The Owosso times., 1904-04-08

Russia leads the world in the planting
of forests. the United States in their
wholesale destruction. Yet this vast
destruction means vast wealth to the
nation, and is the result, in part, of that
cry going up over the entire civilized
world, "More wood"
Few Americans, lin fact, few lumber
men, realize the extent of the lumber
industry of this country. We read with
wonder the value of the iron, the coal,
and the petroleum produced in the
: United States. Likewise, the produc-
tion of American gold and silver means
tremendous wealth. The vastness of
the wheat crop is almost beyond con-
ception. Yet the value of all iron, coal,
petroleum, gold, silver, platinum.
nickel, aluminium, zinc, lead. copper,
and wheat produced in the United
States during 1895 was SIG, 900, 900 less
than the value of the timber crop five
years earlier
In 1900, numbering ranked fourth
among the great manufacturing indus
tries of America, exceeding even the
leader, iron and steel, in the number Of
men employed and the capital invested
In America, this industry is more high
ly developed than in any other part of
the world.
| There are four distinct lumber-pro-
ducing districts in the United States,-
namely, the Northeastern, comprising
the northern New England States, New
York, and Pennsylvania; the Lake, COM
prising the States of Wisconsin, Michi-
gan, and Minnesota; the Pacific, com
prising the States of Washington, Ore
gon, and California; and the Southern
Yellow Pine, included in eleven states
Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro-
lima. Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas,
and Missouri.
OF these'four numbering districts, the
Southern today stands first. Here are
situated 43 per cent. of the saw mills,
here is employed 90 per cent. of the
labor, here is produced 2S per cent. of
all American lumber and 81 per cent. of
American lumber manufactured from
coniferous trees, and here is the region
which at present is taking the greatest
strides forward in development.
The most important timber of this Sec
tion is yellow pine. All other varieties,
taken together in comparison, form only
a small aggregate. From "The Yellow
Pine Lumber Industry in the South, .
by w. Watson Davis, in the American
Monthly Review of Reviews for April.
Inlate years men have made fortunes
out of the tailings of gold mines The
mills in which the ore formerly was
crushed and the crude processes then in
use allowed large percentage of the
precious metal to escape, and that loss
amounted in some cases to q fortune.
The stomach is just like stamp mill in
this respect, that when it is not in per-
feet order it allows the escape and waste
of much of the precious nutriment con-
tanned in the food. That loss when con-
tinuous means the loss of mans greatest
fortune health. Science offers rem
edy for this condition in DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. 1t corrects
the weakness" of the stomach, prevents
and loss cf nourishment, and puts the
stomach and organs of digestion and
nutrition into a condition of health
which enables them to save and assimi-
late all the nutriment contained in the
food which is eaten. In all cases of con-
stipation the use of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant
Pellets will speedily and permantly cure
the disease.