+--------------+-------+-------+-------+------------------+ | | | | | Per Cent Increase| | Kind. | 1899. | 1904. | 1906. | (+) or Decrease | | | | | | (-) since 1899. | +--------------+-------+-------+-------+------------------+ | |Million|Million|Million| | | | ft. | ft. | ft. | | | Yellow Pine | 9,659 |11,533 |11,661 | + 20.7 | | Douglas Fir | 1,737 | 2,928 | 4,970 | + 186.2 | | White Pine | 7,742 | 5,333 | 4,584 | - 40.8 | | Hemlock | 3,421 | 3,269 | 3,537 | + 3.4 | | Spruce | 1,448 | 1,304 | 1,645 | + 13.6 | | Western Pine | 944 | 1,279 | 1,387 | + 46.9 | | Cypress | 496 | 750 | 839 | + 69.3 | | Redwood | 360 | 519 | 683 | + 83.2 | | Cedar | 233 | 223 | 358 | + 53.7 | | +-------+-------+-------+------------------+ | |26,040 | 27,138|29,664 | + 14 | +--------------+-------+-------+-------+------------------+ _Hardwoods._--The hardwood supply of the country is derived almost entirely from the eastern half of the continent, and comes from each of the three great Eastern forest regions. The following table shows the cut of the important species of hardwoods for 1899 and 1906: +--------------+-----------+-----------+-----------------+ | | | | Per Cent | | Kind. | 1899. | 1906. | Increase (+) | | | | | or Decrease (-).| +--------------+-----------+-----------+-----------------+ | | Thousand | Thousand | | | | Feet. | Feet. | | | Oak | 4,438,027 | 2,820,393 | - 36.5 | | Maple | 633,466 | 882,878 | + 39.4 | | Poplar | 1,115,242 | 693,076 | - 37.9 | | Red gum | 285,417 | 453,678 | + 59.0 | | Chestnut | 206,688 | 407,379 | + 97.1 | | Basswood | 308,069 | 376,838 | + 22.3 | | Birch | 132,601 | 370,432 | + 179.4 | | Cottonwood | 415,124 | 263,996 | - 36.4 | | Beech | (a) | 275,661 | | | Elm | 456,731 | 224,795 | - 50.8 | | Ash | 269,120 | 214,460 | - 20.8 | | Hickory | 96,636 | 148,212 | + 53.4 | | Tupelo | (a) | 47,882 | | | Walnut | 38,681 | 48,174 | + 24.5 | | Sycamore | 29,715 | (a) | | | All other | 208,504 | 87,637 | - 58.0 | +--------------+-----------+-----------+-----------------+ | Total | 8,634,021 | 7,315,491 | - 15.3 |