Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1919 — Country's Lumber Production. [ARTICLE]

Country's Lumber Production.

A total lumber production of 32.760000.000 feet is the estimated cut for the year 1918 on the basis of partial returns received by the forest service of the United States Department of Agriculture from 713 sawnjllls. each of which cut 5,OOO.Oi)0 or more feet in the years 1917 or 1918. In 1917 the total production amounted to 36.000.000.000 feet. The decrease In 1918 is not confined to any one region but is genehd. It ,is largest in the southern ?*nd eastern states and least U» the western states.