The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-07-02
MILLS FEEL EFFECT OF PANIC.
Lumber Cut of the United States in
1908 shows Decrease.

Washington. July During the
year 1908 the 1921 sawmills in
the United States manufactured 3d.
'2S9,369,000 feet Of lumber, accord
ing to a preliminary report just is
sued by the bureau of the census.
These mills also cut 2,106.4S3, 900
shingles and 2,9S6,6S4000 lath.
Lumber manufacturing like every
other industry, felt the effects of the
business depression which began in
October, 1907. Consequently the
production in 1908 was below that
for the previous year, In 1907 the
cut of 28,S5O sawmills was 0,256,-
$4,000 feet, the highest production
ever recorded. Notwithstanding
therefore, that in 1908 reports We're
received from eight per cent more
mills than in 1907, the decrease in
lumber cut reported by them was
slightly over seventeen per cent.
Washington, as for several years
past, still ranks first among the
states in lumber production, its cut
in 1908 being 2.915.92S, 900 feet-a
decrease. of 22.S per cent over the
cut in 1907. Nearly all the lumber
manufactured in Washington is
Douglas fir, the market for which
was seriously affected by the panic.
Louisiana ranks second, with p
722,421,00O feet, a decrease of 25O,-
600, 900 feet or S.4 per cent over the
cut in 1907. Louisiana is first in the
production of both yellow pine ana
cypress. Cypress is a particularly use
full and valuable wood, and apparent
". the manufacturers of 1t did not
suffer as severely from duh times as
did the manufacturers OF yellow pine
and Douglas fir. Mississippi was the
third state in lumber production IN
1903. with a total of ,S61 OF 5000
feet-a decrease of eleven per cent
from the cut in 1907. Arkansas rank
ed fourth, with .656,99l 900 feet
a decrease of nearly seventeen per
cent over the previous years output,
and Wisconsin fifth, with l,6 80 o.
OOe feet against zoos 279, 600 feet
in 1907 In Texas, where the lumber
industry is confined almost exclusive
ly to yellow pine, the falling off was
very heavy. The total cut of the
state in 1898 was l,524,00S,0o0
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.
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 bill
lion feet each in 1907, went just be-
low that figure in 1908. The totals
for 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 canvass increased the number
of mills reporting nearly one-third
while the resulting increase in re-
ports Of total production was only
six per cent In Massachusetts, GIG
mills reported a cut of 3S4 ,526, 00O
feet in 1905 as compared with cut
of 364,231 GOO feet by SIS mills in
1907. In Colorado. Pa mills cut 1872
036,000 feet in 1908, while in 1907
230 mills cut 1874 ,239, 600 feet. A
particularly large gain in mills re-
porting was made in Oklahoma, In
1907, 1923 mills in that state cut 40
i015.000 feet, while in 1908, PA
mills cut 15S,756.0O0 feet
While there are many very large
sawmills in the United States, the
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