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BULLETIN 506, L T . S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table 9. — Reported production of Jiemlock lumber, 1915. 
[Computed total production in United States, 2,275,000 M feet b. m.] 
State. 
United States. 
Wisconsin. 
Michigan . 
Washington 
Pennsylvania . . . 
West Virginia. . . 
New York 
Maine 
Oregon 
North Carolina. . 
New Hampshire. 
Vermont 
Virginia . 
Principal species cut. 
Number 
of active 
mills 
report- 
ing. 
3,739 
Eastern . 
do... 
Western. 
Eastern. 
....do... 
....do... 
do... 
Western. 
Eastern. 
do... 
do.., 
do... 
Tennessee j do. 
Massachusetts do. 
Kentucky do. 
All other States (see Summarv, 
p. 38). 
256 
251 
91 
494 
134 
1,038 
431 
27 
80 
236 
281 
86 
56 
125 
63 
90 
Quantity 
reported, 
Mfeet 
b. m. 
2,026,460 
Per 
cent. 
100.0 
474, 371 
372,512 
306, 570 
259, 914 
160, 923 
93, 008 
69, 568 
61, 963 
46, 546 
39, 262 
29, 589 
25, 935 
23, 252 
21,671 
18, 041 
23, 335 
23.4 
18.4 
15.1 
12.8 
7.9 
4.6 
3.4 
3.1 
2.3 
1.9 
1.5 
1.3 
1.1 
1.1 
Average 
value per 
M feet 
f. o. b. 
mill. 
813.14 
13.17 
13.34 
9.43 
15.41 
14.73 
15.26 
14.35 
9.58 
12.62 
14.22 
14.87 
13.90 
12.14 
15.28 
14.11 
SPRUCE. 
Several spruces are cut for lumber, but red and Sitka spruce 
furnish the greater portion. Red spruce (Picea rubra) is the 
important species in the Northeast and Appalachian region, and 
Sitka spruce {Picea sitchensls) on the northern Pacific coast. In 
the Northeast black spruce {Picea mariana) and white spruce {Picea 
canadensis) are cut to a small extent, while white spruce furnishes the 
lumber cut in the Lake States. Engelmann spruce {Picea engel- 
manni) is the source of spruce lumber in the Rocky Mountain region. 
The annual cut of spruce in the Northeast and Northwest is fairly 
uniform. However, in the Appalachian region, the West Virginia 
tracts are being cut out, and new tracts are being opened in North 
Carolina. The 1915 reported cut of spruce in West Virginia was 
less than one half as much as in 1912, while in North Carolina the 
mills reported cutting fifteen times as much as in 1912. 
Table 10. — Reported production of spruce lumber, 1015. 
[Computed total production in United States, 1,400,000 M feet b. m.] 
State. 
Principal species cut. 
Number 
of active 
mills 
report- 
ing. 
Quantity 
reported, 
Mfeet 
b. m. 
4 
Per 
cent. 
Average 
value per 
M feet 
f. o. b. 
mill. 
United States 
1, 573 
1,193,985 
100.0 
$16. 58 
Red... 
Maine 
362 
49 
138 
25 
8 
278 
20 
91 
362, 704 
196, 203 
112,904 
91,780 
83, 601 
69, 134 
65, 327 
58. 472 
30.4 
16.4 
9.5 
7^0 
5.8 
5.5 
4.9 
4.4 
2.9 
5.5 
17 28 
Washington 
Sitka... 
14 08 
New Hampshire 
Red... 
17 67 
West Virginia 
. do 
17.97 
17.66 
North Carolina 
Vermont 
Oregon 
Minnesota 
New York 
Massachusetts 
All other States (see Summarv, 
p. 38). 
do 
do 
17.10 
Sitka 
13.56 
White 
17.78 
Red 
232 53, is", 
41 :-;i.:;s<> 
17.97 
do 
17. So 
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