FOREST POLICY. 

 TABLE No. 8. 



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Showing Lumber Consumption of Various Conifers, with Stumpage 

 Prices, Year 1900. 



Yellow pine 



White pine 



Hemlock 



Redwood 



Spruce (lumber) 



Cypress 



Cedar 



Norway pine 



Red fir, Oregon pine. 



Sugar pine 



Tamarack 



All others 



CONSUMPTION 

 IN FT. B.M. 



10.6 billion. 



7.5 " 



3.4 " 



0.4 " 

 1.4 



o.S " 

 0.2 



0.3 " 



1.7 " 



o.S " 



0.05 " 



o.oi " 



rrUMPAGE PEE M. 

 FT. B.M. 



$ .80 to $1.60 

 1.50 to 4.00 



2.00 to 

 1. 00 



.70 to 

 •75 to 

 •75 to 

 2.76 to 

 .60 to 

 .60 to 



1. 00 



3.00 

 3.00 



2.46 



2.00 

 2.97 

 1.06 

 I.7I 



Note. — The higher prices are usually for the east, the lower for 

 the west. In sugar pine, the higher price is for the Cascade moun- 

 tains, the lower for the Sierras, which are farther from the ocean. 

 Under "All others" are included various species on the Pacific coast. 



TABLE No. 9. 



Showing Lumber Consumption of Various Hardwoods, with Stump- 

 age Prices, Year 1900. 



Ash 



Birch 



Chestnut 



Cottonwood 



Elm 



Gum, sweet 



Hickory 



Linden (basswood) 



Maple 



Oak 



Yellow poplar 



All others 



(XXIV.) STATISTICS OF PRODUCTION. 



The production of forests may be considered in two ways: 

 (A) As increment production, or the amount of wood fibre 

 actually formed in the forest., 



