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of the white pine covers the area between the for- 
tieth and fiftieth parallels of latitude east of the 
plains. It extends southward also along the Appa- 
lachian Mountains to the southern limits of Tennes- 
see and North Carolina. It has reached its optimal 
growth in the latitude of about 45°. 
The following in reference to the exhaustion of 
the white pine is copied from the American Lum- 
berman: 
“Tt is true that white pine had been growing 
scarcer and scarcer in districts tributary to water ship- 
ment, and it had also been known to have been cut 
out rapidly in the interior of Wisconsin and Minne- 
sota; but never until this year has it begun to dawn 
upon the minds of distributors of white-pine lumber 
that there was an actual scarcity of the wood, and that 
its end was in full view. This year, more than in any 
year since the development of the Northern pine for- 
ests began, has the scarcity of white-pine stumpage 
and lumber been significantly impressed upon the 
minds of the people. Witness the hegira of lumber- 
men to the South within the past year or two. Wit- 
ness also their western flight to the Puget Sound 
district, to the California Slope, and to the inter- 
mediate districts of Idaho and Arizona.” 
In the North the owner of timber land usually 
sells the timber to the Jumberman at a certain stump- 
