With annual production up to 80,000 square meters a year, the period from 1937 to 1960 was the prime era for the lumbering industry on the mountain.
當時太平山林場是台灣三大林場之一，年產材積八萬多立方公尺，不僅供應內銷，也外銷日本及南洋，為國家賺取大量的外匯。