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

More Than $181 ,OOO, 900 InveSted-Manu-
featuring Mills and Their Productions
The Annual Product Valued at More Than
$3.50 ,OOO, OOO-The Hands Employed and
| Wages Paid Them-How the States Stand
in the Order of PrOductiOn-New YOrk
Fourth on the List.
A recent bulletin from the census Office
at Washington contains some interesting
information about the numbering industry
of the several states and territories. II
Washington territory the principal lum
Der industry is confined to the shores
of Puget sound. The product of thi;
region for the census year was 144,3S7,
900 feet of lumber, 6,55O,O0O laths, 71o.O0(
shingles and 23,G66,000 slaves. The pro
duct of the coast, outside of the Puget
sound region, was 9,599,0O0 feet of lum-
Der and 100000 shingles, and of the terri
tory east of the Cascade range, 100000
feet of lumber and 100000 shingles. In
Oregon the principal industry centers neal
Portland and Empire City. The product
! of the coast region for the year was 1s1..
443, 600 feet of lumber, 17,S50,000 laths and
2,745,O0 shingles, and that of the state
east of the Cascade range, was 25,729,00O
feet of lumber, 295, 900 laths and 1926, 600
shingles. The most valuable timber tree
is the red or yellow fir, which forms fully
seven-eighths of the forest. The tide
water spruce abounds along the coast, and
the red cedar are common and of large
size. East of the Cascade mountains the
forests are confined to the mountain ranges.
They are open. scattered and generally
composed of small trees. Many coun-
ties are destitute of timber. The
heavy forests of California are confined to
the coast range and the Sierre Nevada. The
most important trees of the cogst range
forests are the red wood and rod fir. The
tide water spruce and the hemlock extends
as far south as Cape Meducino, although
less generally multiplied and less valuable
than further north. The chestnut oak, of
which the bark is largely used in tanning,
is still common in the coast forests of the
northern part of the state. The valuable
forests of the western slope Of the Sierra
Nevada is confined to belt between four
thousand and eight thousand feet eleva-
ton. consisting of the sugar pine and the
red fir. The slopes of these mountains be-
low four thousand feet elevation are more
or less dansely covered with various species
of pine of little economic importance, and
the broad valleys of the Sacramento and San
Joaquin, lying between the coast range
and the Sierra Nevada, are covered, except
at the south. with a very open growth of
large oaks, of little value except as fuel.
The eastern slope OF the Sierra Nevada is
covered with an open growth of large yell
low pine. The northeastern and nearly all
the southern and southeastern portions OF
the state are entirely destitute Of the cov-
ering. The principal lumber industry OF
California is confined to the red wood belt:
both slopes OF the Sierra Nevada; Butte,
Tehama and Mono counties and the San
Bernardino mountains. The total product
of the state for the year was 304, 49,, 900
feet of lumber, 2,420,000 laths, 1873, Ills, 900
sets of headings.
The timber supply of New Hampshire
is 1910, 100000 feet, board measure. There
was cut during the year 153,175,O0O feet.
The original white pine forests are nearly
exhausted. Considerable areass formerly
occupied by white pine, especially in the
southern part of the state, have grown up
again with this species. No estimate of
the amount of this second growth pine
have been made, although it furnished a
cut during the year of SO, 100000 feet. It
is roughly estimated that the spruce for
Al ,%os~ i.
of hard wood, and l65, 200, 900 feet of hem
lock. Vermont's timber supply is 1885,
100000. The cut during the year (exclud-
ing 1871 900 feet imported from Canada)
was 199,OS6,OO0 feet. The original white
pine forests Of Vermont are practically
exhausted, and are only represented by a
small amount of second growth, which fur
| nished during the year a cut of 6,5O5. 900
feet. Names supply of pine is 49,
100000, and of spruce 5000, 100000 feet.
The cut of pine was $685., 900, and of
spruce 3O1, 100000 feet: including 100000
feet of pine and 100000 feet of spruce
cut on the st. Johns river, but sawed in
New Brunswick. Considerable areas in
southern Maine are covered with second
growth pine, not included in the above es-
innate, although furnishing large pro-
portion of the pine sawed in the state.
Pine has been cut in every township, and
the largest spruce has been removed from
the state except from the inaccessible re-
gion about the headquarters of the Allie
quash river. The system of cutting only
the large trees and carefully protecting
the remainder prevails in Maine, and al
lows the forest to be proftably
worked at stated periods, varying
from fifteen to twenty-five years. Their
permanence is thus insured. The amount of
merchantable pine timber standing in the
state of South Carolina is 3,316, 100000
feet. The cut during the year was ID, 1872
600 feet. The red wood supply in Cali
fornia is 25,s25, 100000 feet. The cut OF
the year was $685., 900 feet, as follows:
sawed lumber, 125,39O,OOO; shingles and
shakes, 25,3s0,OOO; split railroad ties, 49,
2S5, 200; posts, etc., 12,600,O00. Arkansas
has supply of pine of Abs, 100000 feet.
The cut was 129, 7S1 600 feet, including
81 ,94S,OOO shingles and 2,891.OO0 laths.
The white pine and hemlock supply in
| Pennsylvania is less extensive than in
other states. The white pine supply is
18O,OOO,OOO feet. The west branch of the
Susquehanna river and tributaries contains
1,3OOOOO,OOO feet, and the Allegheny
river and tributaries 500,O00,000 feet. The