| Show tude r cut of the I 1 united states in 1908 during the year 1908 saw nilles miles in the united states slates aured feet 0 of lumber according to a preliminary report just issued by the dureau of the census these mills also cut cial shingles and lath lumber manufacturing like every industry licit felt UK the effects boit ube business depression which be began gaii in october 1907 consequently the production in ISO 10 was below for ahe lie previous year 3 ear jm in 1907 the ithe cut of sawmills was 40 Z 5 arx 1000 feet abe highest production ever recorded therefore ihei that in 1908 i reports were re celvI from eglit yer per cent more mills than in 1507 tine decrease decre iise in lumber cut reported ted by them was slightly sligh Liy over per cent washington as for several years past still cambs iambs rab tes arst among the states in lumber production iff exit cut in iolob lacing being feet a decrease a of f 28 S per cent over the cut in 1147 S ma newly N tb r nuan iman in washington is douglas she ille for which was ser bously affected by the panic louisana rants ranks second with leet jeet a decrease a al feet or 84 per ier cent over lover lie he cut in 1107 LOU ISHma is jilt in ili the production of both yellow pine and cypress cypress essis is a particularly useful and valuable wood and apparently lire ana of it il na M mot mat suffer as severely from dull times as did me gaff ca yellow pine wid douglas fir mississippi was the alilia state in lumber production in with a total ol of cebert a decrease lie crease tot eleven pel ile cent slum the cut in 1907 arkansas ranked fourth with feet a decrease of nearly seventeen per i vent em t over ever ote me previous years tears iut output put van and wisconsin fifth with feet against 2 feet in an 1907 1107 in Tn texas Telas where the lumber 1 industry is confined almost exclusively to yellow pine pin C the falling off was very heavy the total cut of lot the state in 1908 was wag feet a decrease ot of 31 C per tent over the cut in tn 1907 eight other states manufactured more than one muo u tee fex A each tI lal lumber last year in the order of importance they were michigan oregon minnesota pennsylvania Pennsyl vanla virginia alabama north Carolina and W wet est fa mai watne r ne other states whiz h VA ep rtha d more than one billion feet each in 1907 went just below that digre fig vare in ili ibos the totals for a few states were greater in 1908 than in 1907 but this was chiefly due to the larger number ot of reports secured in ill those states slates in 1908 in georgia for instance a particularly close canvass increased the number of mills reporting nearly one third while tile the resulting increase in reports of total production was only six per cent in massachusetts miles reported a got cot ot of feet jn 1908 as compared with a cut of 0 feet by mills in 1907 in IM cut feet in 1908 while in 1907 mills cut feet A par large gain in ili mills reporting was avas made macle in oklahoma in ili irmiss cut aB 1000 moat while aln re are many very large sawmills saw sul mills jn the united states the small mills far outnumber the large ones and ill ft is particularly interesting to note how many ot of these small niilo there vire ire in the states which are not now of oe first rank tn in lumber production the statistics for new yuek were collected ty the forest fish anil and gume COMmis commission Commissi ion bion of that state which secured f ironi ram 22 irl mills in 2224 mills reported to rhe census anti and jn in vir gilill U 9 37 ul lillS in knorth orth carolina caralina reports came front from 1740 mills and in Kent nelcy from 1530 mills the number or of mills iri ills reporting 1 from tennessee was only forty le less Ss than from in west virginia georgia missouri ohio and indiana between 1 1 laud and 1100 mills millis ea each were engaged in cutting lumber last year the average output ifer p er mill was fea in ill tew new yoila tock and ana feet in hi louisana Loul sana these two states presenting nearly the extremes s of production by small and lar large e in mills III s yellow pine douglas dougla fir white pine oa osos hemlock ocl zand and sp naoe in the order named were the woods cut into lumber ju in the largest qua quantity entity yellow pine alne has ranked first since it VU surpassed white pine in the later nineties and it is still fai farin ain the the lead more recently white pine halso beell by douglas 11 jjr II r 20 that now it occupies third place washington has been the principle 3 rod aej ti cing Z state since the use of red codar cedar shingles became general and it supplied three fifths of the total output of shingles last year among the other shingles pro producing ducia states michigan Xich igan Loul louisana sana maine and california were the most wal the shingles cut in ill michigan and maine are chiefly of white cedar those in ili louisana of cypress and those in california of redwood latil lath are generally a byproduct by product of lumber manufacture and are made to some extent from almost every wood that is cut into lumber among the kinds of lath which are most prominent are white pine doug las fir spruce yellow pine cypress and hemlock |
