THE TIMBER SUPPLY. 



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Some of the companies have purchased large tracts of land in the 

 vicinity of the White Mountains, which are not being cut, but held 

 for future use. Probably more than 200,000 acres are thus held. 

 As far as practicable these companies get their present supplies by 

 purchasing stump age on small holdings, in order to preserve the 

 timber on their own land. When these small holdings are thus 

 lumbered they are usually " skinned" to the last merchantable stick, 

 as the high slopes are. Owners of the smaller tracts themselves 

 sometimes treat their woodlands in this manner and cut everything 

 to get present revenues. Throughout the mountains the clean cut- 

 ting has been on high slopes and on small holdings, and on these 

 fire has followed with the worst results. Two of the companies that 

 hold large tracts of spruce in the mountains import a large part of 

 their logs from Canada in order to protect themselves against emer- 

 gencies. 



Two of the large companies have cut chiefly for saw logs and their 

 lands show much valuable forest remaining, besides a promising 

 young growth. One of these has twice cut over some of its areas, 

 once to a diameter of 14 inches and later to a diameter of 10 inches, 

 with still a fair growth of small and growing trees left standing. 

 Two of the hotel companies having tracts of about 10,000 acres each 

 have preserved the hardwoods, and one has done considerable plant- 

 ing and judicious thinning of conifers. 



The fact that spruce is used to so large an extent in the manufac- 

 ture of paper, and that its area of growth in the United States is 

 limited to a few States, makes its amount and duration a question of 

 vital moment; and the fact that paper is so widely used, especially 

 news paper produced from spruce pulp, makes the welfare of any 

 large tract of spruce, like that in the White Mountain region, a matter 

 of concern to people and interests far beyond New England. 



Table 6. — Spruce cut into lumber and spruce used for pulp in 1907. a 



Locality. 



Lumber 

 cut. 



Pulpwood. 



Pulp 



Domestic. 



Imported. 



mills. 





Mbd.ft. 



528,013 



203, 092 



156.354 



43, 141 



Mbd.ft.b 



Mbd.ft. b 



Kb. 

































Total for New England 



930,600 

 166,048 

 (d) 



198,544 

 268. 334 

 163.271 



c 536, 545 

 245, 550 

 143,218 



(d) 



(d) 

 100. 560 



c 227, 315 

 251,064 

 23, 181 

 (d) 

 (d) 

 15,911 



c66 



New York : . 



92 



Lake States 



53 





(d) 



Pacific States 



(d) 



All others 



31 







Total 



1.726,797 



1,025,873 



517, 471 



242 



o Figures from Census circulars, Forest Products No. 1, Pulpwood Consumption, 1907, and No. 2, The 

 Lumber Cut of the United States. 1907. 

 b Allowing 1 J cords per thousand board feet. 



c Pulpwood figures not reported separately for the individual States in New England. 

 d Included in "All others." 



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