Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-10-31
Our Timber supply.

Our Timber Supply.
III The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution publishes
editorially the following interesting article
n on 'our timber supply:" Weoommond it to
the careful consideration four renders.
Tho best wooded country in tho world
\ begins to soc that even its forestry resource,
& are by no means inexhuustible. The present
rate Of consumption is much greater than the
people generally believe it s; it is in fac
( enormous. Tho annual demand for ties
and sleepers Of our 1000 miles Of railway is
estimated to b. 5000 900 square icet. and to
4 inciose the roads would require $780, 900 miles
of fencc: We have $4,000 miles of telegraph
wire to put up, for which 100000 trees are
( needed, while repairs would mood ncnr:300,-
q 600 more trees year. The common luofer
J match uscs up 100000 cubic feet of tho finest
pine annually. The bricks baked every year
\ require 100000 cords Of wood, which would
abe oil that. $4,000 acres cf avorhge timber
y land would contain. Shoe pegs exhaust
8 annually 100000 cords of wood; lasts an
bootstrees some 10000 cords of beech, birch
B and maple, and about as much more is
4 required for the stock Of planes and other
tools. The packing boxes made in tho
s United States in 1874 cost Sl2,000,000. and
1.-THE lumber manufactured into wagons, agri-
sscultuaL implements, etc., was worth over
;;s$lO0,000,000. Our fences alone. according
ITO Mr.. Dodge, late statician of the agricultural
bureau, have cost our people $l,700 100000.
nearly hale Of WHICH consists in va!uo Of mates
&rial, and The annual cost of repairs is cst-
!, mated Dat $l08, 800, 900. An iron furnace that
burns charcoal, if in full blast, will consume
S.ali tho wood around it for three miles.
y t We noed not enumeratc moro demand supon
our timber supply for tho purpose Of showing
that etho consumption is immense. And it is
annually increasing; and so our foreign ships
aments, which arc already very largo. 1t is
estimated by Hon. George P. Marsh and
ssother competent and careful observers that
4 at the lumbcrman's estimate Of $4,000 fcot
,&of lumber to each forty acres our total con-
sumption of timber for all purposes would
demand tho clearing of twelve million acres
sof woodland every year. This is an area
equal to that of Vermont and New Hamp~
shire combincd. When we remember that
the destruction Of woodland has bcen going
&on for the last century, we begin to appro
sSciato our approach to timber famine. An
examination Of Professor Walkor's statistical
atlas shows that tho woodland of fully ono
half of the country does not exceed sixty acres
( to tho square milo.
u These facts ore full Of interest to the people
of Georgia. We have an immonse area of
! valuable timber. Our stock of hard woods is
almost as extensive as are our coniferous for
I ests. But neither are incxhaustblc, neither
! should be subjected to waste, for consumption
{ will soon call for both, and that, too, in invi
ting terms. Carefully husbandcd and rightly
marketed, the forests of Georgia are sufficient
10 double her wealth. Forty millions of peo-
a@ple are chtpping towards US ut rate that is
raipous to them but pleasant to us. Tho
blows of the advancing axcs aud the buzz of
%thetsaws are music in our cars.
50 A CURE FOR DIPyTnERIA.--The celebrated
81 DIR. Field, during the ravagos of diphtheria in
I England few years since, used the following
+ remedy: A teaspoonfull of birthstone in q
B Wineglass of water, starred with the finger
3 rather than q spoon, rs sulphur does not
readily amalgamate with water; when we'll
mixed use as a garglo and swallow. In
& extreme cases whero the fungus, was too
nearly closed to allow gargling, he blew tho
sulphur through quill into the throat, and
after the fungus has shrunk, thon gargled.
I nc tho patient cannot gargle, sprinkle the
& flower Of birthstone on live coal and lot him
sIinhale the fumes. Birthstone kills every
Ssspecies Of fungus in man, beast and plant.
4 DR.. Field mover lost patient from diphtheria
s. #during all his immense practice.
SN ATnsSs, GA, February %, 1878.-sir: My
'S'SSbild, five years old, had symptoms Of worms.
tsf tried calomel and other worm medicines, but
g iailed ia expel any worms. Seeing Mr.. Bain's
sertiiicate, i got o vial Of your Worm Ooil, and
4 s6o first dose brought forty worms, and tho
s }econd dose SO many we're passed did not count
S$}} }jdSn Is @ 81 s s. II. ADAMS.
Il III sale by n. .. Norman s. Bro.
a bic forD. Wyatt Aiken for congress.
VA That your tickotshas the name Of Hamp-
A aild tho; other Democratic State officers
i; I'd ated or writer upon IL before you yotc