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Port Orford cedar is limited in amount and is not marketed 
extensively. It is a favorite wood for ship building, and is also 
used for interior finish, outside trim, match wood and cabinet 
work for which it is especially fitted. It is usually associated 
with western red cedar, Sitka spruce, western hemlock and 
Douglas fir. It occurs as single trees, rarely in groups. 
Incense cedar is not cut into lumber to any extent, because 
of the excessive taper of the bole, and also because a large per- 
centage of the timber is attacked by a fungus (Daedalia vorax) 
which excavates galleries throughout the wood similar in char- 
acter to the "peck" in cypress. The timber is used chiefly for 
fence posts, laths, shingles, cigar boxes, pencil stock, and the 
best grade lumber for furniture and for mining and irrigation 
flumes. 
It is associated with western yellow pine, sugar pine, Douglas 
fir, western white pine and white fir {Abies concolor). The stand 
per acre in California ranges from 500 to 2000 board feet per 
acre. 
The lumber cut of western cedars in 1919 was 332,234,000 
feet of hmiber. 
Sugar Pine. — Sugar pine (Pinus lamhertiana) is found chiefly 
in southern Oregon and in California where it is an important 
commercial tree. It occurs in mixed stands associated with 
western yellow pine, incense cedar and Douglas fir on the lower 
limits of its range; and with white fir, red fir {Abies magnified) 
and the bigtree on the higher elevations. The yield in the 
Sierras ranges from 2000 to 15,000 board feet per acre with a 
maximum of 60,000 feet. An occasional tree contains 54,000 
feet. 
Sugar pine is especially prized for the manufacture of "shakes" 
or split shingles, and is also extensively used for fruit boxes, 
match wood, sash, doors, and blinds, ship decking and interior 
trim. The lumber is often substituted for that of eastern white 
pine. The greater part is marketed locally, but it is also 
shipped as far East as New England. 
The cut in 1919 was 133,658,000 feet. 
Lodgepole Pine. — This tree {Pinus contorta) is found from 
Alaska to California and east to Colorado, and is used for mine 
timbers, fence posts, lumber and crossties. The timber is small 
and knotty and lumber sawed from it is suitable only for general 
