The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-26
Is|OU'THERN.LUMBER
GUT IN TWO YEARS.
Nearly Half the Supply Of the
Country Comes from South
crn Forests.
ALL KNOWN TlMBERs HERE
Virginia Stands in the Front Line
Among the Lumber Pro-
ducing States.

BALTIMORE, Md, July 2o.-Ihe
Manufacturers Record has compiled
some very interesting figures concern
II ing the lumber interests Of the coun-
try, especially OF the South, from which
It ppears that lumber was cut In IN G
Y South In 1907 to the extent of l9+3oS.-
s zgS3,000 feet. an increase over the cut
in 1905 OF 3,Oi2,6o2,o0O feet, or 1874
\ per cent. In the rest of the country
the 1907 cut was 20.952.1710oQ feet, a
decrease under the cut of 1906 OF SVt
$4,000, or IA per cent. There was TINS
decrease in the rest of the country, ~
spite OF the fact that the rest OF the
country cut 7.430,46O,0 900 feet of lumber
not cut in the South, viz: Dorglas mr..
4.74S.S72, 900; Western pine, 1,b26.ll6,-
900: redwood, 56o,45O000; larch. Pill
O76,0oo; white fir, 146.50S.000; sugar
pine 115.0o5.0oo. and tamarack. llS.-
433 900. In 1907 the South cut 49, per
cent OF the total 40,o56,154,o 900 cut IN
the whole country.
The South Leads.
What appears to be an accurate Ia.
BILE, showing the cut by States IN lsoo
and 1907, gives fourteen Southern states
product last year of nearly ao,Vvv'a
!, 600. 900 feet which was about hair the
cut of the United States, and an IN 4
crease over 1906 of little more thani
5000. 100000 feet.
There was an Increase of production
in all the Southern States except floi-
ida and Maryland. OF the total cut IN
the country. yellow pine amounted 70
13.215lS5.O0 900 feet, or 1928 per cent. and
OF the yellow pine the South cut l2.9oa'-
So2s.o0O feet, or 97.9 per cent. me -.
south cut too, 97.1 per cent. or e6,
$4,000. of the total 6s.S42oo0 feet OF
eupelo; 96.1 per cent, or 7S2.592,00V, OF
ire ~. 500 900 feet of cypress: S6.2 per
cent. or T466S2,0o0, of the S65, wv
Meet Of poplar: 79,23pers cent. or e49,,,
3Te2. 900. of the ss9,2O0.00o feet OF req
gum; ISIS per cent. or 229,O3I oVV, o 90
the 2eo.574.0o feet of COTTONWOOD: ."
per cent, or 2.345,2s9.o0o. of the 500
100000 feet of oak; ISL per cent, =.
E1is,o24.ooo.l OF the 203,211,OoO feet OF
hickory. and 56.4 per cent, or $685. 4V,-
900. Of the 65s,239.o00 feet of chestnut
All Kinds of Timber.
Every Southern state cut yellow
pine. oak, red gum, cottonwood ash
and hickory. Poplar was cut in every
ore except Texas. cypress in every one
except West Virginia, and elm in every
one except Florida. Eastwood was
cut in every one except Florida. South
Cyrolina and Texas; walnut In every
one except Florida. Louisiana and
South Carolina; maple in every one
except Alabama. Florida, Louisiana
and Texas; chestnut in every one eX-
cept Arkansas, Florida. Louisiana and
Texas; tupelo in every one except
Kentucky. Maryland. Tennessee and
Z West Virginia; sycamore in every one
& except Alabama, Florida, Georgia and
Texas, and beech IN every one except
Alabama, Florida. Louisiana. South
Carolina aud Texas. The Southern
States cutting white pine were Ala
hama, Georgia, Kentucky. Maryland,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
and West Virginia; hemlock, Georgia.,
Kentucky. Maryland, North Carolina.
Tennessee, Virginia and West Vir-
GINA: spruce, Kentucky. MARYLAND,
North Carolina. Tennessee, Virginia
and West Virginia.; birch, Kentucky,
Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Virginia and West Virginia. and cedar.
al abana. Florida. Kentucky, North
Carolina. Tennessee and Virginia.
81 Louisiana led the States of the coun-
try in the cut of yellow pinc-2.345,-
3912,o0o feet: West Virginia in the cut
Sof oak-46s6O2, 900 feet: Kentucky in
the cut of poplar--2o5.671,oO 900 feet;
= Louisiana in the cut of cypress--509,-
l6s5.ooo feet: Arkansas In the cut OF
red gum-23s.92; .ono 'feet; Mississippi
lin the cut of cottonwood--S9,1 $4,000
feet; Arkansas in the cut OF hickory
t30,446.o0o feet, and North Carolina in
the cut OF tVpelo-lo,664.O0o feet.