual cut reached 1,000, 000, 000 
feet, over 100,000,000 more than the 1912 cut, the highest conn up 
to that time. The number of active mills reporting in 1913, however, 
was 372 less than in 1912. Increases in cut over 1912 were large on 
the Atlantic coast, in South Carolina and Georgia,* and in the Missis- 
sippi basin in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. In the five 
years ending in 1913, the annual cut very nearly tripled in size in 
Georgia, increased 25 per cent in Florida, and 67 per cent in Tennes- 
see. Decreases of 44 per cent in North Carolina and 53 per cent in 
Arkansas occurred in the same period. 
11,018,000 board feet, as compared with 635,400 board feet in 1909. 
2 Mills cutting less than 50,000 feet of lumber annually not included in 1913 statistics; 1909 figures from 
complete decennial census. 
3 Partly because of the opening up of the Okefinokee Swamp. 
