8o C. A. SCHENCK. 



America, in Russia, in Siberia, and in Africa, which has less value 

 than the sum which its correct cruising would cost. 



Under these conditions rough approximations are all that 

 we can obtain with reference to the timber supply and the forest 

 wealth of the world. 



At the 1900 world's fair in Paris, a well-known French forester, 

 M. Melard, delivered a most interesting address with reference 

 to the world's timber supply, predicting a world's timber famine 

 for 1950. His statements were corroborated by Sir William 

 Schlich, of Oxford, and were attacked by Professor Endres, 

 of Munich. 



For the United States, estimates have been made again and 

 again with reference to the standing timber: Most of them have 

 been found to be under-estimates. 



Dr. B. E. Fernow, in an attempt to be on the safe side, is 

 responsible for the following statement intended for an over- 

 estimate made in 1898: 



Stumpage of the United States 



Southern States 700 billion feet, board measure 

 Northern States 500 



Pacific Coast 1000 ,, 



Rocky Mountains 100 , 



Total forest wealth 



of the United States 2300 billion feet, board measure. 



Mr. T. B. Walker, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, one of the most 

 wide-awake lumbermen of the country, estimates (in Wood and 

 h-on December 1903) the standing timber of our whole country 

 at only 1003 billion feet, board measure. Of this amount 625 

 billion feet are claimed for the three states of the Pacific coast. 



Mr. R. A. Long, another leading lumberman, in an address 

 delivered before the Southern Lumber Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation, in 1903, estimates the stumpage of all conifers found 

 in the United States at 822 billion feet board measure. The 

 experts of the American Lumberman, in 1905, estimate the total 

 stumpage of conifers at 1,570 billion feet board measure, and 

 the total stumpage of hardwoods at 400 billion feet board 

 measure. 



