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APPENDIX. 



production or carried on with continuity, the forest industries 

 lose relatively. 



To get a closer approximation to the truth, and a more just 

 appreciation of the comparative significance of the forest 

 resource, the writer, upon the basis of census data of 1890 and 

 other information, made an attempt in 1896 to supply these 

 deficiencies by estimate. In this estimate all wood and other 

 forest products, as railroad ties and timbers, telegraph poles, 

 fence material, cord wood, bark, and other by-products are 

 included, leading to the following result : — 



Leading Industries Compared. 



Prod- 

 ucts. 



Agriculture 



Forest products, total .... 

 Forest industries, enumerated 

 Forest products, not enumer- 

 ated (estimated) .... 

 Manufactures using wood (see 

 table on opposite page) . . 



Mineral products, total .... 



Coal 



Gold and silver 



Pig-iron 



Manufactures of iron and steel 



Leather 



Leather manufactures .... 

 Woollen manufactures .... 

 Cotton manufactures 



2460 

 1044 



446 



598 

 907 



To secure the statement regarding the manufactures using 

 wood, these were classified according to the estimated per- 

 centage of wood entering into their products and assuming 

 that capital, labor, and value of products stand in the same 

 proportion as the raw materials used. As a matter of fact, 

 there is probably more labor employed in shaping wood than 

 this percentage would indicate. 



