The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-09-03
NATIONAL. fpHf~Ts AND rHI
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I timber % tho virgin forests
\ publication just issued b. re"
/ department II agriculture. eufltled
( National Forests and the Lumtrr
supply defines the important part
which the national forests are des-
( tined Gee plas In the economic det"l.
opmvui Of the country Abuses
have grown up under the laws whlrh
I provide for the disposition ut public
! land. notably The aggregation 81
large holdings of timberlaua for
/ speculative purposes Timber from
/ the national forests is now pufchaa-
/ 90 by the thousand board feet. and
/ payment is made upon the actual
scale Of the logs when cut Two dol
! lars and u half per thousand feet II
! comparatively low as present
/ charges go bat since the cut ranges
from 5000 to- 2D,0oo feet per acre,
/ the government receives from five
/ to twenty times as much for the tim
Der as il did under the timber and
stone act
Public opinion now demands. not
that the government should dispose
OF It's remaining timberlands as rap
idly as possible and leave 1t to pri-
waite enterprise TO exploit the forest
hastily but that what remains Of
the national forests should be more
conseryatively used. The govern
menr has been forced into the lum-
Der business solely in order that
supply of forest products may be
guaranteed 10 future generations.
Probably 60 per cent of the total
stand OF mcrchautabIe timber with
in the forests is located on the Pa
cific Coast. where for a long time
the enormous supply of privately
owned timber will satisfy most of
the demand This more accessible
private timber surrounded the for
ests as the meat of AN apple sur
rounds the core. 1t has been entire
ly eaten away in many places. while
in others it is locked mp by specula-
tors The thing to remember. then.
is that this immense body Of public
timber is there as "a great reserve
against the time when private tim
berlands viii be depleted and Tor
use as a weapon against monopoly
The first effect of national for
csts upon prices particularly where
/ there is still a great deal of avail
able timber is TO raise the price of
outside stumpaEe toward it's actual
value by Withdrawing the excess sup
ply of low-prced timber from the
market But later. as the supply of
timber dwiudles and values are
forced upward by speculative hold
iug-. the effect of the forests will be-
to check the advance of prices.
Iu the virgin forest growth is just
about balanced by decay I'm the
western forests. however. natural
/ deterioration rs greatly augmented
by forest fires. The fires usually do
most harm by damaging merchant
able timber uut. great aa This INJURY
is. vastly more actual loss Boa forest
wealth results from ihc YEARLY
burning over of the gra-s and under
growth uf the forest Ground fires
LIDO nor ,0u-um. The barge trees. hut
.uas destroy .yyd'us. outright aud
nwur growing trees .o chat they
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