i6o The yournal of Forestry. 



The whole of the forests of the other Eastern States are practically 

 exhausted. New Hampshire, Ohio, Indiana, Delaware, Massachusetts, 

 Connecticut and Rhode Island, have barely enough to supply the 

 population with fuel. 



The Southern states, Mississipi, Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee,. 

 Florida, Georgia, Arkansas, Lousiana, and the Carolinas, have large 

 tracts of pitch pine (P. Austrctlis) and cypress (Taxodium) amounting 

 to 11,000,000,000 cubic feet, representing something like 275,000,030 

 tons of rough timber. The timber imported into Britain from the- 

 Southern States is in point of value held at a low ebb. The turpen- 

 tine producers are fast slashing down the trees. 



The North Western States, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and 

 Mississippi river, are the four great timber states east of the Rocky 

 Mountains. They are situated between the three mammoth lakes,. 

 Huron, Michigan, and Superior. In 1876 the cut in these states was : 

 Michigan. 2,229,603,993 feet ; Wisconsin, 792,544,823 ; Minnesota, 

 317,092,000; and Mississippi, 380,067,000; making a total of 

 3,719,308,816 feet of standing timber cleared. The manufacturing 

 capacity of the saw-mills is 5,680,600,000 feet per annum, or one-third 

 in excess of the amount actually manufactured. The estimate for 

 1877 is 3,200,000,000 as compared with 1876. 



To compare the amount of timber annually cut in these forests, 

 Chicago may be cited as a centre. In the year 1871 there were over 

 100 saw-mills, and the quantity of timber received from districts. 

 directly contributary is given as 1,238,000,000 feet. About 

 half a million is used in the city, the rest is sent west to the immense 

 prairie lying beyond the city, and depending entirely on the east for 

 its timber supply. Rebuilding the city after the great fire took 

 750,000,000 feet. The stock of the 100 yards on the 1st of February, 

 1871, was given at : sawn pine, 233,387,527; hewn pine timber, 567,000 ; 

 lath, 17,550,350 pieces ; picket, 1,049,666 pieces ; cedar posts, 129,170 

 pieces ; shingles, 60,000 tons; 10,000 acres are annually cleared to 

 supply Chicago alone with fuel. 



The following table shows the probable annual cut in the different 

 districts in the great lake regions, with estimate of standing timber : — 



