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FORESTS OF WISCONSIN. 



Original stand of pine in north Wisconsin. 

 (Only the 27 counties visited are involved here.) 



Of these 129.4 billion there is approximately : 



.Standing at present 17 .4 billion feet. 



Cut between 1873 to 1893 .... 66.0 bUlion feet. 

 Probable cut 1840 to 1873 ... 20.0 billion feet. 



Accounted for 103 . 4 billion feet. 



Leaving about 26 billion feet as probably wasted ; chiefly destroyed by fire. 



Present. — In considering the present supplies of pine, both, 

 white and red (ISTorway) pine, of which fully 80 per cent, is 

 owned by lumbermen, it must be borne in mind that in spite of 

 many years of logging, but few townships of the better stocked 

 regions, outside of settlements, have been logged clean, and 

 counties like Chippewa, Clark, Marathon, and even Wood, still 

 continue to furnish large quantities of pine logs of all sizes. It 

 is also interesting to note in this connection, that it is not so 

 much a lack of good logs, but the fact that of late everything is 

 cut clean, which has reduced the average size of logs to half of 

 what it was twenty years ago. But it is especially the fragmen- 

 tary or culled condition of the forest which makes general or 



