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in the softwood export business with Russia, 

 Finland, Sweden, Norway and the various states 

 of southeastern Europe which sell lumber. In 

 the hardwood business, we have only a limited 

 number of rivals. With the exception of a small 

 section of eastern Europe, our hardwood forests 

 are the finest in the Temperate Zone. We export 

 hickory, black walnut, yellow poplar, white 

 and red oak even to Russia and Sweden, coun- 

 tries that are our keenest rivals in the softwood 

 export business. 



Europe wants export lumber from our eastern 

 states because the transportation costs on such 

 material are low. She does not like to pay heavy 

 costs of hauling timber from the Pacific Coast to 

 the Atlantic seaboard and then have it reshipped 

 by water. 



Our eastern forests are practically exhausted. 

 Our supplies of export lumber except Douglas fir 

 are declining. Most of the kinds of export tim- 

 ber that Europe wants we need right at home. 

 We have only about 258,000,000,000 feet of south- 

 ern yellow pine left, yet this material composes 

 one-half of our annual shipments abroad. We 

 are cutting this material at the rate of 16,000,- 

 000,000 board feet a year. Some authorities 



