os = 
45: 
being supplied from Minnesota, although West Superior is included in 
this item. This latter item could be segregated and added to the data 
given below only for the cut of 1897. Of the “St. Croix River” and 
“Green Bay shore” only one-half is credited to Wisconsin, and of the 
‘Mississippi River” only one-third. 
Cut of lumber (chiefly pine) in Wisconsin during the twenty-five years ending 1897. 
[Expressed in million feet B. M. | 
Lumber 
Lumber : Lumber 
Year | oak, Year. | cut. | Year. FE 
SU See esol c a alejcisicicta = TP) |) Tee a Ae Seo 2 Dao PISOl oo see ese e = | 3, 010 
ABiAe ee ane Seah Te ZOOM MBS pies ae ae intone = PATS | pallet ea Seas eee ae 4,010 
LOTS odes aR ieee POD OAD S4 es oa ee een Sas ROD) AROS ioe eo ee 3, 490 
1S (Dike Sa eee TBAD SSO aoa sams eet sem PATEN a HES bes es a es Se eam 3, 100 
LU ASS See ease IAUQO || iD enoncnaeeosasas- 2 SSVENISODE Seco ot eee eee 2. 800 
LV ahs Se ee ee ee ISU |} iletel/ = eaoteaea tesosassas AEB OT ASOD see e sae eae eee 2, 080 
ert!) Se Sea eee HEAT OM lS Bete aes ate DAO B9f tes fs bacet ceca sos 2, 430 
TORS es 5 fe ara So ee fe S20 ISSO 2s sect ont oom eeiecia 3, 270 | eae 
Heh nconacetiasaoscossos Je cb || Tbe )U Ge ose e sono sohoase 3, 660 Loial eee. sae 60, 210 
To this inust be added about 10 per cent for shingles, lath, etc.,so that the total sawmill output for 
the period was about 66,000,000,000 feet B. M. In this amount insignificant quantities of hard woods 
and hemlock are included, while in earlier times, probably, a considerable amount even of pine cut is 
not represented, the earlier figures being less accurately ascertained. 
To this enormous amount of marketable material must be added large 
quantities of Cedar timber, ties, poles, posts, piling, etc., also ties, piling, 
and construction timber of hard woods and Hemlock; ship timbers, the 
exploitation of which has brought special crews from Quebec and other 
points to these woods; large quantities of cooperage and wagon stock; 
many million feet of mining timbers, besides many more millions of feet 
of material for home use, as well as fuel and charcoal. The value of 
these materials, according to the State census of 1895, exceeded in that 
year the enormous sum of $53,000,000 tor ‘‘lumber and articles of wood” 
alone, and this, aside from the large quantities never recorded, and the 
still larger amounts used in home consumption, such as fuel, fencing, 
construction material, etc., which may safely be placed at $10,000,000, 
amounting in the aggregate to more than one third the entire’ value of 
the products of agriculture. 
In 1890, according to the very incomplete Federal census of that year, 
the value of the rough lumber, cooperage, and wagon stock, ties, poles, 
posts, piling, and all products of the wood industries as they leave the 
first hand, amounted to over $40,000,000. If to this be added the value 
of pulp and tanning material, of mining timber, and that of the large 
home consumption, it brings up the total to fully $50,000,000 for these 
products at first hand and shows them, like the census figures of 1595, to 
exceed one-third of the value of all farm products of the State. And 
to these farm products alone are the simple forest products comparable, 
for in most other industries the same often highly finished and costly 
article appears with little or no modification as products of several 
branches of the same industry. Thus, for instance, the same piece of 
costly wrought metal is first credited to the rolling mill, then it appears 
