OUR PACIFIC COAST FORESTS AND 



LOGGING AS DIFFERING FROM 



OTHER FORESTS 



BY 

 COLONEL GEORGE H. EMERSON 



Vice-President The Northwestern Lumber Company, of Washington 



""THE summit of the Cascade Mountains is the line 

 of division between the timber of eastern and 

 western Washington, also of eastern and western 

 Oregon. To the east lie open pine forests, similar 

 to those of the Southern and Eastern States. To the 

 west is a dense jungle of giant trees. 



On the gravelly land of the western slope of the 

 Cascades the timber is of moderate size and consists 

 almost entirely of Douglas fir and red cedar, with 

 moderate underbrush. The fir is from 24 to 40 inches 

 in diameter, and from 100 to 150 feet tall and the 

 cedars are of about the same diameter, but less height. 



On the lower bench and bottom lands, east of Puget 

 Sound, and on the clay lands wherever found, fir, 

 cedar, and hemlock intermingle, and near the coast 

 spruce is abundant, sometimes growing alone, but more 

 often with the fir and other woods. On these lands 

 our large timber grows, fir and spruce from 40 to 80 

 inches in diameter and from 150 to 250 feet in height. 

 These dimensions are common, and 10 feet for fir or 

 spruce, and 20 feet for cedars, are not extreme diam- 

 eters. The hemlock is of less size; 18 to 24 on the 

 stump is most common, 40 inches not exceptional. 



Beneath these trees often lie the fathers of the 

 forest, still sound, pinned to the ground by the roots 



