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PKESENT SUPPLIES. 



Considering present supplies of pine, over 80 per cent of which are owned by lumbermen, it 

 must be borne in mind that in spite of many years of logging but few townships of the better 

 stocked regions, outside of settlements, are logged clean, and counties like Chippewa, Clark, 

 Wood, and Marathon still continue to furnish large quantities of pine logs of all sizes, for it is not 

 so much a lack of good logs as the fact that of late everything is cut clean which has reduced the 

 average size of log to nearly half what it was twenty years ago. It is especially the fragmentary 

 condition of the forest which makes general or wholesale estimates difficult, and causes the 

 opinions on pine supplies to vary within such wide limits. "Most men know little about what 

 their neighbors have," and "the man whose pine supply is nearly at an end, and who finds it hard 

 to buy more stumpage, thinks that everybody shares his trouble." These two statements, vari- 

 ously expressed, may be heard in many places, and fully indicate the difficulty. 



The following figures of merchantable supplies still standing, secured by the methods above 

 indicated, are probably quite near the truth, though the total appears still somewhat conservative: 



Standing pine, hemlock, and hardivood saw timber in the State of Wisconsin in 1898, 



County. 



Ashland..*. 

 Barron 



Bayiield 



Burnett 



Chippewa... 

 Clark 



Douglas 



Dunn 



Eau Claire a 



Florence 



Forest 



Iron 



Jackson 



Langlade . . - 



Lincoln 



Marathon-.- 



Million feet B. M. 



Pine. 



Hemlock. 



Hardwood. 



300 

 150 



3,000 

 200 

 500 

 200 



3,500 

 25 

 50 

 150 

 500 

 350 

 100 

 150 

 250 

 200 



300 



600 

 260 

 350 

 200 

 1,260 

 650 

 700 

 400 



280 



640 

 30 





225 



480 

 275 



385 



960 



275 



50 



875 



850 



1,200 



700 

 850 

 600 



County. 



Marinette 



Oconto 



Oneida 



Polk 



Portage 



Price 



Sawyer 



Shawano 



Taylor 



Vilas 



Washburn 



Wood 



Pierce and St. Croix a. 



Total 



Million feet B. M. 



Pine. 



1,500 

 300 



1,000 



240 



50 



200 



1,500 

 300 

 200 



1,500 

 350 

 100 



16, 665 



Hemlock. Hardwood. 



240 



320 



10 



50 

 500 

 480 

 550 

 950 

 120 



40 



7, 640 



240 



280 



24 



300 

 100 

 500 

 960 

 550 

 950 

 J50 

 220 

 300 

 300 



13, 889 



a Bau Claire is only considered for its pine and St. Croix and Pierce only for hardwoods— the three counties being really outside of the 

 scope of this work. 



The detailed estimates given by woodsmen of hemlock and still more of hard woods, vary 

 much more than those of pine. Lack of experience in hard wood, custom of estimating only certain 

 kinds, and discriminating selections in the hardwood markets, which consider only the better 

 sizes or qualities, have led to great differences in figures on yield. The general results above 

 given are very conservative for both hemlock and hard woods in spite of the fact that they represent 

 rather the higher than the average estimates. A more correct view of present supplies may be 

 obtained from a study of the following figures, in which all the wood supplies are arranged in 

 three classes, a portion of the hemlock which, at present rating, is not real saw timber being thrown 

 together with the cedar and part of tamarack and jack pine as a second class. Of these figures 

 it may be said that of the 92,000,000 cords of hardwood fully one-third, or 30,000,000 cords, an 

 equivalent of 13,000,000,000 feet B. M., might still be placed with saw timber. 



Wood supplies classified. 



Character of wood. 



CONIFEROUS. 



White pine 



Red (Norway) pine . 



Jack pine 



Hemlock 



Tamarack 



Cedar 



Spruce 



Balsam 



Total 



Saw tim- 

 ber. 



Million 

 feet B.M. 

 14, 500 

 2,200 



7,800 



24, 500 



Secondary 



timber. 



Bolt sizes, 



post, poles, 



ties, etc. 



Million 

 feet B. M. 



1,700 

 2,500 

 1, 400 

 1,300 



6,900 



Cord wood 



Millions 



1, 000 



1,500 



5,000 



3. 000 



800 



700 



12, 000 



Character of wood. 



HARDWOODS 



Oak 



Basswood 



Birch 



Elm 



Ash - 



Maple 



Others 



Total 



Grand total — 



Saw tim- 

 ber- 



Million 



feet B.M. 



1,380 



3,500 



3,300 



2,200 



800 



2,200 



620 



14, 000 



38, 500 



Secondary 



timber. 



Bolt sizes, 



post, poles, 



ties, etc. 



Million 

 feet B. M. 



6,900 



Cord wood. 



Millions. 



92,000 



92,000 



104, 000 



