Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-09
OURLUMBEROUTPUT
STATEMENT BY UNCLE SAM
ABOUT HIS LUMBER, LATH,
AND SHINGLES.
ACCORDING TO 1912 CENSUS REPORT
The 28,1O7 Mills Produced Over 81
003,207 M Feet Board Measure
Less Than Previous Year
Yellow Pine Cut Mostly.

Washington, D. CA preliminary
statement of the output of lumber, Iath
and shingles in the United States dur
ing the calendar years 1011, 1910, 1909
and 1908 was issued this week by Cen
sus Director e. Dana Durand 1t was
prepared under the direction of Will
liam M. Stuart, chief statistician for
manufactures, by Jasper E. Whelchel
The data were collected in cooperation
with the Forest Service of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, and form one of a
series of annual reports regarding the
lumber and timber industries.
The reported production of lumber
in the United States during the calen-
dar year 1911 by 2S,107 mills, was
37003,207 NJ feet board measure, as
against 40,01S,2S2 NJ feet board meas
ure reported by 1884 mills in 1910;
44,509,761 M feet reported by 4S,112
mills in 1909, and 33,224,369 M feet
reported by 81, 231 mills in 1908. The
figures for the four years covered by
the showing are substantially compar-
the year 1909. The information COW
ering this year was collected by special
agents of the Census Office in connec-
ton with the regular Quinquennial
Census of Manufactures, and hence
covered, theoretically, every lumber
producing establishment which was in
operation during the whole or any part
OF that year. The data for 1911, 1910,
and 1908 were gathered by correspond
ence, and while including the cut OF
practically all of the larger or COM
mercial plants for these three years,
do not cover the operations of many
of the neighborhood or custom mills. 1t
shuld be pointed out, furthermore, that
the totals for 1911 and 1910 do not
include the output of any mill which
reported product of less than 80 NJ
feet during these years. Returns for
about 4,500 mills of this character
were secured in both 1911 and 1910
but omitted from the tabulations. The
decreases in 1911 as compared with
1910 of about 1000 mills and three bill
lion feet board measure of lumber
were doubtless due in part to a delay
of about two months in mailing the
schedule cards to the manufacturers
in 1912.
Leading States and Centers.
While the industry OF lumber manu-
facture is widely distributed through
out the United States, a production
during the calendar year 1911 having
tod tnfn h11t
one, namely, North Dakota-it is in
teresting to note that nearly SO pei
cent of the total cut was reported from
the five states of Washington, Louisi
ana, Mississippi, Oregon, and Nortf
Carolina ranking in the order named
Furthermore, it will be observed thai
two of these five states are located
on the Pacific Coast and three in the
south, which regions have in recon
years become the principal centers o
lumber production in the United
States, their combined output in 1911
forming 6S per cent of the total Gu
for that year.
Softwoods and HardWoods.
The reported cut of softwood lumbe
in 1911 was 2S,3SS M feet board meas
ure, or 1871 per cent of the production
from all woods, while that of hard
wood lumber amounted to S,1O0,S19 N
feet board measure, or 21.9 per cent
The slightly larger proportion of tn
total production supplied by softwood
during 1911 as compared with tn
figures for the preceding year is
logical result of the drift in the lun
Der industry to regions which ar
chiefly coniferous or softwood.
The five leading species cut in 191
were yellow pine, Douglas fir, whit
pine, oak, and hemlock, ranking in tn
order named, the aggregate outpu
from these woods being 26,S35,2S5 n
feet or 72.5 per cent of the total pre-
duction from all species. Yellow pin
alone supplied 12,S96,706 M feet boar
measure, or 34.9 per cent of the tota
while oak, the leading hardwood, cor
tributed 3,O9S,444 M feet, or ga pc