FOREST POLICY. 



sam, prevails on the ridges. Great bodies of white pine were 

 found on the Connecticut River and in the northwest. 



4. Forest ownership: 330 firms own 372,000 acres. 80% of 

 woodlands are attached to farms. 



5. Use of timber: White pine is practically exhausted. 

 Quantities of spruce and hemlock are still left. The lumber in- 

 dustry begins to decline slightly. The value of the output of the 

 saw mills was in 



1850 $ 600,000 



i860 900,000 



1870 3,500,000 



1880 3,200,000 



1890 6,900,000 



1900 6,100,000 



The cut in 1900 consists of 376,000,000 feet b. m., comprising 

 261,000,000 feet b. m. spruce; 43,000,000 feet b. m. hemlock; 21,- 

 000,000 feet b. m. white pine; 51,000,000 feet b. m. hardwoods. 



657 mills report $6,304 as the average investment. Stump- 

 age is worth $2.09; logs at mill cost $5.80. 



The maple sugar industry produced, in 1880, 11,000,000 lbs. 

 of sugar. 



The leather industry has consumed, in 1900, 4,990 cords of 

 hemlock bark, worth $30,000; 163 bales of gambler, worth $1,200; 

 100 barrels of extract, worth $1,200. Eight plants produce $186,000 

 worth of leather. 



Paper and pulp industry: 27 plants produce, in 1900, $3,400,- 

 000 worth of paper and pulp. There were consumed 31,500 cords- 

 of home-grown spruce, worth $172,000; 25,500 cords of Canadian 

 spruce, worth $167,000; 2,262 cords of miscellaneous wood, worth 

 $11,000. 



6. Forestry movement: A Forest Commission, appointed 

 in 1882, produced a good report in 1884. No action was taken 

 upon it. 



7. Laws: The State pays a premium on forest destruction 

 by exempting the wood lands of saw mill owners for five years 

 from forest taxes. Malicious firing only is punishable. 



8. Reservations: None. 



9. Irrigation: None. 



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