The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-23
FIGURES STORY
ABOUT FORESTS
Interesting Statistics Are Pre-
pared of Lumber Now
Being Cut.
DECREASE is APPARENT,
EVERY SOUTHERN STATE CUT
YELLOW PINE-LOUISIANA LED
STATES OF COUNTRY IN CUT OF
THIS SPECIES.

Baltimore, Aug. 22-The Manufac-
turers' Record has compiled some very
interesting figures concerning the lum-
Der interests of the country, especial
ly of the South, from which it appears
that lumber was cut in the South in
1907 to the extent of 19,3O3, 9S3 900
feet or 1874 per cent. In the rest of
the country the 1907 cut was 2O,952,-
III GOO feet a decrease under the cut
of 1906 of 307 1874 600, or IA per cent
There was this decrease in the rest of
the country, in spite of the fact that
the rest of the country cut 7,43O, 46O,-
600 feet of lumber not cut in the
south, viz: Douglas fir, 4,74S, S72 900;
western pine. 1,526, 16. 900; redwood.
$50, 45o,O 900; larch, 211 ,O76,OOO; white
fir. 146 .5oS,O0o: sugar pine, 115,OO5,-
600, and tamarack, 113, $4,000. In
1907 the South cut 47.9 per cent of the
total 4O,2o6, 154 900 cut in the whole
country.
What appears to be an accurate ia
BILE, showing the cut by states in 1906
and 1907, gives fourteen southern
states product last year of nearly
10000. 100000 feet, which was about
half the cut of the United States. and
an increase over 1906 of a little more
than 5000, 100000 feet.
There was an increase of produc-
ton in all the Southern states except
Florida and Maryland. OF the total
cut in the country, yellow pine
amounted to 1926 $4,000 feet, or
1913 per cent. and of the yellow pine
the South cut 12,9O3. $4,000 feet, or
97.9 per cent. The South cut. too,
OIL per cent, or $685., 900, of the to-
tai 6S,s42, 900 feet of eupelo: a61 per
cent, or 1872 .592. 900 of the 757 $3.50. 900
feet of cypress; So per cent or 746,-
$4,000 of the 500 $50. 600 feet of pop
lar: 1872 per cent, or 545, 1872 900 of the
$50, 100000 feet of red gum; 1873 per
cent. or 229.O37 900 of the 29O574 900
feet of cottonwood; IS per cent, or p
345, $780, 900, of the 3,71S, 100000 feet of
the 2O3, 211 600 feet of hickory, and
56,4 per cent, or SOS. 100000 of the
653 ,o39, 900 feet of chestnut.
T All Kinds of Timber.
Every Southern state cut yellow pine
oak. red gum, cottonwood, ash and
hickory. Poplar was cut in every one
except Texas, cypress in every one ex-
cept West Virginia and elm in every
one except Florida. Eastwood was
cut in every one except Florida, South
Carolina and Texas; walnut in every
one except Florida, Louisiana and
South Carolina: maple in everyone ex-
cept Alabama, Florida Louisiana and
Texas; chestnut in every one except
Arkansas, Florida. Louisiana and Tex
as; tupelo in every on except Kentucky
Maryland, Tennessee and West Vir-
ginia: sycamore in every one except
Alabama. Florida, Georgia and Texas
and beech in every one except Ala
bama, Florida. Louisiana. South Car
DINA and Texas. The Southern
states cutting white pine were Ala
bama, Georgia. Kentucky, Maryland.
North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
and West Virginia: hemlock, Georgia,
Kentucky. Maryland. North Carolina.
Tennessee, Virginia and West yir-
ginia: spruce, Kentucky. Maryland,
North Carolina. Tennessee, Virginia
and West Virginia: birch, Kentucky
Maryland. North Carolina, Tennessee,
Virginia and West Virginia. and cedar
Alabama. Florida, Kentucky. North
Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
| Louisiana led the states of the coun-
try in the cut of yellow pine, 3I5..
$4,000 feet; West Virginia in the cut
of oak-466, Coz goo feet: Kentucky in
the cut of poplar-2o5.671. 900 feet;
Louisiana in the cut of cypress D.
665.gGo feet: Arkansas in the cut OF
red gum-o3s. 100000 feet: Mississippi
in the cut of cottonwood-Sa.14 5. COG
feet. and North Carolina in the cut OF
eupelo-16.664. 600 feet