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various kinds are given in Appendix E and furnish 

 the reader data with which he can construct what- 

 ever specific conceptions of the industrial achieve- 

 ments and opportunities will serve his interest and 

 purposes in connection with the forest resources of 

 California. 



The commercial output of the forestry industries 

 may be valued at about $60,000,000 annually and 

 investments in lumbering equipment reach nearly as 

 large an amount, constituting them the greatest man- 

 ufacturing industry of the State. They furnish a 

 home supply not only of the materials for the con- 

 struction of farm buildings, and structures of great 

 area and capacity which minister to agriculture, as 

 warehouses, packing-houses and the like,, but of the 

 containers in which about $250,000,000 worth of hor- 

 ticultural products are annually marketed. Boxing 

 fruit products alone consumes 250,000,000 feet of 

 lumber. California would have been seriously handi- 

 capped in establishing boxed goods from the farms 

 and would have been largely denied the enjoyment 

 of the safety, cleanliness and profit from such con- 

 tainers, not to speak of cross-ties for 7537 miles of 

 railway within the State to roll them over, if the 

 producing farms had not been so near large forests 

 and timber production within her own boundaries. 

 There is also a direct return to the State of the value 

 of forest products marketed beyond state and na- 

 tional boundaries. Much of the one and one-half 

 billion feet (board measure), which is the annual 

 cut, goes by rail and sea to other states, even to 



