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made, it is proper policy for the State to foster its permanence and 
further diversification. 
Thus, if the report shows that the woodworking industries represent 
a capitalization of over $100,000,000—one-sixth of the total wealth of 
the State—pay taxes amounting to as much as the entire State tax, 
and produce values in their output equal to more than one-third of 
those of agriculture, employing over 60,000 men, paying out in wages 
over $20,000,000 per annum, it means that the continuation of these 
industries, which have been the main feature of the development of the 
country for the last forty years, are of paramount interest to the welfare 
of the community. 
The value of these fndietnes and their relation to other industries 
being fully exhibited and recognized, it becomes desirable to know 
what their future may be so far as continuance of raw supplies—repro- 
duction of forest growth—is concerned. ‘To form an answer to this 
question we must study the changes which go on in the forest cover 
through lumbering operations and clearing or which are due to fire and 
storm and the conditions of the young growth. This study involves © 
an estimate of the cutover lands and of the prospective growth on 
such of them as are unsuited for agriculture, and therefore likely to 
remain in forest growth. What can be done to increase the supply, or 
to cheapen it? Whatcan the community do to prevent the great losses 
to the State and county that would come from the discontinuance of 
these productive industries and by having large areas of land unpro- 
ductive or turned into desert? These questions are to be answered on 
the basis of the aforesaid studies. 
If we find that of about 130,000,000,000 feet of Pine all but about 
17,000,000,000 have been removed in forty years; that the cut proceeds 
still at the rate of 2,000,000,000 feet per annum, while the regrowth 
amounts at present to not over 200,000,000, and is really without much 
future as long as no attention is paid to its protection and recuperation, 
it is evident that as far as the main portion of the lumber industry— 
the pine lumbering—is concerned, a contraction is rapidly approach- 
ing, and we are justified in demanding the consideration of measures 
which will prevent the destructive and encourage the reconstructive 
agencies. 
POLICE FUNCTIONS—OWNERSHIP OF LANDS. 
A special inquiry into the dangers and damage to forest property, 
which are avoidable through proper exercise of police functions, is also 
a part of such a forest survey; and finally, in order to enable intelli- 
gent action on the part of the State, a knowledge of the character of 
the ownership of lands is also desirable, whether held in small or large - 
parcels, by settlers who are apt to improve or care for forest growth, 
by the exploiters and manufacturers themselves, by corporations 
which are continuous, or by speculators who have no permanent inter- 
est in the lands. 
