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"The mills of Multnomah county cut 130,000,000 feet, valued at $1,040,- 

 000, an average of $8 per thousand. The same average applied to other 

 counties, brings the value of the cut in the state to $4,398,585.43. 



"Oregon's timber supply is practically inexhaustible. The great belt, 

 comprising the counties of Clatsop, Columbia, Washington and Tillamook, 

 contains, as is set forth in another part of this paper, approximately 56,- 

 000,000,000 feet of standing timber. Last year the lumber cut in the four 

 counties just named was about 80,176,000 feet. At that rate it will take 

 nearly 700 years to exhaust the standing timber in the belt. 



"Multnomah county cuts more lumber than any other county on the 

 Pacific coast. Portland cuts more lumber than any other city on the Pa- 

 cific coast. She leads the Pacific northwest in lumber as she leads it in 

 every other commodity. As Portland is situated close to the world's great- 

 est timber belt, there is no likelihood that she ever will lose her position as 

 the greatest lumber-manufacturing city on the Pacific coast. Develop- 

 ment of the great belt, which must take place within the next ten years, 

 will make Portland the greatest lumber-manufacturing city in the world." 



THE WOEI/D'S greatest TIMBBE BELT. 

 [ Oiegonian, January 1, 1898.] 



The greatest timber belt in the world is in the counties of Clatsop, 

 Washington, Columbia and Tillamook, in Northwestern Oregon. In the 

 four counties there are 1,884,960 acres, containing 56,149,200,000 feet of tim- 

 ber. The standing tim.ber is worth on the average 50 cents per 1000 feet, 

 board measure, or $28,074,600. Manufactured into rough lumber, it is worth, 

 at the rate of $7 per 1000, the enormous sum of $393,017,400. 



Clatsop county has about 530,000 acres of timber land, averaging 35,- 

 000 feet per acre, making a total of 18,550,000,000 feet. 



Tillamook county has about 700,000 acres, which will average 35,000 feet 

 to the acre, making a totoal of 24,500,000,000 feet. 



Washington county has about 264,960 acres, which will average 20,000 

 feet to the acre, making a. total of 5,299,900,000 feet. 



Columbia county has about 390,000 acres, which will average 20,000 feet 

 to the acre, making a total of 7,800,000,000 feet. 



The foregoing totals of 1,884,960 acres of timber land and 56,149,200,000 

 feet of standing timber are conservative. The majority of people who fig- 

 ure on Oregon's available timber supply base their calculations on an 

 average of 40,000 feet per acre. The average value of 50 cents per 1,000 feet 

 for standing timber is reasonable. Present prices of stumpage in the Ore- 

 gon timber belt is from 50 cents to $1 per 1,000. Government forestry ex- 

 perts have placed the average for Oregon at 62 cents per 1,000 feet. 



The principal rivers in the timber belt are the Nehalem, the Wilson 

 and the Trask. Along the Nehalem are 570,300 acres, averaging 40,000 feet 

 making a total of 22,812,000,000 feet. Along the Wilson are 111,640 acres 



