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“ sawed and planed lumber” alone, timber for framing and 
for a vast variety of mechanical purposes being omitted alto¬ 
gether, the value of the former material prepared for market 
in the United States was, in 1850, $58,521,976 ; in 1860, 
$95,912,286. The quantity of unsawed lumber is not likely to 
have increased in the same proportion, because comparatively 
little is exported in that condition, and because masonry is fast 
taking the place of carpentry in building, and stone, brick, 
and iron are used instead of timber more largely than they 
were ten years ago. Still a much greater quantity of unsawed 
lumber must have been marketed in 1860 than in 1850. It 
must further be admitted that the price of lumber rose consid¬ 
erably between those dates, and consequently that the increase 
in quantity is not to be measured by the increase in pecuniary 
value. Perhaps this rise of prices may even be sufficient to 
make the entire difference between the value of “ sawed and 
planed lumber ” produced in the ten years in question by the 
six New England States (21 per cent.), and the six Middle 
States (15 per cent.) ; but the amount produced by the West¬ 
ern and by the Southern States had doubled, and that returned 
from the Pacific States and Territories had trebled in value in 
the same interval, so that there was certainly, in those States, a 
large increase in the actual quantity prepared for sale. 
I greatly doubt whether any one of the American States, 
except, perhaps, Oregon, has, at this moment, more woodland 
than it ought permanently to preserve, though, no doubt, a 
different distribution of the forests in all of them might be 
highly advantageous. It is a great misfortune to the Amer¬ 
ican Union that the State Governments have so generally 
disposed of their original domain to private citizens. It is 
ferent land measures known by the name of Morgen, varying from about 
one third of an acre to more than three acres in value. When will the 
world be wise enough to unite in adopting the French metrical and mone¬ 
tary systems ? As to the latter, never while Christendom continues to be 
ruled by money changers, who can compel you to part with your sover¬ 
eigns in France at twenty-five francs, and in England to accept fifteen shil¬ 
lings for your napoleons. I speak as a sufferer. Experto crede Roberto. 
