26 BULLETIN 506, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table 19. — Reported production of larch lumber, 1915. 
[Computed total production in United States, 375,000 M feet b. m.] 
State. 
Principal species cut. 
Number 
of active 
mills 
report- 
ing. 
Quantity- 
reported, 
Mfeet 
b. m. 
Per 
cent. 
Average 
value per 
Mfeet 
f. o. b 
mill. 
United States 
571 
348,428 
100.0 
S10. 78 
Western larch . 
Montana 
39 
49 
118 
151 
123 
46 
11 
34 
115,001 
111,345 
37, 898 
24, 231 
22, 368 
21, 477 
15,506 
602 
33.0 
32.0 
10.9 
6.9 
6.4 
6.2 
4.4 
.2 
10.79 
8 89 
Tamarack 
13.90 
Wisconsin 
do 
13.83 
do 
14.53 
Western larch 
8.78 
do 
8.98 
All other States (see Summary, 
p. 38). 
BEECH. 
There is but one kind of beech native to the United States (Fagus 
ferruginea) . Beech lumber is cut in nearly all the hardwood States, 
but Michigan, New York, and the Ohio Valley States are the most 
important. 
Table 20. — Reported production of beech lumber, 1915. 
[Computed total production in United States, 360,000 M feet b. m.] 
State. 
Number 
of active 
mills 
report- 
ing. 
Quantity 
reported, 
Mfeet 
b. m. 
Per 
cent. 
Average 
value per 
Mfeet 
f. o. b. 
mill. 
United States 
Michigan 
Pennsylvania 
West Virginia 
New York 
Ohio 
Indiana 
Kentucky 
Vermont 
Tennessee 
New Hampshire 
All other States (see Summary, p. 40) 
3.329 
303, 835 
100.0 
205 
376 
213 
650 
442 
338 
274 
172 
159 
72 
420 
65, 998 
43, 168 
38, 952 
32, 689 
31,923 
31,316 
20, 578 
9,162 
6,556 
6,016 
17, 477 
21.7 
14.2 
12.8 
10.8 
10.5 
10.3 
6.8 
3.0 
2.2 
2.0 
5.7 
S14.01 
14.35 
13.95 
13.43 
14.31 
14.66 
15.41 
12.28 
13.75 
11.84 
13.86 
BASSWOOD. 
Three botanical species of basswood are cut for lumber, but no 
distinction is made on the market. Common basswood (or linn) 
(Tilia americana) is cut mostly in the Lake States, common basswood 
and white basswood (Tilia hetro phylla) in the Appalachian Moun- 
tains, while downy basswood (Tilia pubescey%s) is a scarce tree in 
the Southern States. 
