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which 1400 billion was supposed to be coniferous material. 

 Although the census compiler is at great pains to show some of 

 the details of this calculation wrong and below the truth, he 

 comes finally to the conclusion that the reported total amount of 

 timber held b}- lumbermen namely 215,550 million feet, is " pro- 

 bably somewhat more than one-tenth the amount now standing in 

 the country," practically the writer's figure or less; and adding 

 up the statements made regarding the standing timber of conifer- 

 ous material, only iioo billion feet are found by the census 

 compiler, as the following tabulation of his statements shows : 



, Billion feet B. M. , 



Owned by 

 Species. Standing. Lumbermen. 



Southern Pine 300 46.5 



White Pine 50 16.4 



Hemlock 100 6.8 



Spruce (Eastern) 50 8.6 



Cypress 65 6.6 



Red Fir 300 23.8 



Western Pine 125 24.6 



Redwood 75 14.3 



Sugar Pine 25 3.9 



Hardwoods (one-half oak) ? 30. 



The difference of the two estimates would appear to lie mainly 

 in the distribution of these supplies, the writer accrediting the 

 Eastern States with less, the Pacific Coast with a larger supply. 



The distribution of supplies is of considerable importance com- 

 mercially, for it influences the location of manufacture, and the 

 cost of transportation to market. With the decrease of supplies 

 in one region, a shifting of centers of production takes place in 

 another region. 



The Census brings an interesting map showing the present dis- 

 tribution of the lumber industry. The most intense concentra- 

 tion of this manufacture is found in the northern section of Mich- 

 igan, Wisconsin and Minnesota ; in the middle west of New York 

 and Pennsylvania, in Maine and New Hampshire and on the Pa- 

 cific Coast in Washington, and on a .small territory in Oregon 

 along the Columbia River, while the centers of intensive produc- 

 tion in the Southern states are more widely scattered with refer- 

 ence to shipping ports along the coast and Mississippi River. 



There are also tabulations showing by geographical subdivis- 

 ions the relative positions of the different territories as contribu- 



