times those in 1894. A very great increase in the exports of lumber to China and Japan has taken place recently; the total in 1894 was 4,578,026 feet and in 1906 101,299,343 feet, or nearly 22 times as much as in 1894. TABLE 19.-Foreign shipments of lumber from Washington and Oregon, 1894-1906. Board feet. Board feet. 4,578, 026 12, 632, 650 22, 499, 767 35,991, 494 17,940, 132 34,658, 624 33, 448, 227 Total. 660, 011, 480 547,818, 891 South America is also increasing in importance as a market for Douglas fir. The shipments to that region in 1906 were greater than in any previous year. There has been a falling off in the exports to the Hawaiian Islands and Africa, while it is only within recent years that Alaska and the Philippines have drawn upon the United States to any extent. There have been slight fluctuations in the exports to Mexico and Central America and Europe, but, on the whole, a fair increase in the total. [Cir. 110] YELLOW PINE. There are no figures which bear directly upon the amount of yellowpine lumber annually exported. It is safe to say, however, that a large proportion of the sawed and hewed timber and lumber shipped from the Atlantic and Gulf ports is yellow pine. Making this assumption, it may be estimated that the annual export in all forms is now over 1,000,000,000 board feet, or over 8 per cent of the yearly cut of yellow pine. Much more yellow pine is exported than any other kind of timber. The order is, yellow pine, Douglas fir, and redwood. SUMMARY OF EXPORTS OF TIMBER AND UNMANUFACTURED WOOD. A summary of the quantity and value of the exports of timber and unmanufactured wood for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906, is given in Table 20. The total value is $55,361,642. TABLE 20.-Exports of timber and unmanufactured wood for the year ending June 30, Estimating the equivalent quantity for items upon which the Bureau of Statistics gives no information, it can safely be assumed that the total quantity exported was over 2,300,000,000 board feet. This quantity probably required about 400,000,000 cubic feet of wood for its production. Estimating the amount of wood cut for all purposes in the United States in 1906 at 20,000,000,000 cubic feet, it follows that the quantity exported was 2 per cent of the total wood cut. The amount of wood exported in the form of hewed or sawed timber and lumber was about 5 per cent of the total lumber cut of the United States in 1906. [Cir. 110] IMPORTS OF FOREST PRODUCTS. TARIFF PROVISIONS. The provisions of the tariff of 1897 in regard to wood and articles. manufactured from wood are as follows: SCHEDULE D-WOOD AND MANUFACTURES OF. 194. Timber hewn, sided or squared (not less than eight inches square), and round timber used for spars or in building wharves, one cent per cubic foot. 195. Sawed boards, planks, deals, and other lumber of whitewood, sycamore, and basswood, one dollar per thousand feet board measure; sawed lumber, not specialty provided for in this act, two dollars per thousand feet board measure; but when lumber of any sort is planed or finished, in addition to the rates herein provided, there shall be levied and paid for each side so planed or finished fifty cents per thousand feet board measure; and if planed on one side and tongued and grooved, one dollar per thousand feet board measure; and if planed on two sides and tongued and grooved, one dollar and fifty cents per thousand feet board measure; and in estimating board measure under this schedule no deduction shall be made on board measure on account of planing, tonguing and grooving: Provided, That if any country or dependency shall impose an export duty upon saw logs, round unmanufactured timber, stave bolts, shingle bolts, or heading bolts, exported to the United States, or a discriminating charge upon boom sticks, or chains used by American citizens in towing logs, the amount of such export duty, tax, or other charge, as the case may be, shall be added as an additional duty to the duties imposed upon the articles mentioned in this paragraph when imported from such country or dependency. 196. Paving posts, railroad ties, and telephone, trolley, electric-light and telegraph poles of cedar or other woods, twenty per centum ad valorem. 197. Kindling wood in bundles not exceeding one-quarter of a cubic foot each, three-tenths of one cent per bundle; if in larger bundles, three-tenths of one cent for each additional quarter of a cubic foot or fractional part thereof. 198. Sawed boards, planks, deals, and all forms of sawed cedar, lignum-vitæ, lancewood, ebony, box, granadilla, mahogany, rosewood, satinwood, and all other cabinet woods not further manufactured than sawed, fifteen per centum ad valorem; veneers of wood, and wood, unmanufactured, not specially provided for in this act, twenty per centum ad valorem. 199. Clapboards, one dollar and fifty cents per thousand. 200. Hubs for wheels, posts, heading bolts, stave bolts, last-blocks, wagon-blocks, oar-blocks, heading-blocks, and all like blocks or sticks, rough-hewn, sawed or bored, twenty per centum ad valorem; fence posts, ten per centum ad valorem. 201. Laths, twenty-five cents per one thousand pieces. 202. Pickets, palings, and staves of wood, of all kinds ten per centum ad valorem. 203. Shingles, thirty cents per thousand. 204. Casks, barrels, and hogsheads (empty), sugar-box shooks, and packing-boxes (empty), and packing-box shooks, of wood, not specially provided for in this act, thirty per centum ad valorem. 205. Boxes, barrels, or other articles containing oranges, lemons, limes, grape fruit, shaddocks, or pomelos, thirty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That the thin wood, so called, comprising the sides, tops, and bottoms of orange and lemon boxes of the growth and manufacture of the United States, exported as orange and lemon box shooks, may be reimported in completed form, filled with oranges and lemons, by the payment of duty at one-half the rate imposed on similar boxes of entirely foreign growth and manufacture. 206. Chair cane or reeds, wrought or manufactured from rattans or reeds, ten per centum ad valorem; osier or willow prepared for basket makers' use, twenty per centum ad valorem; manufactures of osier or willow, forty per centum ad valorem. 207. Toothpicks of wood or other vegetable substance, two cents per one thousand and fifteen per centum ad valorem; butchers' and packers' skewers of wood, forty cents per thousand. 208. House or cabinet furniture, of wood, wholly or partly finished, and manufactures of wood, or of which wood is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this act, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. FREE LIST. 699. Wood: Logs and round unmanufactured timber, including pulp-woods, firewood, handle-bolts, shingle-bolts, gun blocks for gunstocks rough hewn or sawed or planed on one side, hop poles, ship timber and ship-planking; all the foregoing not specially provided for in this act. 700. Woods: Cedar, lignum-vitæ, lancewood, ebony, box, granadilla, mahogany, rosewood, satinwood, and all forms of cabinet woods, in the log, rough or hewn only; briar root or briar wood and similar wood unmanufactured, or not further advanced than cut into blocks suitable for the articles into which they are intended to be converted; bamboo, rattan, reeds unmanufactured, Indian malacca joints, and sticks of partridge, hair wood, pimento, orange, myrtle, and other woods not specially provided for in this act, in the rough, or not further advanced than cut into lengths suitable for sticks for umbrellas, parasols, sunshades, whips, fishing rods, or walking canes. SUMMARY OF IMPORTS OF FOREST PRODUCTS, 1903-1906. A summary of the imports of all kinds of forest products into the United States for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1903, 1904, 1905, and 1906 is given in Table 21. There has been a considerable yearly increase in the total of all imports. The total in 1903 was $74,578,674, and in 1906, $100,065,394, an increase of a little over 34 per cent in the four years. This increase in value, however, does not mean a corresponding increase in quantity, since prices have risen. The most important item is india rubber. The importations in 1903 were 55,010,571 pounds, valued at $30,436,710, an average of 55.3 cents per pound, while in 1906 the 57,844,345 pounds imported had a value of $45,114,450, or 78 cents per pound. [Cir. 110] |