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APPENDIX. 



The proportions in which the various kinds of products 

 contribute toward the total of $1,044,000,000 in value were 

 figured as follows : — 



The cubic contents are estimates of the forest-grown material 

 which might furnish the amounts of prepared materials at the 

 given values. They give an insight into the possibilities and 

 necessities of supply and its character. The fiael wood con- 

 sumption in the above estimate has been assumed to have 

 been somewhat decreased from that of the census of 1880, the 

 value per cord ($2.20) to have remained the same. 



