Complete Lumber Production Returns Now Available

Washington, D. C.-The Bureau of the Census anlrounces the publication of a special rePort compiled from returns received at the biennial 'census of manufactures taken in 1930, r'r'hich gives summary figures for the production of lumber by States and by kinds of ivood, the cut of lath and shingles by States, the production of lumber b1sizes of mills, and the stocks of lumber on hand January 1 and December 31, 1929. The statistics on the production of lumber are revisions of figures originally published under date of December 31, 1930. In order to avoid undue delay in publication, the preliminary report presenting those statisfics was compiled before the returns for a considerable number of mills, in,cluding a few important ones, had been received, and it was therefore necessary to include estimates for those mills. Complete returns are now available, and accordingly revised figures are presented in this report.

The figures for the years l92O to 1928, inclusive, as heretofore published, are not strictly comparable rvith those for 1919 and L9D, for the reason that the canvasses for the intervening years were made largely by mail, whereas at the censuses for 1919 and 1929 canvassers were employed to visit all mills for which reports had not been returned by mail early in the year.

The total production of lumber as reported lor I9?9 amounted to 36,872,132,00O feet, board measure, as against 34,142j23,m feet sawed in 1928. The production of lath and shingles was 1,705,858,000 and 6,110,672,On, respectively, in 1929, as against 1,903,887,000 and 5,603,690,000, respectively, in 1928. The production of yellow-pine lumber in 1929 was reported by 21 States, in five of whichAlabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas-the output was more than one billion feet each, the combined cut from this wood in these States being about 65 per cent of the total for the United States. Douglas fir was cut in ten States, but Washington and Oregon contributed more than 95 per cent of the total for the country. The former State alone reported nearly 59 per cent. Oregon also reported more than one billion feet of western yellow pine and Washington more than one and one-quarter billion feet of western hemlock. These seven States are the only ones whi,ch reported more than one billion feet of lumber cut from one kind of wood.

Although reports were received from 19,904 sawmills, more than 64 per cent of the production was cut by 753 mills, ea'ch ,cutting 10,000,000 feet or more, as against 8.1 per cent by 414 mills ,cutting from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 feet, 15 per cent by 3,100 mills cutting from 1,000,000 to 5,000,000 feet, 6.6 per cent by 3,585 mills cutting from 500,000 to 1,000,000 feet, and only 6.1 per cent by 12,052 mills cutting from 50,000 to 500,000 feet.

The total stocks of lumber on hand at the mills on January 1 and De,cember 31, l9D, as reported to the Bureau, amounted to 9,46O,281,000 feet and 70,924,641,000 feet, respectively. These figures are, however, in.complete as many important mills failed to report their stocks.

This report was prepared by the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce, in cooperation with the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.

I. N. TATE VTSTTS CALTFORNTA

I. N. Tate, Spokane, Wash., general manager of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company, was a recent California vi'sitor where he conferred with W. E. Barwick, of San Francisco, and W. H. Morrison, of Los Angeles, their California representatives.

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