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Table 24. — Reported production of cottonwood lumber, 1915. 
[Computed total production in United States, 180,000 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. 
1,037 | 138,282 
100.0 
$17.36 
Common cottonwood 
do 
46 
39 
21 
79 
49 
51 
57 
59 
636 
37, 139 
23, 389 
17,121 
14,074 
10, 466 
8,188 
3,648 
2,855 
21,402 
26.8 
16.9 
12.4 
10.2 
7.6 
5.9 
2.6 
2.1 
15.5 
18.66 
18.14 
do 
19.16 
12.59 
Common cottonwood 
Aspen and balm 
Common cottonwood. 
. . do 
19.33 
15.44 
17.76 
19.32 
All other States (see Summary, p. 
40). 
TUPELO. 
The term " tupelo " is here used to cover two important and one 
minor species of the botanical genus Nyssa. Most of the tupelo 
lumber is' cut in the Gulf States from cotton gum (Nyssa aquatica), 
commonly called tupelo. This tree furnishes the lumber sold under 
the trade name of "tupelo." Black gum (or pepperidge) (Nyssa 
sylvatica) is of next importance and is cut in the Atlantic and Cen- 
tral States; the lumber is sold both as tupelo and black gum. A 
little lumber is made from water gum (Nyssa bifiora) in the South- 
ern Atlantic States. 
Under " Production by kinds of woods," on page 15, errors on the 
part of mills in reporting black gum under red gum in previous 
years are pointed out. The 1915 schedule sent to mills indicated that 
black gum should be reported under tupelo, and the result was a 
largely increased reported cut of this species in the Atlantic and 
Central States. 
Table 25. — Reported production of tupelo lumber, 1915. 
[Computed total production in United States, 170,000 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 
636 
• 153,001 
100.0 
$12. 25 
Cotton gum 
Louisiana >. 
45 
40 
39 
30 
17 
40 
34 
74 
317 
62, 402 
16, 758 
15, 832 
14,546. 
7,922 
7,844 
5,822 
5,198 
16, 677 
40.8 
11.0 
10.3 
9.5 
5.2 
5.1 
3.8 
3.4 
10.9 
12.79 
North Carolina 
11.67 
Virginia 
do 
11.49 
Alabama 
11.23 
South Carolina 
12.02 
Mississippi 
12.80 
Missouri 
10.97 
Kentucky 
.do. . . 
12.50 
All other States (see Summary, 
p. 40). 
