The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-07-25
Record Year in Timber
Output.
+,s National Forests Will Partly OFF
~ lne
set the Coming Shortage.

lrg6SL ever IcCOiucu. ~ Ctu i
IN recently issued gives 81 IL
t as the actual cut of the d.
which made reports. This is
ion feet more than the cut re-
1905.
cures at first seem to point to
conclusion-that the
ad in the last year cut more
er cent more lumber than in
= tace of the fast waning sup
Inference is, however, chiefly
IL fact that 21,000 concerns
gted their cuts as against less
90 year ago. The gain is the
leSponses from the smaller
lie because the rank and file of
rImen now appreciate that
urus are important to the
thai their value depends up
udy helping to make them as
as possible. If the returns
.piete they would probably
NJ forty billion feet for lum-
The cut of lumber forms
per cent OF the total timber
ee for all purposes. The
ilarming enough. taken in
With our available supply of
total amount of merchant
M the United States is be-
ess than 1000 billion feet.
and could be kept stationary,
stI were burned up by forest
j.d have twenty years from
" at our forests wouldhave
interval.
.tgS of the population of
IS east Of the Mississippi,
5u half of the timber sup
# 1t. The " est has in its
.er.al to last it for nearly
lis per capita consumption
lei than that of the country
If 1t can hold itself down
n- annual total. This, how
, no account OF the demands
Ieyeloping country makes.
tst las not enough saw tim
tNn to last fifteen years. In
IS y upon the Northwest for
nj the railroads have trouble
the traffic. The position
igiaS fir holds illustrates the
nd progress toward becoming
lal source of supply of saw
3 The falling off in the pro-
EASTERN States which for
rst place. Douglas fir now
ou1 only to yellow pine in
and yields about one half as
a-r Never before has it out
lie pine. which for many
3l drSt, and later second.
lie pine had to give way to
-AoW pine, this in its turn
erseded by Douglas fir, which
trwn as red fir and Oregon
is found nowhere east of the
unity of it is in Oregon and
0.
z of the white pine of the
t is emphasized by the sta
red by the census, which
and 1890 showed Michigan
late in total production of
H he census of 1900 Wiscon-
-d to first place, with Mich
md Minnesota third. This
,.lon was not changed un-
Washington appeared at
he column and Louisiana
I'll Wisconsin second and
. aud Michigan fourth and
Stamina now takes second
t Wisconsin goes down from
.-ird and Minnesota from
seventh. Mississippi and
ave moved up to fifth and
'.s While Michigan goes to
-E. IN 1850, led all the States
of lumber. Pennsyl-
TO tirst place ten years later,
y ork dropped to second. In
blowing the civil war the
A-ion of railroads brought in
he great white-pine forests
le states, and the chief source
moved thither. Michigan
Wisconsin, went to the front.
,ehlngton supplanted the lat
-uership had crossed the con
i fifty years it passed from an
Us a Pacific Coast State.
dug of first rank in produc-
state does not locate the
culef source of supply. Wash
US stands first among the
the South is supplying more
an the West. But the mag
yeliow-pine forests of the
Icing rapidly cut and market
Is was done with the white
is of Michigan and Minnesota
e thirty years following 1870.
'acilic coast will soon be the
'ce of supply.
icy of the Government in Gre
t0naI Forests in the West,
.u1nectlon with the favorable
and Typographical conditions
r5wth of trees, insures a fu-
.y which will be greatly to
5 advantage. When the in
time of timber shortage ar
cost of transportation in the
across the continent will aid
il far tho Sn = nis of n n,astor po