THE FORESTS OF THE UNITED STATES. 



489 



Michigan is tlie greatest lumber-producing state in the Union. The value of its lumber product, ^vith that of 

 Wisconsin and Minnesota, exceeds one-third of the total value of all the lumber manufactured in the United States. 

 This enormous development of the lumber business in the lake region is due to the excellence of its forests, the 

 natural advantages of the country for manufacturing lumber, and the easy communication between these forests and 

 the treeless agricultural region west of the Mississippi river. 



The extinction of the forests of the lake region may be expected to seriously affect the growth of population 

 in the central portion of the continent. The country between the Mississippi river and the Eocky mountains, now 

 largely suppliedcwitli lumber from Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, must for building material soon depend 

 upon the more remote pine forests of the Gulf region or those of the Pacific coast. A great development in the 

 now comparatively unimportant lumber-manufacturing interests in these regions may therefore be expected. New 

 centers of distribution must soon supplant Chicago as a lumber market, and new transportation routes take the 

 place of those built to move the pine grown upon the shores of the great lakes. It is not probable, however, 

 that any one point will ever attain the importance now possessed by Chicago as a center for lumber distribution. 

 With the growth of the railroad system and the absence of good water communication from the great forests 

 remaining iu the country toward the center of the continent, lumber will be more generally shii)ped direct by rail 

 from the mills to the consumer than iu the past. In this way the pine of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas will 

 reach Kansas, Nebraska, and the whole country now tributary to Chicago. Western Texas and northern Mexico 

 will be supplied by rail with the pine of eastern Texas, and the prairies of Minnesota and Dakota must draw their 

 lumber by rail, not as at present from the i^ine forests covering the shores of lake Superior, but from the fir and 

 redwood forests of the Pacific coast. 



FUEL. 



The following table represents the consumption of forest products as fuel during the census year. The 

 estimates of the amount and value of the wood used for domestic fuel are based upon answers to letters of inquirj' 

 addressed to persons living in every town in the United States. The average amount and value of the wood used 

 by a family of five persons, taken as a unit, is multiplied by the number of families in each state using wood for 

 fuel, and the result thus obtained is taken as the total state consumption : 



ESTIJIATED CONSUMPTION OF WOOD FOR DOMESTIC PURPOSES. 

 Xumber of persous Tisin^ wood for Uoraeetic fuel, 32,375,074. 



States and Territories. 



Cordti. 



Value. 



States and Territories. 



Alabama 



Ala:4ka 



Arizona 



Arkansiaa 



(.'.lUfornia 



Colorado 



Couuet'ticut 



D:ikota 



T>*.'lnware 



District of Columbia. . 



rior^da 



Geor;;ia 



Idai.o 



niinf'irt 



Indinnu 



Indiiii territory 



Iowa 



8,078,734 I $8,727,377 



170, 017 



3,923,400 ; 



1, 748, 062 : 



420.719 j 



525,639 



422,948 



177,306 



20.902 ] 



609, 046 



5,910,043 



99,910 

 5, 200, 104 

 7, 059, 874 



724, 572 

 S, 093, 821 



7, 693, 731 



1, 638, 783 



2, 371, 532 



3, 028, 300 

 751,311 



80, 700 

 1, 230, 412 



8, 279, 245 

 383,086 



14, 136, 662 

 13, 334, 729 



4, 090, 640 14, Oil, 280 



Kansas 



Kentucky 



Louisiana 



Maine (o) 



Maryland 



MassacbuHi'tts (a) . 



Michigan 



Minnesota 



Mif>sis.sippi 



Missouri 



Montana 



Nebraska 



Nevada 



New Hampsliire.. 



New Jer.scy 



New Mexico 



New York 



Cords. 



11, 



093, 439 

 994,813 

 944,858 

 215, 881 

 152, 919 

 890, 041 

 838, 904 

 609, 568 

 090, 758 

 016, 373 

 119, 947 

 908, 188 

 155, 276 

 567, 719 

 042, 598 

 169,946 

 290,975 



Value. 



$7, 328, 723 



13, 313, 220 



4,607,415 



4, 078, 137 



3, 170, 941 



4, 613, 263 



13, 197, 240 



5, 873, 421 



7, 145, 116 



8, 633, 405 



460, 038 



3, 859, 843 



972, 712 



1, 9tU, 009 



2, 787, 216 

 1, 063, 360 



37, 509, 364 



(I Including a smnll amount imported fi-om Canada. 

 CONSUMPTION OF CHARCOAL. 



States and Territories. 



North Carolina. 



Ohio 



Oregon 



Pennsylvania . . 

 Rhode Island . . 

 South Carolina. 



Tennessee 



Texas 



Utah 



Vermont 



Virginia 



Wasliington 

 West Virginia. 



WisconsiTi 



Wyoming 



Cords. 



7, 434, 690 



8, 101, 343 



482, 254 



7, 361, 992 

 154, 933 



3, 670, 059 



8, 084, 611 



4, 883, 862 

 171, 923 

 782, 338 



5, 416, 112 



184, 226 



2,241,069 



7, 206, 128 



40, 213 



Tol.il ; 140,537,439 



Value. 



$9, 019, 569 



16, 492, 574 



1, 254, 511 



13, 067, 6,51 



706, Oil 

 11, 505, 997 

 10, 674, 722 

 10, 177, 311 



418, 289 



2, .509, 189 

 10, 404, 134 



490, 904 



3, 374, 701 

 11,863,739 



224, 848 



306, 950, 040 



