The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-10
DEPLORES
,WASTEFIu
TIMBER
CUT TING

washington. d. O., Nov IO.-"We
are ncf1 cutting timber from the f,r.
esss Of tle United States et the rate
OF 800 feet board measure a year for
S'eiy mun, Neman. and cAisd. In Eu.
rcge tley Use ouly 60 board feet"
rev fsatcmelts could be ma &c
which would better convince the aver
age man that te.s country leads the
world IN the demand for timbec. IL
IS made by Treadwell Cleveland. Jr.
al c1'ulr wAitl treats OF the con.
Seeta.ion Of the forests. coil, water.
am al tha her great natural re.
souccc5 2lich tlas iast been publish.
ed by the unitel st.s,es Forest Ser.
vice. In speaking fu1ther of the con.
sumption OF timber in ahis country,
Mr. Cleveland says:
AT this rate in less than thirty
years all our remaining virgin will be
cut. Meantime, the forests which
have been cut OF. sis generally in
a bad way Tor want of care: they will
produce only inferior growth. We are
clearly owe. the verge Of a timber
famine. REWNW
Fcrs 3 Gct dre to necess' ". fcr ths
Forests are one Of the renewable re.
sources Rlghtly usoj, they go on pro.
dueing c.op afte- crop Indefinitely.
The couu,ric3 of Europe know this.
and Japan &nc9s III and their for
ests are Incoming With time not less.
brit more. productive We probably
still possess sufficient forest land to
grow pc1I enough at aome to supply
our own B-cls. II we are not blind,
or Btllfuiiy was'eful, we may yee pre-
serve oUr forest intepenience ana,
with it, The fourth Of Gu. great in
dustres.
Present wastes d9, lumber produc.
ton G'-e enormous. Take the Fare of
yefoW pine Whcn now heads the list
n the tume IF annual cut. In 1907
II Is estimated that only one-half of
all the yollOw yine cut luring the sea
son was useo, ami that the other
half, amounting to 8,00000d cords
Was wasted. Such s3ste Is typical
Mr.. r. A. Long, In his address on
Forest Conservation at the Confer
ence OF Governors last spring, pointed
out that 20 pc. cent of tne yellow pine
WAS simply left IN the woods--a waste
which represents the timber growing
on 100000 lcres.
'Ihe rest Of the waste takes place
ct TIE mill. or course. It would never
10 10 speak of the material rejected
2t tie mGN as waste unless this ma.
tcrial coc1l be turned TO use by some
AeNer ana mJre thorough form of
rbliz~-,.n But in many eases we
Know, ans In many other cases we
cave cXcelle-t reason TO believe, that
NEST, II net s,ll, OF this material coufl
be Uzad VITA profit. Il Is simply a
quesc "a Ct ir1cll, gc1t Investigation
and. more than ell OF having the
vial to economize.
Bu, there are ether ways to con.
serve the fc@csts besides cutting in
@it The present Wa1te OF forest pro-
dues. The forests can be made TO
Mcdoco @'ce 5r four times as rapid
ly as they Go at present This is true
Of beta tac y.rgin forests aud the cur
over Fan 9 Virgin forests are often
fully assske with flIstclass timber
brt This Nock has been lati in very
slowly, on account of the wasteful
c2npeiiA "a which IS carried on con.
stlntly - tween the rial trees. Then.
too, IN the virgin forests there a..
verF many trees NStcl nave reached
ms;u-ty Gad s5pE2d growing, ard
'hese ccCDy 81 ce 6hioi. II held by
Younger ue2s would be laying In q
ncw a3ck cons andy. As regards
the crtover lana. severe cutting, FOL
bowed by Gre, ms checked growth So
seriously that In most cases rep-o
iuction Is both POS and slow, while
IN many oGer cascs there IS no true
forest reproduction az all at present
aud tse ,s but lHGe nope for the
fnftts.o