Conservation Commission. 



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Classification of 



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 Number 

 Number 



that cut 

 that cut 

 that cut 

 that cut 

 that cut 

 that cut 

 that cut 

 that cut 

 that cut 

 that cut 



Mills According to Quantity of Lumber 

 Produced. 



10,000,000 to 20,000,000 ft. lumber 5 



5,000,000 to 10,000,000 ft. lumber 4 



2,500,000 to 5,000,000 ft. lumber 10 



2,500,000 ft. lumber 48 



1,000,000 ft. lumber 138 



500,000 ft. lumber 348 



200,000 ft. lumber 423 



100,000 ft. lumber 437 



50,000 ft. lumber 301 

 274 



1,000,000 to 



500,000 to 



200,000 to 



100,000 to 



50,000 to 

 25,000 to 

 less than 



25,000 ft. lumber 



Total number reporting lumber cut 1,988 



The Result. 

 The forest product included in lumber, pulp and round wood 

 for the past three years is as follows : 



1908 1,226,754,365 ft. b. m. 



1909 1,091,164,710 ft. b. m. 



1910 927,933,291 ft. b. m. 



The annual removal of 1,000,000,000 feet of wood material 

 from our forest cannot go on indefinitely, and the figures show 

 a decrease of 300,000,000 feet or 25 per cent, in three years. 

 The most authoritative statement as to the area of forests 

 in the State, containing merchantable saw timber, is less 

 than 6,000,000 acres. These figures include over one and 

 a half million acres of 'State lands upon which there is no 

 cutting. The timber cut reported would cover 22,956 acres or 

 thirty-six square miles, with boards one inch thick. The lumber 

 cut averages 150 feet per acre for the entire merchantable forest 

 area, but as a matter of fact this cut was secured from only a 



