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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



October 



Ication with mills, losing camps or 

 points whore a number of men can be 

 had at once. Also by the use of tele- 

 phone eall stations a considerable 

 >a\ ing can be made in salaries of pa- 

 trolmen, because one man with direct 

 tlephone communication can effectu- 

 ally cover a much larger area than 



could be looked after by several men 

 without its aid. 



The establishment of a fairly com- 

 plete network of telephone lines over 

 both the forests subject to govern- 

 ment control and those owned by indi- 

 viduals and firms is extremely likely 

 to make losses from tire very low. 



FOREST PRODUCTS 



BY 



R. S. KELLOGG 



l". s. Forest Ser\ ice. 



HTliF annual yield of forest products 

 in the United States reaches huge 



proportions, and it is only when we 

 attempt to round out and properly es- 

 timate the various items that we get 

 some comprehension of the important 

 the forests till in the national 

 nom) . 



\ rough estimate of the quantity 

 and value, in first bauds, of the pres- 

 ent yearly output of the forests runs 

 - follows : 



35 billion feet of lum- 

 ber at Si 5 per M S 525,000,000 



million cords of 

 firewood at $2 per cord. .400/ 

 ,~5 million hewed cross- 



- at 40Cts 3O] 



25,000 



Lath and shingles 25,000,000 



pentine and rosin 25,1 



lillion cordis of pulp- 

 wood at $5 per cord. ... 15. 

 illion cords of tanbark 



$5 per cord 5,OOC 



e timbers, posts, piles 



'. other products 50,000,000 



Total Si. too. 000.000 



These tic - are upon investiga- 



nade by the Census and Forest 

 Sen -ui there is a large chance 



nly one item. that, viz., 

 of ' According- to the 



mates 1 ade bv the Census in 188 



when the population numbered fifty 

 millions, the animal consumption of 

 wood for fuel was then one hundred 

 and forty-six million cords: hence, de- 

 spite the largely increased use of coal, 

 - considered fair to assume that 

 the eighty-five million inhabitants of 

 the United States, to-day, are using 

 at least two hundred million cords 

 .0' firewood. 



It will be noted that lumber makes 

 nearly one-half the total of the for- 

 est products, though in actual content 

 it is probably not much over one- 

 fourth oi the annual wood cut. This 

 is because lumber is. comparatively, 

 a highly finished product, and. in ad- 

 dition to being made from the best 



ees, it contains a considerable 

 amount of labor cost. 



Rapid as has been the increase in 

 population, the increase in lumber con- 

 sumption has been still more rapid. 

 In round numbers the lumber cv 



880 was iS billion feet, in 1S00. 27 

 billion feet, and in 1000. 35 billion 

 The increase in population from 

 [880 to 1000 was 52 per cent, but the 

 increase in lumber cut was 04 per 

 cent. 



According to the data so far col- 

 lected the lumber cut in 1005 was not 

 in excess of that of 1000. The indi- 

 cations are that the maximum output 

 of forest products has been reached 

 for the country as a whole, and that 



