" THE LEAVES OF THE TREE Were FOR THE HEALING OF THE NATIONS." 45 



as $2.10 was paid for choice lots. They were all of the Burbank variety. Another 

 carload is expected to arrive and a higher rate is bid for them. From all accounts 

 this will be a very bad year for California potatoes, and the crop will amount to little 

 over one-half of that which is usually raised. The prolonged rains interfered with 

 the planting and did not benefit the crop put in early in the year." 



The same issue of the Post contains the following doleful dispatch: 



POOR CROP OUTLOOK. 



"ST. PAUL, April 27. The farmers of Minnesota and the Dakotag are pretty 

 nearly discouraged over the outlook for crops. Not an acre of grain has been sown 

 in North Dakota, nor at any point in Minnesota north of St. Cloud, and there is no 

 prospect that any will be sown in the next ten days. It began snowing Wednesday 

 and an average of eighteen inches fell in twenty- four hours. Since that date it has 

 rained almost continuously and yesterday morning it again began snowing and the 

 fall was steady all day all the way west from St. Paul to Dickinson, N. D. In 

 northern Minnesota, around Crookston, Fisher and many other Red river points, 

 thousands of acres have been converted into lakes by overflowing streams, and all 

 talk of putting in a crop is out of the question." 



CALIFORNIA'S DEFORESTING CONTRIBUTION. 



The S. F. Chronicle of April 23rd, 1893, amongst its Columbian Ex- 

 position articles was the following: 



" The lumber industry is one of the oldest and most important branches of trade 

 in California, and antidates the admission of the State into the Union. The manu- 

 facture of lumber in California can be traced back as far as 1838. . . The ex- 

 ports of lumber from San Francisco by sea (alone) to all countries dating from 1870 

 have been as follows: 



TEAKS FEET VALUE 



1070 ... .13,679,652 $245,216 



187l" ..17,590,854 312,570 



1872" . 16,517,171 309,325 



1873" ..17,415,287 350,024 



1874" . 9,036,799 176,956 



1875" '.".'.' 10,024,189 202,912 



1876' .10,781,220 199,894 



1877" ..13,874,327 267,333 



1878" ..14,596,422 289,374 



1879'....: 16,501,075 316,485 



1880 14,370,796 307,006 



1881 18,269,157 393,283 



iiil : : :::SM:::H:: : ::i::^|g 



1884 20,231,584 489,642 



1885 ....19,266,070 413 ' 93 j? 



1886.': 15,352,649 294,403 



1887 15,911,000 428,008 



1888 22,535,740 597,230 



1889 18,877,570 457,214 



1890 19,169,980 448,074 



1891 19,931,521 470,345 



1892 21,332,560 495,572 



When we couple to the above the many millions of feet that have been 

 used during the said periods in and around California for mining ; opera- 

 tions, building and repairing, domestic consumption, w harfs, jettie ^ rail- 

 way sleepers a g ndothe?woodworks, foresees far* ^^**$* 



bridges, etc., minus any commentate replenishing of fi 



we should not now be surprised with existing results to climate, etc. 



