The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1909-11-25
LUMBER OUTFIT
IN FIVE ST TES'
Is Shown to Be Worth More
Thana Half Billion Dol
lars to Them.

WaA5HINGToN. Nov. 2s.A.wash-
ipsten. Louisiana. Mississippi, Arkan-
sas, and wisconsin, In the order
named. constitute the Big Five In pro-
dlicing the country's lumber supply
whose valuation for last year runs far
pbove the hair sbiiloih; dollar mark.
Texas. fMichigani, Oregon, Minnesota
and PeHHsylyania came after the first
I'VE stateE and others followed In de.
creasifig amounts down TO Utah, the
lowest on the list, with Nevada and
North Dakota, having little timbered
area, not rated. at all.
While the total valuation OF the
lumber. lath. and single production
reached s541.545,64o. this amount
represents a-d decrease of twenty-three
per cent under the previous years out
put. The number OF mills reporting
was sf,231 and those manufactured
Ss,244,s69, 900 board feet of lumber.
valued ut $510,575.S2 and 2,oS6. es4.-
600 lath valued at sS,7e1,3 1923, while
tho shinglc n1nliers turned out a.
1ossts5ooo Shingles svaIusd, at s24,-
i7Sifeg. The gycfage value of lum-
hSr at the point 81 manufacture was
si5.s7 y thousand feet, s2.27 a thous-
andsTor hath and So 90 a i thousand for
shingles.
Yellow pipe.of the South which has
been far in the lead in the lumber
production fol. moro: than, a, decade,
more than maintained its supremacy
last year, contributing slightly more
than thirty-three per cent. of the to-
tai cut from all kinds. Douglas fir of
the Northwest ranked second and
white pine third. Practically al kinds
showed n marked decreased. cut, and
for the first three kinds of timber
there was falling on OF fifteen. twen-
ty-two and twenty per cent. respec-
stlvely. Oak aud hemlock maintained
their relative ranks 5but showed de-
creasessof twenty-five. per cent. each
In amount produced, and spruce drop
ped eighteen per cent.
Louisiana was the heaviest produce
or ofsSellow, pine lumber, supplying
nearly oae-iifth of the total produc-
ton Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas
and Alabama followed; in. the order
named. The state Of Washington,
alone, supplied more than ithreezifth
of the Douglas FIR eutt@whiie the bulk
OF the remainder came from oregon.
Minliesota produced about. a third of
the white sHine, Followed Wy; Wisconsin
with about fifteen per cent and New
Hampshire With ten per cent. Amin
tcresting feilt,,re sols the report is that
two New England states, Maine and
Massachusetts, produced more white
pine than Afichigan. which. for many
years led the country in producing
this valuable timber.
Oak lumber manufactured, now CEN
tiers in Kentucky. West Virginia and
Tennessee. Wisconsin comes first In
the production of .hemlock. taking the
pcsitionlheld by Pennsylvania for so
many years. Altogether the lumber
report bulletin. which is free, by the
way. contains fifty-seyen pages, and
gives detailed figures upon the quail
ty and value of forty-five kinds OF
lumber manufactured in the United
States last year. The work on 1t was
conducted under the supervision of a
committee of four, consisting of w. NJ.
steuart, chief statistician for manu-
features and. j.. e. Whelchel. expert
chief Of division, representing the
Bureau of the Census, and II. S. Kel-
logg, assistant forester, and A. II.