Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-13
FEB. Is. 1901,
SOUI,H EIaN IIMIsEB ]

territory south of the Potomac arc
205,300, 900 acres of timber land,
bearing oil the species of wood to
be found between the Rocky Noun
Z tains and the tropics, and some
even of tropical growth. No SINH
lar area on the! face of the globe
bears the same variety OF forest
growth, nor anything like tho same
variety of the perfectly developed
timbers of commerce.
Maine has her pincries, North
ern Wisconsin and Minnesota their
pineries, California her red wood,
and Oregon her pincries, Washing
ton, Wyoming and other North
western territory their peculier
growths, all good as far as they
go, while some Of them are mar
vels of colossal growth. The Mid
die States, 1lorth of the Potomac
and Ohio Rivers, in line parallel
with Illinois and reaching west
ward from the Atlantic into and
through Missouri, were once hcav-
lily timbered, but the timber has
been so thinned ont that there is
but little left for commercial pur-
poses. The pincries Of Maine are
about exhausted, as are also the
plnerics of the States Of Wisconsin
and Minnesota. The red woods of
California are only adapted to cor
tain uses, while the great pine for
ests Of tho extreme Northwest are
too far removed from the center Of
population to bear shipment eth
or by land or water. The same is
true, in q measure, OF the product
OF the Canadian forests.
But this is not true OF the tim
bers OF tho Southern forests, which
are shipped in all directions, and
are in much demand OH account of
their superior qualities. Pine cut
and sawed within few hours ride
of Wilmington is shipped by rail
to New York and Boston, and as
far South as Savannah. Hundreds
of cords Of North Carolina hickory
were shipped North to be shaped
into spokcs, axe handles, etc, be-
fore the spoke and handle facto-
rles came to tho hickory. Cords
upon cords of walnut arc being
cut throughout the<Sout'h today to
be shipped North to supply the
furniture factories which have OK
hausted the supplies nearer home.
Millions of feet of other kinds of
timber, pine, oak, cypress, etc, are
being cut every day to supply the
homo demand of orr towns and
cities, tile demands of other States
and Of foreign countries. This
source of wealth is so abundant.
lays about so loose us it were, and
we are so accustomed to looking
at it and hacking at it, that very
few of us put proper value ulson
it.
Practically speaking, the forest
growth OF commercial timbers in
the United States, -6tttsftfe Of the
Solffbh, rs 'txhausted. and to the
Southern forest the timber seeker
must now turn for what he needs.
There is enough here, unless it is
senselessly butchered and destroy
ed, to meet the wants Of the world
for many years. Two hundred and
five millions, three hundred thou
sand acres, covered with timber, is
magnificent domain. Imagine
forest six times as large as the
whole State Of North Carolina and
you have some conception of what
this vast Southern forest with it's
multiplied growth really is.
While there is much Of it being
cut, it is as yet scarcely enough to
be perceptible, but every year will
make an additional drain upon it,
and every year will add additional
value to that which is left sta Id
ing.
The population doubles about
every twenty eight years. They
must have houses to live in. These
houses, as now, will be built in a
great part Of lumber. AS the area