Production of Lumber, Lath and Shingles in Calilornia ---1931

This is a preliminary statement prepared by the Forest Service based on returns from the lumber census conducted for the Bureau of the Census by the Forest Service. Figures are subject to correction in final published report by the Bureau of the Census. Nevada is usually included but all mills in Nevada were idje this year. LUMBER feet of ponderosa pine of the pine region total were cut from Oregon logs. The pine region cut of California grown timber was therefore only about 643 million feet. Comparative production since 1920-totals for all mills (California and Nevada) cutting over 5O M feet per annum including hardwoods:

(1) Does not include northern part of commercial California pine region in southern Oregon.

(2) fncludes both white and red fir.

(3) The pine region cedar cut was principally incense cedar, 11 M being Port Orford cedar; that of the redwood region was all Port Orford cedar.

(4) Bigtree (Sequoia washingtoniana). The redwood of the (coast) redwood region is Sequoia sempervirens.

(5) About 14 million feet of Douglas fir and 77 million *Negligible.

The reduction of cut has been spectacular, this year's production being only.63.2/o of the 1930 cut and 46.4/o of. that of. 1929. The most severe reduction was in the redwood region, whose 1931 cut was only 56.2% of that for 193O, while the pine region cut in 1931 was 66.7/o of. its cut for the previous year. But in 1930 the pine region had reduced its l9D cut more severely than the redwood region, so that the two regions are within about l/o of each other in percentages of their respective 1929 cuts produced in 1931.