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These figures do not, however, fully reveal the relative 

 position of the different species in the wood supply ; for the 

 spruce, for instance, the consumption of sizeable material for 

 wood pulp, with not less than 1000 million feet, will have to 

 be added, and for other species from the same source some 

 300 million ; the cut on farms, which is placed at nearly 

 $120,000,000 in value, in part log or bolt size material, and not 

 brought to mills, will have to be considered probably mainly 

 in the hardwood cut. On the whole, the distribution given on 

 p. 350 remains relatively correct. It is especially interesting 

 to note the large amount of hemlock reported as cut on the 

 Pacific coast (see p. 361). 



Statements are also made in the census report of the prob- 

 able stand of uncut timber of the various species, without, 

 however, giving the basis for such estimates, or rather guesses. 

 These figures are as follows : — 



These guesses would indicate a stock on hand of merchant- 

 able coniferous wood of not less than iioo billion feet, of 

 which round one-half is credited to the Eastern states. The 



