70 Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society. 



producing standpDint, bring the famine date nearer to hand than facts war- 

 rant, it is sufficiently near to alarm most careful and reliable calculators. 



The following leading factors in the timber trade of that portion of the 

 Pacific slope were obtained from parties and sources considered reliable. 

 Railroad ties, telegraph poles, fuel and other items for which timber is used, 

 are not included. 



CALIFORNIA. 



Number feet sawed — 



Lumberproper 620,435,000 



Shingles .%3,L39,000 



Shakes or staves 4,135,000 



Laths 4,G31,00C 



OREGON. 



Number feet sawed — 



Lumberproper 245,202,000 



Shingles 10,520,000 



Lath 25,371,000 



Staves 2,125,000 



WASHINGTON TERRITORY. 



Number feet sawed — 



Lumber proper 002,024,000 



Shingles 20,830,000 



Staves 45,434,000 



Lath 55,320,000 



Nine-tenths of the above, it may be safely said, is from what is familiarly 

 known as the Puget's Sound district. 



Comparatively little of this product at present finds its way to Eastern 

 States. The Northern Piicific Railway, now completed, and others reaching 

 to various points on the Pacific slope, afford a medium of exchange, and en- 

 ables these great timber supplies to be more largely distributed than here- 

 tofore. 



Extensive shipments of timber and, lumber are maile by sea to foreign 

 countries. The largest sized vessels entering through the Strait Juan de Fuca 

 can traverse all the Sound waters, at all stages, to within a few miles of Olym- 

 pia, the southernmost point, and to her docks at high tide. 



The President — The di.scus.sion of this pa))er, 1 think, had better 

 be deferred until a report of a committee on thi.s subject is made. 



Mr. X. Ohmer, of Ohio, was then introduced and read his paper 

 on raspberries. 



