The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-07-26
TIMBER OUTPUT.
How the National Forests viii
Offset The Coming Shortage

z wv mills Whlcn made reports. /
This is seven billion feet more than
the cut made In 1905.
These figures at first seem to
point TO very alarming conclusion
that the country had in the last
year cut more than % per cent more
lumber than in 1895, in the face of
the fast waning supply The diff
ference is. however. chiefly due to the
fac that 2100O concerns have reported
1900 year ago The gain is the
result Of responses from the smaller
mills, made because the rank and file
OF the lumbermen now appre-
ciate that these returns are impor-
tant to the trade. and that their val
ne depends upon everybody helping
To make them as complete as posi-
BILE
II the returns were complete they
would probably show a cut OF forty
billion feet Tor lumber alone The
cut of lumber forms perhaps 40 per
cent Of the total timber consumption
Tor All purposes The figures are a
farming enough, taken In connection
with our available supply Of wood,
The total amount Of mercantile
timber In the United States is believed
10 be less than 1000 billion feet.
Il the demand could be kept sta
tlonary. and no timber were burned
up by forest fires. We should have
twenty years from now only what our
forests would have grown in the in-
ter,al
Three iourths Of the population oil
the country is east Of the Mississ-
lDp but more than half Of the tim
ben supply is vest o. IL The West
has IN it, forests material to last #
for nearly nfty years il its per cap
ri consumption is no greater than
that OF the country at large and
iir Il eau hold itself down to the
same annual total. This. however
takes no account OF the demands
which developing country makes
But the East has not enough saw
'tlmb4r Of It's own TO last fiiteef
wears. In point OF fact the Fast u
, IN, Northwest for lumber that tn
railroads have trouble To handle tn
5 traffic The position which Dougla
nr holds illustrates the Vests rapi'
! mogress toward becoming the princi
pal source OF supply OF saw timber
4 and the falling off IN the pr0ductio
4 Of Eastern States which formerl
lcld first place. Douglas Fir nov
= .anks second only to yellow pine !
+ total cut. and yields about one-haI
"A much lumber Never before has
d or,ranked white pine, which for man
q lust as white pine had TO give wa
ia southern yellow pine this in II
+ turn will be superseded by Dough-
g Fl, which is also known as red {
., and Oregon pine 1t is found NJ
lvhere east OF the Rocky Mountain
'e and by far the greatest quantity
n /, is In Oregon and Washington
'e The passing Of tn white pine OF Z
lake States is emphasized by q
~ statistics gathered by the censr
which in 1879. 1850 and 1880 show
Michigan the leading State in
tai production OF lumber. In the &C
a,s OF 1900 Wisconsin had passed
ne urst place. and Michigan second u
ne Minnesota third This relative po
y lion was not changed until 1904 VIII
"R Washington appeared at the top
'S the column and Louisiana was thi
with Wisconsin second and Minnes'
land Michigan fourth and nth. Ia
a. islepa now takes second place, VIII
an wisconsin goes down from second
10 third and Minnesota from fourth
IRE have moved up to fifth and si'
10y places while Michigan goes to iour
New York. in 1850. led all the sta
In the production Of lumber. PEI
sylvania rose to first place ten yes
me laier. and New York dropped to 5
ona. IN the period following the c
MY war the rapid extension OF railro
brought into market the great wi
'eh nine forests Of the Lake States |
the chief Source OF supply was IN
ing ed thphe Michigan first, Wiscor
next went to the font. When wa
o" ngton supplanted the latter the !
~ d,sship had crusSed the contin'
son " nuy wears it passed from an
us ,antic TO Pacific Coast State.
The holding OF chief rank
per n.oductIop bs staR does not lo'
'''e the country's chief source OF sup
Washington now stands first am
= the States. yet the South is supply
d more lumber than the West. But
< magnificent yellow-pine forests OF
u scaA are being rapidly cut and m'
y cted Just as was done with the WI
y ,sae forests OF Michigan and Mi
y eso,a during the thirty years