FORESTRY COMMISSION. 71 



amounts to a total forest production for Micliifian of 211,475 million 

 feet. The average sale value at the point of manufacture taken as |13 

 per thousand, gives: 



Pine 12,099,175,000 



Hardwood, cedar, etc 550,000,000 



A total forest production for Michigan |2,C49,17.",000 



The pine estimate 161,475,000,000 ft. 



The estimate destroyed 53,825,000,000 ft. 



Total pine 215,300,000,000 ft. 



Hardwood, cedar, etc 50,000,600,000 ft. 



Estimate destroyed 16,066,000,000 ft. 



Total hardwood, cedar, etc 66,666,600.000 ft. 



Probable total of original forest 281,966,600,000 ft. 



The amount of pine estimated as destroyed |699,725,000 



The amount of hardwood estimated as destroyed 160,000,000 



Total estimate lumber destroyed 1859,725,000 



The statistics of the gold product of California during practically the 

 same time is given by the IJ. S. census as |1,330,000,000. 



THE PINE FORESTS OF MICHIGAN ARE NOW EXHAUSTED ! 



As shown by the United States census of 1890, the cash value of the 

 following- natural products of this country, namely, petroleum, coal 

 (bituminous and anthracite), iron, gold, silver, quick-silver, lead and 

 copper, amount to 519 million of dollars. 



The value of forest products for the same year are given by the census 

 as 11,035,000,000. 



It is Avell known that during the process of lumbering, and the clear- 

 ing of farms, there has been an enormous "waste of timber value. It is 

 oftentimes asserted that as much has been destroyed in this way and in 

 forest fires as has been utilized. This, Mr. Ilotchkiss seriously questions 

 and gives as the result of his observation (for there are no records avail- 

 able) that probably one-third as much pine and other timber has been 

 destroyed as has been utilized for the purposes of commerce. 



What is the present condition of the lands from which this enormous 

 crop of pine has been cut? Let us ask the census of 1900. 



The fifteen counties^ comprising the Upper Peninsula of Michigan 

 have 10,724,000 acres of land; 654,000 acres, or 6 per cent, is in farms. 

 Of this, 215,000 acres are improved, 2 per cent of the total area; 94 per 

 cent of the whole is unsettled, and 98 per cent of it unimproved. 



'Keweenaw, Houghton, Ontonagon, Gogebic, Baraga, Iron, Marquette, DickinEon, Menominee, Alger, 

 Delta, Schoolcraft, Luce, Mackinac, Chippewa. 



