Excerpt from Foreign Industries of Eastern Washington, 1966 The trend of lumber production in eastern Washington was much the same as that for the whole State until the end of World War II. Then, in 1946, east-side production began to increase sharply. During the period 1946 63, eastern Washington's softwood lumber production increased 83 percent from 546 million to slightly over 1 billion board feet (table 1, page This relative increase exceeded a similar change of 66 percent for the western pine region and 8 percent for the entire United States. During this same per iod, eastern Washington's share of the Na tion's softwood lumber production increased from percent in 1946 to percent in 1963. For comparison, the 1904-63 lumber production trends for eastern Washington. Washington, and the United States are shown in figure 1. Here, the sharply increasing pro duction in eastern Washington since 1946, relative to both Washington and the United States, is evident. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.