The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1914-10-09
OUTPUT OF LUMBER
Statistics Show How Product Is
Utilized.
Ansssi Consumption Of Wood by Wood
Manufacturing Industries In the
United states 10 Very Large
Is 100 Different Kinds.

Waahington.-Stati have been
COMPLIED by the forest service, which
show for the first time precisely how
the lumber produced In the country 10
utilized About forty-fve 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 its final use In
the form Of fuel, railroad ties. posts,
pulpwood, cooperage, wood distillates,
and the barks and extracts demanded
by the tanning industry.
The work of collecting and compal
Ing the figures extended over 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 q fair average
Of the use of lumber In further manu-
facture In the whole country. be-
tween 80 and so per cent Of the lum-
Der produced Is subject to further
manufacture. In preparing the figures
In this way, however, 1t should be re-
membered that considerable material
reaches shops and factories In the
form Of logs. bolts, and bHlets with
out 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
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 softwoods, the
needleleaf or comferous trees, are
most important, but there is great
ar 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 I'M
derstood, however, that the term vel
low pine" includes several species the
three most important Of which are
longleaf, shortleaf and lohlolly. Oak,
including all species, has nearly two
billion feet, and is the most tmpor-
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 less than thirty thousand feet,
followed by many others too insignih.
cant to list but making q total of all
kinds of more than million feet. OF
the native species, laurel, holly and
yucca fall very near the footsof theslist
In relative quantities used.
Fifty-f1ve principal industries use
wood as raw material. Their relative
Importance Is hard to Indicate, be-
cause quantity alone Is not In all
cases criterion of value of an In
dustry 10 the community In which 1t
is situated, nor to the country as "a
whole.
More than onehalf Of the total con-
sumption consists Of planning mill prod
ucts, the largest items of which are
flooring, siding, ceiling and finishing.
The next industry, tn point of guam
tity of wood used, is the manufacture
OF boxes and crates. Nearly four
times as much wood is demanded by
makers of boxes an crates as by the
builders OF steam IA electric cars,
which come next and FIVE fold the
amount that goes into furniture, which
In turn leads vehicle manufacture. We.
hicles demand surprisingly large sup
plies of wood, and much of 1t must be
OF high class in order to meet re-
quirements for frames, gears and
bodies.
Chairs, listed separately from fur
nituras come after novelties and sup
plies for dairymen. poultry keepers.
and apiarists, and Just before handles,
and musical instruments. About mid
way down the list come pumps and
wood pipes. Among the products i'm
portant enough to list separately are
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