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from 10,600,000 to 24,600,000 cubic feet, and from $2.6 to 9 

 million in value, while the export has fallen from $2.2 to 1.6 mil- 

 lion. Austria furnishes about one-half of the total import while 

 about two-fifths of the workwood import comes from there; 

 another two-fifths from Germany, while in 1885 the import from 

 Germany amounted to four-fifths. 



Especially sawed material is for the most part furnished by 

 Austria, displacing Germany. 



In 1907 the total consumption in the country was: workwood, 

 import 14,100,000, home production 35,300,000; fuelwood, im- 

 port 10,600,000, home production 36,400,000; or altogether over 

 94 million cubic feet of wood, or about 30 cubic foot per capita, 

 half of which workwood. 



The author uses this showing to point out the necessity of bet- 

 ter management of the 2.5 million acres of home forest. 



Statistik des Holsverkehrs der Schmeis mit dem Auslande. Schweizer- 

 ische Zeitschrift. June, July, 1910. P. 220; also Centralblatt f. d. g. 

 Forstwesen. November, 1910, p. 492. 



The lumber trade of Michigan, Wisconsin 

 Lumber and Minnesota was slight from the early 



Prices. 40's to 1862 or 1863, but the Civil War 



caused a boom in the late 6o's which was 

 followed by a collapse in the panic of 1873. After the restora- 

 tion of specie payments in 1879 the white pine business improved 

 rapidly until the boom of 1881, but decHned in 1882 and 1883. 

 From 1883 there was a steady increase in prices due to the 

 rapid settlement farther west until the panic of 1893. At this 

 time stumpage values had increased to $3 or more a thousand, 

 lumber began to be based on stumpage values, and there was an 

 effort to standardize stumpage values; but this failed. Many 

 operators made a profit owing to the ease of handling logs and 

 lumber on the water even though they would have lost if stump- 

 age values had been considered. 



The southern pineries are at present in the position of the 

 northern pineries during the years of 1850 to 1875, with worse 

 effects due to the necessity of moving the southern pine almost 

 as soon as manufactured, 



American Lumberman, Nov. 19. 1910. 



