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

for home use-perhaps 100000 feet
per annum, by these inland mills alone
which does not find it's way into the
lumber reports This inland timber is
designated as < sugar pine and noun
tain-pine" aI
NO accurate reports are attalnable Of
the entire product Of the Pacific coast
large shipments being annually made
from local points Of manufacture to
foreign countries, the figures Of which
do not find their way into the statistics.
OF these foreign shipments, some of
Australia, Peru, Calcutta, Tahiti, and
other Pacific islands. These foreign
shipments for 1875 reached 25,O0O,0 900
feet, SO far as ascertained, but no re-
port is made of large excess above
that. The total receipts at San Francis
co for 1875, were 3O6, 324,19 feet, and
it is estimated that the total product OF
the coast for the year was 362,OOO,0OO
feet. This does not include shingles.
laths, ship-timber, piles, railroad ma
terial, etc. A local authority estimates
the annual export Of the coast at 4O5,-
100000 feet, as follows: Puget Sound,
/ 350,0OO,OO0; the Columbia River. 90
100000; and the mills along the Oregon
coast, about 81, 100000. s-,-, --z
The principal mills along the Pacific
coast are northward from San Francisco;
Humboldt Bay, ten mills, with a total
capacity Of about 100000 feet per day;
Trinidad, two mills, $4,000 feet; Cres-
cent City, two mills. 10000 feet; Coos
Bay, Oregon, large numbering point,
| ~, ,k.oy Of ST. FOL. Act
Columbia River, two mills, los, 900 feet;
Puget Sound about twenty mills, with
total capacity Of about 100000 feet per
'tday. dfal s.1f|@I~4 an
/; Washington territory contains the
largest amount Of timber available for
numbering purposes on the Pacific coast.
/ An immense extent Of fir and cedar
forest encircles the. whole sound and
borders ali the rivers, besides that which
1 is found on the foothills, of the Cascade
and Coast ranges. tits estimated that
three-fourths of Western Washington is
covered with forest, large proportion
of which is claimed to be the finest
timber in the world for size and dura-
bility. 1t is not unusual to find a tract
4 of several thousand acres Of fir, aver
4 aging three and half feet in diameter
at the stump, and standing two hundred
! feet without limb, the tops being
; seventy feet nigher. Three hundred
feet of solid trunk is not an extraordi-
nary growth. 1t is estimated that the
area of forest land in Oregon and
j Washington covers 900 square miles.
The prices Of lumber at the mills on
the coast range from $40 to $40 per
!, 1000 feet, the average Of coarse lumber
being about $14. This contrasts strongly
with the early days Of development on
this coast, when in 1849, in San Francis
. co, lumber was worth $500 per 900
feet Logs, in the raft, are worth 1856
to IS per 1000; and timbered lands
we'll located are held at IS to SIS per
acre. faLE.iq5 .Ha uc.
Thus, generally summing up the
statistics Of the lumber products of the
i United States, we reach known sum
of about 5000, 900 feet yearly Add
to this the lumber of which no account
is taken in our previous estimate, and
it is probably safe to say that the United
States is now producing, each year,
timber products to the amount of
10000, 900, 900 feet. These figures can
scarcely be comprehended by the aver
age reader. This amount of lumber
would load every year $4,000 vessels,
each carrying 100000 feet, which is an
average cargo for lake vessels; or ],
420,571 railroad cars, each averaging
Z, 900 feet-an average carload. This
would makea train s, 800 miles in length,
Or about one-third around the globe.
Under such tremendous yearly
. drain, the question naturally comes up,
4 how long will our forests hold out at
present rate of i manufacture? It is
really an important question: upon
which follows the inquiry as to what we
3 are to do for building material when
this magnificent wood-pine-is ex-
hausted One authority after another
has entered formally upon its solution,
with satisfactory results in local in
stances, but Very vague ones as to the
field at large. At the rate we are cut
ting it to-day, from thirty to fifty years
seem to be agreed upon as about the
limit. Twenty years ago there was
apparently no limit, for the consump-
) ton was not only less, but the means
for its manufacture were primitive: and
; accomplished much smaller results
Ludu HOW. IL SecI1S dts IL III were ILL
possible to further improve the ma
chinery Of saw-mills; but the near flu
ture may, for all that, see saving ma
| chinery in comparison to which that OF
the present will be contemplate. So
! although twenty years ago there was nc
foreseeing the end of the timber, now
with the modern mills and myriads Of
them, We are beginning to calculate
: with dire certainty as to the time when
the Wooden Age" will be a thing Of
the past. sI III ~,
i Sending Plants to Sleep.
r Several members of the Partisan Bio
logical Society have recently been en-
gagged in series of experiments which
seem to prove that everything endowed
, with life, whether animal, plant, or fer
ment, is susceptible of being brought
!, under the influence Of anasthetics Sin
other words, may be sent to sleep. 1t
has been proved that the influence OF
anasthetics extended to all the animal
tissues, and last of all to the central
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