Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-16

and Sweden rank about even with France
Australia Is getting about s25.00o.ooo year
out of It's woods, and Great Britain about
$40, 100000. The most of our lumber Is used
at home and more and more of the home
product Is coming from this part of the
world. A half century ago the chief source
of supply was New England. then the Great
Lakes regions were opened up, and until
1890 they had the lead. In 1860 We were
getting one-sixth of our lumber from the
south, but the war paralyzed that Industry,
and 1t did not pick up again until along IN
the eighties.
Now about one-fourth of all our building
wood comes from the southern states: me
Pacific coast did little in this respect before
1880 and these vast lumber regions or the
northwest were not exploited at all Tor
years after that Their active life oesai.
when James ]. Hill showed that he could
carry shingles and boards across tne CONT
ueut on the Great Northern railroad ana
sell them at a profit in the east. froh
that time to this that road mas peeh get
ting big receipts from It's timber freignts'
and II is one of the chief timber transport
ers of this country today. On my way here
1 passed trafn-ioad after train-ioah OF
lumber going east. 1 counted forty cars
on a single train. and was toid I tn a -
contained altogether 100000 feet 1t was
made up of boards, shingles. rafters and
Iathing, and It was on It's way across me
Rockies to the lumber merchants OF me
Mississippi valley. That traln-load had
enough lumber on it to make board walk
a foot wide eighty miles long. II had
been loaded in the Flathead valley IN Mon
tana which Is now cutting about lOo.Ooo'ooo
feet OF lumber year.
Wood VS.. Steel.
Many people think that the age of WOOD
is passing away and that from now on
steel and iron are to take its place There
is an enormous amount of forest left in the
world Canada has thick timber when
would cover about one-third of the whole
United States. Russia has still more than
800 900 600 acres, one-thtrd or which De-
longs to the car and is carefully managed
to prevent waste. 1t annually exports S2o-
600 600 worth of wood; one may see steam
ers loaded with 1T going out from the Bal
tic and there is a great caravan or ooats
always moving down the Volga, carrying
the lumber of the north to the great black
plain and the regions about the Caspian.
About 40 per cent or Sweden IS sun COW
cred with forest and the same Is true or
30 per cent of Norway, OF which three
fourths Is pine
/ rode a thousand miles up the Amazon
q few years ago through giant WOODS all
the way, and / could have gone by steamer
2 500 miles westward from Para through
similar country. The whole Amazon val
ley is covered with woods, and this Is SO or
many of its tributaries. There are great
forests along the Parana and Paraguay
rivers with are not exploited now because
of the cost of getting the wood out They
have no snow there to help them, and no
modern machinery in the way OF LUMBER
railroads steam engines and cables These
will probably be introduced as the Worid
crop of wood becomes searcer. Austria
Hungary has At 100000 acres of forest, or
which about half IS pine, and a large part
OF the remainder OAK and beech. That
country exports about SD, 100000 worth OF
timber every year, and five or six millions
Of this is in slaves for casks and sawed
lumber Australia has vast forests In the
west. and it is now exporting wood for
movements to many of the cities Of Eu-
rope Slam is exploiting its teak timber,
used largely for shipbuilding and furni-
ture and the same is true of Burma. Brit
ish India sells something like $1,000, 900
worth OF teak every year, and Great Britain
annually buys more than So 0O0 600 worth
OF that wood to use in Shipbuilding.
Our Big Timber Supply.
We have enormous forests In the Philip
pines which viii supply ties to China when
the great railroad era OF the celestial en-
pire begins, and the same is true of For
mosa, Borneo and other islands of that
part of the world. Cuba Santo Domingo
and Central America are all rich In hard
woods and. indeed, there is scarcely a
country the face of the globe which
has not still large amount OF valuable
timber.
AS for the United States proper. the
| last census estimates that the timber owned
| by lumbermen was more than 200 000,030 600
| feet, and that the total amount of our out
| standing timber was ten times as great. 1t
] was then estimated that we had Is 600 COO
| 900 feet of white pine in Wisconsin, and
| more than 5000. 600 in Minnesota, while
4 there was something like 50,o0o 100000 feet
| OF white pine In the whole country. AS
| to spruce, there was about $4,000, 600 feet
| of that. and of hemlock more than twice as
| much. There are about 100 600 acres OF
| yellow pine left In the south, with more
| than 900, 00o. 10000 feet on them, and
| altogether about 10000 10000 feet OF hard
| woods. In addition to these woods there is
| a vast amount OF yellow pine. sugar pine
| and red frs. The red frs are found here in
/ the northwest. They are 200 or 800 feet In
/ height and it is not uncommon to get co.
4 O0O feet from one acre. The redwoods OF
| Oregon and California sometimes yield
| 1000 feet and more per acre and the sup
| ply Is said to be more than 5000 0O0 600
| feet Indeed, It will be q long time before
| we are out Of building material and before
Uncle Sam will have TO keep himself warm
| by hopping up and down and swinging his
arms.
Logging In Northwest.
But, let me tell you how numbering Is
| done out here at the northwestern end OF
| our country 1t IL far different than IN
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, where
the trees ara felled In the winter. rolled
| into the streams and fioatsd Down with tha
floods in the spring. The logs are cut here
all the year round and lumberlng r. rail-