Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-24
STATISTICS ON LUMBER
FROM FOREST SERVICE
Annual Production in United States
Is Placed at Forty-Five
Billion Feet.
Twenty-Five Billion Feet Of Ma.
terial Used In Manufactures.
Forms Of Consumption.

statistics have been complied nv thu
| Forest service which show for the trs,
time precisely how the lumber produced
| IN the country is utilized. About 4s.Ns-
"s.'n feet of lumber OF all kinds is IN.
| annual production IN the United States.
| OF this nearly $1,000. nOnooO feet. board
| measure. are further manufactured. the
other portion remaining for rough con-
| struction lumber and for similar pur-
| poses. This is exclusive Of material
which reaches its final use in thu form
OF fuel. railroad ties. posts. poles, PUN
wood. cooperaRe, wood dfstfIlatea ana
the banks and extracts demanded BY thu
| tanning industry
The work of collecting and eon,,,,,,
ene neures extended over a considerable
| period, and was carried out state hy
| state out. as one full year was made this
OASIS OF statistics in each state. the total
is regarded as a fair average Of the use
Of lumber in further manufacture in the
whole country.
Logs, Bolts and Bfllets.
Between 50 and 20 per cent Of m.
lumber produced lie subject to f,,rthe,
manufacture As to the figures prepared
in this way. however. It is pointed o,,t
that considerable material reaches sbops
/ and factories in the form of logs. bolts
| and billets. without having passed
through sawmills. and while this ma.
| terial ia included in these statistics this
| fact is to be remembered in comparing
statistics with those of lumber produc.
| ton.
Nearly or quite 100 different woods ar.
| used in this country under their own
l NH G,A
their way to shops and factories without
| being identified or separately listed. ex.
| cept under general names. In quantity
| the softwoods. the needle-leaf or conf
erous trees, are most important but
| there is a greater number of species
| among the hardwoods. or hroadleaf trees
| Yellow pine comes first with more than
! S0o0.OO0.OOo feet, followed by white pins
| with 3,Ooo.OO0,00o and Douglas Air with
| a little more than 1000 600 600 1t should
be understood. however, that the term
| yellow pine" includes several species.
| the three most important of which are
longleaf. shortleaf and lobloily. Oak. in
| Guiding all species, has nearly 1000, 600 h1o
| feet. and is the most important hardwood.
Maple comes next
Proportion Of Products.
| Dogwood comes about halfway down
| the list with more than 100000 board
Turkish lockwood comes last. with less
than 10000 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 fall very near the foot Of the
| list in relative quantities used.
Fifty-fve principal industries use wood
| as raw material. Their relative impor-
! lance is hard to indicate, because guam.
| 6 n q
| of value of an industry to the commu-
nifty in which it is situated, nor to the
country as a whole
More than one-half of the total con-
sumption consists of planning mill prod.
ucts, the largest items of which are floor
ing, siding. ceiling and finishing. The
next industry, in point of quantity Of
4 wood used, is the manufa cture of boxes
and crates. Nearly four times as much
wood is demanded by makers of boxes
and crates as by the builders of steam
and electric cars, which come next, and
fivefold the amount that goes into fur
niture. which in turn leads vehicle manu-
| facture. Vehicles demand surprisinsly
large supplies of. wood. and much Of il
must be of high class in order to meet
| requirements for frames, gears and
| bodies.
Method of Listing.
Chairs. listed separately from furniture
| come after novelties and supplies for
dairy men. poultry keepers and apiarists.
and Just before handles and musical in
struments. About midway down the list
come pumps and wood pipes. Among the
products important enough to list sepa-
| rately are canes and umbrella sticks,
brooms. firearms. artificial limbs and to.
| bacco pipes.
| The apportionment of wood among the
various industries grades from planning
| mill products, which take most, down tc
aeroplanes and dry kilns at the bottom
| of the list.