THE TEAINING OF A FORESTER 



feet of veneer, 150 million ties, nearly 1700 

 million staves, over 135 million sets of head- 

 ing, over 350 million barrel hoops, over 

 3,300,000 cords of native pulpwood, 170 

 million cubic feet of romid mine timbers, 

 nearly 1,500,000 cords of wood for distilla- 

 tion, over 140,000 cords for excelsior, and 

 nearly 3,500,000 telegraph and /telephone 

 poles. 



Nearly half of oiu* iannual cut of saw 

 timber comes from the southern pine region. 

 The Lake States produce about one-sixth, 

 and the Pacific Northwest about one-seventh. 



The State which produces the most lumber 

 is Washington, followed by Louisiana, Mis- 

 sissippi, North Carolina, Texas, Arkansas, 

 and Oregon in the order named. 



Oregon has more standing timber than 

 any other State — 545 bilhon board feet, or 

 about one-fifth of all the standing timber in 

 the United States. 



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