Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1902-07-19
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 10
employs quite number OF men and
considerable capital Is invested in IL.
\ census bulletin just issued gives the
following figures of the lumber indus
try in this territory: Number OF IS
Establishments, 80; an increase of six
since 1890. four states and territories
having less number of establish
ments. There are 1921 .59g capital in.
vested In the lumber industry of New
Mexico. The number of men given EN-.
plovment is $40, who earn $ll2.591 an
nually. The cost of the material used
is s2l2.5I and the value OF the prod
uCta In the year 1900 was Sil1.627. The
average value of machinery in each
establishment is S2.l29; the average
product per establishments Is si2.6ss
annually; the average number of wage
earners rs IL the average of wages
paid in each establishment is s3.592:
the average product per wage Garner
Is sl.2ll. and the average wages per
man are 1892 per year There are
sixteen logsing camps IN the territory
in which $12i9 are invested The
total number of men employed In the
logging camps Is 3l7, earning SS7 1888
per year and producing II .0SS 900 feet
of logs annually valued at slG1 .64i,
while the hy-prCJucts have a value of
Slo3.l5O. The average capital employ
ed In each camp Is S7,Sl2. the average
number OF wage earncrs is twenty.
the average amount of wages paid Is
S5i5S per year; the average value Of
the product per camp is SIP 500. The
average value of the log stumpage is
sl14 per |, 900 fee. and of the sawed
logs SiS2 per 900 feet yellow pine
is the only kind OF lumber produced in
commercial quantities in New Mexico,
according to the census bulletin mere
are thirty-One saw mills in the terri
tory wItn an invested capital of Sl6O,.
1913, employing 2i3 men. earning $50.
sol per year. whose annual product is
worth S2JO.5-7 OF mills saving 50.
600 to 800 600 feet per year there are
thirteen in New Mexico, of mills saw.
ing 500 600 to l.OOO uGe feet per year
there are four. of mills saving 600 =
900 to 5000 100 feet per year there are
fourteen. There are thirteen planning
mills in the territory employing forty.
one people who earn 1921 annually
ana who produce s75.05O worth of ma
terial per year. In New mexico eleven
establishments reporting, own ISIS.
$50 acres OF timber land averaging
only | 800 feet of lumber per acre. Ok
lahoma alone having less timber per
acre. The total estimated quantity OF
timber On this land is 2.3l9. 700. 900 of
feet NV Mexico in 1900 prouuced
1000 600 shingles valued at $3.50 9.
$500 laths valued at $3.50, 3,6lG
fence posts valued at $3.50: | 800 piles
valued at 81 800 3i0.722 railroad ties
valued at sS1 800; SIT telegraph poles
valued at $500; S,4iS bushels OF char
coal valued at 5000. The New Mexico
lumber industry employees thirty-one
steam engines with a total horse
power of 1883; one gasoline engine
and one water wheel There are seven
establishments employing less than
fvc persons; twenty employing from
five to twenty persons, and five EN-
ploying twenty-one TO fifty persons
It seems that in this particular as
well as in other particulars, New Mex
leo has not been done full justice 10y
the census. This may be due to the
special enumerators or to other causes
but 1t Is TO he regretted that the coun
try gets an impression that the lumber
industry of his territory is insignit
cant compared with that of adjoining
commemorative