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owners. The use of wood substitutes will be ineffectual in lowering 

 the price of lumber, 



4. If the Minnesota forest lands are made to produce an adequate 

 supply for the people of the State, the freight charge will average 

 $1.40 per thousand feet to Minneapolis. If lumber must be shipped 

 from the west, the rate will average $9 per thousand feet, or more. 

 The difference in rates will be $7.60 per thousand feet. 



5. With a per capita consumption of 375 board feet, this would 

 amount to $2.03 per capita for the whole State, or $10.15 per family 

 of five. To produce this amount of taxation would require a tax levy 

 of 2.8 mills per year, on all the real and personal property in the State. 



6. It would appear reasonable to levy in Minnesota a State general 

 property tax of 2.8 mills each year for forestry purposes, if such 

 an expenditure were necessary to insure the State against entire de- 

 pendence on western timber and to make the local supply entirely 

 adequate. 



