By Products Of The Lumber Industry

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...about 603,000,000 feet. Further substitutions of metal for wooden cooperage, lath, vehicle parts, wood used in ship construction, and wooden furniture and interior house trimming bring the total annual replacement to approximately 11,074,500,000 board feet of timber. It is probable that not less than 8,092,200,000 feet of this amount is in the form of lumber, or the equivalent of 20 per cent of the lumber cut in the United States estimated for 1914. 1 Based upon official statistics of the consumption of lumber and timbers, including Imports, converted from cubic feet to board feet in the ratio of 1 to 8. Fuel and other secondary products are not included. CHANGES IN LUMBER PRODUCTION AND PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION. This figure, while conservative, can not be given too much weight because of the many uncertain factors in such an estimate. There can be no question, however, that lumber has lost heavily in the markets of the United States within the past 10 years. This is made evident further by decreases both in total lumber production and in its consumption per capita. The following table gives from 1904 to 1915, inclusive, the reported cut of lumber and the number of mills from which returns were obtained, the total estimated cut of lumber, the imports and exports of lumber, and the net estimated consumption in the country per capita: i These figures exclude staves, heading, shingles, lath, shoots other than box, logs, and hewn timbers. They include 20 per cent of the railroad ties exported, this being the proportion of sawed ties used in the United States; also the imports and exports of lumber reported by value rather than quantity. These have been converted to footage by using the average values of the imports and exports, respectively, ..