1906 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



235 



wood consumed in the manufacture of 

 paper pulp. As the accompanying ta- 

 ble shows ,the returns from 159 firms, 

 controlling 232 pulp mills, give over 

 3,000,000 cords as the total amount of 

 wood used. 



The wood used was divided among 

 the various processes as follows : Sul- 

 phite, 1,538,000 cords; soda, 410,000 

 cords ; ground wood, 1 ,068,000 cords. 

 The total pulp production by all pro- 

 cesses by the firms reporting was I,- 

 993,000 tons. According to the census 

 of 1900, the consumption of pulpwood 

 was then 1,986,310 cords, so that there 

 has been an increase of over 50 per 

 cent in the last six years. This demon- 

 strates, in a striking manner, the drain 

 upon the forests caused by the pulp 

 industrv. 



Wood Used 

 in Box 

 Making 



The returns received by 

 the Forest Service show- 

 ing the woods used in 

 box making in New England during 

 the past year make possible the follow- 

 ing preliminary statement. 



The first table shows that 292 box 

 factories used 600,493,000 feet of lum- 

 ber, valued at $8,831,000 delivered at 

 the factories : 



Under "other woods" are included 

 poplar, chestnut, basswood, pitch pine, 

 and a. small quantity of yellow pine. 



The second table shows the percent- 

 age manufactured by each state: 



State. 



Massachusetts .... 

 New Hampshire. 



Maine 



Vermont 



Connecticut 



Rhode Island 



Per 

 cent. 



48 



21 



20 



7 



2 



2 



New Forest 

 Reserves 



The above figures include the lum- 

 ber used in making all kinds of boxes, 

 such as lock-corner, dovetail, and 

 nailed boxes, and box shooks. 



The consumption of 491,302,000 

 feet of white pine, or nearly five times 

 as much as of all other woods com- 

 bined, shows its great importance to 

 the box makers of this region. 



The Ashland Forest Re- 

 serve, in Oregon, has 

 just been enlarged, and 

 the Vernon Forest Reserve, in Utah, 

 created by proclamation of the Presi- 

 dent. 



The expansion of the boundary of 

 the Ashland Reserve has been made 

 for the purpose of including more 

 fully the watershed of Ashland Creek, 

 which is the source of water supply 

 for the city of Ashland and for a large 

 territory of agricultural land in that 

 vicinity. The reserve, which was origi- 

 nally established upon request of the 

 common council and board of trade of 

 the city of Ashland, presented in a me- 

 morial and petition to the President, 

 includes a rough, mountainous tract, 

 covered largely with timber of an in- 

 ferior quality and a dense growth of 

 underbrush needed as a protection 

 cover to Ashland Creek. 



The narrow strip of country which 

 has been added to it is of a similar 

 character, consisting of a tract lying 

 along the summit of a spur from the 

 Siskiyou Mountains, which has an 

 average elevation of about 7,200 feet, 

 and culminates in one of the most 

 prominent landmarks in southern Ore- 

 gon, known as Siskiyou Peak, or Ash- 

 land Butte, which rises to a height of 

 8,025 feet. 



The tract is unfit for cultivation and 

 has no settlements on it. As, how- 



