18 TREES AND TREE-PLANTING. 
or a total of between five and six thousand acres cut 
every year. 
Asevery oneknows, it takes about twenty years there to 
make a crop of wood, the whole amount of land stripped 
bare would be in the neighborhood of one hundred thou- 
sand acres, or nearly the whole of the woodland in the 
section above named. But not only in one or two states, 
but in all the states the destruction goes steadily on. Take, 
for the purpose of illustration, the records of the amount 
of logs rafted out of the great lumber-producing streams 
of the Saginaw districts for a number of years. In round: 
numbers the Tittabawassee rafted out 288,000,000 feet of 
logs in 1871, 316,000,000 feet in 1872, and 269,000,000 
feet in 1873, and had left each year from two hundred 
to three hundred million feet. In 1873 the amount 
left over was stated at 250,000,000 feet. Taking the 
amount rafted out and the amount left over in 1873, we 
should have 519,000,000 feet as the total product of the 
Tittabawassee lumbering that year. Up to August of 
1874 there had been rafted out of the Tittabawassee 
1,202,371 pieces, or about 215,000,000 feet, and there 
were left back about 100,000,000 feet, making a total 
for the year of, say, 315,000,000 feet for 1874, against 
519,000,000 feet for 1873. 
Let us take the Cass River, the largest lumber-pro- 
ducing stream of this region except the Tittabawassee. 
In 1871 there were rafted out ‘of the Cass River 55,841,- 
618 feet of logs; in 1872 there were 99,913,935 feet; in 
1873 there were 109,450,140 feet ; and in 1874, all the 
logs being now out, there have been but 48,260,800 feet, 
and there are no logs left. 
We might continue these illustrations by exhibiting 
the figures for the other streams in this section, and by 
giving the facts concerning the immense waste of for- 
ests, but these will do for one region. 
A Virginia City (N: evada) paper says that an im- 
mense destruction of the forest is taking place in that 
