PRODUCTION OF LUMBER, LATH, AND SHINGLES IN 1916. 3 
In other years, as in 1916, the work was conducted almost exclusively 
by mail. The tabulation shows a reported cut in 1916 almost 
4,000,000,000 feet greater than in 1915, but smaller than in any 
other year since 1908. The estimated cut for 1916 is the smallest 
for any year shown except 1915. 
Table 1 — Quantity of lumber reported, number of active saivmills reporting, and esti- 
mated total cut, 1904-1016. 
Year. 
Reported cut 
of lumber. 
Number 
of active 
mills 
reporting. 
Estimated 
total cut of 
lumber. 
1S99 
Board feet. 
35,084,166,000 
34,135,139,000 
30,502,961,000 
37,550,736,000 
40,256,154,000 
33,224,369,000 
44,509,761,000 
40,018,282,000 
37,003,207,000 
39,158,414,000 
38,387,009,000 
37,346,023,000 
31,241,734,000 
34,791,385,000 
31,833 
2 18,277 
11,666 
22,398 
28, 850 
31,231 
« 46, 584 
2 31,934 
2 28, 107 
2 29,005 
2 21,668 
2 27, 506 
2 16, 815 
2 17,269 
Boardfeet. 
35,084,166,000 
1904 1 
43, 000, 000, 000 
43, 500, 000, 000 
46, 000, 000, 000 
1905 
1906 
1907 3 
46,000,000,000 
42,000,000,000 
19083 
1909 
1910 3 
44, 500, 000, 000 
43, 000, 000, 000 
45,000,000,000 
44, 000, 000, 000 
40, 500, 000, 000 
1911 3 
1912. 
1913 . . 
1914 i 
1915 
38, 000, 000, 000 
40,000,000,000 
1916 . 
i Custom mills excluded. 
2 Mills cutting under 50,000 feet excluded. 
s Including mills which manufacture lath and shingles exclusively (1,500 estimated). 
4 lucludes 4,543 mills cutting less than 50,000 feet, and all cooperage, veneer, millwork, box, furniture, 
and other factories cutting any lumber at all in 1909. 
LUMBER PRODUCTION BY CLASSES OF MILLS. 
As in previous years, the mills were arbitrarily divided into classes 
according to the quantity reported cut. These classes are shown in 
Table 2, with the computed 1 number of mills and production (p. 
■ — ■) and with comparative data for other years. 
The figures in Table 2 indicate the relation between the mill classes 
and production, and this feature is emphasized in figure 1 (p. 4). 
It is especially significant that 925 mills, or 3.08 per cent of the 
number computed as operating, cut more than 23,000,000,000 feet, 
or 58.56 per cent of the computed total production. The smaller 
mills — -21,037 operations — constituting 69.93 per cent of the com- 
puted number, cut but 4,027,912,000 feet, or 10.12 per cent of the 
total output of all the mills. 
All of the mills which reported for 1916 have been classified ac- 
cording to production and further arranged by States in Table 3 
(p. — ). The tabulation well illustrates the extended character of 
the lumber manufacturing industry and at the same time shows the 
■concentration of large units in a few States in the principal producing 
1 "Computed" is used in this bulletin to characterize results which were obtained by an extension of 
the figures compiled from actual reports, so as to give the totals for approximately all mills, including 
those from which no reports were received. 
