interests woald like to share in the general proeperity that would follow 

 the working on any adeqaate scale erf the great forests of this state that 

 public sentiment, it is only too well feared, would be in sympathy with any 

 movement of that kind, and the fdtnre needs or the fotaie condition of the 

 country would receive no attention except at the hands of a few/' 



How restful the mental condition of a man must be who can contem- 

 plate 1,800,000,000 feet of lumber wasting anntially for lack of users, yet let 

 the waste (which is one hundred fold more than annual destruction by for- 

 est fires) go on for fear of over-cutting in a country Uke this. The writer 

 greatly prefeis to meet present human interests, and is very glad to believe 

 the people of Or^on are of the same mind in very large majority. They 

 are proving this by the very great increase in the lumber cut since Mr. 

 Hammond wrote down his estimates and his fears. 



The enterprise of the managers of the Oregonian has given us the lum- 

 ber cat of 1S97. BeUeving they will be Interesting reading to ideal forc::ters 

 and friends of forestry for its uses to humanity, I insert two paper:^ relative 

 to the subject ftom the DaUy Oregonian of January 1, lS9i: 



I.X7MBEB CCT. 



" The saw miUs of Oregon CTit oi9, i2a,179 feet of lumber last year. By 

 counties the cut was: 



Baker S 30.000,000 



Benton 1,100, Of») 



Clackamas 4,000,000 



Clatsop iv 000,000 



.Columbia . 18,175,000 



Coo8 22,000,000 



Crook 1,300,000 



Cmry- 400,000 



Douglas 33,000,000 



GlUiam 1,000,000 



Grant 4>:<-: «» 



Hamej 2, '140,000 



Jackson . 27,a00,000 



Joeephlne . ]5,cao,000 



Klamath 22,000,000 



Lake 900,000 



Lane i:,«»,000 



Lincoln 2,000,000 



linn- a>, 000,000 



Malhenr 300,000 



Marion 2,453,000 



Morrow 830,000 



MoUnomah 130,000,000 



Polk 7,415,879 



Sherman — - — . 



Tillamook . 2?, >M,000 



Umatula 100,000 



Cnlon 24,.3«',C<» 



Wallowa ;'>;,uOO 



Wasco 2,300,000 



Washington 12,000,000 



Yamhill 000,000 



