The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-07-30
Wood Used by Manufacturers
How the Lumber of This County Is Utilized in Manufacturing
Industries.
@TATISTICS have been compiled by

the first time precisely how the
lumber produced in the country is util-
ized. About As billion feet Of lumber
of all kinds is the annual production
in the United States; of this nearly 25
billion feet, board measure, are further
manufactured, the other portion remain
Ing for rough construction lumber and
for similar purposes. This is exclusive
of material which reaches its final use
in the form of fuel, railroad ties, pests,
poles, pulpwood, cooperage, wood dis
tillates, and the barks and extracts de-
manded by the tanning industry.
The work of collecting and compiling
the figures extended over considerable
period and was carried out state by
state; but as one full year was made
the basis of statistics in each state, the
total is fair average of the use Of lum-
Der in further mnufacture in the whole
country. Between so and 60 per cent
of the lumber produced is subject 10
further manufacture. In preparing the
figures in this way, however, it should
be remembered that considerable ma
terial reaches shops and factories in the
form of logs, bolts and billets without
having passed through sawmills, and
while this material is included in these
statistics this fact should be remem'
bered in comparing statistics with those
of lumber production.
Nearly or quite 100 different woods
are used in this country under their
own names, while an unknown number
find their way to shops and factories
without being identified or separately
listed, except under general names. ln
quantity the softwceds, the needlc-leaf
or coniferous trees, are most important,
but there is a greater number Of species
among the hardwoods, or brosdleaf
trees. Yellow pine comes first with
more than 8 billion feet, followed by
white pine with 3 billion, and Douglas
fir with little more than Q billion. 1t
should be understood, however, that the
term "yellow pine" includes seye-al
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which are longleaf shortleaf and lob
lolly. Oak, including all species, has
nearly billion feet, and is the most i'm
portant hardwood. Mape comes next.
Dogwood comes abtut halfway down
the list with more than 7 million board
feet, and of those species meutioned
Turkish lockwood comes last, with less
than 80 thousand feet, followed by
many others too Insignificant to list
but making total of all kinds of more
than a million feet. Of the native
species, laurel, holly and yucca fal
very near the foot of the list in relatiy'
quantities used.
Fifty-fiv principal industries u.s.
wood as raw material Their RELATIVE
importance is hard to indicate, becaus'
quantity alone is not in all cases
criterion of vlue of an industry to tn
community in which it is situated, no
to the country as whole.
More than one-half Of the total con
sumption consists of planning mill pre-
ducts, the largest items of which ar
flooring, siding, ceiling and finishing
The next industry, in point Of quantit
of wood used, is the manufacture o
boxes and crates. Nearly four times a
much wood is demanded by makers o
boxes and crates as by the builders O
steam and electric cars, which com
next, and five fold the amount tina
goes into furniture, which in turn lead
vehicle manufacture. Vehicles deman
surprisingly large supplies of wood, an
much of it must be Of high class
order to meet requirements for frame
gears and bodies.
Chairs, listed separately from fusn
ture, come after novelties and supple
for dairymen, poultry keepers and apia
lists, and just before handles, and mus
cal instruments. About midway dow
the list come pumps and wood pipe
Among the products important enoue
to list separately are canes and III
brella sticks, brooms, firearms, artifici
limbs and tobacco pipes.
The aportionment Of wood among Il
various industries, grades from planil
mill products, which take most, dov
TO aeroplanes and dry kilns, at the bt