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WHAT STATES WOULD BE MOST AFFECTED. 



Below is given a tabular statement showing the rank of the most 

 important States in the leading hardwood industries, as sliown by the 

 census reports. The rank is based upon value of products, except in 

 lumber manufacturing, where it is based on quantity of product. 



Table 3. — Ranic of most important States in hardwood industries. 



Industry. 



Illinois. 



Indiana. 



Ohio. 



New 

 York. 



Michi- 

 gan. 



Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Lumber manufacture (census 1900) a 





1 



2 

 4 

 3 



I 





4 

 5 

 6 

 4 

 3 

 3 





Planing- mills 



3 

 1 



5 

 2 

 1 

 2 



1 



3 

 1 



2 



Agricultural implements 



6 

 2 

 4 

 4 





Carriages and wagons 









Car building 



2 



Musical instruments 





1 















" The census of 1900 is used in order to show the rank of Indiana and Ohio before their 

 timber supply declined. 



The statement shows how substantially the hardwood industries 

 center in the States of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and New 

 York. Of these only Michigan and New York have now any consid- 

 erable hardwood supply of their own. Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio 

 are dependent upon the Lake States, the lower Mississippi Valley 

 States, and the Appalachian States. 



The main consideration, however, is that if the hardwood timber 

 supply were to be speedily exhausted the great industries which now 

 depend upon it would be severely crippled or ruined. To consider 

 how imp®rtant these are, take, for instance, the State of Illinois. 

 Though Illinois is not known as an important hardwood State, Table 

 3 shows it to be second only to New York in hardwood manufactur- 

 ing industries. In these industries Illinois has invested, according 

 to the census of 1905, a capital of $148,115,805 — almost one-fifth of 

 the total capital invested in manufacturing. It employs 59,844 

 wage-earners, and it turned out, in 1905, a product valued at $139,- 

 970,590, or 12 per cent of the total value of manufactured products. 



Exhaustion of the hardwood supply assuredly means the loss of 

 these industries to the States in which they are at present located, 

 just as Ohio and Indiana have already lost the main part of their 

 hardwood lumber manufacturing. Such industries can not exist 

 after their supply of raw material is gone. 



SITUATION CONCERNS ENTIRE COUNTRY. 



How intensely the whole country would feel the loss of its hard- 

 wood timber, to an ample supply of which it has long been accus- 

 tomed, can scarcely be realized. Without hardwood for building 

 purposes, for railroad ties, for the manufacture of furniture, cooper- 

 age, and vehicles, and for the varied other uses to which it is put, we 

 should be in sad straits indeed. A general failure in crops may 



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