California Lumber Production Figures

The production of lumber in California in 1925 showed a big increase in pine production over any previous year, and a slightly decreased Redwood production.

According to The California Redwood Manufacturers Association, the total production of Redwood in California in 7925 was 488,800,000 feet.

I The California White & Sugar Pine Manufacturers As'sociation figures show that the production of lumber excepting Redwood in California in 1925 was 1,501,866,00O feet, as compared with 1,325,165,000 f.or 1924,1,307,895,000 Ior 1923, 1,025,838,000 for 1922, and then down to 756,301,000 for 192L. The rapid increase in the production of lumber in California is thus shown.

In Southern.Oregon where the same species of Pine grows that grows in California, and where the mills are also members of the California White & Sugar Pine Manufacturers Association, the production of the mills was reported f.or 1925 as22O,412,@O feet, almost entirely California White Pine.

The total of 1,501,866,000 feet for California (excepting Redwoods) given above, was divided by species as follows: White Pine,854,672,000; Sugar Pine 268,970,000; White Fir 209,M0.,0{JJ_; Douglas Fir, 108,205,000; all other species, 6O,975.W0.

In the Oregon territory the production of White Pine was 211,482,W, and that of California 854,672,ffi, a total production of 1,066,154,0@ feet of California White Pine. This was the first time the production of this wood ever exceeded the billion mark. Practically no Sugar Pine was cut in Oregon, so that the California figures for that species are total.

The total California production outside of lumber for 1925 was theiefore 1,501,866,000 feet plus 488,800,000 feet of Redwood, or 1,990,666,000 feet, or practically an even two billion feet of lumber, the greatest production figures in California history.