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BULLETIN 506, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
REDWOOD. 
Redwood (Sequoia semper cirens) . which supplies most of the 
redwood lumber, occurs mostly in California and to a very small 
extent in southern Oregon. The bigtree (Sequoia w ashing toniand) , 
the largest tree species in the world, which is found only in Cali- 
fornia, also supplies a part. 
The 1915 estimated total cut of 120,291,000 feet is based on 418,- 
824,000 feet reported by 32 California mills. The average value was 
$13.54 per M feet f. o. b. mill. 
CEDAR. 
A number of species are grouped in this bulletin under the com- 
mon name "cedar." In importance as lumber producers the several 
species rank as follows : 
Western red cedar (Thuja plicata) : The source of three-fourths 
of the shingles made in the United States ; is also cut for lumber in 
"Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. 
Port Orford cedar (C hamaecy paris Jawsoniana) : Cut mostly in 
Oregon; the principal cedar cut in that State. The 1915 reported 
cut of cedar in Oregon was TO per cent more than in 1912. 
Xorthern white cedar, or arborAutae (Thuja occidentalis) : Cut in 
the Lake States and Xortheastern States. 
Incense cedar (Lioocedrus dec-wrens) : Cut in California. 
Southern white cedar (C hamaecy paris thyoides), often called 
juniper: Cut in the Atlantic Coast States. 
Eed cedar (Juniperus cirginiana and •/. barhadensis) : Cut mostly 
in Tennessee, Florida, and Alabama. 
Yellow cedar (C hamaecy paris noothaiensis) : Sometimes lumbered 
in Washington. 
Table 17. — Reported production of cedar lumber, 1915. 
[Computed total production in United States, 420,000 M feet b. m.] 
State. 
Principal species cut. 
Number 
of active 
mills 
report- 
ing. 
Quantity- 
reported, Per 
M feet cent. 
b. m. 
Average 
value per 
M feet 
f. o. b. 
mill 
T~ nit ed States 
649 1 352,482 100.0 
S16 10 
Western red 
Washington 
102 
43 
22 
20 
79 
35 
39 
47 
201, 561 
39, 835 
29,654 
57.2 
11.3 
8.4 
15.40 
Oregon 
Port Orford 
19 37 
Idaho 
9.44 
Virginia 
Southern white 
21,994 6.2 
15,700 4.5 
12,185 : 3.5 
8,283 2.3 
6,679 ' 1.9 
16,591 i 
22.53 
Maine 
14.14 
12 08 
Northern white 
do 
15 59 
Wisconsin 
14 66 
All other States (see Summarv, 
p. 38). 
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