PRODUCTION OF LUMBER, LATH, AND SHINGLES IN 1916. 
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The reported total cut of 1,129,750,000 feet is 5.4 per cent less than 
in 1915. This decreased output of lumber is in a measure accounted 
for by the quantity of spruce timber which was cut for pulpwood 
rather than for saw logs; New Hampshire's output was less by one- 
half and New York's less by one-quarter than the reported cut of 
1915. The two States mentioned furnish much spruce to pulp mills. 
The three leading States in the production of spruce — Maine, Wash- 
ington, and West Virginia — enlarged their cut in 1916; but the in- 
crease in these three States was not enough to offset the decrease in 
the other States. A feature of the tabulation is the position of Ore- 
gon in fourth place in importance of production, the State having 
occupied seventh position in 1915. Oregon's greater cut, as well as 
that of Washington, is attributed to the heavier demand during the 
year for spruce airplane stock. 
The computed total cut of spruce is given as 1,250,000,000 feet, 
which is a decrease of 10.7 from the year before. 
The average f. o. b. mill value of $17.58 is higher by exactly $1 than 
the 1915 value. 
Table 13. — Reported production of spruce lumber, 1916. 
[Computed total production in United States, 1,250,000,000 feet b. m.] 
Number 
of active 
mills re- 
porting. 
Quantity 
reported. 
Per cent. 
Average 
value per 
M feet, 
f. o. b. mill. 
United States 
Maine 
Washington 
West Virginia 
Oregon 
Vermont 
New Eampshire 
North Carolina 
New York 
Minnesota 
Colorado 
Massachusetts 
California 
Idaho 
All other States (see summary, p. 38) 
1,477 
Feet. b. m. 
1,129,750,000 
100.0 
357 
65 
19 
23 
264 
127 
7 
223 
72 
42 
38 
2 
22 
216 
376, 820, 000 
221, 295, 000 
111,965,000 
96, 245, 000 
66, 8! 2, 000 
51,337,000 
45, 540, 000 
41,551,000 
25,357,000 
18,614,000 
14,638,000 
13,871,000 
13, 537, 000 
29,138,000 
33.4 
19.6 
9.9 
8.5+ 
5.9 
4. 
4. 
$17. 58 
19.22 
14.08 
20.40 
11.96 
18.96 
19.10 
21.37 
21.25 
17. 25 
16. 35 
19.41 
14.44 
13.42 
CYPRESS. 
Cypress (Taxodium disiichum) production, as reported, reached a 
total of 945,330,000 feet, or 2 per cent more than the cut of the 
preceding year. 
The output of the mills in Louisiana, North Carolina, and Missis- 
sippi was slightly less in 1916 than in 1915. Louisiana, while still 
the leading State of production, cut but 56 per cent instead of 61 
per cent of the total reported cypress cut in all States. Cypress pro- 
duction has been maintained at about the same rate since 1909, the 
exploitation of timber in recent yoars in States hitherto little logged 
tending to make up for the smaller output in the older cypress log- 
