Show immense ENSIE Isa WIN VALO a of alvn 5 to RL OUTPUT T aso t 6 71 fig M 2 4 N 0 11 A Y 0 ASHINGTON louisiana mis blis sla arkansas and ala washington coasin in tho the order named constitute the nig big five in producing the country a lumber supply whose whoso valuation for or last year runs far above the halt bil lion dollar mark texas michigan oregon minnesota and Pensyl pennsylvania Pen sylvania vanta came after the first five states and others followed in decreasing amounts down to utah the lowest on the list with ith nevada and north dakota having haying little timbered area while the total valuation of the lumber lath and shingle production reached this amount represents a decrease of 23 per cent under the previous years output abo number of mills ie leport porting lne was and these manufactured tiO board feet of lumber at and 2986 lath valued at while the shingle ma aphid alif d more than three fifths of he the douglas or fir cut whilo while the bulk of the remainder came from oregon mina desota produced about a third of the white pine followed by wisconsin with about 16 15 per cent and new hampshire with ten per cent an la in te resting feature of the report Is that two new england states maine and massachusetts produced more white pine than michigan which for many years led the country in producing this valuable timber oak lumber manufacture now cen in kentucky west virginia and tennessee wisconsin comes first lo 10 the production of hemlock taking the position held by pennsylvania for so many years altogether the lumber repot bulletin which la is free by the way contains cont alna 6 pages and gives de tailed figures upon the quality and value of 45 43 kinds of lumber manufactured in the united states last ak rn 5 IN e 31 ker turned out ah sh agles valued at the average value of lumber umber at the point of manu facture vas 1537 a thousand feet 2 0 27 7 a thousand for lath and 2 00 a thousand for shingles shingle vellow yellow pine of tho the south which har been far in the lead in the lumber production for more abaz decade more than maintained its it supremacy last year contributing slightly more than 33 per cent of the total cut from all kinds douglas fir of the northeast ranked second and white pine third practically all kinds bowed a marked decreased cut and for the first three kinds of timber there was a falling failing off of 15 22 and 20 per cent respectively oak and rind hero hem lock maintained their relative ranks but showed decreases of 25 per cent coot in amount produced and spruce dropped 38 18 per cent louisana Lou llana ilana wae was the heaviest producer ticer of yellow pine lumber supplying nearly ono one fifth of the total production texas arkansas and alabama followed in the order nami hamd d rhe state of 0 washington alone sup year the work on it ras conducted under the supervision of 0 committee of four consisting of W ai steuart St chief statistician for manufactures and J E expert chief ol 01 division dl islon representing the bureau ol 01 census and R S kellog assistant forester and A 11 pierson Pic forest as elshant el si stant depre representing the united states forest service A statement just received at the depart department went of or agriculture from the forest service office at cortlan t ora shows that the timber ealo sale business on national forest in the pacific northwest ie Is increasing very rapidly rhe contrast between the amount and value of timber sold during the las iasi six months of 1909 and that sold som during the corresponding period in 1008 1908 Is very marked the figures just received ara for most of the national forests in oregon and washington and they show timber sales of over 62 52 million feet for nearly dur ing the last six ax month sot 1909 tola this compares with sales of about 17 mil lion feet for a total of during the tame period in 1908 |