430 APPENDIX. 



P. js- Wealth of the Nation. — The total wealth of the 

 United States was estimated, upon the basis of census data, 

 in 1890 to be distributed about as follows : — 



Billion dollars. 

 . 26.2 



• 13-3 

 . 2.7 



• 9-3 

 . 6.5 



1.2 



I.I 



. 4-7 



65.0 



Real estate not in farms . . . . 

 Farm property in land . . . . 

 Farm property in cattle and equipment . 

 Railways and telegraph lines . 

 Capital in large manufacturing industries 

 Mines, quarries, and their capital stock . 

 Gold, silver, coin, bullion 

 All other property 



P. 35. Forest Area of the World. — As has been pointed 

 out in various parts of this volume the forest area gives but 

 an imperfect and unreliable basis for a discussion of the wood 

 supply question ; the contents and their condition and the 

 accessibility to wood-consuming nations being the much 

 more significant factors. 



The table on p. 431 condenses information, more or less 

 reliable, regarding some of the more important forest areas of 

 the world. While these figures cannot claim absolute cor- 

 rectness, authorities varying more or less, they give at least 

 appro.ximate ideas of the relative position of the countries 

 enumerated. 



P. 51. Wood Consumption in United States. — Making 

 allowance for the increases appearing in the census of 1900, 

 we may now roughly state our consumption at 26 billion cubic 

 feet, one-third of which ;/iiist be of log or bolt size, — a 

 yearly harvest which could still be continuously supplied by 

 our forest area of 500 million acres, if it were managed 

 upon forestry principles, namely, as a crop harvested with 

 due regard to its continuous reproduction, and if proper 

 economy and differentiation of relative usefulness of material 

 were practised. 



