The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1909-11-27
LOUISIANA SECOND IN
LUMBER PRODUCTION.

AVVuOsN s~sss
Washington. Nov Washing
ton, Lonisia'ta, Mississippi, A.
kansas. ANA WISCONSIN, in ,hc o..
l.i named, constitute The Big
Five in producing he eenhit, =
lumber supply whose valuation foi
laat year runs far above he halt
billion dollar mark. Texas. Mich
igan, Oregon, MINES aud
Pennsylvania came after The frat
five states and others followed in
decreasing amounts down I. l1tah
the lowest on the list, with Neva
da aud North Dakota, having Ii .
tic timl cred area, not rated nj al
While he total v'Inpton Of The
lumber, hath, and shlngle pioduc.
ton reached s5il 5l5.GiO, this
amount represents u decrease OF
wentl three per cent under tho
previoUao years's output. The
number ~ mills reporting was jl,.
Isl and those manufactured 33,
o.i. 800, 900 Hoprd feet Of lumber,
valued at 500, 57h, So aud 2,9sG
ISL 900 hath valued at SG. 19i ,32s.
while the shingle makers turncd
ont II, lO6, iS3, 900 shingles valued
at S2i, l7S, 1910 The average value
Of lumber ut tho point OF manu-.
facture was 1885, u thousand
leet. 42 - u thousand for hath and
-. 90 u thousand for shingles.
Yellow pine of tho South which
aas been far in the lead in the
lrnber production for me . than
IA decade, more than maintained
its supremacy last year, cortribut.
ing slightly more than thirty three
per cent Of the total cut from all
9iLds. Douglass .lr Of the North.
west ranked second and white
pine third. Practically all kinds
showed a marked decreased cut,
and for The first three kinds Of
timber tle,e was u falling off Of a.
teen, twenty-five and twenty per
cent, respectively. Oak and hem.
lock maintained their relative
ranks but showed decreases Of
twenty-five per cent each il
produced, and spruce
dropped eighteen per cent.
Louisiana was the heaviest pro.
Queer Of yellow pine lumber, sup.
plying nearly one.hfth of the total
production. Texas, Mississippi,
Arkansas, and Alabama followed
In the order named. The state Of
Washington, alone, supplied more
than three iifths Of the Douglass
FIR cut, &hile the bulk of the 70.
came from Oregon. Min.
nesota produced about u third Of
The white pine, followed by Wis
consin with about fifteen per cent
and New Hampshire with ten per
cent. An interesting feature Of
Tue report Is that two New Eng
land states, Maine and Massachu.
sets, produced more white pine
than Michigan, which for many
} ears led the country in producing
this valuable timber.
Oak lumber manufacture now
centers In Kentucky, West vir.
ginia aud Tennessee. Wisconsin
comes first In the production Of
hemlock, taking the position held
by Pennsylvania for 40 many
years. Altogether the lumber re-.
port bulletin, which il free, by the
way, contains fifty seven pages,
end gives detailed figures upon
the quality and value of forty.
i've kinds Of lumber manufactured:
IN the United States last year.
The work on 1t was conducted un
der tue supervision Of a committee
Of four, consisting Of w. M. Stou.
art, chief statistician for ,nanufau.
lures aud J. Il. Wholchol, expert
chief Of division, representing the
Fureau Of the Census, and Il. s..
kellogg, assistant fol ester and A.
II. Pierson, forest assistant, rep.
'-'scnting the United States For