Lumber Cut-- -1939 and 1938*

The production of lumber by selected mills in the United States in 1939 increased 17.9 per cent as compared with'the production of the same group of mills in 1938, according to a report released by Director William L. Austin, Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce.

This report l\ras compiled from returns made by 1,112 mills, which contributed 52 per cent of the total cut of all mills reporting for 1938. The cut of these mills-each of which sawed at least 2,000 M feet, board measure, either in 1939 or in l938-amounted to 13,272,881 ]!I feet in 1939 as against 11,2ffi,736 M feet in 1938.

In order to enable the Bureau to present statistics that will show, rvith the closest possible approach to accuracy, the trend in lumber production, comparing 1939 with 1938, data have been included for 1,093 mills that were active in both years, for 13 that were in existence in both years but operated only in 1939, and for 6 that rvere in existence for both years but operated only in 1938. No data are in' cluded for mills that operated in 1938 but rvere reported as "out of business" (not merely idle) in 1939, nor for those that operated in 1939 but were not in existence in 1938.

Tl-re following statement presents statistics by important regions for the 1,112 mills in question, for 1939 in comparison with 1938.

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Lumber Cut, by Regions, tor l,Ll2 Idcnticd Mills: 1969 and l93E of

Wisconsin. Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, and West Dakota. and South Dakota. and Virginia. Per cent of increasc or decrease17.9 n.7 14.5 9.9 16.7 22.6 0.8 7.6 9.7 26.1 19.5 18.6 -4.7 uArkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas.

'Alabama, Florida, and Georgia.

'Oregon and Washington.

'uCalifornia and Nevada. uldaho and Montana.

"Arizona, Colorado, Neu' Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

* The Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, cooperated lvith the Bnrreau oJ the Census in the collect,ion of the data on which this report is based.

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