Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-12-21
INDUSTRIES AND RAW MATERIAL.


of the Government pine forests wood.
pulp factories sprang up in Germany
in large numbers, as well as factories
for the manufacture Of sash, doors.
flooring, barrels, boxes, buttons and
covers for musical instruments, and a
great variety Of other articles. Some
1000 establishments, employing close
to $4,000 people, have grown up in
the mountain regions of SaXony alone,
where prior to the growth of her pine
forests, the country was comparatively
non-productive.
Attention may be called to the fact
that one hundred years ago Germany
was suffering from a timber famine
such as is now coming upon us. There
was much agitation over the matter
and the result was the establishment
Of the public forests in various Ger
man States, and the inauguration of
careful forestry upon private estates.
The development of these wood.
working industries following a liberal
supply Of wood is similar to the ex.
perience OF Cass Lake, Minnesota,
near which place a National forest
has been located, against the opposi-
ton of the neghboring inhabitants.
A crate and box.board factory has
since been started at Cass Lake be-
cause Of the presence OF the National
forest with its permanent supply of
wood. The people OF the village natur-
ally take pleasure in the new industry
with al that it means. This was
described at length in the Forest Serv'
ice Department OF the August issue OF
The Forestry and Irrigation Magazine,
Raw materials are the first essential
to all factories. How important then
to secure a sufficient supply Of raw
material in the way Of wood, when so
many of our manufacturing industries
use this as the substance from which
IuSy uldhS JHSH pIOuuNJS'
So far productive forestry has been
exclusively as business for
the market. 1t must be confessed that
the outlook for this sort Of investment
in the United States, although not
hopeless, is not very promising. How.
ever, there is another form of private
forestry which seems to be much more
adapted to American conditions, and,
now making fairly
rapid progress. This Is the manage
ment of forests, not to produce for the
open market, but to raise raw ma
terials needed in a particular enter
prise under the same ownership. A
very large part of American timber
lands is now in the hands Of manufac-
turing concerns holding them for this |
very purpose. AS owners expect TO
stand in need Of raw material for an
indefinite time. they are rapidly |
adopting conservative numbering, and |
will in all probability arrive at the
productive forestry stage in due time |
Analogous are the forestry undertak |
ngs Of railway corporations, such as
plantations for growing ties Forests |
devoted TO such purposes might be |
called auxiliary forests, distinguish
ing them from those managed as sep |
lrate enterprises, for which one might
coin the technical term autonomous |
forests" With the auxiliary forests |
should be ClassCd also the great num-
Der OF farm timber lot This system
Of forestry IS 1T TIE present time little
known in Europe and In the trcatises
Of European writer's 10 often treated
as an undevelopcd stage, However
that may be, II seems 10 hold out the
only promise Of vigorous development
Df private forestry in the United
States. II seems now highly probable
that the general public will In the
future. after the exhaustion OF the ma.
tural supply. have 10 rely principally
IN timber grown in public forests.
This opens up the question Of a very
extension OF the reserve
policy, especially in the hardwood re-
gionc.