The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1870-11-03

"The lumber trade of Michigan, Wis
consln and Minnesota, for the year II $50
shows the amount cut as being 2,O29,372,
255 feet for the State of Michigan, anC
3l7 ,400, 900 feet for the State of Minnesota
and 964 600, 900 feet for the State of Wis
consin. This includes the lake shore and
the whole State OF Wisconsin, which here
tofore has been difficult to get report from
The tolal amount cut in these States was
3,3ll 1872 255 feet, and that to obtain this
quantity there have been stripped $4,000
acres or 1880 square miles of pine have
beer removed. 1t is calculated that f.
00sO00 acres of land still remain unstrip.
PED IN Michigan, which will yield l5,0o0,-
1000 feet of lumber. While 3,u00,00U
s1es Asn still standing IN Wisconsin, which
VIII yield 1l,25o,oOo,ooo feet, A great
proportion of this uncut pine is in this
County, on the Nemadji and ST. Croix
Rivers and tributaries in Wisconsin. The
st. Croix q Superior r. r., when
built, will pass through and open up
one of the finest pine districts on
the continent.-EDIToR TINES. and that
which remain in Minnesota, taking the es-
innate of a few years since of that which
Was surveyed and unexplored, after de-
Quoting the amount cut the past few years,
we find 100000 acres to be the proper
estimate Of trees now standing which yield
2,262 100000 feet Of lumber This makes
a total of Is 100000 acres of pine lands
which remain standing in the above States,
that will yield 5s,6I2, 100000 feet of lum-
Der, and it is thought that fifteen or twen-
ty will ho
to market the trees now standing. These
figures now show the increased rate of
consumption during the past year, and in
dicate with what rapidity our forests can
be cleared. We will take the older lumber
States for instance, which have surprised
every inhabtant at the early disappearance
of their white pine. The Maine forests
have been SO well stripped, that not tree
of old growth is to be seen in them The
white pine is represented only by saplngs,
which will not be of any service, as lumber,
for years, and the most of the lumber they
use now comes from Michigan. Twelve
years ago New York was a great lumber
State, and exported heavily the manufac-
tured qualities; while now her pine forests
are exhaused and she has to rely on the
lake regions Of the West, by way of the
Erie canal, and from Canada by Lake
Champlain and the Champlain canal Large
quantities Of hemlock and spruce are yet to
be found in the northern counties of the
State, which i'll part substitutes the pine,
and railroads are piercing the wilderness
in order to bring it to market. We have
now reached q period when the demand for
timber is rapidly on the increase, and the
supply diminishing. Settlements, too, are
approaching the treeless regions of the
plains.
"But of all timber the pine is one
of the most common necessities; it enters
more largely into use for general purposes
than all others combined, and it's preserva-
ton should interest every individual in the
land. AT the increased rate Of consump-
ton, and the fearful inroads that are being
made on our forests OF pine, the years will
soon come when Michigan, Minnesota and
Wisconsin will be as destitute of this tim
Der as Maine or New York