Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-09-01
Timber and Lumber for California.

The rapid growth of our state and the whole Pacific slope, and the cer- tainty of its large and rapid expansion, begins to awaken great attention to the lumber interests of our whole re- zion of country Until recently there has been but little thought of our future supply, as our vast area of timber trees was supposed to be ample for the next century But the vast amount of lumber of all kinds that is now used in all branches of the building inter ests begins to awaken serious appre- hensions in regard to our future supply.
 Within the last ten years thescon- sumption of lumber of all kinds for building purposes in California alone has more than quadrupled, and with the consumption for all kinds of ma chinery, for all agricultural imple- ments, wagons, carriages, and for rail road ties, sleepers, bridges, trestles, i fencing, etc. then, add to this amount the rapid demand for shipping timber and lumber to all parts of the world, shipping as we do to China Honolulu, London and Liverpool, and innumer- able other new sources of trade and l commerce, not dreamed of in the plans of many mercantile houses that never thought of such enterprises before.
 The planting of new timber forests
 now is an enterprise of the most mo-
 mentOus importance, for by our inves-
 tigation we can see the years rapidly
 coming when the value of timber trees
 and all kinds of lumber will command
 from twenty-five to fifty per cent ad-
 vance above our present prices, and in
 the above data of consumption we have
 not yet fully estimated the demand ol
 the millions of timber that is to be re
 quired for our bridges which will de
 mand the product of tens of thousand:
 of acres of the best trees that can be grown, and yet, up to this date bu little effort has been made to procure
 trees that were imperishable in tho earth or in the water, as the durabiiit, of timber makes the great value of al
 trees for practical mechanical uscs.- California Farmer.
 The post office at M enle v.l'e on tn San Pedro, has been discontinued with out moments warning to the man, settlers that received their weekly mai through it, and much inconvenience , has been occasioned thereby Tn { same may be said of the office at Ire
 Alamos. What the government cal
 gain by the suppression of these office
 is beyond comprehension, as the smal l outlay of money incident to theis eA
 istence will hardly ever be called u1 l against them by their political oppc l nents as a useless expenditure of tn X public funds. The trouble evidentl l Is to be found in the army of goverl !, ment spies that, lacking the capacit s for the big, are bound to dis:inguis }. themselves in things commensurate wit X their calibre, so little pile of woo 3 cut here must be noted, some countr ]. post office discontinued, some out-l, n ing settlement harassed and annoye
 through a fancied non-complianc
 with the land laws. Men who fc e years vast have stood off the Apache g paid the government it's price in mol ey earned by the sweat of their brow $ as with rife in hand they planted an e garnered their crops, are repeatedl " forced into court to defend their ha1 n earned homes against the insidious an It ubiquitous spy complained of I'll Il plaques never bore more heavily O e the Egyptians than do these irrespon = ible government spies on the good pe'
 pie of Arizona As Mark Smith {
 gallantly stood off the Land Court Bil :" /" he should be called upon to again di r ,r tinguish himself by cutting off the I government blood-suckers that v many little ways are doing more to i ., jure Arizona than even the dres y Apache. Let him do this and the y when in the near future Arizona b
 comes a state he will be her first sena
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