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BULLETIN 1119, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Pacific in the search for new sources of lumber. The coast has the 

 last large supply of North America, and the chances for securing 

 softwoods elsewhere are not favorable, although the suggestion has 

 repeatedly been made that once the native forests are exhausted we 

 have only to purchase our lumber from other countries. 



We must have huge quantities of softwood timber, the best of all 

 woods for general purposes. The remaining pine, fir, spruce, and larch 

 of the world are gathered in three great bodies. One is in northwestern 

 America and Canada, another in Scandinavia and Finland, and the 

 third in European and Asiatic Russia. There is little hope from 

 Canada, for her so-called limitless forests are rapidly being developed 

 to their capacity for the needs within the British Empire. The 





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Fig. 9. — Yellow pine and Douglas fir are now rivals for iirst place in point of production. It is possible that 

 within the next few years the graphs of these two species wiU cross. 



Alaskan forests are better adapted to pulpwood than to lumber. 

 The largest part of the European forest (except that in Russia) is 

 man-made, and by no stretch of the imagination can one fancy that 

 its surplus will ever supply even a fraction of our huge consumption 

 in addition to the needs of its owners. Sooner or later Russia will 

 resume her industrial activity and rebuild her thousands of dilapi- 

 dated villages. A great part of her European timber will then be 

 needed at home. For any surplus from European forests we should 

 have to compete with the rest of the world, and the mere fact of our 

 competition would inevitably increase the price. 



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