PRODUCTION OF LUMBER, LATH, AND SHINGLES IN 1016. 
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Table 10. — Reported production of white-pine lumber, 1916. 
[Computed total production in United States, 2,700,000,000 feet b. m.] 
Number of 
active 
mills re- 
porting. 
Quantity re- 
ported. 
Percent. 
Average 
value per 
M feet, 
f . o. b. mill. 
United States 
3,212 
Feet b. to. 
2,330,831,000 
100.0 
$19. 16 
Minnesota 
154 
36 
476 
237 
272 
218 
30 
155 
753 
126 
322 
100 
53 
10 
63 
207 
962,765,000 
304, 055, 000 
272, 035, 000 
187,447,000 
184,728,000 
101,567,000 
64, 128, 000 
64, 040, 000 
50, 145, 000 
32, 833, 000 
31, 732, 000 
13, 924, 000 
11,619,000 
10, 497, 000 
10,283,000 
29, 033, 000 
41.3 
13.0 
11.7 
8.0 
7.8 
4.4 
2.8 
2.7 
2.2 
1.4+ 
1.4- 
.6 
.5- 
. 5 — 
.4 
1.2 
18. 61 
Idaho 
19 34 
Maine 
19 00 
Wisconsin 
23.30 
New Hampshire 
17.72 
Massachusetts 
16 62 
Washington 
16.62 
Michigan * 
23.17 
New York 
23.82 
North Carolina 
15.54 
Pennsylvania 
24.07 
Vermont 
19.03 
19.92 
Montana .". 
16.40 
Connecticut 
19.64 
All other States (see summary, p. 38) 
HEMLOCK. 
Hemlock is cut in both the Eastern and Western States, the prin- 
cipal species being Tsuga canadensis and Tsuga JieieropJiylla in the 
respective regions. The wide distribution of the species is indicated 
by the number of States listed in the tabulation. 
Table 11. — Reported production of hemlock lumber, 1916. 
[Computed total production in United States, 2,350,000,000 feet b. m.] 
Number of 
active 
mills re- 
porting. 
Quantity re- 
ported. 
Percent. 
Average 
value per 
M feet, 
f. o. b. mill. 
United States 
Wisconsin 
Michigan 
Washington 
Pennsylvania 
West Virginia 
Maine 
New York 
Oregon 
New Hampshire 
North Carolina 
Virginia 
Tennessee 
Vermont 
Massachusetts 
Kentucky 
All other States (see summary, p. 38) 
3,538 
Feet b. to. 
1,986,653,000 
100.0 
$15. 35 
234 
229 
80 
429 
133 
439 
1,007 
23 
212 
77 
73 
42 
270 
117 
58 
115 
527, 465, 
324, 720, 
267,313, 
243,810, 
161,554, 
90, 300, 
79, 880, 
70,014, 
43, 165, 
42,916, 
35, 952, 
25,977, 
25, 257, 
15,770, 
15,649, 
10,911, 
26.6 
16.3 
13.5- 
12.3 
8.1 
4.8 
4.0 
3.5+ 
2.2 
2.2 
1.8 
1.3 
1.3- 
5+ 
15.53 
15.40 
10.23 
19.40 
17.01 
15.91 
19.18 
10.04 
15.80 
14.83 
14.84 
13.32 
16.87 
17,48 
15.86 
A decrease of slightly less than 2 per cent in the cut was actually 
reported in comparison with the 1915 figures — 1,986,653,000 feet in 
1916 and 2,026,460,000 feet in 1915. Wisconsin produced more than 
one-fourth of the reported cut of all the States, the figures indicating 
an increase of 53,000,000 feet over 1915; Michigan's cut decreased 
48,000,000 feet for the same period. Hemlock production for the 
