The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-01
81 Western State Ranks First In the:
Union in the Prcducticn Of
Lumber, Which 10 Great
industry.
LUMBER CUT IN 1908
Report Of Bureau o. Census Shows
That During 1908, st,2s1 saw
Mills In United tsates
Were Active.

During the year 1908, a.
7s1 saw mills In the Unit
ed States manufactured 3d.
ssS,S6s0OO feet Of lumber, according
10 q preliminary report just issued by
the Bureau OF the Census. These
mills also cut IL, 106, 4SS,O00 shingles
and 2,986, 6S4 900 latin. Lumber man.
ufacturing like every other industry,
ielt the effects ct the business de-
preston which began In October,
1907. Consequently the production in
1908 was below that for the previous
year. In 1907 the cut OF 28,850 saw
mills was 40,258,154 900 feet, the
highest production ever recorded. Not
withstanding, therefore, that in 1908
reports were received from eight per
cent more mills than in 1907, the de-
crease In lumber cut reported by
them was slightly over seventeen per
cent.
Washington at Top.
Washington, as for several years
past, still ranks first among the
states In lumber production, It's cut
In 1908 being $4,000 feet-a de-
crease OF 22.S per cent over the cut
in 1907. Nearly all the lumber man
ufactured In washington is Douglas
fir, the market for which was serious
Nv affected by the panic. Louisiana
ranks second, with 2,722,421 900 feet,
q decrease Of 250,00O,0 900 feet or 8.4
per cent over the cut in 1902. Louis
lana is first in the production Of both
yellow pine and cypress. Cypress Is
d particularly useful and valuable
wood, and apparently. the manufact-
urers Of 1t did not suffer as severely
from dull times as did the manufact-
trers OF yellow pine and Douglass mr..
mississippi was the third state In
lumber production In 1908. with =
total of 1851 ,O16 900 feet-a decrease
Of eleven per cent from the cut in
1907 Arkansas ranked fourth, with
I ,656, 991 900 feet-a decrease OF near
IL seventeen per cent over the pre-
yious years output, and Wisconsin
nth, with 1,613,s15,000 feet against D.
0OS, 279, 900 feet in 1907. In Texas,
where the lumber industry is con-
fined almost exclusively to yellow
pine, the falling of was very heavy.
The total cut Of the state In 1908 was
1,524,0O8, 900 feet-a decrease OF BIG
per cent over the cut in 1907. Eight
other states manufactured more than
one billion feet each Of lumber last
year. In the order Of Importance they
were: Michigan. Oregon, Minnesota,
Pennsylvania, Virginia, Alabama,
North Carolina, and West Virginia.
California and Maine, other states
which reported more than one billion
feet each in 1907, went just below
that figure in 1908. The totals for a
few states were greater In 1908 than
IN 1907, but this was chiefly due to
the larger number of reports secured
in those states in 1908. In Georgia
for instance, a particularly close can
vass increased the number OF mills
reporting nearly one-third, while the
resulting Increase in reports OF total
production was only six per cent. In
Massachusetts,, 610 mills reported
cut Of SS4,526.000 feet in 1908 as com
pared with cut of 1854 ,231,000 feet by
sis mills In 1907. In Colorado, 254
mills cut 1S2,036,000 feet in 1908