Potential Raw Material Supply for Wood Fiber Products

Enormous supplies of raw material suitable for wood fiber products can be obtained from logging and manufacturing residuals and from small and cull trees that are not included in forest inventories. The volume of these residuals is conservatively estimated to be at least 70 million cords annually. From these residuals some 14,620,000 cords of coarse wood and the equivalent of 10 million cords of sawdust and shavings are used annually for fuel. Another 4 million cords are used for pulp chips. In 1953 the hardboard industry will use about 230,000 cords. The opportunities for obtaining a raw material supply of residual wood are best in the western states. In this area the volume of residual wood is more concentrated than in other parts of the country. The approximate prices that primary manufacturers are obtaining for residual wood are presented in tables for fuelwood, hogged fuel, sawdust, Douglas-fir pulp chips, hemlock pulp chips, and lath.

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