LUMBER PRODUCTION BY STATES. The quantity and the average value per M of the lumber production of the United States in 1906, by States and species, together with the number of mills reporting from each State, are shown in Tables 33 and 34. Nearly all of the figures given in these two tables are found in the preceding tables for individual species, but they are here brought together in order that the totals and averages for the various States may be readily compared. In 1906 the following States led in the production of the kinds of lumber specified: Arkansas: Red gum, cottonwood, hickory. California: Redwood, western pine, sugar pine, white fir. The production of shingles, by species, in 1906 is shown in Table 35; the total number was 11,858,260,000, valued at $24,154,555, an average of $2.04 per M. TABLE 35.-Production of shingles, by species, 1966. Shingles are made to some extent from a large number of woods, but the several varieties of cedar furnished nearly three-fourths of the total quantity. Some cedar shingles are made in the New England and northeastern States, and a considerable number in the Lake States, but a very large proportion of the cedar shingles are cut in |