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FORESTS OF WISCONSIN. 
data given below, only for the cut of 1897. Of the “St. Croix 
River” and “Green Bay shore” only one-half is credited to Wis¬ 
consin; and of the “Mississippi River” only one-third. 
Cut of Lumber, (Chiefly Pine) in Wisconsin During the 25 Years Ending 1897 
Year. 
Lumber cut 
million feet 
B. M. 
Year. 
Lumber cut 
million feet 
B. M. 
1873. 
1,240 
1885. 
2,710 
1874. 
1,200 
1886. 
2,680 
1875. 
1,250 
1887. 
2,890 
1876. 
1,340 
1888. 
3,210 
1877. 
1,000 
1889. 
3,270 
1878. 
980 
1890. 
3,660 
1879. 
1,470 
1891. 
3,010 
1880. 
1,920 
1892. 
4,010 
1881. 
2,190 
1893. 
3,490 
1882. 
2,580 
1894. 
3,100 
1883. 
2,750 
1895. 
2,800 
1884. 
2,950 
1896. 
2,080 
1897. 
2,430 
Total for 25 years. 
60,210 
To this must be added about 10 per cent, for shingles, lath, etc., so that the total saw 
mill output for the period was about 66 billion feet B. M. In this amount insignificant 
quantities of hardwoods 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 hardwoods 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, fuel, and charcoal. The value of these 
materials according to the State Census of 1895 exceeded in 
that year the enormous sum of 53 million dollars for “lumber 
and articles of wood” alone. This sum amounted to more than 
