The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-18

The ETeaIpr pOfIlon pI tUt suuiHetn Cuh was of yellow pine. amounting to more than g. 67I ooo 900 feet and representing about 27 per cent. of all the lumber cut in the corn. try This timber of various species is found in all the Southern States, but nine -tenths Of it is in the eastern part of North Carolina. South Caroline and Georgia. in the northern mart of Flcrida in Southern Alabama. in the southern third of Mississippi. with strip ex- tending almost to the northern boundary m Southeastern and Northwestern Louis ana in Northeastern Texas and in Southern Arkansas the area in the South Atlantic and Guit States yielding to low nnarshy cypress bearing strips near the coast and extending Into the hardwood forests of the interior Ihe cypress cut in the census year was 4g5Ot U ooo rect of which 33e 663. .oo0 were in Lous.ana Ten nessee led in the South in it's cut of white oak 4o8l 883. 900. with Kentucky second. 3e2 .so4. GOO, and West Virginia third, SSS'-
 @The yellow pine area has upon it. t is es- tlmated. about 300. GOO. 900 900 feet of stand wooded area of the South. though 1t must not be understood that the trees of all that area necessarily contain merchantable timber.
 Tn this wooded of the South Is great variety of timber. an index to which was given result of the examination maae in the mountain region of Western North Carolina embraced in the plan for the great Appalachian forest reserve. Representatives .I that region total stand of 10 1850: :ooo. GOO feet of oak. chestnut. white pne, hemiock' spruce. poplar, ash, cherry cucumber pea pea birch naIle hickory, locust. black pine, sfort-leaf pine and other species
 
 great source of wealth for the South of the progress made in developing it. and yet or a possible danger. Knowledge that there Is quite a body of untouched white pine in the most elevated portion of West Virginia. and that there is enough yellow pine standing in all the South to bear for thirty-three years an annual cutting equal to that of 1900. is quite satisfactory to persons who look only to today. or the immediate tomorrow. But when 1t is considered that the cut in 800 of Southern yellow pine was 4. 200. .Ooo 100 feet m~re thsn5 the cut of white pine In Michigan w seonsln and Minnesota, the home of tho white pine industry the mind Is directed In warning to the lumber history of the lake region shown by the depletion of the timber in Michigan and the inroads upon it in Wisconsin, as the in Michigan the increase in capital during the twenty years has been from S59 260, 42S to yS67. 379 6oS the value of the output has increased only from S52 .449 BPS to $54.- ooO. 52o. Increases in capital in the other two States have been greater In proportion than the increase fin the value of products. In Minnesota the capital has increased from S5,- VILLAS to S52, ,ooS. q22. and the value of the output from S7.366 o78 to S43 525 6I. Tn Wisconsin the capital has increased from of the products from Sl7, e52 SAY to S57;- 634.9I6. Tn the three States the total capt. taI has trebled while the value of the pro- duets has hardly doubled. In a stuiy or the figures for these three great lumber states i'' the lesson for the South, It is that in spite of vast resources there is a way of lumbering that must exhaust them. and that instead "f' handling Southern yellow pine or any other Southern timber the lake white pine has been handled, it is for the South. one of the great timber reserves of the country, to hanale its forests upon economic and scientific prtn- ciuIes so that the area of It's merchantable ii nber may remain practically the same for ever" O