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[March 2, 



accurately determiued, tliougli it will probably aggregate not less than 

 5000 square miles. Once the timber is removed from such land, under 

 present conditions it becomes not only an unproductive area to the State, 

 but too frequently a nursery of floods during the time of melting snows 

 and in periods of unusual rainfall. The Commonwealth has, therefore, a 

 double inducement to restore it to its normal condition, either by direct 

 care, or by such wise legislation as will enable the owners to do so. 



Wliat this legislation will, or, should be, depends very largely on the 

 condition of the owners of this timber-producing area. For example, in 

 the State of New York the mountain areas — Adirondacks and Catskills — 

 are compaiMtively isolated. State possession there seems not only the 

 probable, but the natural thing, when one considers that these same 

 mountain regions are most important as water sheds for the eastern parts 

 of that Commonwealth. 



On the contrary, in this State the mountain areas are quite too large to 

 encourage the idea that they ever will, or ever should, become the 

 property of the State. In short, they will most likely remain in the hands 

 of the small land holder, and the legislation intended for such areas must, 

 from the nature of the case, be chiefly adapted to his needs. 



Considering the counties of the Slate alphabetically, it appears that the 

 cleared and the forest acreage of the Commonwealth is as follows : 



Table Shoicing loliat Percentage of the Entire Acreage of EacJi County is 



Timber Land. 



Counties. 



1 Adams .... 



2 Allegheny. . . 



3 Armstrong . . 



4 Beaver .... 



5 Bedford. . . . 



6 Berks 



7 Blair .... 



8 Bradford . . . 



9 Bucks .... 



10 Butler .... 



11 Cambria . . . 



12 Cameron . . . 



13 Carbon .... 



14 Centre .... 



15 Chester .... 



16 Clari(m 1 2«4;471 



17 Clearfield ' 177,227 



18 Clinton I 148,9o7 



19 Columbia , 180,808 



20 Crawford . . . . j 425,103 



21 Cumberland . . . i 23l,l()l 



22 Dauphin I 213,768 



Cleared 

 Land. 



251,637 

 22,422 

 296,111 

 196,616 

 330,059 

 430,516 

 141,997 

 468,350 

 350,364 

 365,672 

 322,394 

 34,072 

 82,646 

 189,580 

 389.306 



Timber 

 Land. 



55,571 



87,713 



59,214 

 234,277 



82,790 

 154,292 

 204,131 



19,151 

 103,528 



73,507 

 189,381 

 109,744 

 124,107 



52,474 



75,378 

 477,978 

 405,881 

 100,426 

 180,600 



40,057 

 102,972 



Entire 

 Acreage. 



307,208 



383, 

 255: 

 564! 

 513 

 296, 

 672, 

 369, 

 469, 

 305, 

 223 

 192^ 

 313, 

 441, 

 359, 

 655, 

 554. 

 287, 

 605, 

 271, 

 316! 



824 

 830 

 536 

 306 

 289 

 481 

 515 

 200 

 901 

 453 

 390 

 687 

 780 

 849 

 205 

 838 

 234 

 ,703 

 ,218 

 ,740 



Per 



CENT. 



18 



22.8 

 23.1 

 41.5 

 16 

 52 

 30.3 

 5.2 

 22 

 18.5 

 81.7 

 57 

 39.5 

 11.2 

 20 9 

 72 9 

 73.1 

 34.9 

 29.8 

 14.7 

 32.5 



Classification. 



18 



22.8 

 23.1 



16 



5.2 

 22 

 18.5 



112 

 20.9 



14.7 



41.5 

 30.3 



39.5 



34.9 



29.8 



32.5 



52 



57 



72 9 

 73.1 



84.7 



