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BULLETIN 673, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
United States as a whole has been well sustained during the last 
seven years. 
The computed cut was placed at 2,350,000,000 feet, an increase of 
75,000,000 feet, or about 3 per cent. 
While 3,538 mills reported their cut, this number is 201 less than 
for the previous report. 
The average f. o. b. mill value advanced from $13.14 to $15.35, or 
$2.21, the largest increases being in the eastern product. 
WESTERN YELLOW PINE. 
Western yellow pine (Pinus ponderosa) , which is cut in practically 
each one of the Western States, gained nearly 35 per cent in reported 
production in 1916 over the previous year, the figures being 1,684,- 
987,000 feet and 1,252,244,000 feet, respectively. The noteworthy 
increase is largely accounted for by Oregon's cut being almost twice 
as great as in 1915. Oregon ranked third in the list of producing 
States in 1915 and cut approximately 15 per cent of the total quantity 
of western yellow pine reported for all States; in 1916 this State sup- 
planted Idaho in second place in the list with 24 per cent of the total 
cut to its credit. With the exception of Colorado, the output in all 
of the other States was accelerated. The largely increased cut of 
western yellow pine places that wood in sixth place according to 
quantity produced for all species, displacing spruce in that position. 
The computed total output of 1,690,000,000 feet for the country 
is an increase of 31 per cent over 1915. 
The average value of the lumber f. o. b. mill for 1916 is $14.52; the 
year before it was $14.32. 
Table 12. — Reported production of western yellow pine lumber, 1916. 
[Computed total production in United States, 1,690,000,000 feet b. m.] 
Number of 
active 
mills re- 
porting. 
Quantity re- 
ported. 
Percent. 
Average 
value per 
M feet, 
f. o. b. mill. 
United States 
787 
Feet b. m. 
1,684,987,000 
100.0 
$14.52 
California 
133 
163 
118 
119 
65 
16 
51 
52 
25 
45 
494,973,000 
399, 102, 000 
240, 160, 000 
188, 215, 000 
138,206,000 
92, 133, 000 
72,004,000 
27,848,000 
25, 466, 000 
6, 880, 000 
29.4 
23.7 
14.2 
11.2 
8.2 
5.5 
4.3 
1.6 
1.5+ 
.4 
15.40 
Oregon . . 
13.75 
Idaho 
14.47 
Washington 
12.94 
Montana 
14.76 
15.80 
New Mexico 
13.50 
Colorado 
13-96 
South Dakota 
19.05 
All other States (see summary, p. 38) 
SPRUCE. 
Red spruce {Picea rubens) and Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) form 
the bulk of the spruce production, the former being manufactured in 
the New England and Appalachian regions and the latter in Washing- 
ton and Oregon. 
