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Add to this the import demands of Japan and England, and the 

 lesser requirements of Australia. Nearly 40 per cent of all human 

 beings live within 2,500 miles of this timber, and even England, the 

 most distant nation of those mentioned, is nearer to it than is Chicago. 

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us to seek heavy importations, the supplies from that source will be 

 largely monopolized by other countries. Even if all the Siberian 

 timber were at the undisputed call of the United States, the quantity 

 available for annual export would amount to only one-fourth or one- 

 fifth of our demand for lumber. It is not to be assumed that even 

 our present financial supremacy will enable us to shoulder out of the 

 market nations which have that timber near at hand and then 

 transport it three or four times as far to supply our needs. If the 

 cost of transportation from the Pacific coast is a serious economic 

 burden, what shall be said of transportation from Siberia? Obvi- 

 ously, it would be very unwise to depend upon imports for any great 

 part of our future lumber supply. 



