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BULLETIN 506, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
production since 1912. As the table shows, the 1915 reported cut 
was 8,459,378,000, the estimated total 9,500.000,000, and the 1912 
reported cut 12.037.685,000. The decrease is partly due to increased 
imports from British Columbia. The reported total figures for 
previous years are: 1911, 12.113,867,000: 1910. 12,976,362,000: 1909, 
14,907,371,000. 
Table 34. — Reported prod net ion of sit ine/les, 1915 and 1912. 
[Computed total 1915 cut, 9,500,000 thousand.] 
• 
Number of acttv 
mills reporting. 
Quantity reported, 
thousands. 
1915 
1915 
United States . 
1,648 
3,615 8,459,378' 12,037,685 
Washington v 
Louisiana 
Oregon 
Maine 
Michigan 
California 
Wisconsin 
Florida 
North Carolina 
C eorgia 
Alabama 
Arkansas 
All other States I see Summary, p 
7. 996, 251 
718,026 
271,205 
393, 772 
459, 359 
471, 592 
267, 945 
309,081 
196.943 
216; 
126. 205 
114.458 
496, 160 
LUMBER VALUES. 
f Average or mill-run values, f. o. b. mill, have been compiled in 
connection with every lumber census since 1899 except for 1905, 1913, 
and 1911. The need of such data by the Government and the trade 
led to their collection for 1915. 
Values for the principal woods in the most important States are 
given in preceding tables in this bulletin. Table 35 gives the average 
value of the same woods for all years for which such data are avail- 
able. The prices for the years 1899 to 1910, inclusive, were compiled 
from replies made by the mills reporting production for those years; 
a great many mills are therefore represented. The values for 1911 
were compiled from a former quarterly Forest Service publication, 
" Record of Wholesale Prices of Lumber,*- which was based on 
quarterly reports received from about 1,000 large mills through- 
out the United States and reports for the year from a special list 
of 5,000 mills. The 1912 values came entirely from the " Record of 
"Wholesale Prices of Lumber.*' Since the larger mills ordinarily get 
better prices than the smaller establishments, the 1912 values in 
Table 35 are somewhat higher than the actual average values of 
lumber cut in that year. The 1915 values were compiled from 
replies received from about one-half of the mills reporting their 
