PKODUCTION OF LUMBER, LATH, AXD SHINGLES IN 1916. 
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RED GUM. 
Ked gum (Liquidambar styraciflua) , the sapwood of which is also 
commercially called "sap gum," was reported cut to the amount of 
651,879,000 feet. The output was 36.3 per cent greater than that 
reported for 1915. The increase is partially accounted for by or- 
ganized exploitation of uses for the wood. 
Each one of the leading producing States, with the exception of 
Tennessee, Missouri, and South Carolina, measurably increased its 
cut, the output in Arkansas increasing 35.3 per cent, that in Mississippi 
49.6 per cent, and that in Louisiana 92 per cent — a combined in- 
crease in cut of 145,000,000 feet. 
The computed total production was 800,000,000 feet in 1916 and 
655,000,000 feet in 1915. 
Along with the enlarged cut of gum there was an advance in the 
average mill value from $12.54 per 1,000 feet in 1915 to $14.64 in 1916. 
Table 16. — Reported production of red gum lumber, 1916. 
[Computed total production in United States, 800,000,000 feet b. m.] 
Number of 
active 
mills re- 
porting. 
Quantity re- 
ported. 
Percent. 
Average 
value per 
M feet 
f. o. b. milL 
1,845 
Fed b. m. 
651,879,000 
100.0 
$14.64 
245 
174 
77 
186 
141 
49 
92 
60 
43 
111 
43 
624 
207, 148, 000 
164,949,000 
75, 926, 000 
23, 917, 000 
23,647,000 
23, 592, 000 
22, 813, 000 
21,951,000 
20, 297, 000 
16, 008, 000 
12,306,000 
39,325,000 
31.8 
25.3 
11.6 
3.7 
3.6 
3.6 
-3.5 
3.4 
3.1 
-2.5 
1.9 
6.0 
14 14 
16.19 
14.01 
Tennessee 
16.27 
15.13 
14.75 
12.08 
14.81 
13.57 
Vireinia 
12. f 
G eorgia 
14.80 
YELLOW 
POPLAR. 
Yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) production statistics show 
a tendency since 1909 toward a restricted output. The cut actually 
reported in 1916, 394,854,000 feet, was 4.6 per cent greater than 
for the year previous. 
Kentucky dropped in rank as a producing State from second to 
fourth place, Tennessee and Virginia moving up proportionately. 
Ohio, once a large source of poplar timber, occupies eighth place as 
against sixth place in 1915. 
The computed cut of 560,000,000 feet was larger than that of 
1915 (464,000,000 feet) and that of 1913, but below the reported cut 
for a series of years. 
While practically all other woods show statistically an advance 
in average mill value for 1916, the poplar figures of $21.89 indicate 
a slight loss. 
