Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-07-15

third State In lumber production In 1909.
with total Of 1851, 0l6,UO feet-a de-
crease Of eleven per cent. from the cut
In 1907. Arkansas ranked fourth, with
CSC 011 600 feet-a decrease OF nearly
seventeen per cent. over the previous
years output, and Wisconsin fifth, with
i.6l33l5 feet against 2.o03 219.co0 feet
In 1901. In Texas, where the lumber In
dustrv Is confined almost exclusively TO
yellow pine. tho falling Of was very
heavy. The total cut Of the state In
1908 was 1.524od6, OO0 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. Pennsyl-
vania, Virginia, Alabama, North Caro-
lina and West Virginia. California and
Maine. other states which reported more
than one billion feet each In 1907. went
Just below that figure In 1905 The to-
tails for few States were greater in
1908 than 1907, but this was chiefly due
to the larger number of reports secured
In those States In 1908. In Georgia. for
instance, q particularly close canvass in
creased tho number OF mills reporting
nearly one-third, while the resulting in
crease In reports of total production vas
only six per cent. In Massa chusetts.
s10 mills reported a cut Of 3A,i2fCo feet
In 1908 as compared with n cut Of 3e4-
23l 100 feet by Bis miles in 1907. In Col
orado, "a mills cut 1S2. 02G 0l0 feet in
1878, while in 1907. go mills cut 1874 $50. 400
feet. A particularly large gain In mills
reporting was made in Oklahoma. In
1907, 1920 mills in that State cut 14o.0l5,coo
feet. while in 1905, PA mills cut 15S, go
feet
While there are many very large saw
| mills IN the United States the small
mills far outnumber the large ones and
1t is particularly interesting to note how
many of these small mills there are In
the States which are not now of first
rank In lumber productions The statis-
tics for New York we're collected by the
forest fish. and game commission of
that State. which secured reports from
2.231 mills. In Pennsylvania 2.22i mills
reported 10 the census, and in Virginia
| 1887 mills. In North Carolina reports
came from 174o mills, and In Kentucky
| from 1880 mills. The number of mills
reporting from Tennessee was only forty
less than from Kentucky. In West Nir-
gnia, Georgia. Missouri Ohio. and In
diana between 1000 and 100 mills each
were engaged In cutting lumber last
| year. The average output per mill was
10000 feet in New York. and 100000
feet in Louisiana. these two States pre-
sentinG nearly the extremes Of produc-
ton by small and large mills.
yellow pine, Douglas fir. white pine,
oak hemlock. and spruce. In the order
named. were the woods cut into lumber
IN the largest quantity. yellow pine has
ranked first since It surpassed white
! pine In the later nlneties. and il is still
far in the lead More recently, white
pine has also been superseded by Doug
las fr so that now II occupies fir1
| place
Washington has been the principal
| single producing State since the use Of
red cedar shingles became general. and
Il supplied three-ffths Of the total out
put Of shingles last year. Among tho
other single producing States Mich
igan. Louisiana. Maine. and California
were the most important The shingles
cut In Michigan and Maine are chiefly
Of white cedar, those in Louisiana Of
cypress and those In California. Of red
wood. Lath ar. generally a by-product
Of lumber manufacture. and are made TO
some extent from almost every wood
kinds of lath which are most prominent
are white pine, Douglas Ar. spruce,
yellow pine. cypress and hemlock.