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hundred and thirty-four thousand square miles. Prussia has six mil- 

 lion two hundred thousand acres of forest; France, two million seven 

 hundred thousand; Austria, two million two hundred and thirty 

 thousand ; England, one hundred and twelve thousand three hun- 

 dred and seventy-six; Bavaria, three thousand two hundred and 

 ninety-four; Hanover, nine hundred thousand; Wurtemburg, four 

 hundred and sixty-nine thousand, and Saxony, three hundred and 

 ninety-four thousand. 



In the United States the destruction of forests is going on with 

 fearful rapidity. It is estimated that in this country one hundred 

 and fifty thousand men are employed in getting out sawed lumber 

 alone, and that the capital invested in the business is one hundred 

 and forty-three million dollars. The woods of Maine are fast dimin- 

 ishing, and the few trees that escape the lumberman's ax do not 

 promise a revival of the almost trackless forests which the moose 

 and deer once frequented. In eighteen hundred and seventy-one the 

 immense area of ten thousand acres was stripped to supply the City 

 of Chicago with lumber. At this rate it is plain to see that forests 

 are rapidly vanishing. 



THE LUMBER RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA. 



To most people the timber lands of California are thought to be 

 very limited in extent. Few have visited those portions of Califor- 

 nia where the great forests exist. So little known were the lumber 

 resources of the State that in eighteen hundred and sixty-eight a 

 company was formed in this city to control the lumber interests ; but 

 when they began their surveys in Mendocino and Humboldt Coun- 

 ties, they found that there was more timber than they could control, 

 and the enterprise fell through. Only a portion of the lands of the 

 State have been surveyed thus far, and the exact area of the timber 

 lands cannot be ascertained. 



SURVEYED TIMBER LANDS IN CALIFORNIA. 



The surveyed lands of the State contain the following acreage 

 under timber: 



County. 



Acres of timber. 



Kind of timber. 



Del Norte 



Humboldt 



Mendocino 



Lake 



Sonoma 



Marin 



Yolo 



Trinity 



San Mateo 



Santa Clara 



Santa Cruz 



Ban Benito 



.Monterey 



Ban Luis Obispo . 



San Diego 



San Bernardino . 



Kern 



Tulare 



115,200 Redwood. 



460,800 .Redwood, a little pine. 

 50fi,880 .Redwood, a little pine. 



92,160 Pine. 



322,560 Redwood. 



115,200 Redwood and pine. 



Scraggy oak. 



None surveyed. 



115,200 Redwood. 



230,400 Redwood and pine. 



230,400 Redwood. 



46.0S0 Pine and cedar. 



4f..nsii __ Redwood and pine. 



46,080 L.Redwood, pine, cedar. 



115,200 ! Pine. 



138,240 Pine. 



92,160 Pine and cedar. 



92,160 Pine and cedar. 



