FOREST POLICY. 



The miscellaneous industries (producing stock for furni- 

 ture, wagons, agricultural implements, lath, bobbins and spools), 

 in 1900, show an output of $644,000. 



Little cooperage stock (value $30,000) and boxes (value 

 $76,000) were produced. Logs on stump are worth $1.34; at 

 mill, $4.45. 



The leather industry consumes, in the census year, in 75 

 tanneries, 1,808 cords of hemlock bark, worth $8,524; 20,467 

 cords of oak bark, worth $107,242; 270 barrels of oak bark 

 extract, worth $3,294. The value of the leather produced is 

 $1,502,000. 



The paper and pulp industry is nill. The spruce forests 

 of the high mountains are still inaccessible; in addition, freight 

 rates are too high for good prospects of paper mill investments. 



6. Forestry movement: The "North Carolina Forestry 

 Society" is inactive. A forester, attached to the North Carolina 

 Geological Survey, draws $1,000 per year salary (W. W. Ashe). 



7. Laws: Good fire laws, on the statute book, are a dead 

 letter, since there is no staff charged with their enforcement. 

 A recent law, practically prohibiting the export of logs for 

 manufacture, is, probably, unconstitutional. 



8. Reservations: The "Appalachian National Park" (or 

 Reserve?), now planned, is located, largely, in the Great Smokies 

 of Western North Carolina. Congress is asked to appropriate 

 $10,000.000 for the establishment of such a park covering 4,000,- 

 ooo acres. North Carolina and the adjoining States have passed 

 laws authorizing the United States to establish and manage 

 such a park. Main difficulty to be met is the problem of local 

 taxation. 



9. Irrigation: 101 rice plantations, covering 3,283 acres, 

 or 15% of the total area in rice, were irrigated in 1899. pro- 

 ducing 30% of the total rice yield of the State. 



Tide water is utilized for irrigation. The cost of the sys- 

 tem averages $34-35 per acre. 



FORESTRY CONDITIONS OF NORTH DAKOTA: 



i. Area: 600 square miles are wooded, an area equal to 

 i% of the entire State. No State of the Union has a smaller 

 percentage of wooded area. 



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