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1IMIIKU I.AM> iiWNKll HY I.I MIUHMKS. 



Talili 1 '-'I >|KIH- tli<- niiinlM-r <>f i-lnlili.-liinciits report- 

 ing. the amount of capital invested in timber land, the 

 area in :i r.-- of timln'r land held by thcxe etal>lish- 

 -. the average amount <>f ilmln-r of ull >|N-<-ies on 

 lands, and its total amount. Tli<- total amount 

 thus reported in the I'nited Mat--. -'!."..:.. r .o.; million 

 feet, i- prolwbly .somewhat more than one-tenth the 

 amount now t:in-lin-_' in the country. 



The total area. 50.347 squari> mile-. i uhout one- 

 t \\eniieth of the estimated wotxled area of the eouiitrv. 

 IK "wooded area" is not meant the area covensl by 

 miTehuntable forest.-, which i- quite a dJfferent matter. 

 an-l one concerning which little i known. 



The a\ eru^e stand of timlxr per acre. U-injf tliat of the 

 -elected tract* owned by luDibeniien, i.sof . -on rs higher 

 than the average of the country or state, and, in the cane 

 of several of the states where the average stand has 

 been obtained, it i- known to be much higher. Thus. 

 in Minnesota th-- average stand U about one-half that 



giren, or about i,000 fed re. Tbewmeifl 



III-' <-a>e in ( >n-^on aii<i \Va-hinj:ton. li.-re the Urge 

 tand- ben |hni I . t ' : . . ; In .' to ..l.t tin 

 i-."- -tan. I ..f the Htate. The -niihi-rn pinr ha- an 

 ax.-mge -land. uce<irding to the IM--I information, of 

 not far from H.(NH) f t >et JMT a< r--. a littl- l-.wi-r | rhaptt 

 in the cant and Homcwhat higher in the \\e-t. while th.- 

 ti'j nre here given -how a xtand in the*a ctateM of 5,000 

 f.-.-t IMT acre. 



The amount given for Michigan repn -.-ni- piolmbly 

 ..ii.' half the timb4-r yet remaining in the -tale. That 

 re|Mirted for Wi-roiisin is about _:' JM-I cent of that esti- 

 mated to be still standing, which according to 1 1 -tiinate 



of Dr. FiliU'rt ltth, i<*4.5 billion feet. That for Minn. 

 sola is about one-third the amount estimated for the 

 state by (ieneral Andrews, chief tire warden, who esti- 

 mated in 1K<I<! that the state contained iM.T 1 ."' million 

 feet of mcrchantalilc timlier. The states of Oregon. 

 Washington, and South I>akota have been .ttnvatuted aa 

 to their timln-r supplies by the I'nited Stale- (ieolog 

 ical Survey. The mill- of Oregon rejx>rt a stand of 

 20,351. s million feet, board measure, as owned, while 

 cruisings in t hi- -tai- indicate its total -land of timl>er to 

 IK- 215,0mi million fi>et, or more than ten time- its much. 

 In Washington about the same proportion i.- rejNirtcd. 

 The estimate of the stand of the state is IM.rtKX million 

 feet, of which :M,7Oii million feet is reported. In South 

 Dakota the timlicr is practically all in the Mliu-k Hill-. 

 in the western jiurt of the state, and is e-timated at 

 I .."."_' million feet. Of t hi- IH million only, or a little 

 over 1 per cent is reporti'd. Nearly all this body of 

 timber it* contained within a Federal forest raaerve. 

 The above are the only estimates of the total -land- pf 

 states available for comparison with the returns from 

 the mill companies, and, as is seen, they afford little 

 Iwsis for discussion. They nerve to demonstrate only 

 that. a.s wa- stated al>ove. the average stand of the landa 

 rejNirted is much greater than that of the states as a 

 whole, but how much greater does not appear. They 

 show, moreover, that in old lumb<>r region- like 

 Michigan the land- are report4>d much more fully than 

 in newer ones, such an the Pacific coast -tales. 



WH1TK PISK. 



This specie*, the most valuable of the common kinds 

 of timber, has its home in northern New Kngland and 

 in the northern half of the I^aki- -tale-. Michigan. \Vi- 

 oiisin. and Minnesota. Much of New York, espe- 

 cially the Adirondack region, contained white pim- 

 originally, but from this -late it ha.- almost entirely 

 disappeared. It.- habitat -t retches southward, follow- 

 ing the line of the Ap|mlachian Mountains down 

 through the higher part- of Pennsylvania, well into 

 W.--I Virginia, in which -late there are -till consider- 

 able bodies of this timber, and it i- found in small 

 amount in the high mountain- of North Carolina. 



White pine.- formerly the moat abundant to-, in \. 

 Kngland, has become, by persistent lumbering through 



