Table 5. — Estimated stumpage of California, Oregon, Washingtoyi, Idaho, Mon- 

 tana, and British Columbia. 



Kind oi timber. ^ 



M board feet. 



Kind of timber. 



M board feet. 





374, 064, 102 

 175,586,520 

 7«,%l,8<s;5 

 75, 000, 000 

 60,818,259 

 50,000,000 





25,419,216 



\\estern and yellow pine . 



Larch 



5, 078, 601 



Eed cedar 



Miscellaneous and hardwoods 



Total . 



6,700,000 







Hemlock 



850,658,080 













This total is credited by States as follows: 



M board feet. 



Oregon 225, 000, 000 



Wasbiiigton 195, 658, 080 



California 180,000,000 



British Columbia 150,000,000 



Idaho and Montana , 100,000,000 



KINDS OF TIMBER. 



White pine. — The original stand of white pine (including Norwa}^ 

 pine) in the Lake States has been estimated at 350 billion feet, and 

 this does not seem excessive when everything is considered. The 

 total cut of pine in the Lake States since lumbering began there some 

 seventy years ago has probably been not less than 250 billion feet, 

 and there have also been huge losses by fire. The census estimate of 

 the stand of white pine in 1880 was less than 88 billion feet ; yet, ac- 

 cording to the annual reports of the American Lumberman, the cut 

 since that date has exceeded lYO billion, and the amount yet remain- 

 ing w^as placed at 50 billion by the census in 1900 and at 60 billion 

 feet by Long in 1903. The estimate in 1880 for Minnesota was 

 especially low — only 8,170 million feet. More than four times tliat 

 quantity has since been taken out, and Minnesota is to-day furnishing 

 over one-third of the Avhite-pine cut of the United States. 



Despite these cheerful statements, however, it is well known that 

 the days of white pine are rapidly passing, and even accepting the 

 most sanguine estimates of the present stumpage it will in a few 

 years cease to be a large factor in the timber supply of the United 

 States. The present annual cut is about 3 billion feet in the Lake 

 States and 1 billion in other States. The total is less than half the 

 cut in the Lake States alone in the latter eighties. At the annual 

 meeting of the Northern Pine Manufacturers' Association in Minne- 

 ajDolis, Minn., January 22, 1907, Secretary J, E. Rhodes made this 

 striking statement : 



Since 1895, 248 firms, representing an aggregate annual output of pine lumber 

 of 4i billion feet, have retired from business, due to the exhaustion of their 

 timber supply. Plants representing approximately 500 million feet capacity 

 which sawed in 1906 will not be operated in 1907. 



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