18 BULLETIN 673, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table 9. — Reported production of oak lumber, 1916. 
[Computed total production in United States, 3,300,000,000 feet b. m.] 
Number of 
active 
mills re- 
porting. 
Quantity re- 
ported. 
Per cent. 
Average 
value per 
M feet, 
f. o. b. mill. 
United States 
9,400 
Feet b. m. 
2, 164, 633, 000 
100.0 
$20.06 
West Virginia 
459 
441 
729 
563 
857 
269 
841 
750 
513 
357 
431 
90 
345 
100 
229 
664 
109 
1,653 
298, 189, 000 
246, 264. 000 
225, 645, 000 
212, 76S, 000 
184; 226, 000 
129, 131, 000 
129, 124, 000 
113, 7S0, 000 
102, 405. 000 
95, 850, 000 
83,674,000 
71, 968, 000 
41, 881, 000 
39, 114, 000 
24, 006, 000 
23, 926, 000 
20'. 972. 000 
121 3 710, 000 
13.8 
11.4 
10.4 
9.8 
8.5 
6.0 
6 
5.3 
4.7 
4.4 
3.9 
3.3 
1.9 
1.8 
1.1 
1.1 
1.0 
5.6 
20.96 
18.75 
Tprmesspp. , 
21.06 
Kentucky 
21.21 
Virginia 
16.21 
Mississippi 
19.86 
North Carolina 
16 37 
Pennsylvania. . . 
21.08 
Ohio 
26.00 
Missouri 
17.90 
Indiana 
29.71 
■Louisiana ... 
18.79 
Alabama 
15.57 
Texas 
17.10 
Georgia 
17.91 
New York 
25.13 
Illinois 
19.91 
All other States (see summary, p. 38) 
WHITE PINE. 
White-pine data as given here include four species: The white 
pine (Pinus strobus) and Norway or red pine (Pinus resinosa) of the 
Lake States, New England, and Appalachian regions; western white 
pine (Pinus monticola) of the Inland Empire region; and jack pine 
(Pinus divaricata) of the Lake States. To some extent Norway 
and jack pine are mixed with the lower grades of white pine and sold 
as the latter, since these species are as well adapted as white pine 
for the purposes for which it is used. 
White-pine production continues without any remarkable change, 
the reported cut of 2,330,831,000 feet in 1916 being an increase of 1.7 
per cent over the 1915 figures of 2.291,480,000 feet. A reference 
to the tabulation reveals Minnesota's share of the country's reported 
cut to have been 41.5 per cent, which is an increase of 3.5 per cent 
over the previous year. 
With the exception of the three leading producing States — Minne- 
sota, Idaho, and Maine — and North Carolina, where the quantity 
cut was almost doubled, the production of the several States listed 
shows a decline from 1915, slight in nearly all instances, but none 
the less significant. 
No change was made in the computed total production of white 
pine for 1915, since it is generally conceded that this y^ood has reached 
the maximum cut. 
The number of mills reporting in 1916 was less by 137 out of a 
total of 3,212 than the year before. 
The average f. o. b. mill value was $19.16 per 1,000 feet, an advance 
of SI. 72 per 1,000 feet. 
