Animal Wealth of the United States 



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■supply of excellent timber but for the 

 destruction wrought by forest fires. 



Dr Bell calculates that about one-third 

 of this territory may be considered as 

 tinder a second growth up to about 10 

 years of age, one-third as intermediate, 

 and one-third including trees of ioo 

 years or more, and this applies doubtless 

 to all the forest areas of Canada ; to this 

 particular belt, which lies at the very 

 •doors of the great manufacturing estab- 

 lishments of the United States, and is 

 the one foreign timber region upon which 

 we rely, the available supply of first- 

 quality timber is alarmingly limited. 



The Canadian forests have never been 

 called upon to pay the enormous tribute 



to multiplying industries that our forests 

 have ; but they have been decimated by 

 the speculative lumberman and the im- 

 provident settler, and ravaged by fire 

 until those forests which are most ac- 

 cessible bear little resemblance to their 

 primeval state. 



But it is not too late for the Canadian 

 people to preserve what is left of their 

 great timber reserves, and by a vigorous 

 and judicious system of reforestation 

 they may be able to meet every demand 

 for their best timber for a long time to 

 come. They are awake to the responsi- 

 bility, and are taking measures to pre- 

 serve what is left and to reforest the 

 waste places. 



ANIMAL WEALTH OF THE UNITED STATES* 



with an explanation of some of the reasons of its 

 phenomenal development 



By Hon. Francis E. Warren 

 Senator from Wyoming 



CONGRESS has had much to do 

 and the press of the country 

 and the people much to say of 

 late about live stock and the products 

 and manufactures therefrom. 



The newspapers and public men of cer- 

 tain States have aggressively demanded 

 "free raw material" — so called, er- 

 roneously — such as free wool, free hides, 

 free coal for manufacturing same, etc. ; 

 and the excitement in one State at one 

 time reached a point where a candidate 

 for governor was in wide difference 

 through the public press with the Presi- 

 dent of the United States as to sentiments 

 entertained and expressed upon this sub- 

 ject. 



Still later, from the White House and 

 by Executive direction has followed an 

 inspection of certain features of the live- 

 stock industry, the result of which has 

 surprised the nation. 



The Twelfth Census reports, covering 

 a period of collection and compilation of 

 over six years ago, indicated that the 

 live-stock industry, even at that time, 

 was the largest of all the industries in 

 the United States, and a statement of the 

 industry as it exists today would show 

 that it maintains its supremacy and is de- 

 serving of the most careful and important 

 consideration by Congress and the Amer- 

 ican people. 



In the United States, in 1899, the 

 Bureau reported . 



Domestic animals, value, 12,981,722,945. 





Number. 



Value. 



Neat cattle. ... 



Horses 



Mules 



67,822,336 

 18,280,007 



3,271,121 

 6i,6o5,Sii 

 62,876,108 



1,871,252 



$i,476,499,7H 

 896,955,343 

 196,812,560 



Sheep 



i7o,337.oo2 



232,027,707 



3,266,080 



*This article is the substance of a speech delivered in the United States Senate June 27, 1906. 



