The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-01-24

any previous time IN the history OF
the country. The total exports of
timber, lumber and manufactured
wood for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1900, amounted to s50,59S, 416. I'm
ports of corresponding products, how
ever, amounted to $20,591 sos showing
balance of almost exactly $3O,OOO,-
900 of exports of this class over I'M
ports. About half of these imports
come from Canada, consisting mainly
of planks, boards, logs and shingles
as the four principal items. Another
principal feature in our timber i'm
ports is the tropical timber. including
Cuban mahogany and cedar, Mexican
mahogany and cedar, and mahogany
from Central and South America and
Africa.
The timbered territory of the coun-
try covers five different sections, from
which commercial distribution is
made. Beginning with New Eng
land, the output of Maine is still the
leading feature of this section; and
the middle state, from the Adiron-
dacks and northwestern Pennsylvania
still supply considerable market of
more or less local character. The
greatest areas of standing timber are
found in the southern states,
where the long leaf and the short leaf
pine and the cypress are the leading
features. In the lake region of the
northwest, including Michigan, Wis
consin and Minnesota, we have the
largest output, where the white pine
ana hemlock are the leading features.
The Pacific coast section includes the
pine and fir forests of Washington
and Oregon, and the redwood of Cal
ifornia as the leading kinds of tim
Der. The Rocky mountain states are
as yet of subordinate commercial i'm
portance compared with the southern,
northwestern and Pacific states. A
comparison of southern exports of
timber, lumber and manufactures
thereof with the total from the United
States shows that southern ports fur.
nish SO per cent of the sawn timber
exported, 81 per cent OF the heWn
timber, "a per cent of the logs, etc. (;
GS per cent of the boards, deals and
planks, n per cent of the joists and
scantlings, 81 per cent of the shingles
" per cent of the slaves, IS per
cent of all other lumber and 10 per
cent of the manufacture. lumber--a
remarkable exhibit of the progress
which southern lumber products have
made in our foreign trade.
On the Pacific coast numbering or
a large scale has been carried to 8
high degree of perfection. especially
in the state of Washington in tn.
uget sound country. in Oregon OF
the Columbia river and in northern
trict. In the distribution of lumbe
by water Tacoma is the chief Quite
on the Puget sound. The redwood
of California is marketed very large
ly through San Francisco and Euro
ka. Portland, Ore, shows the heay
lest shipments by rail of any point OF
the Pacific coast
In the central states Minneapol!
is the principal center of lumber pre-
duction and distribution for the Who'll
pine region. In point of productio
Michigan. Wisconsin and Minnesot;
are about equal, and are still leadin
lumber-producing states of the unior
From them the eastward movement
by way of the great lakes amounte
to 1,O3S,O57 900 feet by way OF 3
Mary's Falls canal in 1890. Wit
these states the most extensively DE-
yelOped wood industries have ariseI
Nearness of raw material has give
furniture making, the manufacture c
vehicles and various other wood /.
dustries an advantage which no othe
portion of the world enjoys.
This report does not share the vic'
that the country is in danger of
timber famine. 1t takes the vie
that as soon as the level of the tin
Der land values rises to the levt