SAGINAW LUMBER DISTRICT. 

 Total for eleven years.^ 



517 



1867 429,507,000 



1868 446,960,000 



1869 5-^1,350,000 



1870 623,397,353 



1871 521,796,934 



1872 644,485,278 



1873 280,979,461 



1874 581,225,404 



1875 584,843,701 



1876 574,879,472 



1877 651,5()7,948 



Total 5,860,992,551 



Destination of shipments from Saginaio Eiver in 1875, 1876, and 1877. 

 [From Lumberman's Gazette, xi, 402.] 



SJiipments of lath from Saginaiv Paver in 1875, 1876, and 1877. 

 [From Lumberman's Gazette, xi, 104.] 



' It is not easy to comprehend quantities so vast as these aggregates. The total sum 

 for the eleven years would lay a floor over 210 square miles (equal to nearly 6 townships 

 of government surveys), or in a beam one foot square would extend nearly 92,500 miles, 

 a di.stauce that would measure 3.7 times around the earth at the equator. If spread 

 out into one-inch boards, it would gird the earth with a floor nearly 44 feet in width, 

 or would lay a floor 4. 6 feet wide a distance equal to that from the earth to the 

 moon. It would build 16 solid pyramids, each 500 feet square at the base and with 

 equilateral sides or, ir cut and piled as cord-wood, would make 3,816,531 cords, which, 

 at 4 feet high and 4 feet wide, would extend 5,780 miles in length. 



