The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-07-18
HOW LUMBER PRO-
DUCT Is UTILIZED

Statistics have been compiled by
the forest service which show for the
first time precisely how the lumber
produced IN the country is utilized
About As billion feet of lumber of all
kinds is the annual production in the
United States; of this nearly 25 bill
lion feet, board measure, are further
manufactured, the portion remaining
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, posts,
poles, pulpwood, cooperage, wood dis
tillates and the barks and extracts de-
manded by the tanning industry.
The work of collecting and compil-
ing the figures extended over a con-
siderable 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 lumber in further manu-
facture in the whole country. Be-
tween so and so per cent of the lum-
ber produced is subject to further
manufacture. In preparing the figures
in this way, however, it should be re-
membered that considerable material
reaches shops ana 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 re-
membered 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 num-
Der find their way to shops and fac
tories without being identified or sep
arately listed except under general
names. In quantity the soft-woods,
the needle-leaf or coniferous trees,
are most important, but there is a
greater number of species among the
hard woods, or broadleaf trees. Vel
low pine comes first with more than
eight billion feet, followed by white
pine with three billion and Douglas
f. with a little more than two billion.
tt should be understood, however,
that the term "yellow pine' includes
several species, the three most import
ant of which are long-leaf. short leaf
and loblolly. Oak, including all
species, has nearly two billion feet,
and is the most important hardwood.
Maple comes next.
Dogwood comes about halfway
down the list with more than seven
million feet, and of those species men
toned Turkish lockwood comes last,
with less than thirty thousand feet,
followed by many others too insig-
nifeant to list but making total of
o3 L;uIo of rnoro kbap x,sIl;ou foot
Of the native species, laurel, holly and
list in relative quantities used.
Fifty-fve principal industries use
wood as raw material. Their relative
Importance n hard to indicate, be-
cause quantity alone is not in all
cases a criterion of value of an indus
try to the community in which it is
situated, nor to the country as q
whole.
More than one-half of the total
consumption consists of planning mill
products, the largest items of which
are flooring siding, ceiling and finish
ing. The next industry, in point Of
quantity of wood used. is the manu-
facture 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
ears, which come next, and five fold
the amount that goes into furniture
which in turn leads vehicle manufac
ture. Vehicles demand surprisingly
large supplies of wood, and much OF
it must be of high class in order to
meet requirements for frames, gears
and bodies.
Chairs, listed separately from fur
niture, come after novelties and sup
plies for dairymen, poultry keeper.
and apiarists, and just before handles
and musical instruments. About mid
way down the list come pumps ant
wood pipes. Among the products i'm
portant enough to list separately arc
canes and umbrella sticks, brooms
firearms, artificial limbs and tobacco
pipes.
The apportionment of wood among
the various industries, grades from,
planning mill products, which take
most, down to aeroplanes and dry
kilns, at the bottom of the list.