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FOREST COMMISSIONERS REPORT. 



Woods Used. 

 White Pine. 



TABLE 2. 



Additional figures from 1910 reports of the Bureau of the Census (see appendix). 



White pine grows mo.st abundantly in the northeastern and 

 Lake States, with a southward extension along the Appalachian 

 Mountains. It reaches its best development in the region of 

 the Great Lakes. While it makes its most thrifty growth on 

 light, sandy, fresh soils, it does well on a large range of soils 

 from dry to moist. It is a rapid grower and is one of the 

 most important conifers of the United States. The wood is 

 "light and soft, but not strong. It is free from resin and easily 

 worked, and the heartwood is fairly durable in contact with the 

 ■soil. Because of the extent of the original forests of white pine 

 and the size which the tree attained, it was the first timber cut 

 in all northern logging operations, from Maine to Minnesota, 

 and it, therefore, became at once the most popular timber for 

 •construction, house and cabinet work, box manufacture, and 

 jnany minor uses. Arkansas shortleaf pine, California sugar 



