:;o critical that the Wisconsin mills are seriously con- 

 sidering the possibility of securing their raw material 

 J'rom the Rocky Mountain region of Montana. For 

 hemlock the paper industry must compete with the 

 lumber industry for logs of saw timber size, and, 

 unfortunately, from the standpoint of future sup- 

 plies, the cut now includes a very considerable 

 amount of material obtained from trees under saw 

 timber diameters. 



A state nursery to supply evergreen seedlings and 

 transplants at cost to her citizens who wish to do 

 forest planting would be a good investment for Min- 

 nesota. They have obtained great benefits from this 

 in other states, why not here? 



The Lake States 



GROWTH AND DECLINE OF THE LUMBER INDUSTRY 



White pine. The history of lumbering in the Lake 

 States during the greater part of the past century is 

 substantially the history of white-pine exploitation. 

 Lumbering began in Michigan and Wisconsin about 

 1835. Pine in enormous quantities drew lumbermen 

 from the East, and before 1870 these States captured 

 the lead in lumber production. They held it until 

 superseded by the southern pine region, between 1900 

 and 1910. The peak of production was passed in 1892, 

 when the reported output was a little more than 

 8,900,000,000 board feet largely white pine. This 

 was an increase of 123 per cent over the cut of 1873. 

 In 1899 Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota, in the 



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