The Harrison times., 1914-09-12
OUTPUT OF LUMBER
Statistics Show How Product Is
Utilized.
Annual Consumption Of WOOD BY Wood
Manufacturing Industries In the
United States Is Very Large
100 Different Kinds.

Washington.-Sta have been
compiled by the forest service, which
show for the first time precisely how
the lumber produced In the country A
utilized. About forty-dve billion feet
Of lumber Of all kinds is the annual
production in the United States OF
this nearly twenty-five billion feet,
board measure are further manufac'
tured, the other portion remaining for
rough construction lumber and for
similar purposes. This is exclusive OF
material which reaches It's final use In
the form Of fuel, railroad ties, posts,
plpwood, cooperage, wood distillates,
and the barks and extracts demanded
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 a fair average
Of the use Of lumber in further manu-
facture in the whole country Be
tween 50 and go per cent of the lum'
ber produced is subject to further
manufacture. In preparing the figures
In this way, however, II should be re-
membered that considerable material
reaches shops and factories in the
form Of logs, bolts, and billets With
out having passed through sawmills
and while this material IL included In
those 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-
bor find their way to shops and fac
tories without being identified or sep
arately listed, except under general
names In quantity the softwoods, the
needle.leaf or coniferous trees are
most important, but there Is great
er number OF species among the hard
woods, or broadleaf trees. Yellow pine
comes first with more than eight billion
feet followed by white pine with three
billion, and Douglas fir with a little
more than two billion, 1t should be un'
derstood, however, that the term vel
low pine" includes several species the
three most important Of which are
longleaf, shortleaf and loblolly. Oak,
including all species, has nearly two
billion feet, and is the most impor
tant hardwood Maple comes next
Dogwood comes about halfway down
the list with more than seven million
board feet and OF these species men
toned Turkish lockwood comes last,
with lors than thirty thousand feet,
followed by many others too inslgniil'
cant to list but making q total Of all
| kinds of more than q million feet OF
the native species, laurel holly and
yucca fall very near the foot Of the list
in relative quantities used,
Fifty.Aye principal industries use
wood as raw material, Their relative
Importance Is hard to Indicate, be-
cause quantity alono is not In all
cases criterion OF value OF an In
dustry to tho community In which II
Is situated, nor to tho country MG a
whole,
More than onehalf OF the total con-
sumption consists OF planning mill prod
uots the largest Items OF which are
flooring, siding, ceiling and finishing
Tho next industry, In point OF guam
tIty OF wood used is the manufacture
OF boxes and crates, Nearly four
times as much wood In demanded by
makers Of boxes and crates az by the
builders Of steam aud electric cara,
which como next, and Ave fold the
amount that goes into furniture which
In turn leads vehicle manufacture, Vo'
hicles demand surprisingly large sup
plies Of wood, and much OF II must be
OF high class In order to meet r0'
duirementB for frames, gears and
| bodies,
Chairs, listed separately from FUR
nlturo, como after novelties and sup
plies for dairymen, poultry keepers
and apiarl8ts, and just before handles,
and musical instruments, About mid
way down tho list como pumps and
wood pipes, Among tho products i'm
portant enough to list separately are
canes and umbrella sticks, breoms,
firearms, artificial limbs and tobacco
pipes,
Tho apportlonment Of wood among
tho various industries, grades from
planning mill products which take
most, down 10 Neroplanea and dry
kllns, et tho bottom OF tho list,