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Missouri. The northern part of Missouri is, like 

 Iowa, a prairie region, with timber in the valleys of the 

 principal streams and in occasional patches on the 

 uplands. The southern portion is, except where cleared 

 for farming, quite continuously wooded. The forests 

 consist in the main of hard wood with a little admixture 

 of pine, while in the bottom lands of the southeast is 

 considerable cypress. 



The timber land of the state is estimated at 41,000 

 square miles, or 60 per cent of its area. 



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North Dakota. In this state woodlands are found 

 only on the Turtle mountains and perhaps a few other 

 glacial hills and in narrow strips along the Missouri 

 and other streams. 



The total area of wooded land is estimated at only 

 600 square miles, or 1 per cent of the state's area. 



Smith Dakota. In the eastern part of this state 

 timber is found only in the valley of the Missouri and 

 perhaps one or two other streams. In the western part 

 of the state are the Black Hills, which are covered with 

 a pure forest of yellow pine. The trees are not large 

 but are of sufficient size to serve for building purposes 

 and mine props, and this forest is of inestimable value 

 to the great mines about Deadwood, for without a sup- 

 ply of cheap lumber it would probably be impossible to 

 work these mines at a profit. 



Nearly all of this timber has been reserved by the 

 United States Government for the purpose of protect- 



ing this source of supply from destruction by reckless 

 lumbering and fires. The area of land thus reserved is 

 1,833 square miles. 



The wooded area of the state is estimated at 2,500 

 square miles, or 3 per cent of its area. It is estimated 

 that there is in the Black Hills a total amount of 1,500 

 million feet of standing yellow pine. The reported cut 

 for 1900 is but 30 millions. 



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Montana. The forests of Montana are limited to the 

 western half of the state, and in that region almost 

 entirely to the mountains, the valleys being, as a rule, 

 timberless. The timber consists entirety of conifers, 

 yellow pine, red fir, and tamarack being the principal 

 species represented. 



The woodland of the state is estimated at 42,000 square 

 miles, or 29 per cent of its area. A large part of this 

 area, however, has been burned over, with, a greater or 

 less destruction of the timber, and is in various stages 

 of regrowth. 



Within this state the United States has reserved for 

 forest purposes areas amounting to 7,875 square miles, 

 containing, it is estimated, 4,517 million feet of timber. 

 This reserved area is somewhat more than one-tenth of 

 the wooded area of the state. 



The principal timber cut of the state is yellow pine, 

 with less quantities of red fir and tamarack. The small 

 amount of hard wood reported as cut in the state is 

 doubtless brought in fi - om other parts of the country, 

 as no hard wood grows within its limits. 



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