The Prescott daily news., 1908-12-19

the state of Washington ranked first in lumber production in 1907 with 3,7T1 ,6O6.OOO feet though this is a decrea!se Of 12.3 per cent from the production of 1906 due to the causes previous iy given. Louisiana ranked sec Ond as before, with small in- crease while Texas advanced
 from eighth place in 1906 to 3rd place in 1907 this advance being due to a considerable extent to the fact that reports from more than twice as m any mills in that state were secured for 1907 as for 1906. Mississippi ranked 4th as compared with fifth in 1906 while Wisconsin dropped from third to fifth place. The total cut in these five states was over thirteen billion feet or almost one-third of that for the entire United States.
 In 1907 as in previous years yellow pine ranked first in point of production of all kinds of lum- Der, the reported cut for that wood being 13.3 per cent great CT than in 1906 and BPS per cent of the total. The species of yell low pine produced include pitch pine, lOblolly, Cuban pine short leaf pine and lOngleaf pine. Most of the yellow pine cut in Vir- ginia, North Carolina and South Carolina is loblolly pine, or as the bulk of it is known commercially
 North Carolina pine," or "Vir- ginia pine" The principal species cut in Georgia. Florida, Alabama Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas is longleaf pine, which may am ount to as much as 50 per cent of the total, while practically all of the yellow pine cut in Arkan- sas and Missouri is shortleaf pine.
 Reports on yellow pine produc- tion were received from S,3S4 mills in twenty-siX states. A larger number of mills were en- gagged i nthe production of yell low pine lumber than in that of any other wood, with the eXcep- tion of oak. The average yellow pine production per mill in 1907 was 1,576,OOO feet. The total cut reported was 13,215, 1851 OOO feet having a value at the mill of S1S5.319,595 or $14.O2 per thousand feet. This is exactly S1 less per thousand feet in average value than was reported in 1906, the falling off being due to the unfavorable market conditions in the latter part of the year. With the exception of 1906 this fig ure is in excess of that for the average value of any previous year for which complete statis- tics are available. The. average value per thousand feet in 1900 was SS.51, and in 1904 $1OOO.
 Louisiana led in yellow pine production in 1907, though Tex as was close second with a difference of less than 150,OOO,- 900 feet. The center of yellow pine production has removed westward rapidly within the last few years. In 1900 Geor- gia was the leading state With 11.S per cent of the total cut while in 1907 it was ninth, with but 5.7 per cent, the absolute de- crease in the production during these seven years being, nearly 300, 100000 feet. Texas ranked second in 1906 as in 1907, though with but little more than half it's present output, while North Carolina ranked third, and Arkansas fourth, as now. Louis jana attained first rank in 1904, and it's relative proportion of the total output has varied little since that date. The cut of yell low pine in Mississippi has in- creased 76.1 per cent since 1900 while that in Arkansas has in- creased only 12.9 per cent. The increasing importance of Louis jana, T eXas and Mississippi, as producers of yellow pine lumber, is shown by the fact that their combined output equaled 277 per cent of the total cut in 1900, 36.5 per cent in 1904 46 per cent. in 1906, and 47 per cent. in 1907.