Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-07-15
LUMBER INDUSTRY.
Census Bulletin on the Industry in
New Mexico.
A BIG RESOURCE.

The lumber industry in New Mexico
is not as important as the agricultural,
stock or mining industries, but still y
employs quite number of men and
considerable capital is invested in it.
A census bulletin just issued gives the
following figures of the lumber indus
try in this territory: Number of es-
adjustments, 80; an increase of six
since 1890, four states and territories
having a less number of establish
ments. There are 1921 ,599 capital in
vested in the lumber industry of New
Mexico. The number of men given en-
ployment is $40, who earn $112,597 an
nually The cost of the material used
is S212,5l and the value of the prod
ucts in the year 1900 was SAIL .627. The
average value of machinery in each
establishment is $2,129; the average
product per establishments is $12.6S3
annually; the average number of wage
earners Is IL; the average OF wages
paid in each establishment Is $3,592:
the average product per wage Garner
is $1,2ll, and the average wages per
man are 1882 per year There are
sixteen logging camps in the territory
In which $l24,991 are invested The
total number of men employed in the
logging camps is 317, earning $S7,333
per year and producing 81 ,0SS 900 feet
of logs annually valued at $101 ga,
while the by-pToducts have a value of
SlO3,l5O. The average capital employ
ed in each camp is S7S12. the average
number of wage earners is twenty:
the average amount of wages paid is
S5,45S per year; the average value of
the product per camp is $12.S00. The
average value of the log stumpage Is
Sl14 per 1000 feet and of the sawed
logs Sf.S2 per 900 feet. Yellow pine
is the only kind of lumber produced in
commercial quantities in New Mexico,
according to the census bulletin. here
are thirty-one saw mills in the terri
tory win an invested capital of $780,
1913, employing 243 men, earning $50
S5l per year, whose annual product is
worth S290,5z7. OF mills saving 5O,-
O00 to 100000 feet per year there are
thirteen in New Mexico, of mills saw.
ing 5000 TO ] 100000 feet per year
there are -four; of mills saving ,00O.-
ooo to 5000 ,-OO feet per year there are
fourteen. There are thirteen planning
mills in the territory employing forty
one people who earn $1S,29l annually
ana who produce $75050 worth of ma
tcrial per year. In New Mexico eleven
'oldhllSuiutItS reporting own l,olS,@
$50 acres Of timber land. averaging
only 1900 feet OF lumber per acre, Ok
lahoma alone having less timber per
acre. The total estimated quantity of
timber on this land is 2,319 700, 900 of
feet. New Mexico in 1900 prOuuCed
1000 600 shingles valued at $3.50: p
10000 laths valued at $3.50, 3,G1G
fence posts valued at $500 ! 800 piles
valued at $1,000; 3iO722 railroad ties
valued at SS1 900: Sl7 telegraph poles
valued at $500, S,i4S bushels of char
coal valued at 5000 The New Mexico
lumber industry employees thirty-one
steam engines with a total horse
power of 1,153; one gasoline engine
and one water wheel. There are seven
establishments employing less than
ive persons; twenty employing from
five 10 twenty persons, and five en-
ploying twenty-One to fifty persons.
II seems that in this particular as
well as in other particulars, New Mex
leo has not been done full justice by
the census. This may be due to the
special enumeIatOTs or TO other causes
but it is to be regretted that the coun-
try gets an impression that the lumber
industry OF his territory is lnsignifi-
cant compared with that of adjoining
COmmOnwealths.