Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-25
BIG DECREASE |NLUMbERCUT Production Fell Off IT PeI Cent On Account of Busi-
 ness Depression

WASHINGTON, June 24.-During the year 1908, 31.231 sawmills in the United States manufactured 33,2S9,- S69, 900 feet of lumber, accord ng to a preliminary report just issued by the bureau of census. These mills
 also cut I2,I06.4s3.000 shingles and I 1886, ,6S4,000 lath. Lumber manufact- uring. like every other industry, felt 1 the effects of the business depression which began in October. 1907. Con sequently the production in 1908 was below that for the previous year. In 1907 the cut of 2S.S50 sawmills was 40. .25S, ,154.000 feet, the highest pro duction ever recorded. Notwithstand- ing, therefore, that in 1908 reports were received from 8 per cent more mills than in 1907. the decrease in lumber cut reported by them was slightly over 17 per cent.
 Wash 'ngton, as for several years past, still ranks first among the states in lumber production, it's cut |. in 1908 being 2,915.92s.000 feet-a decrease of 22.S per cent over the cut in 1907. Nearly all the lumber manufactured in Washington is Doug
 las fir, the market for which was seriously affected by the panic. Louis jana ranks second, with 2.722,421 .00O feet. decrease of 250,000,00 feet, or S.4 per cent, over the cut in 1907. Louisiana is first in the production of both yellow pine and cypress. Cy-
 press is particularly useful and valuable wood, and apparently. the manufacturers of it did not suffer as severely from dull times as did the manufacturers of yellow pine and |, Douglas fir.
 Mississippi was the third state in lumber production in 1908, with a total of 1861 .o16 900 feet-a decrease of il per cent from the cut in 1907 Arkansas ranked fourth. with 1.656.- 991 900 feet-a decrease of nearly IT per cent over the previous years out
 put, and Wisconsin fifth. with 1,613.- 315.000 feet, against 2,O03, ,279 900 feet in 1907. In Texas. where the lumber industry is confined almost exclu sively 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 31.6 per cent over the cut in 1907.
 Eight other states manufactured more than one billion feet each of lumber last year. Tn the order of i'm portance they were: Michigan, Ore gon, Minnesota. Pennsylvania, vIr- gSnia, 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 fin 1908 In Georgia, for instance, a par ticularly close canvass increased the number of mills reporting nearly one third. while the result t'ng increase fin reports of total production was only 6 per cent. In Massachusetts. 61O mills reported cut of 3S4 4.526. 900 feet in 1908. as compared with a cut Of 364.2 .231 .000 feet by SIS mills in 1907. In Colorado. 254 mills cut 1s2.- O36.000 feet in 1908, while in 1907, 230 Ills cut 134239, 900 feet. par ticularly large gain in mills report. ing was made in Oklahoma. In 1907. 129 mills in that state cut 140,Of5.0 900 feet. while in 1908. 214 mills cut 15s.. 756.000 feet.