: derived f rent \ands -'which are now and always 

 will be unfit for agricultural settlement and 

 development. 



Oregon has about 18,000,000 acres of mer- 

 chantable timberland, of which 10,000,000 acres 

 is privately owned, while the remainder is in 

 the National Forests and Indian Reservations. 



Oregon has 430,000,000,000 board feet of 

 timber ; an amount equal to one-sixth of the 

 standing timber in the United States, or 

 one-half as much timber as is found in the 

 thirty-seven states east of the Rocky Mountains. 



To transport the lumber from our forests 

 would require: 340,000 trains of sixty cars 

 each; or, continuous trains reaching seven times 

 around the earth, or, fifty-two continuous 

 trains reaching from Portland, Oregon, to New 

 York City. 



The last census shows 50,000 people engaged 

 in manufacturing industries in Oregon, of whom 

 24,500 or fifty per cent are employed in the 

 lumber industry. 



Of the 830,000 people in Oregon, 104,000, or 

 one-eighth of the total population, are directly 

 dependent upon the lumber industry. No other 

 manufacturing industry in the State employs 

 one-tenth as many men as this one. 



Even though the lumber industry is yet at 

 the threshhold of development, the annual value 

 of lumber products is $30,200,000.00, or thirty- 

 two and five-tenths per cent of the total value 

 of manufactured products in the State. 



Over $70,000.00 of outside money is each day 

 brought into Oregon by the lumber industry. 

 Eighty per cent of our outgoing freight is 

 lumber. 



The last census shows that out of fifty- 

 five manufacturing establishments in Oregon, 



