. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. May, 1925] FARM PRODUCTION IN CHESHIRE COUNTY 21 TIMBER PRODUCTION. Market. New England is close to the center of timber consumption. Forty- five per cent of the lumber in the United States in 1920 was consumed, and only 15 per cent produced, in the northeastern states, , east of Wiscon- sin and Illinois. This area, therefore, has a distinct advantage in lower transportation cost over more distant sections in the growth of timber. The centers of lumber production have been shifting rapidly. (See Fig. 3.) New England in 1850 was supplying per c
. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. May, 1925] FARM PRODUCTION IN CHESHIRE COUNTY 21 TIMBER PRODUCTION. Market. New England is close to the center of timber consumption. Forty- five per cent of the lumber in the United States in 1920 was consumed, and only 15 per cent produced, in the northeastern states, , east of Wiscon- sin and Illinois. This area, therefore, has a distinct advantage in lower transportation cost over more distant sections in the growth of timber. The centers of lumber production have been shifting rapidly. (See Fig. 3.) New England in 1850 was supplying per cent of the amount used in the United States, but in 1920 it furnished only per cent. The percentage of the national supply coming from the Lake States reached its peak in 1880, from the South in 1919, and now the Pacific ('oast and Rocky Mountain states are sujiplying per cent. BILLIONS or BOARD FEET 40 Fic. .'5.* LUMBER PRODUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES BY REGIONS, 1870-1920 30 20 0. 1880 1890 1900 * U. S. D. A. Bulletin Xo. lUfl. 1920 Increase in transportation charges has followed this shift in production to more distant areas. Since 1905 the average transportation cost of luml)er received in southern Minnesota increased 262 per cent, and in 1919 this charge represented per cent of the retail selling price of the lumber.* Tliis charge is even higher to New England markets, and will become greater, as a larger proportion of the supply comes from the Pacific Coast states, which are more than twice as far as the southei'n- producing areas. Transportation costs have been the most important factor in increasing retail prices of lumber, but in the future we may also expect scarcity to advance them. At the present time the forest resources of the country t U. S. D. A. Yearbook 1922. " Timber: Mine or ;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of
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