The Coconino sun., 1914-07-10
ANNUAL CONSUMPTION OF
 WOOD BY INDUSTRIES


 lumber of all kinds is the annual 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 similar purposes. This is exclu- sive of material which reaches its final use in the form of fuel, rail road ties, posts, poles, pulpwood, cooperage, wood distillates, and the barks and extracts demanded by the tanning industry.
 The work of collecting and com piling the figures extended over a considerable 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 manufacture in the whole country. Between SO and 60 per cent of the lumber pro- duced IS subject to further manu- tacture. In preparing the figures m this way, however, it should be remembered that considerable material reaches shops and fac tories in the form of logs, bolts and billets without having passed through sawmllls, and while this material is included in these statistics this fact should be re- membered in comparing the sta tistics with those of lumber pro- duction.
 Nearly or quite 100 different woods are used in this country under their own names, while an unknown number find 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 coniferous trees, are most important, but there is a greater number of species among the hard woods, or broadleaf trees. Yellow pine comes first with more than 8 billion feet, followed by white pine with } billion, and Douglas fir with a little more than2 billion. IL should be understood, however, that the term yellow pine" in cludes several species the three most important of which are long leaf, shortleaf and loblolly. Oak, including all species, has nearly ? billion feet, and is the most inn portant hardwood. Maple comes next.
 Dogwood comes about halfway down the list with more than 7 million board feet, and of these species mentioned Turkish box wood comes last, with less than 30 thousand feet, followed by many others too insignificant to list but making a 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-five principal industries use wood as raw material. Their relative importance is hard to in- dicate, because quantity alone is not in all cases a criterian of value of an industry to the com munity in which it is situated, nor to the country as whole.
 More than one-half of the total consumption consists of blaming mill products, the largest items of which are flooring, siding, ceiling and finishing. The next industry, in point of quantity of wood used, is the manufacture of boxes and crates. Nearly four times as much wood is demanded by mak- CTS of boxes and crates as by the builders of steam and electric cars, which come next, and fve-fold the amount that goes into furniture, which in turn leads vehicle manu- facture. Vehicles demand sur prisingly large supplies of wood, and much of it must be of hiph