36 BULLETIN 673, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table 37. — Reported production of lath, 1916, 1915, and 1912. 
Number of active mills 
reporting. 
1916 
1915 
1912 
Quantity reported (feet b. m.). 
1916 
1912 
Lnited States 
Maine 
Louisiana 
Michigan 
Minnesota 
Washington 
Wisconsin 
Mississippi 
Oregon 
Idaho.. , 
West Virginia 
North Carolina 
Florida 
Arkansas 
All other States (see summary 
p. 38) 
2,586 
3,163,029,000 
2,745,134,000 
1S9 
69 
Be 
53 
64 
121 
30 
40 
24 
SO 
111 
122 
66 
74 
54 
71 
116 
29 
28 
29 
70 
106 
23 
172 
65 
135 
'74 
69 
192 
22 
32 
20 
121 
116 
26 
853 1,499 
396,935,000 
354,551,000 
335,846,000 
267,788,000 
264, 690, 000 
218, 598, 000 
162, 689. 000 
142,352,000 
117, 365, 000 
96,665,000 
86, 551, 000 
85,187,000 
78,157,000 
555, 655, 000 
172, 346, 000 
418, 554, 000 
124,543,000 
230, 686, 000 
389, 995, 000 
179, 193, 000 
123,011,000 
95, 801, 000 
85, 672, 000 
82, 561, 000 
96, 474, 000 
89, 860, 000 
97, 185, 000 
559,253,000 
2,719,163,000 
210,023.000 
330, 474; 000 
173,415,000 
269,095,000 
336,538,000 
257, 657, 000 
81,315,000 
131, 734, 000 
50, 895, 000 
159, 119, 000 
94, 086, 000 
51,078,000 
90,216,000 
483,518,000 
SHINGLES. 
Table 38 shows the production of shingles, by States, in 1916, and 
for comparative purposes the quantity reported in 1915 and 1912. 
Shingle output statistics were not secured for either 1913 or 1914. 
The production of 9,477,077,000 shingles in 1916, while 12 per cent 
more than the output of the year before, is considerably below tli6 
production of 1912 and the immediately preceding years, in which 
the cut exceeded 12,000,000,000 annually. The number of active 
mills given in the tabulation as reporting — 1,939 — probably does not 
include all the plants making shingles, since many shingle mills are 
small and impermanent in character. Only a systematic county 
canvass in each State could secure an approximately correct enumera- 
tion. However, Washington produced 71 per cent of the total cut 
reported in 1916; and this and other important producing States in 
the West were covered intensively by the district offices of the Forest 
Service, so the production figures are believed to approach closely 
the actual output. 
Table 38. — Reported production of shingles, 1916, 1915, and 1912. 
Number of active mills 
reporting. 
Quantity reported (feet b. m.) 
1916 
1915 
1912 
1916 
1915 
1912 
United States 
1, 932 
1,648 
3,615 
9,477,077,000 
8,459,378,000 
12, 037, 685, 000 
238 
50 
53 
52 
200 
69 
113 
73 
51 
148 
135 
9 
42 
61 
638 
239 
48 
45 
25 
187 
63 
82 
77 
31 
111 
125 
11 
31 
50 
523 
3S7 
66 
51 
61 
277 
159 
184 
159 
76 
240 
303 
8 
78 
240 
1,326 
6,739,3*8,000 
471,672,000 
404,253,000 
346, 622, 000 
221,059,000 
201,171,000 
183,662,000 
175, 455, 000 
131,795,000 
131,763,000 
123,959.000 
79,960,000 
45,411.000 
43,387,000 
175,440,000 
6,313.335,000 
336,652,000 
385, 610, 000 
200, 755, 000 
268,004,000 
250, 640, 000 
67,629,000 
122,882,000 
116,054,000 
69,308,000 
74,773,000 
49, 512, 000 
20,501,000 
49, 758, 000 
133,965,000 
7,995,251,000 
Oregon 
271, 205, 000 
718, 026, 000 
471,592,0-00 
393,772,000 
Maine 
459,359,000 
126. 205, 000 
Wisconsin 
267,945,000 
Florida 
309,081,000 
Georgia 
216, 688, 000 
196,943.000 
North Carolina 
Idaho 
37,641.000 
Arkansas 
114,458,000 
27, 752, 000 
All other States (see summary, 
page 38; 
430,767,000 
