The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-05-08
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
TIMBER SUPPLY.

Some interesting facts are given
IN me circular on The Timber Sup
ply of the United States" just is
sued by r. S. Kellogg. forest inspec-
Tor OF the forest service, United
States department of agriculture
Every person in the United States
is using over six times as much wood
rs he would use if he We're in Eu
rope The country as a who'll con-
snmes every year between three ana
four times more wood than all Of the
forests of The United States grow in
the meantime The average acre of
forest lays up store of only 10 GU
bic feet annually, whereas it ought 10
he laying up at least 30 cubic feet in
order 10 furnish the products taken
out of it. Since 1851 more than
100000 600. 600 feet of timber have
ben cut for lumber alone, including
s0.000.000. 900 feel OF coniferous
timber in excess of the total conifer-
Gus stumpage estimate Of the census
in 1880
These are some OF the remarka BILE
statements made in circular 81 OF
the forest service, which deals with
he timber supply of the United
States and reviews the stumpage es-
Inmates made by all the important
authorities. \ study of the circular
must lead directly 10 the conclusion
hat the rate at which forest products
in the United States have been and
are being consumed is far too lavish.
and that only one result can follow
unless steps are promptly taken to
prevent waste in use and to increase
he growth rate of every acre of for
est in the United States. This result
is timber famine This country is
today in the same position with re-
gard 10 forest resources as was Ger
many ! 50 years ago. During this
period of $50 years such German
states as Saxony and Prussia, particu-
larly the latter, have applied policy
of government control and regulation
which has immensely increased the
productivity of their forests. The
same policy will achieve even better
results in the United States. because
We have the advantage of all the les
sons which Europe has learned and
paid for i'll the courst of century OF
theory and practice.
Lest ii might be assumed that the
rapid and gaining depletion of Ameri-
can forest resources is sufficiently ac-
counted for by the increase of popu-
lation, it is pointed ont in The circu-
lar that the increase in population
since 1880 is barely more than half
the increase in lumber cut in the
same period. Two areas supplying
timber have alreday reached and
passed their maximum production
the northeastern states in 1870 and
the lake states in 1890 Today the
southern states, which cut yellow
pine amounting 10 one-third the total
annual lumber cut of the country,
are undoubtedly near their maxi
mum. The Pacific states will soon
take the ascendency. The state of
Washington within few years has
come 10 the front and now ranks first
OF all individual states in volume OF
cut
At present but one-hfth of the to-
tal forest area of the United States is
embraced in national forests. The
remaining four-ffths have already
passed or are most likely 10 pass into
private hands. The average age of
the trees felled for lumber this year
is not less than 80 years. In other
words. if he is 10 secure a second
crop OF trees of the same size, the
or private forest owner
must wait, say, at least one hundred