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According to H. H. Dietrich, owing to the 



Forests ruggedness of the country, and hence difficulty 



of of constructing means of transportation, Serbia 



Serbia still abounds in forest wealth. Only two rivers, 



the very shallow Morava and the Drina, which 



forms the boundary toward Austria, connect with the Danube. But 



these waterways are of little avail because they lead away from 



central European markets to Bulgaria, Roumania, southern Russia. 



which have their own extensive supplies ; hence there has not been 



great activity in exploiting the forests except for home use, and even 



these small requirements are sometimes difficult to satisfy on account 



of the difficult logging. What capital is employed in opening resources 



in recent years came from France, several banks being interested in 



logging operations. The government imposes stumpage dues for 



cutting timber without any conservative ideas or regulations. 



Chutes, supplied by sled roads and sometimes by horse trucks on 

 wooden tracks, are the customary method of running logs to the 

 rivers and they are then rafted down the stream. Lately an overhead 

 cable system has been employed. One of these has a drop of nearly 

 4,000 feet in six miles, with stations along the line, transporting crews 

 to and from the operation, as well as logs. 



The forest is mostly mixed with beech as principal species; coni- 

 fers, pine and fir (or spruce?) in pure stands occur only in the higher 

 elevations, much of it fire-scarred by the fires of shepherds. 



The Timberman, June, 1916, pp. 33-34. 



