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CONCENTRATION OF OWNERSHIP IN THE NORTHWEST 

 Of the three great regions investigated — the Pacific Northwest, 

 the southern pine region, and the Lake states — the Pacific Northwest, 

 including California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana, con- 

 tains by far the greatest amount of timber; contains, in fact, over 

 half of the timber in the United States — over twice as much as the 

 southern pine region and over ten times as much as the Lake states.^ 

 It is mainly from this region that the future supply of timber for the 

 United States must come, and it is in this region that the greatest 

 timber holdings in the United States were found. The three great 

 holdings of the Southern Pacific, the Northern Pacific, and the 

 Weyerhaeuser Timber Company included in 1914 over 237,000,000,- 

 000 feet of lumber, more than double the total stand of the three Lake 

 states. Thirty-eight holders, each owning 3,500,000,000 feet or over, 

 owned over half of the privately owned timber in this region, while 

 holders of 60,000,000 feet or over owned 93 per cent of the redwood, 

 and 79 per cent of the other species. 



In the great timbered area of southwestern Washington, one 

 holder — the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company — held the title to 42 

 per cent of the timber. The Weyerhaeuser Timber Company and the 

 Northern Pacific Railroad together owned about half; and the thirty- 



2 According to estimates the total standing timber of some of the important 

 lumber producing states is as follows (in billions of board feet) : 



PRIVATELY OWNED TOTAL 



Pacific Northwest: 



Oregon . 398.1 545.8 



Washington 294.6 391.0 



California 248.1 381.4 



Idaho 50.4 129.1 



Montana 21.8 65.6 



Southern Pine Region: 



Louisiana 119.8 



Mississippi 95.3 



Arkansas 78.7 



Florida 73.9 (Almost all of the timber in the 



Texas 66.0 southern pine region and in the 



Alabama 56.3 Lake states is privately owned, so 



Lake States: no totals are given.) 



Michigan ........ 47.6 



Wisconsin 29.2 



Minnesota 23.2 



