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NDPOINT 



DISTRIBUTIOn opPOPULRTIOn 



IP40 



EACM DOT = 200 PERSONS 



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Figure 8. — Tht /J6,(KX) peopJe in nurlArm IJakv art concentruttJ ptituip^h in a irv lo<ulttiti. 



Forest Industry 



The classification "forest industry" in- 

 cludes northern Idaho's well-known lum- 

 ber industry (fig. 1), the "cedar" pole and 

 other torest-products industries, fire pro- 

 tection organizations, and all other forest 

 activities. 



From the standpoint of employment, 

 forest industr) ranks about on a level with 

 mining. .Although only 4,800 persons 

 (fig. 5) were employed in the torest in- 

 dustries in the slack season of 1940, more 

 than 6,800 persons were so engaged during 

 the preceding October. The latter figure 

 represents the workers in the timber prod- 

 ucts industries as reported in the 1939 

 census of manufactures. .-Mso, many of 

 the individuals classified as engaged m 

 cmergencv work are actually occupied in 

 the forests. 



1 he period since 1929 has been markeii 

 bv a general decline of the lumber industry. 

 However, this is partly counteracted b% 

 the greater number of workers employed 

 bv the Federal and Stare Governments in 

 forest work. Besides that, reduced pro- 

 duction in many cases has resulted in 

 shorter working perimls rather than pro- 

 portionally fewer workers. 



Forest industry and agriculture are 

 closelv allied in this area. .A great num- 

 ber of farms, particularly those cleareii 

 from cut-over lands, are not self-sustain- 

 ing. Of the farm operators rep*irting in 

 the 1940 census, 48 percent stated that 

 they had supplemented the farm income 

 bv I or more days' work off their own 

 farms during the preceding year. These 

 operators spent an average of 122 days 

 each in outside work, and for W percent of 

 them the principal outside employment 

 was nonfarm. .Although the statistics stop 

 short of indicating the industries furnish 

 ing this emplovmcnt, there is little doubt 

 that much of it was in some type of forest 

 work. 



Ratlroiuis 



With the construction in ISS.'^ofthe Nor- 

 thern Pacific Railmad. northern Idaho haa 

 its first railvkuv service. This was a ma- 

 jor factor in sjxxxling the settlement of the 



