ANNUAL REPORT—LUMBERING. 
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respects, nevertheless yielded large results. Indeed there seems 
to have been a rapid growth of the business from year to year, 
until the thoughtful citizen is forced to think with some anxie¬ 
ty of the time surely—and shall we not say rapidly?—advanc¬ 
ing when there will be no more forests to invade and destroy. 
In 1860 the capital invested in lumbering amounted to $5,- 
595,380, the cost of material was $1,965,031; the value of the 
product, $4,377,880. 
In 1868 we ventured the estimate of 800,000,000 feet of 
lumber as the product and $10,000,000 as the value of the lum¬ 
ber and shingles manufactured that year. There were some 
who criticised these figures as being above the mark, though 
the best informed lumbermen confirmed them. What now 
will the doubters say in the face of the census returns, which 
show a valuation of the annual product of 1870 equal to $14,- 
486,673. 
That the comparison between 1860 and 1870 may be the 
more easily seen, we repeat the figures in tabular form. 
Table showing the extent of the Lumbering business in 1860 and 1870. 
Years. 
Capital Invested. 
Cost of Material, 
etc. 
Value of Pro¬ 
ducts. 
I860. 
$5, 595, 380 
11,206,465 
$1,965, 031 
7,243,949 
$4, 377, 880 
14,486,673 
1870. 
As the returns made by some of the counties were less than 
complete, it is safe to state the value of the lumber product at 
$15,000,000. 
It is worthy of note, as a furlher offset to the discomfort 
that one feels at this immense destruction of the forests, that 
about each of these active centres, where the business is con¬ 
ducted, thriving villages are springing up; while in hundreds 
of localities the productive industry of the husbandman quick¬ 
ly succeeds to the destructive waste made by the relentless 
wood man. 
For this reason, the manufacture of lumber in our own 
