Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-12-26
Lumber Production
of Northwest
States.

Az In the two previous years, Wash
ington ranked first in lumber produc
Esn in 1907 with 3,777 100000 feet, ac-
,fording to a bulletin Of the department
~ commerce and labor just issued I'M
der the caption of ''The Lumber Cut of
tho United States for 1907
Although leading the nation, Wash
ingtsn cut was decrease of 1873 per
cent from the production in 1906, due,
according to the department s conclu
aons, to a car shortage, the panic and
The attempt by the transcontinental
railroads to increase freight rates.
Louisiana ranked second for the
year, as before, with a small increase,
while Texas advanced from eighth
place in 1906 to third place in 1907,
this advance being due to a consider
able extent to the fact that reports
from more than twice as many mills
in that state were secured for 1907 as
fer 1906. Mississippi ranked fourth
as compared with fifth for the previous
year, while Wisconsin dropped from
third to fifth place. The total cut in
these five states was over $4,000, 000,-
eco feet, or almost one-third of that
of the entire United States. These
states are also the only ones reporting
a product in excess of 2,000,000,0 900 feet
sach. Arkansas stood sixth, as in the
preceding year, while Michigan dropped
from fourth place in 1906 to seventh
place in 1907. This is the first
time in almost 40 years that an annual
cut of less than 1000, 100000 feet has
been reported from Michigan.
Notwithstanding an increase of near
W rs per cent in the number of reports
received from the lake states (Minne-
ssta, Wisconsin and Michigan) in 1907,
the decrease in the reported cut was
III per cent This emphasizes strongly
NE constantly decreasing lumber pro-
duetiou of the region, due to the ex.
hsustion of the white pine supply There
was a falling off even in Minnesota,
which now contains the largest amount
of standing white pine timber.
In 1907, as in previous years, yellow
pine ranked first in point of produc-
zion, the reported cut of that wood be-
ing 1873 per cent greater than in 1906
aud constituting 1928 per cent of the
total Douglas fir ranked second, as in
the two preceding years, although it
showed a small decrease over the cut
of 1906, due to adverse conditions in
tho producing territory. White pine,
although showing decrease of S.5 per
cent over the cut of the preceding
year, ranked third, while oak displaced
hemlock from fourth place. There
was a marked increase in the reported
production of oak, due to the much
greater number of reports received
from small hardwood mills, while
there was a slight falling off in hem
lock Spruce and western pine showed
considerable increases.
These seven woods, of which over a
billion feet each were cut in 1907,
yielded 32h billion feet of lumber, or
four-fifths of the entire cut. Among
the woods manufactured in smaller
Quantities, particularly heavy increases
are shown for yellow poplar, red gum,
chestnut and beech, which are un.
doubtedly due, as in the case of oak,
to the larger number of reports from
the smaller mills. The softwoods as a
group furnished 31,001 1850 feet of
lumber, or IT per cent of the total
and the hardwoods 9,254 ,92e, 900 feet
OF 30 per cent of the total.
Nearly two-thirds of the Douglas fiji
lumber manufactured in 1907 was cut
in the state of Washington. Oregon
reported 29.1 per cent of the total
while the remainder came from Cali
fornia, with small quantities from the
Rocky mountain states. The total
quantity reported for 1907 was 4,74S,
s72, 900 feet, valued at $67 ,047 ,181, ar
average of $14.12 per 1000 feet. This
average was a little less than that re
ported for 1906, which was $14.20, but
much greater than the values reported
for 1900 and 1904, which were 1897 and
1881, respectively. Many large mills
are operating exclusively upon Doug
las fr The average output per mil
u 90