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fruit-growing as the important features of the land. Every big 

 and little town has its score to hundreds of land promotion enter- 

 prises of all sorts and descriptions — good, indifferent and bad — 

 and it requires pretty nearly an agricultural genius to differentiate 

 one from the other. Agricultural land values, through the aid of 

 this booming element, are on a basis that looks wild in price to the 

 self-same eastern conservative tenderfoot. Prices of sod-unturned 

 prairie and stump lands are scheduled at values of from fifty to 

 three hundred dollars an acre, which when ready for crop raising, 

 bear in mind, entail an added expense of nearly as much more, 

 and in the case of irrigated properties an annual tax against these 

 lands for water, which are thousands of miles away from the prin- 

 cipal consuming markets of the world. 



Again, it doesn 't look good to the amateur tenderfoot from the 

 East. 



It is a tremendousl.y big proposition. It 's so stupendous in 

 •distance, in money, in general investment, in boom and in alluring 

 talk, that it fairly makes the eastern tenderfoot dizzy to consider 

 it. It requires courage to do the stupendous things that these 

 western boomers are actually doing. It requires courage to even 

 spend their own time and talent to boom it. The money being 



invested out there doesn't grow there — yet. It has been coaxed 

 into these enterprises, and it has required talent to coax it. 

 Hence, these people have talent and lots of it. 



Which is reminiscent of another story. 



A quarter of a century ago I was a visitor in a northern Florida 

 city, which has since attained considerable size and commercial 

 prominence, but which I must confess in those days didn't look 

 very much better to me than some of the regions of the Inland 

 Empire and the Pacific Coast, which I have recently visited. After 

 spending some daj's in the town looking it over very carefully I 

 said to a friend of mine: "Will you kindly explain to me what 

 you people live on down here?" 



He very frankly replied: "On fish — and northern people." 



Inasmuch as there is no plethora of fish in the Inland Empire I 

 have, in the face of the rather hurried visit and analysis I have 

 made in this country, come to the conclusion that this region lives 

 almost exclusively on eastern people. I confess I was wrong in 

 my analysis and deductions concerning Jacksonville, Fla., and 

 probably am just as wrong now, but then I am more or less of a 

 back-number, and this game out in the Inland Empire is too swift 

 for me. H. H. Gibson. 



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1911 Lumber Cut by States 



A preliminary report showing the production of lumber, lath 

 and shingles by states for 1911 has been issued by the Census 

 Bureau at Washington. This covers also the calendar years of 

 1910, 1909 and 1908. The reported cut since the, banner year of 

 1909, when there was a total cut of 44,509,761,000 feet, has fallen 

 off gradually, being in 1910 40,018,282,000 feet and in 1911, 

 37,003,207,000 feet. 



The report for 1911 was based on returns from 28,107 mills; for 

 1910 on reports of 31,394 mills; 1909, 48,112 mills, and 1908, 31,231 

 mills. The data for 1911. 1910 and 1908 was gathered by corre- 

 spondence, and while including the cut of practically all of the 

 larger or commercial plants for these three years, did not cover 

 the operations of many of the neighborhood or custom mills. Fur- 

 thermore, the cuts for 1911 and 1910 did not include the output of 

 any mills which reported a product of less than 50,000 feet during 

 these years. 



The figures for 1909 were collected by special agents of the 

 census oifice in connection with the regular census, and hence 

 covered every lumber producing establishment which was in 

 operation during the whole or any part of that year. On the 

 other hand, there were about 4,500 mills reported cutting less than 

 50,000 feet that were omitted from the reports of 1911 and 1910. 

 The decrease in 1911 as compared with 1910 of about 4,000 mills 

 and 3,000,000,000 feet board measure of lumber, was doubtless due 

 in part to a delay of about two months in mailing the schedule 

 cards to the manufacturers during 1912. 



It is further interesting to note that 36 per cent of the total 

 cut was reported from the five states of Washington, Louisiana, 

 Mississippi, Oregon and North Carolina, ranking in the order 

 named. 



The cut in Washington remained almost exactly the same as in 

 1910. Louisiana declined nearly two hundred million feet, Missis- 

 sippi about eighty million, Oregon nearly three hundred million, and 

 North Carolina about twenty-five million. A study of the accom- 

 panying table will show that no state made much advance in the 

 amount of the cut over that of 1910, andthat the only states making 

 any advance were Arizona, Idaho, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, 

 and West Virginia. 



The five leading species cut in 1911, ranking in importance in 

 the order named, weref yellow pine, Douglas fir, white pine, oak 

 and hemlock. The aggregate output of these woods was 72.5 per 

 cent of the total production of all species. Oak, the leading hard- 

 wood, contributed 3,098,444,000 feet or 8.4 per cent of the total. . 



The following is a summary of 



LUMBER PRODUCTION (M 



1911 



Washington 4.064,754 



Louisiana 3,566.456 



Mississippi 2,041,615 



Oregon 1,803,698 



North Carolina 1,798,724 



Arlsansas 1,777,303 



Wisconsin 1,761,986 



Texas 1,081,080 



Minnesota 1.485,015 



Michigan 1,466.754 



West Virginia 1,387,786 



Virginia 1,359.790 



Alabama 1,226,212 



California 1.207,561 



Pennsylvania 1,048,606 



Florida 983,824 



Tennessee 914,579 



Maine 828,417 



Georgia 801,011 



Idaho 765,670 



Kentucky 632,415 



South Carolina 584,872 



New York 526,283 



Ohio 427,161 



Missouri 418,586 



New Hampshire 388,619 



Indiana 360,613 



Massachusetts 273,317 



Vermont 239,254 



Montana 228,416 



Maryland 144,078 



Oklahoma 143,869 



Connecticut 124,661 



Illinois 96,051 



Colorado 95,908 



New Mexico 83,728 



Arizona 73,139 



Iowa 50,974 



Wyoming 33,309 



New Jersey 28,639 



Delaware 23,853 



Sonfh Dakota 13,046 



Utah 10,573 



Rhode Island 9.016 



All other states 11,786 



- iTJnited States 37,003,207 



L.ilh (thousands) 2,971.110 



Shingles (thousands) . .12,113,867 



