Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-06-26
YELLOW PINE MOST POPULAR OF WOODS
More Than Eight Billion Feet Consumed. Annually
 in United States.
UTILIZING LUMB FER
More Than Half of FOrty.five Billion E, Feet Consists of Flaming NTH Products, Mostly Flooring
 and Siding.

Washington, June 25.--Statistics have been compiled by the forest ser vice which SOW for the first time pre- isely how the lumber produced in the ouhtry is utilized. About 45 billion feet of lumber of all kinds is the an rnual production in the United States of this nearly 25 billion feet, board measure, are further manufactured the other portion remaining for rough construction lumber and for ismilar purposes. This is exclusive of material which reaches it's final use in the form of fuel, railroad ties posts, poles, pulpwood, cooperage wood distillates, and the barks and extracts demanded by the tanning il- dustry.
 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 veal was made the basis of statistics in aech state the total is fair average of the use of lumber in further manu- facture in the whole country. Be tween 50 and 60 per cent of the lum- Der produced is subject to further manufacture. In preparing the fig ures in this way, however, it should be remembered that considerable ma terial reaches shops and factories i'll | the form of logs, bolts and billets | without having passed through saw mills, and while this material is in luded in these statistics this fact should be remembered in comparing statistics with those of lumber pro. | dution.
 100 Woods in Use. Nearly or quite 100 different woods are used in this country under theil own names, while an unknown mum Der find their way to shops and tac- tories without being identified ol separately listed, except under genera names. In quantity the softwoods the needle-leaf or coniferous trees are most important. but there is { greater number of species among the hardwoods, or broadleaf trees. Yel low pine comes first with more thar l s billion feet, followed by white pine with billion, and Douglas fir witt little more than 2 billion. It should be understood, however, that the term "yellow pine" includes several species the three most important of whicl are longleaf, shortleaf and loblolly Oak, including all species, has nearly 2 billion feet, and this is the mos important hardwood. Maple comes Il next.
 l Dogwood comes about halfway dowr the list with more than million board feet, and of those species men toned Turkish boxwood omes last with less than 30 thousand feet, fol lowed by many others toe insignifi. ant to list but making d total Of all kinds of more than a million feet. O1 the native species, laurel, holly an( yucca fall very near the foot of the list in relative quantities used.
 Fifty-fiye Industries Use Wood.
 Fifty+ive principal industries use wood as raw material. Their rela- | tive importance is hard to indicate because quantity alone is not in all ases criterion of value of all jn- 1 dustry to the community in which il 1 is situeted, nor to the country as 8 wohle.
 More than one-half of the total con- sumption consists of blaming mill pro. duts, the largest items Of which are flooring, siding, ceiling and finishing The next industry, in point of quanti ty of wood used, is the manufacture of boxes and crates. Nearly foul l times as muh wood is demanded by makers of boxes and crates as by thu builders of steam and electric cars which come next. and five fold the amount that goes into furnitule which in turn leads vehicle Ilanufac ture. Vehicles demand surprisingl, large supplies of wood, and much o it must be of high class in order t meet requirements for frames, gear
 and bodies.
 Chairs, listed separat ely from fur
 niture, come after nov 2lties and sup plies for dairymen, poultry keepers land apiar: sts, and just before handles land musical instruments, About mid
 way down the list come pumps an
 wood pipes. Among the produts i'm
 portant enough to list separately ar
 anes and umbrella sticks, broolns
 firearms, trtifcial limbs ::nd tobacc
 pipes.
 The apportionment wood anon!
 the various industries, grades fror
 blaming mill products, which talk
 most, down to aeroplAnas and ar Ixs la l><>& Alx