Our country and its resources; . ,073,821 1,214,435 1,312,230 1,118,480 992,594 1,026,191 804,710 701,540 885,035 763,508 596,392 482,744 486,195 286,063 370,571 298,571 317,842 249,608 143,094 200,594 162,097 66,227 81,883 102,11778,66757,16748,74811,44325,51718,74411,85215,9028,680790 37,340,023 * Quinquennial census of manufacturers—custom mills excluded** Mills reporting cut less than 50,000 each producing in the location of prin-cipal supplies. During the yearWashington rose from second placeto first in lumber production, Louisi-ana dropped from first to secondplace, Oregon fell from fift
Our country and its resources; . ,073,821 1,214,435 1,312,230 1,118,480 992,594 1,026,191 804,710 701,540 885,035 763,508 596,392 482,744 486,195 286,063 370,571 298,571 317,842 249,608 143,094 200,594 162,097 66,227 81,883 102,11778,66757,16748,74811,44325,51718,74411,85215,9028,680790 37,340,023 * Quinquennial census of manufacturers—custom mills excluded** Mills reporting cut less than 50,000 each producing in the location of prin-cipal supplies. During the yearWashington rose from second placeto first in lumber production, Louisi-ana dropped from first to secondplace, Oregon fell from fifth placeto seventh, Florida climbed fromfifteenth place to twelfth and Minne-sota dropped from eleventh place tofourteenth. LOCALITIES OF VARIOUS SPECIES The principal varieties of lumberand the States in which they groware listed on page 80, the order of thenames of States being according totheir rank in growing the particularvariety of lumber under which theyare classified. LATHS AM) SHINGLES From the reports of mills and the. FORESTS AM) FORESTRY total number of mills and theircapacity, a comparatively accuratefigure of total cut can be it is not possible accurately toestimate what proportion of the out-put of unreporting mills may he inlath and shingles. Hence the fol-lowing figures are confined strictlyto reports and are not the lath cut increased slightlyand the shingle cut decreased de-cidedly since 1912, the last previousyear for which lath and shinglefigures are available, they are givenfor comparison. In 1915 mills reporting showed alath cut of as against2,719,163,000 in 1912. In 1915 millsreporting showed a shingle cut of8,483,579,000 against 12,,000in 1912. Louisiana produced most laths in1915. with 433, OTHERS
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