Year. Lumber, feet. Shingles. Total value.
1900 185,414,130 178,386,000 $2,517,967
1901 219,150,000 251,000,000 2,695,700
1902 303,654,557 347,565,000 4,069,000
1903 361,522,766 376,935,500 5,110,398
[Illustration: St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company’s Mill and Wheeler-Osgood
Company’s New Sash and Door Factory.]
The increase in three years in the number of mills engaged in the lumber
and shingle industry at TACOMA is at the rate of 83.3 per cent.; in the
lumber cut at the rate of 96.6 per cent.; in the output of shingles at
the rate of 94.0 per cent.; and in the value of the product at the rate
of 103.0 per cent.