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billion feet, which, upon further consideration, he evidently con- 

 sidered too high. At the thirteenth annual meeting of the Southern 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association, in New Orleans, January, 1903, 

 K. A. Long read a paper upon " Stumpage," in which the figures 

 given in the fifth column of Table 4 were presented. Long's estimate 

 does not cover cypress, sugar pine, or hardwoods. Its principal point 

 of interest is that it differs so radically — about 38 per cent — from that 

 of the census of 1900 upon the stumpage of southern yellow pine. 

 The last estimate given in the table is that published in the American 

 Lumberman September 23, 1905. It is based primarily upon census 

 data, with the addition of some species- and with increased figures 

 for others. 



Table 4. — Estimates of stumimge of the United States. 



Kind of timber. 



Census. 

 . 1880. 



Hotchkiss, 



Census. j Fernow. 

 1900. ! 1902. 



White pine 



Eastern and north- j 



ernpine | 



Southern vellow \ 



pine I 237,141, SCO 



Eastern spruce 12, 265, 000 



Eastern hemlock 



Douglas fir 



Western yellow pine 



Cypress .' 



Redwood 



Cedar 



Sugar pine , 



Other conifers 



M hoard feet.' M hoard feet. 

 87, 755. 000 



20, 165, 000 



2,153,600 

 25,825,000 

 22,800,000 



M hoard feet., i M board feet. 

 50, 000, 000 ; 



300, 000, 000 



50,000,000 



100, 000, 000 



300, 000, 000 



125, COO, 000 



65, 000, 000 



75, 000, 000 



Long, 

 1903. 



M hoard feet. 

 60,000,000 



American 

 Lumber- 

 man, 1905. 



M hoard feet. 



25, 000, 000 



12, 500, 000 



Total conifers 

 Total hardwoods 

 Region: 

 Northern States 

 Southern States 

 Western States. 

 Pacific States... 



Total. 



420, 605, 100 

 435, 685, 000 



'1,090, COO, 000 

 i 300, 000, 000 



.1 100,000,000 i 500,000,000 



.1 300,000,000 1 700,000,000 



' 800, 000, 000 



!1, 000, 000, 000 



856,290,100 |1, 400, 000, 000 1,390,000,000 2, COO, 000, 000 822,682,000 (1,970,000,000 



187, 250, 000 



18,221,000 



56, 571 , 000 



260, 000, 000 



138, 000, OCO 



75,000,000 

 27,640,000 



55,000,000 



300,000,000 



75, 000, 000 



100 000, 000 



350,000,000 



250, 000, 000 



65, 000, 000 



75, 000, 000 



50,000.000 

 250, 000, 000 



822, 682, 000 !l, 570, 000, 000 

 I 400.000,000 



Florida and Alabama only. 



The totals given by the American Lumberman and Fernow are 

 nearly identical; those of Hotchkiss and the census of 1900 differ 

 by 10 million only, and the totals of Long and the census of 1880 

 would be close together were the omissions in each supplied. It 

 should be remembered, however, in comparing the estimates of 1880 

 with recent ones that the total cut since 1880 has been over TOO 

 billion feet, of ^^hich at least 500 billion feet have been conifers, or 

 80 billion feet more than the total coniferous stumpage covered by 

 the census of 1880. 



The Pacific Lumber Trade Journal, in the issue of January, 1907, 

 gave the following estimate of the stumpage of the Pacific coast, 

 including Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia : 



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