176 FORESTRY IN LITHUANIA. 



Remarks on the Wood Trade of Kherson Government. 



'The government of Kherson belongs to those few govern- 

 ments which receive the wood required for local purposes 

 from beyond the frontier ; bat in the government of 

 Kherson foreign wood is used only in small quantity, 

 while the Dnieper private forests are not quite exhausted. 

 Forest materials are brought into the government of 

 Kherson by three ways by the Dnieper to the eastern 

 part of the government, by the Dwina to the west, and 

 principally to Odessa from the government of Podolia 

 and from Galicia, by land from the governments of 

 Volhinia and Kiev to the ncrth-western part of the 

 government, to Odessa and Nicolayev by water from 

 Kherson and from the mouth of the Dwina. 



'The principal demand is for timber of large dimen- 

 sions fit for sawing and shipbuilding. The development 

 of our foreign trade, increasing navigation, and ship 

 building, increases rapidly the prices paid for the larger 

 dimensions; and after this, though somewhat slowly, the 

 prices of other sorts rise, and in the meantime the possi- 

 bility of satisfying the want of forest materials, particularly 

 of large dimensions, is diminishing from year to year as the 

 forests get exhausted. The renovation of the Black Sea 

 fleet will very likely take place soon, for one cannot 

 suppose that this fact will belong to the distant future. 

 With every rumour of this event the prices for large 

 dimensions rise even now, when these rumours have no 

 foundation, but when they become real then the rise of 

 prices will be immense. Some wood dealers, buying 

 estates with large timber, put off the working of them 

 waiting for this event as likely to occur at least within the 

 next ten years. 



' The Dnieper forests present the chief source of the most 

 convenient and profitable supply of forest materials for 

 our shipbuilding in the Black Sea. If such a calculation 

 be not considered unprofitable for wood traders, then the 

 more so in imperial forest economy must one reckon 



