Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-12-05

under fair circumstances is almost i'm
perlshable. 1t and its congeners, the
hemlock, tamarack, spruce, etc, have
been found intact in the ruins of Pom
pei, buried eighteen centuries ago, and,
in this country are found imbedded
thirty feet under the clay-drift which
overwhelmed forests in the unknown
ages of the past. The white pine has
long lease of life-several centuries; and
in the Northwest it is the chief feature
of the lumber. With it our figures will
deal almost solely, leaving the hard
woods and other varieties to fill up TN
noticed and uncounted crevices
The great lumber-producing points i'll
Michigan are on the Saginaw River and
it's tributaries, and at Muskegon, Manis-
along the lines of railroad, etc. In the
Saginaw valley, for instance, there were
manufactured, in 1875, $50, $3.50, S39 feet;
at Muskegon, 351 100000 feet; at Man
lstee, 16O,S25,S55 feet; at Menominee,
III sos, 702 feet; and at all points in the
state, 2,746, S66,184 feet. This is the
product only Of the prominent lumber
mills, no account being made of the les
ser ones scattered through the country,
having only a local trade. grs Gid s3fge
In WISCONSIN, in 1875, the chief lunl-
Der points produced, at Eau Claire, 1885,,
O99 300 feet; lat Oshkosh, 95,3OO,0OO feet;
at Oconto, 656OO,OOO feet; at Menomi4
nee, $3.50 900 feet; at La Crosse, ST.
100000 feet;a at Wausau: 42,2OO0OO
feet; at Peshtigo, 36,5QO,0Oo feet; and so.
on-the whole state producing in that
year, at its chief lumber points, 1, 036,-
$4,000 feet. % 4 No account, we may
state again, is here made of the lesser
mills of the country-ofwhich there are
lmultitudes; and on account, also, Of the
single, stave, wagon-stuff, tub and pail,
and other mills for wooden products. $50,
In Minnesota, in the same year, there;
were manufactured, at Minneapolis,
146, 494, III feet; at Saltwater ,95,314,OOO
feet; at Winona, %, $4,000 feet-and in
| the whole state, 342,623,171 feet
At points on the Mississippi River, not
included in the abovej there were man
ufacturedi in the same year total of
POI ,4S7 900 feet--some of the chief
points being Clinton, Iowa. S5,21S,O 900;
Lyons, Iowa, II, 165 900. and Muscatine,
Iowa, %, 100000 The timber for all,
or nearly all, of these river mills comes
from the upper Mississippi and its tri-
butaries in the states of Wisconsin and
Minnesota. .... ,.... ...;,a-, .4. 81
The total manufacture for 1875, then
for the principal numbering stations of
| the Northwest, may be- summed UP as
follows: s5s "it" ~ r.,
MICHIGAN. -! -. Feet 2,74e sss, 1874
| wisconsin ;-- ad!-I .tss5- .. i, o36676 go
aisaissipp River 81 ss s a 900
! Total ............. .,..... a. AT, 55s ,255
In Pennsylvania, the chief. luni bering
points are at Williamsport, where 1872
10000 feet were manufactured in 1875;
and at Lock Haven, 47,3250OO.o Other
points manufactured 34.225 900. : ada
In New York there were manufactur-
ed in the same year 106SO,OOO feet, the
chief points being Postville and War
rensburgh. '. ,a,af
Ia Maine, for the same year, a total
cut of %, $4,000 is reported-the lar
gest being at Saco, 100000 feet
In Georgia, cut of 17,75O,OOO feet is
reported for 1875. In Florida, &C. $780,
600 feet-manifestly short Of the true
figures is reported. In Alabama, T.
100000. a8, ~ sad
Thus we have total reported flum-
Der products, in the Atlantic states. for
the year 1875, as follows: 8AaE