Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-10
Of INLAND EMPIRE EASILY
RANK THIRD AMONG The
MANY OTHERS.
Western Pine Manufacturers Associ-
alton Receives Reports for Year
Over 400 Miles in the District-Pro-
duced 10000 Cars of Lumber During
1910, Valued at Over SOL 200, 900.

possibly by mining. Its Importance be-
comes apparent at glance by group
ing the accompanying statistics, which
are conservative estimates based on re-
ports for 1910, received by the Western
Pine Manufacturers association at it's
executive offices in Spokane:
Total capacity of 400 mills in dis
trict, 3,000,O0O,O00 feet.
Production, 1863 900, 900 feet board
measure, or 10000 cars, as against
1,250,000,000 feet in 1909.
Value of the product at the mill,
$2a 900 600
Paid to labor, 14,000,0 900.
Paid to railroads for freight on lum-
Der, $6,OOO,OOO.
Value of stumpage cut, $3,0OO,O0O.
Varieties, Idaho white pine, western
soft pine, fir and larch, also cedar
spruce and hemlock and cottonwood.
Capital invested in the industry,
$1i0,000,O0O
Working capital, between $25,O00,-
600 and $3O,OOO,OOO
Number of men employed on basis
of 300 days, 10000.
Persons directly supported by the in
dustry, about 100,0O0; indirectly, 300.
900 more
Shipping territory, northwestern and
prairie states, also middle western and
Atlantic coast states from 80 to 40
per cent of output consumed annually
in the district
Members of the Western Pine Manu-
facturers association, representing
about 70 per cent of the total capital
invested in the lumber industry in this
district, report total cut of 876,649,-
lat feet for last year, as against 769,-
275,470 in 1909, while the sales in 1910
amounted to 822,93O,944 feet, or 1859
cars, as against 835,759,573 feet, OF &c.
545 cars, in 1909.
1t is estimated by competent cruisers
there is about 31O,00O,O0O, 900 feet of
standing timber in the Inland Empire,
taking in 10000 square miles of ter
ritory in eastern Washington and Ore
gon, north and central Idaho, western
Montana and southeastern British Co
iumbia. The forest service places the
fire losses in Idaho Oregon and Wash
ington in 1910 approximately $780,
100000 feet.
Forest Report.
Raphael Zon, chief of silvics, in his
report on "The Forest Resources of
the World,' published recently as Bui-
letin SO of the forest service of the
United States department of agricul-
I'm bo
northwestern and Pacific states as
follows:
Washington, 25,0O0,000 acres, 20 per
cent of the total acreage of the state;
Oregon, 27,000,000 acres, Al per cent;
Idaho, 20000,0O0 acres, 81 per cent
California, 24,000,000 acres, "a per
cent; Montana, 100000 acres, 10 per
cent
The forest acreage in the United
States is placed at 545,O0O,O0O acres,
or 30 per cent of total land area of
1908, 423 1850 acres. The unreserved
and private owned acreage is 10000 |
900, or S1.1 per cent; national forest |
reserves, 100, 100000 acres, or 1885 per
cent; state-owned, 100000 acres, or
1855 per cent.
Official Report.
Official statistics of the total cut of |
lumber in the five states of the Pacific
coast in 1910 have not yet been made
public, but it is probable the report will
show an output fully as large, if not |
greater, than in 1909, when it was
given as 1861 100000 feet of lumber
and $50, 900 pieces of shingles, ap-
portioned as follows
States. Lumber. Shingles.
Washington 1893 100000 1878, 467 900
Oregon .,.,....-1 ,s99 100000 574,342, 900
California IL, 144 100000 293, 644,O
Idaho ........,... 646,OO0,0O0 62,3OS, 900
Montana ........ 309,000,0OO $4,000 |
The total cut during the three years,
1907 to 1909, inclusive, was 21,6ss,O73,-
900 feet of lumber and 25,793, 73O 900 |
pieces of shingles.
The foregoing figures show what the
lumber industry means to the Inland |
Empire and the Pacific states as |
whole.
The lumber interests in the Inland |
Empire in common with those in other
uiSlIlcIo III Ine racine country nave
borne the brunt of battle against. care
lessness and unsafe methods of burn
ing slashings and waste logs. They have
maintained for number of years at
an enormous expense efficient fire fight
ing forces to protect neighboring fed
eral and state-owned property as we'll
as their own holdings in the several
states. They were in the forefront in
seeking fire protection and equitable
liability legislation and have made
Z their influence felt in the regulation
of excessive freight rates on eastbound
shipments, also in other matters of
vital Importance to the people of the
country.
BY J. P. McGoldrick, Spokane, Wash.