Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-18

pine forest, which gradually change in
character and decreases in productiveness
as it reaches northward. Lakes become
more common and swamps occupy con-
siderable portion of the area. The pine
trees are smaller and more scat.
tered, although generally less in
termixed with hardwood, and the lumber
they yield is of a poorer quality than fur
Their south. The aggregate amount OF
standing pine is 41,OOO,OOo,OOO feet. The
cut for the year aggregated 2O97, 299, 900
There were manufactured 1907 ,O39, OOO
shingles and 34S,3O1, 900 laths. Of this
amount of cut lumber 49,, 552, 600 feet were
manufactured along the Mississippi river
in Illinois, Iowa and Missouri as far south
as st. Louis. The hardwoods of Wiscon-
sin are irregularly distributed through the
state. Four counties are estimated H.
00O.O00 cords; in addition to some timber
of commercial value. Valuable oak tim
Der exists in large quantities in some coun-
ties, and hard woods are found distributed
through all the southern portion OF the
| forest area OF the state. The cut of hard
woods for the year was Ill, O41, 600 feet.
exclusive of S6,545.O00 slaves and 7,43S.-
| 600 set headings. The cedar swamps scat
tered through the pine belt of the state
cover an area of some 1855, 900 acres. and
are estimated to contain 6280O,OOO posts.
telegraph poles and railroad ties, in addi-
! ton to large quantities of tamarack and
spruce. In computing the lumber supply
of Michigan the state is divided into the
upper and lower peninsula. The white
pine Of the lower peninsula reaches 3d.
OOO, 100000 feet. The cut was 4,O68,77
| 600 feet, exclusive of 36,O0O,OOO slaves and
100000 sets headings, and including
1888, 100000 shingles and 428, AL, 900 laths,
! The pine remaining on the lower peninsula
! is distributed over about 6.500,O0O acres.
| The estimated amount of SIS, SOC, 900 cords
| of hard wood is distributed over some
| 20,000,00O acres, and about 20 per cent. is
suitable for lumber and cooperage stock.
The cut, exclusive of 163, 1921 900 slaves
and 1857 600 headings, and including
6,03S,O0O feet of good stock, was
44O, 900. In the southern half of the
lower peninsula The forest has been largely
removed for agricultural purposes, or used
in manufacturing. although considerable
wooded areas generally distributed still
remain. Some 7,OOO,OOO,OOO feet of hem
lock lumber and 100000 cords of bark
still remain in the state, and in scattered
swamps some 100000 cords Of white and
yellow cedar. The upper peninsula con-
tains 6,O00,OO0,000 feet of standing white
pine. The cut was 32S, 43S, 0CO feet, in
Guiding JOG, 49,, 600 shingles and 100000
laths. From some counties the merchant
able pine has been almost entirely re-
moved, and others contain very little. A
few counties are chiefly covered with hard
wood. 1t is estimated that 124.530,0OO
cords Of hard wood are distributed over
10,000.00C acres, and that the cut, exclu-
sive of fuel and railroad ties, was ], 1850
The southern counties contain large areas
of swamps covered with tamarack, white
and yellow cedar, estimated in the aggre-
gate at GO. 100000 cords.
Minnesota contains 6,1O0,O0G.O0O of
standing merchantable white piue The cut
reached $1,000 900 feet. This included
iS7.SS6,0OO shingles and SS,0SS,0O0 laths.
The pine forest gradually changes in
character and decreases in prOductiveness
as it reaches northward. Lake and tama-
rack and cedar swamps are common and
cover large areas; the pine trees are small
and scattered, furnishing lumber of an in
feriOr quality. In the belt of hardwood,
extending west and south of the pine re-
gion. and consisting of white, red and
burr oak, sugar maple and poplar, it is es-
timated that S,S4OOOO acres of forest re-
main, capable of yielding an average of
fifteen cords of wood to the acre, or 81
100000 cords. The cut for the year was
36,SS4,0 900 feet, exclusive of 7.825,OO
slaves and $4,000 set headings.
The birch lands are interspersed
with tamarack swamps, and beside the
prevailing birch and scrub pine, con-
tain patches of white piue covering, prob
ably, one-tenth of their area. Mississippi
contains II, 2OO,OOO,OOO feet of merchant
able long leaved pine. The cut for the
year was only 1O8,OOO,O00 feet. In this
estimate no account is made of small
timber standing on some 1912 O)O acres
which have been cut over, and from which
the merchantable pine has been practic-
ally removed. There are 6,775,OOO,OOO
feet of short leaved pine. The cut was
7,775,O00 feet. The long leaved merchant
able pine standing in Alabama is 1885,
OOU,0O0 feet. The cut was 245, 396, 900 feet,
including 77.59O,OOO feet grown in the
state and sawed in Western Florida. In
this estimate no account is made of small
timber on 1882, 900 acres which have been
cut over, or on 100000 acres injured by
the manufacture of turpentine. Of
short leaved pine there are 2,607, 100000
feet. The cut is not reported. The state
of Texas contains 2O,5Os, 100000 feet Of
long leaved pine, 26,O93, 100000 feet of
short leaved pine, and 2O,9O7, 100000 feet
of loblolly pine. The cut of long leaved
pine was 66,45OOOO feet, of short leaved
pine, 146,420,OOO feet (includidg 8O,29O,OOO
shingles), and 61,57O,OOO feet of loblolly
pine. Florida's estimate does not include
timber remaining on lands which have been
cut over or injured by the manufacture of
| turpentine. The amount of merchantable
long leaved pine standing is 6,615, 100000
feet. The cut was 2OS, O54, 900 feet, exclud-
ing 900 feet grown in Alabama and
sawed in Western Florida. The long leaved
pine forests of central and southern Flori-
da are less heavy than those of the north
ern part of the state.
| In volume of lumber production the
| states stand in the following order: Michi-
gan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, New York.
Indiana, Ohio, Maine, Minnesota, Iowa,
Missouri, Illinois, Georgia, California,
Kentucky, New Hampshire, Tennessee.
There are 25.7OS lumber manufacturing
establishments in the country, employing
a capital of $1S1, 1861 and al, 1854 male
hands above the age OF sixteen years, 425
female hands below the age of fifteen
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