Daily globe., 1883-08-09

Total ...... $50, ,06l, ,535 100, 255, 744 35
Referring to the pine lumber supply,
Mr.. Loring said the destruction OF this
tree by fire and the Axe is very great In
vestigations show that the supply of pine
in New Hampshire and Vermont is ex-
hausted. In Maine the pine will last but
years; in South Caroline 80 years; in Ar
kansas 800 years; in Pennsylvania 25 years;
in Georgia 80 years; in Louisiana 100
years; in South Carolina so years; IN Wis
consin 20 years: in Michigan 10 years; in
Minnesota 10 years, in Mississippi $50
years; in Alabama 80 years; in Florida 80
years, and in Texas $50 years. That the
exhausted forests in this list of states can
be restored in time there Is no doubt, and
every means of cultivation and protection
should be used by the people and govern
ment, both state and federal.
In this connection DR.. Loring said:
1--WE should not forget, however, that
while the demand for lumber IS imperative
| and increasing with increase of popula-
ton, requiring the fostering care of the
government and the enlightened enterprise
of timber growers in promoting the pro-
gress of forest culturess there may be dan
ger of assuming too hastily prospective
timber famine, and fabulous prices for
fuel, even with the foregoing striking esti
mates before Us. It should be remembered
that thus far the exhaustion of lumber re-
lates mainly to the white pine. 1t may be
| found, when tie great pineries shall be
cut over, that the outcome is greater than
was assumed, and that isolated patches of
! pine in mixed forests, and the second
| growths and remnants from first cuttings
may suffice to delay the threatened panic
| The black walnut, cluled from western
forests to meet limited though important
| demand, is really becoming scarce on the
northern side of the Ohio valley, but on
the southern, along the foot hills and in
the valleys of the Appalachian range, it is
abundant and almost untouched. It grows
| rapidly in the western states, even beyond
the Missouri, and is destined to be the
souBse of wealth to the future tree
growers. The millions of acres of exist
ing forests on this great eastern chair
of mountains, has not yet been considered
in the statistics of forestry here presented
Their resources have never been measured
are yet comparatively unknown, and al
most untouched by the axe of the wood
man. AS railroads penetrate these noun
tain Businesses in the Virginias, the Caro-
inas, Kentucky and Tennessee, bonanza
of forest production will respond to tn
call of enterprise and enrich the proprie
tor, woodsman and manufacturer.
In addition to this the white pine o
Minnesota is estimated at 6,1O0,OOO OOt
feet exclusive of isolated timber In bircl
and amidst other hard wood growth. II
Michigan the estimates for the lower pc
ninsula cover 7,OOOO0O,OOO feet in tn
Saginaw district, S,0OO,OO0,0O0 on tn
streams flowing into Lake Huron, ant
14,O00.000,000 on those flowing into LAX
Michigan. The upper peninsula, contain
5000, 100000 more, making $4,000, 90
feet in the principal pine districts O
Michigan. The great pine forests of Wis
consin are estimated to contain 41,OOO
100000 feet of lumber, the largest propo1
ton in the Chippewa and Wisconsin dis
tricts. They cover an area of 22,5OO,OO
acres. The northern border of the pin
} area is less productive than the areas c
lower latitudes. The cedar swamps {
} Wisconsin, scattered throughout the pin
, belt, are estimated to cover 1866, ,000 acre
and to contain 63.800,O00 posts, telegrap
} poles and railroad ties. There are ais
large supplies of tamarack, and spruc
and valuable oak timber, especially /
: Dunn, Pierre and st. Croix counties, an